The official Thread for Trash/Repug CRAPICATION of America, the planet

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Christian Sharia regulatin' (non-white) vaginas, oppression wimmen, because White Males Are Supreme

Trump’s State Department Erases Reproductive Rights From Human Rights Report

“Reproductive rights are human rights, and omitting the issue signals the Trump Administration’s latest retreat from global leadership on human rights."

https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/23/trumps-state-department-erases-reproductive-rights-human-rights-report/?utm_source=Rewire.News&utm_campaign=fda772a134-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_26&utm_medium=email&utm_ter m=0_f311a29bda-fda772a134-112016197

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Pompeo LIES

Mike Pompeo insists he has no business ties to China. Newly unearthed do ents show he has several.

This isn't the first time Pompeo's China relationships have come under scrutiny.

Previously, Pompeo was criticized for leaving out information about his Chinese business dealings on a mandatory Senate confirmation questionnaire,

after a McClatchy report found that his Kansas company imported equipment from China.

And now, newly unearthed do ents viewed by HuffPost found that his ties are even deeper.

He apparently has four undisclosed business ties with China.

Pompeo's company reportedly imported oil and gas equipment from two subsidiaries of a Chinese state-owned oil company, China National Petroleum Corporation,

in addition to the previously reported imports from two China Petrochemical Corporation subsidiaries.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/769767...ge-six-reports

For Repugs, lying, corruption, coverups are normal.

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Rep. Joe Barton calls Scott Pruitt ‘the victim’ and thanks him for stopping Obama’s ‘radical clean air’ agenda

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/rep-joe-barton-calls-scott-pruitt-victim-thanks-stopping-obamas-radical-clean-air-agenda/

This is the sexual predator TX asshole (is there any other type of Repug TX politician?) who apologized to BP for US's actions against BP because of the (ongoing) Deepwater Horizon ecological disaster.

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this stupid ing incompetent, freaky knitter slave-ishly obeying what Repug ideologues dictate, punishing the poor, including Ms of his own race.

HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies

tripling rent for the poorest households and making it easier for housing authorities to impose work requirements.

a comprehensive effort by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to restrict access to the safety net and reduce the levels of assistance for those who do qualify.

The ambitious effort to shrink federal assistance has been dubbed “Welfare Reform 2.0’’, after Bill Clinton’s overhaul of the welfare system in 1996. The proposals — affecting housing, food stamps and Medicaid — would require congressional approval.

Trump earlier this month signed an executive order directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for low-income Americans receiving Medicaid, food stamps, public housing benefits and welfare.

The proposal approved by the House Agriculture Committee would expand work initiatives, mandating that most adult recipients under 60 work part-time or enroll in a state-run training program. It would apply to as many as 7 million adults.

The Trump administration has also started allowing states to impose work requirements on residents enrolled in Medicaid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.c55821023b92

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Republican Congressman Seriously Claims GOP Officials Are Retiring Over Fear of Violent Socialists

They're running for their lives from imaginary murderous leftists? Right.

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks want everyone to know that the real reason Republicans are running away from elections in droves, is not that their time is up.

It’s not that they’ve transparently sold their souls to the devil.

It’s not that they are frightened of being politically humiliated in an election.

It’s because … they are afraid of left-wing assassinations.

There’s a mythology that goes around the conservative and the white supremacist movement on social media.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...ring-over-fear
goddamn, you Repugs and your Congress assholes are ING DUMB

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Where’s Zinke? The interior secretary’s special flag offers clues.



At the Interior Department's headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.

A security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building.

When the secretary goes home for the day or travels, the flag — a blue banner emblazoned with the agency's bison seal flanked by seven white stars representing the Interior bureaus — comes down.

In Zinke's absence, the ritual is repeated to raise an equally obscure flag for Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt.

Responding this week to questions from The Washington Post, a spokeswoman for Zinke, a former Navy SEAL commander, defended the Navy

flag-flying tradition as "a major sign of transparency."

"Ryan Zinke is proud and honored to lead the Department of the Interior,

and is restoring honor and tradition to the department,

whether it's flying the flag when he is in garrison

or restoring traditional access to public lands,"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.8688dc6e4330

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How HUD Screws the Poor and Helps Hannity




It’s hard to square the dining room set debacle with Rubio’s praise of the “values” and “character” that Carson was supposed to bring to HUD.
It’s even harder to recognize the former surgeon’s alleged “compassion” in his new plan to triple the rent of hundreds of thousands of the poorest households.

there are still Americans HUD is helping. For example, Sean Hannity.

The Guardian reported earlier this week that the Fox News host is linked to the purchase of nearly a thousand homes through s companies. Some of them, according to the paper, were purchased with support from HUD.

So much for hiring the best people and draining the swamp.

that HUD wants poor families to pay more in rent — while simultaneously helping a conservative multi-millionaire who is a friend of Trump — is consistent with the

GOP’s attempt to turn every negative stereotype associated with Republicans into reality.

https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/04/29/ho...helps-hannity/

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Trump trade secretary spent almost $1 million on office furniture—but blames Obama




US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spent more than $917,000 to furnish the two trade offices near the White House,

according to contracts reviewed by The Post.That’s a significant increase compared to the last two trade reps.

Ron Kirk, President Barack Obama’s first trade ambassador, spent $237,000 on office furniture during the first 15 months of his term.
His successor, Ambassador Michael Froman, spent $151,000 during a comparable time span, records show.

When asked about the spending spree, Lighthizer’s office pointed the finger at the Obama administration.

“The furniture purchases are the culmination of a longtime, planned project that began under the Obama Administration to replace two-decade-old furniture,” Lighthizer’s office said in a statement.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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Pennsylvania judge was supposed to marry couple, but she called ICE on the groom instead

Though born in Guatemala, Parker, 21, had been adopted by American parents when he was 8 months old. At that moment, he was technically undo ented, with his green-card renewal being processed.

The mother of two said she was contacted by a lawyer who said she was representing

at least one other couple who had immigration enforcement officers called by Beckley on their wedding day. ​

That couple was not as lucky as Krisha and Alex, with the groom and his best man allegedly being led away in handcuffs,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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Shutdown of Texas schools probe shows Trump administration pullback on civil rights

With the arrival of Betsy DeVos, the investigation into the suspensions of black students has halted

One Friday afternoon last October, after an incident at nearby Arthur L. Davila Middle School, a police officer

arrested 13-year-old Trah’Vaeziah Jackson and

brought her to the juvenile detention facility. She cried as

employees patted her down,

cut off her hair extensions, and

took her photo and fingerprints.


In the shower room, guards applied thick anti-lice shampoo to Trah’Vaeziah’s hair.

punishments, though, are applied unequally. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of students of color, like Trah’Vaeziah, bear the brunt.

Black students are almost four times as likely to receive an out-of-school suspension and twice as likelyto be arrested as their white peers, according to federal data.

The pattern starts early: Even black preschool students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended from school.

“There’s no doubt that as we’ve escalated security and punishment strategies within schools over the past 25 years that this has had a disparate impact on youth of color,”

“They are more likely to be seen as problematic, and to be policed and disciplined in schools even when they show similar behaviors as white students.”

under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration is taking a more hands-off approach. DeVos has indicated that she may soon reverse Obama-era guidelines on disparate impact and school discipline, and her hires have signaled this policy shift.

DeVos is also decentralizing decision-making, giving regional offices more control over investigations.

one of DeVos’ top officials ordered investigators to limit proactive civil rights probes rather than expanding them to identify systemic patterns,

the Education Department has closed at least 65 school discipline investigations opened under Obama, including the Bryan probe, without any mandated reforms,

federal investigators there had uncovered numerous examples of black students being punished more harshly than whites for the same offenses.

discrimination in Bryan takes a different form. Black students are almost four times as likely to be suspended or referred to a disciplinary school as their white peers, according to district data. And black students were also four times more likely to receive tickets in school for minor offenses, such as disrupting class or profanity, according to an analysisof data from 2011. Between 2011 and 2014, black students, who account for about 20 percent of total enrollment, accounted for more than 60 percent of arrests in school.

“For the kids who are being ticketed, arrested, suspended or expelled — who are predominantly black — it tells them that they don’t belong in our public schools, which is a travesty,”

“For the students that remain in the classroom and see their peers treated this way, they internalize unhealthy and harmful messages about what that means. That’s the way that implicit bias is formed and gets reinforced.”

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/29/shutdown-of-texas-schools-probe-shows-trump-administration-pullback-on-civil-rights_partner/

Cons utionally Slave State Texas

once a slave state, always a slave state

Repugs are the Party of Racists, and they know it. Look at their racist policies

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Another increment in the oligarcy's coup d'etat towards Repug authoritarianism and Christian theocracy

Section On ‘Press Freedom’ Removed From DOJ Internal Manual

the Department of Justice recently removed sections on the “need for free press and public trial” among several other edits,

the manual, which traditionally provides policies and guidance on DOJ legal work,

In the manual’s “media contacts policy” section, a subsection led “Need for Free Press and Public Trial” was deleted.

According to Buzzfeed’s review of the manual, that section, which has been in the manual since 1988, said:

“Likewise, careful weight must be given in each case to the cons utional requirements of a free press and public trials as well as the right of the people in a cons utional democracy to have access to information about the conduct of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and courts, consistent with the individual rights of the accused.

Further, recognition should be given to the needs of public safety, the apprehension of fugitives, and the rights of the public to be informed on matters that can affect enactment or enforcement of public laws or the development or change of public policy.”

Parts of the rest of the media contacts section was edited to include new language about determining whether to release information to the public, including weighing the “right of the public to have access to information” with other factors,

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...0%28TPMNews%29

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The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual

In: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tough-on-crime policies.

Out: A section led “Need for Free Press and Public Trial.”

References to the department’s work on racial gerrymandering are gone.

Language about limits on prosecutorial power has been edited down.

new sections that underscore Sessions’ focus on religious liberty ( aka Christian supremacy)

Federal prosecutors in US attorney offices across the country use it, but so do other Justice Department — often referred to as “Main Justice” — lawyers.

The manual features high-level statements about department policies and priorities as well as practical guidance on every facet of legal work that comes through the department.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/...OB#.ibVQ9aaam2

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EPA Grants Waiver to Oil Refinery of Billionaire Former Trump Adviser Carl Icahn



The Environmental Protection Agency

has granted a financial hardship waiver

to an oil refinery owned by billionaire and former Donald Trump advisor Carl Icahn,

the move will allow Icahn’s Oklahoma facility to avoid tens of millions of dollars in costs related to the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

Icahn stepped down from his position as special regulatory adviser to Trump last August after lawmakers cited potential ethical problems in his dual role as an adviser and an investor.

The billionaire is

under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice

for his role in influencing biofuels policy while serving as Trump’s adviser.

“This one’s going to be hard for [Scott] Pruitt to explain,”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epa-gr...-advisor-icahn

FOT do very well.

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C.D.C. Director’s $375,000 Salary Will Be Cut

The government will lower the $375,000 salary of the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert R. Redfield, after reports that he was being paid considerably more than previous directors,

le 42 was not used for Dr. Redfield’s predecessor, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who was paid $197,300 a year until she resigned in January,

or for her predecessor, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, an infectious disease specialist and the former health commissioner of New York City, whose salary was $219,700.

was also being paid more than

his boss, Alex M. Azar II, the H.H.S. secretary;

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, head of the Food and Drug Administration; and

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Ins utes of Health.

Each of those political appointees is paid less than $200,000 a year,

and Dr. Gottlieb and Mr. Azar took much larger pay cuts in their government jobs than did Dr. Redfield, who reported $757,100 in salary and bonuses from the University of Maryland

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/h...er=rss&emc=rss

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Kakistocratic queen dumb gets slapped

"You're the One Creating the 'Bad' Schools": Nation's Top Teachers Denounce Devos During Closed-Door Session

"We had a listening session with Betsy DeVos today, but I don't think she heard us." duh

DeVos said that "school choice" simply offers students a way out of "low-performing public schools."

"I said,

'You're the one creating the 'bad' schools by taking all the kids that can afford to get out and leaving the kids who can't behind,'"

According to Melissa Romano, Montana's Teacher of the Year,

DeVos voiced disapproval of the strike

in the meeting, repeating talking points she shared last month.

"She basically said that teachers should be teaching and we should be able to solve our problems not at the expense of children," Romano told the Huffington Post.

"For her to say at the 'expense of children' was a very profound moment and one I'll remember forever because that is so far from what is happening."

Several educators took to social media following their meeting with DeVos,

denouncing the Secretary's statements and

pledging to continue fighting for support for public schools.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-during-closed

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Trash's AmeriKKKa

Neo-Nazi thugs hold white man down and ‘pound his face in’ for bringing black girlfriend into their bar

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/neo...nd-bar-report/

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Trump's militarized, misogynist AmeriKKKa

"One described an issue raised by others at some Noble campuses, regarding girls not having time to use the bathroom when they get their menstrual periods.
“We have (bathroom) escorts,

and they rarely come so we end up walking out (of class) and that gets us in trouble,” she texted.

“But who wants to walk around knowing there’s blood on them? It can still stain the seats.

They just need to be more understanding.”
At certain campuses, teachers said administrators offer an accommodation: They allow

girls to tie a Noble sweater around their waist, to hide the blood stains.

The administrator then sends an email to staff announcing the name of the girl who has permission to wear her sweater tied around her waist, so that she doesn’t receive demerits for violating dress code."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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How A Baseball Game of 12 Year-Olds Turned Ugly Thanks To Trump's Racism.

On Sunday, a youth baseball game in Chicagoturned ugly thanks to racist taunts and verbal abuse from the home team. The visiting team, the West Lawn Southwest Pride, is made up of Latino players,

since the election of Donald Trump the amplification of hateful, racist rhetoric and race-based bias incidents has grown to epidemic proportions in this country. And young kids and their coaches, who obviously they look to for example, are not immune:

It started during warm-ups, before the game even began. Adrian Salazar, a 12-year-old West Lawn player, told the Sun-Times that members of the Kennedy Park team shouted “taco boys”

one of the Cobras told his teammates during a pep talk that they were going to “build a wall around home plate.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

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1068 posts in this thread

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Next time, ask The Great Boutons for permission before you post in his thread.

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1068 posts in this thread

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The other 174 posts are people mocking him.

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt 'bold-faced lied' to Congress, forged resignation do ent

ABC News has an exclusive interview with former EPA deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski in which Chmielewski says that

Pruitt lied to Congress concerning firing EPA workers who questioned his lavish spending.

A whistleblower from the Environmental Protection Agency says that

Administrator Scott Pruitt was "bold-faced" lying when he told members of Congress

that no EPA employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions. […]

Chmielewski said chief of staff Ryan Jackson called him into his office and said:

"Hey — Administrator Pruitt either wants me to fire you or put you in an office so that he doesn't have to see you again,”

Chmielewski told ABC News adding that

"And in addition to that, he wants to put Millan (Hupp) in your spot, as your le and your pay grade."

Millian Hupp is one of Pruitt’s pals—the one who got a massive raise after spending her time on very important issues.

The pay hike came after the 26-year-old staffer oversaw an extensive housing hunt for the administrator last year.

Hupp at times conducted the search during office hours, according to a former EPA employee and others who interacted with her, activity that ethics experts said

cons utes a violation of federal rules.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

Repugs gave Trash all of The Best People

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KS SoS Kobach prepares to sue for legal welfare after Republicans deny him due to poor life choices

Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a candidate for Kansas Governor, and best known for excoriating others on personal responsibility and their own fault if they don’t vote using his method, is

now demanding that State House Republicans reverse themselves, and turn the spigot back on, and pay his court fines for him — saying the refusal to do so is “unfair”.
www.kansascity.com/…

“(The) proviso is illegal and would require the State to expend significant resources in any futile attempt to defend it,” the letter says.

The budget move was offered by Rep. Russ Jennings, R-Lakin.

He said last week the stipulation would

prohibit using any state money for defense or penalties involved in a finding of a contempt of court by statewide elected officials.

That would include the governor and the secretary of state.

The resolution, which passed 103-16, crossed all party lines in the state house,

with Republicans citing the need for personal responsibility

and Democratic members citing the ridiculous nature of allowing people to get fined by the courts and have no consequences.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

Cohen ain't the only corrupt asshole losing friends

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Like Kanye, here's another knitter with his head up his black ass, pandering to y'all racist Repugs

E.W. Jackson Says America Has Never Been A Racist Country Because African Slavery Was Started By Muslims

Religious Right activist E.W. Jackson, who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in November, delivered what he billed as “a ground breaking speech on race in America.”

the address didn’t contain anything groundbreaking and

generally consisted of the standard misinformation and

psuedo-history that has been peddled by the Religious Right for years,

with Jackson at one point

absurdly asserting that America has never been a racist country because the practice of slavery was originated by Muslims.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/e...ed-by-muslims/

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FCC’s O’Rielly broke federal law at CPAC

Republican FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly violated federal law by advocating for the reelection of President Donald Trump during CPAC in February, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

Asked about a future FCC potentially reversing the agency's rollback of net neutrality rules, O'Rielly said, “What we can do is make sure

as conservatives that we elect good people to both the House, the Senate and make sure that President Trump gets reelected."
With those words, O'Rielly violated the Hatch Act,

which forbids most federal officials from engaging in partisan advocacy, OSC’s Erica Hamrick wrote in a letter today to the Project on Government Oversight.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...-ethics-563696

The Repug kakistocracy doesn't know the laws and regs, and don't ing care, as part of oligarchy's ethic that they are above the law and hate govt For The People

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'On Fire For God's Work': How Scott Pruitt's Faith Drives His Politics



Pruitt stood on the stage of his hometown church, bowed his head, and prayed.

"I stand on a platform today with a man of God who's been tapped to serve our nation," Pruitt stood on the stage of his hometown church, bowed his head, and prayed.

"I stand on a platform today with a man of God who's been tapped to serve our nation," said Nick Garland, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Okla.

"It's an honor for the kingdom of God to have a man of God who's going to fill that role," said Garland. "We wanted to pray for you today, and ask God to bless you."

much of his career has been driven by faith-based issues like abortion and religious freedom.

Pruitt is originally from Kentucky,

r transferred to Georgetown College, a Baptist school in Georgetown, Ky., before moving to Oklahoma to attend the University Of Tulsa College Of Law.

"A Christian worldview means that God has answers to our problems," said Pruitt,

he recently told the Christian Broadcasting Network that he believes God blessed humanity with natural resources like coal and oil so that people may use them.

"The biblical world view with respect to these issues," he said, "is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate,

harvest the natural resources

that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind."

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/60718...s-his-politics

Christian Supremacists killing 1000s of Americans "for Christ", it's the biblical world view that trumps all man-made laws and knowledges.