Amerika du hast es besser

[Peiresc]

Wofür soll doch gleich die Mauer gebaut werden? Um die Tiere von MS-13 zu bekämpfen?

Henry was twice forced to join the brutal gang MS-13, first in El Salvador and then on Long Island. Twice, he tried to escape its violence. He became an informant, helping law enforcement arrest other MS-13 members.

But his FBI gang task force handler broke a promise to help him, and immigration authorities revealed his identity, as we reported last year. This month, Henry was deported to El Salvador, despite warnings that MS-13 members there would hunt him down and kill him. He's now gone into hiding.

In an unusually emotional decision, a copy of which was recently obtained by ProPublica, an immigration judge, Thomas Mulligan, wrote that he was "very sympathetic" to Henry and found the 19-year-old's testimony "truthful." Nevertheless, Mulligan ruled that he had no choice but to deport him under U.S. and international law, because Henry had admitted to participating, albeit under duress, in two MS-13 murders when he was 12 years old, and because his chances of being tortured in El Salvador were less than 50 percent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ms-13-member-who-secretly-helped-police-is-deported

ProPublica ist eine seriöse Quelle.

[sailor]

Suuper, da wird es das FBI gleich viel leichter haben, Quellen zu akquirieren. Aber Verbündete verraten ist auch sehr GOP/Trump (die Kurden jetzt zum 2. Mal? Erst Irak 1990, dann Syrien 2018/19)

[Peiresc]

Jetzt ist es offiziell: es wird keine Pressebriefings im Weißen Haus mehr geben. Täglich waren sie ja schon lange nicht mehr, und das letzte war am 18. Dezember.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/trump-press-briefings-1117946
Ist ja nur logisch. Wenn man den Acosta nicht allein rauswerfen kann, dann soll eben niemand mehr eine Frage stellen können (außer natürlich Hannity & Co., wenn man das "Fragen" nennen will, was die tun).

[Typee]

Geschafft!

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article187531864/Sarah-Sanders-Trumps-Sprecherin-muss-nicht-mehr-vor-die-Presse-treten.html

Man muss der Sache nur die positive Seite abgewinnen: niemand muss mehr Sarah Sanders ertragen.

[sailor]

Wozu braucht Trump dann noch eine Sprecherin? Kann sie doch gleich feuern, das spart Kohle.

[Typee]

Wozu braucht Trump dann noch eine Sprecherin? Kann sie doch gleich feuern, das spart Kohle.

Darauf wird's hinauslaufen. Wonderful woman, did a great job, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Vielleicht kriegt sie es so ja auch nur über Twitter gesagt, und in ein paar Wochen wird er nicht mehr wissen, wer das war.

[Peiresc]

Die Umfragewerte von Trump sinken.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/426632-president-trumps-job-approval-continues-dropping-amid-shutdown

Proteste der unbezahlten Angestellten im Kongress.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426644-federal-workers-protest-at-senate-office-building

"I look forward to seeing you on the evening on January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives," Trump wrote in the letter, his first official response to Pelosi's missive last week. "It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!"

Hier die Antwort von Speaker Pelosi. 



Ein Ultimatum, keine Verbindlichkeit mehr im Ton.

[Peiresc]

Ex-W.H. aide Cliff Sims says that he once watched Kellyanne Conway iMessage no fewer than a half-dozen reporters over the course of 20 minutes to, among other things, bash Kushner, Priebus, Bannon, and Spicer. All by name.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/trump-aide-recalls-conways-leaking-tactics-in-the-west-wing-vipers-nest

Darin:

Her agenda—which was her survival over all others, including the president—became more and more transparent. Once you figured that out, everything about her seemed so calculated; every statement, even a seemingly innocuous one, seemed poll-tested by a focus group that existed inside her mind. She seemed to be peren­nially cloaked in an invisible fur coat, casting an all-­knowing smile, as if she'd collected 98 Dalmatians with only 3 more to go.

Das hat eine gewisse Logik.

My theory is that she writes all her husband's tweets.

Für diejenigen, die das nicht so verfolgen: George Conway ist ein scharfer Kritiker von Trump, was um so mehr ins Gewicht fällt, als er a) konservativ und b) auch noch ein renommierter Jurist ist.

[Peiresc]

Aaron Rupar:

TRUMP: "It's radical Democrats. They're a radicalized party. I actually think they're a very dangerous party for this country, if you listen to what they're saying, what they're doing. I think they're a very dangerous, very, very dangerous party for this country."
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1088181362903973888

(mit Videoclip)

Aaron Rupar selbst meint dazu:

This is how authoritarians talk about opposition parties in countries that wind up as dictatorships

Ich denke, er hat recht.

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Die Republikaner und ihr Technikverständnis, eine Hochzeit im Himmel (wir hatten ja schon mehrere Beispiele):

ARIZONA. St Rep Gail Griffin (R) proposes bill to require all computers sold in state be locked from accessing porn; users must pay $20 fee to unlock ... and the fee goes towards paying for Trump's border wall.



[...]The bill is not something new to the adult entertainment industry, but "the border wall twist is new," Stabile said.

Similar bills have been proposed in recent years in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Utah, Rhode Island and South Carolina. [...]

https://www.azmirror.com/2019/01/18/lawmaker-wants-to-tax-porn-users-to-help-fund-the-border-wall/

[sailor]

Wahlbetrug bei den midterms:

https://jungle.world/artikel/2019/03/der-falsche-brieftraeger

"Wahlhelfer" der .... !Achtung, <play trommelwirbel.wav>!

REPUBLIKANER

haben in North Carolina Briefwahlunterlagen gefälscht und vernichtet...
Dazu liegen entsprechende Beweise vor, die Wahlkommision wurde jedoch aufgelöst. Grund hierfür ist auch ein Streit zwischen den Republikanern im NC-Parlament um gerrymandering bei den Wahlbezirken NCs zugunsten der Reps: Obwohl die Deomkraten 50% der Stimmen in NC hatten haben sie nur 23% der Sitze bekommen.

[Peiresc]

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he does not understand why federal employees who are furloughed or have been working without pay during the partial government shutdown would need assistance from food banks.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/wilbur-ross-doesnt-understand-furloughed-federal-workers-need-food-banks

Sie könnten Kuchen essen. So macht man sich Freunde.

[Peiresc]

Im WH ist man erschüttert über die Entschlossenheit von Nancy Pelosi. Die hatten gedacht, die blufft nur.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/white-house-state-of-the-union-off-guard/index.html

Kommentare.

Asha Rangappa:
This is so weird. Why on earth would the WH think that Pelosi would be cowed into letting POTUS give the SOTU???

Jim Goldgeier:
Because everyone in the GOP has been cowed. They thought that was the natural order of things.

Walter Shaub:
The White House is full of people with no govt experience because Trump's hostile to expertise. Their experience with Congress is based on the decision of McConnell & Ryan to abdicate the Constitutional oversight roll of Congress. They'll receive much on-the-job training in 2019.

Das ist eben der Nachteil, wenn man aus einem verbindlichen Tonfall nur Schwäche heraushört.

[Peiresc]

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he does not understand why federal employees who are furloughed or have been working without pay during the partial government shutdown would need assistance from food banks.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/wilbur-ross-doesnt-understand-furloughed-federal-workers-need-food-banks

Sie könnten Kuchen essen. So macht man sich Freunde.

Schumer hat da das Ohr deutlich näher an den Massen:

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called Ross' remarks "the 21st century equivalent of 'let them eat cake.'"

[Peiresc]

Und Larry Kudlow setzt noch eins drauf.

In response to a @fran_chambers question on @SecretaryRoss he said: "Am I out of touch? I don't think I'm out of touch, I'm addressing the problem. I've met with my individual staff members, and god bless 'em, they're working for free, they're volunteering."
Me: "How are workers who've been recalled without pay volunteering?"
@larry_kudlow : "They're coming to work, they're showing up."
Me: "That's not volunteering if you're forced to work without pay and if you don't show up you lose your job. That's not what volunteering means."
Kudlow: "You know what? I'm not even gonna go there. You know what I'm saying, it's very clear."

Kudlow then launched into a soliloquy filled with praise for federal workers, adding "Whatever semantic game you think you're going to play with me, give them credit," as if I was somehow discounting recalled workers' efforts by pointing out that they're not there by choice.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1088481570233692165

Sarah, Ihr Einsatz. Oder soll Kellyanne ran?

[Peiresc]

Auch Nancy Pelosi sorgt für den späten Ruhm Marie-Antoinettes:

.@SpeakerPelosi addresses Ross's comments: "They have Wilbur Ross saying he doesn't understand why they have to [go to food pantries]. Is this the 'let them eat cake' kind of attitude? Or call your father for money?"

Die letzten 2, 3 Tage habe ich keine Meldung gesehen, die den Ausblick Trumps in der shutdown-Frage irgendwie verbessert hätte. So viel Gegenwind hatte er schon lange nicht mehr.

Und was die Wirtschaft angeht, schreibt Die Welt:

dass in der Schlussphase der Obama-Präsidentschaft mehr Arbeitsplätze als in der Anfangszeit Trumps entstanden seien. 2015 kamen demnach jeden Monat durchschnittlich fast 220.000 Jobs hinzu, 2018 nur rund 200.000. Die Löhne sind den Berechnungen zufolge unter Obama zuletzt stark angestiegen, im ersten Jahr Trump dann langsamer, und in seinem zweiten Jahr sanken sie. Es sieht nicht so aus, als sei der 45. Präsident der USA ein besserer Wirtschaftslenker als der 44.
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article187283066/Trump-Bilanz-Hoher-Preis-fuer-America-First-Politik.html