Youâre trying too hard.
I think he only has one setting, he went full retard some time ago and got stuck there
Weâve two spambots now - please donât encourage either.
Only two? Wow, thatâs less than usual.
Trumpâs attack on education continues:
Jerry Falwell 
For academia, I expect to see tremendous pressure brought to bear immediately: all research funds for research which either goes against some policy objective of the administration (e.g., climate research), or which sounds too aligned with âliberal elitesâ (e.g., anything involving gender and sexuality), will be targeted first. (And in fact, already have been; the first major orders cutting research funds were issued last Tuesday)
Beyond that, I would expect that universities will face extreme pressure to eliminate academics or administrators who speak out or otherwise upset the regime. Milo Yiannoupoulos is scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley on Monday, for example; it will be interesting to watch how the administration responds to any opposition to his presence. (NB that at his last speech, at UW last week, a medic was shot by a neo-Nazi. Past speeches heâs given at universities have included doxxing and calling for attacks against individual students. Sending him to talk at universities is a deliberate provocation.)
I expect to see a lot of people described as âun-Americanâ and this to be used as an excuse to do various things to universities â which are not just schools, but also where people meet, discuss, and organize, things which the regime has a lot of reason to oppose.
On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the heart of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Antonin Scalia shocked the hushed courtroom by saying the law had led to a âperpetuation of racial entitlement.â He went so far as to mock the name of it: âEven the name of it is wonderful: the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?â
The courtroom gasped audibly as Scalia spoke. The fact that he viewed the countryâs most important civil-rights law as a âracial entitlementâ was a textbook example of the radicalness of his views. Four months later, Scalia joined a 5-4 opinion gutting the law, ruling that states with a long history of voting discrimination no longer needed to approve their voting changes with the federal government.
The Roberts Court, with Scalia as a key influence, weakened voting rights protections, allowed corporations to spend unlimited secret money on US elections, overturned the District of Columbiaâs handgun ban and ruled that businesses didnât have to pay for contraception care.
Merrick Garland should have been the one to fill Scaliaâs vacant Supreme Court seat. It was unprecedented and outrageous that a judge as qualified and mainstream as him didnât even get a hearing. And itâs more than a little ironic that a president who won 5 million more votes than his opponent in 2012 couldnât make the selection but one who got 2.9 million fewer votes than his can.
But after Republicans stole the seat by denying President Obama his constitutional mandate, Donald Trump said he wanted to appoint a justice âas close to Scalia as I could find.â Neil Gorsuch is that person.
Gorsuch has praised Scalia as a judicial role model. âMark me down, too, as a believer that the traditional account of the judicial role Justice Scalia defended will endure,â he said in a lecture last year. Like Scalia, as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Gorsuch has been hostile to abortion rights and environmental regulations, and sympathetic to large corporations and the religious right. He has criticized liberals for challenging bans on gay marriage before the courts. Though his paper trail on civil-rights cases is slim, heâll presumably be in sync with Scalia on these issues too.
Gorsuch could be the deciding vote on critical voting-rights cases very soon. The Supreme Court will likely hear challenges to voter-ID laws and related voting restrictions from states like North Carolina and Texas in the near future. There are already indications the Trump Justice Department is preparing to switch sides in these cases, backing restrictive voting laws instead of minority voters facing disenfranchisement. In addition, conservatives could take aim at whatâs left of the Voting Rights ActâSection 2 of the lawâwhich Chief Justice John Roberts challenged when he was a young lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department.
Another Scalia on the Court is particularly concerning given that Trumpâs choice for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has a 30-year history of opposition to civil rights. Trumpâs lie that millions voted illegally in 2016 is a near-certain prelude to massive voter suppression by the GOP, beginning with an executive order authorizing a broad DOJ investigation into nonexistent voter fraud, which White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer suggested will focus on âurban areasâ in blue states like California and New York. The Trump administration will perpetuate the myth of voter fraud to âstrengthen up voting procedures!â as Trump tweeted, meaning more laws designed to make it harder to vote. (In written answers to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, Sessions refused to say whether he agreed with Trumpâs lie that 3-to-5 million people voted illegally, saying, âAt this point, I do not know how many people voted illegally.â)
These restrictions, which could include mandating strict voter-ID for federal elections or documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, will almost certainly be challenged before the Supreme Court. Itâs already clear that many of Trumpâs policies will be constitutionally suspect, beginning with his disastrous Muslim ban.
The recklessness of Trumpâs policies and the threat he poses to the very foundation of American democracy underscore the importance of an independent and thoughtful judiciary. Another Scalia on the Supreme Court is the last thing we need right now.
Give it a fucking rest.
Scalia is dead. The republicans stole nothing and trumps nomination will have to get through the same process that Obamaâs nomination didnât.
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No.
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/prm/releases/statistics/184843.htm
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/prm/releases/statistics/206319.htm
Iraqi refugees admitted to the US in 2011
Jan: 1214
Feb: 779
Mar: 111
Apr: 184
May: 418
Jun: 298
Jul: 665
Aug: 1020
Sep: 824
Oct: 419
Nov: 254
Dec: 153
As Bill Maher said Trumps executive orders are basically tweets, only he has to put pen to paper. Sign first and worry about the consequences later. Basically a 3am tweet.
Thatâs odd, an anti-trump guy representing some refugee charity in the US said on the radio last night that Obama did suspend issuing visas to refugees but it was only while the US troops withdrew from Iraq and until they could get a handle on the numbers etc.
Big market rally today.
I bought a nice dax position at 11545 yesterday evening and sold early this morning at 11610, a tidy 65 point profit. God bless President Trump and his stock market rally.
However, I got out about 100 points too soon as the market continued upwards to 11725.
A good market return today, however, it is a little frustrating to leave so much meat on the bone.
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This guy is to the right of Scalia.
Took a demand from the Canadian PM for Fox News to delete a tweet saying a Moroccan carried out the massacre in Quebec.
Modern Government seems to be carried out via twitter these days. I could have found my opening.
I waited until it got to 11722 before I cashed out.
https://nypdecider.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/chest-thump.gif?w=530
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Thatâs a handy sixty five pence in fairness.
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