Donald Trump to reauthorize selling military gear to the police
Back in 2015 Barack Obama signed an Executive Order banning the sale of military gear to local police departments, it is now being reported that Donald Trump is on the verge of reversing this policy. Here is more:
The Trump administration will unveil a new plan Monday to roll back limits on a controversial program that provides local law enforcement agencies with surplus military gear, marking the end of a policy implemented during the Obama administration.
President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2015 prohibiting the transfer of a host of equipment, including armored vehicles, grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and camouflage uniforms following controversy over the “militarization” of the police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.“We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s part of the community that’s protecting them and serving them,” Obama said at the time. “It can alienate and intimidate local residents and send the wrong message.”President Donald Trump will sign a new executive order Monday rescinding Obama’s directive and Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed the policy change during a speech at the annual conference of the Fraternal Order of Police in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received multiple standing ovations and appeared touched by the warm welcome.
Sunday, August 27th open thread: ‘Human’
Here is the open thread for Sunday, August 27th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Rag’N’Bone Man performing “Human” live from earlier this year:
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Sebastian Gorka resigns from the Trump administration
The ultimate Friday night news dump? We are waking up this morning to the news that last night Sebastian Gorka resigned as a deputy assistance to the President. Here is more:
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who has served as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump since January, resigned from the White House administration on Friday evening.
“Given recent events, it is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House,” Gorka wrote in a letter addressed to the president. “As a result, the best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside the People’s House.”
And more:
Regrettably, outside of yourself, the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will “Make America Great Again,” have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months. This was made patently obvious as I read the text of your speech on Afghanistan this week. … The fact that those who drafted and approved the speech removed any mention of Radical Islam or radical Islamic terrorism proves that a crucial element of your presidential campaign has been lost.
It is pretty clear the globalist wing of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and HR McMaster has won a clear and decisive victory in the White house.
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Donald Trump likely to end DACA program
Last week we learned that Donald Trump’s aides were considering offering a bit of an olive branch to Democrats by granting amnesty to the dreamers in return for more comprehensive immigration reform in the future but this was turned down out of hand, and before it could even be officially proposed, by the Democratic leadership. Apparently it is all or nothing with the Democrats on this issue, they learned nothing from the Republicans all or nothing approach to Obamacare repeal, and now it is being reported that Donald Trump is most likely going to end the DACA program.
Here is more:
Nancy Pelosi: You can’t yell wolf in a crowded theater
How about a little comic relief tonight? Here is Nancy Pelosi explaining the limitations of the First Amendment earlier today:
There you have it! Of course you can yell fire in a crowded theater if there is a fire so that analogy is not 100% correct in the first place, it all depends on the circumstances. After all isn’t that what the Democrats have been doing for almost a year with Russia?
I think I need some covfefe…
Democratic leaders reject Trump aides proposal of DREAMer amnesty in return for immigration reform
Yesterday it was reported that some of Donald Trump’s aides were suggesting a deal on immigration reform that would include amnesty for the DREAMers but today Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer shot that idea down before it was even proposed.
Here is more:
Top Democrats are dismissing a proposed amnesty deal from President Donald Trump’s globalist aides, which would trade citizenship for at least 800,000 ‘DACA’ illegals — plus their parents and immediate relatives — in exchange for some package of real or symbolic immigration-related benefits.
The Democrats’ leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, refused to even consider offering any benefits to Americans in exchange for the permanent amnesty of the 800,000 younger illegals who are now getting work-permits via former President Barack Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty, which was first announced in the run-up to the 2012 election.
House Democrat leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi is also rejecting any exchange to make the DACA amnesty permanent. She described the DACA recipients as “children,” even though some are in their 30s and 40s.
During the Obamacare repeal debate Chuck Schumer said Democrats were willing to work with the Republicans in order to improve Obamacare but the Republicans refused to include them in the debate. Now it appears as if Donald Trump was beginning to take him up on his offer in regards to immigration reform and the Democrats rejected it before the Republicans could even reach out to them. Much like the Republicans on Obamacare it is either all or nothing on immigration reform with the Democrats–either everybody gets amnesty or nobody does.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Trump aides push amnesty before immigration reform
We are beginning to see what a post-Bannon White House looks like: first Donald Trump changed course on Afghanistan and instead of withdrawing from the country as he promised during the campaign we are now poised to send more troops into the country, and today it is being reported that White House aides are pushing the President to grant amnesty to DREAMers and use that as a bargaining chip for a bigger immigration deal.
Here is more:
Donald Trump’s top aides are pushing him to protect young people brought into the country illegally as children — and then use the issue as a bargaining chip for a larger immigration deal — despite the president’s campaign vow to deport so-called Dreamers.
The White House officials want Trump to strike an ambitious deal with Congress that offers Dreamers protection in exchange for legislation that pays for a border wall and more detention facilities, curbs legal immigration and implements E-verify, an online system that allows businesses to check immigration status, according to a half-dozen people familiar with situation, most involved with the negotiations.
Note: this is sarcasm while the original reporting is not. I should not have to explain that but I have learned the hard way on Facebook that I do.
A new scandal is engulfing the White House which will certainly require a Congressional investigation or possibly an expansion of the suddenly silent Russia investigation! Despite the warnings given to the American people over the last week or so Donald Trump looked directly at the sun for a brief moment or two during the solar eclipse today, stop the presses–Donald Trump believes he is above the laws of nature!
This is the headline NBC ran with today: “Total Eclipse: Trump Ignores Pleas of ‘Don’t Look!’ to Stare Directly at the Sun.” Here is more about this burgeoning scandal:
Back in July an IT aide to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Imran Awan, was arrested on bank fraud charges as he tried to flee the country. It is interesting that this man was still on Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s payroll because he and his brothers were under investigation for even more serious charges of illegally accessing government computers and possibly selling the information to foreign governments. Russia anybody?
All other Democrats, some reports state as many as 30, who were employing the brothers fired them but for some strange reason the former head of the Democratic National Committee did not…
Here is more on how this convoluted story is progressing:
Sunday, August 20th open thread: ‘No Shelter’
Here is the open thread for Sunday, August 20th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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I have to admit this was a pretty depressing week blogging-wise after last week’s horrible events in Virginia, it almost makes one want to give up and just go home and ignore what is going on in this country.
I have written in the past that the mainstream media is a product which is being sold to the American people under the guise of being news. The media, whether they want to admit it or not, is invested in the hate which we now see spewing into the streets of America and we saw that evidenced last week. Hate is good business and MSNBC’s ratings are all the evidence we need to understand what I have been saying is true.
There is one band who caught on to this years ago and that band is Rage Against the Machine. As you can tell by the name of the band they are anti-government and anti-media and they summed it all up with their song entitled “No Shelter.”
“The main attraction, distraction
Got ya number than number than numb
Empty ya pockets son, they got you thinkin’ that
What ya need is what they selling
Make you think that buying is rebelling
From the theaters to malls on every shore
The thin line between entertainment and war
The frontline is everywhere, there be No Shelter here!
Spielberg, the nightmare works so push it far
Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered and tarred
Memory erased, burned and scarred…
Trade in ya history for a VCR”
“There be no shelter here (the frontline is everywhere)”
I dedicate this song to the fascists (Antifa), the communists, the white nationals, the KKK, the mainstream media, BLM, and every single other group which is invested in tearing America apart through the Hegelian Dialectic creed of divide and conquer.
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