Friday in Trumps America

[leviosa]

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

[leviosa]

Clearly I should have caught up on Thursday’s thread. Ha

[miniroller]

(Moves From Th’s post)

Feb 8, 2019 9:08:02 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Feb 8, 2019 8:55:45 GMT -5 aurora said:

Yeah. I hope she's feeling miserable about her vote now.

She gives no shits, I'm sure. I'm expecting her to retire instead of run for re-election in 2020 to avoid losing.

Yeah. She got her $$$; she doesn’t give a fudge.
shareblue.com/collins-sold-out-women-kavanaugh-cash/
(Twitter’s not having it; people are DISpleased, not that she’ll care or even know/ listen)

[secretlyevil]

From the article above: shareblue.com/collins-sold-out-women-kavanaugh-cash/

"According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Collins raised $1.8 million in the final quarter of 2018, marking the best fundraising quarter of her career. In the quarter before her vote on Kavanaugh, she received only $140,000 in donations. The surge in fundraising didn’t come from anything Collins did for her constituents back at home in Maine, though. Rather, most of the cash came from out-of-state supporters of Kavanaugh."


Literally, all I can think of when I read this is gross and how our system is broken.

[badgergrl]

I was hoping to wake up to more Mueller time. I have high expectations for Fridays now.

[sparrowsong]

Feb 8, 2019 9:38:28 GMT -5 badgergrl said:

I was hoping to wake up to more Mueller time. I have high expectations for Fridays now.

It was one of the mornings I woke up and saw 5am and thought, “oh 7am eastern... maybe theres video of junior in handcuffs!”

Why do indictments often happen on Friday anyway?

[pitta12]

Lindsey Graham has a challenger! Here’s his launch video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2PKlmFie8

[lillaguma]

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

My brother told me that last year he took my niece and nephew to a park to play. Some other mom at the park called the police because she thought he was suspicious, and they came and questioned him. His wife is a different ethnicity than him, so his kids do not look like him. He was mortified. 

I feel like this is some huge fear that is gripping mothers (mostly white, middle class mothers) throughout our country. I'm so sick of seeing the warning facebook posts about how 'some guy followed me around Target/IKEA/the park because he wanted to kidnap my toddler/preschooler'. Those stories are rampant, and I've yet to actually hear of a story where they succeed and kidnap one of these children. I know human trafficking is a problem, but I do not believe that the biggest threat is to toddlers with their parents at Target.

[Velar Fricative]

Feb 8, 2019 9:38:28 GMT -5 badgergrl said:

I was hoping to wake up to more Mueller time. I have high expectations for Fridays now.

Don't worry. Something almost always happens on the day that I have this one particular monthly meeting (because I'm always annoyed that something big happens during those meetings and I can't pay attention for a while). The next meeting we have is next Friday, so cross your fingers! And then I'll be doubly annoyed because I fly out of the country for a week shortly after that meeting.

[leviosa]

Feb 8, 2019 10:55:18 GMT -5 lillaguma said:

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

My brother told me that last year he took my niece and nephew to a park to play. Some other mom at the park called the police because she thought he was suspicious, and they came and questioned him. His wife is a different ethnicity than him, so his kids do not look like him. He was mortified. 

I feel like this is some huge fear that is gripping mothers (mostly white, middle class mothers) throughout our country. I'm so sick of seeing the warning facebook posts about how 'some guy followed me around Target/IKEA/the park because he wanted to kidnap my toddler/preschooler'. Those stories are rampant, and I've yet to actually hear of a story where they succeed and kidnap one of these children. I know human trafficking is a problem, but I do not believe that the biggest threat is to toddlers with their parents at Target.

Those posts make me so so mad.

@@@

When I was a foster parent I had two little girls who were a different race from me. This woman at the grocery store felt the need to make lots of nasty comments. About how if I stuck to my own kind I might not be on WIC spending her hard earned money.

I was so glad those kids were to young to understand what she was saying about them. It was disgusting and terrible.

[btdt]

Feb 8, 2019 11:18:27 GMT -5 leviosa said:

Feb 8, 2019 10:55:18 GMT -5 lillaguma said:

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When I was a foster parent I had two little girls who were a different race from me. This woman at the grocery store felt the need to make lots of nasty comments. About how if I stuck to my own kind I might not be on WIC spending her hard earned money.

I was so glad those kids were to young to understand what she was saying about them. It was disgusting and terrible.

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE tell me you ripped that bitch a new asshole.

[aliciabella]

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

Been there, done that. Sigh.

[onomatopoeia]

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

And she didn't even acknowledge her mistake at first, she spoke about on the radio as if it was a real life trafficking situation! 

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lillaguma , my brother had my 5 yo niece at a park last summer (my sister's daughter, so also his niece).  My niece is mixed race, he is not.  He was followed home from the park by a couple who confronted him at the door of the apartment building, asking my niece if she "knew this man" and standing between her and my brother.  It not even like she was crying or tantruming, they were holding hands and having a good time.  My niece was so confused and upset by it.  

[lillaguma]

Feb 8, 2019 11:25:48 GMT -5 onomatopoeia said:

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

And she didn't even acknowledge her mistake at first, she spoke about on the radio as if it was a real life trafficking situation! 

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lillaguma , my brother had my 5 yo niece at a park last summer (my sister's daughter, so also his niece).  My niece is mixed race, he is not.  He was followed home from the park by a couple who confronted him at the door of the apartment building, asking my niece if she "knew this man" and standing between her and my brother.  It not even like she was crying or tantruming, they were holding hands and having a good time.  My niece was so confused and upset by it.  

So aggravating, and yes, so hard for the kids to understand. 

I also noticed that she (McCain) spoke about it at first like she had managed to stop a trafficking case. That's the other thing - all these women who tell these stories on facebook always jump right to "I protected my kids from being trafficked" and also tend to insist that when they reported it to the police that the police confirmed that this is a real threat. 

[leviosa]

Feb 8, 2019 11:21:20 GMT -5 btdt said:

Feb 8, 2019 11:18:27 GMT -5 leviosa said:

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When I was a foster parent I had two little girls who were a different race from me. This woman at the grocery store felt the need to make lots of nasty comments. About how if I stuck to my own kind I might not be on WIC spending her hard earned money.

I was so glad those kids were to young to understand what she was saying about them. It was disgusting and terrible.

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE tell me you ripped that bitch a new asshole.

I didn’t. But I wish I had. I’m pretty sure I was in a state of shock. Because I couldn’t even say anything. She said a lot of nasty things. About them. About their futures. I sobbed when we got in the car. That anyone could look at those sweet babies with such hate.

They ended up with family. And while I loved them with all of me, and a lawyer told me I could fight the move, I was fully aware that I could not give them what they needed culturally. And I could not prepare them for this world and the automatic assumptions people make based solely on their skin color. I would have tried my hardest, but I just don’t think it would have been fair. We live in a super white state, and they moved to one where there’s a ton of cultural diversity and where they are thriving with family.

All that to say. This world sucks sometimes.

[WOT?*]

Feb 8, 2019 10:33:25 GMT -5 pitta12 said:

Lindsey Graham has a challenger! Here’s his launch video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2PKlmFie8

Posting so I can like this again! Go Jaime! Love the message. I hope he goes far.

[sparrowsong]

This article. Bedminster was built by illegal labor. As I saw someone say in the comments, where was this reporting during primaries? He basically employed entire “caravans.”


www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/2019/02/08/8cdbc1dc-2971-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html

Excerpt:

SANTA TERESA DE CAJON, COSTA RICA —At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica’s tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens of a faraway American golf resort.

Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay. But he stayed seven years on the grounds crew, saving enough for a small piece of land and some cattle back home.

Now the 34-year-old lives with his wife and daughters in a sturdy house built by “Trump money,” as he put it, with a porch to watch the sun go down.

It’s a common story in this small town.

Other former employees of President Trump’s company live nearby: men who once raked the sand traps and pushed mowers through thick heat on Trump’s prized golf property — the “Summer White House,” as aides have called it — where his daughter Ivanka got married and where he wants to build a family cemetery.

“Many of us helped him get what he has today,” Angulo said. “This golf course was built by illegals.”

[fryjack2]

Feb 8, 2019 10:55:18 GMT -5 lillaguma said:

Feb 8, 2019 8:53:22 GMT -5 leviosa said:

You have got to be kidding me?!


Link has @ content.

Cindy McCain reports a mother and child as a possible trafficking situation. Because they were different races.

people.com/politics/cindy-mccain-human-trafficking-airport-racism/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=peoplemag&utm_source=facebook.com

My brother told me that last year he took my niece and nephew to a park to play. Some other mom at the park called the police because she thought he was suspicious, and they came and questioned him. His wife is a different ethnicity than him, so his kids do not look like him. He was mortified. 

I feel like this is some huge fear that is gripping mothers (mostly white, middle class mothers) throughout our country. I'm so sick of seeing the warning facebook posts about how 'some guy followed me around Target/IKEA/the park because he wanted to kidnap my toddler/preschooler'. Those stories are rampant, and I've yet to actually hear of a story where they succeed and kidnap one of these children. I know human trafficking is a problem, but I do not believe that the biggest threat is to toddlers with their parents at Target.

@@@@


This happened to my brother who looks very Middle Eastern ( because we are) when he was out shopping at Target with his daughter who got my SIL's fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes.  My niece was just shy of 3 at the time and crying about something.  Someone thought she was crying because she was being carried by a dark scary man she didn't know.

[atexan]

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Yeah, you know who is at risk for being trafficked? Those kids that were separated from their parents at the border. Plus the ones that were fleeing their home countries but couldn't make it here. If only there was a way for our country to let those children and their families in with some kind of temporary protection.

Whatever Karen. Keep freaking out when you and little McKynslynn spot a brown person in the middle of the day in your suburban Target.



*sorry for name-shaming the McKynslynns of the world

[amberlyrose]

Feb 8, 2019 13:27:58 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

Feb 8, 2019 10:55:18 GMT -5 lillaguma said:

My brother told me that last year he took my niece and nephew to a park to play. Some other mom at the park called the police because she thought he was suspicious, and they came and questioned him. His wife is a different ethnicity than him, so his kids do not look like him. He was mortified. 

I feel like this is some huge fear that is gripping mothers (mostly white, middle class mothers) throughout our country. I'm so sick of seeing the warning facebook posts about how 'some guy followed me around Target/IKEA/the park because he wanted to kidnap my toddler/preschooler'. Those stories are rampant, and I've yet to actually hear of a story where they succeed and kidnap one of these children. I know human trafficking is a problem, but I do not believe that the biggest threat is to toddlers with their parents at Target.

@@@@


This happened to my brother who looks very Middle Eastern ( because we are) when he was out shopping at Target with his daughter who got my SIL's fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes.  My niece was just shy of 3 at the time and crying about something.  Someone thought she was crying because she was being carried by a dark scary man she didn't know.

@@@

My grandparents had the cops called on them too when my brother was little. He's red haired and very light skinned, playing in the hotel pool when he got upset that my grandma was disciplining him for not being safe. Someone informed the staff that an old Mexican couple were trying to kidnap a white kid from the pool and a whole group of police cars showed up. My parents were scared when they got back to the hotel and saw the police activity. 

No one thought about why a young child would just be swimming by himself without his parents around and jumped to kid being kidnapped. 

[sparrowsong]

Right. Because they are totally qualified. Sure, Jan.

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-security-clearance.html

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s oldest daughter, who serves as a senior adviser in the White House, denied on Friday that her father was involved in issuing security clearances for her or her husband, Jared Kushner.

Ivanka Trump made the remarks during an interview with the ABC News host Abby Huntsman in an interview for “The View.”

“There were anonymous leaks about there being issues,” Ms. Trump said. “But the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband’s clearance, zero.”

[debatethis]

Rosenstein was ordered by Trump to write the Comey firing letter. www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/trump-order-rosenstein-to-write-comey-firing-memo-mccabe-book-says.html

[mbcdefg]

Trump campaign paid legal fees to firm representing Jared Kushner

www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-campaign-paid-legal-fees-firm-representing-jared-173506767.html

President Donald Trump's campaign has spent nearly $100,000 of donor money to pay legal bills to the firm representing Jared Kushner, the latest campaign finance records show.

The president's re-election campaign made two payments to the firm, Winston & Strawn LLP – $55,330 and $42,574. The expenditures were payments to Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell for Kushner’s legal fees, sources with knowledge of the payments told to ABC News. Lowell joined the firm in May 2018.

“Low dollar” contributions – $200 or less – made up 98.5 percent of the total funds raised by the Trump campaign in the last quarter of 2018, a consistent trend throughout the year, according to a press release by the campaign, along with the latest campaign finance filings.

[aurora]

Feb 8, 2019 14:14:40 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Trump campaign paid legal fees to firm representing Jared Kushner

www.yahoo.com/gma/trump-campaign-paid-legal-fees-firm-representing-jared-173506767.html

President Donald Trump's campaign has spent nearly $100,000 of donor money to pay legal bills to the firm representing Jared Kushner, the latest campaign finance records show.

The president's re-election campaign made two payments to the firm, Winston & Strawn LLP – $55,330 and $42,574. The expenditures were payments to Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell for Kushner’s legal fees, sources with knowledge of the payments told to ABC News. Lowell joined the firm in May 2018.

“Low dollar” contributions – $200 or less – made up 98.5 percent of the total funds raised by the Trump campaign in the last quarter of 2018, a consistent trend throughout the year, according to a press release by the campaign, along with the latest campaign finance filings.

Awww, poor Jared. Definitely could use some help from all of us* much wealthier Americans to get him out of trouble.

*not that I contributed, just that it says most of the donations were small.

[mbcdefg]

ProPublic and WNYC confirm that Trump's Inaugural Committee paid the Trump's D.C. hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — if the committee is found to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing.


www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-new-evidence-emerges-of-possible-wrongdoing-by-trump-inaugural-committee

[sparrowsong]

Not really trump related but politics related. Chrissy Teigen invites AOC to watch the Grammys and she replies yes. That would be an awesome duo.

[aurora]

Feb 8, 2019 15:00:15 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

ProPublic and WNYC confirm that Trump's Inaugural Committee paid the Trump's D.C. hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — if the committee is found to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing.


www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-new-evidence-emerges-of-possible-wrongdoing-by-trump-inaugural-committee

And it could be a criminal violation if it was proven they knew it was illegal, not just a tax violation. And there's at least one email in the article warning them so.

[curbsideprophet]

Feb 8, 2019 14:03:33 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Rosenstein was ordered by Trump to write the Comey firing letter. www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/trump-order-rosenstein-to-write-comey-firing-memo-mccabe-book-says.html

I am still not sure what to think of Rosenstein. This letter always seemed weird to me. I wonder if he thought he could do more good in the long run by writing the letter and staying in his position.

[mbcdefg]

[aurora]

Uhm, WTF?

ETA aimed at 45's North Korea tweet.