Yup. Roads and disaster relief are two things you don’t want to mess with as a politician.
That’s pretty, I thought I was in the quilting thread.
The perils of privatizations..
Instead of making the capital investment of building and owning the facility, we instead get what is effectively a perpetuity of payments. If not to this company, then to some other one.
By doing this, there is no immediate impact to the government debt, strangely enough. Yet the on going payments are undoubtedly greater than the interest cost on the debt that would have been created. Plus the government has no physical asset in the end.
This not conservative fiscal policy in action. It’s just foolish, unless you are the one receiving the cash flow.
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Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.
Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.
Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The changes also affect chiropractors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, podiatrists, licensed clinical social workers and speech therapists.
Trump family in phone service licensing deal, touts a $499 device
“No one who has been paying attention could miss that President Trump considers the presidency a vehicle to grow his family’s wealth. Maybe this example will help more come to see this undeniable truth,” said Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Harvard Law School.
Yeah, maybe, lul.
We are nearly there, all-White America!
There is also a listening option for those who don’t read.
Anyone else’s Google News feed now has no “Fact-Checking” Section? Had it until a few days ago. Perhaps “someone” (“they”) started leaning on Google to drop that and let their truth be the only truth.
Check your own facts!
In America, we choose our own facts. /s
The only freedom we still have!
I’ve seen people on the left argue the same thing, that originalism does imply support for a deeply racist government. But they have done so as a criticism of originalism and a sign that it is fundamentally flawed.
Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,” the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.
In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against “criminal infiltrators at the border.”
Turning over the country to “a nonwhite majority,” Mr. Damsky wrote, would constitute a “terrible crime.” White people, he warned, “cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty.”
At the end of the semester, Mr. Damsky, 29, was given the “book award,” which designated him as the best student in the class. According to the syllabus, the capstone counted the most toward final grades.
Hmm, perhaps the paper should have received a failing grade due to including women in people. Or in failing to note the amendments to the constitution. I mean, either/or.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’d be okay with excluding women too.
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The sanewashing from the NY Times continues. Imagine that they had a similar article about the environment with the headline:
Is Donald Trump an Antagonist or Champion of the Environment?
Backers of Trump says that he is worried about global warming. Not everyone agrees.
Is Donald Trump an Antagonist or Champion of the Gay Community?
Gay backers of Donald Trump say he is blind to sexuality. Not everyone agrees.
For many gay rights activists, President Trump’s first five months in office have provided ample evidence of his antipathy toward their community, whether it be his administration’s sustained attacks on transgender people, its bans on books with gay subject matter or its planned cuts to suicide hotlines for gay youth.
Members of Mr. Trump’s administration and his supporters have regularly trafficked in hateful rhetoric and employed stereotypes about members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, suggesting that they lack honesty or morality, or have Marxist leanings, while officially ignoring Pride Month.
Yet, if you ask gay supporters of the president, you will hear a remarkably different message: of a man indifferent to sexuality who has hosted same-sex weddings and hoisted a rainbow flag; who has appointed a series of gay ambassadors and high-ranking gay officials; who has attracted a range of deep-pocketed gay backers and outspoken online surrogates. And, of course, who has been a steadfast Village People superfan.
How does such cringe get by the editorial staff?
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This is the most comprehensive account I have seen of how US Aid was dismantled. This story could go into many different threads but it incorporates so many themes of the current administration, such as disinformation, callousness towards non-Americans, amateurish processes, etc., that I am putting it here as a microcosm of how this Administration operates.
US factories struggling to find workers.