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August 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/893878143848783873
Who's splitting the GOP?
1/4th (!) of young Republicans left the party between 2015 and 2017.
Almost 70% of them disapprove of Trump. Who's splitting the GOP?
Almost 70% of them disapprove of Trump. Who's splitting the GOP?
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/893878143848783873
August 6, 2017
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
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August 6, 2017
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Although you will never hear this from Mr. Sessions, men are the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action in college admissions: Their combination of test scores, grades and achievements is simply no match for that of women, whose academic profiles are much stronger. Yet to provide some semblance of gender balance on campuses, admissions directors have to dig down deep into the applicant pool to cobble together enough males to form an incoming class.
Part of what has been essential in this narrative of affirmative action as theft of white resources — my college acceptance, my job — is the notion of “merit,” where whites have it but others don’t. When California banned affirmative action in college admissions and relied solely on standardized test scores and grades as the definition of “qualified,” black and Latino enrollments plummeted. Whites, however, were not the beneficiaries of this “merit-based” system. Instead, Asian enrollments soared and with that came white resentment at both “the hordes of Asians” at places like the University of California, Los Angeles, and an admissions process that stressed grades over other criteria.
That white resentment simply found a new target for its ire is no coincidence; white identity is often defined by its sense of being ever under attack, with the system stacked against it. That’s why Mr. Trump’s policies are not aimed at ameliorating white resentment, but deepening it.His agenda is not, fundamentally, about creating jobs or protecting programs that benefit everyone, including whites; it’s about creating purported enemies and then attacking them.
In the end, white resentment is so myopic and selfish that it cannot see that when the larger nation is thriving, whites are, too. Instead, it favors policies and politicians that may make America white again, but also hobbled and weakened, a nation that has squandered its greatest assets — its people and its democracy.
the rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/white-resentment-affirmative-action.html?ref=opinion
He, and he alone, could Make America White Again.
If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his overt connection to white resentment and white nationalism. Mr. Trump’s fixation on Barack Obama’s birth certificate gave him the white nationalist street cred that no other Republican candidate could match, and that credibility has sustained him in office — no amount of scandal or evidence of incompetence will undermine his followers’ belief that he, and he alone, could Make America White Again..............
Although you will never hear this from Mr. Sessions, men are the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action in college admissions: Their combination of test scores, grades and achievements is simply no match for that of women, whose academic profiles are much stronger. Yet to provide some semblance of gender balance on campuses, admissions directors have to dig down deep into the applicant pool to cobble together enough males to form an incoming class.
Part of what has been essential in this narrative of affirmative action as theft of white resources — my college acceptance, my job — is the notion of “merit,” where whites have it but others don’t. When California banned affirmative action in college admissions and relied solely on standardized test scores and grades as the definition of “qualified,” black and Latino enrollments plummeted. Whites, however, were not the beneficiaries of this “merit-based” system. Instead, Asian enrollments soared and with that came white resentment at both “the hordes of Asians” at places like the University of California, Los Angeles, and an admissions process that stressed grades over other criteria.
That white resentment simply found a new target for its ire is no coincidence; white identity is often defined by its sense of being ever under attack, with the system stacked against it. That’s why Mr. Trump’s policies are not aimed at ameliorating white resentment, but deepening it.His agenda is not, fundamentally, about creating jobs or protecting programs that benefit everyone, including whites; it’s about creating purported enemies and then attacking them.
In the end, white resentment is so myopic and selfish that it cannot see that when the larger nation is thriving, whites are, too. Instead, it favors policies and politicians that may make America white again, but also hobbled and weakened, a nation that has squandered its greatest assets — its people and its democracy.
the rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/white-resentment-affirmative-action.html?ref=opinion
August 6, 2017
Stephen Miller Video: "Sick & Tired Of Being Told To Pick Up His Trash"
https://twitter.com/funder/status/893678995404988417
August 5, 2017
GOP buzzards are circling the hamstrung president, hoping for a corpse. they want to run in 2020
President Trump’s first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren’t involved.
The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party’s most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles. Mr. Trump has given no indication that he will decline to seek a second term.
But the sheer disarray surrounding this presidency, the intensifying investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the plain uncertainty about what Mr. Trump will do in the next week, let alone in the next election, have prompted Republican officeholders to take political steps that are unheard-of so soon into a new administration.
Asked about those Republicans who seem to be eyeing 2020, a White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walter, fired a warning shot: “The president is as strong as he’s ever been in Iowa, and every potentially ambitious Republican knows that.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/us/politics/2020-campaign-president-trump-cotton-sasse-pence.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region
August 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/893787780379283456
Personality cults on the right and left are responsible for our current situation.
Stop turning candidates into messiahs. They're employees.
https://twitter.com/DoppelgangerJoe/status/893728662381510656
Joy Reid: "This a thousand times"
Stop turning candidates into messiahs. They're employees.https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/893787780379283456
Personality cults on the right and left are responsible for our current situation.
Stop turning candidates into messiahs. They're employees.
https://twitter.com/DoppelgangerJoe/status/893728662381510656
August 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/webten/status/893871619684409344
Malcolm Nance: It's a Counter-intel investigation-Will go back 20 yrs to determine $$ ties to Russia
https://twitter.com/webten/status/893871619684409344
August 5, 2017
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/5/1687134/-NYT-Article-Suggests-Bannon-is-Flagrantly-Colluding-with-Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/politics/trump-mcmaster-national-security-conservatives.html
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Not to mention, this is pretty much identical to what Team Trump was doing during the campaign. From McClatchy, in March:
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html
NYT Article Suggests Bannon is Flagrantly Colluding with Russia
The ferocity of the attacks coming from the faction of the party allied with Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, had General McMaster’s associates convinced that it was no coincidence. At one point on Friday, Breitbart News, formerly run by Mr. Bannon, had close to a dozen headlines on its home page about General McMaster, like “McMaster ‘Deeply Hostile to Israel and to Trump.’”
The #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times since Wednesday. Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government. According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan group created to focus attention on Russian interference in the West, the top hashtag among 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations at one point on Thursday was #FireMcMaster.
The #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times since Wednesday. Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government. According to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan group created to focus attention on Russian interference in the West, the top hashtag among 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations at one point on Thursday was #FireMcMaster.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/5/1687134/-NYT-Article-Suggests-Bannon-is-Flagrantly-Colluding-with-Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/politics/trump-mcmaster-national-security-conservatives.html
?1501944628
Not to mention, this is pretty much identical to what Team Trump was doing during the campaign. From McClatchy, in March:
Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said.
The bots’ end products were largely millions of Twitter and Facebook posts carrying links to stories on conservative internet sites such as Breitbart News and InfoWars, as well as on the Kremlin-backed RT News and Sputnik News, the sources said...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article139695453.html
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