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SummerSnow's JournalIsn't it ironic that he is making a speech about the valor of Vietnam Veterans and he got out of it.
Donald Trump has been doing everything he can to provoke Canada and on Tuesday, he did it.
ONLY DONALD TRUMP COULD MAKE CANADA THIS MAD
The president’s hard-line NAFTA demands were the breaking point for our cheerful northern neighbors.
BY BESS LEVIN OCTOBER 17, 2017 6:57 PM
Canada, for those who need a refresher, is one of the United States’ closest allies. It is the No.1 buyer of our goods, and its trade relationship with the U.S. is “largely balanced . . . totaling $635 billion in 2016.” Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has very charitably claimed that President Donald Trump “actually listens and is opening to changing his mind,“ and he and the First Lady treated Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to a night at the theater last March. In the first several months of Trump’s presidency, our northern neighbors “flooded Washington with envoys” and “relentlessly talked up Canada-U.S. ties.” In other words, Canada is like one of those people whose perpetual friendliness you’re suspicious of until you come to realize they’re just genuinely that nice. So, naturally, Donald Trump has been doing everything he can to provoke the country and on Tuesday, he finally succeeded.
Following a tense fourth round of NAFTA negotiations between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, wherein even the U.S. delegation appeared to be “uncomfortable with the demands they [were] presenting” on the Trump administration’s behalf, representatives for the three nations announced on Tuesday that they would not reconvene until November 17. In contrast to a previously upbeat tone re: NAFTA, Canada slammed non-starter proposals from the U.S., such as one to end Canada’s dairy system, and another to increase the percentage of U.S.-made parts that must be used in cars imported from Mexico and Canada, which Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said would “put tens of thousands of jobs at risk.” Freeland was also skeptical of the proposal to insert a five-year “sunset clause” that would automatically end the agreement unless all parties decide to renew it, and she denounced the U.S.’s “winner-takes-all mindset,” saying the proposals from Team Trump would “undermine, rather than modernize, the agreement.” "In some cases, these proposals run counter to World Trade Organization rules,” she said, adding that Canadians should prepare in a “no-fuss Canadian way for the worst possible outcome.”
For its part, the U.S. claimed to be shocked that Canada and Mexico wouldn’t want to go along with a deal that would hurt their countries. “We have seen no indication that our partners are willing to make any changes that will result in a rebalancing and a reduction in these huge trade deficits,” U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer said. Meanwhile, Trump, who appears to make policy decisions based on whatever gets the most applause at his campaign-style rallies, is seemingly happy to blowup the agreement, with several reports suggesting he’s been pushing these ridiculous demands in order to jeopardize the deal.
On the same day that Anthony Scaramucci’s new media venture issued an apology “if anyone was offended” by a Twitter poll asking how many Jews died in the Holocaust, investor/markets commenter Marc Faber, a.k.a. Dr. Doom, has come under fire for a passage in his latest newsletter that said, basically, that the U.S. is great because white people are in charge. Writing that he didn’t want to “enter into a serious discussion of the tearing down of monuments of historical personalities,” Faber told his subscribers, “Thank God white people populated America, and not the blacks. Otherwise, the US would look like Zimbabwe, which it might look like one day anyway, but at least America enjoyed 200 years in the economic and political sun under a white majority. I am not a racist, but the reality—no matter how politically incorrect—needs to be spelled out as well.” When contacted by Business Insider about the commentary, Faber responded, “I am naturally standing by this comment since this is an undisputable fact.” He added in an e-mail to CNBC: “If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/only-donald-trump-could-make-canada-this-mad
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Here it goes....Melania Trump to address bullying in surprise trip to Michigan
By Kate Bennett, CNN's COVER/LINE
Updated 7:04 AM ET, Mon October 23, 2017
First lady Melania Trump is making good on a promise she made earlier this year to combat childhood bullying, taking a surprise trip Monday to a middle school in a Detroit suburb.
Trump is bringing awareness to a problem that many children are confronted with on a daily basis. She will give brief remarks to students and then join them for lunch as they participate in a "No One Eats Alone Day" event. The concept, which encourages kids not to leave anyone out at lunchtime, was created by Beyond Differences, a national organization that works to combat detrimental school culture and prevent bullying.
"In doing research for her platform, the first lady learned of #NoOneEatsAlone," Trump's communications director Stephanie Grisham told CNN. "She wants to talk to kids about the importance of being inclusive and the negative effects of social isolation. This kind of activity also fosters integrity and leadership in young kids."
Last month during a United Nations speech in New York City, Trump said she intended to use her position as first lady of the United States to help with issues facing children. She included bullying in her list of concerns.
"Together, we must acknowledge that all too often it is the weakest, most innocent and vulnerable among us -- our children -- who ultimately suffer the most from the challenges that plague our societies," the first lady had said. "Whether it is drug addiction, bullying, poverty, disease, trafficking, illiteracy or hunger, it is the children who are hit first and hardest in any country. And as we all know, the future of every nation rests with the promise of their young people."...read more at the link
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/politics/melania-trump-michigan-bullying/index.html
* And of course she will paint Donald as the victim..." widows are picking on my husband"
Trumps priority is attacking widows not finding out what happened to those 4 green berets.
No tweets about the green berets, but many tweets about the widow and congresswoman
A propaganda technique known as the big lie, which Adolf Hitler described in Mein Kampf:
All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-on-the-big-lie
Sr. Congressional aide:Niger ambush due in part to " massive intelligence failure"- MSNBC
Trump Admin facing questions about deaths of U.S. soldiers in Niger.
* I bet he will turn this around and talk about Benghazi, and have Sessions re-open that *
He wants this off of him that's why keeps talking about Congresswoman Wilson
Who side is Trump on,Steve Bannon or Mitch McConnell ?
Steve Bannon's speech to the California GOP has some Republicans nervous
By Phil Willon/Contact Reporter
The California Republican Party’s decision to invite right-wing provocateur and former presidential advisor Stephen K. Bannon to address its convention Friday created an unsettled concoction of excitement, dread and rubbernecking curiosity for GOP loyalists in the state.
The keynote speech in Anaheim is scheduled less than a week after Bannon, who runs the far-right website Breitbart News, called for “a season of war” on the GOP establishment. The threat was aimed squarely at Republicans in Washington whom Bannon considers disloyal to President Trump and the conservative agenda.
Bannon will appear before a California GOP desperate to reverse its deteriorating influence in a state where it has been losing members and where Republican victories in statewide political races have been nonexistent for a decade. His admirers hope his speech will invigorate the GOP base and lure Trump supporters outside of the party into its fold. But Republican critics worry he’ll undercut efforts to rekindle the party in a state where Trump and his policies remain widely unpopular.
Bannon tops a list of mostly Trump-aligned speakers set to address the convention, including Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro. State Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte said he isn’t worried about the stir Bannon might create among Republicans who have a distaste for him or the president.
“If two people agree on absolutely everything, there’s no earthly need for one of them,” he said.
Brulte and other state party leaders said Bannon’s invitation was an easy call — he was Trump’s top political strategist until August. His appearance will also attract television news cameras and pump life into what was expected to be a sleepy, three-day GOP convention.
But others in the party don’t see it that way. Former Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley unleashed a series of rapid-fire tweets to blast the decision last week.
“It’s a huge step backward and demonstrates that the Party remains tone deaf and intellectually dishonest with the vast majority of Californians,” tweeted Mayes, who recently resigned his leadership post amid criticism and controversy. “As in life, you can’t have it both ways and today’s announcement made clear the direction the party wants to go.”
* This is a long article, please read rest at the link ....he California Republican Party’s decision to invite right-wing provocateur and former presidential advisor Stephen K. Bannon to address its convention Friday created an unsettled concoction of excitement, dread and rubbernecking curiosity for GOP loyalists in the state.
The keynote speech in Anaheim is scheduled less than a week after Bannon, who runs the far-right website Breitbart News, called for “a season of war” on the GOP establishment. The threat was aimed squarely at Republicans in Washington whom Bannon considers disloyal to President Trump and the conservative agenda.
Bannon will appear before a California GOP desperate to reverse its deteriorating influence in a state where it has been losing members and where Republican victories in statewide political races have been nonexistent for a decade. His admirers hope his speech will invigorate the GOP base and lure Trump supporters outside of the party into its fold. But Republican critics worry he’ll undercut efforts to rekindle the party in a state where Trump and his policies remain widely unpopular.
Bannon tops a list of mostly Trump-aligned speakers set to address the convention, including Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro. State Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte said he isn’t worried about the stir Bannon might create among Republicans who have a distaste for him or the president.
“If two people agree on absolutely everything, there’s no earthly need for one of them,” he said.
Brulte and other state party leaders said Bannon’s invitation was an easy call — he was Trump’s top political strategist until August. His appearance will also attract television news cameras and pump life into what was expected to be a sleepy, three-day GOP convention.
But others in the party don’t see it that way. Former Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes of Yucca Valley unleashed a series of rapid-fire tweets to blast the decision last week.
“It’s a huge step backward and demonstrates that the Party remains tone deaf and intellectually dishonest with the vast majority of Californians,” tweeted Mayes, who recently resigned his leadership post amid criticism and controversy. “As in life, you can’t have it both ways and today’s announcement made clear the direction the party wants to go.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-steve-bannon-republican-convention-20171020-story.html
* This is a long article, read rest at the link
Las Vegas judge tells felons theyll be able to vote for Trump if they follow probation terms
BY
JESSICA SCHLADEBECK/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 1:07 PM
A Las Vegas judge told at least two felons during sentencing proceedings that if they adhered to the terms of their probation they’d likely have their voting rights restored on time to cast a ballot for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
According to a pair of transcripts obtained by the Nevada Independent, District Court Judge Susan Johnson made the remarks to at least two defendants pleading guilty to felony charges back in July. Several criminal defense attorneys said they’ve heard similar remarks during sentencing, one of them claiming such comments made him “uncomfortable.”
Nevada law bars people convicted of a violent felony from voting without court permission, while the Nevada Judicial Code prohibits judges from allowing “family, social, political, financial, or other interests or relationships to influence” conduct.
It also notes judges should not “publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for any public office.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/judge-felons-vote-trump-heed-probation-terms-article-1.3571761
* We are truly living in a Fascist regime
**Trump is going to flip over this and go full kkk**
Mississippi school named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be renamed after ObamaARIS FOLLEY, AOL.COM
Oct 18th 2017 3:16PM
An elementary school in Jackson, Mississippi, will be renamed after President Barack Obama instead of its original namesake, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, leaders announced Tuesday.
Janelle Jefferson, president of the Parent Teacher Association at Davis Magnet IB, said the decision was made earlier this month after school stakeholders voted to rename the school Barack Obama Magnet IB, The Clarion Ledger reported.
“Jefferson Davis, although infamous in his own right, would probably not be too happy about a diverse school promoting the education of the very individuals he fought to keep enslaved being named after him,” Janelle Jefferson told the outlet, which also noted that 98 percent of the students who attended the school this year are black.
According to the local paper, the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees approved a policy that permitted the PTA and Davis community with the control to rename the school. Mississippi Today reported that staff, parents and students were able to submit name ideas to the PTA and later voted to name the school after the former president on Oct. 5.
Janelle Jefferson said the community wanted to rename the school “to reflect a person who fully represents ideals and public stances consistent with what we want our children to believe about themselves.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/18/mississippi-school-named-after-confederate-president-jefferson-davis-to-be-renamed-after-obama/23247932/
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