This article states that only Congress or voters can deal with Trump’s ethics issues related to conflicts of interest since he retained his businesses. It notes: “The government’s top ethics official said some of President Trump’s business dealings “raise serious concerns” but that the office lacks the authority to launch an investigation requested last month by congressional Democrats.”
Sad!
Trump knows immigration was a very successful issue for him since the first day of his campaign. He has created this crisis to rile up his base. I think he really doesn’t want to settle it before the 2018 election so he can keep ranting about immigration. This week, he sabotaged Republican efforts to make an immigration law. Democrats had earlier offered to fund the wall but he turned that deal opportunity down too.
This is an excellent column by Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post. She writes:
“The hoax is the premise that President Trump’s administration has invented to rationalize such crimes against humanity: his narrative that America has been “ infest[ed]” with hordes of crime-committing, culture-diluting, job-stealing, tax-shirking, benefits-draining “aliens.”
No part of that description is remotely true. Yet the Trump administration seems to have successfully shifted the national dialogue away from “Do we have a border immigration problem?” to “What’s the right way to fix our border immigration problem?””
This article states “…there is evidence, in federal data and on the ground in places like Brownsville that the immigration crisis Mr. Trump has cited over the past week to justify the separation of families is actually no crisis at all.”
update:
This is a great tweet by Asha Rangappa (who does an excellent job when she is on CNN as an expert):
I’m sure the NRA would be unhappy if Trump treated mass shootings the same as killings by illegal immigrants. I am certainly sympathetic to the victims and families of murders by illegal immigrants. However, Trump is just exploiting them to further his bigoted anti-immigrant agenda.
“Memphis Shakedown” is from the same session as “Jug Band Quartette” in 1934.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops performed it live with Rhiannon Giddens on kazoo doing the Charlie Pierce fiddle part from the original recording.
If you like the Memphis Jug Band version, try this song from the same session “Ruckus Juice and Chittlin'”
The Memphis Jug Band recorded “Jug Band Quartette” in their last session in 1934. It’s better known as “Jug Band Music”. Covers include versions by Jim Kweskin in the 1960s, Lucinda William in 1979, and the Tarbox Ramblers (great version on a great album) in 2000.
This article states: “The Republican nominee for a US House seat in New Jersey has said diversity leads to Muslims killing Christians and that Kwanzaa is a fake holiday made by black racists to divide America.”
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1010250976111005699
examples of people who benefitted from the lottery
https://twitter.com/S0nofaB1tch/status/1010259817640759297
It’s a felony to knowingly file a false return.
Sad! 