US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Rockstar]

I reject your reality and insert my own.

Trump may (or not) have boasted and bellowed. But his praise of AT&T was in response to the promises AT&T made. It was AT&T not Trump who boasted with promises to invest more, hand out bonuses and hire more people if congress passed tax cuts. Further proven by the irrefutable fact the Communications Workers of America union is suing AT&T not the president.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...se-of-tax-cut/

http://about.att.com/story/att_to_in...e_enacted.html

Now it has been said Trump is anti-union and it has also been said AT&T took actions contrary to their promises to breakup the union.

[ikalugin]

If we go with the whole "Russia made Trump win" narrative (which I disagree with and view it as a counter productive to US national interests) then Trump being removed from office would still be within the perceived Russian policy as it creates political instability in US.

[Rockstar]

Oh we create most of our own problems. By blaming them on Russia we get to deny any all responsibilty for them.

[Dowly]

[August]

[Gerald]

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential to date.

Homeland security officials said that they were ending a humanitarian program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for Salvadorans who have been allowed to live and work legally in the United States since a pair of devastating earthquakes struck their country in 2001.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/u...3&src=trending

A lot.

Jimbuna: I am losing count of the number of threads that you create that I am having to merge because of almost identical topic content. This is the latest which is clearly of a US political nature.

[August]

"Temporary" Protected Status since 2001? Why has this temporary program allowed to continue to exist for a decade and a half?

[HW3]

Sounds like past administrations dropped the ball on ending this.

[u crank]

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/08/politi...dor/index.html

The termination will come with an 18-month delay, as the administration also recently did in ending other recent Temporary Protected Status for other countries. That time will allow individuals who have lived under the status to either seek other means of staying in the US or prepare to leave. The delay means the more than 250,000 TPS protectees will have until September 9, 2019, to either find a different way to stay in the US or prepare to leave.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by HW3

Sounds like past administrations dropped the ball on ending this.

Not really. The Bush Jr and Obama administrations renewed this program multiple times.


The latest renewal was 81 FR 44645 and was implemented in 2016. This regulation renewed the Temporary Protected Status(TPS) for 18 months from September 10, 2016 through March 9, 2018.


All the Trump administration is doing is not choosing to issue a further renewal.

[Dowly]

Senate Democrats just released full testimony on the Trump-Russia dossier. Here's what's in it

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Tuesday released the full transcript from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice," Feinstein said in a statement. "The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public."

[vienna]

I'm in the process of reading the full transcript, right now. Here is a link to an article comparing the testimony given to Congress with Trump's public comments about the dossier:


‘It’s not a fabrication’: Six times the firm behind the infamous dossier contradicted Trump’s claims --

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.a3db4042a480









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[vienna]

As a bit of background on the release of the Senate committee's transcript of the GPS founder's testimony, here is the original op-ed piece published in the NY Times by Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS, citing why they wanted the transcript(s) released:


The Republicans’ Fake Investigations --

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/o...usion-gps.html


'Human source' in Trump orbit contacted FBI, Fusion GPS co-founder told senators --

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...founder-329573


The testimony of there being a humint source for the FBI and that the source is someone in Trump's camp certainly makes matters a bit more interesting; it also gives a bit more substance to my theory there was significantly more scrutiny of the Trump campaign than has been known; the reaction of Gen. Flynn when the roof came crashing down on him, a bit of a deer-in-the-headlights look, seemed to indicate there was a source or sources of inside information, either humint or some sort of technical observation; we do know former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had been under surveillance since at least 2014 and we also know he was wiretapped during some portion of the time since then and it would not be out of reason to suspect others in the Trump campaign were likewise surveilled particularly given some of their backgrounds and/or by virtue of their contacts with Manafort. Curioser and curiouser...







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[Méo]

Originally Posted by August

"Temporary" Protected Status since 2001? Why has this temporary program allowed to continue to exist for a decade and a half?

Originally Posted by HW3

Sounds like past administrations dropped the ball on ending this.

What you seem to forget is that they often do dirty and underpaid jobs that nobody wants.

[August]

Originally Posted by Méo

What you seem to forget is that they often do dirty and underpaid jobs that nobody wants.

"Jobs that nobody wants" is a myth. I don't care where you are from if you are hungry enough there is no job too dirty or underpaid.