7.Not releasing tax returns
8.Excessive executive orders
9.Tweeting day and night about celebrities and other nonsense
10.Tweeting nonsense words and not admitting they’re typos
11.Never admitting you’re wrong. Ever.
12.Hush money
13.Collusion with a foreign power
14.Undermining the judicial branch
15.Undermining our national law enforcement agencies
16.Allowing individuals access to top secret information without a security clearance
17.Nepotism 18.Money laundering
19.Setting up back channels with our adversaries
20.Treating our allies like enemies
21.Treating our enemies like allies
22.Showing admiration and affection towards dictators
23.Not speaking out against wrongdoings from our adversaries
24.Working on foreign policy with adversaries prior to taking office
25.Secret meetings with adversaries
26.Emailing and coordinating with WikiLeaks
27.Allowing foreign adversaries to attack our elections with no retribution
28.Pretending not to know a foreign power attacked our elections even when overwhelming evidence exists
29.Making foreign policy decisions off the cuff
30.Assigning high level positions to individuals with zero experience
31.Assigning high level positions to individuals whose mission is to shut down the agency they run
32.Routinely firing members of your Cabinet and claiming there’s no chaos in the administration
33.Having close associates indicted
34.Pretending not to know close associates when they’ve been indicted
35.Bragging about anything and everything
36.Obsessing over things like election wins
37.Lying ALL THE TIME
38.Making fun of people with disabilities
39.Misogyny
40.Having no experience
41.Not wanting to be president
42.Referring to other country as “shit holes” and using other denigrating language
43.Asking others to lie on your behalf
44.Embracing racists
45.Blowing the racist dog whistle
46.Referring to altercations with racists as having “good people on both sides” 47.Catering to a small base of voters and not caring what the majority of Americans want
48.Not calling out domestic terrorism
49.Quickly admonishing wrongdoings by people of color but turning a blind eye when the same crimes are perpetrated by white people
50.Hanging fake pictures of magazine covers
51.Mercilessly attacking credible news organizations as “fake news”
52.Denigrating journalists
53.Saying a woman is “bleeding from her whatever”
54.Incoherent speeches
55.Pretending to be an expert on things you know nothing about
56.Staffing your administration with sycophants
57.Making “jokes” about how nice it would be to be a dictator
58.Wearing ties at the wrong length (but DEFINITELY not wearing a tan suit! That’s still VERY bad.)
59.Backing out of international agreements without good reason
60.Only acting on the advice given from the last person who happened to speak to you
61.Understaffing the entire United States government
62.Leaving important positions in the government vacant
63.Accepting bribes
64.Praising dictators and enemies of the US in public speeches
65.Announcing policy changes without consulting ANYONE
66.Announcing policy changes over Twitter
67.Thinking that the judicial branch should do your bidding
68.Thinking the Department of Justice should do your bidding
69.Building distrust within the FBI by publicly disclosing classified information
70.Staring at the sun during an eclipse
71.Calling black athletes unpatriotic
72.Singling out individuals and saying they should be fired even when they don’t work for the government
73.Saying trade wars are good things
74.Announcing tariffs without consultation from anyone
75.Treating all non-white immigrants like criminals
76.Working with media companies to spread propaganda
77.Ignoring security briefings and instead gathering information from TV broadcasts
78.Threatening lawsuits against anyone who speaks poorly of you
79.Speaking like and having the vocabulary of a 6th grader #ImpeachTrumpNow
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80.Having temper tantrums like a child
81.Pushing individuals out of the way so you can be front and center
82.Not holding your wife’s hand
83.Not showing any affection whatsoever towards your wife
84.Saying you grab women by the pussy
85.Using private email servers while in office (hmmm, this one sounds familiar)
86.Setting up fake universities to scam people of their money
87.Writing on shelter walls with permanent marker
88.Having appointees spend government money lavishly on-air travel, vacations, furniture, etc
89.Relationships with porn stars
90.Accepting campaign funds from foreign governments
91.Not enacting sanctions overwhelmingly agreed to by Congress
92.Changing positions on something often, sometimes even in the same sentence!
93.Hiring the worst while claiming to hire “only the best”
94.Let billionaires change policies to enrich themselves
95.Endorsing pedophiles
96.Showing sexual desire towards your own child
97.Hiring a national security advisor after being warned he was a security risk
98.Having a campaign manager who failed to file as a foreign agent
99.Insulting a woman by her appearance
Wearing a tan suit
Using Dijon mustard as a condiment
Not wearing a flag pin during a debate
Using “chintzy” binder clips on documents
Putting your feet on your desk
Chewing gum
Fun facts about our Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
on August 3, 2015, in Paxton's first year in office, he became the first Texas Attorney General in 32 years to be indicted.
He still hasn't gone to trial, and it's not supposed to start until after the 2018 election.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 for three felony charges- 2 for securities fraud and 1 for failing to register with securities regulators.
The punishment is up to life in prison and yet he hasn't spent a day in prison yet.
I've been looking at polls, reading articles and watching the news trying to wrap my brain around the huge disconnect between Democrats and Republicans on the issue of immigration, and, more specifically, the taking of children from their families.
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I wanted to understand it for my own peace of mind but also to see how candidates should be handling this issue. Is it important to Americans? If not, why not?
According to a recent CBS poll, only 23% of Republicans think reuniting children with parents is a high priority. 2/
When you look at all voters, it’s only 48%, which means less than half of Americans think this is a priority. so we can’t just dismiss this by saying “Republicans are evil.” So, how can this be?
There is a lot of debate about gun violence in schools right now, but I wanted to offer a perspective that may initially come across as insensitive, but I promise you, if you read the entire thread it will, hopefully, in the end, leave you a little relieved.
Let’s start with a question. Why do we care about school shootings?
That might sound like a strange and even callous question but stick with me for a minute before firing off an angry emoji at me or turning CAP LOCKS to stun!
From 2014-2017 there were 1333 mass shootings. Of those 1333 mass shootings “only” 8 were on school grounds. That’s 0.6% of all mass shootings. So, statistically, shouldn’t we focus attention on the other 99.4% of mass shootings?
We're all hearing horror stories about the treatment of migrant children and how 1475 are unaccounted for.
I wanted to find which agency was ultimately responsible for this mess and then do something.
This thread documents my findings along with a call to action.
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First, to navigate the various agencies involved in the processing of migrant children.
It starts with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency which operates under the Department of Homeland Security. ICE officers are who take the kids into custody.
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The migrant children are then transferred to the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). ORR oversees a network of ORR-funded care providers who are responsible for, among other things, providing shelter and access to legal services.
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As a tribute to the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I have put together a Trumped version of it.
Warning: For those who haven't seen the movie some scenes may be meh to you.
Warning 2: Also, for those who haven't seen the movie, you're dead to me!
SCENE 1 – TRUMP AND SWALWELL
[Trump rides up to Swalwell Castle on Devin Nunes]
Trump: It is I, Trump, son of a racist, from the Tower of Trump, King of the Morons, defeater of Justice sovereign of all Russia, and President of the US.
Schiff: And who is that you’re riding?
Trump: This is my trusted patsy, Nunes. We have traveled the length and breadth of the land in search of traitors who will join my administration in DC. I must speak with your lord and master.
Schiff: Lord and master? You realize we still have a Democracy, right?