We need to talk about Donald: cursing and swearing allowed

[Brian Peacock]

Pro-choice: it's about having the freedom to choose for yourself Scot.

[Scot Dutchy]

So she can choose to kill herself by giving birth but cant do it when she wants to at any other time.

[Feck]

Recently :

Hires a new communications director called Anthony Scaramucci
Press secretary Sean Spicer quits in protest. Says he's happy but is fulminating
The Mooch (aka Scaramucci) gives obscene interview to New Yorker magazine
Trump fires his chief of staff, the hapless Reince Priebus (abandoned at Andrews air force base)
Hires a new one, Gen Kelly, who was the head of homeland security
On Kelly's first day, the president fires the new communications director - Scaramucci has lasted just 10 days - less time than it takes for a pint of milk to go off
He hires a new comms director, his fourth in seven months
He publicly shames his attorney-general, numerous times, but Jeff Sessions clings on
Loses a healthcare bill
Publicly lashes the three Republicans who voted against it, several times
Bans transgender people from the military, via Twitter, without telling the military
Military chiefs say: "Forget it, we don't take orders from tweets; there's a chain of command"
Makes political speech to Scouts aged between 11-18
Claims Scouts leader rang to congratulate him on greatest speech ever made
Scouts leader says there was no such call, and issues statement apologising to Scouts for president's misjudged address
Says the president of Mexico rang to congratulate him on his border policies
Mexican president says no such call ever took place
White House denies the president is a liar, but can't explain the president's claims
Takes days to sign bipartisan sanctions bill and then criticises Congress for making him sign it
Thanks Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of American diplomats
Condemns leaks but then says he likes the leaks because it shows people love him
Encourages police officers to be rough with suspects during arrests
Police chiefs condemn statement. White House clarifies that it was a joke
Publicly shames the Republican Senate leader, whom he needs to get anything done, several times
Seems to respond to North Korea by threatening nuclear war
Tells Guam, which has a big US military base which North Korea's leader threatened to attack, that the publicity will help tourism
Chief strategist Steve Bannon contradicts president. Says: "There's no military option in NK"
Threatens Venezuela with a military option
After a neo-Nazi rally in which a woman was killed, the president blames both sides
After backlash, cleans it up. Denounces white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
Cross at having been forced to do this, erases all of it and reverts to blaming both sides, saying there were "fine people there"
Military high command issue statement condemning all forms of discrimination in thinly veiled attack on commander-in-chief
Promotes his Virginia vineyard when asked if he will - as president - visit Charlottesville
And gets condemnations from Democrats, Republicans, former presidents, world leaders, allies, his own staff, and the Pope.
Publicly shames company bosses who abandon him. There's a mass walkout by execs leading to disbanding of key White House business bodies
Fires Steve Bannon, his chief strategist and architect of Trump victory
Does U-turn on Afghanistan and commits more troops, having repeatedly said he'd pull US forces out
Threatens to close government down if he doesn't get funding for border wall with Mexico
Appeals for unity of American people
Next day lambasts his enemies and critics in highly partisan speech
Day after that appeals for unity again
Pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted for defying court order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected immigrants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41037024

[Feck]

Merkins

[pErvinalia]

I've got two words for you, Feck:

Hillary. Clinton.

[Animavore]

All this winning. It's overwhelming.

[pErvinalia]

I can see 42 lurking... I can't wait to hear his apologetics for all this retardation..

[Feck]

No, still fucking laughing at their vain- glorious clown the head of the free world PMSL .

[Feck]

Scotland should nationalise his golf courses and turn them into wind farms .

[L'Emmerdeur]

Domestic terrorists of all varieties in the US will find this news refreshing:

"As Domestic Terrorism Like Charlottesville Rises, Federal Program to Fight it Shuts Down"

As Charlottesville, Va., struggles to recover from last weekend’s deadly violence and authorities warn of increased threats from domestic extremists, the Justice Department is quietly shutting down a program that trains officers on combating terrorism.

The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program, which has served more than 142,000 law enforcement officers in every state in the country, has run out of funding. Its last day is Sept. 30.

“It makes absolutely no sense,” said Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of 79 centers across the country designed to help law enforcement agencies collect and share terrorism-related information.

“Eliminating programs that are critical to preparing our people in the field to identify threats before they manifest and cause harm to our public is an egregious error.”

Sena and other law enforcement experts also question the effectiveness of a domestic terrorism task force the Justice Department revived in 2014. At a time of heightened concerns about violence, they say, they’ve heard nothing about the task force or its efforts, nor have they been asked to participate.

The Justice Department did not respond to repeated questions for comment about why the anti-terrorism training program was being eliminated or whether the task force was still active — and if so, what it has accomplished.

...

The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program, known as SLATT, was created in 1996 in response to the worst act of domestic terrorism committed on U.S. soil — the April 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The program trains officers “to understand, detect, deter and investigate acts of terrorism in the United States by both international and domestic terrorists.”

Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the program is funded through Justice Department appropriations. The agency says the training sessions, briefings and publications are regularly requested by U.S. attorneys’ offices, the FBI, national policy organizations, and state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.

“Everyone is familiar with that training,” Sena said. “It’s the type of training that every agency wants to have.”

An assessment conducted last year by the Rand Corp. said there was a huge demand for the training.

“The SLATT Program receives more requests for training than it can fulfill,” the study said, adding that one staff member noted “it is not uncommon to have a backlog of 120 requests for SLATT training.”

...

Justice Department appropriations documents show that the program received $2 million in 2012 and 2013 and $1 million in 2014. President Barack Obama requested $2 million for 2015, but Congress didn’t approve any funding. The Justice Department told The Star at the time that it would provide $1 million from within the agency’s budget to keep the program going.

Congress rejected the funding again in 2016 and 2017. The Trump administration did not request any funding for fiscal year 2018, which starts Oct. 1.

Several law enforcement sources said those who inquire about the training are told that the program is being folded into the VALOR Officer Safety Initiative, which is designed to prevent violence against officers and promote officer safety.

But those are two distinct programs, they told The Star.

“This other training program is geared toward tactical training, like how to protect officers from a police ambush,” said Daryl Johnson, a former senior analyst with the Department of Homeland Security. “It doesn’t teach them how to identify the terrorists and their beliefs.”

...

[I]n May, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning that “the white supremacist extremist movement likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”

The report, obtained this month by Foreign Policy, said that white supremacist extremists committed 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016, more than any other domestic extremist movement.

Over the next year, the report predicted, most of the lethal violence involving white supremacists will be committed by lone offenders or small cells rather than large groups because the movement is so decentralized and unorganized.

“Although plot-derived mass-casualty violence remains possible, we judge it more likely that violence will continue to be spontaneous and involve targets of opportunity,” it said.

The report, law enforcement officers told The Star, is all the more reason why eliminating the SLATT program is a mistake.

[Feck]

What sort of inbred, meth addicted, racist cretins voted for Trump anyway They make UK Tory voters look rational .

[Sean Hayden]

Now they want more funding for counter terrorism programs. You couldn't make this shit up.

btw,

As Charlottesville, Va., struggles to recover

[Sean Hayden]

Oh, and fuck white supremacist.

[Jason]

Recently :

Hires a new communications director called Anthony Scaramucci
Press secretary Sean Spicer quits in protest. Says he's happy but is fulminating
The Mooch (aka Scaramucci) gives obscene interview to New Yorker magazine
Trump fires his chief of staff, the hapless Reince Priebus (abandoned at Andrews air force base)
Hires a new one, Gen Kelly, who was the head of homeland security
On Kelly's first day, the president fires the new communications director - Scaramucci has lasted just 10 days - less time than it takes for a pint of milk to go off
He hires a new comms director, his fourth in seven months
He publicly shames his attorney-general, numerous times, but Jeff Sessions clings on
Loses a healthcare bill
Publicly lashes the three Republicans who voted against it, several times
Bans transgender people from the military, via Twitter, without telling the military
Military chiefs say: "Forget it, we don't take orders from tweets; there's a chain of command"
Makes political speech to Scouts aged between 11-18
Claims Scouts leader rang to congratulate him on greatest speech ever made
Scouts leader says there was no such call, and issues statement apologising to Scouts for president's misjudged address
Says the president of Mexico rang to congratulate him on his border policies
Mexican president says no such call ever took place
White House denies the president is a liar, but can't explain the president's claims
Takes days to sign bipartisan sanctions bill and then criticises Congress for making him sign it
Thanks Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of American diplomats
Condemns leaks but then says he likes the leaks because it shows people love him
Encourages police officers to be rough with suspects during arrests
Police chiefs condemn statement. White House clarifies that it was a joke
Publicly shames the Republican Senate leader, whom he needs to get anything done, several times
Seems to respond to North Korea by threatening nuclear war
Tells Guam, which has a big US military base which North Korea's leader threatened to attack, that the publicity will help tourism
Chief strategist Steve Bannon contradicts president. Says: "There's no military option in NK"
Threatens Venezuela with a military option
After a neo-Nazi rally in which a woman was killed, the president blames both sides
After backlash, cleans it up. Denounces white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
Cross at having been forced to do this, erases all of it and reverts to blaming both sides, saying there were "fine people there"
Military high command issue statement condemning all forms of discrimination in thinly veiled attack on commander-in-chief
Promotes his Virginia vineyard when asked if he will - as president - visit Charlottesville
And gets condemnations from Democrats, Republicans, former presidents, world leaders, allies, his own staff, and the Pope.
Publicly shames company bosses who abandon him. There's a mass walkout by execs leading to disbanding of key White House business bodies
Fires Steve Bannon, his chief strategist and architect of Trump victory
Does U-turn on Afghanistan and commits more troops, having repeatedly said he'd pull US forces out
Threatens to close government down if he doesn't get funding for border wall with Mexico
Appeals for unity of American people
Next day lambasts his enemies and critics in highly partisan speech
Day after that appeals for unity again
Pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted for defying court order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected immigrants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41037024

Epic train wreck of unprecedented proportions, and we're not even a year in yet.

[Brian Peacock]

I sense a great disturbance in The Force.