Oh yeah !
Let's Play !
Your ancestry first....let me guess...you're from Pluto's Uranus...
The War on Democracy
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Oh yeah !
Let's Play !
Your ancestry first....let me guess...you're from Pluto's Uranus...
Hüsker Dü
DA
A before the fact, early indicator and eerily accurate prognosis of what was going on and what would come from it. Interesting read.
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly become so popular?
What's made Trump's rise even more puzzling is that his support seems to cross demographic lines — education, income, age, even religiosity — that usually demarcate candidates. And whereas most Republican candidates might draw strong support from just one segment of the party base, such as Southern evangelicals or coastal moderates, Trump currently does surprisingly well from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the towns of upstate New York, and he won a resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.
Perhaps strangest of all, it wasn't just Trump but his supporters who seemed to have come out of nowhere, suddenly expressing, in large numbers, ideas far more extreme than anything that has risen to such popularity in recent memory. In South Carolina, a CBS News exit poll found that 75 percent of Republican voters supported banning Muslims from the United States. A PPP pollfound that a third of Trump voters support banning gays and lesbians from the country. Twenty percent said Lincoln shouldn't have freed the slaves.
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly become so popular?
What's made Trump's rise even more puzzling is that his support seems to cross demographic lines — education, income, age, even religiosity — that usually demarcate candidates. And whereas most Republican candidates might draw strong support from just one segment of the party base, such as Southern evangelicals or coastal moderates, Trump currently does surprisingly well from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the towns of upstate New York, and he won a resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.
Perhaps strangest of all, it wasn't just Trump but his supporters who seemed to have come out of nowhere, suddenly expressing, in large numbers, ideas far more extreme than anything that has risen to such popularity in recent memory. In South Carolina, a CBS News exit poll found that 75 percent of Republican voters supported banning Muslims from the United States. A PPP pollfound that a third of Trump voters support banning gays and lesbians from the country. Twenty percent said Lincoln shouldn't have freed the slaves.
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
Sheriff Joe
DA
You are the cut n paste Rodent....did you remember to step over the trash in the street again....
Sheriff Joe
DA
He's riling up the American Citizenry for Civil War....I'm doing my part to
contribute....Now what !
Winning !
* Your anger is affecting your choices in word usage...
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Hüsker Dü
DA
It marked the first time a presidential administration skipped the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials in at least 24 years. But the absence was striking for another reason. As jarring images of severed Central American migrant families played out on television, the White House chose not to make the case for its immigration policy to these key politicians.
For some, the choice was more evidence that the relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the GOP is not just fractured, but broken — a breach with both immediate and long-term consequences.
http://myconnection.cox.com/article/politics/ceedb768-76e5-11e8-ba2e-871a4d24b60d/
For some, the choice was more evidence that the relationship between Latinos in the U.S. and the GOP is not just fractured, but broken — a breach with both immediate and long-term consequences.
http://myconnection.cox.com/article/politics/ceedb768-76e5-11e8-ba2e-871a4d24b60d/
Sheriff Joe
DA
Who cares?
Hüsker Dü
DA
Americans.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Mexicans that want to become Americans maybe.
The last 24 years huh, you have BJ Clinton, Amnesty Bush and Barak Milhouse Obama.
Like I said, who cares. Trump doesn't need to go into a no win situation with a bunch of liars.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Trump is the liar in chief, his admin perpetuates them.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Then, you support him?
Sheriff Joe
DA
Again, who gives a fuck what illegal alien criminals think?
Latino leaders question Census head over citizenship query
AP News | June 23, 2018
PHOENIX (AP) — Latino elected officials from around the nation questioned the head of the U.S. Census Bureau on Saturday over the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 survey, denouncing it as a purely political move.
Members of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the decision to ask about citizenship status will result in an undercount of Latino communities.
At the group's annual conference in Phoenix this week, several said the question will deter many from responding to the survey for fear that authorities will use the information against them.
Acting Director Ron Jarmin said the Census Bureau is barred by law from sharing data with other government agencies.
"People have always had trepidation about responding to a government survey," Jarmin said. "The critical message that we need to get out to everybody is that participation in the Census is safe, it's secure."
The U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years, and its results are used to determine the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, as well as how federal money is distributed to local communities and schools.
Latino leaders at the conference on Saturday said they fear the question of citizenship will be detrimental to an accurate count of people living the U.S.
"We know it's a political thing, we know it's gonna affect our communities," executive director Arturo Vargas said. "Everybody knows this is just bad policy."
The announcement in March by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to include the question was met with criticism and has resulted in several lawsuits, including one in California and another in New York brought by 17 Democratic attorneys general and others. Ross said the question was needed in part to help the government enforce the Voting Rights Act, a 1965 law meant to protect the political representation of minorities. The decennial census hasn't included a question about citizenship since 1950.
But panelists like U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, said there is a more sinister reason to add the question. Gomez said the administration has misled Congress about why it really wants to do so.
"I think this is a real travesty, I think the American people should be outraged," Gomez said.
The Trump administration's ultimate goal is to take congressional seats from areas with a high population of immigrants, he added.
Lubby Navarro, a member of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board, said adding the citizenship question will make it harder for community leaders who advocate for participation.
"The fear that exists right now with the citizenship question is going to exacerbate our work," Navarro said.
Latino leaders question Census head over citizenship query
AP News | June 23, 2018
PHOENIX (AP) — Latino elected officials from around the nation questioned the head of the U.S. Census Bureau on Saturday over the proposed addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 survey, denouncing it as a purely political move.
Members of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the decision to ask about citizenship status will result in an undercount of Latino communities.
At the group's annual conference in Phoenix this week, several said the question will deter many from responding to the survey for fear that authorities will use the information against them.
Acting Director Ron Jarmin said the Census Bureau is barred by law from sharing data with other government agencies.
"People have always had trepidation about responding to a government survey," Jarmin said. "The critical message that we need to get out to everybody is that participation in the Census is safe, it's secure."
The U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years, and its results are used to determine the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, as well as how federal money is distributed to local communities and schools.
Latino leaders at the conference on Saturday said they fear the question of citizenship will be detrimental to an accurate count of people living the U.S.
"We know it's a political thing, we know it's gonna affect our communities," executive director Arturo Vargas said. "Everybody knows this is just bad policy."
The announcement in March by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to include the question was met with criticism and has resulted in several lawsuits, including one in California and another in New York brought by 17 Democratic attorneys general and others. Ross said the question was needed in part to help the government enforce the Voting Rights Act, a 1965 law meant to protect the political representation of minorities. The decennial census hasn't included a question about citizenship since 1950.
But panelists like U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California, said there is a more sinister reason to add the question. Gomez said the administration has misled Congress about why it really wants to do so.
"I think this is a real travesty, I think the American people should be outraged," Gomez said.
The Trump administration's ultimate goal is to take congressional seats from areas with a high population of immigrants, he added.
Lubby Navarro, a member of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board, said adding the citizenship question will make it harder for community leaders who advocate for participation.
"The fear that exists right now with the citizenship question is going to exacerbate our work," Navarro said.
Hüsker Dü
DA
"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information." ~ Henry Wallace
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/04/30/fascists-compete-own-america
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/04/30/fascists-compete-own-america
Sheriff Joe
DA
Truth hurts doesn't it.