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rolaholic said:
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On a related note,its a little jarring seeing mainstream 'legacy' news organizations starting to co-opt WC/neo-Nazi talking points and narratives...

The 'demographic anxiety' stuff is just more of the same 'white genocide' rhetoric insecure bigots have been harping on about with a fancy coat of varnish/polish the same way they veiled white supremacy as 'economic anxiety'

Seems as though they're trying to make that kind of stuff palatable for the mainstream which is dangerous AF imo,it goes a long way towards normalizing destructive notions and ideas
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They use the rhetoric as their European counter parts. They paint this picture of a beastly, hyper fecund horde of brown people out breeding whites. They also talk about a liberal (often times Jewish) elite who want to assist said horde in its efforts.

it's like continuation of Lee Atwater's claim that white supremacists politics will periodically change how it talks from the n-word to bussing, to tax cuts and now demographics.

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Same people who probably cried foul when folks voted 3rd party in the General
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I Read the article, I read the comments. Neolib Democrats, show their true colors. People, most of them white but a good chunk of them black in the case of Maryland, have gotten rich in the counties near D.C.. They have gorged themselves on rent seeking industries and many residents of those counties are now part of that 10-20% of Americans who actually get raises and who have a good life and a future.

Meanwhile, Baltimore is poorer and in worse shape than it was 20 years ago when it inspired The Wire into existence. Here we got Legget, fretting that his rich constituents should have to pay slightly higher taxes so that people in places like Baltimore can have healthcare and tuition free community college. Ben jealous gets branded a radical for wanting poor, mostly black folks in Baltimore and the poor parts of the Counties to have access to basic services.

Apparently, Ben Jealous he has also not been kind enough to blood sucker Jeff Bezos and the army of out of state techies who want to bring a housing affordability crisis to Maryland. Some say that neoliberalism is not a thing, take a look at this article, it's definitely a force and worldview in our politics in our politics.

Luckily though, it will not be an especially powerful force in the general election. High engagement voters, those who voted for anyone in primary, tend to unify for the general election that follows. People like Legget are the Democrats' version of those wannabe aristocratic "Never Trumpers," who had no meaningful effect on the GOP's general election chances in 2016. It will be the same case for Democrats in 2018. Ben Jealous will have an easy time in November and the loud but impotent, corporate centrists voices will be exposed as hollow.
 
https://www.politico.com/story/2018...ok-white-house-reporters-press-753109?cid=apn
'Everyone talked with Woodward': Trump White House braces for new book
Unlike previous administrations, this White House had no process for making officials available to the legendary reporter.

Bob Woodward, the legendary Washington Post journalist, was sitting on the couch in press secretary Jay Carney’s office, presenting Obama administration officials with an offer they couldn’t refuse.

It was 2011, and Woodward was working on a book chronicling President Barack Obama’s debt-ceiling negotiations. He pulled out a secret memo written by Peter Orszag, the former budget director, that Woodward had obtained and which held potentially damaging revelations about the administration.

Participating in his project, Woodward said, would give people like Carney the opportunity to respond to such memos. Woodward then pointed to a safe that is kept in the press secretary’s office, which holds classified documents. “I’d like access to everything, including what’s in there,” he said, “some of which I might have already.”

The impression he left on the people in the room that day, according to a person familiar with the episode, was that they didn’t have much of a choice: Woodward knew everything, and if you didn’t participate, you were screwed.

The result was that the Obama administration cooperated in an attempt to shape the narrative to be more favorable to the president.

“We decided to put it all above board so that we at least had some visibility into it,” recalled Dan Pfeiffer, a former communications director for Obama, who said press aides would often sit in on interviews Woodward conducted with senior officials. “We put in place a process to facilitate cooperation to help shape a book that was going to be written.”

Now Woodward is taking on the Trump administration. Simon & Schuster, Woodward’s publisher, announced Monday that it plans to release his 19th book, entitled “Fear: Trump in the White House,” on Sept. 11.
But the process for managing the book has not been as formal in President Donald Trump’s White House – in fact, there hasn’t been any process at all. According to half a dozen former administration officials and people close to the administration, Woodward was never officially granted access to the White House or to the president, and the communications department did nothing to help him in researching or writing his book.

For example, when Woodward approached the then-National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton, with whom Woodward had worked closely on his books about the George W. Bush administration, about an interview with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, he was officially turned down, according to a person familiar with the request.

The result is what often happens in Trumpworld: Senior officials acting as lone wolves concerned with preserving their own reputations spoke to Woodward on their own – with some granting him hours of their time out of a fear of being the last person in the room to offer his or her viewpoint.

As one former administration official put it: “He hooked somebody, and that put the fear of God in everyone else.”

Another former official added: “It’s gonna be killer. Everyone talked with Woodward.”

According to Simon & Schuster, the book will reveal “the harrowing life inside Donald Trump’s White House and how the president makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.” The cover is a striking red wash over an uncomfortably close close-up of Trump’s face.

The book has been kept under wraps, which one publishing source said was typically the M.O. for the release of a Woodward book: quiet followed by a publicity blast beginning the month before publication.

But it has also stayed secret in a White House where everything seems to leak. Over the past 18 months of the Trump administration, Woodward has not been spotted often on the White House campus, officials said. He did not camp out in anyone’s office, a la author Michael Wolff, author of the bestselling “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

Instead, two interview subjects said, he offered Trump officials and outside sources the classic Woodward treatment – inviting them to his home, where he showed them his fabled study and his Pulitzers, and then pressed them to hand over schedules, diaries and notebooks and other documents he needed.

In previous administrations that he’s written about, Woodward has instead been a regular presence in the White House. The past three presidents – Obama, Bush and President Bill Clinton – all participated in Woodward projects.

“We cooperated fully, from the president on down, in his first book on the Bush administration,” recalled former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who said he was interviewed by Woodward in his West Wing office. “That set the tone. The president is talking, the vice president is talking, we’re all talking.”

The Trump administration was officially participating in another project – a book by the journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Their “inside the room” books on the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns relied on methods similar to Woodward’s – conducting hours of interviews on background, and then using an omniscient voice to recreate scenes that put readers in the room where the decision-making happened.

Their book on 2016, however, was canceled after sexual harassment allegations against Halperin.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not respond to a request for comment about the Woodward book. Woodward’s agent, Bob Barnett, declined to comment beyond the publisher’s official release.

Trump allies said they were bracing themselves for a book that will enrage the president – and that he will therefore promote, intentionally or not. Trump’s rage tweets, in the past, have helped to boost book sales, while his promotional tweets about books that depict the administration – including by former aides like Sean Spicer and Fox News allies like Judge Jeanine Pirro, as well as lesser-known fans – in a positive light have failed to move the needle in the same way.

His tweets about people like Wolff, who he called “a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book” and former FBI Director James Comey, who he deemed an “untruthful slime ball” are credited with helping those books become international bestsellers. Wolff’s book sold 1.2 million hardcovers, and has been translated into 35 languages. Comey’s memoir, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week on sale.

“By virtue of it being a Bob Woodward book, it will be an instant bestseller,” said literary agent Keith Urbahn, whose clients include Comey. “The smartest thing Trump could do is to give Woodward the silent treatment. But we know that’s unlikely. So if I’m Bob Woodward, I’m feeling good about things.”

Woodward has been quietly plugging away at his book since before Trump took office. During the campaign, Woodward and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa together sat down for an extended interview with Trump – an interaction that gave Woodward some visibility and entree into Trumpworld, as well as the imprimatur of being around.

Weeks before Trump’s inauguration, Woodward was also spotted in the lobby of Trump Tower, entering the elevator bank to go meet with senior campaign officials who would soon be making the trek to Washington.

“There’s no secrecy about it,” Woodward said at the time when pressed by reporters about what he was doing. “It’s just that I’m doing my work. It’s something I’m working on long term. I hope you’ll understand.
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Looks like the stable genius may be moving towards another bright idea /s
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ampaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter
U.S. Considers Higher Tariffs on $200 Billion in Chinese Imports
The Trump administration will propose raising to 25 percent its planned 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to return to the negotiating table, three people familiar with the internal deliberations said.

The U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products in early July, and the review period on another $16 billion of imports ends Wednesday. President Donald Trump has threatened an additional $200 billion with levies of 10 percent, a level the administration may raise to 25 percent in a Federal Register notice in coming days, one of the people said. The change isn’t final yet and may not go forward after a public review, the people said.

At the same time, representatives of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He are having private conversations as they look for ways to reengage in negotiations, according to people who spoke about the deliberations on condition of anonymity.

The public comment period on the U.S. tariffs aimed at $200 billion ends Aug. 30 after public hearings Aug. 20-23, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. Announcing a higher tariff is required ahead of the hearings and will send a signal that the Trump administration is upping the pressure on China to make serious concessions.

Trump directed trade representative Robert Lighthizer to raise the tariff rate to 25 percent, the people said.
Officials have cautioned that a specific timetable, the issues to be discussed and the format for talks aren’t finalized, but added there was agreement among the principals that more discussions need to take place. Chinese officials haven’t yet commented on the prospects for resuming talks.

While American and Chinese officials have hinted at the possibility of restarting talks in recent weeks, it’s been almost two months since they last held high-level negotiations.

“China and the U.S. have had several rounds of consultations and reached important consensus, but regrettably the U.S. did not fulfill its obligations,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday. “Nor did it make concerted efforts with China.”

The next wave of U.S. tariffs is set to kick in as soon as Wednesday, with the possible imposition of duties on another $16 billion of Chinese imports. The implementation could be delayed for weeks as the administration works out the details of which products it will target. Officials in Beijing have vowed to respond with the same amount of tariffs on U.S. products.

One person familiar with the internal deliberations said the U.S. is trying to secure certain concessions and if China agrees, it is possible the U.S. would back off additional tariffs.

Complicating Mnuchin’s efforts is a harder line taken by Lighthizer, who has jurisdiction over the U.S.’s 301 investigation that sparked the tariffs. That case concluded China was stealing American technology and tariffs were needed to offset the damage.


A U.S. Treasury spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The two sides held three rounds of formal talks, beginning with a delegation to Beijing led by Mnuchin in May. After Liu visited Washington later that month, the nations released a joint statement pledging to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China, among other things. But within days, Trump himself backed away from the deal, saying talks would “probably have to use a different structure.”

In a sign the trade standoff is reverberating through Chinese politics, the Politburo signaled Tuesday that policy makers will focus more on supporting economic growth amid risks from a campaign to reduce debt and the dispute with Trump.

The communique, which followed a meeting of the country’s 25 most senior leaders led by President Xi Jinping, said the nation’s campaign to reduce leverage will continue at a measured pace while improving economic policies to make them more forward-looking, flexible and effective in the second half of 2018.
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itsaboutthattime said:
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http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...alsely-claims-id-is-required-to-buy-groceries
Trump claims picture ID is required to buy groceries
President Trump on Tuesday made the claim that a photo ID is required to buy groceries as part of his argument for introducing stricter voter ID laws.

“You know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card,” he said. “You need ID.”






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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/31/politics/mueller-investigation-foreign-agent-referrals-new-york/index.html?utm_content=2018-07-31T22:28:33&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image
Exclusive: Mueller refers foreign agent inquiries to New York prosecutors
Special counsel Robert Mueller has referred a collection of cases to New York federal prosecutors concerning whether several high-profile American lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents, according to people familiar with the matter.

The transfer of the inquiries marks an escalation of Mueller's referrals to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in the period since he turned over a case involving President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Since the spring, Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs, the sources said.

One source said that former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, a former partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, is also part of the inquiry.
None of the entities involved have been charged with wrongdoing, and there is no indication the SDNY inquiry will result in criminal charges.

It's not clear whether they are considered one case or separate matters, these people said, though all involve inquiries into whether the men improperly performed work on behalf of groups associated with Ukraine without registering with the Justice Department as foreign agents.

Federal law requires that an entity representing a foreign political party or government file public reports detailing the relationship.

At least one of the matters, involving Podesta, was referred to SDNY by Mueller's team shortly before the FBI executed searches of Cohen's home, office and hotel room in early April, according to the sources, though there is no sign that the timing was related to the Cohen investigation. It couldn't be determined if the other matters were referred at the same time.

It's also not clear exactly why Mueller referred the matters to federal prosecutors in New York. Both Mercury and Skadden have offices in Manhattan, though Weber and Craig are based in Washington, DC, and performed the work in question while based in offices there. Podesta and his former firm are also based in Washington. SDNY, however, could claim jurisdiction for reasons such as the location of banking transactions associated with the activity under examination.

Mueller has come under scrutiny from Trump and others for what they perceive as the special counsel's examination of matters beyond the scope of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election cycle, and Mueller's referral of cases that aren't closely linked to that central matter could be a way of insulating the special counsel probe from such backlash, people familiar with the situation said.

A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the US attorney's office declined to comment.

A representative for Podesta and the Podesta Group declined to comment.

An attorney for Weber, who led Mercury's Ukraine-linked lobbying work, declined to comment.

"We welcome any inquiry, as we always have, since we acted appropriately at every step of the process, including hiring the best lawyer in Washington we could and following his advice," said Michael McKeon, a partner at Mercury.

Craig declined to comment. Skadden declined to comment.

Mueller had been scrutinizing all three firms as part of his inquiry into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates, who were both charged by the special counsel's office with failing to file as foreign agents relating to a decade of work they did for the Party of Regions, a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.

Manafort, who pleaded not guilty and faces trial on the matter in September, and Gates, who pleaded guilty, paid the Mercury and Podesta firms through a nonprofit, European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, for work that was subsequently revealed to have been done on behalf of Ukraine's government, according to court filings.

Mueller had been examining whether Mercury and the Podesta Group properly identified to federal authorities their foreign advocacy for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, CNN previously reported. The ECFMU is a Brussels-based nonprofit group that federal prosecutors have called a mouthpiece for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians.

The Podesta Group has said it was fully cooperating with the special counsel's office and said it didn't register as a foreign agent for its ECFMU work because that group had misrepresented itself. The Podesta Group said it registered its work for ECFMU instead with Congress, based on what it said was faulty information the non-profit had provided and an outside legal opinion on the matter. The ECFMU had given the firm a statement attesting that it wasn't an arm of a foreign government, the Podesta Group said.

The Podesta Group said previously that it retroactively filed a disclosure after discussions with the Department of Justice.

Skadden performed its own work for Ukraine and also advised Mercury on whether it needed to register its work under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Gates admitted as part of his cooperation deal that he had misled Skadden regarding whether the nonprofit was linked to the Ukraine government, a step he knew would avoid triggering Mercury and the Podesta Group to register their work under the FARA statute, according to court filings.

Mercury, too, submitted retroactive FARA filings.

Another former Skadden lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan, pleaded guilty in February to lying to the special counsel's office, admitting that he misled investigators about his discussions related to Skadden's work for the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, in preparing a report on the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Court filings say that after one of the discussions van der Zwaan lied about, he called the senior partner at Skadden who worked on the report and partially recorded that call. The court papers didn't name the senior partner, but van der Zwaan's attorney identified the partner in a court proceeding as Craig.

The special counsel prosecutor involved in that proceeding, Andrew Weissmann, said in court that van der Zwaan had given an advance copy of the report to a public-relations firm that had been retained by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and "had lied to the senior partner on the matter about what he had done."

"When asked about that by the senior partner, he lied and said he had no idea how they got an advance copy," Weissmann said. Weissmann also indicated that Skadden "had insisted on being able to write such an independent report."

Van der Zwaan completed a 30-day prison sentence earlier this year.
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itsaboutthattime said:
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shame on NT for shaming Melanie.

as a sneaker website, one of our core tenets is to keep those midsoles DS white at all costs, even if it means wearing the shoe only once.

this photo is not proof that Melanie doesn't garden. it is proof that she is a Niketalker. with this established, anyone who says anything mean about Melanie on here should be banned.
 
Belgium said:
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...alsely-claims-id-is-required-to-buy-groceries
Trump claims picture ID is required to buy groceries
President Trump on Tuesday made the claim that a photo ID is required to buy groceries as part of his argument for introducing stricter voter ID laws.

“You know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card,” he said. “You need ID.”
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This dude has probably never had to go grocery shopping in his bone-spurred life. TF is he talking about.
 
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