It's even wilder than it reads as.

Maybe a bit of a tangent, but the way this administration has co-opted the term "fake news" to describe anything they don't agree with makes me wanna kick kittens. Kick them really, really hard.

Does he mean this?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/e ... -1.1404541

Those stories tend to be overblown by the European right.

My favourite part is how he's shown the proof and responds with "Oh... I didn't call that fake news. I don't think I did, anyway."

I think he means he's a bigot who finds useful the political capital gained by portraying immigrants as weapons of war. And also he means that he didn't say that. Or that. Or this.

Law.

It's safe to say at this point that no special interests benefited from the crafting of this legislation and that we can in fact declare that the swamp has been drained.

Tweet of the year.

"E pluribus not gonna work here anymore."

Ruddo may have a different opinion but those coins are pretty dumb in general. I've seen the dick-waving that goes on with them and it's really dumb.

The only ones that I received that meant anything were special ops related and were treated differently. Any from a government official is just lol

heart reacts only

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/w ... s.html#_=_

That is embarassing.

This is a placeholder post for when Trump calls the Haiti story "fake news."

What’s fake? That all Haitians have AIDS or that he said they did?

That Nigerians live in huts?

The best part of the story is imagining Stephen Miller raging at the State Department over the mere existence of immigration. But as for Donald, he is so busy trying to denegrate future witnesses right now, I'd be surprised if he has the time.

from a president that is married to someone who can't speak english

sage advice

Foxconn Subsidy Now Exceeds $4 Billion

When the state deal with Taiwanese company Foxconn was first announced, the numbers were bold and clear: the company would get $3 billion in subsidies from the state and in turn would build a $10 billion plant and create 13,000 jobs.

That stood not just as the largest subsidy in state history, but the largest government subsidy to a foreign company in American history.

But the giveaway has continued to grow, while Foxconn’s required investment has shrunk. After legislation was passed approving the deal without determining the specifics, the Wisconsin Economic Development Agency hammered out the details that dropped Foxconn’s required investment in its new plant to just $9 billion. The Journal Sentinel has reported this, yet its stories keep referring to the $10 billion plant.

Meanwhile the Village of Mount Pleasant and Racine County agreed to give Foxconn $764 million in tax incentives. The measure also commits the state to paying 40 percent of local governments’ expenses for the plant “if ever called upon to do so.”

Foxconn has also been exempted from environmental regulations, and some experts believe this will cause pollution that might eventually require remediation paid for by taxpayers. And Foxconn’s newest demand is for its plant to be treated as a foreign trade zone, which could reduce its customs duties and cut the company’s costs. Odds are, it’s not the last demand the company will make.

My uncle actually told us yesterday that each and every one of us should say thank you to President Trump for allowing us to say Merry Christmas again. My response: “who told you to stop saying it?” After him stammering around trying to think of an answer, I walked away.