PastaJoe

Perhaps if Germans had stood up to the Nazis in Germany when they were a small group of thugs, they never would have rose to power. Never again.

Exactly, just like WWII. On one side you had the Nazis who were violent & on the other the allied soldiers were also very violent. Some even used weapons. So it's a draw. Many sides you see.

The killer's mother said she didn't know it was a white nationalist rally. She thought it was a rally for Trump. Well yes it was, and yes it was. Trump still can't bring himself to call it what it is; "radical domestic terrorism". How can you combat it I you can't even say what it is? I recall someone saying something similar during the election.

As part of a larger WWII memorial dedicated to all the Allies that fought against the Nazis. It's not there to honor his murder of Russians. Many of the Confederate statues were erected in the '60s as a protest against the Civil rights act and the federal government's support for desegregation.

It took Trump days to renounce Duke's support during the campaign. Now Trump has yet to specifically denounce the white supremacist KKK and Nazis by name. Will Trump say the words "radical domestic terrorism"? It would be naive to think that Trump is willing to upset this section of his dwindling base. He empowered them to speak out, from his Birther movement through his campaign rhetoric about non-whites. It's been over a week and he still hasn't spoken out against the bombing of a mosque in Minnesota. You can bet he would have spoken out if a Muslim attacked a Christian church.

We have history books to record the good and bad of historical events. Statues are normally reserved for inspirational people or events. Celebrating the treasonous actions of the Confederacy with statues is not inspirational, and shows a lack of empathy for the historical treatment of blacks. Never forget, but don't celebrate or honor. Belief in a cause doesn't excuse action, otherwise we'd have statues of Nazis, and would tell Jews that it's a historical record.

Somebody plowed their car into the anti-fascist counter protesters, then sped off. Many injuries. Trump to take time off from golf to give a statement. A little too late from the guy who has given these white nationalists the "courage" to spew their hatred. The 2nd Civil War now in action.

They can't go all in, they still want to put butts in the seats by appearing to compete.

Trump seems to think it's a recreational drug. My brother-in-law died from it's effect. Was driving a truck and was t-boned by someone who ran a red light. Had severe back pain, and was prescribed pills by his doctor. He got hooked, and after failed attempts at rehab it eventually destroyed his liver, and we watched him take his last breath in the hospital, a shell of his former self. It must be some powerful stuff.

Who would have guessed that Trump knew Shakespeare? MACBETH She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

The day after the Mueller indictments are announced, be ready to duck and cover.

Trump is set to depart the White House later today for a 17-day vacation at his golf club in New Jersey. During the 2016 campaign, Trump repeatedly promised that he would refuse to take vacation in order to keep doing the work of the American public. “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf.” Mr Trump tweeted in October 2014. “Worse than Carter.” At another point, Mr Trump lamented the taxpayer expense for Mr Obama’s games, tweeting, “We pay for Obama’s travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies. Then we pay for his golf.” "I would rarely leave the White House because there's so much work to be done," Trump said in July 2015. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off." "I'm going to be working for you," Trump said in August 2016. "I'm not going to have time to go play golf." Trump has spent nearly 22 percent of his days in office at one of his golf properties to play for some portion of the day. Obama played golf for 3 percent of the time he was president. In the first three months of the year, the Secret Service spent $35,000 just on golf cart rentals at the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, CBS News reported. Politico has calculated that a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago, where Mr Trump frequently retreats to play golf, costs taxpayers about $3 million. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/donald-trump-vacation-obama/index.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-trips-president-mar-a-lago-golfing-despite-barack-obama-criticism-a7708076.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-trips-president-mar-a-lago-golfing-despite-barack-obama-criticism-a7708076.html

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation. It is highly unusual for a Cabinet secretary to turn down money for his department. But more than five months into his tenure, Tillerson has not issued a simple request for the money earmarked for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, $60 million of which is now parked at the Pentagon. Another$19.8 million sits untouched at the State Department as Tillerson’s aides reject calls from career diplomats and members of Congress to put the money to work against America’s adversaries. The $60 million will expire on Sept. 30 if not transferred to State by then, current and former State Department officials told POLITICO. The struggle over the money is a case study in Tillerson’s approach to managing the State Department and the frustration it is engendering among American diplomats. Current and former U.S. officials call it the latest example of a severe slowdown in department decision-making; of Tillerson’s reliance on a coterie of political aides who distrust State’s career staffers; and a casualty of President Donald Trump’s intention to slash State's budget, which has Tillerson looking for ways to reshape the department and spend less money, not more. Sources cited another sensitive factor at play: Russia. One Tillerson aide, R.C. Hammond, suggested the money is unwelcome because any extra funding for programs to counter Russian media influence would anger Moscow, according to a former senior State Department official. "This is an extraordinary example of the dysfunction that is ripping through the State Department," said Brett Bruen, a former U.S. diplomat in contact with State employees involved in the funding fight. "What we're seeing is a small group of people with very thin knowledge making all the decisions in a very centralized and isolated process. It causes unnecessary delays and confusion." http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/tillerson-isis-russia-propaganda-241218

I'm surprised the big signing ceremony wasn't televised..

And Trump products.

Curious that when dealing with healthcare Trump said he was waiting with pen in hand to sign it as soon as it was passed by the slimmest of margins. The new Russian sanctions bill was passed last Thursday by the Senate 98-2 and earlier by the House 419-3, and Putin has ordered 755 American diplomats to leave Russia. Yet Trump has said nothing about Putin's action, and still hasn't signed the veto proof bill. Trump must be petrified about what Putin has on him.

After all he did for Trump, Putin's mad that the House of Cons screwed the pooch with their ham-handed attempts to cover up the collusion, and can't deliver the goods by removing sanctions.

The White House worked with Fox News and a wealthy Republican donor to push a story about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, according to an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday. The story was pushed in an attempt to discredit the US intelligence community's determination that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and obtained the emails released by Wikileaks, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit, which was first reported by NPR, was filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff is Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former homicide detective hired to investigate Rich's death, who alleges that he was misquoted as part of the effort to put the story together. Douglas Wigdor, who is representing current and former Fox employees in other lawsuits against the network, is Wheeler's lawyer. 21st Century Fox, the Fox News Channel, Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman and Republican donor Ed Butowsky are named as defendants. Butowsky denies the allegations in the lawsuit. The lawsuit says in part, "The motivation behind the article: establish that Seth Rich provided WikiLeaks with the DNC emails to shift the blame from Russia and help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the Presidential election. ... Zimmerman, Butowsky and Fox had created fake news to advance President Trump's agenda. Mr. Wheeler was subsequently forced to correct the false record and, as a result, lost all credibility in the eyes of the public. Mr. Wheeler has suffered irreparable damage to his reputation and his career will likely never recover." Included in the lawsuit is a text message from Butowsky to Wheeler in which Butowsky writes, "Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you. But don't feel the pressure." http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/01/media/rod-wheeler-seth-rich-fox-news-lawsuit/index.html

They must be trying to pull readers from Breitbart.

Turns out that Trump personally dictated the statement in which Don Jr. misleadingly said he and the Russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children when they met. This was done on Air Force One, just hours after Trump's private meeting with Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dictated-sons-misleading-statement-on-meeting-with-russian-lawyer/2017/07/31/04c94f96-73ae-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.8f2e6fc72de0

The Mooch did his job, he got Don Jr. and Jared out of the headlines. Meanwhile, not distracted by the daily White House circus, Mueller continues to build a case against the House of Cons.

First, Foxconn has a spotty track record of delivering on its promises. The company caused a lot of excitement about a revival of American manufacturing when it announced in 2013 that it would build a $30 million high-tech plant in central Pennsylvania but failed to deliver. The company also announced in 2014 that it would invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia, but failed to deliver on that promise, too. Second, as the Washington Post reported Tuesday, lawmakers and other concerned citizens in Wisconsin are concerned that the state may give away too much in incentives to attract Foxconn. Those concerns are heightened by the facts that Walker is up for re-election next year, has a low approval rating, and has run as a job-creator. Third, it is uncertain whether the promised jobs will be stable and pay a living wage. As for job security, both the BBC and MarketWatch reported in May 2016 that Foxconn had replaced 60,000 of its workers with robots. Foxconn is also known for a work environment so harsh it led to employee riots and suicides. The Fair Labor Association a non-profit formed by Nike and others in 1999 after a series of sweatshop scandals documented in 2012 major labor-rights violations at Foxconn facilities including excessive overtime and salaries that were too low to cover basic living expenses and sometimes not paid. The company has also been criticized for under-age workers, improper disposal of hazardous wastes, injury to workers required to clean iPhone screens with a toxic chemical, and fatal industrial accidents resulting from the failure to address known hazards. Harsh work conditions at a variety of Foxconn locations in China led to a spate of Foxconn employee suicides in 2010. Foxconn chillingly responded to those suicide attempts by installing safety nets to catch employees attempting to jump to their deaths from company buildings. A company that cared about its employees would have done more to investigate and remediate the conditions that led to the suicides in the first place. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/27/heres-whats-worrisome-about-foxconns-plan-to-build-a-plant-in-the-us-commentary.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/27/technology/business/foxconn-china-us-wisconsin-workers/index.html