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Post by cliffs on Nov 1, 2019 21:24:47 GMT
File this under none of our business. US alleges Russia meddling in Chilean protests
The United States says there are indications that Russian activity in social media is exacerbating divisions in Chile, which has been rocked by deadly protests. A senior State Department official said Thursday that the alleged online activity - denied by Russia - reflected increased Russian engagement in the Americas. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-alleges-russia-meddling-chilean-protests-66694781 |
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Post by karma4u on Nov 1, 2019 23:02:25 GMT
They dressed up for Halloween?..   |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 3, 2019 11:17:13 GMT
President Donald Trump was met with boos once again, this time at the main fight of UFC 244 Saturday night in New York City.
When the president arrived at Madison Square Garden to watch the fighters face off, the massive crowd quickly turned hostile.
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 4, 2019 19:34:31 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 4, 2019 19:45:50 GMT
Saw that and just screamed out loud...
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 5, 2019 22:04:53 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 6, 2019 0:36:14 GMT
So much for those tariffs... WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's move last year to tax imported steel triggered jeers but also cheers. Its goal — to raise steel prices — threatened to hurt the legions of U.S. manufacturers that depend on steel. But at least it would benefit U.S. steel companies and the Americans who work for them. That was the idea, anyway. Yet Trump's 25% tariffs, it turns out, have done little for the people they were supposed to help. After enjoying a brief tariff-induced sugar high last year, American steelmakers are reeling. Steel prices and company earnings have sunk. Investors have dumped their stocks. The industry has added just 1,800 jobs since February 2018, the month before the tariffs took effect. That's a mere rounding error in a job market of 152 million and over a period when U.S. companies overall added nearly 4 million workers. Steelmakers employ 10,000 fewer people than they did five years ago. finance.yahoo.com/news/why-trump-tariffs-havent-revitalized-175329838.html |
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 6, 2019 14:44:03 GMT
So much winning!!
And yet his cultists believe the exact opposite. My family goes on and on about "how great the economy is doing under Trump," and how their 401 K's are sky-high thanks to Trump. When I ask them what they mean by "Economy," they say "well the Dow Jones is at record highs." I tell them the stock market is not the economy, they look at me like I'm a meth-head. I point out all of the record bankruptcies for farmers, and the $10 billion socialist bailout that Trump had to give the farmers thanks to his China tariffs, and they just shrug it off. I point out the huge loss in coal mining jobs that Trump promised to "bring back," and they just shrug it off. I point out that we have a record deficit thanks to Trump, and record national debt under Trump, and no biggie. I guess as long as their own stock portfolios are kicking ass, that means the economy is booming, and fuck the statistics about everything else. Of course, if the stock market crashes tomorrow, then that will somehow be the fault of the Dems, not Trump. You cannot change the mind of a brain-washed cultist. They will believe what they want to believe, and facts will NOT get in the way of that.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 7, 2019 21:49:51 GMT
President Donald Trump must pay a $2 million judgment for improperly using his Trump Foundation charity to further his 2016 presidential campaign, a New York state judge ruled Thursday. The order appears to bring to an end the New York attorney general's lawsuit against the president and three of his oldest children over the now-shuttered foundation, which the attorney general said had engaged in repeated wrongdoing. “Our petition detailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more," then-Attorney General Barbara Underwood alleged in a statement late last year. www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-trump-pay-2-million-misusing-his-foundation-n1078306Now we wait to see if he pays it. |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 8, 2019 11:14:11 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 8, 2019 11:16:21 GMT
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Post by karma4u on Nov 9, 2019 17:28:24 GMT
Gotta love it...   |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 9, 2019 19:00:12 GMT
While an honor in theory, the president’s arrival at a sporting event is challenging in execution. As one sports executive who has dealt with presidential visits over the years put it to Yahoo Sports: “The worst words you can hear are: ‘The president is coming to your game.’”
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 11, 2019 19:36:54 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 11, 2019 20:54:50 GMT
Donald Trump Jr walks out of Triggered book launch after heckling – from supporters news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-walks-triggered-032929868.htmlor this KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry proposed one of the men as an adviser to the country's new president. Perry's efforts to influence Ukraine's energy policy came earlier this year, just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's new government was seeking military aid from the United States to defend against Russian aggression, and allies of President Donald Trump were ramping up efforts to get the Ukrainians to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Ukraine awarded the contract to Perry's supporters little more than a month after the U.S. energy secretary attended Zelenskiy's May inauguration. During that trip, Perry handed the new president a list of people he recommended as energy advisers, including his longtime political backer Michael Bleyzer. finance.yahoo.com/news/push-perry-backers-got-huge-100133901.html |
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