“There is a hierarchy of needs for the decennial census, with an accurate count of foremost importance, so any proposed changes should be evaluated in consideration of the potential impact on completeness and accuracy,” the panel said.
Trump GOP response: we don’t want an accurate count of the “wrong sort”. So, mission accomplished.
Is there anyone but the racists and the republicans who thinks this question is a good idea?
And just who the hell do these people think they are ? ? …
Experts ? … or Something ? …
When donnie’s in the room … all bets are off —
There’s NEVER been such a calculating cog in the watch -
a discerning bud of the tongue -
a preferencing cheek of the butt -
a more divine divinator -
donnie really is –
Watch out for the next census question: “Are you of Aryan descent?”
Hate to be OT but according to Wonkette and NBC, Special Forces commanders are complaining they’re very close to a total defeat of ISIS in Syria if the White House would pay some damn attention to what’s going on and let them finish the job. The alliance that got us almost there is being scrambled by fighting between Turkey and the Kurds, and evidently there’s nobody in the White House who can be bothered to pay attention. This transcends snark. This is just a staggering example of incompetence with global consequences.
This is a crooked decision, intended to prevent some members of certain minorities from fully participating in the Census.
Why does Ross want to violate the US Constitution and its rule that all residents should be counted?
Ross must have learned his methodology from Heritage Foundation studies: cherry pick the evidence until it proves what you want it to prove. This is a world where political goals determine the outcomes of what they want you to accept as “science”.
This statement characterizes most ALL of the Trump mal-administration. There is nobody home, and the Congressional leadership of both parties seems oblivious – oh, that’s right, they’re on recess. When are we going to get around to removing this dictator-wannabe and get our government back to addressing the myriad serious issues facing our nation?
Those non-citizens don’t count because they voted for Crooked Hillary!
It’s never getting on the form because it’s unconstitutional - it violates more than one constitutional provision.
Ah, you were expecting normal, rational, critical thinking? Surprised you didn’t they?! Nah, not going to happen. This is a foreign concept to this administration, they wouldn’t know where to start.
Census Advisory Panel Blasts Trump Admin Move To Add Citizenship Question
Now it’s personal for Trump, either his way or no census at all.
I wonder why he hasn’t had the question if we were Trump voters or not.
I wasn’t expecting that one bit but he’s either a) blowing off an opportunity for a victory against a common enemy of humanity that he could crow about to the high heavens because Russia demanded he bugger off out of Syria and leave a power vacuum they can flow into or b) he can’t be bothered to pay any attention at all or listen to his advisers or anything. Frankly “a” is the likeliest. And that’s just a new shock to catalog among the four or five daily shocks the situation tends to serve up.
I could see some variant of b) being plausible. I mean, after all, “nobody could have known presidenting would be so hard.”
Complex sentences and multi-syllabic words are unlikely to penetrate the laser-like stupidity that guides the activity of all these best people operating in the current administration.
Sure. It would hold to the principle of Trump’s razor, since we’ve glumly observed for some time that he will indeed do the wrongest, stupidest thing at the wrongest possible time. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Hold my Diet Coke!
I still really believe the citizenship question is a back-door attempt by the GOP to falsely inflate the numbers of non-citizens within a legislative district in order to decrease the odds of a Representative being elected from the Democratic Party. The GOP will stack the numbers of non-citizens residing within a given area in order to decrease their representation. Marco Rubio said as much earlier this week. In this case, i believe him.
This makes me wonder if someone whispered in Trump’s ear about two weeks ago to pull out of Syria, since he seems to think that’s what he wants to do despite the Pentagon not knowing what he’s talking about.
Trump signals withdrawal ‘very soon’ of US troops from Syria, surprising Pentagon and State Department
Trump signals withdrawal 'very soon' of US troops from Syria, surprising Pentagon and State Department - ABC News