He has certainly acted in direct defiance of his oath of office. He swore to uphold the constitution and defend it and he broke his oath.
I’m so fucking depressed over this I can’t bear the thought of arguing with anyone about it anymore.
What he did is wrong under the constitution because he broke it to do it.
We were supposed to have something called Patriot Prayer staging a hatefest at Crissy Field which comes under the purview of the US National Parks conservancy, i.e. Federal land. They’ve moved and anti-fas are following them to wherever it is they say they’re going to do something.
President Donald Trump on Saturday morning tweeted his encouragement to federal,
state and local emergency teams mobilized to respond to Hurricane Harvey
hours after the storm landed with heavy rain and wind in Texas.
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Nice of you to praise emergency teams trump… any encouragement for ordinary folk?..any?.. “Oh, they’ll be fine” is all you can come up with?
Leadership by tweet.
sheesh
Ford referred to Burdick v. US in the aftermath of pardoning Nixon which he took to mean and not everyone agrees that accepting a pardon is an acknowledgement of guilt. If that’s case with Arpaio, what could lie ahead as far as incriminating himself. But the bottom line is, two racists got together to trash Obama and play to the racist base in this AZ. Hope this pushes more R voters there to vote D.
Camp David is a place to get people together to discuss things. I don’t have a problem with him being at Camp David. At least it’s not one of his cheesy golf joints.
Trump will look after the emergency crews, National Guard, and police and praise them. Everyone else is on their own.
No the bottom line is that he pardoned someone who was convicted of contempt for defying a court order to act according to the constitution.
In other words, he used the constitution to defy the constitutional rights of other people - which is to say the constitution itself.
Maher said Donald came out with a very strong statement about the hurricane condemning the violence on both sides
His version of this was “Now watch as I pardon a racist.”
It probably had something to do with Texas not passing that transgender bathroom bill. Apparently their god is all about discrimination and hate these days
The answer to this rhetorical question is, in the opinion of the author,
Trump probably also likes Arpaio because the former sheriff represents in miniature what the President would like to be more maximally—a successful American authoritarian
Maybe if Camp David had a golf course, he would have been too busy golfing to pardon a racist. Hell, I would have driven up there and watched his drive personally if it would have stopped him from pardoning that racist POS.
Their god has seemed that way for a long time, actually.
Like it matters. (Not being sarcastic towards you)
The divide in this country is such that either one is on the side where this guy is absolutely horrible and despicable and has yet to do anything decent. A vacation after pardoning a criminal racist and writing a memo banning transgender in the military.
Or one is on the side where there is nothing… nothing… he can do that is considered worse than being a black or a female democrat in office.
Here is a report from Central Texas - Despite the town of Rockport, which took the full brunt of Harvey, we have so far lucked out on where the storm came in and how it is traveling inland. The part of the coast above Corpus is relatively unpopulated. The big fear was that weather patterns were going to bounce Harvey back out into the gulf, allowing it to hit Houston with a double whammy. It is instead traveling further inland, straight toward my little town between Austin and San Antonio. The outer bands to the east appear to have spared the largest population centers. For the sake of people’s safety, we in Central Texas can handle feet of rain better than those in and around Houston. We have hills, valleys, and rivers to carry away the water. Houston is flat. All in all, it could have been much worse. Of course, it is not over yet. It is still raining and gusting, and is to continue for several more days. My biggest concern? The Giant Orange Turd is supposed to tour the storm ravaged area on Monday. He will probably bring cholera or something like that with him.
Well all I know is the God I read about was and is not about hate or discrimination… I just keep wondering what bible are these folks reading?
That first tweet in the story was hilarious. Just like Bush, he tweets FEMA Brock is essentially “doing a heck of a job, Brocky!” even though Trump has no idea of what Brocky is doing. History repeats itself.
Yeah, the god my parents taught me about is not the god that some American Christians appear to worship.
Your news is indeed basically good news and I’m glad you’re alright.
Oddly this terrible storm prompted an old memory: