President Donald J. Trump

[Yorkshire pud]

That's exactly why Trump won...because in your mind there are only two options: what you deem "intelligent" and the stupid stereotype you paint. You still don't see how much people despise this condescension. Carry on! 

Are you pretending to be thick? Its a serious question.

[Dr. MD MD]

Its a serious question.

No...no, it's not. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Because even in the USA, I prefer to think they outnumber the illiterate corn chewers who breed with their sisters and mothers. I could be mistaken, but that's my hope.

Piss off, Sparky. I know how to read.

[Yorkshire pud]

No...no, it's not. 

You're not pretending then?  :

[chefist]

LOLZ...the red headed lady has the best expression. 

She has a just been told look of, "Mom, I'm in love with Z-Dog, and we're getting married when he gets paroled."

[Dr. MD MD]

LOLZ...the red headed lady has the best expression. 

She has a just been told look of, "Mom, I'm in love with Z-Dog, and we're getting married when he gets paroled."

The real deplorables. 

[Richard Groyper]

Are you pretending to be thick? Its a serious question.

I'm the best at this game.

[albrecht]

LOL, In 3 Days the taking care of that, begins . . .

Ha, I know several women going up for the march. But they are fretting about the "carbon impact" of flying up there. It is fun to see the knots leftists twist themselves into. Also there is a feud with one- they fell out because one claimed "she couldn't understand not being black or a lesbian and she can afford a nanny." The other was outraged that that person claimed more victim-hood than her and that she couldn't understand because she was not black and a lesbian.

[aldousburbank]

LOLZ...the red headed lady has the best expression. 

I'd do her. Just for laughs.

[paladin1991]

It's a (collective) heads-up to Trump, his staff , and supporters, that he's chosen to fuck with some of the smartest people in the land with LOTS of contacts, sources, and resources, etc, and now POOLED/shared (if need be) among and across isles and above motives of mere journalistic "competition". A more cooperative joint effort. That kind of focus and team-work will be hard beat, evade, or hood-wink. K?

What part of 'I'll have you killed' don't you understand?

[GravitySucks]

Ha, I know several women going up for the march. But they are fretting about the "carbon impact" of flying up there. It is fun to see the knots leftists twist themselves into. Also there is a feud with one- they fell out because one claimed "she couldn't understand not being black or a lesbian and she can afford a nanny." The other was outraged that that person claimed more victim-hood than her and that she couldn't understand because she was not black and a lesbian.

Did they knit their own pink pussy power hats?

[GravitySucks]

It's a (collective) heads-up to Trump, his staff , and supporters, that he's chosen to fuck with some of the smartest people in the land with LOTS of contacts, sources, and resources, etc, and now POOLED/shared (if need be) among and across isles and above motives of mere journalistic "competition". A more cooperative joint effort. That kind of focus and team-work will be hard beat, evade, or hood-wink. K?

I almost remember a time when journalists reported the news instead of trying to make the news.

[Richard Groyper]

I almost remember a time when journalists reported the news instead of trying to make the news.

Where have you been, GravitySucks?

[paladin1991]

Imagine me chewing off the foreskin and spitting out the rest and you're there.

Jackyboy, go make yourself a sammich, you sound like you're hungry.

[GravitySucks]

Where have you been, GravitySucks?

Clandestine basement reconnaissance special op

[paladin1991]

Those plant by-products aren't going to import themselves.

Damn straight! 

Um, 'Straight', notthatthere'sanythingwrongwiththat!

[paladin1991]

LOL 2 Days. I'm harder than Chinese arithmetic.

[paladin1991]

Tell me about it.

I am harder than Yorkshire Pud watching a gang of Arab refugees fuck his wife while he sits in the corner holding a Koran.

Nearly pissed mself laughing.  Wait til Pud wakes up.   It's gonna be a gunfight in here.  Oh wait, no it's not, the Brits don't have guns.

[Kidnostad3]

I almost remember a time when journalists reported the news instead of trying to make the news.

Probably before Edward R. Murrow denounced Joseph McCarthy in prime time. Talking heads have been trying to match that accomplishment ever since regardless of the truth of the matter.  (My father told me about it )

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Mr. Ross sounds like a shrewd businessman, and the ideal choice to help formulate a plan to bring back jobs from overseas and revitalize the coal industry! I'm looking forward to that happening.

Trump’s Commerce Pick Outsourced Thousands Of Jobs And Oversaw A Deadly Coal Disaster

Alexander C. Kaufman Senior Business Editor, The Huffington Post
Ben Walsh Business Reporter, The Huffington Post
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, chairman of Invesco Ltd subsidiary WL Ross & Co, departs Trump Tower after a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York.

President-elect Donald Trump pledged during his campaign to scrap key global trade deals, reverse the flow of manufacturing jobs overseas and bring well-paying mining jobs back to coal country.

Those promises may prompt some awkward questions for Wilbur Ross, the billionaire Trump nominated to become commerce secretary, at his Senate confirmation hearing this Wednesday.

The 79-year-old private equity mogul earned the nicknames “bottom feeder” and “king of bankruptcy” in the mid-2000s, when he became known for buying up decaying businesses, including steels mills, coal mines and textile factories. At the time the U.S. economy was shedding more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs each year as companies moved factories to countries like China, where labor was cheap and safety and environmental rules were few. Ross reaped profits by stripping workers of health benefits, ignoring safety concerns and sending jobs abroad, where workers expect lower wages. In total, Ross offshored roughly 2,700 jobs at companies he invested in since 2004, according to Labor Department data Reuters published on Tuesday.

In 2004, Ross bought Cone Mills, a struggling North Carolina textile company, and combined it with another factory to form International Textile Group. He later renamed the company Cone Denim, and as Bloomberg reported in 2012, expanded production “in less-expensive emerging markets” and moved to “eliminate duplicative facilities.” The firm operated two mills in Mexico and one in China. In 2004, Cone Mills employed 1,100 people. By 2012, the company had just 300 workers in North Carolina, a 72 percent drop. In a scathing retelling of the incident, The Daily Beast dubbed Ross “Trump’s future secretary of outsourcing.”

The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a Huffington Post request for comment. Reuters reported that Ross did not respond to several requests for comment.

The same year Ross bought Cone Mills, he formed International Coal Group. ICG became the corporate umbrella for mines Ross bought in 2005 from an ailing coal producer called Horizon after a bankruptcy judge stripped thousands of miners, some with black lung disease, of their medical coverage and shredded their union contract.

ICG was also the vehicle where Ross placed the assets of Anker Coal Group. Ross had been buying up Anker shares since 1999, and by 2001 he owned 47 percent of the company and was its largest shareholder at 47 percent. ICG fully acquired Anker’s coal assets in 2005.

Among the former Anker properties Ross controlled was Sago Mine, which the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration cited in 2005 for 208 violations. (In 2005, two employees joined ICG from Massey, a coal company that became infamous for its disregard for safety regulations under CEO Don Blankenship. In 2010, an explosion at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 workers, and Blankenship was found guilty of conspiring to violate mine safety and health standards and sentenced to a year in prison. Blankenship endorsed Trump for president from prison in 2016.) More than half of the citations at Sago were labeled “serious and substantial,” including 20 dangerous roof falls, 14 power wire insulation problems and three cases of inadequate ventilation plans. On Jan. 2, 2006, an early-morning blast ripped through the mine, trapping 13 miners underground for two days. Only one survived.

Ross, who did not leave his Manhattan office to visit the disaster site, said the deaths haunt him. He agreed to pay $2 million, to be divided among the families of the deceased.

“He certainly had the authority to try to make a difference and make sure those mines were operated differently. In my view, they were a bunch of dog-hole mines,” attorney Tony Oppegard, a former mine safety official who now represents miners in his private practice, told HuffPost in November. “Bottom line is to get as much coal out as cheaply as possible and get as much coal as possible. That’s what a dog hole is.”

[albrecht]

Did they knit their own pink pussy power hats?

I didn't ask. One of them was at the point that "maybe the world population just needs to start over by a famine or disease" because of global warming and the Western lifestyle which other countries want to copy and "our world cannot support so many people" "Trump and his appointees want to poison our water" etc. Of course this from a person with a $2 million dollar house, a nanny, 3 kids etc (high carbon foot-print!) I also didn't point out the obvious- if you want a "human population reset" than wouldn't you want our water to be poisoned, our climate to change catastrophically, etc?

[albrecht]

Mr. Ross sounds like a shrewd businessman, and the ideal choice to help formulate a plan to bring back jobs from overseas and revitalize the coal industry! I'm looking forward to that happening.

Ha. Yeah. I understand that people like to follow tradition and there is regional pride but why doesn't a politician, of either party, just tell the truth and ask the people: "do we really WANT people working in very dangerous conditions or spending their lives doing some repetitive task in some factory all their career?"

What we need to figure out is how to develop new businesses, deal with people who jobs has structurally been replaced, make industries like mining etc safer and more efficient, ensure real "fair" trade- not sweetheart deals for other countries and how to maximize trade for our benefit. Many more jobs- not just "blue collar" jobs- will be going away due to technological advances and international trade. We can't afford to always just look backwards or, like Bernie/Clinton, simply think the government can just give away "free stuff" to people under various Federal programs.

[GravitySucks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/17/this-new-species-of-moth-has-yellowish-white-scales-on-its-head-it-is-named-for-donald-trump/?utm_term=.da22ab06d563

[GravitySucks]

Simply stating the obvious...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-18/russia-snaps-accuses-uk-germany-and-france-grossly-interfering-us-election

[Dr. MD MD]

Simply stating the obvious...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-18/russia-snaps-accuses-uk-germany-and-france-grossly-interfering-us-election

Well, we know pud was hacking the election. He's still trying. 

[PrairieGhost]

https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/821876426802655233

[Yorkshire pud]

https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/821876426802655233

Obviously a conspiracy. Guilty. Putin knows.

[Yorkshire pud]

Simply stating the obvious...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-18/russia-snaps-accuses-uk-germany-and-france-grossly-interfering-us-election

Damn. If it hadn't been for those pesky kids, we'd have got away with it.

[GravitySucks]

Damn. If it hadn't been for those pesky kids, we'd have got away with it.

[PB the Deplorable]

Really?

This is quite an admission.
Your boy should take heed. He's a fool if he doesn't.

http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump_white_house_press_corps.php 

Reagan had a dirty, nasty press - and the American people on his side as well.  Who won that one?


''Facts are what we do, and we have no obligation to repeat false assertions''

Facts are what they do?  They don't ''repeat'' falsehoods?  Since when?  The last time those arguments could even be made without snickering was approximately the Eisenhower administration.


''We will set higher standards for ourselves than ever before. We credit you with highlighting serious and widespread distrust in the media across the political spectrum. Your campaign tapped into that, and it was a bracing wake-up call for us. We have to regain that trust. And we’ll do it through accurate, fearless reporting, by acknowledging our errors and abiding by the most stringent ethical standards we set for ourselves.''

The ''higher standards'' they set for themselves are 'what can we do to push the ''Progressive'' agenda today'.  Period, end of ''standards'' discussion.

Anyone noticed any ''acknowledging of errors''?  How about accurate reporting?  An attempt to regain trust through fairness and accuracy?  New and improved ethical standards? 

It's a high sounding finish, but after two and a half months of hate, fear-mongering, and attempts to either discredit the president-elect or overturn an election - if they really meant it they'd be apologizing and actually doing the things mentioned in this paragraph.