Last night, Stephen Colbert held up a copy of Bolton’s book. He’s reading it but has agreed to not discuss it until it drops next Tuesday (and when he will have Bolton as a guest).
So Trump’s lawsuit is a completely pointless waste of time. The horse is out of the barn.
I loved Barr’s reaction in that clip to the news (to him) that the book is out there:
Reporter: “But the book has been published.”
Barr: "No it hasn’t…
…(homina, homina)…according to sources…it’s been printed, it hasn’t been released."
Colbert then hold up what appears to be a copy of the book.
You’ll probably be able to buy as many copies as you want at amazon.ru
Federal judge orders Mnuchin to release stimulus funds earmarked for Native American tribes which he has been withholding.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/503175-judge-orders-mnuchin-to-give-tribes-full-stimulus-funding?
So, the cop killers in Oakland weren’t BLM protesters or antifa, but rather right-wing extremists.
Surely Trump will now declare the ‘boogaloo boys’ group a terrorist organization. Right?
Maybe we could rename this year to the line from the Beastie Boys that I always think of when the boogaloo boys are mentioned “Everybody catch the Boogaloo Flu”. Maybe we could remember 2020 as “The Year of the Boogaloo Flu”.
I looked at that, and could not find any reason for Mnuchin to delay giving the congressionally approved funds, other than he was just being a huge dick.
That, and it’s not clear whether he needs to allocate some to Alaskan tribes.
He wanted to give the money to Native American owned corporations, not to the individual tribes.
Individual 1: “We’re fighting for school choice, which really is the civil rights of all time in this country. Frankly, school choice is the civil rights statement of the year, of the decade, and probably beyond – because all children have to have access to quality education… So we’re very, very strong on school choice, and I hope everybody remembers that.”
There is no obvious explanation as it relates to the distribution to Native American tribes per se, but what is clear is that this administration is using this money as a rewards system. That is why there is no - zero - transparency.
This is going to sound like more “Oh shit, here comes Asahi with his cranky talk again,” but here me out: Think about why the administration is doing that. Why are they not being transparent?
Transparency gives the power of oversight to the public and it empowers the people generally. The only reason to oppose this principle of transparency and accountability is if you generally value the opposite: secrecy and the power of special interests, of moneyed interests, and oligarchs over ordinary people.
An administration that refuses to comply with subpoenas, that fires inspectors general, that refuses to release taxes and financial records…is the same one that refuses to tell people where trillions and trillions of dollars is going.
Moreover, they want people to get used to this notion that it doesn’t matter where the money goes. They want people to accept that the thousands of dollars in taxes you’ve already paid and you’ll be next month is going wherever the fuck they, not congress, decides and you’ve got no right to complain about it.
Does this sound like the kind of government that’s going to play by rules in November? Which brings me back to the beginning, that rewards thing. They will use this money to coerce people into supporting them. They will reward those who play by their rules and punish those who don’t.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about above. Albeit requesting help from a different benefactor, it’s the same principle.
Don’t believe for a moment they’re not doing the same domestically, and don’t be so naive as to believe that the “stimulus” isn’t being used to stimulate their campaign and their regime.
School choice? Do you mean the choice to, and I quote from more than a couple of house-hunters I heard say this to my father in the late 1980s when Dad was a realtor in Florida, ensure they “can’t have their kids go to school with no N~s”? That choice? And that is more important a civil right than for Blacks to not be owned as property and killed at the whim of their owners?
If you vote for this turd–Hell, if you support this turd in anything whatsoever, you are no better than he is. You are, in fact, no better than the steaming pile of diarrhea my neighbors’ dog left on the sidewalk last month.
You left out the word again. They’d already been ordered to do that but have been stalling.
Once again: anyone who supports this administration is no better than the steaming pile I mentioned in my post just above.
Yes, I fondly remember the words of Martin Luther King: “I have a dream, that one day Biff and Muffy won’t have to sit next to those filthy public school children.”
Yep, his supporters and the GOP in general will not even care, because it’s about winning and power. Constitutional separation of responsibilities and powers? Pfffsst, as if.
But GOOD GOD! If one penny accidentally finds it’s way into the hands of an “undeserving” (strong venn overlap with the presence of melanin) there will BE HELL TO PAY!
That is not exactly what it means. There is a perception, on the part of some, that public education system is irredeemably broken and the only way to insure that your child gets the best education possible is to send them to a private school. Hence, “vouchers”, which take money out of the schools’ tax base so that you can do that. I think you can add up how that works out.
One of the tenets of conservative philosophy is that government can not do anything right. So when Republicans are elected to office, they set out to prove it.
“Is Finland part of Russia”
“These people (journalists) should be executed”
“Xi should go ahead with building the (concentration) camps”
Der Führer hat gesprochen!
Perhaps I lost the thread here, but I got the impression that Mnuchin’s fig leaf was that, due to an ongoing appeal by Native Alaskan Corporations, the Department needed to have some funds in reserve against the event of NACs prevailing.
Which doesn’t hold water, because (according to my understanding*) the NACs (being corporations) ought to be applying for stimulus funding from corporation-targeted sectors of the appropriated funds, not from the monies set aside to benefit Native American tribes. That is, the Native American origins of the owners/controllers of those corporations do not confer upon them any status of representing the tribes, with the accompanying eligibility for access to the tribal set-asides.
*(As near as I can make out, the judge seems to be operating with the same understanding.)