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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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28 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

So, he's speaking at 6:30 and then the fireworks start a few hours later when it's dark?  

Maybe he's speaking while the fireworks are going off at the same time, while Aircraft 1 is flying low over the crowd, and the Muppets are performing.

No one really knows.  This entire thing is just ad-libbed.

 

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13 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Oh shit, I may have to watch this disaster after all:

 

 

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I hope the show includes a scene where John Stamos checks in with Itchy, Lumpy, and Bea Arthur to wish them a happy Liberty Day.  

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The Capital 4th is a concert on the Capitol lawn, put on by PBS,  usually hosted by some C lister. It happens every year. That’s Stamos and Elmo.  

Trumps thing is on the other end at the Lincoln monument.  Normally that’s where they put the actual fireworks, but they had to move them to West Potomac park to make room for shitheel’s little dick compensation party. 

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I think I’m pro-tank. Why not?  We have military fly overs at many major sporting events, many of our biggest movies are propaganda, and we’re forced to stand and clap at every fucking game for the troops.

We should at least get a nice little tank parade as well.  

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On 7/3/2019 at 9:16 AM, Biff Tannen said:

Hugo, stop with the "health concerns".  It's very Hillary-esque.  If he drops dead, so be it, but I don't think we will be that lucky.  


I think Hugo was speaking more to his mental health than physical.  Maybe i read it wrong.

 

15 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

for a guy who seemed to constantly say and think that the courts would ultimately bail him out, they continue to do him no favors, as far as i can tell.

And don't forget the stalling.  But even that is failing, as judges are fast tracking stuff concerning him.

 

35 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Yeah, Ted Lieu was on this yesterday:

 

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Actually I am surprised this type of council hasn't been displayed publicly yet.   Just more brownshirt shit to throw on the pile.  More divisiveness.  

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/human-rights-panel-1398636

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Trump’s ‘natural law’ human rights panel readies for launch

The State Department initiative is seen as a potential counterweight to an expansive liberal view of human rights.

 

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07/03/2019 08:17 PM EDT

The Trump administration plans to officially launch a new panel on human rights as early as Monday — one already under scrutiny from Democrats who fear its stated focus on “natural law and natural rights” could undercut protections for women and LGBTQ people around the world.

State Department officials are briefing officials in Washington this week on the unveiling of the “Commission on Unalienable Rights,” a body with as many as 15 appointees who will offer advice on human rights policy to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. At least 10 of the people have been chosen so far, and their names are expected to be revealed at the launch, according to people familiar with the issue, who noted that the launch plans could still change.

The panel was conceived with almost no input from the State Department’s human rights bureau, people familiar with the matter say, effectively sidelining career government experts who have focused on human rights policy and history across numerous administrations.

“Congress has a responsibility to ensure the United States continues to stand as a principled bulwark in defense of human rights and the rule of law,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. “That includes robust oversight to ensure this new commission is not used as another platform for the Trump administration to further erode U.S. leadership on human rights across the board.”

A State Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Officials say the panel is advisory and will not create policy, and maintain that everyone has “unalienable rights,” including LGBTQ people and other minorities.

In a notice posted in the Federal Register in May, the State Department said the panel “will provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.”

The State Department has been relatively vague about the panel’s functions, insisting it will decide how to define terms like “natural law and natural rights.” Activists and lawmakers have been alarmed by that language, because both terms have been used in a variety of ways — from core foundations of modern philosophy to arguments used by some religious opponents of same-sex marriage.

They’ve also focused on the group’s expected focus on the “nation’s founding principles,” and whether it means the panel would ignore international human rights agreements hammered out over decades. The State Department has been telling people it’s briefed that the panel will at least consult one major international document — the 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The commission’s mission statement includes the “promotion of individual liberty, human equality and democracy through U.S. foreign policy,” according to people familiar with the issue.

Supporters of the Trump administration’s new panel say they hope it will reclaim the concept of human rights from groups that have taken it too far.

“Thanks to a growing emphasis on ‘economic and social rights’ — the banner under which many ‘social justice’ campaigners march — international human rights has become mired in social-policy goals and terminology,” Aaron Rhodes, president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, wrote in a Wall Street Journal column applauding the new panel last month.

“We’ve seen a proliferation, and consequent dilution, of human rights,” he added. “When human-rights advocates campaign for a ‘human right to sanitation,’ it diverts our attention from basic rights like freedom of speech or freedom from torture.”

In remarks to reporters in May after POLITICO first broke the story about the panel, Pompeo said the body’s purpose in part will be to sort out “how do we make sure that we have a solid definition of human rights upon which to tell all our diplomats around the world.”

He added that although the panel is separate from State’s human rights bureau, it is “deeply connected” to that bureau’s work. The secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, a group that functions as an in-house think tank, has been charged with setting up the commission.

The commission’s draft charter, first published by Just Security, says the panel will have no more than 15 members, meet once a month and cost roughly $385,000 a year to operate. Some lawmakers are already trying to use the appropriations process to prevent the commission from receiving any funding.

The secretary of State chooses the panel's members, who, the draft charter says, should have “distinguished backgrounds in U.S. diplomacy, international law and human rights.” The panel is supposed to be bipartisan, according to the draft charter, and its members do not appear to need Senate confirmation.

The draft charter doesn’t do much to clarify the panel’s mandate. “The commission’s charge is not to discover new principles, but to recover that which is enduring for the maintenance of free and open societies,” it states at one point.

The panel’s creation is notable in part because President Donald Trump has been trying to slash the size of the government. Just last month, he issued an executive order directing federal agencies to cut their number of advisory committees by a third.

The Trump administration typically uses human rights to whack adversaries, such as Iran and China, while generally avoiding it when dealing with allies and partners, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

One area in which the administration has put significant effort, however, is promoting religious freedom. That has included aiding minority Christians overseas — a move that has thrilled evangelicals in Trump's Republican base. But it has also included appeals for better treatment of Muslims and other faith groups, especially in countries such as China and Iran.

 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Maybe he's speaking while the fireworks are going off at the same time, while Aircraft 1 is flying low over the crowd, and the Muppets are performing.

No one really knows.  This entire thing is just ad-libbed.

 

And Lincoln's head pops off his statue and rolls down the stairs like a bowling ball.

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17 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I have never hoped Donald Trump goes off teleprompter more than I do today. I hope he airs all of his usual grievances and makes this the most obvious Trump rally yet. If it isn't super partisan, I will be very disappointed.

1000000000% this is going to happen. it's such a sure thing, vegas won't even take money on it 

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1 hour ago, pyrohornIII said:

Actually I am surprised this type of council hasn't been displayed publicly yet.   Just more brownshirt shit to throw on the pile.  More divisiveness.  

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/human-rights-panel-1398636

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He hates people.  What a great person to have as your elected leader.  

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5 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

This is basically the funeral of America 

 

Maybe.

Maybe not.

3 hours ago, retread said:

 

Maybe go fuck ourselves.

I will watch for the conflict. Rain might be Trump's friend if it puts an end to massive demonstration of what the country is under his reign.

If I were younger and in DC, I'd go to the mall. I hate crowds and milling around, but I'd love to raise my booming voice against the POSUS and his foul POSse.

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2 hours ago, Fozzz said:

I think I’m pro-tank. Why not?  We have military fly overs at many major sporting events, many of our biggest movies are propaganda, and we’re forced to stand and clap at every fucking game for the troops.

We should at least get a nice little tank parade as well.  

Forced to stand?

I don't think so.

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

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