slugsrbad wrote:so he's bitching about Dairy tariffs and those were apparently addressed in TPP... which he withdrew from

A migrant father separated from his wife and child at the US-Mexico border had a breakdown at a Texas jail and took his own life

A New York federal judge on Saturday blocked officials from deporting a Brooklyn pizza deliveryman who was detained by immigration authorities when he tried to deliver an order to a military base, his attorneys said.

thephan wrote:Bad news & some good about immigrants in the US.

A migrant father separated from his wife and child at the US-Mexico border had a breakdown at a Texas jail and took his own life

A New York federal judge on Saturday blocked officials from deporting a Brooklyn pizza deliveryman who was detained by immigration authorities when he tried to deliver an order to a military base, his attorneys said.

I also saw a story late last week that had a DACA deportee murdered in a country they were returned to.

thephan wrote:clearly Trumps relationship is a 10 with world leaders. This absolutely amazing photo in the article tells you the truth behind that alternative fact.

traderdave wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:https://twitter.com/CBCPolitics/status/1005102754447097856

What an embarrassment Trump is.

Well, at least he cleared up the difference between the G-8 and the G-7 for us. Seriously though, how do foreign leaders look this imbecile in the eye and not burst out laughing?

The last twenty four hours of attacks on our closest allies capped by President Trump’s seemingly out of the blue demand to bring Russia back into the G-7 (making it again the G-8 which it was for most of the post-Cold War era until Russia was expelled over the annexation of Crimea) simply brings the matter into a newly sharp relief. If candidate Trump and President Putin had made a corrupt bargain which obligated President Trump to destabilize all U.S. security and trade alliances (especially NATO, which has been Russia’s primary strategic goal for 70 years) and advance the strategic interests of Russia, there’s really nothing more remotely realistic he could have done to accomplish that than what he has in fact done.

Take a moment to let that sink in. I need to take a moment to let it sink in. It’s shocking to me. It’s shocking to me what’s happening. Now I said above “remotely realistic.” A critic of what I wrote above might note that Trump could, in fact, have taken steps to abrogate the NATO treaty commitments. He might have said publicly that the U.S. would not aid the Baltic states or Poland against a Russian invasion. We can also note that he has approved very limited sale of weaponry to Ukraine, which is of course still battling Russian proxy forces in the eastern part of the country. But the things he could have done but has not done really to me fall into the category of things that are unnecessary and probably still beyond what the President could remotely get away with.

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Back to the main point. We have a President who clearly got a great deal of assistance from Russia in getting elected. We can argue about how important it was to his victory. But the reality of the help is not in any real dispute. His campaign at a minimum had numerous highly suspicious contacts with people either in the Russian government or acting on behalf of the Russian government while that was happening. That is a very generous interpretation. He’s doing all the stuff he’d have been asked to do if such a corrupt bargain had been made. At a certain point – and I’d say we’re clearly at or past that point – it really doesn’t matter whether we can prove such a bargain was made. I’m not even sure it matters whether it was explicit or even happened. The bank robber helped the teller get the job and now the teller just won’t seem to lock the safe or even turn on the alarm. We can debate forever whether the teller is just absent-minded or has some odd philosophical aversion toward locks. The debate may be unresolvable. It truly doesn’t matter.

“This is history,” Huntsman said over video showing Trump arriving in Singapore ahead of Tuesday’s meeting with Kim.

“Regardless of what happens in that meeting between the two dictators, what we are seeing right now ― this is history,” she continued.

CalvinBall wrote:About 24 hours from now Trump will be meeting with a ruthless, evil dictator. He can't even manage relationships with the leaders of our closest allies. I'm sure this will go well.

Rockinghorse wrote:It's just a photo/video opp. Both will go home and claim they got exactly what they wanted, and neither will take any meaningful actions afterwards. The general public will eventually forget about the whole episode rather than realizing it was a sham. Good politics on both sides, gotta admit

CalvinBall wrote:About 24 hours from now Trump will be meeting with a ruthless, evil dictator. He can't even manage relationships with the leaders of our closest allies. I'm sure this will go well.

thephan wrote:Italy's new interior minister Matteo Salvini who promised a hard line on immigration has blocked a boat carrying almost 630 refugees from docking in any Italian harbor and insists that Malta take the migrants. Malta returning the favor has closed its ports.

Italy seems enthusiastic to embrace a Trump flavor world.