my favorite part of this ordeal is that now all good honest moral people must be outraged at Uber because they are screwing over taxi drivers. you guys just figured that out now?

The type of state you describe requires support from the population.

Even if the worst case scenario (Bannon wins), America isn't going to go quietly. There will be loud, continued protesting in the streets. Business doesn't like or want that. Is Bannon going to bring all institutions/businesses/communities in the USA to heel through sheer force? Military going to fire on NY Times and Supreme Court?

It doesn't go down like that. Not our culture.

ACLU raising $25 million in like 48 hours is another very interesting development here. Power in the USA is very much about $. Koch brothers already showing signs of resistance.

Bottom line, the country is too large, diverse, and wealthy to go the way of a totalitarian regime. You need the people to be on board. My grandparents are not going to lead an armed assault on the city of Boston.

Once we know who it is, it will happen.

Fingers crossed it's Hardiman. Dems should still filibuster absolutely anyone, though.

Matt Levine on the deludedness of the business community:

This is a zero-sum game for trump.

Is there any polling with regards to the public support of the ban? Im surprised there hasnt been any yet.

had the same reaction

If Bannon is telling him what to do - then it's probably reasonable to assume the SC pick will be the most bat**** crazy person they can find.

piet dismissing racist acts as political moves reminds me of Kellyanne Conway saying not to take Trump literally but to look into his heart.

Just based on a quick skim, this looks like great stuff. My personal suggestion is that:

- You post every day after a day's update. If there are concerns over the length then maybe put the text in one of those spoiler alert boxy things. This would be especially useful if people add or comment on the text and you tweak the odd bit.

- No doubt the actual text looks different in it's native app, but there may be value in putting background info (ie not news, but relevant info to an event that occurred in the day) in square brackets or something like that.

- I have a thing about quotes being in italics! Not worth hassle when pasting in here of course and, as above, I'm sure it looks different where you write it. Same thing about bullet points!

- You confirm whether you are happy for this to be copied and pasted anywhere else (I realise that this is a public forum and you can't stop it, but still....).

Serious question - I assume that the USA has reliable independent polling organisations? I've not heard of Trump trying to diss them so his supporters can yell "FAKE NEWS" etc, so I'm guessing that polling isn't a huge deal in terms of making the news in between elections.

Sure, afair that actually happened already. Just don't want the claim stand here untested that Germany is in some way an example of failed integration - it's still basically the same place it's been for all my life, if anything, it's much safer on "the streets" now than it was when I grew up.

I'm not sure why he excluded mentioning Jews during the statement. I don't see what is gained.

I'm also not sure why it's such a huge deal. Everybody knows what happened to them. Not everybody knows about the other groups that were targeted such as gypsies, homosexuals, communists etc.

Not mentioning Jews is not denying that it happened. It's just a pretty dumb omission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI1VHMSI0E4

did Hitler have young Jewish guy has a top advisor too?

Not when it just happened to coincide with this unconstitutional Muslim Ban Trump just enacted. There's no way that's a coincidence. And Bannon is definitely a Nazi--look at the themes of the inaugural address ("America First"), look at the friends he has and some of his quotes (about wanting riots in the streets), all of this is signaling. They're trying to let us know exactly where they stand, and again I say, we should listen to them.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/2...igration-order


the poll is from early January

I could just as easily argue that he'd want to put Jews in the speech just to get off a little bit while it's being said. I don't think it says much about Bannon or Trump.

Not mentioning the Jews is straight from the holocaust deniers' playbook. There are two versions of holocaust denial with regard to the attempted extermination of the jewish people. The first version is that it didn't happen, and the second is that "a lot of innocent people died, it was war." It is a big deal that the administration is putting out the same viewpoint on the holocaust as anti-semitic white power hate groups.

I'm in favor of an indefinite banning of Politics 7.0 refugees.

Ah, Holocaust denial is more diverse than I had expected.

California bros,

We have some calls to make.

If you start saying "everyone" was affected by the holocaust instead of "mostly Jews" were don't you see how that minimizes Jewish involvement? It's like saying Banana Cream Pie is a great fruit pie.

It's not straight-up denying it happened, but it is a proven part of the Holocaust denier's playbook. It's a step in that direction.

The Trump Administration (Hope Hicks?) doubled-down on the omission, saying it was done purposefully. Obviously, they claimed it was because they wanted to have an all-encompassing remembrance, but I mean, come on.

Other groups that were killed can still be mentioned, but Jews HAVE to be not only mentioned, but emphasized. The reason for the Holocaust was to exterminate Jews. The omission of Jews from the statement was intentional and hostile.

This being the case, I don't understand why Netanyahu is so chummy with Trump and company. One would think the Israeli government would have some reservations about Bannon...regardless of Kushner being there.

Netanyahu is dancing with the devil.