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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-doj-to-attack-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions-nyt-1015123523951

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Trump DoJ to attack affirmative action in college admissions: NYT
Charlie Savage, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about his reporting on a memo that shows Donald Trump's Justice Department under Jeff Sessions intends to sue universities for discriminating against white people through affirmative action.

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CountDeMoney

Yeah, that sounds about right for this DOJ's attitude towards civil rights.  Colored folk getting all uppity again, what with the vote and all.  And now booklearning? They need to know their place again.

garbon

By the way, I saw Seeds in the Wall Street Journal transcript that Trump said people need to know it is alright to move 500 miles to get a job. Okay for them to leave their house behind.
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Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 01, 2017, 11:28:10 PM
Yeah, that sounds about right for this DOJ's attitude towards civil rights.  Colored folk getting all uppity again, what with the vote and all.  And now booklearning? They need to know their place again.

Won't the Ivies just get taken over by East Asians like the Cali schools did?
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garbon

While that might be true for UCLA doesn't appear to hold for Berkeley or Stanford based on their own diversity pages.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

CountDeMoney


garbon

I haven't been on peak form since New York. -_-
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 02, 2017, 03:30:06 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 01, 2017, 11:28:10 PM
Yeah, that sounds about right for this DOJ's attitude towards civil rights.  Colored folk getting all uppity again, what with the vote and all.  And now booklearning? They need to know their place again.

Won't the Ivies just get taken over by East Asians like the Cali schools did?

Teh horror.
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garbon

Quote from: derspiess on August 02, 2017, 08:36:43 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 02, 2017, 03:30:06 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 01, 2017, 11:28:10 PM
Yeah, that sounds about right for this DOJ's attitude towards civil rights.  Colored folk getting all uppity again, what with the vote and all.  And now booklearning? They need to know their place again.

Won't the Ivies just get taken over by East Asians like the Cali schools did?

Teh horror.

Well he isn't a fan of learning Asian languages...
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

Are you suggesting the Ivies are holding back the Asian menace?

QuoteWell he isn't a fan of learning Asian languages...

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http://time.com/4883422/donald-trump-boy-scouts-wall-street-journal-transcript/

QuoteBoy Scouts 'Unaware' of Call Trump Said He Received From Organization Praising Jamboree Speech

President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that after his controversial speech at the Boy Scouts National Jamboree in West Virginia, the head of the Boy Scouts called him and told him it was "the greatest speech that was ever made to them." But the organization told TIME they are unaware of any call from national leadership placed to the White House.

"The Chief Scout Executive's message to the Scouting community speaks for itself," the organization said, referring to a July 27 statement from Michael Surbaugh, the Chief Scout Executive for the Boy Scouts of America, who apologized to anyone in the scouting community who could have been offended or alarmed by the political rhetoric in the speech.

"For years, people have called upon us to take a position on political issues, and we have steadfastly remained non-partisan and refused to comment on political matters. We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program," Surbaugh wrote.

The President also told the paper he did not find his politicized speech to the Boy Scouts last month to be controversial, despite Surbaugh's apology.

"They loved it," the President told the Wall Street Journal, according to a transcript of the interview obtained and published by Politico. In the transcript, the President is responding to claims from the paper's reporters that the reaction to his speech was "mixed."

"I'd be the first to admit mixed. I'm a guy that will tell you mixed," Trump responded. "There was no mix there. That was a standing ovation from the time I walked out to the time I left, and for five minutes after I had already gone. There was no mix."

During his July 24 speech, the President bragged about his election victory, slamming his former opponent Hillary Clinton as well his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, and repeatedly decrying the media for what he deemed unfair coverage.The interview with the Journal took place July 25, but the paper only released excerpts rather than a full transcript. Politico obtained and released the transcript on Tuesday.
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