You got a point but behind every of those men stands a strong woman. Who will clearly say NO. Latest from now on.

A friend of mine used to work for a contractor that vets candidates for government positions. He said you would not believe the number of people applying for high security clearance jobs that are utterly unqualified. However the contractor must spend a lot of time investigating all applicants thoroughly.

There are the usual folks with no more than a GED (that's a certificate equivalent to a high school diploma) and those without any relevant work experience.

Many applicants are criminals, ranging from petty thieves to felons convicted of violent assault or rape. There are also white-collar criminals, folks who embezzled money from a prior employer or club.

The number of educated, qualified, non-criminal applicants is rather low. Some of them freak out about the idea of a polygraph test and withdraw their application.

A polygraph test is part of a job-interview in the US?

Crass, even for a governemental job. (Did Trump go through one?)


The wall shall be see-through now, apparantly. And then there is the problem with Mexicans throwing sacks of dope accross it, hitting the Americans
Yes, it's the Blick, so quite a pair.

A Federal judge has now ruled Grandparents and other extended relatives are exempt from President Trump’s travel ban i.e. they are close relatives for visa purposes so blocking Trumps ruling!!

Edit - The Supreme Court ruling effectively allowed part of Trump’s executive order to go into effect, including a 90-day ban on people entering the United States from six mostly-Muslim countries who “lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”
Trump administration narrowly defined the term "bona fide relationship " and now a Federal judge has blocked this definition

Yes, for some government jobs that require security clearance. Trump doesn't need one due to the office. See this slightly older article for more info.
https://www.voanews.com/a/security-c...r/3602747.html

Kushner is operating on an interim clearance while waiting for top secret to come through. One wonders with the recent revelations about his meetings with Russian officials whether this will be granted. He didn't mention any meetings with Russian officials on his initial security clearance paperwork, and claims it was an oversight, not intentional.

One big problem for the Border Patrol is the applicants from drug smuggling gangs who have to be weeded out, hence the lie detector tests.

Another problem is in places away from the border the daily job entails dragging screaming men, women and children onto deportation transport so is not an attractive role for well qualified people!

Trump tweet

Twitter had a lot of fun with this one.

Most popular translation of "impt Rep Senators" is "impotent Republican Senators"

More about the CBO report on Trump's budget proposal;

"The CBO thinks Trump's budget math is about $3.4 Trillion off"

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Pass the popcorn!

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The Trump administration has asked the supreme court to block a ruling by a federal judge in Hawaii that diluted his travel ban by vastly expanding the list of family relationships with US citizens that visa applicants can use to get into the country.

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Do not really understand the Trump action, surely the Supreme Court is on holiday until October?

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On June 5th Trump announced;
The ideas is to take Air Traffic Control out of Govt. hands and turn it over to private enterprise.

Problem is to that to make this happen requires Congressional approval but so far there is not even a date set for this vote. Individual Congressmen do not understand how this change will benefit the states they represent so are not interested!

No comment: http://time.com/4847949/north-korea-...ump-nuclear-2/

Actually this poll shows Trump at 36% popularity which is the lowest approval rating of any president during their first six months in office in 70 years. At the same point in Presidency Obama was on 59%.

On the eve of the 2016 election, a Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll had Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at a four-point advantage over Trump, with 47 percent to 43 percent. Clinton went on to win the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.

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The BBC average of 5 pre-election polls was Hillary Clinton at a four-point advantage over Trump, with 48 percent to 44 percent. So there is no factual basis to claim ABC/Washington Post Poll was "just about the most inaccurate poll around election time"!

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The final result of the popular vote (not the electoral college) was Hillary Clinton 48% and Trump 46%.

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Edit - I must say if I was running a newspaper business that Trump is trying to destroy I would be attacking him much more savagely than they do

To distract from the general chaos and lack of legislation progress in Washington, Trump is holding a series of "theme" weeks.
This week is "made in America" week, including a “product showcase," in which American-made products from all 50 states will be brought to the White House.

A White House spokesman declined to say whether the president would use the week to push his daughter Ivanka Trump to manufacture products from her fashion line in the United States instead of overseas.

Many of the president's own Trump branded products are made overseas as well.

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In the first six months of President Donald Trump's tenure, the US has ramped up military operations in trouble spots across the globe and is preparing to do more. This marks a striking contrast to the vision of "America First" retrenchment that Trump presented as a candidate.

The escalation marks a stark about-face from Trump's campaign declarations that the US can no longer afford to be the world's policeman, his questioning of long-held US alliances, and his dismissal of his Democratic opponent's foreign policy by calling her, among other things, "trigger happy Hillary."

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As the article says "Trump's campaign rhetoric was largely designed to get him elected," said James Carafano, a national security analyst at the Heritage Foundation. "You can say whatever you want on the campaign trail, but when you're President you have to deal with the world as it is."

This is largely what Cheney and Bush 43 said after Obama was elected. He made a lot of promises, but they knew he couldn't fulfill a lot of them because of how things work. They knew Obama couldn't close Guantanamo long before he did.

Probably Obama already knew it was just a Campaign promise.

Dreams meet reality!

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If Trump succeeds in deporting as many illegal immigrants as he wishes then he will writing new visas like crazy

Republican healthcare bill goes down the toilet.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40639909

And Trump must produce his visitor records for Mar-a-Lago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40639370

He just can't stop alternative winning.