Georgia City Councilman: Interracial Marriage Is Not How Christians Should Live
Bible Belt Racism: A Georgia city councilman defends his mayor’s decision to discriminate against a black man by citing his sincerely held Christian beliefs and his opposition to interracial marriage.

Recently Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia confessed to rejecting a candidate for city administrator because he’s black. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Mayor Kenerly told a member of the City Council she pulled the resume of Keith Henry from a packet of four finalists “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressiv...T-PqYjOPpLmkxVQ

Trump awards highest U.S. civilian honor to Tiger Woods
When Tiger Woods won the Masters on April 14, President Donald Trump declared he was going to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and ordered his aides to schedule the event as soon as possible.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t...s-idUSKCN1SC2A1

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Georgia City Councilman: Interracial Marriage Is Not How Christians Should Live
Bible Belt Racism: A Georgia city councilman defends his mayor’s decision to discriminate against a black man by citing his sincerely held Christian beliefs and his opposition to interracial marriage.

Recently Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia confessed to rejecting a candidate for city administrator because he’s black. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Mayor Kenerly told a member of the City Council she pulled the resume of Keith Henry from a packet of four finalists “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressiv...T-PqYjOPpLmkxVQ

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Zitat von Landegaard im Beitrag #6428

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6426

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Georgia City Councilman: Interracial Marriage Is Not How Christians Should Live
Bible Belt Racism: A Georgia city councilman defends his mayor’s decision to discriminate against a black man by citing his sincerely held Christian beliefs and his opposition to interracial marriage.

Recently Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia confessed to rejecting a candidate for city administrator because he’s black. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Mayor Kenerly told a member of the City Council she pulled the resume of Keith Henry from a packet of four finalists “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressiv...T-PqYjOPpLmkxVQ

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Die Aussage ist weder exklusiv einem "Bibel Belt" zuzurechnen und auch richtet sie sich nicht nur gegen "a black man", sondern gegen beide Heiratswille unterschiedlicher Hautfarbe.

Im Grunde also wird Rassismus für rassistische Urteile herangezogen.

Sagten Sie nicht, sowas täten nur Rassisten?

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Charles P. Pierce@CharlesPPierce
Dear Headline Writers: Mnuchin is not “declining a request.”
He’s breaking the law.
3:21 PM - 6 May 2019


Mel #SubpoenaEverything@Mel4Justice
Mnuchin is breaking the law...
by refusing to hand over the taxes... that @realDonaldTrump repeatedly promised to hand over while campaigning for President.
How in God’s name could any fool pretend this administration isn’t a massive con job.
4:37 PM - 6 May 2019

The gap between George Washington’s “cannot tell a lie” and Donald tRump’s “will not tell the truth” is staggering.
It is a devolution of the pursuit of truth.
We have managed to elevate a man who should be an outcast, a pariah, to the highest office in our land and we watch as members of his minority cult extol his lack of virtues as being something positive. It is a sickening display.
-DK-

Leonard Pitts: Our president is a liar. Why won’t (most) news outlets say so?
On the occasion of the 10,000th lie of the Trump presidency, journalists should embrace their role as arbiters of truth – not run away from it.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the referees.”

Admittedly, that is not quite how the famous line from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” goes. As you may recall, it was actually the lawyers whose demise was proposed.
But though no one is known to have uttered the words above, they still neatly encompass the strategy conservatives have long used against the so-called “liberal media.” Namely, undermine them – and thus, their ability to act as arbiters of truth – with relentless attacks on their credibility.

No less an authority than conservative pundit Charlie Sykes admitted as much in a 2016 interview with journalist Oliver Darcy. “We’ve basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers,” he said of himself and his conservative colleagues.

Sykes spoke during the 2016 campaign, when people were still stunned at the barrage of untruths spewing from the Republican candidate.
“We’ve created this monster,” said Sykes, adding that, “At a certain point, you wake up and you realize you have destroyed the credibility of any credible (news) outlet out there. And I am feeling, to a certain extent, that we are reaping the whirlwind at that.”

In related news, Donald Trump told the 10,000th lie of his presidency Friday. This, according to The Washington Post. The paper’s Fact Checker team, whose purpose “is to ‘truth squad’ the statements of political figures,” maintains a database of all the times Trump has exaggerated, distorted or misled.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/01/l...ia-say-as-much/

We have managed to elevate a man who should be an outcast, a pariah, to the highest office in our land and we watch as members of his minority cult extol his lack of virtues as being something positive. It is a sickening display.
-DK-

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
-Ike-

Thorsten@Airvooocht
Trump’s personal lawyer Cohen and his campaign manager Manafort are both guilty on tax fraud.
So, tell us, Mr. „President“, why do you refuse to release your taxes?
8:20 AM - 7 May 2019

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Zitat von Landegaard im Beitrag #6428

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6426

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Georgia City Councilman: Interracial Marriage Is Not How Christians Should Live
Bible Belt Racism: A Georgia city councilman defends his mayor’s decision to discriminate against a black man by citing his sincerely held Christian beliefs and his opposition to interracial marriage.

Recently Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia confessed to rejecting a candidate for city administrator because he’s black. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Mayor Kenerly told a member of the City Council she pulled the resume of Keith Henry from a packet of four finalists “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressiv...T-PqYjOPpLmkxVQ

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Die Aussage ist weder exklusiv einem "Bibel Belt" zuzurechnen und auch richtet sie sich nicht nur gegen "a black man", sondern gegen beide Heiratswille unterschiedlicher Hautfarbe.

Im Grunde also wird Rassismus für rassistische Urteile herangezogen.

Sagten Sie nicht, sowas täten nur Rassisten?

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Nein. Aber dennoch eine bewunderswert messerscharfe Analyse. Toll. 😄

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Zitat von Landegaard im Beitrag #6436

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6429

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Zitat von Landegaard im Beitrag #6428

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6426

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Georgia City Councilman: Interracial Marriage Is Not How Christians Should Live
Bible Belt Racism: A Georgia city councilman defends his mayor’s decision to discriminate against a black man by citing his sincerely held Christian beliefs and his opposition to interracial marriage.

Recently Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia confessed to rejecting a candidate for city administrator because he’s black. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Mayor Kenerly told a member of the City Council she pulled the resume of Keith Henry from a packet of four finalists “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressiv...T-PqYjOPpLmkxVQ

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Die Aussage ist weder exklusiv einem "Bibel Belt" zuzurechnen und auch richtet sie sich nicht nur gegen "a black man", sondern gegen beide Heiratswille unterschiedlicher Hautfarbe.

Im Grunde also wird Rassismus für rassistische Urteile herangezogen.

Sagten Sie nicht, sowas täten nur Rassisten?

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Nein. Aber dennoch eine bewunderswert messerscharfe Analyse. Toll. 😄

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Mir ist schon aufgefallen, dass Sie auch strohdumme Analysen selbst in der 100sten Wiederholung für absolut scharfsinnig und erwähnenswert halten, wenn sie sich nur mit dem Rassismus von Trump beschäftigen. Offensichtlich ist das nicht mehr ganz so relevant, wenn es sich um den eigenen Rassismus handelt.

Noch ne messerschafe Analyse von mir. Wenn es Ihnen besser gefällt, lege ich derlei demnächst als Datei auf meinem Server ab, dann kann ich die die als Link einstellen.

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McConnell just lied about the Mueller report from the Senate floor
"This investigation went on for two years. It is finally over."
https://thinkprogress.org/mitch-mcconnel...r-0040fcccef16/

He is just another liar.

McConnell is wrong: The president is still under investigation
The Senate majority leader apparently wants us to forget about all of the fallout from the president's alleged malfeasance.
https://thinkprogress.org/despite-facts-...n-35bd37ea3652/

A miscalculation. Not everybody is a GOP fanatic.

Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified
“It’s hard to get a job, hard to make a living, hard to have a normal social life when all your friends and family know you believe in ethnic cleansing.”

....When high-profile neo-Nazis are doxxed, it can have ramifications for the entire movement, especially if the information that's revealed about a member proves to be inconsistent with their publicly professed ideology. Mike Pienovich, the leader of the alt-right website "The Right Stuff" and the propagator of a podcast called "The Daily Shoah," was doxxed in an anonymous Medium post which also revealed that the virulent anti-semite had a Jewish wife. ...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xxbe...r5DO-qWqpnHNiBw

Texas Is About to Make It Illegal for a Group of Friends to Drive to the Polls Together to Vote
Texas Republican State Senator Bryan Hughes' bill on "election integrity" is a clear attack on voting rights and get out the vote efforts. Senate Bill 9 passed the Senate last month, and is a priority for the very powerful Texas Lt. Governor, far right wing ideologue and Trump supporter Dan Patrick, to become law. He claims it "protects our democracy."
A portion of SB 9 makes it illegal for, say, you, and three of your friends to get in a car and drive to the polls together, unless at least one of you requires assistance due to medical limitations. That could in theory be a heart condition or a broken leg. The bill describes that as being "physically unable to enter the polling place without personal assistance," which is a high bar, but whatever the reason, the driver would be forced to sign an affidavit attesting to that fact. ...
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.co...w1uN7WL4_BV26_Q

Republican voter suppression in action. Die werden nicht muede, sich taeglich neue Unverschaemtheiten einfallen zu lassen. Die ganze Partei ist eine Verbrecherturppe und muss zerstoert werden.

The thorn in Trump's side: New York attorney general leads barrage of investigations
Letitia James has grabbed the attention of the president by launching investigations into his business dealings
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...-investigations

And there isn't a thing, trumski can do about it.

What Happened to All the Jobs Trump Promised?
President Donald Trump likes to claim credit for the American job boom. He’s not the only president to celebrate job creation under his watch, but Trump is unusual among his peers for frequently attributing specific jobs at specific companies to his own actions.

The U.S. economy has been producing jobs at a healthy clip for years, creating 188,542 jobs a month on average in the first 24 months of Trump’s presidency, compared with 202,417 jobs a month in the last 24 months of the Obama administration.

But how much credit does Trump deserve? We tracked the president’s tweets and speeches about job creation to try to figure out how well his claims stacked up. The answer is: Not well.
https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/trump-job-promises

Economists flee Agriculture Dept. after feeling punished under Trump
Reports showing farmers hurt by the president’s policies have drawn the ire of top officials.

Economists in the Agriculture Department's research branch say the Trump administration is retaliating against them for publishing reports that shed negative light on White House policies, spurring an exodus that included six of them quitting the department on a single day in late April.

The Economic Research Service — a source of closely read reports on farm income and other topics that can shape federal policy, planting decisions and commodity markets — has run afoul of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue with its findings on how farmers have been financially harmed by President Donald Trump's trade feuds, the Republican tax code rewrite and other sensitive issues, according to current and former agency employees.
The reports highlight the continued decline under Trump’s watch in farm income, which has dropped about 50 percent since 2013. Rural voters were a crucial source of support for Trump in 2016, and analysts say even a small retreat in 2020 could jeopardize the president’s standing in several battleground states.

“The administration didn’t appreciate some of our findings, so this is retaliation to harm the agency and send a message,” said one current ERS employee, who asked not to be named to avoid retribution.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/0...hoTbfaEGXWeJjts

Report: Trump's steel tariffs are costing Americans $900,000 per job created
President Trump's steel tariffs are costing American consumers $900,000 for every job the tariffs have created or saved, the Washington Post reports, citing experts at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
https://www.axios.com/trump-steel-tariff...ae6ae02a5d.html

Historian Timothy Snyder: "It's pretty much inevitable" that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy
Yale historian and author of the new book "On Tyranny" says we may have one year left to save American democracy

American democracy is in crisis. The election of Donald Trump feels like a state of emergency made normal.

Trump has threatened violence against his political enemies. He has made clear he does not believe in the norms and traditions of American democracy — unless they serve his interests. Trump and his advisers consider a free press to be enemies of his regime. Trump repeatedly lies and has a profoundly estranged relationship with empirical reality. He uses obvious and naked racism, nativism and bigotry to mobilize his voters and to disparage entire groups of people such as Latinos and Muslims.

Trump is threatening to eliminate an independent judiciary and wants to punish judges who dare to stand against his illegal and unconstitutional mandates. In what appears to be a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, Trump is using the office of the presidency to enrich himself, his family and his inner circle by peddling influence and access to corporations, foreign countries and wealthy individuals. Trump and his representatives also believe that he is above the law and cannot be prosecuted for any crimes while in office.
https://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/histori...T5EoGHjK0Z-OBPk

Exclusive: Trump fixer Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos
Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.’s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.

Falwell, president of Liberty University, one of the world’s largest Christian universities, said someone had come into possession of what Cohen described as racy “personal” photographs — the sort that would typically be kept “between husband and wife,” Cohen said in the taped conversation.

According to a source familiar with Cohen’s thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after Cohen intervened on the Falwells’ behalf.
The Falwells, through a lawyer, declined to comment for this article.

Cohen would later prove successful in another matter involving Falwell, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen helped persuade Falwell to issue his endorsement of Trump’s presidential candidacy at a critical moment, they said: just before the Iowa caucuses. Falwell subsequently barnstormed with Trump and vouched for the candidate’s Christian virtues.

Cohen’s connection to the Falwells sheds light on the formidable alliance between Trump and a man who, through his university, is one of the most influential evangelical figures in America. Falwell’s backing helped galvanize evangelicals and persuaded many Christians concerned about Trump’s past behavior to embrace him as a repentant sinner.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-p...s-idUSKCN1SD2JG

Sounds like blackmail to me.

Trump Tax Returns Show Over $1 Billion in Losses: NYT
Trump reportedly ‘lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer’ from 1985 to 1994.

While President Trump won over supporters partly by hailing his own business savvy, previously unseen tax returns reveal that he suffered over $1 billion in business losses in a single decade and managed to avoid paying federal income tax for several years in a row, The New York Times reports, citing 10 years' worth of financial records.

While the tax information revealed by the Times covers 1985 to 1994, predating the more recent tax periods under scrutiny by Democrats wary of Trump’s business ties with Russia, the tax returns do shed some light on his deal-making tactics.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tax-...n-in-losses-nyt

Here’s the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump’s Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison
The law is clear, and it leaves no wiggle room. The consequences for breaking it include removal from public office and up to five years in prison.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-the-...nd-go-to-prison

White supremacists interrupt Arkansas Holocaust remembrance event
A group of white supremacists in Arkansas interrupted a Holocaust remembrance event this week carrying Nazi flags and shouting racial slurs, local news reported Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...ust-remembrance

Part of Trumski's base.

A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany
“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”

Usually, comparisons between Donald Trump’s America and Nazi Germany come from cranks and internet trolls. But a new essay in the New York Review of Books pointing out “troubling similarities” between the 1930s and today is different: It’s written by Christopher Browning, one of America’s most eminent and well-respected historians of the Holocaust. In it, he warns that democracy here is under serious threat, in the way that German democracy was prior to Hitler’s rise — and really could topple altogether.

Browning, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, specializes in the origins and operation of Nazi genocide. His 1992 book Ordinary Men, a close examination of how an otherwise unremarkable German police battalion evolved into an instrument of mass slaughter, is widely seen as one of the defining works on how typical Germans became complicit in Nazi atrocities.
So when Browning makes comparisons between the rise of Hitler and our current historical period, this isn’t some keyboard warrior spouting off. It is one of the most knowledgeable people on Nazism alive using his expertise to sound the alarm as to what he sees as an existential threat to American democracy.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...story-historian