THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Penner]

I might be late on this one but I just heard that a Federal court just banned Trump's Presidental order on banning certain immigrants from Muslim countries:

The federal court for the Eastern District of New York issued an emergency stay halting deportations under President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to the US from seven majority-Muslim countries tonight, following widespread protests at airports around the country.

You can read the full text of the stay here.

The court order prevents the government from sending immigrants back to their home countries because it would cause them “irreparable harm,” but it is unclear if they will have to remain in detention until a substantive ruling on the constitutionality of the ban is delivered. “If someone is not being released, I guess I’ll just hear from you,” Judge Ann Donnelly told the plaintiff’s lawyers, according to the New York Times.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/28/14427 ... ration-ban

[Zlaxer]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/0 ... p-threats/

Officials are looking for money that flows through Sacramento to the federal government that could be used to offset the potential loss of billions of dollars’ worth of federal funds if President Trump makes good on his threat to punish cities and states that don’t cooperate with federal agents’ requests to turn over undocumented immigrants, a senior government source in Sacramento said.

CA is about to be in full rebellion of the feds....

[Speaker to Animals]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/0 ... p-threats/

Officials are looking for money that flows through Sacramento to the federal government that could be used to offset the potential loss of billions of dollars’ worth of federal funds if President Trump makes good on his threat to punish cities and states that don’t cooperate with federal agents’ requests to turn over undocumented immigrants, a senior government source in Sacramento said.

CA is about to be in full rebellion of the feds....

This was going to happen no matter who won the election. If Hillary won, it would be red states deciding to ignore the federal government.

This shit isn't working out. Obviously.

[Okeefenokee]

The Dems are whining. "Lady Liberty is crying!"

Oh, the histrionics.

He said he would do it. I don't get the reaction. He said he was going to do it.

Guess they thought he would be like Obama and not do anything he said he would do in eight years.

Yes, but I've heard he is also blocking the Iraqi interpreters, and their families, when not only worked for us, but already have completed, or nearly so, the two year long approval process to come over.

Restated, thanks for risking your life for us, but die because politics.

Being the only one of us two who have ever met one, and talked with them at length, I'll tell you that this difficulty has existed for more than a decade. But go ahead thinking this is something that just started now, and hasn't been the case throughout the past three presidency's.

[Okeefenokee]

Trump acted Saturday to fulfill a key portion of his pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington, banning administration officials from ever lobbying the U.S. on behalf of a foreign government and imposing a separate five-year ban on other lobbying.

Trump has said individuals who want to aid him in his quest to "Make America Great Again" should focus on the jobs they will be doing to help the American people, not thinking ahead to the future income they could rake in by peddling their influence after serving in government.

"Most of the people standing behind me will not be able to go to work," Trump joked, referring to an array of White House officials who lined up behind him as he sat at his Oval Office desk. The officials included Vice President Mike Pence, chief of staff Reince Priebus, senior strategist Steve Bannon and counselor Kellyanne Conway. "So you have one last chance to get out."

Trump said he talked about the ban a lot during the campaign and "we're now putting it into effect."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 8-17-31-55

He must have a checklist.

They aren't gonna like this. We're veering into Sulla territory, where the reaction to this sort of reform takes us into dictator territory. Ears up, folks. They ain't gonna take this lying down. Let's do better this time around.

[Okeefenokee]

It's occurred to me that while we're all whinging about the illegal immigration from the south, and about those who overstayed their visas, we should also add the legal use of H1-B visas to import workers to replace Americans who are both better paid, and have greater legal protections. Supposedly the imported have skills that native workers don't have, but they are often trained by the Americans whose jobs they are taking.

I've read that when a company actually does need a worker with a rare skill set, they often cannot bring him over because the H1-B visa slots are already taken by large companies looking for cheap labor.

Yeah, we've talked about that too. I hope the President tackles that one too. It doesn't resonate with the working class though. So that may not happen.

A lot of the replaced workers are barely above the working class. Not all the jobs are six figure white collar position. What is some technical support geek in office cave making 40k or 50k a year? Maybe in some rust belt town, or in the South, that might qualify as lower middle class, but anywhere else? Not likely.

You're showing your separation with the working class. 40k a year was wealthy where I came from.

[Smitty-48]

"Wealthy"? C'mon, this is 2017, even a Corporal in the Canadian Army makes 56k a year, which is what? 42k USD? Bout that.

[StCapps]

Just when you think Facebook can't get anymore infested with SJW's, the best teacher I've ever had deletes me off of facebook for politely responding to his post, which was calling out anyone still supporting Trump as a bigot. All while feigning open mindedness to virtue signal to Trump haters, and he thinks Trump is thin skinned and intolerant lulz.

[Smitty-48]

Just when you think Facebook can't get anymore infested with SJW's, the best teacher I've ever had deletes me off of facebook for politely responding to his post, which was calling out anyone still supporting Trump as a bigot. All while feigning open mindedness to virtue signal to Trump haters, and he thinks Trump is thin skinned and intolerant lulz.

Bigoted against bigots, eh wot? Being a bigot myself, I support that, but am also obstinatley intolerant of it.

[Okeefenokee]

"Wealthy"? C'mon, this is 2017, even a Corporal in the Canadian Army makes 56k a year, which is what? 42k USD? Bout that.

We don't make that much, but I will, and more.