If i can't have it my way syndrome.
May 1, 2017 16:48:24 #
Ricko
Loc: Florida
larry latimore wrote:
Trump supporters suffer from"the if I can't have it my way, I'll mess it up for every one else syndrome."that is why they elected an incompetent jackass for POTUS he said he would shake up Washington and he has ain't nothing but total chaos and calamity taking place in government what a joke trump has turned out too be he should be in the funny papers.
larry-in case you missed it, all the whining, gnashing of teeth, wailing, rioting, property destruction is coming
from the ignorant left who did not get their way. As the fraud from Kenya so aptly put it, "Elections have
consequences". Unfortunately, he forgot to pass on his words of wisdom to the left wing kindergarten crowd which has been pouting ever since. Summer is fast approaching and the snowflakes are melting. lol America First !!!
May 1, 2017 17:27:22 #
bggamers
Loc: georgia
Ricko wrote:
larry-in case you missed it, all the whining, gnashing of teeth, wailing, rioting, property destruction is coming
from the ignorant left who did not get their way. As the fraud from Kenya so aptly put it, "Elections have
consequences". Unfortunately, he forgot to pass on his words of wisdom to the left wing kindergarten crowd which has been pouting ever since. Summer is fast approaching and the snowflakes are melting. lol America First !!!
from the ignorant left who did not get their way. As the fraud from Kenya so aptly put it, "Elections have
consequences". Unfortunately, he forgot to pass on his words of wisdom to the left wing kindergarten crowd which has been pouting ever since. Summer is fast approaching and the snowflakes are melting. lol America First !!!
May 1, 2017 17:30:56 #
Trump on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked Out?’
By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICHMAY 1, 2017
President Trump in March, saluting the grave of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Trump mused in an interview that the Civil War could have been avoided if only Andrew Jackson had been around to stop it. Jackson had been dead 16 years and long out of office when the war started in 1861.
Mr. Trump’s comments, among several he made about Jackson in an interview broadcast Monday on satellite radio, quickly drew condemnation from his critics and from historians who said they appeared to show the president profoundly misunderstanding American history.
“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” he told his interviewer, Salena Zito, a host on SiriusXM’s P.O.T.U.S. channel, who spoke to Mr. Trump for an article that was published on Sunday in The Washington Examiner.
Mr. Trump has often professed admiration for the seventh president’s populism and visited his tomb in March.
Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, called Mr. Trump’s comments on Jackson and the Civil War the “height of inaccurate historical revisionism.”
We fact-checked Mr. Trump’s claims with the help of Jon Meacham, the historian whose 2008 biography, “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” won a Pulitzer Prize.
Trump: ‘He had a very, very mean and nasty campaign. Because they said this was the meanest and the nastiest.’
President Trump is correct that the 1828 race between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent, John Quincy Adams, was hard-fought and often descended into ad hominem attacks on both sides. The insults leveled at Jackson’s wife, Rachel, were particularly vicious — she was accused of marrying Jackson before her divorce from her first husband, Lewis Robards, was final.
Trump: ‘His wife died. They destroyed his wife, and she died.’
The campaign took a notable toll on Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson. She died suddenly, shortly before Christmas in 1828.
“There’s no question that Jackson believed that the campaign had killed his wife,” Mr. Meacham said. “That’s basically right.”
Trump: ‘I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, “There’s no reason for this.” ’
Jackson died in 1845. The Civil War broke out in 1861.
Mr. Meacham said he thought that Mr. Trump may have been referring to the nullification crisis, which did occur during Jackson’s lifetime.
The crisis, which began in 1832, was a conflict between the federal government and South Carolina, a Southern state that would later be instrumental in the movement for secession.
During the crisis, President Jackson “took a firm stand on the side of the union,” Mr. Meacham said, adding, “There are two stray Trumpian ideas that collided into each other when he talked.”
Trump: ‘People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?’
Mr. Trump has questioned the necessity of the Civil War before, in an interview with Mr. Meacham before the election. At the time, President Trump said that he had “always felt that the South overplayed their hand,” he told Mr. Meacham.
Had Jackson been alive at the start of the Civil War, Mr. Meacham said, it would be difficult to predict his reaction. It would have brought his commitment to the Union into conflict with his identity as an unapologetic slave owner. Mr. Jackson was from Tennessee, which fought for the Confederacy. Mr. Trump visited his tomb there this year.
But any president would have had to contend with the South’s attempt to expand the institution of slavery into territory newly acquired by the United States. It’s what Mr. Meacham called the unavoidable historical question.
“The expansion of slavery caused the Civil War,” he said. “And you can’t get around that. So what does Trump mean? Would he have let slavery exist but not expand? That’s the counterfactual question you have to ask.”
By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICHMAY 1, 2017
President Trump in March, saluting the grave of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
President Trump mused in an interview that the Civil War could have been avoided if only Andrew Jackson had been around to stop it. Jackson had been dead 16 years and long out of office when the war started in 1861.
Mr. Trump’s comments, among several he made about Jackson in an interview broadcast Monday on satellite radio, quickly drew condemnation from his critics and from historians who said they appeared to show the president profoundly misunderstanding American history.
“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” he told his interviewer, Salena Zito, a host on SiriusXM’s P.O.T.U.S. channel, who spoke to Mr. Trump for an article that was published on Sunday in The Washington Examiner.
Mr. Trump has often professed admiration for the seventh president’s populism and visited his tomb in March.
Julian E. Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, called Mr. Trump’s comments on Jackson and the Civil War the “height of inaccurate historical revisionism.”
We fact-checked Mr. Trump’s claims with the help of Jon Meacham, the historian whose 2008 biography, “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” won a Pulitzer Prize.
Trump: ‘He had a very, very mean and nasty campaign. Because they said this was the meanest and the nastiest.’
President Trump is correct that the 1828 race between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent, John Quincy Adams, was hard-fought and often descended into ad hominem attacks on both sides. The insults leveled at Jackson’s wife, Rachel, were particularly vicious — she was accused of marrying Jackson before her divorce from her first husband, Lewis Robards, was final.
Trump: ‘His wife died. They destroyed his wife, and she died.’
The campaign took a notable toll on Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson. She died suddenly, shortly before Christmas in 1828.
“There’s no question that Jackson believed that the campaign had killed his wife,” Mr. Meacham said. “That’s basically right.”
Trump: ‘I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, “There’s no reason for this.” ’
Jackson died in 1845. The Civil War broke out in 1861.
Mr. Meacham said he thought that Mr. Trump may have been referring to the nullification crisis, which did occur during Jackson’s lifetime.
The crisis, which began in 1832, was a conflict between the federal government and South Carolina, a Southern state that would later be instrumental in the movement for secession.
During the crisis, President Jackson “took a firm stand on the side of the union,” Mr. Meacham said, adding, “There are two stray Trumpian ideas that collided into each other when he talked.”
Trump: ‘People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?’
Mr. Trump has questioned the necessity of the Civil War before, in an interview with Mr. Meacham before the election. At the time, President Trump said that he had “always felt that the South overplayed their hand,” he told Mr. Meacham.
Had Jackson been alive at the start of the Civil War, Mr. Meacham said, it would be difficult to predict his reaction. It would have brought his commitment to the Union into conflict with his identity as an unapologetic slave owner. Mr. Jackson was from Tennessee, which fought for the Confederacy. Mr. Trump visited his tomb there this year.
But any president would have had to contend with the South’s attempt to expand the institution of slavery into territory newly acquired by the United States. It’s what Mr. Meacham called the unavoidable historical question.
“The expansion of slavery caused the Civil War,” he said. “And you can’t get around that. So what does Trump mean? Would he have let slavery exist but not expand? That’s the counterfactual question you have to ask.”
May 1, 2017 17:40:02 #
Docadhoc wrote:
Larry, I am now extrodinarilly worried.
I think I understood that.
I think I understood that.
Doc, I am now also extrodinarilly worried. You put two 'L's and missed an 'A' in 'extraordinarily'. Scary....
May 1, 2017 18:12:53 #
First on CNN: Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program
Kevin Liptak-Profile-Image
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 2:50 PM ET, Mon May 1, 2017
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Through the initiative, millions of kids are attending healthier day care centers, where fruits and vegetables have replaced cookies and juice. Michelle Obama speaks at a Let's Move! Walmart announcement at The Arc in Washington in 2010.
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Nearly 9 million kids participate in the Let's Move! Active Schools program and get 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Nearly 5 million kids will be attending healthier after-school programs in the next five years. The first lady meets with students in New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2010.
Photos: Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Childhood obesity rates have finally stopped rising -- and obesity rates are actually falling among our youngest children, according to Let's Move! initiative. The first lady attends the White House Kitchen Garden harvest on the South Lawn in 2010.
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – America still spends nearly $200 billion a year on obesity-related health care costs, and that figure will jump to nearly $350 billion a year by 2018, according to Let's Move! campaign. Michelle Obama visits the Fresh Grocer store in Philadelphia in 2010.
"The Peace Corps continues to prioritize girls' education and empowerment programming," the spokesman said. "Girls' education and empowerment has been a hallmark of our work over the past 56 years and we look forward to continuing those efforts with our interagency partners. We remain dedicated to the passionate work of our volunteers and staff to empower and educate girls in their communities."
Tina Tchen, who served as Obama's chief of staff during her time in the White House, said the end of "Let Girls Learn" was a disappointment given a global recognition that educating young women could help improve conditions across developing nations.
"We felt it was important to have a branded campaign that drew attention to those issues, and we found that when we did it, we had extraordinary support," Tchen said. "I think it's unfortunate to not continue with the branded campaign. We think that this is an issue that has bipartisan support, it's really not a Republican or Democratic issue."
Tchen said the benefits of the program, which drew upon private sector support as well as government dollars, outweighed the costs. She noted that a development program launched by President George W. Bush to combat global HIV/AIDS, PEPFAR, had been maintained and expanded by the Obama administration.
Donald Trump's next 100 days
" 'Let Girls Learn' had several years of funding already baked," she said. "We were hopeful that given that, it could continue. But obviously elections have consequences, and nobody knows that better than we."
After launching the initiative in 2015, Michelle Obama heavily promoted "Let Girls Learn," including during travel abroad and at events held in Washington. CNN Films produced a documentary highlighting some of the girls participating in "Let Girls Learn" programs in Morocco and Liberia during the then-first lady's trip there.
Obama also harnessed her popularity on social media to promote "Let Girls Learn," and enlisted celebrities like Frida Pinto and Meryl Streep to help highlight the struggle girls in many developing countries face in regularly attending school.
In October of last year, the Obama administration attempted to reinforce "Let Girls Learn" ahead of a new administration. The White House announced $5 million in private sector commitments toward the programs administered under the "Let Girls Learn" banner, bringing the total financial pledges to more than $1 billion for programs in 50 countries.
The hope then was to underscore the success of the initiative in the hopes the next administration would continue it.
The ending of the program comes as Melania Trump begins to define her own platform as first lady. While she hasn't formally announced an official platform, women's empowerment and access to education for women and girls is emerging as a key area of importance for her growing East Wing.
"I continue to firmly believe that education is the most powerful way to promote and ensure women's rights. Together we will do this not only by striving for gender parity at all levels of education, but also by showing all children, and especially boys, that it is through empathy, respect and kindness that we achieve our collective potential," she said in a recent speech at the State Department.
On Monday, a Trump White House spokesperson referred comment to representatives for the first lady, who declined to comment.
First daughter Ivanka Trump who serves as an adviser to the President, is focused on women's empowerment and entrepreneurship, topics she's touted on panels and in speeches.
She is a self-described "Entrepreneur & advocate for the education & empowerment of women & girls," according to her Twitter biography.
In promoting the importance of girls education, Obama regularly highlighted her own educational path, and said it was critical to her success in the private sector and later as first lady.
"Education is a very personal thing for me," she said in October during a discussion at the Newseum with a group of girls from across the globe. "As I tell girls whenever I meet them, I wouldn't be here, sitting here not just in this chair but in the life that I have, if it weren't for my education."
Tchen said Monday that the former first lady was still assessing how to promote this issue in her new life as a private citizen.
"This is an issue she cares passionately about," Tchen said. "I think it's still early days for what she will do in her post-White House life. But this is one she's looking at figuring out where can she be value added, where can she help with this issue."
CNN's Betsy Klein contributed to this report.
Kevin Liptak-Profile-Image
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 2:50 PM ET, Mon May 1, 2017
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Through the initiative, millions of kids are attending healthier day care centers, where fruits and vegetables have replaced cookies and juice. Michelle Obama speaks at a Let's Move! Walmart announcement at The Arc in Washington in 2010.
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Nearly 9 million kids participate in the Let's Move! Active Schools program and get 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Nearly 5 million kids will be attending healthier after-school programs in the next five years. The first lady meets with students in New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2010.
Photos: Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – Childhood obesity rates have finally stopped rising -- and obesity rates are actually falling among our youngest children, according to Let's Move! initiative. The first lady attends the White House Kitchen Garden harvest on the South Lawn in 2010.
MIchelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' program – America still spends nearly $200 billion a year on obesity-related health care costs, and that figure will jump to nearly $350 billion a year by 2018, according to Let's Move! campaign. Michelle Obama visits the Fresh Grocer store in Philadelphia in 2010.
"The Peace Corps continues to prioritize girls' education and empowerment programming," the spokesman said. "Girls' education and empowerment has been a hallmark of our work over the past 56 years and we look forward to continuing those efforts with our interagency partners. We remain dedicated to the passionate work of our volunteers and staff to empower and educate girls in their communities."
Tina Tchen, who served as Obama's chief of staff during her time in the White House, said the end of "Let Girls Learn" was a disappointment given a global recognition that educating young women could help improve conditions across developing nations.
"We felt it was important to have a branded campaign that drew attention to those issues, and we found that when we did it, we had extraordinary support," Tchen said. "I think it's unfortunate to not continue with the branded campaign. We think that this is an issue that has bipartisan support, it's really not a Republican or Democratic issue."
Tchen said the benefits of the program, which drew upon private sector support as well as government dollars, outweighed the costs. She noted that a development program launched by President George W. Bush to combat global HIV/AIDS, PEPFAR, had been maintained and expanded by the Obama administration.
Donald Trump's next 100 days
" 'Let Girls Learn' had several years of funding already baked," she said. "We were hopeful that given that, it could continue. But obviously elections have consequences, and nobody knows that better than we."
After launching the initiative in 2015, Michelle Obama heavily promoted "Let Girls Learn," including during travel abroad and at events held in Washington. CNN Films produced a documentary highlighting some of the girls participating in "Let Girls Learn" programs in Morocco and Liberia during the then-first lady's trip there.
Obama also harnessed her popularity on social media to promote "Let Girls Learn," and enlisted celebrities like Frida Pinto and Meryl Streep to help highlight the struggle girls in many developing countries face in regularly attending school.
In October of last year, the Obama administration attempted to reinforce "Let Girls Learn" ahead of a new administration. The White House announced $5 million in private sector commitments toward the programs administered under the "Let Girls Learn" banner, bringing the total financial pledges to more than $1 billion for programs in 50 countries.
The hope then was to underscore the success of the initiative in the hopes the next administration would continue it.
The ending of the program comes as Melania Trump begins to define her own platform as first lady. While she hasn't formally announced an official platform, women's empowerment and access to education for women and girls is emerging as a key area of importance for her growing East Wing.
"I continue to firmly believe that education is the most powerful way to promote and ensure women's rights. Together we will do this not only by striving for gender parity at all levels of education, but also by showing all children, and especially boys, that it is through empathy, respect and kindness that we achieve our collective potential," she said in a recent speech at the State Department.
On Monday, a Trump White House spokesperson referred comment to representatives for the first lady, who declined to comment.
First daughter Ivanka Trump who serves as an adviser to the President, is focused on women's empowerment and entrepreneurship, topics she's touted on panels and in speeches.
She is a self-described "Entrepreneur & advocate for the education & empowerment of women & girls," according to her Twitter biography.
In promoting the importance of girls education, Obama regularly highlighted her own educational path, and said it was critical to her success in the private sector and later as first lady.
"Education is a very personal thing for me," she said in October during a discussion at the Newseum with a group of girls from across the globe. "As I tell girls whenever I meet them, I wouldn't be here, sitting here not just in this chair but in the life that I have, if it weren't for my education."
Tchen said Monday that the former first lady was still assessing how to promote this issue in her new life as a private citizen.
"This is an issue she cares passionately about," Tchen said. "I think it's still early days for what she will do in her post-White House life. But this is one she's looking at figuring out where can she be value added, where can she help with this issue."
CNN's Betsy Klein contributed to this report.
May 1, 2017 18:46:25 #
wuzblynd
Loc: thomson georgia
Progressive One wrote:
go suck a d-ck like name calling bitches like to do..............
As usual, it's u who kick off the insults. What a hate filled racist u r.................PUNK!!!
May 1, 2017 18:58:18 #
wuzblynd wrote:
As usual, it's u who kick off the insults. What a hate filled racist u r.................PUNK!!!
learn to read bitch......name-calling counts.......
May 1, 2017 19:47:09 #
Progressive One wrote:
go suck a d-ck like name calling bitches like to do..............
Ring-------->Drool. Idiot.
May 1, 2017 19:57:14 #
Docadhoc wrote:
Ring-------->Drool. Idiot.
Nope dumbass...you don't set any mental tone or control a motherfking thing...there are plenty of days when I don't say shit to you and all you do is run after me with comments and get ignored....so who is the dog then you dishonest piece of obsessed shit? When I respond you talk that bullshit and when I ignore your ass you try to act like some stupid ass victory has happened because you "ran me off"...your behavior is easily observable and symptomatic of someone with serious psychological issues....even when conservatives talk about your afflictions or you wander all over OPP picking fights with multiple people simultaneously........your mental issues are apparent even when your OPP dialogue with others is independent of me......so fk you and your bullshit lame ass attempts at employing that junior-college level 25-cent weak ass psychology on me.....wrong brother........now try to turn this example of behavioral observation into something that places you in a superior position so I can piss on myself laughing at your dumb, troubled ass............fk you!!
May 1, 2017 20:16:26 #
Progressive One wrote:
Nope dumbass(1)...you don't set any mental tone or... (show quote)
7-1/2 lines of text and only 14 cusses. You must be slacking.
May 1, 2017 20:26:59 #
wuzblynd
Loc: thomson georgia
Progressive One wrote:
Nope dumbass...you don't set any mental tone or co... (show quote)
It'll make ur mouth sore!!
May 1, 2017 20:39:42 #
May 1, 2017 20:43:14 #
Progressive One wrote:
Stop bitching and whining,"oooh mommie, he said some baadd wooords........... 
Just pointing out your lack of intellectual ability. Your lack of common respect is duly noted.
May 1, 2017 20:43:38 #
Progressive One wrote:
Trump on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Ha... (show quote)
Back to the plantation...Pussy Galore!
May 1, 2017 20:47:07 #
Progressive One wrote:
Stop bitching and whining,"oooh mommie, he said some baadd wooords...........
O.K. we understand now...you miss being able to give "service" to Obama. Now ask yourself,. did he pay you enough? NO?
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