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All references to climate change, civil rights and LGBT rights have been scrubbed from whitehouse.gov.
 
We should start a pool on what's next to go. were there any references to sanctions against Russia? How about any references to Ukraine period.
 
CWM said:
We should start a pool on what's next to go. were there any references to sanctions against Russia? How about any references to Ukraine period.
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KOAB already noted that the following are all now 404s:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/nativeamericans
https://www.whitehouse.gov/urbanaffairs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/espanol
https://www.whitehouse.gov/hispanic
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1is2many
https://www.whitehouse.gov/letgirlslearn
https://www.whitehouse.gov/aidrefugees
https://www.whitehouse.gov/jewishamericans
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Also, this further expands on the LGBT page and mentions other pages that have disappeared:

http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/1/20/activists-alarmed-missing-lgbt-rights-page-whitehousegov

The LGBT webpage of WhiteHouse.gov no longer exists.


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Yet "LGBT" was not the only page to vanish once Trump took the Oath of Office. Pages devoted to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, civil rights, climate change, and the White House Council on Women and Girls have also disappeared.

In addition, the Department of Labor's "Advancing LGBT Workplace Rights" report web page is now a broken link.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/bureau-land-management-federal-lease

Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation to give away Americans’ birthright: 640m acres of national land. In a single line of changes to the rules for the House of Representatives, Republicans have overwritten the value of federal lands, easing the path to disposing of federal property even if doing so loses money for the government and provides no demonstrable compensation to American citizens.

At stake are areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forests and Federal Wildlife Refuges, which contribute to an estimated $646bn each year in economic stimulus from recreation on public lands and 6.1m jobs. Transferring these lands to the states, critics fear, could decimate those numbers by eliminating mixed-use requirements, limiting public access and turning over large portions for energy or property development.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/20/on-his-first-day-in-office-trump-raises-taxes-on-middle-class-homebuyers/

The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday reversed a scheduled 0.25 percent cut in mortgage insurance premiums issued by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). For a mortgage worth $200,000, this adds $500 to a homebuyer’s annual costs.

These insurance fees are effectively a tax on middle-class homeownership. By reversing the cut, which was scheduled to go into effect on January 27, one week from today, Trump will be taking more money from FHA homebuyers to keep in government coffers.
 
The official White House petition to get Trump to release his taxes to see conflicts of interest got the 100,000 required signatures in less than a day. But no one cares about his taxes according to Republicans.

$20 says the official response due with 60 days basically amounts to "Go fuck yourselves"
 
Some Canadian women tried coming to the Women's March. When asked the purpose for their visit, they were denied entry at the border, photographed and fingerprinted and told they would be arrested if they tried to re-enter

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/womens-march-canada-protesters-denied-entry-us
 
His ego has to be hurting. Yuge. He quintupled the size of his inauguration crowd in an interview and gave it the fucking Zapruder treatment.

Oh. Then he casually implied they should go to Iraq and take their oil, which I am (regrettably) completely for because I need the price of oil to go up. And let's face it. Putin has his hand up Trump and is working him like a puppet to raise the price of oil and rescue the Russian economy.
 
Bible-Pounding Phony said:
Some Canadian women tried coming to the Women's March. When asked the purpose for their visit, they were denied entry at the border, photographed and fingerprinted and told they would be arrested if they tried to re-enter

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/womens-march-canada-protesters-denied-entry-us
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Canada does not allow you entry if you're planning on protesting. No country does. This is not unusual. No country allows foreign protesters in.
 
Yep, stay the fuck out...your PM is coming to pay homage to Trump and that's good enough I guess.
 
Brodypedia said:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/19/bureau-land-management-federal-lease

Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation to give away Americans’ birthright: 640m acres of national land. In a single line of changes to the rules for the House of Representatives, Republicans have overwritten the value of federal lands, easing the path to disposing of federal property even if doing so loses money for the government and provides no demonstrable compensation to American citizens.

At stake are areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forests and Federal Wildlife Refuges, which contribute to an estimated $646bn each year in economic stimulus from recreation on public lands and 6.1m jobs. Transferring these lands to the states, critics fear, could decimate those numbers by eliminating mixed-use requirements, limiting public access and turning over large portions for energy or property development.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/20/on-his-first-day-in-office-trump-raises-taxes-on-middle-class-homebuyers/

The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday reversed a scheduled 0.25 percent cut in mortgage insurance premiums issued by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). For a mortgage worth $200,000, this adds $500 to a homebuyer’s annual costs.

These insurance fees are effectively a tax on middle-class homeownership. By reversing the cut, which was scheduled to go into effect on January 27, one week from today, Trump will be taking more money from FHA homebuyers to keep in government coffers.
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Israeli authorities have approved building permits for 566 settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local officials, a move that has drawn condemnation from Palestinian leaders.

The approval of the building plan on Sunday came two days after the inauguration of Donald Trump in the United States, with Israeli official saying the permits had been held up until the end of Barack Obama's administration, which had been critical of Israeli settlement activity.

Trump's appointed ambassador to Israel has close ties to Jewish West Bank settlements, as does the foundation run by the family of Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

"The rules of the game have changed with Donald Trump's arrival as president," Meir Turgeman, Jerusalem's deputy mayor, told AFP news agency. "We no longer have our hands tied as in the time of Barack Obama. Now we can finally build."

Turgeman said plans for about 11,000 other homes were also in process in East Jerusalem
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ViciousFish said:
The official White House petition to get Trump to release his taxes to see conflicts of interest got the 100,000 required signatures in less than a day. But no one cares about his taxes according to Republicans.

$20 says the official response due with 60 days basically amounts to "Go fuck yourselves"
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It was delivered faster than expected. It basically amounted to "Go fuck yourselves". Which obviously means he's hiding something.
 
The fact that "Wikilinks" actually felt Trump was being genuine in saying he'd release them if/when elected is puzzling in itself. Who the hell didn't know that the goal was get into office then try to change as much behind the scenes as possible so when whatever he is hiding finally becomes public, it will be too late to do anything about it?
 
If the guy who bragged he could shoot someone and lose no support is afraid to release his tax returns it means he thinks whatever is in them is worse than murder.
 
President Trump just pledged to "cut regulations by 75% -- maybe more"

"The regulations will be cut massively and the taxes are going to be cut way down"
And one Republican has already said, "that's Trump just making up a large number"

He also said he's big on the environment - award winning- and these large scale regulation cuts will still protect the earth, perhaps even more than it already is.

Promised Tax cuts for all us peons too.
 
Every time I hear him open his mouth all I hear is "I'm going to make the rich richer at the expense of everything else!"

Again. I feel like a lot of these Republican policies to cut stuff for the rich, etc. would work if they were noble people that passed on the savings to employees like is intended instead of lining their own pockets and finding ways to actively screw people more because they're greedy businessmen.
 
I'm not even upset with Trump. This is Trump being Trump. I'm upset with the fucking morons who voted this asshole into office
 
I'm very close to giving up on social media entirely because it's becoming embarassing. Its almost like you have to ask someone "Do you like Trump y/n?" before getting into any conversations.
 
"Hey you SJW liberal cuck, why don't you go eat your salt in your safe space you fucking precious triggered snowflake..."

There, I just summed up at least the next year or so, until the next wave of pejoratives is conceived
 
KingPK said:
I'm very close to giving up on social media entirely because it's becoming embarassing. Its almost like you have to ask someone "Do you like Trump y/n?" before getting into any conversations.
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I've thought of quitting Facebook forever. There are only so many times I can see people make hollow defenses of Trump/post the same "Occupy Democrats" bullshit until my head feels like it will explode.
 
Why do all you guys have friends on facebook that aren't immediate family/friends? Showing off those numbers?
 
It's more Twitter for me. That Spicer meme is funny until it seems everyone you follow is doing it and retweeting others.
 
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