Black People Politics : When Trump Becomes President - What Will it Look Like?

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Is this saber rattling or real talk?


US says time for talk on N.Korea 'is over'

... Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the United Nations, said there was "no point" in holding a fruitless emergency Security Council session, warning that another weak council resolution would be "worse than nothing" in light of the North's repeated violations ...

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Olivia HAMPTON, with Park Chan-Kyong in Seoul
AFPJuly 30, 2017



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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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The 7,150 nuns who fought against Trumpcare

... The appearance of this virtue in a dark time is not necessarily miraculous, but I couldn’t help noticing the striking intervention in this debate by 7,150 American nuns who called the Senate GOP’s core proposal “the most harmful legislation for American families in our lifetimes” ...

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By E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion writer

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Military to Trump: we won’t ban transgender service members just because you tweeted about it

The world now waits to see if Trump’s tweets lead to a formal policy memo.

President Donald Trump made a huge deal out of his plans to reinstate the ban on transgender military service on Wednesday. But a day later, it turns out that it’s not even clear if this will ever become actual policy.

According to Reuters foreign policy correspondent Idrees Ali, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff have told the military that there will be no change in trans policy until they receive official guidance from the president.
“In the meantime, we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Joseph Dunford wrote in a letter, according to Reuters.

In simple terms, the Joint Chiefs are saying that the US military will not set policies based on the tweets of the president — and will instead require a formal memo or order to actually do what Trump wants.


Trump, commander in chief, is clueless about how the military does things.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Janet Yellen is caught between Trump and a hard place

... The question now is whether the Fed can undo its huge bond-buying program, known as “quantitative easing,” or QE, without triggering a recession or large financial losses in stocks and bonds, under QE, the Fed purchased more than $3.7 trillion of Treasury securities and mortgage bonds. The purpose was to strengthen the economic recovery by pumping up the stock market and reducing long-term interest rates ...

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By Robert J. Samuelson


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Behold the Trump boomerang effect

Did your head spin when Utah’s Orrin Hatch, a true conservative and the Senate’s longest-serving Republican, emerged last week as the most eloquent spokesman for transgender rights? Credit the Trump boomerang effect ...

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A look at the second half, so far, of President Trump’s first year in office

View Photos Chris Kleponis/Pool photo via European Pressphoto Agency
Scenes from the Republican’s second six months in the White House





By Fred Hiatt Editorial Page Editor


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