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[TheShoppingMoll]

Someone needs to send donny boy the results of the Annual Corruption Perception Index. A tweet telling trump that the US has dropped to #22 because of his lack of transparency and the actions of his cronies in govt positions. The provision of justice free from political interference is core to global anti-corruption efforts.

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index published annually by Transparency International since 1995 which ranks countries "by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private benefit".

The US has dropped out of the top 20.  Dropped 4 points since trump took over. Just 2 spots ahead of UAE.  The US was doing much better under President Obama. 

The way trump handled  the Mueller investigation has done alot to  undermine transparency within the US govt.

 “Any attempt to suppress inquiries or investigations related to the President by the President himself or his staff is cause for serious concern,” said Patricia Moreira, Managing Director of Transparency International. “

Given previous statements made by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker prior to joining the Department of Justice that demonstrate a particular predisposition towards the investigation led by Mr. Mueller, we have serious concerns about his potential oversight of the investigation,” said Zoë Reiter, representative to the US for Transparency International. “We expect any Attorney General of the United States to stand up for the integrity and independence of the Special Counsel, in both word and deed.” ent himself or his staff is cause for serious concern,” said Patricia Moreira, Managing Director of Transparency International. 

Top 10 Denmark, NZ, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Norway, Netherlands, Canada, Luxembourg

Something that makes Canada as a least corrupt country is the fact that the parliamentary system there is open and democratic. Apart from its parliamentary system, Canada is known for its educational system, high quality life and government transparency which are some of the factors that help in making it as a least corrupt country.

Luxembourg Their government plays an active role in implementing anti-corruption laws in the state which is why its administration and judiciary is pretty transparent too.

Sweden - much maligned by trump & his devotees -  is known for its effectiveness in fighting corruption where government agencies are highly known for high degree of transparency. Sweden is also highly characterized for its equality, high standards of living, health, education and human development. The government agencies of the country have considered corruption as an abuse of power which is why they have a very crystal clear system to avoid biasness in such institutions.

Socialism seems to bring out the best in people. These countries are conisistently in the top 10 of all lists pertaining to how they are viewed globally.

Singapore has a special agency named as “Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau” that deals with corruption based activities and takes legal actions accordingly.

[finickypatternshop]

"Jagmeet Singh
@theJagmeetSingh
This is a sad & ugly display of racism by a President that shows no interest in, or ability to unite people. I stand with these Congresswomen and everyone who is targeted and being othered by this endless dog whistling by Trump.

6:02 PM · Jul 14, 2019"

From a Canadian leader of the NDP party who should win as PM in October instead of Trudeau, unlikely but I do like he has enough of a spine to publicly call out trumps racist crap. One of many worthy qualities.

[JMOldeVintage]

Before I call it a day - From The Daily Beast - Don't Often read it but there's just something about this commentary...............

"The president is a racist, in his words and his actions. 

Before you go clutching your pearls and extolling the virtues of “civility,” let me say this: Put a sock in it. 

This is not a new revelation, nor is it something that we can continue to ignore as though it were coming from a drunk uncle at the family barbecue. Bigotry is dangerous and, in the hands of our nation’s commander in chief, it can mean an inability to recognize individual humanity and a failure to act with moral authority in times of crisis. Every person talking about his clothes as he cheerfully bares his as* is part of the problem. 

On Sunday, he claimed that newly elected progressive Democrats “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and “the worst, more corrupt and inept anywhere in the world.” And he told freshmen Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar—outspoken Democratic women of color who have challenged the administration’s inhumane immigration policies—to leave the country.

Three of the four were born here in the United States. All are American citizens, and duly elected members of Congress.

Trump’s repugnant rebuke of American values did not come out of thin air.  It unfolded days after “The Squad” travelled with a delegation of congressional democrats to tour detention facilities in border states. What they found was deplorable. Reports of rampant abuse and neglect filled the airwaves, leading Trump to again dismiss accurate coverage as “fake news.” Rather than focus on improving basic conditions and getting to work on bi-partisan, comprehensive reforms, the president basically said if immigrants didn’t like how they were being treated, they should stay in their own country. This morning, he turned his ire on some of his most vocal critics in Congress—all of whom have previously called for his impeachment. 

“Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” Trump tweeted about the four congresswomen today. “Then come back and show us how it is done.” “These places need your help badly,” he went on, “you can’t leave fast enough.”

While Republicans predictably remained tight-lipped and oblivious, Democrats reacted swiftly. 

“Mr. President, the country I ‘come from,’ and the country we all swear to, is the United States,” Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded. “You are angry because you can’t conceive of an America that includes us. You rely on a frightened America for your plunder.”

“When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a tweet. “Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.”

This isn’t simply disgusting and divisive rhetoric. Whether it is the abhorrent, inhumane treatment of immigrants detained in government-sponsored concentration camps or the slow, piecemeal aid sent to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, for some, his policies have been deadly. 

Certainly, this is not the first time Trump has shamelessly revealed himself in public. His “Make America Great Again” campaign was always about catering to our lowest common denominator—a hateful sector of the electorate that believes themselves culturally superior by skin color and religion. 

For years, even before mounting a formal bid for the presidency, Trump regaled television news audiences with racist conspiracy theories about former president Barack Obama. He pledged to send investigators out to prove the nation’s 44th president was not born in the United States. He later derided immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries, calling those foreign nations “sh*t hole countries.” He once said immigrants from Haiti all “have AIDS” and that Nigerian immigrants would never “go back to their huts.”

In Trump’s mind, a judge’s Mexican heritage made him incapable of ruling fairly in a civil fraud case against one of his companies and he believes “laziness is a trait in blacks.” Trump, whose real estate company was sued for housing discrimination in the 1970s, went on to place a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the execution of five innocent black teenagers. Even after the Central Park Five were exonerated, he refused to take it back. After Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville, Virginia, amid a white supremacist protest, he lamented the there were “some very fine people” on “both sides.” 

Trump is not a fine person. His words Sunday were not racially “charged,” “fueled,” or “tinged.” They were unapologetically racist. 

And, if you support him, so are you."

[TheShoppingMoll]

Replies to trump's racist tweet. Seems to be a consensus amongst many that stephen miller wrote this tweet. Many have reported this tweet to Twitter. 

Hillary Clinton

"They're from America, and you're right about one thing: Currently their government is a complete and total catastrophe."

Jon Cooper

Hundreds of roads, parks, schools and other landmarks have been named in honor of @BarackObama since he left office. What do you think will be named after Donald Trump?

Peter Sagal NPR 

I would actually love to go back to where my ancestors came from, but they're not there anymore. They disappeared in an attempt to Make Eastern Europe Great Again

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"Jon Cooper - Hundreds of roads, parks, schools and other landmarks have been named in honor of @BarackObama since he left office. What do you think will be named after Donald Trump?" A dangerously toxic nuclear waste dump - and even then, someone would deface it.

[TheShoppingMoll]

President Donald Trump has found a trade fight he doesn’t like. Trump has decided against putting a cap on uranium imports, at least for now. 

The move deals a blow to domestic uranium miners, while freeing the nation’s already-struggling nuclear power industry from the prospect of higher fuel costs.

In the memorandum, Trump said, “At this time, I do not concur with the secretary’s finding that uranium imports threaten to impair the national security of the United States as defined under section 232 of the Act.”

Domestic uranium miners wanted the usual response from trump : a declaration of a national security threat and a 25% tariff on imports.

[TheShoppingMoll]

As usual another repub has the wrong definition of socialism. and communism. 

repubs are the modern definition of McCarthyism and they are heading in the direction of Communism, where trump wants to be the ultimate leader.

Socialism strives to achieve an economic system that tries to achieve equality among members of society, whereas Communism advocates for  1 totalitarian govt. that controls everything. Socialism exists in a democraticly elected govt.  with various political parties.

Communism - the state's rulers make economic and political decisions for everyone else. No free choice.

Socialism - Religion, jobs, & marriage are up to the individual. Compulsory education. Free, equal access to healthcare & education provided through a socialized system funded by taxation.

Only five nations presently have Communist governments: China, North Korea, Cuba, Laos and Russia. 

Socialism is a movement of both the worker and middle-class, all for a common democratic goal.

In current times it is a term without any useful meaning except as a catchall battering ram to criticize Obama, who for the record, in some respects, is father away from socialism than either of the recent Bushes.

Examples of Socialism in most countries, including the US, funded by taxes.

• Public K-12 education
• Public libraries
• Public police forces
• Public Infrastructure like roads, bridges, water and sewer systems
• Public parks
• Municipal power is in many towns 
• Social Security, which is socialism for seniors
•  Medicare

Socialism at its best is the community supporting community members when they need it, in the ways that they need it.  It's potential in mixed economies that use a lot of democratic socialism is recognized and appreciated by the citizens.

Capitalism has its good points, but helping the needy has never been one of them.

Tell me why aspects of socialism are bad, when European countries who are considered Socialist have the happiest and less corrupt systems in the world.  The US despite is capitalistic economy has dropped on every global list since trump was elected.

Modern Communism = trump & repubs - demonizing diversity, women. trump demigod personality, EOs that push through trump's agenda despite court rulings & dissent amongst the House & Congress. A president who treats the presidency like a cash cow for trump o. One world order where immigrants need not apply. Where the rich get wealthier, & the middle class remain where they have been for decades.

[TheShoppingMoll]

While republicans largely avoided commenting on the president’s statements, lawmakers around the world did not.

David Lammy - Donald Trump telling four ethnic minority American congresswomen to "go back" where they "originally came from". 1950s racism straight from the White House. Any British politician fit to serve as PM would condemn. 

May, who has just days left in office, condemned the tweets. “The prime minister’s view is that the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable,”

“The President of the United States telling elected politicians — or any other Americans for that matter — to ‘go back’ to other countries is not OK, and diplomatic politeness should not stop us saying so, loudly and clearly,” tweeted First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon.

Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor - "I’ve heard it from racists and fascists. Never from a mainstream politician,” he said. “Here you have the president of the U.S.A. using that same sort of language.”

“Trump’s racism is sickening. Any European politician who fails to condemn this has questions to answer & should be ashamed of themselves,” wrote Belgian politician Guy Verhofstadt.

In Germany, commentators condemned Trump’s remarks on Monday. To rely on “ugly sentiments,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper, has “long become part of his strategy.”

Trump’s tweets, the paper wrote, were so “clearly racist, that a debate over their content is a waste of time.”

German news outlet Der Spiegel echoed those comments. In a commentary on its website, the publication said Trump is now relying on an “even more overt and blunt racism” than ahead of the 2016 U.S. elections.

In the West Bank, where Tlaib has relatives and is considered a hometown hero despite having never lived there, many saw Trump’s tweets as a confirmation of what they view as a pro-Israel bias — and an insult to values America purports to uphold.

Bassam Tlaib, one of the congresswoman’s uncles in the West Bank, told the Associated Press Trump’s tweets were “a racist statement meant to target Rashida because she has Palestinian roots.”

“This statement proves that Trump is anti-Palestinian, anti-Islam and completely biased toward Israel,” he continued.

The Palestinian Authority, which has cutoff ties with the White House over a succession of Trump policies that have favored Israel, called Trump’s statement an “insult” to the concept of American rule of law, according to the AP.

“It’s an insult to the Statue of Liberty, America’s most famous symbol, an insult to the American values where migrants from all over the world are united as one nation under one law,” said Ibrahim Milhim, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authori

[JMOldeVintage]

"Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!" Trump tweet this morning.

In a Perfect World, everything would be Perfect - For Each Individual Person That Lives On This Planet!!! But reality gets in the way, & of course there is no way to accommodate millions of bazillions ideas of perfection. 

So you work at trying to change the utterly horrible &/or work towards compromises that are inclusive, balanced.....not change fueled by hate, ignorance or bigotry. Imagine if everyone just "left" because no-one wanted anything to change or improve & couldn't compromise. My fear is that's Trump & this "new GOP" game plan - ignore or belittle any and all new ideas & the people who bring forth the new, different ideas.

[finickypatternshop]

trump is conflating people hating him and his rhetoric and harmful policies with hating the country. They don't hate their country, they love it enough to rescue it from a racist monster. If one is judging based on who complains most about the US trump is the one who hates his country. He complains about everything and everyone, except himself of course. He wants folks to believe that the country is in shambles and he alone can fix it. That isn't love, that is ego. Imagine if past leaders gave up on things decades ago or longer, how far back does trump want to go.

I suspect his racist rants are more about changing the narrative, epstein and the detention centre conditions were in the news, now trump confirming he is a racist is. He is very afraid.

[TheShoppingMoll]

trump really should be muzzled.

US trade war with China will not be ended any time soon. China suddenly added a new member to its negotiating team — the country’s commerce minister Zhong Shan, who is seen as a hardliner by many officials in Washington.  A sign the Chinese leader Xi Jinping is standing firm

"We have to uphold our warrior spirit in firmly defending national and people’s interests in defending the multilateral trading system,” Zhong told the People’s Daily, the official newspaper for the Communist Party in China

“Trade progress has been in reverse,” says Donald Straszheim, head of Evercore ISI’s China research team. “Trade progress has been in reverse. The two sides are further apart now than in Nov-Dec 2018.”

I agree with this assessment, that for trump, this trade war has "morphed from trade war to a ‘stop the China rise’ cold war,”

This has never been about countries taking advantage of the US, it has has & will always be a power struggle for trump. It doesn't matter that American businesses are being hurt by the trade wars, trump must win at all costs.

Chinese civilization according to records began around 1250 BC. Who do you think will win this trade war?

In a little known fact, Beijing has over the past year lowered duties on goods from countries that compete with America, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics.In addition to gaining an edge against the US in the trade war, lowering tariffs on products originating from other countries allows China to limit the damage on its economy, PIIE said.

China’s average tariff rate on U.S. goods jumped from 8% at the start of 2018 to 20.7%

China’s average tariff rate on its imports from all other countries fell from 8% at the start of 2018 to 6.7% last November. It has stayed at that level since then. US media hasn't covered the larger picture because the US - China sparring words cause more excitement.

An expanding body of research has found that the burden of tariffs has mostly fallen on the U.S

The report - Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store Evidence from US Trade Policy from Harvard University, International Monetary Fund, University of Chicago, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston analyzes the current data on the effects of this ongoing trade dispute.

Harvard

[TheShoppingMoll]

There is little evidence, though, of U.S. manufacturers bringing production from China back to the U.S., a move the Trump administration hoped the tariffs would encourage.

U.S. manufacturers are shifting production to countries outside of China as trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies stretch into a second year.

Companies that make Crocs shoes, Yeti beer coolers, Roomba vacuums and GoPro cameras are producing goods in other countries to avoid U.S. tariffs of as much as 25%.

The Institute for Supply Management said earlier this month that its manufaacturing index slipped again in June to the lowest level since 2016. 

"If we were to try to do a factory in the U.S., it would be enormously expensive,” said John Hoge, co-owner of Sea Eagle Boats Inc., which makes 85% of its inflatable kayaks, canoes and fishing boats through contract manufacturers in China. “It took us 20 years to build up the supply chain in China,” he said. Mr. Hoge estimated the 25% duty on his products that took effect in May would double the Port Jefferson, N.Y., company’s tariff expenses to about $500,000 a year.

The European Union’s surplus with the United States grew to 62.1 billion euros ($69.8 billion) in Jan-May 2019

The EU is China's largest trading partner.

[TheShoppingMoll]

The GOP should hang their heads in shame. Kevin McCarthy @GOPLeader, “The President’s Tweets were not Racist. The controversy over the tweets is ALL POLITICS. I will vote against this resolution.” 

To all those who think that this type of rhetoric means that a leader is strong, I feel pity for you.  trump's base will not be enough to insure your position.

Many of us believe that a civil war is brewing and it seems that this is the only way that America thinks is how to solve their problems.

[JMOldeVintage]

What I truly don't understand is how the GOP has become a "quaking in their boots" party. Apparently they (& regular citizen supporters) are so focused on the here-and-now that they are willing to ignore the future implications of Trump & his statements & actions. I see the US at a crossroads & while some may think that this 'circus' will never affect them, rhetoric & actions have a way of building, breaking thru that dam & suddenly everyone is inundated with the results of this apparent disdain for the US's future.

[finickypatternshop]

The GOP have made a choice to fully embrace trump, including his racism. I'm not sure what the vote was for but at least it is on the record that they don't care about him pushing hate and dividing a country. I don't see people getting past their weakness and even why they would accept it. Them playing the victim is so gross, along with their hypocrisy. If trump hated the country so much why didn't he just leave instead of trying to destroy it, he isn't king and he can't stand that strong women (especially of colour) dare to call out his crap. He will keep attacking the women until one is attacked and then pretend he didn't cause it. Do trumplicans not fact check anymore to know he spews outright lies in his attacks or do they just believe him because he commands it. Too much fox.

putin must be just giddy, he wanted trump as a puppet and he ended up getting the whole Rep party. 

[JMOldeVintage]

"Republican Sen. Rand Paul objected Wednesday to an attempt to pass the bill funding 9/11 first responders' health care unanimously, arguing that passing such a long-term bill without offsetting the cost would contribute to the national debt." (From CNN)

The hypocrisy of Paul's reasoning is mind boggling.

And Trump? He's off to a rally with his new adopted slogan "send her back" promoting, at the very least, utter disrespect for those (Democrats) who do not agree with his policies, at worst....... 

[finickypatternshop]

Not caring for first responders is disgusting, did he at least also vote against the tax cuts for the wealthy. Cancel that and care for the men and women who were there when their country needed them.

Not sure which is worse, the guy inciting hate or the ones propping him up and enabling his hate. He couldn't exist without them. It is vile and that is unAmericn, since he and his groupies like to throw that judgement around to everyone else. Does trump really speak for the country, blindly praise everything he does or says or leave. Did he/they do that for President Obama.

[TheShoppingMoll]

The viral archived video that NBC has released shows what kind of parties trump & epstein hosted at Mar-a-lago.

Some higher ups have been outed by this video and there are many more names soon to be released. epstein like all pimps kept black books of all the clientele.

trump does have a type: blonde & young.

E Jean Carroll, when younger, is just the type trump likes. Young, cute & blonde.

[deeshandmades]

"Trump and Hope Hicks talked to Michael Cohen amid efforts to quash Stormy Daniels sex claim, documents show"

[finickypatternshop]

"A party of victims

"Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), the white supremacist who referred to immigrants as "dirt," is a victim. After he defended the terms "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" in an interview with the New York Times earlier this year, the Republican leadership removed him from his committee assignments.

"This is one of the most significant injustices that has ever taken place in Congress," King said. "I don't think any member of Congress has ever been targeted by social media, mainstream media, and all those outlets like I have been targeted. And once it started to roll it just turned into a snowball. It was a political lynch mob."

"It's horrible what I went through," Bill O'Reilly said after he lost his job at Fox News in the wake of revelations that he and the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to settle multiple sexual harassment allegations against him.

The most powerful human in the world is the biggest victim in the world. "There's never been a time in the history of our country where somebody was so mistreated as I have been," President Trump told George Stephanopoulos. "No president should ever have to go through this again," he said at his campaign launch rally in Florida Tuesday night.

Conservatives used to decry the culture of victimhood. Now they take delight in their oppression. Victimhood, after all, confers certain privileges: sympathy, special treatment, and moral license. As Charlie Sykes observed in his 1992 book A Nation of Victims, victims not only exculpate themselves from blame, but they also get to project guilt onto others. Back then, victims were minorities, women, the poor, the unemployed, and the disabled. The definition of "victim" now includes rich and powerful white men who feel sorry for themselves. In today's America, all you have to do to be a victim is to act like one.....

...Luckily for them, they can tune into Fox News, where Tucker Carlson addresses and exacerbates their concerns every night."

There is more. https://theweek.com/articles/848086/party-victims

[TheShoppingMoll]

The Trudeau Liberals have regained the lead in the federal horse race with just over 100 days before October’s election, suggests a new Mainstreet Research poll for iPolitics.

Compared to Mainstreet’s last poll in April, the Liberals (among decided and leaning voters) are holding steady, the NDP is down slightly, the Greens are up roughly 2.5 points and the Bloc and PPC are enjoying a smaIl uptick. But it’s the Conservatives who have seen the most significant movement, shedding 4.2 percentage points since the spring survey.

In Canada’s most populous and thus vote-rich province, the Liberals lead with 41.6 per cent of support among leaning and decided voters, compared to 32 per cent for the Tories, 11.5 per cent for the NDP, 9.1 per cent for the Greens and 4.3 per cent for the PPC.ll

Doug Ford keeps pulling the federal Conservatives down. It really must be frustrating to find that 54% of Ontarians are “less likely” to vote for Scheer’s candidates in the Oct. 21 federal election because of Ford’s policies. Keep up the good work Dougie boy.

[JMOldeVintage]

Last night watched Trevor Noah put a great visual on Trump's pronouncement that he quickly tried to squash the "send her back" chants coming from the crowd in NC the other night. Running two clips side-by-side, yes, an Olympic race/dash was started, everyone crossed the finish line prior to Trump even starting to speak again. Did he quiet or chastise the crowd..uh, No. He just kept right on blabbing, seemingly basking in the echoes of the crowd's participation. 

I grew up in an ethnic neighborhood. My farm-girl grandmother was born prior to turn of the previous century & never even learned to read or write her native tongue, much less english, there was "no need" for her to do so back then. My Mom's first language was therefore not English & until her passing, conversations with Grams were not in English. I shudder to think what could happen in "Trump's world", for people in this "situation". He is preying on people's fears of Anything that is different to them; he is telling them to ignore their little pieces of family history; it seems he is trying to create memories that never were, a Country that will not exist except in the minds & hearts of scared(?) people & that is, imo, so dangerous.

For our neighbors to the north, I hope Canada remains "sane", pragmatic, practical, concerned about all citizens with an eye not only on immediate needs but on the future & with just that right touch of idealism.

[TheShoppingMoll]

Because of the diversity in our population, our government forms & websites are able to be read in our most common languages. It is not uncommon that there are the older generations that don't speak English and it is the grandchildren who are bilingual. The schools offer as part of the curriculum French, Spanish, Mandarin, Punjabi and ESL courses.

You have to learn to adapt to the changing world, otherwise you are left behind in what I call the modern Dark Ages.

trump is evidently too old to be doing rallies, as his reaction and responses to questions show. Very impolite of him to remain seated, while everyone else is standing. I have noticed that he always remains seated during Oval Office photo ops. His age and lack of good health is showing.

Since he said at the rally that "it was going to be a long one, because he had nothing to do", shows that he is not a 24/7 worker or perhaps everyone else is working while he takes an extended executive time break.

I have the perspectives of 4 Californians to compare to mine and they all agree that trump has to go.

[finickypatternshop]

Canada has gone thru similar history as the US with some not accepting certain immigrants when they came, locally it was a large Italian population, many who never learned to speak English and still managed to be very successful. My son is getting married in Sept to an Italian girl and her papa doesn't speak any English, his son (her dad) still did very well. My grandparents on my moms side only spoke French, she could only offer me cookies in English and we managed. I see it as how our countries were built, the American/Canadian dream is to come to a new country with little, often not speaking the language, and grow and contribute. Many surpass citizens born in the country, maybe that is part of the issue some have. The immigrant is not the problem. 

Sadly I read some of the same hateful rhetoric under articles in Canadian media, hate doesn't have borders and some are obviously easily influenced. So far politicians are shutting down any racist crap for the most part, some not until they are called out on it, but the election isn't until Oct so I hope it stays that way. A leader sets the tone, or should.

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Our local school board also offers First Nations languages as an option in the schools starting in grade one thru to highschool, Ojibwe here. I think it is grade four that French is mandatory as a second language but a student can choose to take Ojibwe instead. Language and culture is together and open to all students.

[finickypatternshop]

trump tweet with video of the racist chant at his rally. Yes it is racist. Sounds to me like trump is throwing his base under the bus, 'they might be racist' but he only stood there and let it happen. He is such a lying ..........'did nothing' donald, they are your fricken words. He has made the GOP the party of white nationalism, time he owns it.

"Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
As you can see, I did nothing to lead people on, nor was I particularly happy with their chant. Just a very big and patriotic crowd. They love the USA!

6:57 AM · Jul 20, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone"

Speaking out against a corrupt leader is more patriotic than letting him corrupt further. Citizenship should not be dependant on blind patriotism or conditional, there are countries folks can't speak out honestly without being detained or killed, is that what trump really wants. Free speech is a thing and shouldn't apply to only those wearing a maga hat as one Rep recently stated.