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MSN headline criticizes Trump on Puerto Rico.

Make sure you stay tuned to the end of the article though...

I mean, that's reporting? That's being unbiased?

I know they'd claim to just be reporting the facts, and to be fair they are, they're just doing so in a way to evoke an emotional reaction from their readers. One that would be the exact opposite of what's written at the end of the article, which they know very few people read.
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Trump helps women and minorities in tech.

It's a move that's actually being praised by folks from both sides of the aisle.

This is a headline on FB, but I oddly can't find it on CNN or MSN's home or tech pages. Weird.
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Librarian rejects book donation from Melania Trump.
"I work in a district that has plenty of resources, which contributes directly to 'excellence,'" she wrote. "My students have access to a school library with over nine thousand volumes and a librarian with a graduate degree in library science."

Instead, Soeiro wrote, the White House should worry more about providing support to schools that are underfunded and subject to government neglect.

"Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?" she wrote.
Can't say I disagree at all.

Then she makes sure we all know she's a SJW...
Soeiro added: “Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”
*GROAN*

Yeah, the way those plebits and whatsitsnoodles are portrayed is highly offensive.

Also, FYI:
The Cambridge City Council voted overwhelmingly in April on a resolution calling on Congress to begin an impeachment investigation into President Trump.
So this was a bad choice from the word "go" on the part of whoever was choosing the schools.
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Leisher wrote:
Soeiro added: “Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes.”
*GROAN*

Yeah, the way those plebits and whatsitsnoodles are portrayed is highly offensive.
She's a moron, too. The story of the Star-Belly Sneetches was about the stupidity of racism.

Just because she reads books, doesn't mean she understands them.
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Yup.
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The same librarian was shown dressed as The Cat in The Hat to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday a year or two ago.
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New tax plan kind sucks for middle class
Despite repeated promises from Republican lawmakers that the plan is designed to provide relief to the middle class, nearly 30 percent of taxpayers with incomes between $50,000 and $150,000 would see a tax increase, according to the study by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. The majority of households that made between $150,000 and $300,000 would see a tax increase.
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TheCatt wrote: New tax plan kind sucks for middle class
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it or him or the GOP or the Dems or pretty much 95% of legislation that's been passed in my lifetime.

In other news:

Black guy calls Trump a "cracker" on SNL.

I've seen this on three websites -
-A hip hop site geared towards black people that loved it.
-Yahoo news that says it "saved the SNL premiere".
-TMZ which had to run a poll because they didn't know if it was racist or not.
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Whoever does CNN alerts that go to mobile devices is pretty bigoted against Trump.

Today I got an alert that about Trump's announcement about leaving UNESCO and said "100+ nations are members and we're dropping out". There was no other detail behind it, and certainly not the explanation given about the discrimination against Israel.

Let's look at USA Today's article on the same topic:
The withdrawal is mostly symbolic, since it cut off funding to the organization under the Obama administration and the bills keep piling up.

The U.S. stopped funding the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after it voted to include Palestine as a member in 2011.
Just found that to be interesting.

Trump says we can't help Puerto Rico forever and gets blasted.

Rightfully so as now isn't the time for such statements. However...
The remarks quickly prompted cries from Democratic lawmakers, who argue that Puerto Rico still needs a lot of help, as well as the mayor of San Juan, who said they were "unbecoming" and appeared to come from a "hater in chief."
Nobody really counters the points he makes... Also, "hater in chief"? I didn't realize San Juan's mayor is a 12 year old girl.
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Trump defeated ISIS in 9 months.

According to these guys. With their arguments.
A former senior military commander in the region told the Washington Examiner that the Obama White House was micromanaging the war "to the degree that it was just as bad, if not worse, than during the Johnson administration." Johnson, you will recall, once bragged that "they can't bomb an outhouse in Vietnam without my permission."

Contrast this with Trump. Rather than talk endlessly about how long and hard the fight would be, Trump said during his campaign that, if elected, he would convene his "top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS."

Once in office, Trump made several changes in the way the war was fought, the most important of which were to loosen the rules of engagement and give more decision-making authority to battlefield commanders.

Joshua Keating, writing in the liberal commentary site Slate, noted that Trump had "instructed the Pentagon to loosen the rules of engagement for airstrikes to the minimum required by international law, eliminated White House oversight procedures meant to protect civilians, and ordered the CIA to resume covert targeted killing missions." (He meant it as a criticism.)

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who can hardly be called a Trump lap dog, praised what he said was "a dramatic shift in a very positive way — away from the political micromanaging of the Obama years to freeing up generals and troops to destroy ISIS."

The result of this shift seems pretty obvious. In July, ISIS was booted from Mosul, and this week Raqqa was liberated. For all intents and purposes, ISIS has been defeated. Trump did in nine months what Obama couldn't in the previous three years.
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Fewest jobless claims since 1973.

This Obama, Trump, or neither?
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Not news, whatever it is.
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Leisher wrote: Fewest jobless claims since 1973.

This Obama, Trump, or neither?
I generally file this stuff as neither
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Jimmy Carter comes to Trump's defense.

Says the Russian's didn't win the election and the MSM is harder on Trump than any previous president.
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Oh snap.

And Carter will suddenly become hated by the left, called "doddering old man."
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The fuck is wrong with people? People use a pun with Trump's name, people are offended by racism. Seriously?
A high school football sign in West Virginia featuring President Trump's name drew controversy and was called "sickening racism" by an employee of a predominantly African-American school. The students who drew the sign say they were not intending to offend anyone.
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How is that racism?

This is what happens when you make the claim that a guy, everyone that voted for him, and everyone who even suggests the party he's a member of isn't all bad, is racist.

They, literally, are offended by an innocent fucking word that just happens to also be some asshole's name.
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They aren't offended. They're getting attention, because they are attention whores.
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Leisher wrote: How is that racism?

This is what happens when you make the claim that a guy, everyone that voted for him, and everyone who even suggests the party he's a member of isn't all bad, is racist.

They, literally, are offended by an innocent fucking word that just happens to also be some asshole's name.
Srsly.
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