Category Archives: Fail!

President Donald Trump issues Ramadan statement, makes it mostly about terrorism

“Islam hates us,” he said during a later interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in March 2016.

Source: President Donald Trump issues Ramadan statement, makes it mostly about terrorism

Walker director expresses regret over sculpture that recalls Mankato hangings – StarTribune.com – but will not dismantle it or send it back – fail, shame, just plain stupid!

ATHimmelman MAY. 27, 177:32 PM

The Walker board and staff responsible for this outrage somehow did not learn/know the most fundamental principle of relationships with community members. Those making decisions directly affecting communities must share the power to decide what is being proposed with those from the affected communities. Nor the basic requirements for partnerships: mutual respect, mutual learning, and mutual accountability. This was understandable 50 years ago but is willful ignorance today.

Source: Walker director expresses regret over sculpture that recalls Mankato hangings – StarTribune.com

Trump lashes out at Germany, promises ‘change’ in relations – The Local – Americans will die because of the puppet for Putin!

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to complain about a US trade deficit with Germany, and his belief that Germany needs to pay more for the NATO military alliance.

Source: Trump lashes out at Germany, promises ‘change’ in relations – The Local

Senator calls for investigation into Chinese company that’s helping Kushner family attract investors: Shanghaiist

Republican senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has demanded that an investigation be carried out into the Chinese company Qiaowai, which has been working on behalf of Kushner Companies to entice wealthy Chinese to invest in the well-connected real estate company’s latest project with promises of US visas.In January, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband, sold his shares of Kushner Co. to take on a new — and controversial — position as senior White House advisor to his father-in-law, though that has done little to prevent the family company from getting wrapped up in charges of government corruption and profiteering.

Source: Senator calls for investigation into Chinese company that’s helping Kushner family attract investors: Shanghaiist

Texas Republican Called ICE on SB 4 Protesters, Threatened to Shoot Colleague

Rinaldi later said on Facebook that he called immigration agents “on several illegal immigrants who held signs in the gallery which said ‘I am illegal and here to stay.’” Rinaldi accused Nevárez of repeatedly threatening him on the House floor during the scuffle.“I made it clear that if he attempted to, in his words, ‘get me,’ I would shoot him in self defense,” Rinaldi said. “I would shoot him in self defense. I am currently under DPS protection.”Nevárez responded on Twitter: “He’s a liar and hateful man. Got no use for him. God bless him.”

Source: Texas Republican Called ICE on SB 4 Protesters, Threatened to Shoot Colleague

Did Trump Give The Middle Finger To The Italian Prime Minister?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx7uwEEwHCY

 

While the idea of the President of the United States giving the middle finger to a NATO ally would be wholly inappropriate, it would not be uncharacteristic for Trump, whose first overseas visit was riddled with gaffes.

Source: Did Trump Give The Middle Finger To The Italian Prime Minister?

U.S. Jewish activist to undergo surgery on arm broken by Israeli cops | +972 Magazine

Wednesday’s protest against Jerusalem Day, a highly-charged, intensely nationalistic and consistently violent affair, came as well over 100 American Jews are in Israel-Palestine participating in anti-occupation activism. The “Sumud Freedom Camp,” a Standing Rock-inspired protest encampment set up by Palestinians, Israelis and diaspora Jews, is currently in its ninth day, having already been dismantled twice by the Israeli army.Police and army violence is near-automatic in response to demonstrations by Palestinians, Ethiopian Israelis, and Israeli photojournalists and anti-occupation activists who attend protests in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The presence of diaspora Jews has traditionally stayed the authorities’ hand, but as Jews from around the world head to Israel-Palestine in order to step up their nonviolent activism against the occupation, it seems that the authorities are responding in kind.

Source: U.S. Jewish activist to undergo surgery on arm broken by Israeli cops | +972 Magazine

Inoreader – PA… Betrayal is a state of mind

Amad, A Palestinian News Agency, revealed today exchanges of letters between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government, through the channel of the coordination offices from both sides. The letters exposed the request of the PA to cut off the Electricity from Gaza, declaring that they will no longer pay the electricity bills concerning Gaza.The exchange between the two sides that is clearly explained in the letters. I have to say it feels so shameful, embarrassing, I cannot but add that we had reached that day when betrayal became a state of mind.

Source: Inoreader – PA… Betrayal is a state of mind

A Muslim-American Activist’s Speech Raises Ire Even Before It’s Delivered – The New York Times

Brad Lander, a Democratic city councilman from Brooklyn, described the accusations against Ms. Sarsour as “preposterous,” and pointed to her help in raising money to repair two Jewish cemeteries that were vandalized in St. Louis and Pennsylvania in February.“She’s been in my synagogue,” he said. “She and my rabbi are friends. There’s no doubt that part of what this is is backlash against the idea of having a Palestinian-American as a visible leader and inheritor of the civil rights movement.”He added, “One terrible feature of the Trump regime is that it threatens to tribalize all of us.”

Trump in Brussels: ‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE

According to a report in the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, many EU officials were appalled by how little the Americans appeared to know about trade policy. The guests from Washington seemed not to be aware that EU member states only negotiate trade treaties as a bloc. According to the paper, Trump’s chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, claimed during meetings, for example, that different customs tariffs are in place between the U.S. and Germany than between the U.S. and Belgium.

Source: Trump in Brussels: ‘The Germans Are Bad, Very Bad’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE