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Trump Renominates Ajit Pai For Five More Years at the FCC (theverge.com)
According to Axios, Bloomberg, and several other publications, President Trump has nominated FCC chairman Ajit Pai for a second five-year term at the commission. "Pai's current term ended last June, though he's been able to stick around through the end of the year even without reconfirmation," reports The Verge. From the report: The nomination comes just days after Pai sat down with the president for a meeting, during which they're said to have "reconnected" but without actually discussing anything the commission is actively considering. Pai will need confirmation from the Senate for the nomination to be approved. He was first nominated in 2012 to fill the slot of a commissioner. With approval, he'll be able to stick around through at least the entirety of Trump's current term. The question now is when Trump will nominate people to fill the two slots still vacant at the commission. The FCC remains short staffed, with only three out of five seated leaders, which somewhat limits how quickly Pai is able to get through his agenda.
Yup. Literally the only thing Trump cares about is removing all barriers to the rich gobbling up even more of the pie for themselves, and leaving the middle class and poor with even less to share between them.
Because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I don't think the argument is that Trump is himself a racist, it's that he is an amoral narcissistic demagogue who caters to and encourages the worst in his constituency, including racists, sexists, chauvinists, xenophobes, and anti-intellectuals.
Besides, racists tolerate 'lesser races' so long as they occupy lower rungs on the social ladder. Only when racists have to compete with or serve their 'racial inferiors' does the bile start to flow.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
You're still whining about Clinton?
Please, find something more relevant to complain about, trumpbots.
And yet most of the organized, conscious violence (if you don't count the deranged shooter who killed the Garmin engineer) has come from people who oppose Trump.
WTF do you think a commissioner does? Just because Obama called it net neutrality, doesn't mean it had anything to do with actual neutrality of the ISP's. The current "net neutrality" rules only legalized common carriers to zero-rate and throttle services.
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>Obama isn't president anymore, but Trump is still fighting him and still can't understand why he's losing.
The answer, of course, is because he is basically shadowboxing the specter of Obama and not smart enough to know that the only thing you may achieve if you do punch your shadow is a broken fist.
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Nice little qualifier there 'organised' so you can include violence during organised protests - but exclude the THOUSANDS of hate crimes that happened since November 8 (and you only name the on Garmin engineer case as if that's a rare exception - it was merely the deadliest in a pattern that's been playing out across America daily).
Not to mention you seemingly ignoring that in Berkeley it turns out the people who did the violence were not even part of the protests. They were outsiders who came in, as a group, specifically to cause harm - and probably Trump supporters or anarchists, they had nothing to do with the organised protest. In fact, the people arrested for violence at Berkeley - do you know know what they all have in common ? Not ONE Of them was a student there.
Remember when Trump claimed (falsely) that Hillary was sending people to his rallies to pick fights ? There is actually EVIDENCE that people were sent to liberal protests to pick fights and get the protestors blamed for it. I'm not saying Trump or even a Trump supporter sent them... but somebody did and I rather doubt it was a liberal - we don't make a habit out of deliberately shooting ourselves in the foot.
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That's a good start Mister Psycho - but a job in our administration does require a few other qualifications. Let me just verify these:
Do you have a record of saying flagrantly racist or white-supremacist things in public ? Any kind of formal proof ? An endorsement from a neo-nazi leader or a letter of condemnation from a civil rights leader maybe ?
Are you opposed to the taste of an old man's rectum ? Would you be unwilling to participate in the daily one-hour ass-kissing ceremony with the president ?
How are you at telling bald-faced lies to people who can literally SEE the proof of your lie as you tell it ?
When it's your turn to blow Putin - spit or swallow ? Please note there is only one right answer.
Any history of involvement with notoriously corrupt multi-nationals ? We're especially keen on Goldman-Sachs graduates.
How are you at wildly inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric ?
Any past history of actively trying to undermine or destroy the very office you are now seeking to represent ?
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