Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Joe Arpaio is 84 years old, about to go on trial on serious charges, and his wife of 58 years is dying.

He's not taking a Washington job.

 

Ethan Spibey ‏@EthanLDN 20h20 hours ago

So the final numbers for #ElectionDay are:

231,556,622 eligible voters

46.9% didn't vote
25.6% voted Clinton
25.5% voted Trump

 

He's still tweeting like he's at the end of a manic cycle.

 

They're having a cry-in for students at Cornell amd coloring books and cocoa for kids who can't cope at, I think, Kansas or Michigan. Generation of emotional hemophiliacs indeed.

 

I don't know what I did to deserve him, but you absolutely got what you deserve. When you equate serious, thoughtful people who disagree with you with a clown like Trump then the moment you don't get exactly what you want, the sky falls equally. Glad to see you own it.

 

Welcome to Trump's America, where white folks, who live in diverse cities, want segregated public schools, and fight attempts at integration.

Some people just want to return to the "good old days" of the 1950's.

New York City’s Education Department said on Wednesday that it would proceed with a fiercely contested plan to redraw elementary school zones on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an effort to reduce overcrowding while increasing racial and economic integration at three schools.

The plan, which the department was to present on Wednesday night to the elected parent body that votes on such zone changes, is similar to earlier versions of the proposal, which have drawn strident opposition and have prompted some parents to threaten legal action. In recent weeks, the department had stalled, stirring speculation that it might back down in the face of political pressure, as it did last year.

Instead, the department said on Wednesday that it was forging ahead.

In all, 11 school zones will be redrawn. The three schools that would be significantly affected by the move are at the southern end of Community School District 3, which encompasses the Upper West Side and part of Harlem. While the district is racially and economically diverse as a whole, many of its elementary schools are not.

Two of the three schools, Public School 199, on West 70th Street, and Public School 452, on West 77th Street, serve students who are mostly white and well off. The zone for the third school, Public School 191, on West 61st Street, includes a public housing project as well as expensive apartments, though for decades white families have avoided it, leaving it with a population that is poor and mostly black and Hispanic. It also operates below capacity, while P.S. 199 is overcrowded.

 

Can we unite in mocking this guy, the same way we mocked the Alaskan succession movement, and the way we would mock Texans, or others, who would have proposed something like this in the face of a Clinton win?

 

As I understand it, this thread is due for a scheduled shut-down here sometime soon, so before that happens I just want to thank the powers-that-be for letting it go on (and on and on and on). It was nice having a place where I could blow off a little steam, work through some ideas and maybe beat back or enable a little ignorance. If in the course of my rantings 'round here I offended anyone, please accept my sincerest apologies.

 

@YankeeFan, I imagine you will get a kick out of this.

Advice from Jason Jones to Upper West Side Parents: Don't Talk to the Press

 

I think you are well aware that I think coastal liberals are prime satire material.

 

Imagine how you'd fit in at a San Francisco law firm.

 

Never took the slightest offense. You argue your views strongly but IMO fairly.