by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 1. Also check out Trevor Noah take on Tomi Lahren of the far-right-wing “The Blaze” and her absurd claims about race.
- Trump Cabinet Choices Signal Embrace of Wall St. Elite (So much for economic populism! Why did anyone believe him???)
- A World of Trouble (“Donald Trump, who has offered only a jumble of contradictory ideas, will have a hard time dealing with challenges abroad.”)
- Donald Trump’s ‘Monster’s Ball’ (“Trump must be made to know, in no uncertain terms, that he was elected president and not anointed emperor. Not every battle can be won, but every battle must be waged. This is the proving ground. Are you prepared to stand your ground?”)
- Stick a sterling silver fork in Trump’s ‘populism’ (“So much for draining the swamp.”)
- Transition Briefing: Trump Heads to Indiana to Bask (Pathetic.)
- Donald Trump has every reason to keep white people thinking about race
- Yes, I’m angry. Pissed. Livid. And yes, at pretty much everyone (Yeah, that about sums up my mood as well. Also very sad and concerned for our country and the planet. Other than that, I’m in a great mood! Heh.)
- Democrats, skip the civil war (“In the wake of the 2016 election, the party risks leaping from complacency to panic.”)
- Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires
- Nancy Pelosi’s victory shows House Democrats don’t think they need to change to win (I wouldn’t say that; more like there wasn’t a super-strong option.)
- Be very skeptical of Donald Trump’s plan to avoid business conflicts of interest
- Don’t be fooled by Trump’s deal to save some Carrier jobs (“More than half the jobs will still leave the country, all while taxpayers hand Carrier a package of financial incentives.”)
- Office of Government Ethics epically trolls Donald Trump
- Mainstream Outlets Rush To Give Trump Credit For Vague Tweets About His Business (Yep, the corporate media isn’t getting better; if anything, it’s getting worse.)
- GOP may stall Obamacare replacement for years (“Republicans are setting up a high-stakes deadline to replace the healthcare law.”)
- Trump Treasury pick made millions after his bank foreclosed on homeowners (“Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest filed to take a 90-year-old woman’s house after a 27-cent payment error.”)
- Ivanka Trump, climate czar? (“Ivanka wants to make climate change — which her father has called a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese — one of her signature issues, a source close to her told Politico. The source said Ivanka is in the early stages of exploring how to use her spotlight to speak out on the issue.”)
- Donald Trump’s poisoned planet: The Bush-era EPA set back climate-change progress by decades — this could be worse (“Our next president can’t end the EPA, as he promised, but he can use legal chicanery to render it toothless”)
- GOP’s Obamacare trouble: “Repeal and replace” turns out to be tougher than it sounds
- Congressional Democrats come out swinging against Donald Trump, call for investigation into potential conflicts of interest
- Trump Saved Jobs at Carrier by Making the Same Deal American Politicians Always Make (Corporate welfare.)
- Editorial: A life-saving decision for opioid overdoses
- James Koch column: Virginia’s economic growth lags nation’s
- Kaine pushes again for Congressional vote on war against Islamic State
- Kaine: Trump spending freeze injects ‘uncertainty’ into military budget
- McAuliffe upbeat about working with Trump, says Clinton is done with politics (McAuliffe’s always upbeat, but…good luck.)
- Tesla gets green light for second Virginia store (Good!)
- Virginia to Metro board members: Shut up and let GM Wiedefeld do the talking (“Gov. Terry McAuliffe blasts Metro board as ‘a joke’ engaged in ‘goofy, naive political theater.'” Looks like they hit a nerve!)
- Katie Couric seeks dismissal of defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia gun-rights group
- Charlottesville vice mayor resigns from Virginia Board of Education amid Twitter controversy
- Editorial: Here’s the ‘radical change’ that Sam Rasoul thinks Democrats need (Trump ran on a mix of b.s. “positive” stuff – the nonsensical “Make America Great Again” for instance – and TONS of negative against Hillary Clinton, and he won. Clinton had tons of positive stuff as well, plus bashed the heck out of Trump, and won the popular vote by 2.5 million. So…seems like a mix of “positive” and “negative” works.)
- Not so fast: Alexandria’s Confederate symbols will stay put for now
- Editorial: Prosecutor makes right call on Jones investigation
- Prosecutor: Overlap between city and mayor’s church ‘smacks of cronyism,’ but no evidence found to support criminal charges
- Cooler temperatures breeze into area; Weekend trends drier
