by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 2.
- Trade war escalates as China slaps tariffs on 128 U.S. exports, including pork and fruit (Trump is an imbecile, trade edition. Oh yeah, this is also a big tax; why are “conservatives” not going apeshit like they would be if Obama or Clinton had done this?)
- Trump may not intend to start a war. But he sure could bumble into one. (Barbara Comstock’s pal John Bolton wants to start a war, that’s for sure.)
- Tiangong-1 crash: Chinese space station comes down in Pacific Ocean (“Officials say the space station, which had been out of control since 2016, mostly burnt up on re-entry”)
- Costa Rica: Carlos Alvarado wins presidency in vote fought on gay rights (“The centre-left’s Carlos Alvarado Quesada has decisively defeated a conservative Protestant singer in Costa Rica’s presidential runoff election by promising to allow gay marriage, protecting the country’s reputation for tolerance.” Costa Rica is looking better and better.)
- Trump’s Easter wish: An end to protections for undocumented youth (“After managing just one tweet of holiday kindness, the president went back to the xenophobic well.”)
- Democrat: Trump has tried to ‘gaslight’ the country on his ‘true position’ on DACA (“Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said on Sunday that President Trump’s latest tweet stating his opposition to a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program deal proves the president was always ‘anti-immigrant.'”)
- Trump endorses states’ rights — but only when he agrees with the state (“It’s not just Democrats who are pushing back at what they see as federal intrusions.”)
- Trump just called off a deal on DACA (“The president spent Easter Sunday morning calling for tougher immigration laws.” Trump is a wee bit unclear about the Gospels, which he clearly hasn’t read or understood.)
- New York Magazine cover depicts Trump as a pig (Pigs are intelligent, sensitive animals. Why insult them by comparing them to Trump?)
- Trump demands ‘nuclear option’ and ‘no more DACA deal’ (The guy is completely bonkers.)
- Juan Williams: GOP fears anti-Trump wave
- This Trump legal defeat may force Trump to decide: His presidency or his businesses?
- Blow: Stephon Clark: Rhythms of Tragedy (“Stephon Clark is not only a casualty of this particular shooting, but he is also a casualty of American moral paucity, race-hostile policies and corrosive jurisprudence. The sound of his body falling to the ground became just another beat in America’s rhythm of state-sanctioned tragedy.”)
- Kushners Saw Hope in White House, but It Was a Mirage (“Charles Kushner felt redeemed when his son Jared was named senior White House adviser last year, a dozen years after a sordid scandal. But for the Kushner patriarch and his family, the pinnacle of American political power has turned out to be a wellspring of trouble, bringing criminal and regulatory inquiries.”)
- 501 Days of Trump & Co. Stealing America Blind
- Corruption, Not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability
- “A triumph of collective narcissism”: How Trump unleashed forbidden desires
- New book alleges Kellyanne Conway is the ‘number one leaker’ in Trump White House
- Rozell: The Republican Medicaid Conundrum (This should be a no-brainer, but of course it isn’t to most Virginia General Assembly Republicans.)
- Letter: Natural gas is good for Virginia (Posting this to illustrate a MAJOR flaw by the corporate media – providing minimal, insufficient identification of op-ed and LTE writers. In this case, they say that the author of this ridiculous, propagandistic piece is from the “Consumer Energy Alliance,” but does anyone know what that is without Googling it?For the record, the members of this group include the…yep, American Gas Association, the Natural Gas Supply Association, Piedmont Natural Gas, the Tennessee Oil & Gas Association, the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, ExxonMobil, etc, etc. Getting the idea? So why couldn’t the newspaper include this information?)
- Facebook post claiming guns could have prevented the Holocaust met with backlash (“The item was posted on a page that looks like it belongs to the Republican Party of Virginia Beach, but it is not the official party page.” This meme needs to die, ASAP, as it’s absolutely ridiculous, insulting, brain-dead, etc.)
- Park Police killed a young man in Virginia. Since then, four months of silence. (“An information blackout has followed the needless death.” Completely unacceptable.)
- Editorial: Where Northam should spend his day teaching
- In Hampton Roads, Farm Fresh a “legacy that will always be remembered”
- Cold rain and a few flakes early today. Unsettled the rest of the week.
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