A quick update on some of the news of the last couple days

If you didn't hear, Trump's second Executive Order Muslim ban was struck down once again...for being a ban on Muslims entering the country. That darn judge from Hawaii, and that darn judge from Maryland both did what Trump supporters claim we aren't supposed to do, and took Trump both seriously and literally.

It turns out when you shout for a year straight that you want to block Muslims from entering the country, and tell Giuliani you want to find out how to legally keep out Muslims, the courts are going to take the context of the EO into their decision when making a ruling.

Now that Hawaiin Judge Derrick Watson has stated this, it's going to take quite a bit of work for any sort of Travel Ban to be put into place.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/trump-travel-ban-muslims-hawaii-judge-power-words

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/second-federal-judge-blocks-revised-trump-travel-ban/2017/03/16/dc47cd1e-0a2a-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.06389fb78661

That's the face of a sick fucking individual. Why now? Well, because this asshole is cutting $3b from the CDBG program which primarily funds Meals on Wheels. This motherfucker is going to spend $40 billion on a fucking wall, and $60 billion MORE on an already inflated military, and do it on the back of cutting tiny programs like Meals on Wheels, NEA (which supports PBS and NPR, two of the most well-regarded news organizations in the world), and cutting the EPA by a third.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-meals-on-wheels-cut-pay-mexico-border-wall-immigration-fema-us-coastguard-budget-a7632551.html

But that isn't the only thing being cut under Trump's Make America As Shitty As Possible, Brought To You By Steve Bannon budget plan.

Eh. Fuck it. I don't think any of those departments getting cut matter.

- $200,000,000 gone from McGovern-Dole can't matter.
- $500,000,000 for the Water and Wastewater grant program surely isn't going to be needed.
- $200,000,000 going away from WIC food services isn't going to hurt anyone.
- $250,000,000 that went to coastal research, which readies towns against rising seas, total waste.
- $3,700,000,000 in grants for teacher training and student aid programs? Fuck those people.
- $900,000,000 for science funding and research isn't needed. No future in that shit.
- $5,000,000,000+ cut to NIH funding of medical researchers. Surely that isn't a worthy cause.
- $1,000,000,000 cut from federal prison construction (in the name of more private prisons).
- $2,600,000,000 cut from Labor including training programs for broke kids and seniors. Who needs work?
- $11,000,000,000 cut from State. Who needs UN peacekeeping or climate change programs anyway?
- $500,000,000 cut from TIGER grants, which funds road rebuilding. Our roads are fine.
- $2,500,000,000 cut from the EPA. Fuck the environment. Only assholes like breathing clean air.

None of this money is needed to help people. What will this money do? Buy more F-35s (seriously), build Trump's stupid fucking wall, and increase the size of our military. This shit is why I don't vote Republican anymore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/what-trump-cut-in-his-budget/2017/03/16/00b1e2a0-09e7-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.1c5764e5dc9f

Alex Oronov, a Ukranian-American that set up a meeting between Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen and Russian officials has died suddenly. Something that seems to happen a lot. The point of the meeting was to formulate a plan to "peacefully" get Crimea into Putin's hands.

Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin died last month due to inconclusive reasons.

Russian Consul in Athens, Andrei Malanin was found dead, died of natural causes.

Russian Ambassador to India, Alex Kadakin died of heart failure.

Russion diplomat Sergei Krivov was found beaten unconscious in NYC, then died of unknown causes.

Russian diplomats Andrei Karlov and Peter Polshikov were both shot dead.

Former KGB chief Oleg Erovinkin (helped Chris Steele with the dossier) was found dead in his car.

Surely these are all coincidental. I'm glad our executive branch is looking to get tighter with Russia. It's surely a good thing that our president wants to be Putin's pawn.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ukranian-businesman-russia-and-donald-trump-dies-michael-cohen-michael-flynn-donald-trump-vladimir-a7612866.html

Republicare, the piece of shit healthcare bill written by Paul Ryan and Trump took a pretty big hit when the Congressional Budget Office, and the White House internal analysis projected between 24M-26M people will lose their healthcare over the next 10 years. And no, assholes, you aren't safe just because you have healthcare through your employer. 10%-15% of those losing healthcare will be those on employer-based healthcare.

But this is going to reduce the national deficit by over $330B over 10 years, so it's all good.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/obamacare-uninsured-white-house-236019

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump admitted that this bill was going to help the rich and hurt the poor.

CARLSON: This bill has as one of its centerpieces a tax-cut for investors that would primarily benefit people making over $250,000 a year. They’ve already done pretty well in the past ten years, as you know.

TRUMP: Yeah.

CARLSON: A Bloomberg analysis showed that counties that voted for you — middle-class and working-class counties — would do far less well under this bill —

TRUMP: Yeah. Oh, I know.

CARLSON: — than the counties that voted for Hillary, the more affluent counties.

TRUMP: I know. It’s very preliminary.

CARLSON: It seems like maybe this isn’t consistent with the last election.

TRUMP: No. A lot of things aren’t consistent. But this is going to be negotiated.

Trump then goes on to say Democrats hate the Republicans, and that is why everything is fucked up. Never before have I seen such a clear case of projection.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-health-care-admission-dd759907622f#.nilulixtg

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Some notes:

1) One of the complaints I get is that I'm not sourcing enough stuff from right leaning outlets. A) Well, I looked harder this time, and most of these stories weren't covered at all, or sparingly at those places. B) These stories are all based in fact, are all well sourced on their own, and are true accounts of actual things that happened. If you want to believe alternative facts, and think that every outlet that doesn't confirm your bias is full of shit: That is on you, and you are going to have a tough life, kid.

2) I really appreciate the messages and comments of support. It means a lot. I am trying my best to do some grassroots coverage here for people that don't have the time or the wont to go through the stupid number of political stories that hit each day, and try to sum it up in a concise, flavorful manner for you all.

3) Please don't downvote people that are correcting spelling, asking pertinent questions, or asking for clarification. I post all of these on first draft while I'm working, so speling/grammer may get fuked up. It doesn't hurt my feelings. And learning more is always good. I do my best to answer as many questions as I can, and there is a pretty dedicated group of Imgurians I see in the comments helping with this as well. Learning is good.

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