Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian. Scott Pruitt made young staffers pay for his hotel rooms. Iowa Rep. Steve King retweets false rape statistic. Trump threatens to pull out of the World Trade Organization. Dutch prime minister corrects Trump. US court rules students have no right to literacy.
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Ironic how the far right consider them selves American patriots and glorify Nazi/ Confederacy – two groups who literally were at war with the USA.
This place sells “tactical pants” for way less than $1,500!
https://www.511tactical.com/mens/mens-pants.html
I bet he ordered his with extra tactical. :-D
Just a point on that Danish gov’t statistics… I’m pretty sure it is 900+ REPORTED rapes, not total rapes. Given what has been proven out over and over again in terms of the massive underreporting of sexually violent crimes, i hazard to conclude that that was not the total number of rapes by far. It doesn’t change the underlying argument that you guys were making, just something to keep in mind
Like in every other nation on the planet if you fail to look at it as part of the population as a whole. The Netherlands at its all time worst since 2000 has far less rape as we do here, per capita. And that’s the important number. There WERE likely thousands of unreported rapes because most women simply won’t come forward by polling.
Netherlands, rapes per capita according to government numbers: were 15.2 per 100, 000 people at the WORST
The United States of America however had its BEST numbers of the decade at 27.3 per 100, 000 people. Our High, btw was: 32.3. That’s more than double the numbers in the Netherlands.
Someone should add that part of the Bond theme that Cenk keeps singing to the sound board!
Thank you! I kept thinking they were trying to do the Mission Impossible theme because Ana kept doing the floaty hands!
I get amused by people who bitch about high ranking civil servants flying first class or taking high salaries.
The overwhelming majority of professional civil servants retire and go back home, they don’t join lobbying firms especially those serving in professional agencies. The reason why you have seen an explosion in civil servants seeking lobbying and other revolving door jobs is they want to live. Most did not see a pay rise since 2007 and many, like the deputy FBI director fired by Sessions, lose all rights to retirement because they were fired 1 day early.
To have a strong uncorrupt civil service you need to pay civil servants a lot or at least give them perks like flying first class.
Are you referring to the Pruitt story?
Partly.
TYT has done several of these stories before focusing on civil servants, both professional and political appointees, criticizing the way the government gives them perks and it is not just them, the conservatives have made it their life’s mission to frame civil servants as having the life of investment bankers.
Ironically, Pruitt is the one that does have a life similar to an investment banker. (A very paranoid one.)
Seriously though, I don’t mind flying first class as a perk, and without knowing salary structures, I’m sure most civil servants are indeed underpaid. If all Pruitt was doing was flying first class, or even embezzling a few thousand dollars, I wouldn’t really care.
I amused that you listened to one sentence in the whole show. Nice strawman. Check out the average net worth of those officials especially Pruitt, or better yet check out their personal net worth. Trump Cabinet officials ALL are tremendously wealthy, so fuck off about how they need to be able to live.
And?
A civil servant is a civil servant whether he is politically appointed or a professional. Just because Pruitt is rich does not, and should not, deny him the perks of the job because denying him the perks of the job will deny others who are not corrupt and will not take lobbying jobs later in life.
Now we can argue who should take the top jobs in government, I am a firm believer in an all powerful civil service like the one that existed up to the 60s when Kennedy only appointed approx. 100 officials in total compared to the 4000 Trump appointed, but so long as he has done nothing wrong legally I think the criticism is unfair.
Most of what they mentioned are not in fact perks of the job and should never be considered perks of the job.
Tactical pants are not a perk of the job. Flying to places you want to visit just because are not perks of the job. Making staff pay for your hotel room is not perks of the job. Going on a trip where you are making money for a different job and charging tax payers for it is not perks of the job. Even the stuff they mentioned that MIGHT be considered perks of the job shouldn’t be.
You are defending corruption just because you like to disagree with Cenk.
True enough but then again if Pruitt was in an equivalent position in the private sector his perks would be much much better.
My manager flies first class and in two years I hopefully will be able to as well. However, his civil servant friends doing the same job don’t even get properly compensated for flying coach and often times spend out of pocket and almost always get booked in the worst Days Inn in town.
Anyways Pruitt is yesterday’s news.
“To have a strong uncorrupt civil service you need to pay civil servants a lot or at least give them perks like flying first class.”
As a sorry reflection on people in general as this is, it’s not usual for those being paid exorbitant amounts of money and/or significant perks to be content and more likely to conduct themselves honestly and above board once they experience said advantages for awhile.
How owns Pruitt? What does is owner have on Trump?
His not is
Let’s try this again. Who owns Pruitt? What does Pruitt’s owner have on Trump? You don’t keep Pruitt around with 10 to 15 investigations going.
There are elementary schools in Detroit that had MUSHROOMS growing in the corners.
Children wearing winter coats, hats & gloves. This has been going on for a while.
Detroit is NOT the only school in Michigan, let alone the rest of the country, with these outrages conditions! Drive across 8 Mile Road, toward to Bloomfield Hills, and you will see schools in a totally opposite situation. West Bloomfield, Birmingham, Troy, Royal Oak, etc…wonderful schools.
Michigan is corrupt to the bone.
I don’t understand why this problem with education surprises anyone. I have been seeing this since my kids were in school 40 years ago. Some of us were complaining then that our children weren’t learning what they should. It is the governments way of controlling the population. For 40 years no people have told me I am crazy and the government isn’t doing this. I wish I could say, I told you so, but it is just too awful. Maybe now that it has been realized that this is how the government feels, we can fight against it.
my understanding was that the tactical pants were for EPA employees, not scott pruitt himself (and it was more than one pair, for that cost). still though …. what EPA employee needs tactical pants anyway?
I want people to chant “TRUMP IS SWAMP!” Assuredly, his thin-skinned ego would take a hit.
I want a “TINY HANDS” chant complete with crowds waving tiny cardboard hands. It’s not relevant to any issue (and normally I hate that kind of shaming) but would get under his skin more than anything else I can think of.
He could have bought a very nice computer for 3k.
Of course the majority of Detroit is black and no one cares about black lives. There is still systematic racism that gives African American neighborhoods less funding for education and Healthcare. Then if black people try and move to different neighborhoods you have big banks like chase and Wells Fargo who deny loans and landlords who won’t rent to blacks. These people saying racism is dead and gone, whatever.
Trump won’t pull out of the WTO. They’re even more corrupt than him…..
In fact they are the major villains in the world.
His donors will talk him out of it soon enough, or get rid of him, violently if they have to.
They’re that powerful.
I used to work in criminal justice, and found in police reports some reprehensible accusations. To this day, the most indelible in my memory is a defendant accused of multiple fraud charges, but the report that upset me the most was the accusation that he stole money out of a bartender’s tip jar–savage!
Move to New Zealand! We have socialised healthcare, education and housing, a living minimum wage and 26 weeks maternity/paternity leave and 4 weeks annual leave per year.
Two points:
1. Every time Steve King is mentioned I cringe that my fellow Iowans vote for him. We need to vote this thing out of office.
2. Are those pants tactical or are you just happy to see me …?
I lived in Steve King’s hometown for 7 years.
He truly represents them.
I think anything that prevents Scott Pruitt from “doing his job” is actually good for the country.
Depends on what you mean by “doing his job?” Scott Pruitt prevents Scott Pruitt from “doing his job.”
Maybe anything that prevents Scott Pruitt from doing anything?