It must be driving Trump nuts that his hand-picked appointees are recusing themselves from Trump/Russia instead of throwing themselves on the tracks. Lol
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TRADE WAR ! TRADE WAR ! sez the MSM !
Stocks rallied Tuesday as Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief after China's president said he would work to open the country's economy, easing trade war fears.
The Dow was up more than 350 points, with DowDuPont the best-performing stock. The index was up more than 500 points earlier. The S&P 500 gained 1.4 percent, with energy leading 10 sectors higher. The Nasdaq advanced 1.5 percent.
Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed plans Tuesday to further open up the country's economy, with measures including lowering import tariffs on autos, enforcing legal intellectual property of foreign groups and reducing duties on other consumer products.
"If you look at President Xi's speech, it was conciliatory and that feels like a de-escalation," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley FBR. "That's what the market wants."Comment
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Schnedierman just moved on Cohen’s old business partner
Won’t be long now Cons!
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On PAPER?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
^^^^ some fine word salad disassembling . Let’s wait and connect Cohen to Russian mob and see if any paths led to trump org .....Comment
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Fat boy can have as many as he wants. Will not slake his RAGEOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
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Whoa !
Justice is a lady which is very bad news for Trump but at least she’s blind so he’ll at least get a fair shake on his looks.SCOOP: ABC News has learned Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation. He had no role in raid of Cohen's office. Another recusal that will make @realDonaldTrump unhappy.Comment
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HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaMonday’s FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, his hotel room, and his home all provided a proper dose of comeuppance to a man more accustomed to screaming threats, shi*-tier legal theorizing, and putting his strip-mall law degree to work in service of Donald Trump.
Cohen, far from being the superlawyer to a billionaire real-estate tycoon, really only has one important job: covering up Trump’s alleged dalliances. It was Cohen batting cleanup, dealing with an army of models, escorts, Mistresses (large “M” and small “m”), actresses, porn stars, models, Real Dolls, fangirls, groupies, and random topiary at Mar-a-Delicto with a wall of nondisclosure agreements. Master of the NDA, Cohen thought attorney-client privilege would protect him.
He forgot he had a fool for a client. Trump couldn’t shut his mouth on Air Force One last week.
Hope trumps minor league legal team can keep up.
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His own justice department putting the wood to him here . Beautiful.
This should make the cons’ fantasies about obama and Clinton very bitter indeed .....Comment
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Hold up
That D'USSÉ is the **** if I do say so myself
If I do say so myself, if I do say so myself
Hold up, stumble all in the house time to back up all that mouth
That you had all in the car, talking 'bout you the baddest bitch thus far
Talking 'bout you be repping that 3rd, wanna see all that **** that I heard
Know I sling Clint Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve, uh
Foreplay in a foyer, ****ed up my Warhol
Slid the panties right to the side
Ain't got the time to take drawers off, on sight
Catch a charge I might, beat the box up like Mike
In '97 I bite, I'm Ike Turner, turn up
Baby know I don't play, now eat the cake, Anna Mae
Said, "Eat the cake, Anna Mae!"
I'm nice, for y'all to reach these heights you gon' need G3
4, 5, 6 flights, sleep tight
We sex again in the morning, your breasteses is my breakfast
We going in, we be all nightComment
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Trump is up against a team of some of the smartest, most seasoned lawyers ever assembled and in Trump’s corner is... Sekulow? Another ambulance chaser or two?
If it were a boxing match the ref would call it before it even started. Someone needs to step in and DO SOMETHING!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Just kidding!
Let it go all 12 rounds. Give Trump’s team transfusions between rounds... whatever it takes to keep them breathing.Comment
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More Beyoncé. Perfect! Cons have nothing. Waving white flag of surrender. LolComment
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Obama hasn’t been in danger of losing the title of coolest president ever since he snatched it from Bill Clinton about 10 seconds into his first term. But he’s spent the last few months of his presidency shoring up his claim by dancing to “Hotline Bling”, throwing a music festival on the White House lawn, and now by talking about his favorite rappers on Sway in the Morning.
Granted, his choices aren’t going to surprise anyone who’s been paying attention, but it’s rather novel that the Commander in Chief is talking about guys like Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper at all. “I think the young guys, Kendrick and Chance, are doing amazing work,” POTUS said. “I love Drake, and the girls love Drake, and, you know, so, he’s commercially just doing great, and unbelievably talented.”
Hip hop has been completely modified into a genre of music that no longer serves its original purpose: voicing the political, social, and cultural struggles of the black people. In her book, From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, Patricia Collins conveys, “Mass media created a seemingly authentic Black American culture that glamorized drugs, violence, and hypersexuality.” She also remarks that hip hop has been converted into a multi-billion industry that has been turned to “generate cold, hard cash.” This statement is true because nowadays, hip hop artists focus more on making money and glamorizing drugs, money, and naked girls.
These days, most of the sexual scenes are usually seen in hip hop music videos. So, why does this matter, and how is this affecting the youth? I will explain these questions in details. Hip hop and rap music have a negative impact on the sexual decisions of the youth because when young people watch these videos, they might think that it is okay to become intimate with whoever they desire, regardless of the number of people. This highly increases the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.Comment
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Then, what is the connection between hip hop/rap and their negative effects on the youth? The Black Youth Project (Figure 1) revealed that 58% black youth and 23% white youth listen to rap music everyday, and 25% black youth and 5% white youth watch rap music programs daily. In another research study, the Journal of Adolescent Research published a survey which reveals that there is a close relationship between music preferences, and youth attitude and behaviors. The research surveyed the youth (ages 17–21) who disclosed that their favorite type of music was hip hop or rap, and 72% of them agreed that the music they listen to, in fact, influences them in some way. Furthermore, the research also discovered that young people who listen to hip hop or rap were more likely to exhibit risk-taking behaviors such as unsafe sex and drug use.
According to the Black Youth Project (Figure 2), 68 % black students and 43% white students reported having sex at least once during their high school years. 28% black students and 11% white students had sex with 4 or more partners. 17% black students and 4% white students initiated sex before the age of 13. No data was shown for other races. In addition, out of the total youth population, black youth had the highest percentage of sexually transmitted diseases. Black youth comprised 55% of youth who had HIV and 61% with AIDS (Cohen et al. 5). Because the black youth listened to rap music more (as seen from Figure 1), overall, the black youth had early initiations for sex, higher numbers of sexual partners, and higher rates of HIV/AIDSComment
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I'm not allowed to listen to hip-hop for fear of being accused of culturally appropriating....
So, won't comment on that particular singer or her lyrics.Comment
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It’s no surprise that drug use, other than sex, is also commonly heard in hip hop music than in any other genre of music. According to Dr. Brian Primack from The University of Pittsburgh, a person comes across 251 references of drugs per day in rap music compared to 5 references per day in pop music. The infographic (Figure 3) from dailymail provides the names of the drugs that are repeatedly mentioned in rap music. The most frequently mentioned drugs are Weed and Cocaine, followed by Codeine, MDMA, and pharmaceutical drugs.
Gavin Clements, a fellow classmate, points out the relationship between hip hop and drug use in his post Is Hip Hop Promoting the Drug Game? Clements expresses:
" I believe Hip Hop artists underestimate the influence they have on their audience, especially the listeners that are from a younger generation. Drug use is bad enough but when it comes to drug dealing it puts listeners at an even greater risk if they decide to pick up these same habits.”
The Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation researched 1,200 California community-college students (ages 15–25). The participants answered survey questions about their music-listening habits, use of alcohol and drugs, and aggressive behaviors like fighting. Clements concern regarding hip hop and drug use seems to be true because the study discovered that 70% of the students who listened to hip hop or rap music had connections with their substance use and aggressive behaviors.Comment
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Hip hop is one of the many ways, definitely not the only one, that can affect the youth. I am writing this post not to condemn hip hop or rap music, but to make an awareness about several ways it can affect us, the youth, negatively. By watching hip hop music videos that glamorize drugs and sex, an individual may be tempted to try drugs or to have multiple partners just because they are “curious.” Indeed, it appears that the more hip hop/rap music a person listens to, the more negatively the individual will be affectedComment
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