Hillary taking a swipe at T
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Daniel Dale (formerly of the Toronto Star) is now doing fact-checking for CNN.
Hereâs another whopper from TâŚno you dinât give the military the best raise, while claiming Obama gave them none.
Washington (CNN)During a speech to US troops at the Osan Air Base in South Korea on Sunday, President Donald Trump said that he had given them their first pay increase in almost a decade.
âAnd, you know, one thing I didnât mention: You also got very nice pay raises for the last couple of years. Congratulations. Oh, you care about that. They care about that. I didnât think you noticed. Yeah, you were entitled. You know, it was close to 10 years before you had an increase. Ten years,â he said.
His claim isnât true.
Facts First : Members of the military have received pay raises every year since 1983 â and if you ignore an administrative quirk in 1983, they have received raises every year since 1961.
Trump could accurately say that the 2018 pay increase he signed into law, 2.4%, was the largest in close to 10 years: It was the biggest raise for the troops since the 3.4% increase that President Barack Obama signed into law for 2010. The 2019 raise, 2.6%, was also the largest since 2010.
But these raises were certainly not the first in close to 10 years.
Military pay rose every year under Obama. For 2017, Obama approved a 2.1% increase. He also authorized a 1.3% increase for 2016, a 1.0% increase for 2015, a 1.0% increase for 2014, a 1.7% increase for 2013, a 1.6% increase for 2012, a 1.4% increase for 2011 and the 3.4% increase for 2010.
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While it is possible to argue that Trump simply misspoke here, he has made versions of this false statement more than once before.
In October, for example, he told Fox Business, âPresident Obama starved the military. He didnât give them raises, he didnât give them anything. I gave them a 10% pay increase, they havenât had it in a decade.â In December, he told troops in Iraq, âYou havenât gotten one in more than 10 years â more than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one.â
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âClimate apartheidâ to push 120 million into poverty by 2030, UN says
Fox host Tucker Carlson defends North Korean regime: âLeading a country means killing peopleâ
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HumorâŚ
Ivanka Comes Out Against Busing: âI Have Never Taken a Bus In My LifeâTheyâre Grossâ
Trump said she was reluctant to wade into the controversy, but asserted, âThe idea of getting on a bus, where there are a lot of other people, is against everything I stand for.â
July 1, 2019
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)âIvanka Trump came out strongly against busing on Monday, telling reporters, âI have never taken a bus in my lifeâtheyâre gross.â
Trump said she was reluctant to wade into the busing controversy, but asserted, âThe idea of getting on a bus, where there are a lot of other people and you have no idea who they are or what they might be eating, is against everything I stand for.â
She said that she had no idea why people would take a bus when they could âjust take an Uber,â but was quick to clarify, âI have never taken an Uber, either.â
âUbers donât seem as gross as buses, but they still seem pretty gross,â she said.
As she spoke about various modes of transportation, Trump grew visibly emotional. âIn the eighties, a little girl in Manhattan took a limo to elementary school every morning,â she said. âThat little girl was me.â
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Great.
Georgia is violating the Constitutional rights of Puerto Ricans attempting to get driverâs licenses by forcing them to answer ludicrous trick questions.
Whereâs Yosemite Sam when I need an endless stream of cursing?
"Living in rural GA without a driverâs license is HARD. Our plaintiff cannot find construction work w/o a license, & taking his infant daughter to doctorâs appointments, doing grocery shopping, having a social life, and much more is nearly impossible.
And lest we forget: driving without a valid license is a criminal offense in Georgia. He would face an initial $500 fine, and up to a year of imprisonment were he to drive without one."
The âinterviewâ questions that DDS is supposed to ask of Puerto Ricans (which bear a disturbing resemblance to the tests applied by segregationists to block voter registration of people of color) includes these questions:
âWhat company is the largest employer in Mayaguez?â
âWhere is the Caguas Beach?â (trick question: itâs an inland city)
âThe principle baseball stadium in San Juan is named afterâŚ?â
DDS has made a habit of seizing Puerto Rican applicantsâ identity documents, & often fails to make a decision on their application. Sometimes â as was the case with our named plaintiff â the citizens are detained & arrested.
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Tweet from Robert Reich
Who really benefitted from Trumpâs tax cuts?
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Donations to GOP: $13M
Tax Cut Received: $9BItâs socialism for the rich in exchange for campaign $$$
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2020 Census will not include citizenship question, DOJ confirms
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If you had any doubts that Trump is turning his militaristic dictator-style 4th of July parade into a campaign event, this should expunge them:
RNC Receives VIP Tickets to Trumpâs Fourth of July Celebration; DNC Does Not
Military Parades Are Obsolete
The United States has had them before, but we should aspire to never have them again.
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The Trump administration is still finding ways to undercount minority communities in 2020 Census
A quarter of a million people are being asked the citizenship question on test Census survey.
Trump says he is âabsolutely moving forwardâ with census citizenship question, contradicting his own administration
President Trump sows confusion over census plans and addition of a citizenship question
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No coverage from NBC, ABC and CBSâŚgood.
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Delayed and rainingâŚthe gods have spoken.
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Flint water crisis: More than 8,000 residents at risk of losing homes after refusing to pay for poisoned water
âWe donât want to pay for this poison, it made us sickâ
Ponder thatâŚwomen still light years away from earning power of men.
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When was the last time the US Menâs team brought home the World Cup? Oh thatâs right, fucking never. 
Hereâs the data on the pay discrepancy. 
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Trump Invites Artist Who Drew âBlatantly anti-Semiticâ Cartoon to the White House
George Garrison, who portrayed U.S. security officials being manipulated by George Soros and the Rothschilds, was invited by President Donald Trump to Thursdayâs social media summit
Whaaaaaaa?
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5th Circuit decision on ACA could create political havoc for GOP
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Too bad we canât sue our Sec of Education for a refundâŚ
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I did not see this coming. Yahoo is alleging that the Seth Rich conspiracy the right has been in love with for so long was a Russian disinformation plant.
You know Russia, the people who ACTUALLY hacked the DNC? Yup.