^^ That article states:

HUD notes that the vast majority of federally subsidized apartments — more than 96 percent — passed inspection. The department says the recent increase in failing properties is due to changes previously made to strengthen the inspection system. After lawmakers led by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., drew attention to poor conditions in other privately owned Section 8 properties, including some with passing scores, HUD tightened its standards for repairs and for certifying inspectors in 2016.

The rate is going up because the standards were increased.

You were right, Rochard- everything happening now is because of the Obama admin! :1orglaugh

Yea I heard they do that for special ed kids to make them feel like winners.

Good for you man, did you they put gold stars on your cheeks?

Mr Isuzu has been spending most of his attention trying to stop the independent counsel.
I watch FOX... just to see who is advertising so I know who to boycott.
The power of the purse and your vote are all you have.
Many far right leaning corporations supply the disinformation campaign with adds that say little to nothing. Like the Koch Bros.

They sprinkle money around the loop to have influence over the broadcaster. They are easy to spot since there is no claim they have a product that is better or cheaper or a limited time special. They just tell you how great they are to the environment or for promoting education or your first job etc.

But the stink factories generate a lot of anonymous money to move their causes.
also see the Powell Memorandum - 1971 if you can find a 'original' copy.

That must be it. They changed the system. It's different.

Sure sure.

That's what it said, Rochard. Pay attention.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Because you think that's funny, I'm going to let in on a secret. Actually, it's a secret to you because you're a dumb piece of shit. To the people with normally functioning brains, the press is doing its job exposing all of the slimy things this administration tries to get away with.

The secret is....if you didn't do only negative shit, your press won't be all negative.

The Trump administration thinks they're doing positive things, but it's like that positive thing is to stab you in the lungs 50 times to make more airholes for you to breathe better. It looks positive to them, but everyone else is disgusted.

If you made a list of things you think Trump has accomplished, I guarantee it's mostly things that either take away rights, hurt people in some way whether it's limiting/ removing health care or kidnapping toddlers from their mothers or removing guardrails for cowboy financial institutions, or many other shitty "accomplishments". Subjectively, you think these are good things because you're a right-wing sociopath. People against those things are the ones on the right side.

They say you shouldn't automatically think you're right in politics.... but if you wanted to squash a kitten's head and I wanted to stop you, that doesn't make me the asshole.

Monday morning, more negativity and bullshit coming out of the White House....

- President traveled to Paradise, California, the site of California's worst fire. Nearly 100 Americans died, and hundreds of missing. Thousands of families are homeless. Yet some how he can't remember the name of the city - he called it Pleasure, California - and told us we need to rake the forests.

- Three Senate Democrats are considering suing President Trump because Matthew Whitaker’s appointment is clearly illegal.

- Trump is attacking Adm. William McRaven, former head of Special Operations Command, and attacked the military for not having killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden before 2011. McRaven says Trump is the greatest threat to our country because of his attacks on the press.

- The CIA believes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, but Trump doesn't believe the CIA.

- The White House is again threatening to revoke the press pass for Acosta, although a Judge just ordered it given back to him. It's like saying "We don't care what the Judge said and we will do whatever we want".

There's more but.... I didn't start work early so I can list stupid shit the President has done in the past 48 hours.

https://i.imgur.com/7g5BR0v.jpg
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He's siding with the crown prince versus the CIA on the journalist killing. There's that...

fixed that for you :thumbsup

LOL, "mainstream media". The mainstream media is the ONLY media anyone can trust. Anything that is not mainstream is either opinion or a fringe website. Breitbart News is not news; It's an opinion site reporting the news.

holy shit

Yeah Rochard is a smart guy. There are plenty of other news sites that actually police the media on both the right and left. I trust those far more than and mainstream sites.

Alternative media is not Infowars and Breitbart, that's not what I am at least talking about. That's not news as far as I am concerned.

↑↑ Hate troll never knew conspiracy fringe sites and opinion sites weren't reputable.

If he tracked what they said, as opposed to what actually happened, he wouldn't be shocked but he's too lazy to do that so he drinks up conspiracy lies and keeps believing their excuses when what they said was going to happen never does. Lazy weak minds follow the alt-right.

Alt-right hate fake nic reply in 3.. 2.. 1...

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Wrong as usual

https://i.imgur.com/HANoaTf.jpg

Then what is news? What news can we trust?

I am fifty years old, and I've trusted NBC and CBS and ABC news since I was child. Are these no longer valid and reputable news sources? The most trusted newscaster in the US is Lester Holt, from NBC.... Should I not trust him and his reporting?

All of the mainstream news sources are reporting the same exact crap from the White House. Are you telling me they are all wrong?

:2 cents:

This thread makes me feel like I just read a play-by-play of the Special Olympics.

Chief Justice Roberts issued a statement today.... Roberts said the U.S. doesn't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."

President Trump is attacking people in the military and in the courts calling them a "Obama judge", etc... He is actually attacking his own government. He attacks everyone. Constant negativity.

Trump said that "I alone can fix this"

But he doesn't fix anything.

He hasn't fixed one single thing

He just attacks and complains.

Rochard, you really don't see the bias? The negative spin on ANY story? The negative tone even when it's a positive story? The MSM tries to paint Trump in as bad a light as possible, no matter what. This is not news, it's propaganda.

Examples:

https://i.imgur.com/9VkYEBW.png

https://i.imgur.com/tOF6neD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0OE4PdF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LTfmYXL.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rL536Q8.jpg

Yeah, these are real reputable "news" sites, bro! :1orglaugh

So let's see what kind of negativity came out of the White House this week....

• Cohen was indicted. Indictment says Trump ordered him to commit a federal crime.
• Manafort was indicted again. More lies to the FBI. And now more secret meetings between Manafort and the man who directed the DNC hack operation.
• John Kelly, Chief of Staff, is leaving the white house.
• Prior Secretary of State Tillerson claimed everything Trump wanted to do was illegal.
• Trump planned secret meeting with Putin at the G20, then canceled it when the Russiana announced it, then had the meeting anyhow. No one seems to know if the meeting actually took place and if so, what happens. White House refuses to have press conferences so no one knows anything.
• Turns out everyone in Trump knows was lying about Trump attempting to do business in Russia.
• We discover there was a secret deal to give Putin a $50 million condo in Trump Tower.
• Trump announced new secret deal with China. White House knows nothing about it. Seems now there is no deal at all.
• Stock Market takes a huge crap after secret deal with China - which most likely never existed - fell through.
• Republicans were caught red handed committed election fraud.
• Republcans in Congress were briefed by the CIA on Mohammed bin Salman, and are convinced Trump is is wrong and that Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder.

It's fucking exhausting. Every week is like this.

The new is so bad and so negative that the White House is blunting refusing to press conferences.

But it's the press that is negative, right?

In the age of the internet and instant news, I think its important that everyone reads news that's both left and right and then from that decide your own conclusion.

If you don't want to read "fake news" ... delay reading anything for 3 months, that gives the reporter time to fact check and the news paper time to verify.... like it used to be in the old days.

If you want news on something that's happened in the past 36 hours, then your dealing in gossip. If your watching news that's being explained to you by a panel of people.. then your getting propaganda

Read multiple sources.. use your fucking brain. Look up whose writing the article your reading..

So here is the news today...

• Trump inaugural committee under criminal investigation, source says
• The 29 most surreal lines from Donald Trump's Fox News interview
• President Trump joins the War on Christmas
• Trump’s Baseless Claim That Mexico Will Pay for the Wall Through the new NAFTA
• INCOMING NEW YORK A.G. VOWS TO MAKE TRUMP’S LIFE A LIVING HELL
• Melania Trump's poll numbers plummet
• For Trump, it’s all downhill from here

Out of thirty articles on my news feed, these are the political ones. Not a single piece of good news.

I can't remember the last time the White House at least tried to release a bit of good news.

Usually this time of year the first lady is holding charity events, visiting hospitals, etc. Not Melanoma

There's nothing joyful and celebratory about the Trump's during the holidays it's the most bizarre thing don't you think?

There is the Christmas tree lighting couple weeks ago and Trump left early panicked. The trumps are so strange and unhappy all the time.

So here is today's news...

• Interior chief Zinke to leave administration
• Here's how Trump hobbled Obamacare and drove enrollment down this year
• His worst nightmare: Trump's life under a legal microscope
• Democrats demand answers, DHS investigation into death of Guatemalan girl, 7
• Trump's legal woes worsen
• $1 Billion a Month: The Cost of Trump's Tariffs on Technology
• Here’s why the Fed won’t save the stock market, despite its worst December start since 1980
• Industrials lead Dow to record high; tech boosts S&P, Nasdaq

Not a single good story for trump in the headlines again. Another day, all bad.

Here is today's news....

• The shutdown ball is now in Mitch McConnell's court (NBC)
• Pelosi open discussion whether sitting president can be indicted (CNN)
• Democrats face off with Trump (again) over border wall as government shutdown enters 14th day (CNBC)
• Democrats are unified on the shutdown. Republican's aren't (Blomberg)
• Fed chair Jerome Powell says he would not resign if Trump asked (cnn)
• Pelosi downplays Rashida Tlabi's profanity laced vow to impreach Trump (Fox)
• Alexadnria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down GOP haters with 8 little words (Huffpost)

More winning all around.