What The Fuck Just Happened, Today? - logging the daily shock and awe

[ehrnst]

Very handy for times when you can only bear to check in once a day.

Day 15: The massacre.


1/ Kellyanne Conway cites non-existent “massacre” defending ban. There’s no such thing as the Bowling Green massacre. (CNN)
UPDATE:

Federal judge in Seattle halts Trump’s immigration order. The temporary restraining order is granted on a nationwide basis. (Seattle Times)

Government reveals over 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban. (Washington Post)
U.S. segregating Muslims as part of travel ban. Lawsuits being filed contend that the Department of Homeland Security is subjecting refugees, immigrants and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries to flagrant religious and racial discrimination. They also claim that customs officials refuse to provide information in a timely fashion on the numbers and identities of detainees being held, and are aggressively blocking detainees’ access to legal advice. (Newsweek)

Related:

Kellyanne Conway cites “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened to defend travel ban. Kellyanne Conway has taken “alternative facts” to a new level. During a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the counselor to the president defended President Trump’s travel ban related to seven majority-Muslim countries. At one point, Conway made a reference to two Iraqi refugees whom she described as the masterminds behind “the Bowling Green massacre.” (Washington Post)

Conway admits “Bowling Green massacre” error. “Honest mistakes abound,” she wrote on Twitter. (NY Times)
Facebook users are marking themselves “Safe” from Kellyanne Conway’s made-up terror attack. The fabricated attack—which she told Hardball’s Chris Matthews was carried out by two Iraqi refugees—“didn’t get covered,” implying the press were complicit in covering up a massacre that never took place. (Gizmodo)

2/ Trump will order a sweeping review of the Dodd-Frank Act rules enacted in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Trump also will halt regulations that requires advisers on retirement accounts to work in the best interests of their clients. (Bloomberg)

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

[gordianot]

1. Promise of much more to come.

[Cha]

2. FO KAC.. you're on record for Alternative FACTS.. looks like this

one landed you in boiling water.

Thank you, ehrnst

[wiggs]

3. Trump is evidence that the arc of history does not necessarily tend toward

...justice. Already in his first couple of weeks he has affected thousands and may take a generation to get back to the progressive, open, enlightened policies of the naive 2010's.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Two weeks is not much evidence about the arc of history.

Particularly is referred to by Dr. Martin Luther King.

[ehrnst]

7. The arc of justice isn't an arc - it's a spiral that trends upward Progress, backlash, progress,

Backlash.

-Susan Faludi

[AgadorSparticus]

4. The media had A BIG RESPONSIBILITY to hold her feet to the fire over this

They need to rip her a new one. Label her the LIAR that she is. We also need to stop using "alternative facts" and call it for what it is: LIES!!!!

[Blazesweetie]

6. Not sure if this is posted elsewhere -

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513126985/house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-mentally-ill

Because that's just what the mentally ill need, guns. Still has to be voted on in the Senate, so maybe time for more phone calls and emails, etc.

[milestogo]

8. So we can have more shooters like James Holmes

But we'll be safe from Muslims