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goobster  ·  2644 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is what came today in an email from Imzy

People calling this "false news" are being intentionally obtuse.

The President and his transition team has had two full months to write down a couple of paragraphs on their stance on common issues, and stage those web pages so they were ready to launch after the transition on Jan 20.

On Jan 20, they took down SOME of the WhiteHouse.gov web site. That included all the pages listed.

The Trump team had NOTHING to put in those places on the web site. There is no section for civil rights, healthcare, Immigration, and only a paragraph - after mentioning that every American is going to start burning coal again - about how the EPA is somehow going to keep our air and water clean while diesel-powered machines dig into our national parks and extract oil and coal for Americans to burn in our... umm... coal-burning stoves? Not sure how that is supposed to work...

There is no handicapped-accessible version of the site, nor is there a version in any other language.

So all of that is true. All of those pages and policies are gone from the site.

Anyone who says different has not actually visited the site.





user-inactivated  ·  2644 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be a bit pedantic here...

    On Jan 20, they took down SOME of the WhiteHouse.gov web site. That included all the pages listed.

Whitehouse.gov at 11:59AM was all about the Obama Administration. At 12:00PM it became the website of the Trump Administration. The entire whitehouse.gov website was changed. Art, images, layout etc all changed. The Obama stuff was archived as prescribed by US law. The Trump people had a few months to provide the whitehouse.gov admins the data to populate the website. The results are what went live at noon.

    The Trump team had NOTHING to put in those places on the web site.

BING-FUCKING-OH. This is the story. Not that the stuff is gone, but the WHY it is gone. Trump flat out does not believe in climate change. He also does not give a shit about all the hippy garbage like education, civil rights, healthcare, etc. THAT is the story. I did a wander through the mainstream media (shudder) and the story was about the web site, not the WHY

Four years (please let it only be four years) of this shit. At least I got my Passport.

user-inactivated  ·  2644 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, you're with Imzy's team on that?