Caricature de Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com
samedi 21 octobre 2017
vendredi 20 octobre 2017
Caricature George W. Bush nous manque...
Caricature d'Aislin, The Montreal Gazette
Le caricaturiste de The Montreal Gazette souligne que depuis son intervention d'hier George W. Bush reçoit de nombreuses témoignages positifs.
"Notre démocratie est en jeu" (Barack Obama)
“We need you to take this seriously. Our democracy is at stake,” Obama said. “Elections matter. Voting matters. You can’t take anything for granted. You can’t sit this one out. It’s up to you. And if you believe in that better vision not just of our politics, but of our common life, of our democracy, of who we are; if you want that reflected in our government, if you want our kids to see our government and feel good about it, and feel like they’re represented and if you want those values that you are teaching your children reinforced … then you’ve got to go out there.”
As former President George W. Bush did earlier Thursday in a surprisingly forward speech in New York, Obama kept to not mentioning Trump’s name, but left no question who he was talking about.
“Folks don’t feel good right now about what they see. Maybe they don’t feel as if our public life reflects our best,” Obama said. “Instead of our politics reflecting our values, we’ve got politics infecting our communities. Instead of looking for ways to work together and get things done in a practical way, we’ve got folks who are deliberately trying to make folks angry, to demonize people who have different ideas, to get the base all riled up because it provides a short-term tactical advantage.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/obama-virginia-campaign-trail-ralph-northam-trump-243976
jeudi 19 octobre 2017
Un nationaliste blanc suscite la controverse à l'Université de la Floride
"Inside the heavily secured performing arts center where the white nationalist is scheduled to speak, Spencer answered questions at an often contentious news conference. He said it was “absolutely right” that the university and state expected to spend more than $600,000 on security for his event. “This is the free speech issue of our day.”
Asked whether he was a racist, he said he was not a racist in a “cartoonish” sense but that “Yes, race is real, race matters and race is the foundation of identity.”
Eight-hundred tickets were handed out for the event but the lower level of the auditorium looked to be only about half filled moments before Spencer began his speech. A theater manager said there were about 400 people inside, including media."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/18/uf/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d5f35797d40a
Donald Trump et la dissonance cognitive
"The Trump administration has formidable obstacles in the way of substantive success — a slender Senate majority, lack of staffing, an unrelenting opposition — but none looms quite as large as the fact that Trump himself has no idea how he wants to govern.
Other presidents have had trouble making their administration — inevitably involving big personalities and clashing agency cultures and interests — cohere. Trump is having trouble arriving at a coherent conception of his own presidency."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/19/trump-obamacare-health-care-reform
Jeff Flake, le Sénateur républicain qui s'en prend à Trump
"If anything, Flake is determined to make his campaign against Trump-aligned candidate Kelli Ward a referendum on the future of the Republican Party.
“You can always eke out an election victory here and there,” he told POLITICO in an interview this week. “But … resentment is not a governing philosophy.”
The GOP has “deviated," Flake added. "We’ve taken a banner that is not familiar to us as Republicans. And I don’t know how long this will last.” Flake chastised Trump’s protectionist trade positions and his party’s attempt to “scapegoat” immigrants for the country’s economic problems. And unlike other GOP senators, Flake publicly agrees with the sentiments of retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who recently blasted the president for potentially leading the country toward “World War III” with his erratic tweets and foreign policy pronouncements."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/jeff-flake-trump-arizona-243925
Quand Amazon arrive en ville
"But as these cities go all-out to win Amazon’s affections, they might take a lesson from the city where those same affections have dimmed: Seattle. To be sure, the town’s business community is mortified to be losing so much of Amazon’s future growth to another city and has roundly blamed the city’s left-leaning “anti-business” politics. But many ordinary Seattleites seem relieved. Most would acknowledge the extraordinary prosperity that Amazon has brought to Seattle since Jeff Bezos and his startup arrived in 1994. But they are also keenly aware of the costs, not least the nation’s fastest-rising housing prices, appalling traffic and a painful erosion of urban identity. What was once a quirkily mellow, solidly middle-class city now feels like a stressed-out, two-tier town with a thin layer of wealthy young techies atop a base of anxious wage workers. As one City Council member put it, HQ2 may give Seattle “a little breathing room” to cope with a decade of raging, Amazon-fueled growth. A commenter on a local news site was less diplomatic: “Amazon = cancer.”"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/19/amazon-headquarters-seattle-215725
mercredi 18 octobre 2017
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