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It’s getting scary out there

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Things are looking scary — Apple issued a rare profit warning late Wednesday citing a sharp decline in Chinese demand for its expected lower first quarter numbers. The company blamed, in part, “rising trade tensions with the United States.” This, to a degree, is a win for President Donald Trump, as he wants China to feel pain from tariffs. But it’s also a reminder that many big U.S. companies generate close to half their profits overseas.

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The spooky salvo from Cupertino tanked Apple shares by 7 percent in after-hours trading, sent U.S. futures lower and could weigh heavily on U.S. stocks on Thursday even as the partial U.S. government shutdown is slated to roll on with no end in sight.

So the trade war has to end — In the latest POLITICO Money podcast, Leuthold’s Jim Paulsen explains why Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have to made a deal by March 31: “I think personally that the trade war is coming to an end and there is really nothing Trump can do about it.”

Wall Street eyes the 2020 field — MM talked to a couple of Wall Street Democrats about where they think the industry will wind up in the crowded field to take on Trump. More on this below but Mike Bloomberg tops the list, followed by Joe Biden and then a wild card. Read on to find out who.

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New Senators and House members will be sworn in this afternoon for the 116th Congress and will immediately begin yelling at each other about the shutdown. House Democrats still plan to pass a funding bill with no wall but it’s DOA in the Senate (even though the Senate previously approved such a measure unanimously).

… ADP private sector employment report at 8:15 a.m. expected to show a gain of 180K … ISM Manufacturing Survey at 10:00 a.m. expected to fall to 57.6 from 59.3 …

WHAT WALL STREET DEMOCRATS WANT IN 2020 — Per an email from a plugged in Wall Street Democrat: “Most of them would love a Bloomberg presidency but have some doubts about his ability to withstand a Democratic primary. Biden not particularly well known on the Street but a safe pair of hands and has a credible path to the nomination and a general election victory.

“Don’t think Beto will run the kind of campaign that attracts centrist Democrats. The other possibility — if he runs — is [former Virginia governor Terry] McAuliffe who is pro-business, well known from the Clinton years and has demonstrated that he can win the kind of swing state Dems need to carry.”

From another: “Bloomberg for sure. Biden too. I think [New York Senator] Kirsten [Gillibrand] will get some of the Wall Streeters. Maybe Cory too. Everything is so up in the air.”

Top tweet — From Josh Brown @ReformedBroker: “Chinese demand wrecked Apple’s quarter. Your friendly reminder that 40% + of the S&P 500’s 2019 profits are expected to come from overseas. Call Kudlow and remind him too. You break it, you bought it.”

Bob Rubin weighs in — Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin in a NYT op-ed argues that the climate of animosity between the world’s two largest economies could get incredibly dangerous.

How growth could crash — Morgan Stanley’s Ellen Zenter in a client note: “In 2019, fading stimulus and tighter financial conditions bite. We expect full year growth to come in at 1.7 percent … sharply slower (the slowest since 2012) and much lower compared with consensus (2.3 percent) and with a low point of just 1.0 percent in 3Q2109.”

WARREN LAST NIGHT— Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last night on Rachel Maddow’s show on MSBC took direct aim at prospective self-funders like Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer: “People should not be self-funding and they should not be funded from PACs from other billionaires.”

BERNIE SANDERS HAS A PROBLEM — Per the NYT, his 2016 campaign was rife with sexual harassment and pay disparity complaints and he did nothing about it. Read more. And he told CNN he didn’t do anything because he didn’t know about it and was too busy.

ROMNEY SAYS HE’S NOT RUNNING — Incoming Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he wasn’t running against Trump in 2020 but might not support his reelection: “I think it’s early to make that decision and I want to see what the alternatives are,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

WHAT TO THINK — Romney could still run. He’s changed his tune plenty of times on Trump so far, what’s once more? And the world could look totally different in a few months. Romney probably can’t win a primary challenge to Trump but he’s still in the game, as our Alex Isenstadt explain here. And our John Harris on why people like Romney don’t bother Trump very much, because he always crushes them.

STOCK MARKET KICKS OFF 2019 WITH MORE TURBULENCE — AP’s Marley Jay: “The roller-coaster ride on Wall Street resumed on Wednesday, the first trading day of the new year, as stocks plunged early on, then slowly recovered and finished with a slight gain. The Dow … dropped as much as 398 points in the first few minutes of trading after more shaky economic news from China. But it gradually recouped those losses, and a small rally over the last 15 minutes of trading left major indexes a bit higher than where they started.” Read more.

But the first day of stocks doesn’t really mean much — Bloomberg’s Lu Wang: “It’s tempting to assume that as today goes, so goes the year. But history shows that using the year’s first day of stock trading as a premise for an annual view of the market is baseless.”

INVESTORS EXPECT THE FED TO PUMP THE BRAKES — WSJ’s Daniel Kruger and Nick Timiraos: “Investors increasingly believe the Fed … won’t raise interest rates in 2019, a sign of fading confidence that the U.S. economic expansion will continue at the stable pace the central bank foresaw just two weeks ago.” Read more.

TAKING STOCK OF THE WORLD’S DEBT — WSJ’s Aaron Kuriloff: “The world has never had as much debt as it has right now—nearly $250 trillion. That figure is three times what it was two decades ago, according to a Citigroup analysis of data from the Institute of International Finance. The biggest borrowers: the U.S., China, the eurozone and Japan, which have more than two-thirds of the world’s household debt, three-quarters of corporate debt and nearly 80 percent of government debt.” Read more.

TRUMP AND STOCKS — The latest Bloomberg Businessweek goes long on Trump’s impact on the stock market with a piece by Peter Coy.

QUARLES WANTS TO OPEN THE BLACK BOX — Our Victoria Guida on Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Randy Quarles and the stress tests: “In outlining his thinking for how the Fed should improve the stress tests, Quarles said he does not want to ‘rewrite Genesis,’ but he does want to make the exercise more transparent. That’s welcome news to bankers, who often refer to the tests as a ‘black box.’” More for Pros here.

Victoria also has a look-ahead on the year for financial regulations and Zachary Warmbrodt has the view from Capitol Hill.

And Victoria scoops that Pentagon Federal Credit Union has acquired Progressive Credit Union in an emergency merger, a move that means PenFed will now be able to serve anyone in the country.

DEMS FIGHTING THEMSELVES — Our Rachel Bade and Heather Caygle on progressive fighting with leadership over a rules package the left fears could make it harder to vote for Medicare for all and other big ticket items.

THE YEAR AHEAD LOOKS SCARY — Mohamed A. El-Erian on Bloomberg view: “The world enters 2019 with a lot more uncertainty about the prospects for global growth. The excitement a year ago about a synchronized pickup in global growth is replaced by angst that was initially focused on China and Europe but is increasingly spreading to the U.S.” Read more.

PREPAID CARD GROUP REBRANDS — New year, new name. The Network Branded Prepaid Card Association — whose membership includes companies like Visa, Mastercard and Discover — is starting 2019 off fresh and has officially rebranded itself as the Innovative Payments Association. Read more here.

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… ADP private sector employment report at 8:15 a.m. expected to show a gain of 180K … ISM Manufacturing Survey at 10:00 a.m. expected to fall to 57.6 from 59.3 …

From another: “Bloomberg for sure. Biden too. I think [New York Senator] Kirsten [Gillibrand] will get some of the Wall Streeters. Maybe Cory too. Everything is so up in the air.”

Bob Rubin weighs in — Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin in a NYT op-ed argues that the climate of animosity between the world’s two largest economies could get incredibly dangerous.

TRUMP AND STOCKS — The latest Bloomberg Businessweek goes long on Trump’s impact on the stock market with a piece by Peter Coy.

Victoria also has a look-ahead on the year for financial regulations and Zachary Warmbrodt has the view from Capitol Hill.

And Victoria scoops that Pentagon Federal Credit Union has acquired Progressive Credit Union in an emergency merger, a move that means PenFed will now be able to serve anyone in the country.

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… ADP private sector employment report at 8:15 a.m. expected to show a gain of 180K … ISM Manufacturing Survey at 10:00 a.m. expected to fall to 57.6 from 59.3 …

From another: “Bloomberg for sure. Biden too. I think [New York Senator] Kirsten [Gillibrand] will get some of the Wall Streeters. Maybe Cory too. Everything is so up in the air.”

Bob Rubin weighs in — Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin in a NYT op-ed argues that the climate of animosity between the world’s two largest economies could get incredibly dangerous.

TRUMP AND STOCKS — The latest Bloomberg Businessweek goes long on Trump’s impact on the stock market with a piece by Peter Coy.

Victoria also has a look-ahead on the year for financial regulations and Zachary Warmbrodt has the view from Capitol Hill.

And Victoria scoops that Pentagon Federal Credit Union has acquired Progressive Credit Union in an emergency merger, a move that means PenFed will now be able to serve anyone in the country.

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Since President Trump took office, he has relentlessly attacked the media. He’s shunned individual reporters, referred to the press as “the enemy of the American people,” and popularized the term “fake news” to denigrate credible articles. Meanwhile, public trust in the press is at an all-time low. According to a recent Knight-Gallup report, only a third of Americans view the press positively.

There is increasing evidence that this skepticism, exacerbated by the president’s relentless attacks, is trickling down to the next generation of voters. A 2017 report on a series of focus groups with 52 people between the ages of 14 and 24, conducted by Data & Society and the Knight Foundation, found that many young Americans believe the news is biased and are skeptical of its accuracy. “There was no assumption that the news would convey the truth or would be worthy of their trust,” the study reported.

Teenagers, in particular, appear to be increasingly questioning the credibility and value of traditional media organizations. In interviews with The Atlantic, teens expressed great skepticism about the accuracy of the mainstream media, reiterated Trump’s biased characterization of many news sources, and said the president’s outrageous tweets have become so much a part of everyday life that they’ve morphed into catchphrases.

The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018

“I don’t believe there [are] any neutral news organizations,” said Emma Neely, a 19-year-old in Tennessee. “Each writer and editor has their own personal bias. What they write, even if it’s a little biased, it’s still biased.”

Angie, a 16-year-old in New York, agreed. She contends that Trump’s comments have revealed to people that the news media cannot be trusted. “I think this whole phenomenon has given teens awareness that bias exists and things are not what they seem,” she said.

Sally, a 17-year-old in Puerto Rico, said she’s learned not to trust the media and was disappointed with the biases she found in how some outlets handled coverage of Hurricane Maria’s destruction. “They say what they want to say,” she said. “I don’t feel they say the truth as it is.”

Social media has given young people unprecedented access to real-time news. Many teens I spoke with follow the president, other politicians, journalists, and news outlets on Twitter. The ones who don’t follow Trump directly all said they were aware of almost everything he tweets thanks to screenshots posted to Snapchat or Instagram, where his comments are warped into punch lines and memes.

“I see a huge change from six years ago,” said Kathleen Carver, an AP government teacher at Wylie East High School in Texas. “When I started working, students weren’t really interested or even knowledgeable about basic current issues. Today, though, students are talking about current events ... Kids talk about current events and issues like it’s high-school gossip. It’s become a lot more relevant to them.”

That doesn’t mean they take the president seriously. Even teenagers who said they identified as conservative-leaning said they joke about the outrageousness of Trump’s comments. Carver said that she has been amazed at how quickly Trump’s tweets are adapted into punch lines in her classroom. “When I say a crazy fact or something that shocks the students, I always have a student yell out ‘fake news,’ which causes a lot of laughter,” she said.

“The younger internet, we all understand it’s irresponsible of [Trump to tweet], but at the same time we laugh at it and make it into a meme,” said Colin, a 16-year-old in Pennsylvania. “Like how often does a person tweet ‘Thank you Kanye, very cool’? ... People see something crazy now and say ‘thank you Kanye very cool,’ or they edit random stuff over [Trump’s] tweets.”

“I can’t take him seriously if he’s tweeting more than I do,” said Samara, a 16-year-old in Texas. “A lot of people have him blocked, it’s like whatever.”

Trolling the president on his own social channels by replying to his tweets or commenting on his Instagram is entertaining, said several teens, but the amount of backlash you get from conservative-leaning accounts when doing so gets old. Bennet, a 15-year-old in Massachusetts who asked to be referred to by gender-neutral pronouns, said they often go on Instagram or Twitter to “comment something snarky. I get the usual, ‘oh you’re some dumb liberal blah blah. You’re stupid antifa.’”

Student journalism in the age of media distrust

CJ Pearson, a 16-year-old conservative commentator, said the reason why Trump’s messages permeate so deeply into teen culture is because “President Trump understands the meme culture better than so many people. Every tweet he makes doesn’t just live on Twitter. It goes across every platform and stirs discussion among people who aren’t even political.”

Pearson, an avid Trump supporter, said he has lots of friends with political beliefs different from his own, but even they are hyperaware of everything the president does and says, and enjoy debating it. “Trump has been able to connect with teens in a way no president has before,” he said. “When Obama wanted to connect with young people, he sat down with [the 46-year-old YouTube star] Glozell, someone his own age. If Trump wants to reach young people, he’ll just tweet.”

Even Pearson doesn’t take what the president says on Twitter seriously. “I will literally reply to a tweet, quote tweet it like, ‘LMAO,’ because that’s what I’m doing when I read the tweet. I’m laughing so hard,” he said.

As much as they laugh, though, Trump’s negative views on the media have undoubtedly affected teens’ views of certain outlets. The teens I spoke with often had strong opinions about CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. Colin said he tries to avoid CNN and most mainstream news sites, instead following independent journalists he likes on YouTube. “In 2016, I became a little more skeptical of the mainstream media, just because I know how corporate donors and commercials work,” he said. “Why wouldn’t CNN endorse Clinton or talk about her in a better way than Trump when Time Warner was donating so much money to her campaign?” (CNN did not officially endorse any candidate in the last election, but Trump supporters have frequently attacked the network for what they have seen as a pro-Clinton bias.)

Laura Medici Fleming, a history teacher at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey for 35 years, said she’s seen a huge shift in the way her students perceive mainstream news organizations. “When I first started teaching, the word of The New York Times was practically gospel, but that has changed in the past few years,” she said. “The current climate has had an impact. Some of the students make disparaging comments about CNN and ‘fake news.’ And some roll their eyes at Fox.”

Carver said she’s had to alter which news sources she uses to teach her students, since if she presents an article from the wrong “side,” students will write the information off. “If I present CNN or Fox, that may automatically cause some limitations,” she said.

Travis Grandt, a history teacher in Colorado, said that he was once admonished by kids in his classroom for pulling up an article from CNN on the classroom’s smart board before class started. Grandt said a student told him it was obvious CNN was picking on Trump, based on the headlines. “I asked him if it seemed ridiculous that there are lots of stories about the most powerful person in the world on an international news site,” Grandt said. “He said no, but all of the stories on CNN were super negative.”

For “non-biased news,” the teens I spoke to said they turn directly to journalists themselves or news-related pages on social media vetted by people they trust. “I follow a few political Instagram accounts,” Colin said. “They’ll post memes and headlines and stuff and people discuss them. Political Instagram is a thing. It’s sort of like a weird mesh between a meme page and a news page.”

Pearson said that he thinks it’s much more valuable to follow individual journalists online than faceless media networks. “I put the same weight on tweets from reporters as a story they actually have a byline on,” he said. “If you have a checkmark there’s a lot of credibility that comes with that.”

Neely said she also mostly gets her news on Twitter and follows several journalists, though she doesn’t trust most of what she sees. “On Twitter, there’s always all kinds of different news stories coming up. You never know if they’re real or not, of course,” she said. “Sometimes if I see a news story on Twitter, I’ll go on Instagram and look up the person they’re talking about to get more information on who the person is.”

One thing teens did feel positively about was their ability to impact the broader media and political landscape. They all felt empowered by social media to make their voices heard, despite the fact that most still can’t vote. “Teenagers and young people in general have taken the world by storm,” said Isabel, a 13-year-old in New York. “We are human beings with real minds. Whether you want to listen to us is your choice but we are going to talk and be heard out in the long run.”

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Trump Has Changed How Teens View the News

There is increasing evidence that this skepticism, exacerbated by the president’s relentless attacks, is trickling down to the next generation of voters. A 2017 poll of 52 people between the ages of 14 to 24, conducted by Data & Society and the Knight Foundation, found that many young Americans believe the news is biased and are skeptical of its accuracy. “There was no assumption that the news would convey the truth or would be worthy of their trust,” the study reported.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2018

“I can’t take him seriously if he’s tweeting more than I do,” said Samara, a 16-year-old in Texas. “A lot of people have him blocked, it’s like whatever.”

One thing teens did feel positively about was their ability to impact the broader media and political landscape. They all felt empowered by social media to make their voices heard, despite the fact that most still can’t vote. “Teenagers and young people in general have taken the world by storm,” said Isabel, a 13-year-old in New York. “We are human beings with real minds, whether you want to listen to us is your choice but we are going to talk and be heard out in the long run.”

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yemekbloglari · 6 years

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Some farmland in North Texas could face urban expansion

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A 1-mile running track through a hay field outlines the Blake family’s property.

The Dallas Morning News reports to outsiders, it’s nothing special — just a mowed-down path where Shannon Blake and her kids run.

But it’s here — running along this piece of dirt — where Blake finds peace.

Before the Blakes moved to unincorporated Collin County less than two years ago, they lived in a typical two-story, suburban Frisco home. But that fast-growing community a half-hour north of Dallas had dramatically changed from when the Blakes moved there more than a decade earlier.

Cars raced down high-speed freeways. Apartment buildings stood alongside their neighborhood. Toyota transplants were arriving, and The Star in Frisco — home to the Dallas Cowboys — was coming.

The family traded their suburban life for country living on 33 acres just outside McKinney’s city limits. And it’s this same peaceful patch of land — the place with two creeks and a pond — that she, her husband and six kids have fought for the last year to protect from creeping development in booming Collin County.

They’re fighting against the very growth that made them escape to the country in the first place.

"It’s definitely not what we expected when we were moving out here," Blake said.

And the battle for people like the Blakes to hold onto some of the last bits of unpaved Collin County is far from over.

Collin County’s population is expected to double before 2030 and surpass the number of people in Dallas and Tarrant counties with a population of more than 3.5 million by 2050.

More recently, the once tiny cotton farming community of McKinney reported a population of nearly 180,000 residents — an almost 7 percent increase from last year and a whopping 365 percent jump from 20 years ago.

By 2040, McKinney’s population is expected to grow by another 100,000 residents to roughly 284,000, according to city estimates.

And that means most of the rural acreage around McKinney’s city limits will ultimately be developed, said Michael Quint, executive director of development services for the city of McKinney.

"I actually had one resident come and ask me … ‘is all that farmland going to go away eventually? Is every square inch going to be developed?’" he said. "And the simple answer is yeah, a lot of it is going to be developed. That’s just kind of the price we pay to live in such a high-demand region.

"It’s impossible to think that this stuff is just going to be staying farmland forever."

A beat-up blacktop road north of the Collin County Courthouse leads to the Blake family’s five-bedroom house built on a slope in the early 1960s.

Blake and her husband, Jason, bought the 33-acre parcel just outside McKinney’s city limits. The couple had dreamed of a place where their kids could roam and explore.

They thought they found it.

They cleared overgrown bush and dead trees. Last year, a friend wed under a 100-year-old oak tree in their backyard.

Their oldest son built a fort in the nearby woods with his friends — a shack-like structure with a tin roof. And in the evenings, the family raced each other across the hay bales lined up behind their house.

"I don’t care if the city’s all around me. We have a treeline and a creek that buffers us," Blake said. "We’re in our happy little world, and we’d like it to stay that way."

But it’s uncertain if it will.

Markers on their trees show where a developer has tagged them for possible removal for a sewage pipeline.

A year ago, an early study to build a bypass north of U.S. 380 showed a freeway possibly cutting through their property as the Texas Department of Transportation works to tackle the traffic gridlock that comes with explosive growth in the county.

But where exactly that freeway will be and when it will rise up isn’t known yet, said TxDOT spokeswoman Michelle Raglon.

Last year, the Blakes also received word of another possible road running through where the family’s kitchen table sits today.

And in the fall, the family and other county residents fought a McKinney City Council plan to forcibly add thousands of acres outside the city limits before a new state law dealing with annexation went into effect. Blake, her husband, Jason, and others packed meeting after meeting in the weekslong battle, calling the forced annexation a "land grab."

In November, McKinney City Council members unanimously voted to drop its annexation push. For now.

During that meeting, Mayor Pro Tem Rainey Rogers warned that probably wouldn’t be the last time rural Collin County residents would have to fight to protect their property.

"One of these days, TxDOT is going to come knocking on people’s doors ready to take your land because of some bypass," he said. "Ultimately, it’s going to come. The state of Texas didn’t give up the right to eminent domain on a property. Just kind of be aware of that."

This growth isn’t anything new for Collin County, which has been steadily growing at a phenomenal clip for decades, said Clarence Daugherty, director of engineering for Collin County.

Tax incentives, good schools, public safety and the relocation of large corporations — notably Toyota North America’s move to Plano — continue to lure families and businesses to the area. And as more people have come, development has inched farther north from Plano to McKinney.

Beyond McKinney, past where the Dallas North Tollway ends, is Celina. Though its population totals only about 11,000 residents now, that’s almost double what it was in 2010, according to the city. And it’s estimated to eventually reach about 350,000, rivaling Collin County siblings Frisco and McKinney.

Already, Celina is expanding so quickly that city staff can’t keep updated maps on hand.

"Celina has such a large land mass. It’s like playing monopoly, and we don’t want to make a mistake on any step," Mayor Sean Terry said.

The ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which is still in the draft phase, plots in its preferred scenario the Blakes’ property and other rural areas in the Honey Creek Entertainment District — a mixed-use development of retail stores, restaurants, office spaces and residences to attract young and retiring professionals.

"These are farms, and none of these people want to move," Blake said of the plan. "So none of that fits unless we’re all gone."

Daugherty predicts pockets of acreage may remain in the county. He pointed to a long holdout of suburbia’s reach in Plano — the Haggard family, one of the city’s founding families who settled in the area in the 1800s and has farmed the land for generations.

The Haggards have parceled off their land slowly but continue to farm on some vacant tracts such as one at the Dallas North Tollway and Spring Creek Parkway.

About 8 miles away in the heart of Plano, you can still spot llamas, cows and donkeys grazing on a roughly 60-acre tract of farmland owned by Rodney Haggard. Several years earlier, he sold about half of the family’s historic homestead to be developed into a housing subdivision.

"We still primarily want to keep as much land as we can," said Haggard, managing partner at the real estate firm Fairview Farm Land Co., who still owns about 150 acres scattered throughout the area.

"But when growth comes to our part," he said, "we try to take advantage of that some, too."

But Daugherty, the county engineer, said large expanses of acreage like the ones the Haggards have held on to will be unlikely.

"I guess it’s always possible that something will happen to make development stop before it engulfs all of the land," he said.

McKinney Mayor George Fuller thinks the state’s new annexation law — which went into effect Dec. 1 and requires voters’ approval before their land can be annexed — could be that "something."

He said development will happen, but it will be different and with less city oversight since the city no longer has the ability to unilaterally annex property.

The new law limits the ability of cities like McKinney to strategically grow and manage that growth in terms of overseeing that infrastructure is in place and that safety codes and ordinances are adhered to, he said.

"When you halt that, you stop managed growth. I would imagine that again in five and 10 years, we’ll be talking, and the Texas miracle will no longer be the Texas miracle. It will be the Texas miracle that we’re reading about in history books," he said.

"And we’ll be able to identify how the growth and how that growth produced the jobs and the economy it did, and then a law was passed, and that growth slowed and stopped."

Already, the law has changed the way McKinney thinks about its expansion looking forward. Previously, Fuller said the city would have extended roads into the extraterritorial jurisdiction with plans to later annex that property into the city. Now, it won’t.

But Quint, McKinney’s development director, has said the council’s decision to drop its forced annexation push before the new law went into effect isn’t expected to hurt the city’s expansion plans.

"Even though we’re not annexing it today, it’s still in our ETJ," he said of the land just outside city limits. "So whether that happens 10 years or 100 years from now, we’re still planning for those areas to be in our city limits."

Shannon Blake doesn’t understand why cities can’t develop, while also allowing country farms to remain.

"We knew that the city would grow around us. We just didn’t want them to grow through us," she said.

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TRUMP UNLEASHES to NYT’s Mike Schmidt — DESTEFANO expected to take over WH political operation — IN FLORIDA: DESANTIS gets big-time billionaire backing after TRUMP tweet — B’DAY: Katie Glueck

POLITICO MAGAZINE — “Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History? A dozen historians weigh in.” http://politi.co/2ClgXh4

BULLETIN at 6:32 a.m.: “NEW YORK (AP) – Goldman Sachs, citing recent tax overhaul in U.S., expects to take a $5 billion hit to profits this quarter.”

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— “The New York bank said Friday that two thirds of the $5 billion are due to changes in repatriation taxes, when funds are returned from overseas. The remainder includes the ‘effects of the implementation of the territorial tax system and the remeasurement of U.S. deferred tax assets at lower enacted corporate tax rates.’” http://bit.ly/2CnlnUR

Happy Friday. TRUMP TALKS TO HIS FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET: THE NEW YORK TIMES … MIKE SCHMIDT in West Palm Beach and MIKE SHEAR in Washington: “Trump Says Russia Inquiry Makes U.S. ‘Look Very Bad’”: “President Trump said Thursday that he believes Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, will treat him fairly, contradicting some members of his party who have waged a weekslong campaign to try to discredit Mr. Mueller and the continuing inquiry.

“During an impromptu 30-minute interview with The New York Times at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the president did not demand an end to the Russia investigations swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times that there has been ‘no collusion’ discovered by the inquiry. ‘It makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position,’ Mr. Trump said of the investigation. ‘So the sooner it’s worked out, the better it is for the country.’ … ‘I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department,’ he said, echoing claims by his supporters that as president he has the power to open or end an investigation. ‘But for purposes of hopefully thinking I’m going to be treated fairly, I’ve stayed uninvolved with this particular matter.’ …

“Mr. Trump gave the interview in the Grill Room at Trump International Golf Club after he ate lunch with his playing partners, including his son Eric and the pro golfer Jim Herman. No aides were present for the interview, and the president sat alone with a New York Times reporter at a large round table as club members chatted and ate lunch nearby. A few times, members and friends — including a longtime supporter, Christopher Ruddy, the president and chief executive of the conservative website and TV company Newsmax — came by to speak with Mr. Trump. …

“Mr. Trump disputed reports that suggested he does not have a detailed understanding of legislation, saying, ‘I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A. I know the details of health care better than most, better than most.’ Later, he added that he knows more about ‘the big bills’ debated in the Congress ‘than any president that’s ever been in office.’ … ‘Whatever happened to Podesta?’ Mr. Trump said. ‘They closed their firm, they left in disgrace, the whole thing, and now you never heard of anything.’ …

“‘I don’t want to get into loyalty, but I will tell you that, I will say this: Holder protected President Obama. Totally protected him,’ Mr. Trump said. He added: ‘When you look at the things that they did, and Holder protected the president. And I have great respect for that, I’ll be honest.’ …

“‘Another reason that I’m going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes,’ Mr. Trump said, then invoked one of his preferred insults. ‘Without me, The New York Times will indeed be not the failing New York Times, but the failed New York Times.’ He added: ‘So they basically have to let me win. And eventually, probably six months before the election, they’ll be loving me because they’re saying, ‘Please, please, don’t lose Donald Trump.’ O.K.’” http://nyti.ms/2Ea3Tf5

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— CHOICE WORDS FROM TRUMP: SCHMIDT: “Tell me about what you were saying that the Democrats. … [Inaudible.] … Tell me about the Democrats on the tax bill, which you were telling me about. Explain that to me, I thought that was interesting.” TRUMP: “So. … We started taxes. And we don’t hear from the Democrats. You know, we hear bull**** from the Democrats. Like Joe Manchin. Joe’s a nice guy. … But he talks. But he doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t do. ‘Hey, let’s get together, let’s do bipartisan.’ I say, ‘Good, let’s go.’ Then you don’t hear from him again. I like Joe. You know, it’s like he’s the great centrist. But he’s really not a centrist. And I think the people of West Virginia will see that. He not a centrist. … I’m the one that saved coal. I’m the one that created jobs. You know West Virginia is doing fantastically now.” Excerpts from the interview http://nyti.ms/2C7xMiW

— SPOTTED: Mike Schmidt lunching before his presidential interview at Trump’s golf club with Ruddy, former New York City Council President Andrew Stein and Lee Lipton.

WAPO’S JOSH DAWSEY — (@jdawsey1): “Asked fairly senior Trump adviser for thoughts on NYT interview a few minutes ago. Person responded: ‘What interview? Today?’”

THE PRESIDENT, UNFILTERED: @realDonaldTrump at 7:01 p.m. Thursday: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!” … at 7:46 a.m.: “While the Fake News loves to talk about my so-called low approval rating, @foxandfriends just showed that my rating on Dec. 28, 2017, was approximately the same as President Obama on Dec. 28, 2009, which was 47%…and this despite massive negative Trump coverage & Russia hoax!” …

… at 8:04 a.m.: “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!” … at 8:16 a.m.: “The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect our Country at all cost!”

TO REVIEW … — “138 things Trump did this year while you weren’t looking,” by Danny Vinik: “Behind the crazy headlines, more conservative priorities got pushed through than most people realize. An exhaustive list of what really happened to the government in 2017.” http://politi.co/2pTwr9I

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WAPO’S ASHLEY PARKER and JOSH DAWSEY: “White House looks to make internal changes amid worries of a tough year ahead”: “The plan is to have Johnny DeStefano — a White House aide and Washington insider who worked for John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) when he was House Speaker — temporarily oversee four West Wing operations: the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Presidential Personnel and the Office of Public Liaison, a White House official confirmed Thursday.

“DeStefano is likely to soon get help with this broad portfolio, which was first reported by Axios, with additional staffers coming in to run the offices but still possibly reporting to him, several people with knowledge of the move said. …

“Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he is concerned about his party’s 2018 prospects. ‘I’m a numbers guy — we could lose as many as 15 to 18 seats in the House. … There are a lot of people who are suggesting a lot more than that.’ But, Meadows added, he believes the president is looking in earnest to improve his political operation. ‘We certainly support the president’s effort to put forth a real political team to make sure the message is out there,’ Meadows said. …

“One challenge is the West Wing does not have a shortlist of candidates to help with the political operation … Marc Short, the director of legislative affairs, had informally suggested Ward Baker for the spot, according to two people with knowledge of the pitch. But Baker, a longtime Republican operative, has his detractors within the White House. He did not respond to requests for comment.” http://wapo.st/2CjJiGU

— QUICK NOTE: DeStefano was a key member of Boehner’s member services and political operation. With the House truly up for grabs, DeStefano could prove to be a very critical link to the House Republicans. He understands the dynamics and has good relationships with most of the players. That being said, no one can do four jobs at once, especially in the White House.

BIG NEWS IN THE SUNSHINE STATE — MARC CAPUTO and ALEXANDRA GLORIOSO: “Billionaire kingmakers swarm Florida governor’s race after Trump endorsement: Not long after an admiring presidential tweet, Congressman Ron DeSantis won the backing of some of the most influential players in GOP politics”: “After Donald Trump appeared to endorse Ron DeSantis’ campaign for Florida governor last week, a handful of the biggest and most influential billionaires in Republican politics threw their support behind the three-term GOP congressman, upending the race in the nation’s biggest swing state.

“The stable of billionaires and millionaires listed on DeSantis’ ‘Finance Leadership Team,’ obtained by POLITICO, include casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, hedge fund heiress Rebekah Mercer, investment tycoon Foster Friess and other donors who have funded the conservative Koch brothers’ network and President Trump’s campaign. Just last week, Trump weighed in on Twitter to say that DeSantis ‘would make a GREAT Governor of Florida.’

“DeSantis has yet to formally announce his 2018 campaign for governor, but his intentions to seek the office became clear in May after he established a state political committee, called the Fund for Florida’s Future, that’s allowed to raise and spend unlimited soft money from corporate contributors.” http://politi.co/2C83Kvt … Finance Leadership Team document http://politi.co/2zKZDiT

FROM 30,000 FEET — NYT A1, “Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks with 70 Years of American Foreign Policy,” by Mark Landler as part of the paper’s “Trump’s Way” series: “Above all, Mr. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable. That is a seminal change from the role the country has played for 70 years, under presidents from both parties, and it has lasting implications for how other countries chart their futures. Mr. Trump’s unorthodox approach ‘has moved a lot of us out of our comfort zone, me included,’ the national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, said in an interview.

“A three-star Army general who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and wrote a well-regarded book about the White House’s strategic failure in Vietnam, General McMaster defined Trump foreign policy as ‘pragmatic realism’ rather than isolationism. ‘The consensus view has been that engagement overseas is an unmitigated good, regardless of the circumstances,’ General McMaster said. ‘But there are problems that are maybe both intractable and of marginal interest to the American people, that do not justify investments of blood and treasure.’” http://nyti.ms/2EaSknO

AROUND THE TAX HORN …

— WSJ: “Tax Law Ushers In Higher Executive Salaries at Netflix: Streaming giant says old rules called for a substantial surcharge,” by Trey Williams: “[C]hief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will earn a $12 million base salary in 2018, after bringing in a salary of $1 million in the past three years, according to a filing with the [SEC].

“The streaming giant cited the recent passage of the U.S. federal tax overhaul as the reason for the change. The company said salaries of more than $1 million for named executives, other than the chief financial officer, were subject to a substantial surcharge. Because of that, Netflix had a performance-based bonus plan for certain executives. In 2017, Mr. Sarandos had a $1 million salary but a bonus target of $9 million.

“‘With the recent passage of federal tax reform, the performance bonus plan will no longer eliminate such surcharges,’ the company said in the filing. ‘As such, the compensation committee of the board of directors has determined that all cash compensation for 2018 will be paid as salary.’” http://on.wsj.com/2CiqzLT

— “Tax law creates confusion and uproar in city halls across America,” by Aaron Lorenzo: “In the Albany suburb of Bethlehem, N.Y., more than 100 people waited in a gym to pay their property tax bills — some of them for over an hour — on Thursday before a new federal $10,000 cap on state and local deductions goes into effect Jan. 1. Municipalities on Long Island were preparing to open over the weekend to give taxpayers more time to pay. But the IRS issued an edict Wednesday night saying the early payments could only be deducted on 2017 taxes if they had already been assessed. That threw residents and local government officials into a new round of confusion as everyone scrambled to determine which payments would qualify.” http://politi.co/2C8DSzq

THE RUSSIANS! — CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER: “Was Nikki Haley pranked by Russians, or are these tricksters fooling us all?” by Caitlin Byrd: “U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley may have been fooled by a pair of Russian pranksters pretending to be the prime minister of Poland. The duo, known as Vovan and Lexus, claims to have arranged a crank phone call Thursday with the former South Carolina governor.

“The pair, whose real names are Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, posted a nearly 22-minute video clip this weekend in which a woman who sounds like Haley speaks to a man who she thinks is the new Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. …

“Between questions about Ukraine and Russia, the fake prime minister asked Haley about Binomo — a fake island that does not exist. ‘You know Binomo?’ the prankster said. ‘Yes, yes,’ Haley responded. ‘They had elections and we suppose Russians had its intervention,’ the joker said.

“‘Yes, of course they did, absolutely,’ Haley said. When asked about America’s plans to do about the situation in Binomo, Haley said, ‘Let me find out exactly what our stance is on that, and what if anything the U.S. is doing or thinks should be done and I will report back to you on that as well.’ …

“‘We have nothing to share on that at this time,’ Haley spokesman John Degory told The Post and Courier on Tuesday. Degory would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the video.” http://bit.ly/2lqUxD5

YEAR IN REVIEW — AP’S ANDY TAYLOR: “Lawmakers struggled to stay on track in Trump’s first year” http://bit.ly/2BUvob1

— VIDEO FROM THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE: This past year in the House. http://bit.ly/2CkHnSI

TRUMP INC. — “Trump Inc. Had a Rough Year, but His D.C. Hotel Is Killing It,” by the Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff: “Since his inauguration, he has maintained that he isn’t involved in the management of his businesses. But an email from the director of revenue management for the Trump Hotel in Washington, which The Daily Beast reviewed, indicates that may not be the case. Jeng Chi Hung, who holds that position, sent that email to an acquaintance on Sept. 12 of this year. The email opens with a few pleasantries. Then, Hung writes that he met with Trump, and that the president asked him specific questions about banquet revenues, demographics, and how his presidency impacted the business.

“The email says this: ‘The company is interesting to work for being under the Trump umbrella. DJT is supposed to be out of the business and passed on to his sons, but he’s definitely still involved … so it’s interesting and unique in that way. I had a brief meeting with him a few weeks ago, and he was asking about banquet revenues and demographics. And, he asked if his presidency hurt the businesses. So, he seems self aware about things, at least more than he lets on. I am far left leaning politically, so working here has been somewhat of a challenge for me. But, it’s all business.’” http://thebea.st/2BS6OaR

PHOTO DU JOUR: President Donald Trump waves to supporters Thursday from his motorcade traveling from Trump International Golf Club en route to his Mar-a-Lago estate. | Greg Lovett/Palm Beach Post via AP

DAILY MAIL: “EXCLUSIVE: White power at the White House – Trump intern flashes ‘alt-right’ symbol used by notorious extremists during group photo with the president” http://dailym.ai/2pU91B1

CLICKER – “The Divide Between America’s Prosperous Cities and Struggling Small Towns—in 20 Charts,” by WSJ’s Paul Overberg: http://on.wsj.com/2lhp1bg

YIKES — “Romanian hackers took over D.C. surveillance cameras just before presidential inauguration, federal prosecutors say,” by WaPo’s Rachel Weiner: “Romanian hackers took over two-thirds of the District’s outdoor surveillance cameras just before President Trump’s inauguration, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. The January attack affected 123 of the D.C. police department’s 187 outdoor surveillance cameras, leaving them unable to record for several days. Two Romanians … are being charged in D.C. federal court with fraud and computer crimes. … The city resolved the problem by taking the devices offline, removing all software and restarting the system at each site, a process that took about two days … From Jan. 12 to Jan. 15, none of the cameras were able to record video.” http://wapo.st/2Ea8z4B

— POLITICO SCOOP: “The latest 2018 election-hacking threat: A 9-month wait for government help,” by Tim Starks: “States rushing to guard their 2018 elections against hackers may be on a waiting list for up to nine months for the Department of Homeland Security’s most exhaustive security screening, according to government officials familiar with the situation.

“That means some states might not get the service until weeks before the November midterms and may remain unaware of flaws that could allow homegrown cyber vandals or foreign intelligence agencies to target voter registration databases and election offices’ computer networks, the officials said. Russian hackers targeted election systems in at least 21 states in 2016, according to DHS.” http://politi.co/2zLDZec

INVESTIGATION UPDATE — “There’s still little evidence that Russia’s 2016 social media efforts did much of anything,” by WaPo’s Philip Bump: “A little-noticed statement from Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, detailed how unsophisticated the Russian ad targeting actually was in the context of the election. Among the points he made: Maryland was targeted by nearly five times as many ads as was Wisconsin (262 to 55). … Thirty-five of the 55 ads targeting Wisconsin ran during the primary. … More ads targeted DC than Pennsylvania. … A total of $1,979 was spent in Wisconsin — $1,925 of it in the primary. … The spending in Michigan and Pennsylvania were $823 and $300, respectively. … More of the geographically targeted ads ran in 2015 than in 2016.” http://wapo.st/2zLyyvJ

MEA CULPA — “Apple Apologizes for Handling of iPhone Battery Issue,” by WSJ’s Robert McMillan: “Apple Inc. issued a rare apology for its handling of concerns about performance issues in iPhones with older batteries in the wake of a wave of consumer complaints. ‘We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down,’ Apple said in a note posted to its website on Thursday. ‘We apologize.’ The company said it will slash prices of replacement batteries and add, in the coming year, software that gives insight into the health of an iPhone battery. It also released a detailed support page explaining battery issues.” http://on.wsj.com/2lpGzl4 … Apple’s note to customers http://apple.co/2DtcJUc

****** A message from Google Year in Search 2017: As this year draws to a close, Google analyzed Search Trends data to see what the world was searching for. The data showed that 2017 was the year we asked “how…?” How do wildfires start? How to calm a dog during a storm? How to make a protest sign? These questions show our shared desire to understand our experiences and come to each other’s aid. Watch the Year in Search 2017 and see top trending lists from around the world at g.co/2017. ******

VALLEY TALK – “San Francisco’s Skyline, Now Inexorably Transformed by Tech,” by NYT’s David Streitfeld: “The skyscraper came late to this city, a shipping and manufacturing hub for much of its existence. … Salesforce, a company that did not exist 20 years ago, will take up residence on Jan. 8 in the new Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi. In Silicon Valley, the office parks blend into the landscape. They might have made their workers exceedingly rich, they might have changed the world — whether for better or worse is currently up for debate — but there is nothing about them that says: We are a big deal.” http://nyti.ms/2lrKfT5

FUTURECAST — “Some of the World’s Largest Employers No Longer Sell Things, They Rent Workers,” by WSJ’s Lauren Weber: “The list of the world’s largest employers was once dominated by household names like Ford Motor Co., J.C. Penney Co., and General Electric Co., companies that made and sold things. A new analysis conducted for The Wall Street Journal shows those names are nowhere to be found on that list today. In their place are large outsourcing companies like Compass Group PLC, Accenture PLC and other businesses that essentially lease workers to clients. Of the top 20 global employers in 2017, five are outsourcing and ‘workforce solutions’ companies, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. In 2000, only one employer in the top 20—International Business Machines Corp., which offers outsourced IT services among its many businesses—fell into that bucket.” http://on.wsj.com/2Ea68Pv

DAVID BROOKS, “The 2017 Sidney Awards, Part II”: “I was entranced by an essay in Emergency Physicians Monthly. It’s an oral testimony by Dr. Kevin Menes, who was in charge of the emergency department of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas the night Stephen Paddock opened fire on a concert. … It’s nearly impossible to write an essay capturing an entire region’s culture and feel, and it’s doubly hard if that region is as sprawling as the Midwest. So Phil Christman gets a Sidney plus for his essay ‘On Being Midwestern’ in the consistently splendid Hedgehog Review. …

“Caitlin Flanagan’s ‘Death at a Penn State Fraternity’ from The Atlantic describes the death of a fraternity pledge during hazing … In ‘The New Class War’ in American Affairs, Michael Lind points out that by the time of the Great Recession, 95 percent of microprocessors were manufactured by just four companies. … To finish on a hopeful note, let’s return to medicine and Atul Gawande’s ‘The Heroism of Incremental Care’ in The New Yorker.” http://nyti.ms/2CkIzoW

ENGAGED – PETE BUTTIGIEG, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, proposed to CHASTEN GLEZMAN, a middle school teacher. “They met through the dating app Hine, struck up a conversation about ‘Game of Thrones,’ and quickly discovered a shared love of travel. The proposal happened at Chicago O’Hare Airport at the spot where Chasten was sitting when they first connected. Pete proposed with a ring at the airport as the two were beginning a vacation.”Pic http://politi.co/2Clb57w

SPOTTED: Jason Chaffetz wearing headphones on Delta flight 832 yesterday from Salt Lake City to DCA. He sat in the exit row although “his name was on the screen for first class upgrade,” per our tipster.

TV TONIGHT – PBS’ “Washington Week” hosted by Bob Costa: Carol Leonnig, Amy Walter, Shawna Thomas, Phil Rucker and Alexis Simendinger

SUNDAY SO FAR – CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) … J.D. Vance. Political panel: Ed O’Keefe, Julie Pace, David Nakamura and Rachael Bade.

— CNN’s “State of the Union” (guest host: Dana Bash): Anthony Scaramucci … Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Panel: Bill Kristol, Nina Turner, Bakari Sellers and Michael Caputo

— ABC’s “This Week”: Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen. Panel: Matthew Dowd, Joshua Johnson, Mary Jordan, Susan Page

— “Fox News Sunday” (guest host: Dana Perino): Panel: Mike Needham, Marie Harf, Bruce Mehlman and Mo Elleithee

— NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Charlie Cook, Katty Kay, Rich Lowry and Kristen Welker.

TRANSITIONS – OBAMA ALUMNI — Rob Malley has been named the new president and CEO of the International Crisis Group. He most recently has been the VP of policy for the organization and served in the Obama White House.

BIRTHWEEK (was Wednesday): Dale Vieregge, director in APCO’s D.C. office (hat tip: Anthony DeAngelo)

BIRTHDAYS OF THE DAY: Katie Glueck, senior national political correspondent at McClatchy. A fun fact about Katie: “As a fifth grader, I won a Ford F-150 truck at a Kansas City Royals baseball game.” Read her Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2ljr8vp … Blair Watters, senior director at InterDigital, celebrating by “seeing a Motown concert with my family—my dad’s idea.” Q&A: http://politi.co/2BSkC5b

BIRTHDAYS: Kate Sherman … Reihan Salam is 38 … Jeremy Waldstreicher is 32 … Erica Kimmel Haffetz … Leah Malone, who runs comms for the Romneys (h/t Ann Romney) … Andrew Malcolm, manager of public advocacy at Exelon and a Greg Walden alum … CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield is 5-0 … retired ABC newscaster Tom Jarriel is 83 … Kevin Griffis, VP of comms at Planned Parenthood and an Obama HHS alum … Politico’s Katie Pudwill, Eric Engleman and Grace Goodman … Caroline Ey … Jordan Langdon, deputy comms director for Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) … Erica Ryan … Scott Keyes … Andy Estrada, proud son of Maine and Colby College alum who was the press secretary for HFA in NC (h/t Andrew Bates) … AEI’s Grant Addison … Leo Wallach, principal at RALLY, is 38 … Edelman’s Renée Revetta and Alexander Romano … Mike Siegel, comms director for Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) … Shehzad Haider … Tom Dickens is 29 …

… Theo and Paul Epstein are 44 … Kyle Egan, LA for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) (h/t Sally Fox) … Maria Randazzo of the Council for a Strong America (h/t Rachel Wein) … Boris Medzhibovsky, COS for Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) … Rob Burgess, comms director for Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-Ind.) … Kim Snyder … Michael McLaughlin … Dan Syde is 33 … Ian Steyer … Kai Stinchcombe … Kim Barnes Kimball … Didi Cardenas … Renata McGriff … Adam Shoucair … Anny Chen … Estelle Jackson … David Koeppel … Gracie Brandsgard … Kara Kostanich … Laura Clawson … Amata Radewagen, Delegate to the U.S. House from American Samoa, is 7-0 … George Caudill … Marie-Therese Dominguez … Tara Venkatraman (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … IOC president Thomas Bach is 64 (h/t AP)

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Fun Fact Friday: Stupid Laws are Stupid

We often hear that the United States is a ‘nation of laws’ from politicians. What people often fail to realize is that a lot of those laws are either not based on any kind of morality or they’re outright stupid.

Some laws are written for valid reasons that cease to exist months after they’re written. The business of repealing laws is ugly, though, so they just fester on the books. Some laws are so stupid that people have written about them for years and nothing has been done to get rid of them. They could be outright racist or misogynistic. Some are ludicrous because of where they’re written and the fact that the locality doesn’t lend itself to the law ever being violated. Some just make you scratch your head at why anyone would bother writing them.

Here are some that made us giggle.

You don’t have mountains, Nebraska

Just look at that skyline. Drive safely.

Nebraska is nice and landlocked with nary a mountain in sight except to the west on a clear day. That didn’t stop some busybody politician from proposing a law that didn’t apply within the state mandating that people drive carefully on dangerous mountain roads. It was written in 1957, but it’s still there.

Newsflash: the laws of physics trump the laws of dumb politicians every time. When people don’t obey this one, no punishment the law can dole out is as bad as the one gravity is sure to give you. Did we mention that it doesn’t even apply in Nebraska?

Here’s how it reads:

NRS484B.120 Driving on defiles, canyons or mountain highways.

The driver of a motor vehicle traveling through defiles or canyons or on mountain highways shall hold such motor vehicle under control and as near the right-hand edge of the highway as reasonably possible.

In Tennessee, holding hands means pregnancy

Oh, you know what comes next…

They actually passed a law in TN that makes it illegal for students to hold hands during school hours because hand-holding is a gateway to sex. It was, in the TN house, called The Gateway Sexual Activity Bill. That’s right. In the state of Tennessee, they think that handholding results in sex. You might think this was a 1950s law. You would be wrong. This was 2012.

TN lawmakers: Find a computer. Visit UrbanDictionary.com. Read any random definition. Congratulations. You just discovered that kids these days know more about sex than you ever will. They write all those definitions, and you won’t protect them from sexual activity by preventing them from holding hands. Handholding is the last thing on the mind of a kid who can describe, in great detail, what a ‘flying camel’ is. Hell, he’s probably done it.

Don’t Harass the Squatches

In Skamania County, Washington, you had better not mess with Sasquatch. Nevermind the fact that you’re potentially dealing with a massive hominid from the Pleistocene era. The law is coming for you, Jim. Stupid law is stupid because if anyone actually finds a ‘squatch and doesn’t mess with it like they’re the star of a Jack Link’s commercial, we’ll lynch that guy.

Yeah, so this dumb law was written in the late ’60s (could it be LSD-related?), and it’s called the ‘Undiscovered Species Protection Act.’ How do you not mess with a sentient hominid? How? If you mess with any of the species outlined (Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Yeti, or Giant Hairy Ape <- I can’t believe they actually typed that), you can be fined up to $10K and spend a decade in jail. They take their ‘squatches super serial in Skamania County.

To this day, no one has broken this ordinance. It’s sad, really.

Don’t say Ar-Kan-SAS, or else…

God forbid you call the Capitol “Small Stone.”

It’s actually illegal and has been since 1881, to misspell or mispronounce the state name of Arkansas if you’re within the state of Arkansas. If you want to butcher it, you need to go to Mississippi (Missippi), Louisiana, or Oklahoma. Texas and Missouri have their own issues, and Tennessee gets a pass due to their accent.

The irony is that the state, under the governorship of William Jefferson Clinton, who would later become POTUS, went from 50th in the nation in education to 49th. Spelling wasn’t high on their priorities list prior to Slick Willie, let alone pronunciation.

The state’s name is, by their own definition in law, a native word bastardized by the French who are notoriously bad spellers (seriously, how many silent letters does one language really need), into what we have today. Given that fact, can we just admit that one really stubborn guy just got mad and made his way into a law?

Next time you’re there, make a point to pronounce it wrong to everyone and report back if you get arrested.

Color Books, not Chickens

At least they’re not goth chickens

In Akron, OH, don’t get caught with punk chickens or rabbits you want to sell or display. Apparently, this was enough of a problem that the city passed an ordinance. If you dye your chickens, you’re an evil person, indeed. I wonder what all those chicken dyers switched to after the law was passed in 1973. That must be where all those painted rocks came from.

I get that some parts of some states can be pretty boring. If decorating rabbits and chickens is a pastime so prevalent that it needs a law to prevent it, maybe find other entertainment? The Pro Football Hall of Fame is right there in Canton, people. There’s a Rubber Museum somewhere up there. Wait, that closed. Cleveland is like, an hour away. Never mind. There’s nothing to do in Cleveland either. I guess just dye chickens on the DL. Maybe start a club where the first rule is that you do not talk about Dye Club.

Trailer denizens, you must move before you move

The best way to avoid Jehovah’s Witnesses

In Anchorage, AL, you aren’t allowed to live in a trailer you’re dragging across town. The full text of the ordinance is, “No person may occupy a house trailer while it is being moved upon a public street.” Now, I understand what they were going for here, but what they ended up doing is making it illegal to live in the thing if it was moving. So, do you need to put in a change of address before you move it, or maybe live with your parents?

I suppose the real question here is, how many people were having breakfast in their trailer while their friend was dragging it to a new location? I suppose the answer is, enough to make it illegal. It should only take one, I suppose. That one guy always ruins it for the rest of us.

Greasy thieves face felony charges

Keep your grease thefts small

Grease theft became a big deal with the advent of biofuels. It became illegal to steal grease and a felony to steal grease with a street value of $1,000 in North Carolina in 2012 (several other states far earlier). The really funny part of this story is not that grease theft is apparently a bigger deal than anyone cared to know, but that there are people who objected to the law on the basis that it shifts the grease market playing field to favor large grease corporations.

That’s right, folks. The gub’mint is in cahoots with big grease to squeeze out the little guy. From the linked article we learn that, not only are there big grease corporations in North Carolina but also that there are small-time, mom-and-pop (if you will) grease slingers. Let’s not forget that we now all know that people steal grease. Shittiest heist movie, ever.

Wisconsin surreptitiously avoids peasant uprisings

No torches for you!

I suppose completely out of fear of their very own French Revolution, Wisconsin made it illegal to wave around torches. Their laws concerning the ‘Negligent handling of burning material‘ basically amount to an end run around the likelihood that the rabble might storm the steps of the capitol building in an effort to redress their grievances. Pretty sneaky there, Wisconsin.

No torch waving for you Cheese Heads. If you’re beset by a Frankenstein’s monster, you’ll need to use flashlights or lanterns to light the way. Maybe bring along a zippo for the bonfire part of the uproar, though. It’s pretty difficult to burn monsters at the stake without flint. I wonder if that includes fireworks. Fireworks are basically ‘negligently handled burning material’ from the time you light the fuse.

Don’t bite off legs in Rhode Island

That’s gonna leave a mark

Firstly, we should all know that Rhode Island is not actually an island. Secondly, if you do anything silly there, like bite off someone’s leg or something, you’re going to spend a minimum of a year in jail. You heard that right. A minimum of one whole year. I mean, you may spend 20 years, but you’re guaranteed that year.

This law is stupid mainly because of wording. We know that when they said ‘bite off’ they meant fingers and ears and stuff, but it comes just before ‘disable’ and ‘limb.’ That conjures an interesting visual of a serious donnybrook where people lose eyes, have arms broken, perform appendectomies, and that one guy chews off a leg.

I suppose it’s safer to bar-brawl in RI than in West Virginia, though, as a result of this law. Was it ever legal to chew off someone’s leg anywhere in the world? Makes you wonder if maybe they wrote this one out of necessity.

So many stupid laws

There are so many stupid laws that there are websites dedicated to not only describing them but having them repealed. It’s illegal to shoot any game from a moving vehicle with the sole exception of whales… in Kentucky. You can’t let your wife drive your car down Main St. unless you walk in front of her waving red flags in Waynesboro, VA. It’s illegal to have a boner in public in Kenosha, WI. You are forbidden to sell your own eyeballs in Texas. Arizona soap thieves must continue to scrub until the soap they stole is completely gone.

There are more idiotic laws than people who know about them. The question you should ask is, do we really need more?

Add your examples of stupid laws in the comments. I’ll bet there are some insane ones we couldn’t find that you’re just itching to discuss. Don’t be bashful.

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Fun Fact Friday: Stupid Laws are Stupid

Here are some that made us giggle.

You don’t have mountains, Nebraska

Just look at that skyline. Drive safely.

Here’s how it reads:

NRS484B.120 Driving on defiles, canyons or mountain highways.

In Tennessee, holding hands means pregnancy

Oh, you know what comes next…

Don’t Harass the Squatches

To this day, no one has broken this ordinance. It’s sad, really.

Don’t say Ar-Kan-SAS, or else…

God forbid you call the Capitol “Small Stone.”

Next time you’re there, make a point to pronounce it wrong to everyone and report back if you get arrested.

Color Books, not Chickens

At least they’re not goth chickens

Trailer denizens, you must move before you move

The best way to avoid Jehovah’s Witnesses

Greasy thieves face felony charges

Keep your grease thefts small

Wisconsin surreptitiously avoids peasant uprisings

No torches for you!

Don’t bite off legs in Rhode Island

That’s gonna leave a mark

So many stupid laws

There are more idiotic laws than people who know about them. The question you should ask is, do we really need more?

Add your examples of stupid laws in the comments. I’ll bet there are some insane ones we couldn’t find that you’re just itching to discuss. Don’t be bashful.

#chickens #fighting #Fun Fact #Fun Fact Friday #grease #hand-holding #law #legal #legislation #mobile homes #mountains #pronunciation #rules #sasquatch #stupid #Humor

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