Random Political comments...

[Loki]

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed as special prosecutor to investigate any Trump administration ties/election tampering with Russia. Will be interesting, lets see if this turns into another Benghazi where there were 7 investigations with no real consequences for anybody in the end...

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/lawmakers...stigation-233453635--abc-news-topstories.html

 

[glt1980]

Mike Huckabee jokes about having to dodge bullets in Chicago
citizens of the city were unsurprisingly not amused.
https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/864584262762336258

 

[ColiBreh1]

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[MightyLighty]

Mike Huckabee jokes about having to dodge bullets in Chicago
citizens of the city were unsurprisingly not amused.
https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/864584262762336258

That was definitely a dog whistle.

 

[Beasty]

Lol @ cops feeling unappreciated. Cry me a mountain of rivers.

 

[Bliss]

Weiner found guilty. 21 mnths jail recommended. ( He pled guilty)

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/nyregion/anthony-weiner-guilty-plea-sexting.html

 

[Bliss]

Assange rape charges dropped..

The proper war is just commencing': Jubilant Julian Assange punches the air on balcony of Ecuadorian embassy after Sweden drops rape probe against him and threatens to fight Britain over arrest warning

 

[Bliss]

How do you not love the kook-Left

Los Angeles Times Publishes Op-Ed on Performing Witchcraft Against Trump

One of America's most widely circulated newspapers...
The Los Angeles Times ran the piece, titled "I Put a Spell on You, Mr. President" ...

https://www.google.com/amp/freebeac...p-ed-performing-witchcraft-against-trump/amp/

 

[ColiBreh1]

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/861843392321527809

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since a devastating earthquake.

The inquiries into any criminal histories of Haitian immigrants were made in internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services emails obtained by The Associated Press. They show the agency’s policy chief also wanted to know how many of the roughly 50,000 Haitians enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program were taking advantage of public benefits, which they are not eligible to receive.

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/866739473891065856

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...temporary-protections-for-haitians-1495477659

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it will extend until January a humanitarian program that has allowed roughly 58,000 Haitians to live in the United States, but it is hinting that further extensions are unlikely.

Temporary Protected Status was given to Haitians living in the United States after a 2010 earthquake devastated parts of that country. Haitians granted the protection can live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

Haitian participation in the program has been regularly renewed for 18-month intervals and the latest extension expires in July. The renewal announced Monday is for only six months.

Senior Homeland Security Department officials said that while no final decision about further renewals, they said Haitian immigrants should start getting their affairs in order, including acquiring travel documents. The officials briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that anonymous sources shouldn’t be trusted.

I just wanna know where is the outrage & caping from Liberals, Mainstream Media, & the Democratic Party like when Trump tries to go after Arabs & illegal non-black Latinos? I expect them to be silent on this.

 

[The Dark King]

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/861843392321527809

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/866739473891065856

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...temporary-protections-for-haitians-1495477659

I just wanna know where is the outrage & caping from Liberals, Mainstream Media, & the Democratic Party like when Trump tries to go after Arabs & illegal non-black Latinos? I expect them to be silent on this.

They had the nerve to be black so they don't deserve coverage unless it fuels the media's race suffering fetish at the hands of the cops

 

[MightyLighty]

This is why I hate many white liberals (bar Tim Wise, Jane Elliot etc), they stay silent on shit like this but get up in arms over non-blacks. I don't like Bernie, he is a class reductionist.

 

[The Dark King]

This is why I hate many white liberals (bar Tim Wise, Jane Elliot etc), they stay silent on shit like this but get up in arms over non-blacks. I don't like Bernie, he is a class reductionist.

What is a class reductionist?

 

[ColiBreh1]

In a week full of Trump scandals, Fox News is teaching a masterclass in how to play defense for the president.

Fox News has spent the week doing damage control for the Trump White House. Between Trump’s intelligence leak to the Russian ambassador and an alarming memo from former FBI director James Comey, Fox has been working overtime to downplay and distract from Trump’s mistakes. And the more Fox convinces Republican voters to shrug off major Trump scandals, the less likely it becomes that Congressional Republicans will feel the need to keep the president’s actions in check.

I could not help but LOL at this Vox piece. Liberals do the exact same shit.

 

[ColiBreh1]

Nobody in congress has gotten more amendments passed than Bernie Sanders. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

"Sanders did something particularly original, which was that he passed amendments that were exclusively progressive, advancing goals such as reducing poverty and helping the environment, and he was able to get bipartisan coalitions of Republicans who wanted to shrink government or hold it accountable and progressives who wanted to use it to empower Americans.

Here are a few examples of the amendments Sanders passed by building unusual but effective coalitions:

* Corporate Crime Accountability (February 1995): A Sanders amendment to the Victims Justice Act of 1995 required “offenders who are convicted of fraud and other white-collar crimes to give notice to victims and other persons in cases where there are multiple victims eligible to receive restitution.”

* Saving Money, for Colleges and Taxpayers (April 1998): In an amendment to H.R. 6, the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, Sanders made a change to the law that allowed the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to make competitive grants available to colleges and universities that cooperated to reduce costs through joint purchases of goods and services.”*

Read more here: http://www.alternet.org/election-20...shing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you

Hosts: Cenk Uygur

Cast: Cenk Uygur

 

[MightyLighty]

What is a class reductionist?

"Its basically just the idea that class-based oppression should be the foremost concern among revolutionaries, with things like gender, race, sexual orientation, etc, taking a back seat until 'after the revolution.' It's a problem because it ignores the reality of all types of oppression being interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and that if we don't address all of it, we will simply recreate those hierarchies within our own revolutionary activities. So you get the stereotype of some communist groups being basically dude-only clubs, or the mainstream, catering mostly to middle and upper class white folks."

 

[ColiBreh1]

This is why I hate many white liberals (bar Tim Wise, Jane Elliot etc), they stay silent on shit like this but get up in arms over non-blacks. I don't like Bernie, he is a class reductionist.

What is a class reductionist?

"Its basically just the idea that class-based oppression should be the foremost concern among revolutionaries, with things like gender, race, sexual orientation, etc, taking a back seat until 'after the revolution.' It's a problem because it ignores the reality of all types of oppression being interconnected and mutually reinforcing, and that if we don't address all of it, we will simply recreate those hierarchies within our own revolutionary activities. So you get the stereotype of some communist groups being basically dude-only clubs, or the mainstream, catering mostly to middle and upper class white folks."

You do realize that the Democratic Party establishment came up with scheme to paint Bernie as only catering to working-class white? It was exposed in Hillary's emails:

Straight from the Clinton Emails leaks:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4429

 

[Peach State Scholar]

You do realize that the Democratic Party establishment came up with scheme to paint Bernie as only catering to working-class white? It was exposed in Hillary's emails:

Straight from the Clinton Emails leaks:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4429

Blame Sanders for that. It's what he chose to focus his campaign on. Clinton didn't do anything to "cast" Sanders as the preferred candidate of young White liberals any more than Sanders himself did.

 

[MightyLighty]

You do realize that the Democratic Party establishment came up with scheme to paint Bernie as only catering to working-class white? It was exposed in Hillary's emails:

Straight from the Clinton Emails leaks:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4429

He made it very clear at least to me, when asked by Ta Nehisi Coates about the possibly for reparations, he rejected it,
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/

and kept on denying the obvious when it came to Trump supporters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rs-trump-voters-not-deplorable-clinton-warren

When it's obvious to most that they are racist, sexist, Islamophobic Xenophobic etc
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...e_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html

So yeah, he is a class reductionist, as are most white liberals/Democrats. But I support Bernie and believe him to be the most genuine politician amongst a sea of actual politicians (as in folks who lie their way to the top).

 

[andreboba]

You do realize that the Democratic Party establishment came up with scheme to paint Bernie as only catering to working-class white? It was exposed in Hillary's emails:

Straight from the Clinton Emails leaks:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4429

IMO that was just sound political strategy to use against Sanders and not out of line. It was also an easy point for Sanders to refute.
Realistically, if you were running against Bernie what would you say negative about him other than his age??

LOL. Bernie supporters cat like HRC should never have said one unkind word about him.
It's not like HRC's campaign made shit up about him, she only tried to spin why he was appealing to so many independent White voters.

 

[Peach State Scholar]

IMO that was just sound political strategy to use against Sanders and not out of line. It was also an easy point for Sanders to refute.
Realistically, if you were running against Bernie what would you say negative about him other than his age??

LOL. Bernie supporters cat like HRC should never have said one unkind word about him.
It's not like HRC's campaign made shit up about him, she only tried to spin why he was appealing to so many independent White voters.

Exactly. Hillary Clinton did the exact same thing that every other politician has done since the invention of politics: find something negative to say about her opponent. She isn't the first and she will not be the last.

Republicans during the past election tried their damnedest to show the country that Donald Trump was ignorant of politics, diplomacy, and basic knowledge about the inner workings of government. He didn't help himself at all by being the least informed candidate on the stage. Were the other Republican candidates just supposed to ignore that?

Barack Obama painted Mitt Romney as out of touch with the majority of American voters, which he didn't help with his "47%" comment that was caught on video.

John McCain tried said Barack Obama as too young and inexperienced, and turned a blind eye to the birtherism that was around at the time. Barack Obama accused John McCain of being a rubber stamp for George W. Bush, and the entire world had a field day with Sarah Palin being his running mate.

Hell, Jimmy Carter even made an issue of Reagan's age back in 1980. I'm sure if email had been around back then you'd probably find a lot more shit that went on between those campaigns. And the less said about Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy, the better.

Politics has always been shady and underhanded. Mudslinging is normal. Why conservatives and conspiracy theorists act like Clinton was the first person whose campaign ever had an unkind word to say about her opponent is mind-boggling. You'd have to literally ignore every other election that we've ever had in order for that to make sense.