The end is near.Quote:
The marks of imperial decadence appeared not only in grotesque displays of public opulence and waste, but also in the collapse of faith in reason and science.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-re...auddev-test772
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The end is near.Quote:
The marks of imperial decadence appeared not only in grotesque displays of public opulence and waste, but also in the collapse of faith in reason and science.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-re...auddev-test772
The editor doesn't even realize that Rome lasted for another 1000 years and even grew back to great heights 200 years later. Garbage article.
If you really want to get into it, the fall of the Western portion of the empire began when they started allowing Germanic tribes to settle within Roman borders. I'd say immigration is what killed them just as much as anything else.
Dinosaurs did great too yet its a metaphor that we all understand the meaning of.
We'll see what happens. Its unwise to take for granted the Republic will remain with a democratic system.
Attachment 8913
Can someone get trump Jeff Sessions phone number. Apparently he lost it.
Calling losing over 50% of your territory a "dip" is pretty generous.
http://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/43/82227500.jpg
Great example here. Trump gives zero shits about constitutional rights regardless of interpretation. The only thing,he cares about is whatever's politically popular. He's a typical politician x10Quote:
President Donald Trump criticized police for not doing more to prevent a mass shooting at a Florida high school, arguing they should have taken the shooter’s guns away “whether they had the right or not.”
Hello friendly American cowboys! maybe you should be thinkings of letting it burn and start again?
https://twitter.com/i/moments/968970136299294720
Rome fell because all agrarian empires fall, and rose again because... all agrarian empires fall. Perpetual power is logistically impossible before industrialization.
I heard that the fall of Rome was also Trump's fault.
Well saidQuote:
“We lost, as a country, we lost respect, decency, civilized behavior, integrity, class, accountability, responsibility,” said Daniels, who stars in Hulu’s upcoming “The Looming Tower,” a dramatization of the events leading up to the Sept. 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Lead, they knowingly ate the shit. It was thought that lead was good for you.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/...n-ancient-rome
The ruling elite were retarded from heavy metal deposits on their brain. I have even read that it was common practice to assure that there was lead floaties in your gravies and such. Caligula was thought to have suffered from the same problem.Quote:
When in ancient Rome, don't drink as the Romans do. High-born Romans sipped beverages cooked in lead vessels and channeled spring water into their homes through lead pipes (pictured). Some historians argue that lead poisoning plagued the Roman elite with diseases such as gout and hastened the empire's fall.
Not my article, just one link among hundreds of thousands of others.
Honestly dude, you can't cook in a lead pot and drink from leadware, especially alcohol, on a daily basis and not have it fuck you up.
Here's a link from last october, must be credible enough a theory that it's being taken pretty seriously by archaeologists.
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-archae...an-empire.html
President for life. His anti American supporters don't give a shit though. The trumpanzee is simply a Norte Americano chavistaQuote:
“He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”
Even for the PC this is a remarkable non sequitur. Anyway, like all agrarian empires Rome went through cycles of public order and massive public unrest - consider Armenia or Germany. As for sanitation/medicine/health, just like all other forms of empirical science that didn't take hold until Islamic knowledge percolated through Europe. I assume they were genuinely good at wine? I don't go for fruity drinks so I'll cede to your knowledge there.
I just loooove checking the receipts. Let's check the receipts on the Pax Romana together, shall we?
Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula(!)
Claudius
Nero(!!)
open civil war
It tells you all you need to know about the great Roman Empire that this period of almost unmitigated chaos genuinely counts as an era of relative peace for them.
Glad to see Putin is getting his money's worth. I'd hate for the USA to have a reputation for bait and switch selling our politicians.Quote:
"I have no disappointment at all," Putin said. "Moreover, on a personal level he made a very good impression on me."
"[The U.S. political system] has demonstrated its inefficiency and has been eating itself up," the Russian leader added. "It's quite difficult to interact with such a system, because it's unpredictable."
Attachment 8931
The reality TV WWE president. A white Donald Elizondo Diet Coke Macho Trump. We're so fucked. He's nuts and who's minding the store?
Nothing like a little nepotism to ruin the nation. Fire the Sec State, no worries, that's why we elected Ivanka. Meathead needs a job, no worries, Archie Bunker President will put him in charge of everything.Quote:
A retired four-star Army general during an interview Wednesday tore into White House adviser Jared Kushner.
“Putting Jared Kushner, a 30-something person with no foreign policy or defense policy experience, as a leading representative of the United States is simply outrageous,” retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey told MSNBC.
He also warned that Kushner's portfolio shows the "personalization of a family business dealing with U.S. policy."
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"The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come & go, and I want strong dialogue before making a final decision," Trump tweeted. "I still have some people that I want to change (always seeking perfection). There is no Chaos, only great Energy!"
Trumps closest employees don't trust this fucker. The WH is in chaos. I wonder what is slipping through the cracks as trump steers the ship towards the iceberg. We, as a nation, are as vulnerable as we've ever been.Quote:
“Who leaks this stuff?” wrote former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer on Twitter of the “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” leak. “This WH still is disloyal to the president and to each other. What a mess.”
So do you all see where this is headed now? It ain't no riddle. The right has a decision to make. Give up American democracy for authoritarian dictatorship or come back to the fold and respect what we stand for again.Quote:
And, most frightening, in a time of extremely high partisanship, driven more and more by affective loyalties and fear of the other party, we don’t know how much democratic transgression Republicans (in Congress, the media, and in the mass public) would tolerate if it meant keeping Democrats from gaining power. In a two-party system, there is no other option for those who don’t want Democrats to gain power. There might soon be no party of conservativism and liberal democracy. If so, voters will have to pick one or the other.
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Some Republican elites have spoken out against Trump. And for the most part, they’ve found that speaking out just marginalizes them among Republicans — a worrying sign. And voters elected Trump, remember.
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But the polarization of attitudes and concentration of authoritarian leanings in the Republican Party are also cause for worry. The American public has never been the bulwark of tolerance and procedural democratic liberalism. It’s just that we’ve always had elites who cherished these values enough to champion and preserve them and, most importantly, keep them from the unpredictable maw of partisan conflict. We are now in new, uncharted territory.
As an aside, this is where the racism comes in:
https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2018/3...ican-democracyQuote:
In the past decade or so, political scientists have returned to the topic of authoritarianism in America, boasting new measures and methodologies to overcome the previous round of criticisms. And once again, the same basic dynamics have shown up — individuals who hold “traditional” views on culture and race tend to also hold “authoritarian” views about strict parental discipline and hierarchy
The nativism and authoritarian republican party is a scary thing indeed. There are no adults in the room, no check and balances and the president is as un-American as it gets. If you're not scared you're either A) not paying attention or B) totally OK with the U.S. descending into some tin-pot single party dictatorship.
By the way: Dowd just quit. He's the guy who stepped up and claimed he wrote “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,” on the President's twitter feed because of that whole obstruction of justice thing.
Holy fuck...
Ask your "wife" if you can at least see your balls once in a while. You might actually be more scared than the dumb cunt otherwise known as time4fun (the original)
https://i.giphy.com/media/ko0pmOVxXNlXq/giphy.webp
I'm not a fan of the two party system, in that I wish we had more parties not less. The Democrats aren't going anywhere and the Supreme Court isn't going any where. I have strong doubts that Trump can win a second term without significant policy that the American people want.
There is a simple solution to it all! Vote me your lord and master!
The two party system gave us Trump and Hillary. Fuck that.
http://static.tumblr.com/aj68pp7/khl...az5lo1_500.gif
Why run 3rd party when you can just run Democrat again? Those idiots still love her!Quote:
I hope Hillary runs 3rd party.
So Trump did a 180 on immigration and signed off on the massive omnibus despite no funding for a wall and the inclusion of new sanctions on Russia. :lol2:
It's cool; we'll just print more money.
The Democrats really won that round... the nutless GOP in Congress are so worried they will be blamed for the government shutdown.. so they gave the democrats everything they wanted.
And President Trump really didn't have a choice.. if he vetoed it, the government shuts down.
It's a colossal fucking waste.
Anyone have a WSJ sub? I can't tell what if this is real or sarcasm.Quote:
The WSJ is reporting that Trump was ready to Veto the spending bill today but WH aides reminded him that if he went to Mar-a-Lago this weekend during a government shutdown the optics would be poor.
Trump reportedly said "F**k that!" And didn't veto it.
This guy isn't some liberal Michael Moore type. We're heading for a fall.Quote:
President Donald Trump "is now set for war on 3 fronts: political vs Bob Mueller, economic vs China/others on trade, and actual vs. Iran and/or North Korea," Richard Haass tweeted Friday. "This is the most perilous moment in modern American history -- and it has been largely brought about by ourselves, not by events."
Haass, a pillar of the US foreign policy establishment and longtime president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a premiere foreign policy think tank, previously accused the Trump administration of abdicating US global leadership.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/polit...eet/index.html
It was a huge win for the Democrats.
The GOP was outmaneuvered by this bullshit budget deadline and forced to pass a budget that puts more and more debt on this country in the next decade.
Hell, they even got the GOP to fund Planned Parenthood at the tune of 500 million dollars... something that most GOP candidates ran on defunding.
It was a huge win for them. THIS was the last nail in the coffin for the House remaining in GOP control.
The first thing you'd have to do is get rid of the Electoral College, because if no one wins a majority (i.e. every election with three+ viable candidates) then the House of Representatives picks the President, which would be a disaster for many obvious reasons. Your best bet is probably ranked choice / instant runoff elections, but even then the results are still going to be two-party dominance because they continually evolve to cover the middle of the political spectrum.
Either that would have an impact on the elections, in which case changing the Electoral College etc. first is much more important, or it wouldn't, so changing the Electoral College etc. is much more important. The mechanism of voting is always the key. What's more important, that black people can vote or that they can watch debates? You know?
Iknorite! Some states are getting it down pretty good but the libtard blue states encourage them to vote? Can you believe that?
Some things that have been working are voter ID, poll watchers or threat of, change dates, limit early voting, close polling centers in urban areas and just generally make it more difficult. Some so still vote but it's a start.
I make a missed meme, you make a racist comment. Pretty sure they are not on the same playing field, not in the same park, hell, not even in the same state. Stop being an elitist racist.
If you think voter ID is racist, you are part of the problem. Wanting to keep illegals and non-citizens from voting is kind of nationalist, not racist moron. OH, and wanting to allow places like Commiefornia to continue to let illegals vote is allowing foreign influence in our elections. I thought you were deathly afraid of that, so much so that you have been dancing the CNN Russia, Russia, Russia dance like you are a marionette on strings.
If voter ID laws are racist then so is requiring ID to buy booze. Why do we want to deny black people the gloriousness of booze? They have as much right to get wasted as anyone else.
Both of these are factually incorrect. This is poor, even for you.Intent is not required for a law's effects to be racist, and intent is therefore not required for a law's effects to be unconstitutional.Restrictive voter ID laws are not unconstitutional simply because they are racist. They are unconstitutional because the Constitution explicitly and specifically forbids denying or abridging the vote on the basis of race. On top of the Constitution being extremely clear on this point, the Supreme Court has extremely clearly stated that unless the IDs are free and not required to vote, as in Indiana. Nobody thinks they'll get away with voter ID laws for long. The Republicans keep doing it because they know people like you eat it up, just like balancing the budget or securing the borders or any of the other lies they repeatedly tell you. Pandering equals votes.Quote:
If you think voter ID is racist, you are part of the problem. Wanting to keep illegals and non-citizens from voting is kind of nationalist, not racist moron. OH, and wanting to allow places like Commiefornia to continue to let illegals vote is allowing foreign influence in our elections. I thought you were deathly afraid of that, so much so that you have been dancing the CNN Russia, Russia, Russia dance like you are a marionette on strings.
Sorry, your flailing attempts to defend simple voter id as racist because you want to argue on other points is just bad. You made a shitty racist assumption, it's typical on the Left and amazingly common and now you are trying to defend/backkpeddle on it.
Non-citizens should not vote in our elections period. You and the Left continue to argue that they should have no impediment to that because you think that illegal aliens will vote Liberal. If illegals voted Conservative we would have voter ID laws across the country in days and the wall would be done by the 4th of July this year.
There's nothing to defend. Your entire point rests on a(nother) comical failure in reading comprehension. If someone asked you "is it important that the kitchen is on fire?", you would not assume they were speaking about a hypothetical future fire because they they had used the present tense of the verb "to be", indicating something currently existing, in the present, right now. If someone had instead asked "would it be important...", that would represent a hypothetical future case.I continue to argue that we should abide by the Constitution as written. If the Constitution disfavors your political party, those are the breaks. You think I like that the Constitution gives the President the power to ban Muslim immigration so long as he doesn't allow Christian immigration from the same countries like a moron? No. But those are the breaks, and everyone who was paying attention knew what the result would be at the time.Quote:
Non-citizens should not vote in our elections period. You and the Left continue to argue that they should have no impediment to that because you think that illegal aliens will vote Liberal. If illegals voted Conservative we would have voter ID laws across the country in days and the wall would be done by the 4th of July this year.
Straight up politics here. Sessions dodged the bullet but they still get to ramp up their attacks on the FBI. Republicans going after Conservatives. I for one do still want to know what's up with Guiliani being all giggly about the October surprise that we got in November. At the time the reporting was the FBI contacts had leaked to him and forced Comeys hand. I'm not holding my breath though.Quote:
Breaking: AG Sessions avoids second special counsel to investigate GOP-driven claims, names prosecutor who has been investigating claims of FBI misconduct - @LauraAJarrett reports
From CNN:
This from Chris Hayes:Quote:
Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions revealed Thursday that Utah's top federal prosecutor, John Huber, has been examining a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI and has decided that no second special counsel is needed -- at least for now.
Huber has been looking into allegations that the FBI abused its powers in surveilling a former Trump campaign adviser, and more should have been done to investigate Hillary Clinton's ties to a Russian nuclear energy agency, but his identity had remained a secret.
But Sessions' decision to stop short of formally appointing a special counsel like Robert Mueller, detailed in a lengthy written response to three Republican chairmen on Capitol Hill, will likely anger those in the GOP who have recently ramped up calls to investigate claims of political bias at the nation's top law enforcement agencies.
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We are watching the President and his congressional allies using everything in their arsenal to attempt to turn an idependent DOJ into a tool with which to prosecute political enemies. It's happening right out in the open.
Trumps also using his office to settle personal grudges. Last night he tweeted to attack Amazon. If you own that stock you know this because he caused a drop in your value. Not only did he attack amazon incorrectly but he also blamed them for using the United States Postal service as their delivery boy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that exactly what the Postal Service does? He should be kissing their ass if the do use USPS.
Of course Trump was wrong. He's always wrong. As has been said before, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has got its shoes on" and that's been a powerful tool for trump and the right these day. Spray and pray shit against the wall and move on before the fact checkers catch up. At least we have these facts checked within 24 hours.
There is no way that a patriot can condone this shit. The right needs to stand up for something bigger than their fears and tribalism. Loyalty to country before party.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/tech...xes1051AMStory
Is this how trump supports the troops?Quote:
Some U.S. commanders say what they perceive as a lack of guidance from the White House — which sent Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster packing in a 9-day span — is threatening their mission to destroy ISIS. Cracks are showing in America's alliance with the Kurds of northern Syria, who question whether they can rely on the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
"We’re on the two-yard line. We could literally fall into the end zone. We’re that close to total victory, to wiping out the ISIS caliphate in Syria,” one U.S. special forces commander told NBC News. “We’re that close and now it’s coming apart.”
More than a half-dozen senior officials interviewed by NBC News shared the commander’s views.
The hours of interviews revealed a profound sense of frustration, bordering on anger. ...
"We send memos. We tell them [the White House] what is going on. I’m not sure they’re listening, or if they even know what we’re doing out here," another commander said. "I don’t think anyone is home right now."
The danger isn't just in Syria. We have no one minding the store. The WH chaos and dismantled state department are a golden opportunity for our enemies. As a nation, we're exposed. We're vulnerable as fuck right now because trump doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/w...s-warn-n859966
We are shrinking, withdrawing into ourselves. Sending out invitations to other countries asking that they rush in to fill the void we leave behind on the world stage and they're all to happy to take our place.Quote:
@juliaioffe
During the campaign, people kept asking: Why does Putin favor Trump?
Today, Putin met with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran to discuss the future of Syria, just as Trump announced a pull-out.
That's why.
Syria is Obama's fucking nightmare.
https://i1.wp.com/powerline.wpengine...1.gif.cms_.gif
Perhaps. There's no telling what the exact best options for Syria ever were or how it can be fixed. I'm not blaming trump for how he's handling it. IMO its Bush's screw up.
That being said there was robust resistance to Obamas red line from the right. We argued about that here also. Only McCain was cool with military intervention. The gop though demanded congress have a say in enforcing a red line against Syria and they weren't having it.
This is from a scathing article about trumps Christians. Its not a surprise but that doesn't make It any better. Christianity in this country was replaced sometime back by religious nationalism.
https://www.themaven.net/beinglibera...0mT_4Hq3NjZXA/
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A new study by Andrew Whitehead drills down on this creepy and terrifying phenomenon. Specifically, Christian Nationalism looks to the gloom and doom eye for an eye Old Testament to find reasons to exclude others from the American Dream. Formerly America was seen by Christians to have a special obligation of morality, but this new sect rejects the classic American ideal that God would bless the country for defending liberty and justice for all.
Christian Nationalism argues to keep blood likes pure, defend borders and kill kill kill. The military industrial complex couldn’t be happier with Trump Christians and their old school Biblical lust for apocalypse and war. (But, shrimp and pork are somehow okay. What gives?)
Another study by Yale’s Philip Gorski shows that the Trumpism form of Christian Nationalism serves as racial identity only. There is no moral component to this Christianity stripped of its “ethical content and transcendental reference.” Gorski explains the terrifying truth of a magic book twisted into a justification for hate and power. “To those outside the fold, Trumpism may appear to be an incoherent jumble of prejudice and fear.
This is some crazy shit. First I've heard of it. Have to wait and see if this reporting holds upQuote:
EXCLUSIVE: Saudi crown prince bragged that Jared Kushner gave him CIA intelligence about other Saudis saying 'here are your enemies' days before 'corruption crackdown' which led to torture and death
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mpression=true
It's been floated for awhile now that Kushner was selling classified information.
Here he is. The President of the United States of America. Leader of the free world.
https://www.facebook.com/HuffPost/videos/634504783560339/
Once again we have our staunch right wing defenders with nothing to say as evidenced by the use of this fallacy:
The genetic fallacy (also known as the fallacy of origins or fallacy of virtue[1]) is a fallacy of irrelevance involving a conclusion that is based solely on someone's or something's history, origin, or source rather than its current meaning or context. This overlooks any difference to be found in the present situation, typically transferring the positive or negative esteem from the earlier context. In other words, a fact is ignored in favor of attacking its source.
No wonder rep is so important to you guys.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/03/...ve-republican/Quote:
THE LOOSE CONNECTION some voters have with policy preferences has become apparent in recent years. Donald Trump managed to flip a party from support of free trade to opposition to it by merely taking the opposite side of the issue. Democrats, meanwhile, mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for calling Russia the greatest geopolitical adversary of the United States, but now have flipped and see Russia as exactly that. Regarding health care, the structure of the Affordable Care Act was initially devised by the conservative Heritage Foundation and implemented in Massachusetts as “Romneycare.” Once it became Obamacare, the Republican team leaders deemed it bad, and thus it became bad.
Good article about a study that seems to confirm political stances are based more on tribalism than issues.
Its no surprise, but the results of that influence on a free society can be devastating.
Hey is cwolff the kind of retard that drools and rubs shit in his hair and all that, 'cause I'm gonna have a hard time eatin' 'round that kind of thing now. Just like I am with antique furniture and midgets. You know that, I can't so much as drink a damn glass of water around a midget or a piece of antique furniture.
Oh good. This will certainly stop the next 9/11.
https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-...ists-bloggers/Quote:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and compile a database of journalists, editors, foreign correspondents, and bloggers to identify top “media influencers.”
It’s seeking a contractor that can help it monitor traditional news sources as well as social media and identify “any and all” coverage related to the agency or a particular event, according to a request for information released April 3.
The data to be collected includes a publication’s “sentiment” as well as geographical spread, top posters, languages, momentum, and circulation. No value for the contract was disclosed
Some people absolutely want to see us turn into a dictatorship. They are tired of arguing over what we should or shouldn't do and just want to do things their way and thats it. Scary huh?
This is a short cartoon everyone should watch. It mirrors Back's post above and will trigger the hell out of 1/2 our PC community but they need to absorb this too.
https://youtu.be/DGLCX6Kh5ts
Most the evangelicals I know are nevertrumpers and didn't vote in the election at all. Though the video creator puts up some %'s he reaches his own personal conclusions and tries to present them as facts. The whole "because Trump did x,y,z, christians can't support him" goes contrary to the primary message of christianity.
I personally am not a fan of evangelical candidates, that being said I think it's a very stupid direction for the Democrat party to show so much opposition towards evangelicals. Believe it or not that voting block has pretty strong ties to the black christian community. With one simple change to their plank the Democrat party would gain a huge cut of the evangelicals, far more than the fringe they would stand to lose.
The same way you fit in any other color of skin that follows a recognized religion. Mainstream Republicans say the same thing about evangelicals, they are not liked by either party, which further goes to discredit the video makers talking points.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90356&page=1
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/a...can-americans/Quote:
Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians.
As you can see the Democrats are facing a losing battle if they continue to go after evangelicals, it's a really really stupid position they have taken.Quote:
The Landscape Survey also shows that the link between religion and some social and political attitudes in the African-American community is very similar to that seen among the population overall. For instance, just as in the general public, African-Americans who are more religiously observant (as defined by frequency of worship service attendance and the importance of religion in their lives) are more likely to oppose abortion and homosexuality and more likely to report higher levels of conservative ideology. It is important to emphasize, however, that differences on political and social issues across religious groups within the African-American community tend to be smaller than among the population overall.
Yup. This is a war for the future.Quote:
What if the West found itself “engaged in a fundamental contest between our free and open societies and closed and repressive systems” — and the U.S. president was on the wrong side?
This is not a hypothetical question.
I heard the first part last week directly from the man who was still, at the time, President Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.
Jesus Christ. How does this guy get elected and re-elected?Quote:
Verified account
@SteveKingIA
Diversity is not our strength. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, “Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one.”
From Sean Hannity's radio show last week:
"This country is headed towards a civil war in terms of two sides that are just hating each other and if Robert Mueller wants, there’s a big red button in the middle of the table. And if Robert Mueller is so pompous and so arrogant and so power hungry and so corrupt that he’s going to hit the red button and he’s going to ignite a battle that we’ve not seen in this country before. You think it’s, and I’m not talking about a war, I’m talking about, in terms of, there’s going to be two sides of this that are fighting and dividing this country at a level we’ve never seen."
Short article the deserves being pasted in full:
A 79-year-old Holocaust survivor says in a new interview that the U.S. under President Trump
feels like Germany did just before the Nazis took over.
Stephen Jacobs told Newsweek that the rise of the far-right under Trump “feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin.”
“Things just go from bad to worse every day,” he said. “There’s a real problem growing.”
Jacobs, a New York architect who said he knows Trump personally, referred to the president as an “enabler” of far-right rhetoric.
“Things that couldn’t be said five years ago, four years ago, three years ago — couldn’t be said in public — are now normal discourse,” he said. “It’s totally unacceptable.”
“We thought our country had changed,” Jacobs added. “In fact, it didn’t. We were operating on a misconception. ‘My god, we elected a black president in the United States! Look how far we’ve come!’ We haven’t.”
The Polish-born Jacobs, who was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, said he wouldn’t call Trump a “fascist,” because he thinks the president does not have “the mental power to even understand it.”
“I couldn’t say that Trump is a fascist because you’ve got to know what fascism is,” he said. He also said that the president is “a sick, very disturbed individual” who is “out for himself.”
Jacobs designed the Holocaust memorial at Buchenwald and spoke with Newsweek ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...mpression=true
https://www.facebook.com/HuffPost/videos/636675596676591/
Either the WH is strategically lying until they get themselves firmly entrenched to carry out their master plan, or they're a bunch of idiots who haven't thought things through. Either way, they are doing tremendous damage to the USA and our principles. There will be devastating unintended consequences from this administration. The foundation of our country is being weakened by the GOP and "conservatives"/trump supporters. It's easy to wallow in the muck. Very difficult to inspire. Trump likes to take the easy way.
There is some good news out there though:
So far, 37 House Republicans have announced they are retiring, running for another office or resigning outright. Such an exodus usually precedes the beginning of every primary season, but this year is shaping up to break records.
“This is more Republican retirements than any year since at least 1952 (and possibly much earlier than that),” Daily Kos Elections editor Daniel Donner tweeted last week.
By contrast, the comparable number for House Democrats totals 18.
Victories in several local and state races across the country ― most recently in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race ― have given Democrats more momentum for a potential blue wave in November’s midterm elections.
“I think the Republicans are in deep trouble in the House and the Senate as well,” Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Sunday on Fox News. “If the election were held today, frankly, I think Republicans would lose both.”
The head of a super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went even further on Monday, telling The Washington Post that GOP donors should steer their finances to efforts to save the Senate because the House may already be lost.
This conflict of interest thing should have been stamped out by the GOP congress.
http://huffp.st/pGFeSuSQuote:
Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s private company warned Panama’s president last month of “repercussions” if he failed to intervene in a legal dispute involving a Trump hotel in Panama City, The Associated Press and The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The letter from Trump Organization lawyers is believed to be the first time since Trump’s election that his company directly pressured a head of state to help the president’s business. The ploy raises fresh questions of conflict of interest, as Trump defiantly hangs onto his sprawling business interests while in office.
5 posts in a row Cwolff...
According to your equally retarded liberal colleagues, you must be upset².
Oh, yeah, King is a... piece of work. Here are a few articles on it:
https://iowastartingline.com/2016/07...or-steve-king/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...winning-214913
Sounds like a trifecta of his constituents not knowing, not believing, or not caring, and his peers not wanting to criticize their own party. Lots of parallels there.
We still had patriots then. The "greatest generation" was around and they didn't countenance this bullshit. I'm not confident the boomers have that kind of backbone to stand for something.Quote:
For Richard Nixon, the “Saturday Night Massacre” was the beginning of the end.
The nation finally turned against the embattled president after he forced out — on Oct. 20, 1973 — the attorney general and his deputy who refused to get rid of the special prosecutor investigating him.
A week later, for the first time, a plurality of Americans favored impeachment. And 10 months later, he resigned.
But Nixon didn’t have Fox News in his corner.
President Trump does — and that might make all the difference if he were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein or even special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
The pro-Trump media, led by Fox, would give cover, and huge swaths of Americans would be encouraged to believe that the action was not only justified but absolutely necessary.
I'm gonna assume that the left wasn't nearly as unhinged back then as they are today either, to the point where some of their base is jumping ship or at the very least staying home on election day.
In a world with time4funs and cwolffs shrieking massive retardation all over the place and trying to turn everything about society upside down, there will be people on both sides who would rather Trump even if he's guilty of everything than anyone the left would put up.
TLDR: People like you and time4fun are why no one cares.
Decent article about Jennifer Rubin and the fall of the GOP. The country needs more conservatives like her before it's too late.
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The GOP ‘Has Become the Caricature the Left Always Said It Was’
Jennifer Rubin has become a leading voice for a group of conservative intellectuals who don’t fit comfortably in either political party—and sees the party she left behind as ‘immoral’ and ‘anti-American.’
Before Trump, she says, being a conservative meant embracing American exceptionalism, forceful moral leadership of the world, promotion of the free market and “fiscal conservatism, which now is a hoot,” she said. “Conservatism, as opposed to Republicanism—and I think that’s an important distinction—was really about a temperament as much as a substantive list of issues. There was a certain modesty in approaching government … a certain humility about governance and a reliance on the structures of the Constitution to keep central government from getting to be too powerful.”
This is a little bit of the blowback we can expect from the trump presidency.
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After the United States last week accused the Russian-backed Assad regime in Syria of a chemical-weapons attack, Russia had a ready rejoinder: сфабрикованная информация.
Fake News.
A Kremlin statement dismissed “the latest fake news about a chemical attack on Douma,” calling the charges “absolutely unsubstantiated lies.”
After the Trump administration had accused China of stealing technology, Beijing responded this month by calling the charge that it forces foreign firms to share technology “fake news.”
In Missouri last week, Gov. Eric Greitens (R), facing trial next month on charges related to sexual impropriety, said he was the victim of “fake charges” resulting from a “witch hunt.”
Also last week, the U.S. Marine Corps *suspended Brig. Gen. Kurt Stein, who this month disparaged as “fake news” allegations of sexual harassment at his command, USA Today reported.
President Trump pioneered the use of the term “fake news” to discredit any report he didn’t like. Now the same allegation is being used against the United States abroad by adversaries, and against legitimate authorities at home by those credibly accused of misdeeds.
If Trump’s goal was to debase the very notion of truth, then he can truly say “Mission *Accomplished.”
I think it’s more than just that. People are realizing that liberal policies are BS. They don’t produce what is promised. A party that is solely based on identity politics will eventually turn on itself.
The best entertainment is watching liberal vs. liberal. The recent Starbucks debacle is a good example.
The time4pulsingwithrage and butthurtswithwolves of the world will eventually just turn on each other.
JAMES COMEY: I worry that the norms at the center of this country-- we can fight as Americans about guns or taxes or immigration, and we always have. But what we have in common is a set of norms. Most importantly, the truth. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," right? Truth is the fourth word of that sentence. That's what we are. And if we lose that, if we lose tethering of our leaders to that truth, what are we? And so I started to worry. Actually, the foundation of this country is in jeopardy when we stop measuring our leaders against that central value of the truth.
Its cool that you want to be involved politically, but do add some honesty if you can.
Same goes for you Mr. DickHead. Attempting to spin blowback as a snowflake PC issue. Fuckin' A. What the he'll is wrong with you all? Its like you hate America, the flag and everything we have tried to stand for all these years.
We'll just have to agree to disagree that using the term "fake news" in other parts of the world is "doing damage."
Good to see the judiciary holding up.Quote:
A panel of three judges, each appointed by a Republican president to the federal appeals court in Chicago, ruled unanimously on Thursday against President Trump’s effort to withhold money from “sanctuary cities.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld a nationwide injunction that blocks the Justice Department from using “the sword of federal funding to conscript state and local authorities to aid in federal civil immigration enforcement.”
Bad to see that trump's an idiot.Quote:
President Trump questioned both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray over why two top FBI officials who were removed from Robert Mueller's investigation were still at their jobs after it was revealed they sent text messages critical of the president.
Vox reports that Trump repeatedly asked why agent Peter Strzok and counsel Lisa Page were still employed by the bureau months after being removed from the Mueller investigation and disciplined.
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What does it mean to be the national-security adviser when some of the greatest threats confronting the nation may be the proclivities and limitations of the President himself?
How do you do your duty when the boss has the mind of a chimpanzee? This article attempts to shed some light on this question.Quote:
When he served as Trump’s national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster realized that, during briefings, the President “wasn’t absorbing a fucking thing he said,” a friend reported.
Yup. Bitch ass snowflakes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartanntpQuote:
Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Or so that narrative goes.
A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters weren’t driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.
“It’s much more of a symbolic threat that people feel,’’ said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. “It’s not a threat to their own economic well-being; it’s a threat to their group’s dominance in our country over all.”
More good news for the U. S. of A.:
"The United States, the country of the First Amendment, has fallen again in the Index under Donald Trump, this time two places to 45th," the report says. "A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters 'enemies of the people,' the term once used by Joseph Stalin."
"The U.S.' decline in press freedom is not simply bad news for journalists working inside the country; the downward trend has drastic consequences at the international level," the report noted. " 'Fake news' is now a trademark excuse for media repression, in both democratic and authoritarian regimes."
And while Donnie is trying to top Macron, the Russians and Chinese are getting it on:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/0...show-americans
Russia and China are drawing closer together as Washington ratchets up pressure on Moscow and Beijing.
In recent months, the United States has enacted sanctions against Moscow and has imposed a series of trade tariffs on Beijing, antagonizing both great powers simultaneously. As result of American pressure, the two powers—which already had grievances against Washington—have formed a strategic partnership to balance against the U.S-led liberal hegemony.
New Threat to the U.S.: the Axis of Autocracy
Russia and China had a vicious split in the 1960s. Now they are in a budding bromance.
There's been some REALLY interesting work done over the years on this status issue. For a long time there has been this question of why white working class voters have "sided against their own interests" by refusing political coalition with non-white working class voters. The proposed explanation is that there are economic benefits for maintaining status over non-white voters: first rights to jobs, easier career mobility, access to better areas for housing, etc. It's supported by other frameworks like Strober's Queue Theory.
So basically, they aren't voting against their own economic interests by embracing politicians who aren't friendly to working class issues but who are friendly to policies that entrench structural white privilege.
You have some serious self-loathing issues Necro.
What a racist pile of shit. You Leftist got real good at hiding your racism and sexism in moral indignation. Unfortunately for you, people are seeing through it and calling it out. This is such a blatant piece of racism that it barely needs pointing out. There is no "structural white privilege" in America, there is only societal norms of being raised to finish school, get a job and not have babies out of wedlock or perhaps the notion that one should not live your life sucking from the government tit like a dependent newborn or not. Sell your racism elsewhere.