All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!(Part II)

[ZombieHavoc]

The past few pages crack me up.

It's hilarious that people think there's anything to be done about our corrupt, broken political system.

We live in a country built by slave owners and designed to benefit rich white men. This shit was destined to fail.

[Kirby101]

It certainly looks broken in Georgia, were Brian Kemp is cheating himself into the Governorship.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just got an alert that the state of Maryland is going to court to block Trump's appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker.

[4saken1]

Any kind of revolution initiated by the left would be disastrous. The rich white men who run this country have the dumbfucks with all the guns defending them!

[Surf]

Here's a new one for WPP's list of reasons cops can kill black people.
Stopping a mass shooting while black.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/us/se...ago/index.html

Appalling. This animal ignored calls from the people that were around yelling and telling him he was security and he killed him anyway, WITH other officers around on scene.

[ZombieHavoc]

Any kind of revolution initiated by the left would be disastrous. The rich white men who run this country have the dumbfucks with all the guns defending them!

Also, do you guys realize that some writer for a conservative online outlet is going to come across this thread in their google search for "leftist revolution" while trying to find things to write about to get clicks and shares and stoke fears that antifa is coming for their readers? Be on the lookout for a headline like "Leftist Comic Book Nerds Plan Violent Uprising and Overthrow of Trump Administration".

[Mecegirl]

Here's a new one for WPP's list of reasons cops can kill black people.
Stopping a mass shooting while black.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/us/se...ago/index.html

Yeah was about to post this. There are never any good words outside of a string of obscenities.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Also, do you guys realize that some writer for a conservative online outlet is going to come across this thread in their google search for "leftist revolution" while trying to find things to write about to get clicks and shares and stoke fears that antifa is coming for their readers? Be on the lookout for a headline like "Leftist Comic Book Nerds Plan Violent Uprising and Overthrow of Trump Administration".

Do you realize how moronic that sounds? Even for you? C'mon, dude, enough already!

[ZombieHavoc]

Do you realize how moronic that sounds? Even for you? C'mon, dude, enough already!

Eh, okay, well it was a joke dude.

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

Also, do you guys realize that some writer for a conservative online outlet is going to come across this thread in their google search for "leftist revolution" while trying to find things to write about to get clicks and shares and stoke fears that antifa is coming for their readers? Be on the lookout for a headline like "Leftist Comic Book Nerds Plan Violent Uprising and Overthrow of Trump Administration".

LOL, this isn't a leftist thread. It's a thread where people read the ideas of the current conservative movement aloud, and then have the appropriate reaction when they realize that it isn't an Anthony Jeselnik routine.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Eh, okay, well it was a joke dude.

My bad then. That was just so off the wall.

[Tami]

A lot of news stories today, like Trump going after his Director of Homeland Security. But this one from Twitter caught my eye more than the others:

The Russian government recently responded to the DNC's hacking lawsuit, saying that even if it did hack the DNC, that was a military activity exempt from prosecution due to Moscow's sovereign immunity. Twitter Link

Court Document pdf

Sounds like Russia is thumbing (or middle fingering) the US and saying it can do whatever it wants to.

Russia Declares ‘Absolute Immunity’ in DNC’s Election Interference Lawsuit

The Russian argument basically says that, the Hack was not a crime, it was an Act of War. So you can't litigate it in court.

[Tami]

Oh this one ...

From the US French Embassy

Yesterday we participated in a ceremony at @ArlingtonNatl to honor the sacrifices of soldiers during #WWI by laying a wreath on the tomb of the #UnknownSoldier. #VeteransDay

So they went to Arlington, but neither Trump nor Pence did.

[Tami]

They Were Stopped at the Texas Border. Their Nightmare Had Only Just Begun.

MCALLEN, Tex. — The Border Patrol agent, she remembers, was calm when he tied her to the tree and put silver duct tape over her mouth. He said very little.

She was a 14-year-old undocumented immigrant who had just crossed the Rio Grande, traveling with a teenage friend and the friend’s mother from Honduras. They had hoped to surrender to the Border Patrol and stay in the United States.

But instead of taking them in for processing, the agent, Esteban Manzanares, had driven them to an isolated, wooded area 16 miles outside the border city of McAllen, Tex. There he sexually assaulted the friend and viciously attacked her and her mother, twisting their necks, slashing their wrists and leaving them, finally, to bleed in the brush. Then he led the 14-year-old girl to the tree.

“I only asked him why he was doing this,” she recalled. “Why me? He would only say that he had been thinking about it for days. He had been thinking about this for days.”

The Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection, is the largest law enforcement agency in the country, with nearly twice the staff of the F.B.I. Through the years, a small number of officers have succumbed to temptation and reached for a share of the millions of dollars generated in the smuggling of drugs, weapons and people across the southwest border. But a civil suit stemming from the March 2014 attack near McAllen, now making its way through the courts, is shedding light on a more sinister kind of corruption. Over the past four years, at least 10 people in South Texas have been victims of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping or rape — all, according to prosecutors and officials, at the hands of Border Patrol agents who suddenly and violently snapped.

In April, Ronald Anthony Burgos Aviles, 29, an agent in the sprawling 116-county Laredo sector, was charged with stabbing and killing his girlfriend and their 1-year-old son. Then, in September, another Laredo sector agent, Juan David Ortiz, 35, admitted to investigators that he went on a 12-day killing spree, fatally shooting four people working as prostitutes and trying to abduct a fifth.

As a result of a civil suit filed by the three women attacked by Mr. Manzanares, the Border Patrol has been forced to answer questions about its hiring practices, its ability to weed out disturbed agents, and whether there is adequate supervision of officers.

Sworn testimony and other documents filed in that case, as well as lengthy interviews the three women gave to The New York Times, provide an unusual window into a case that otherwise might have had little scrutiny. Mr. Manzanares never went to trial, because he fatally shot himself as soon as federal investigators discovered his crime and closed in to stop him.

The case goes beyond any one Border Patrol administration: President Trump has given the agency substantial reinforcements and a wider mission, but the attack on the Honduran women occurred during President Barack Obama’s presidency. Critics say the very nature of Border Patrol agents’ work — dealing with vulnerable, powerless people, often alone on the nation’s little-traveled frontiers — makes it easy for troubled agents to go unnoticed.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Oh this one ...

From the US French Embassy



So they went to Arlington, but neither Trump nor Pence did.

Trump I can understand, attending more than one ceremony for fallen soldiers was probably more than his tiny, military hating mind could handle. As for Red Grant, what the hell was his excuse? "Mother" (a.k.a. his wife) wouldn't let him out of the house yesterday?