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    A&W restaurant calls cops on white customer for buying breakfast for elderly Native woman

    olice were called on a white man who purchased breakfast for an “Indigenous Elder” at an A&W fast food restaurant.

    Nick Driedger, the white man who had police called on him, told APTN News that the incident in Carston, Alberta was “clearly racist.”
    He recounted the woman asking the couple in line ahead of him for a meal. When it was his turn at the counter, he added a sandwich for the woman.

    “She just wanted a meal,” he explained.

    The worker who called police allegedly said that loitering concerns were the basis of a store policy to ban people buying meals for others.

    “I was furious,” he said. “I think it’s a basic human right to eat.”

    The worker also claimed the woman was “menacing.”

    “This is a little lady, maybe 100 pounds with a walker,” he estimated. “She couldn’t be menacing to anyone.”

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to the call briefly, but did not even interview Driedger.

    “They just kind of shook their heads,” he said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
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    Trump Says Jeff Sessions Is ‘Scared Stiff’ At ‘Rigged’ Justice Department

    The president accused the attorney general of being MIA in a tweet from his New Jersey golf resort. No, Donnie, it's more like YOU'RE scared of the Justice Department which is simply doing it's job.

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    You ARE the Justice department, you @#$%ing clown.
    You're the president, they answer to you. Damn.

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    This American Life did an episode titled White Haze which was mostly about Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys. It was one of the better episodes this year and I highly recommend listening to it.
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    Well, here's a new low. Trump Administration is trying to deport a 4 year old girl who was legally adopted.

    AURORA, Colo. -- An Aurora family is scrambling to figure out how to keep their 4-year-old daughter in the United States.

    Angela Becerra starts pre-kindergarten on Monday. Three weeks into her new school year, though, she will be legally at risk of being deported.

    Her parents, Amy and Marco Becerra, are U.S. citizens. Marco Becerra also has citizenship in Peru, where he is originally from.

    Amy Becerra works for the State of Colorado and Marco Becerra works for the federal government.

    The couple also own a home in Peru and decided to move there for a few years before selling it.

    While they were in Peru, their daughter Angela was born on May 23, 2014.

    “She was 11 days old when she was brought to the orphanage,” Amy Becerra said.

    Angela was abandoned at birth. Her mother was developmentally disabled and unable to care for her.

    “[Her mother] was treated like a dog. She was chained to the table and sex-trafficked. That’s the reality. No running water. No electricity. Very little food,” Amy Becerra said.

    A woman from the orphanage suggested the Becerras foster the newborn.

    “She literally placed this little 5-pound baby in our hands and said do you think you guys can take care of her?” Amy Becerra said.

    Of course, they said yes.

    “The unique thing about Angela’s adoption is it’s not an international adoption. It’s a domestic adoption in Peru,” Amy Becerra said.

    Angela’s adoption was finalized in Peruvian court in April 2017. At that point, the Becerras decided it was time for their family to move back to Colorado.

    “We wanted her to have the opportunities that are available here, the education that’s available here. The American dream,” Amy Becerra said.

    That is when she says their dream turned into a nightmare.

    In March 2017, Amy accepted a job in Colorado and moved back with the understanding that her husband and daughter would be a few weeks behind her.

    However, Angela’s immigration application kept hitting roadblocks that delayed her case.

    She was unable to travel to the United States because the U.S. does not grant travel visas to anyone with a current immigration application.

    The Becerras had to stay in Peru for 13 months before a visa was granted. Angela came to the United States for the first time in March.

    “So she has a visa. She’s here on a tourist visa that expires Aug. 31,” Amy Becerra said.

    Less than a month before it expires, Angela’s immigration case has been denied.

    “We’re both citizens. My husband and I have a full legal binding adoption completed and we have a birth certificate that lists no other parent,” Amy Becerra said.

    “I don’t know what it takes to reopen a case. Once it’s closed, it’s closed.”

    There is an appeals process, but it likely cannot be completed in the next three weeks before Angela’s tourist visa expires.

    “If she expires her visa, she is officially here as an undocumented alien. And legally is at risk for deportation even though both her parents are citizens,” Amy Becerra said.

    She says either they all have to permanently move back to Peru together or else risk raising Angela in the U.S. without papers.

    “It’s inconceivable that a child of two citizen parents would have to live out their life as an undocumented alien in this country,” Amy Becerra said.

    In the meantime, Angela has no access to health insurance or other benefits of American citizenship.

    The family said it has reached out to immigration attorneys but has been unsuccessful in figuring out why Angela’s case has been denied.

    A letter explaining the decision should be available within the next few weeks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Handsome men don't lose fights View Post
    Self-loathing. She measured her self-worth by comparing herself to "the bad ones." That's how you end up with people like her, Diamond and Silk, and Candice Owens. It's crazy.
    I don't even think its that deep. She is just opportunistic. So long as his star was rising she'd latch on. He has low standards for the people he keeps around him so a grifter like her could attach herself easily. Now that he's let her go she's lashing out out of spite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mecegirl View Post
    I don't even think its that deep. She is just opportunistic. So long as his star was rising she'd latch on. He has low standards for the people he keeps around him so a grifter like her could attach herself easily. Now that he's let her go she's lashing out out of spite.
    You're probably right. Oh, and she probably also hopes to make a profit from the book she's publishing.

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    How Bad Are Things for the GOP? A Democratic House Candidate Got 30,000 Write-In Votes in Michigan

    In Marquette County, in fact, Morgan got nearly as many votes as Bergman did. The county credited him with 4,388 votes to Bergman’s 4,522, even after disqualifying a chunk of votes.

    The candidate was booted from the ballot based on a technicality: His petitions listed a post office box rather than a physical address. His campaign turned the petitions in on March 6. An official got back to the campaign on April 29, explaining the address snafu, and said they had until the end of the day to withdraw or they were likely to be disqualified, said Joe Vanderbosch, Morgan’s spokesperson.

    They refused to withdraw, so the Michigan Board of State Canvassers booted Morgan. The campaign took the decision to the Michigan Court of Appeals and lost in a 2-1 judgment. Instead of appealing further, the campaign turned to the write-in option instead. “We wouldn’t have ever chosen to do business this way, but when we look back on it, it has been a great opportunity,” Morgan told The Intercept. “It kicked our field program off, it incensed voters, it really turned people out.”

    In order to make it onto the ballot, Morgan needed to win 5 percent of the total votes cast in the district for governor on the Democratic side, a figure that came to roughly 3,700 votes. His Marquette County total alone should qualify him for the ballot.

    “It appears that Republican voter suppression in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District has failed in an historic way!” Moore wrote on Twitter. “Republicans on the election commission kicked the lone Democratic candidate off the ballot, so thousands of us mobilized.”

    Making it through the November general election will be a more challenging task, though by no means impossible. Michigan’s 1st District has been on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s battleground since 2017 (though Morgan said he has gotten little interest from the party so far). Bergman won comfortably in 2016 by 15 points, in a district that the Cook Political Report says has a nine-point GOP advantage. Donald Trump won Michigan in 2016 by just over 10,000 votes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by InformationGeek View Post
    That is jaw dropping. Do you think a letter writing campaign could have any affect? Why would her case just be arbitrarily shut down like that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    What I want to know is if she heard him using the N-word so often, which I totally believe, by the way, why did she defend him for so long? Makes her a bit of an Uncle Tom, doesn't it?
    It's like that blacks who support certain comic groups. They have no issue when that group attacks POC, LGBT & women and will even support the stuff that they do. All because they HOPE to be accepted and get the same support when the time comes.

    However their support ends up closing even MORE doors for them like they do Omarosa. Why? Because EVERYBODY SEES YOU and know what you are really about. SO when the tide is turned-those same folks who you insulted are now the ones you want help from but they won;t give it to you.

    She hopes that book sales and this N word mess gets her support-it WON'T.

    Are we suppose to care about Trump suing the N word? Is it that big of a deal??? Who does it hurt?

    I am more concerned with what Trump does than what he calls a black person because his antics hurt people way more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post

    Trump, At Golf Club, Intent On Projecting He’s Hard At Work

    Trump seems concerned about public perception as he approaches having spent 150 days of his term at his golf properties. Sorry, Donnie, the perception is FULLY in place that all you do if golf and goof off.

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    I think Trump works too hard myself. The country is much better off the less he actually works.

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    https://twitter.com/rsg/status/1028798224382009345

    Bobby Goodlatte, the son of Rep. Goodlatte, announced he had donated the maximum to his father's opponent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    Nope, I don't care about Trump using the N-word. I don't care about him mentioning "shithole countries". A lot of US presidents, including Lyndon B. Johnson have used the N-word. And LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act.

    Actions speak volumes louder than words.

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    ...oh boy...

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    It was three years ago on this date that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published our profile of former 2014 Illinois Congressional Susan Atanus, the former candidate for U.S. Congress to represent Illinois’ 9th District who believes that God created things like tornadoes and autism to punish us for abortions and tolerance of gays. Oh, and if we don’t stop same-sex marriage, there’s going to be an AIDS epidemic that will weaken our military. She was insane enough that the Illinois GOP scrambled to get her off the ballot for a Congressional run even though she won the 2014 primary, and she fought tooth and nail to stay on and lose by over 30 points against Jan Schakowsky.


    In 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled Andy Holt, a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives who popped up in the 2010 Tea Party Wave, and back in July of 2015, bent over backwards to try to do a rewrite of history to defend the honor of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, aka the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (who even prior to leading the KKK, was accused of war crimes after the war for massacring African Americans as they attempted to surrender). Taking a look at Holt’s voting record, his affection for the Confederacy still carries over into at least his support of nullification measures, stricter Voter ID laws, and his support to keep Confederate landmarks intact with their original names. Holt also supported the Tennessee GOP’s attempt to pass the obviously unconstitutional law to declare the Bible the state book, and has voted for measures to try and get Bible studies taught in schools. Our discussion still went farther, though, in our research, we also noted that Holt also referred to the footage recorded by undercover police officers trying to bust a sex trafficking ring as “tape and rape”, which is decidedly large lack of tact. Holt, as we have noticed that he is becoming more and more of a fan of guns, if that were at all possible. While there’s nothing stopping any candidate for office from having one of those controversial giveaways of an AR-15 at one of their political rallies, as he now has done, but he’s also looking to offer free gun permits to attendees whenever possible. Man, next thing you know, Andy Holt’s going to have his own loyal army of supporters in Tennessee armed to the teeth. Is there any cause to be concerned as to why a guy who has praised the founder of the KKK and likes voting for the kinds of nullification bills that started the Civil War would do something like that?

    Well, not for nothing, but while Ammon Bundy and his militia cronies decided to occupy the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, Andy Holt’s name popped up in the media, as he posted on Twitter an offer to send them support on January 4th, 2016. So we’re seeing that he now might be building his own militia, after previously allying himself with a group of domestic terrorists with vacuous plans to have an insurrection against the federal government. This is exactly the sort of behavior you don’t want to see from an elected official… right? It’s not like he’s calling on people to ignore the government or anything… oh. Oh wait. He did that too. Yes, Andy Holt recorded a video of himself burning up traffic citations he had received, and encouraged others to do the same. Holt also has accrued a number of speeding tickets in double digits, that he doesn’t want to pay the fines on. Ten of those traffic-cam tickets are in one town alone. And it wouldn’t be a conflict of interests if he got the law overturned so he didn’t have to pay the fines, right?

    And, Andy Holt has taken up the standard, level-headed crusade of trying to better censor Tennessee lottery commercials, apparently unhappy with the theme that people might get lucky if they play, and there’s no hope so quit giving that to the poor. And, when one of those lottos was Christmas-themed, Holt literally invoked the, “quit ruining Jesus’ birthday” argument. (We’re not joking.)

    So it should also come as no surprise that as much of the country responded to events in Charlottesville by making the decision to push ahead and remove Confederate monuments. And Holt, unable to just accept that the city of Memphis decided to remove statues to men he holds in such regard for having fought for their right to keep slaves, needed himself a scalp to even out the imaginary racist scoreboard. He settled for voting to pull $250,000 from the budget for Memphis’ bicentennial celebration, and was one of the most vocal proponents of the bill.

    You might think that Andy Holt is out on the fringe, but through most of 2018, he was considering a run for U.S. Senate to challenge Bob Corker. Once Corker retired, though, all the sharks in the GOP smelled the blood in the water, and a bigger fish named Marsha Blackburn came in and scared Holt off. So as it is, Holt will be running for re-election in the Tennessee House of Representatives, and faces off against Deane Arganbright. Arganbright has a tough battle to be sure, given how Holt normally wins re-election by 40 or 50 points. Then again, Holt is becoming more and more notorious and racist all the time, so maybe there could be an upset in the works.
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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

    Really glad I don't live in a state that requires in person voting.

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