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

[PaulBullion]

Did you watch the clip before posting it?

Here is my transcript.

"All lives matter" - that's what the signs say. All black lives matter - that should be a given.

So when you say she is "not quoting" in that one... you are being even more dishonest. She is even forming a sign with her hands when she is saying it, then saying that she is quoting, then following it up with "black lives matter" you gherkin.

[PaulBullion]

Meanwhile, let's give Democrats (both the candidate and her audience) credit for something other than criticizing their own party, shall we?

Not only is Sen. Warren keeping up talk of black white/wealth inequality during Iowa tour of very white audiences, but it's an applause line? At multiple stops, when she mentions unique challenges minorities face and black homeownership stats, crowd ooohs and ahhs and gasps

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/sta...15981242847232

[numberthirty]

Did you watch the clip before posting it?

Here is my transcript.

"All lives matter" - that's what the signs say. All black lives matter - that should be a given.

So when you say she is "not quoting" in that one... you are being even more dishonest. She is even forming a sign with her hands when she is saying it, then saying that she is quoting, then following it up with "black lives matter" you gherkin.

You need to go back, and watch it again.

The things in blue do not actually take place in that video. That you are trying to create a scenario where they do says a lot.

The actual transcript is...

All lives matter. I see the signs saying that all lives matter. It should be a given. Let's hope that it is.

If she disagrees with the idea that trying to make it about that "All Lives Matter...", "Let's hope that it is." is not what she would have said. Never mind completely avoiding the reality that was happening to one group of people at the time.

[PaulBullion]

You need to go back, and watch it again.

The things in blue do not actually take place in that video. That you are trying to create a scenario where they do says a lot.

The actual transcript is...



If she disagrees with the idea that trying to make it about that "All Lives Matter...", "Let's hope that it is." is not what she would have said. Never mind completely avoiding the reality that was happening to one group of people at the time.

There is video. I have ears.

[numberthirty]

Meanwhile, let's give Democrats (both the candidate and her audience) credit for something other than criticizing their own party, shall we?

Not only is Sen. Warren keeping up talk of black white/wealth inequality during Iowa tour of very white audiences, but it's an applause line? At multiple stops, when she mentions unique challenges minorities face and black homeownership stats, crowd ooohs and ahhs and gasps

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/sta...15981242847232

There, we can agree.

That said... If you think that the line you quoted is something that is separate from keeping the primary from being something that money can buy, I'd have to disagree.

Both things are part of a whole. A "Bought And Paid For..." primary will absolutely decrease the odds that the inequality she mentioned there is ever addressed in a serious fashion.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump Calls Those Who Don’t Support His Wall ‘Criminals’

“Everyone” else wants it “very badly,” the president tweeted. Dolt45 is become more and more unhinged about his goddamn wall with each passing day. Meanwhile....

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Millions Could Lose Food Assistance If Government Shutdown Continues

Does Donald Trump want a border wall badly enough to let struggling Americans go hungry? In a word----YES!! In his warped mind, Trump probably believes only blacks and Latinos get food stamps, and everyone knows he doesn't give a fuck about minorities.

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Not So Fast: Trump Called The Chinese Motherf**kers In Vegas Speech

Does this mean Rashida Tlaib is out of the hot seat? Nahhhhhhh! Only Dear Leader Trump can use locker room speech. Meanwhile....

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Lots Of Us Think Trump Is A Motherf**ker Who Should Be Impeached. Rashida Tlaib Just Said It Out Loud.

Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who made history this week as one of the first two Muslim American women sworn in as members of Congress, has sent some people into spasms by talking about impeaching President Donald Trump and using a four-letter word in the process.

“And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama, look, you won. Bullies don’t win,’ and I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re going to go in there and we’re going to impeach the motherfucker,” she told a crowd of supporters on Thursday night celebrating the new Democratic majority in the House.

It was entirely predictable that conservatives and Trump supporters would erupt with faux outrage at hearing foul language from a Democrat. And Trump ― the president who famously spoke of grabbing women “by the pussy,” called Haiti and some African nations “shithole countries” and who has even publicly hurled “motherfuckers” himself ― said Tlaib “dishonored her family” with the comment.

As ridiculous as that is, it also wasn’t so unpredictable that some liberals would clutch their pearls as well.

Their argument is that this kind of attack fuels Trump’s hard-core base — as if they’re not already on rocket fuel, revved up by his every tweet — and turns off swing voters and independents, who may be on the fence. CNN’s Chris Cillizza bizarrely warned Democrats about being “too anti-Trump,” lest they scare the fence sitters.

But both are facile and, frankly, ridiculous arguments in the age of Trump.

This is a man who has put children in cages, has shut down the government over his demands for a border wall, has rolled back protections for the environment and is cozying up to dictators and adversaries of this country — with whom he may have colluded to win the presidency.

Calling him a motherfucker is nothing.

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GOP Strategist Calls Ocasio-Cortez ‘The Little Girl.’ She Lets Him Have It.

Congresswoman calls Ed Rollins a “walking argument” for a 100 percent tax on misogyny. HA! Good one, AOC!

[PaulBullion]

There, we can agree.

That said... If you think that the line you quoted is something that is separate from keeping the primary from being something that money can buy, I'd have to disagree.

Both things are part of a whole. A "Bought And Paid For..." primary will absolutely decrease the odds that the inequality she mentioned there is ever addressed in a serious fashion.

If we buy you a primary, will you go away?

[aja_christopher]

Lots Of Us Think Trump Is A Motherf**ker Who Should Be Impeached. Rashida Tlaib Just Said It Out Loud.

Made all the more ironic by the fact that apparently Trump prefers sleeping with -- and paying off -- porn stars rather than the mother(s) of his children.

[PaulBullion]

Unsurprisingly, the pearl clutching in the media is real.

[jetengine]

Unsurprisingly, the pearl clutching in the media is real.

They can fuck off. Civility ceased to exist as soon as the Republicans backed Trump.

[aja_christopher]

They can fuck off. Civility ceased to exist as soon as the Republicans backed Trump.

They got what they wanted -- that's half the reason many of them voted for him... and with regards to the hypocrisy of Republicans, it's just par for course.

[worstblogever]

Trump Calls Those Who Don’t Support His Wall ‘Criminals’

“Everyone” else wants it “very badly,” the president tweeted. Dolt45 is become more and more unhinged about his goddamn wall with each passing day. Meanwhile....

Current polling shows the great majority of the country do not support Trump's border wall.

Ergo, the president just said the majority of the country were criminals.

Come and get me, Bonespurs von Motherf***er.

[Tami]

What the Shutdown Would Look Like if It Happened in Other Industries

The 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay is more than …

… the 748,000 people employed by the mining and oil extraction industries in the United States. (And it’s 16 times the size of the entire coal mining industry.)

It’s also more than the 640,000 people employed by the entire textiles and clothing manufacturing industry.

[Tami]

Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House scrambles to deal with shutdown’s consequences

The Trump administration, which had not anticipated a long-term shutdown, recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact, several senior administration officials said. The officials said they were focused now on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene.

Trump has said he is willing to keep agencies shut down as long as necessary to force Democrats to appropriate several billion dollars for the construction of walls along the Mexico border. But some Republicans have said they are uncomfortable with this approach, and several this week sided with Democrats in their effort to reopen agencies immediately.

Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RMS U.S., an accounting and consulting firm, said a prolonged shutdown would shave an entire percentage point off the U.S.’s economic growth, in part because of an “uncertainty tax” that would freeze spending by households and businesses.

“If one doesn’t know what’s going to happen with respect to their own income . . . there will be a pull back on the purchase of big-ticket items,” he said. “Large firms will pull back on outlays on software, equipment and capital.”

[WestPhillyPunisher]

They can fuck off. Civility ceased to exist as soon as the Republicans backed Trump.

Bingo! All the pearl clutchers in the media choose to gloss over Trump’s vulgarity, no doubt because they fear being frozen out unless they kiss his ass.