All Purpose News and Politics Thread Part IV: The Center Cannot Hold

[Tami]

The president appears to have shot a campaign video — attacking Democrats, claiming they want to “take away your guns,” etc. — in the Rose Garden, which is to say, a public building.

Twitter Link

This is a violation of election laws. At the very least, the Hatch Act.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9117911.html

I have no words for this horror that I can post here.

Sweet baby Jesus. That’s monstrous!

[Tami]

Pompeo is investigating Hillary Clinton's emails. Obviously he has nothing better to do with his time or l8fe.

[Jack Dracula]

Has Turtle Boy given up on Trump?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that if the House does vote for impeachment, the Senate ‘has no choice’ but to hold a trial to decide whether to remove Trump from office

But maybe it would be a mock trial, as:

Like when they were forced to investigate Brett Kavanaugh. We now know how thorough that turned out to have been.
McConnell's hold on the Senate must be broken.

It looks like he's giving Devin Nunes a piggy-back ride.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Pompeo is investigating Hillary Clinton's emails. Obviously he has nothing better to do with his time or l8fe.

Gotta distract from things..gotta run side distractions. I hope others call him out for what he's attempting to do. Nothing gonna save your golden calf Pompeo.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

It's not conclusive but the Pulitzer is not some rag tag operation either.

Bret Stephens has a Pulitzer, and Thomas Friedman got one for pushing for war after 9/11.

Haberman getting one isn't even the lowest they've sunk.

[Ragged Maw]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9117911.html

I have no words for this horror that I can post here.

.........I find it weird that a government who made righteous fury over the "Rape of Nanking" a major rallying point for national identity is going out of their way to try and "one-up" that ****.........on their own soil.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Saw on Twitter that the Ukraine whistleblower has been given a nickname:

#OrangeCrush

[Tami]

Saw on Twitter that the Ukraine whistleblower has been given a nickname:

#OrangeCrush

Cute, very cute

[JCAll]

Saw on Twitter that the Ukraine whistleblower has been given a nickname:

#OrangeCrush

While everyone was suggesting movie titles he could be named after, I liked the guy that suggested #Endgame.

[Iron Maiden]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9117911.html

I have no words for this horror that I can post here.

This is chilling. My god, how can anyone as a medical professional participate in this?

[Tendrin]

This is chilling. My god, how can anyone as a medical professional participate in this?

The same way they did in Germany. The same way they did in Japan. The same way they did to minorities and 'criminals' in America. The list goes on and on. Ethics only apply to those you consider to be people.

[Robotman]

Drone footage has emerged showing police leading hundreds of blindfolded and shackled men from a train in what is believed to be a transfer of inmates in Xinjiang.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...isoners-uighur

[Tendrin]

A storm is brewing in Rockland County, N.Y., a campaign ad says.
As dramatic music pulses in the background, the Rockland County Republican Party’s video first targets what the party considers overdevelopment in the county of about 329,000 people.
Then it takes a turn. County Legislator Aron Wieder, an Orthodox Jew who supports new housing developments, is “plotting a takeover” that threatens “our way of life,” the advertisement proclaims. After the video asks what’s at stake, the words “Our Families” are overlaid on a photo of a white, non-Orthodox couple and their children posing on a front lawn.

“Others have lost the fight,” the ad says as it shows headlines about Hasidic Jews — a subgroup of ultra-Orthodox practitioners — voting to form their own town. “IF THEY WIN, WE LOSE. TAKE BACK CONTROL,” declares the video, which the party has since deleted from its Facebook page.
The advertisement drew fire this week at the highest levels of state government, as well as from federal and local lawmakers. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said the video was “the very definition of discrimination” and an attack on Hasidic Jews.

Seems like we missed this one. Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-anti-semitic/

[numberthirty]

Doesn't seem like this has been mentioned. Come to think of it, I haven't really noticed it coming up in the national news or from any politicians.

- https://abc3340.com/news/local/more-...ide-fire-alert

Alabama under statewide Fire Alert as more than 350 wildfires burn in September