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

[numberthirty]

In my opinion the true believers wouldn't have the same degree of influence without the grifters. Which makes the grifters just as loathsome. So in other words they're one indistinguishable pile of ****.

You just distinguished them.

You said that the grifters created a wider stage for the true believers to operate in.

[worstblogever]

Ah yes, there's that classic unity he is known for.

How. Many. Times. Will. He. Question. Someone's. Race? He's birthering f***ing Beto. He did with Obama. He still is with Warren. He did with the owners of a Native American casino competing with him in the 1980s.

This is who this disgusting bigot is.

#FireTuckerCarlson Trends After Fox News Host Calls Concerns About White Supremacy a 'Hoax'



So who else on Fox are White Supremacists? Just how deep does it go in Fox?

Well, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, for a start.

Gotta pin that white supremacy tail on Lou Dobbs, as well.

I don't know if Doocy or Kilmeade are smart enough to have an ideology with that lofty and terrible a goal. I doubt they can even put on a pair of pants without assistance.

[wjowski]

I'm no W fan but I don't think he'll be remembered in the same light as Trump. W will fair better than most think.

100,000+ dead civilians plus 5,000+ dead American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with nothing to show for it beyond creating a new Renaissance era of terrorism, not even getting into horror story setups like Abu Ghraib and our use of white phosphorus, says otherwsie. W and his entire administration should be rotting in prison.

[numberthirty]

While this might not be an indicator of anything past this one race, it seems like it is at least worth taking note of...

- https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/201...yors-race.html

Election officials say voter turnout was low in Flint mayor’s race

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump Boasts ‘Amazing’ Visit To Grieving Cities. They Don’t Seem So Thrilled.

The president visited Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, both grieving after mass shootings this weekend, but he made much of the trip about himself. Golly gee whillickers! Really? I never would've guessed that happened! Meanwhile....

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From Dayton (NOT Toledo):

Dayton Mayor Calls Trump ‘A Bully And A Coward’

From El Paso:

Beto O’Rourke Flatly Calls Trump A White Supremacist On Live TV

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Trump Echoes Infamous ‘Both Sides’ Quote By Comparing White Supremacy To Antifa

Despite the huge body count in the name of white supremacy, the president suggested “other kinds of supremacy” are an equal threat. Well, of course he did. In Trump's find, white supremacists are basically good people after all.

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Shepard Smith Fact-Checks Tucker Carlson On Live TV About White Nationalism

Fox News host makes it clear for Carlson: “White nationalism is without question a very serious problem in America.” I can't for the life of me understand out how Smith hasn't been fired by Faux News for not toeing the company line when it comes to slurping Trump and his administration.

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Chuck Schumer Says He Won’t ‘Settle’ For Only Red Flag Laws After Mass Shootings

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far refused to take up two House bills that would expand background checks for gun purchases. Massacre Mitch continues living up to his handle. I'm sure the NRA is proud of him.

[Malvolio]

No I meant to the end result or general impact on the country/government and policy. 20 years from now when we're looking back on this, are we really going to differentiate, 'we'll he did it for profit' and 'he did it because of sincere beliefs.' or are we just going to say 'they were white supremacists'

20 years from now, reasonable people will say, "they were white supremacists," but you can bet your ass that there will still be bullshit artists who insist on pointing out the difference between the true believers and the opportunists.

[Malvolio]

Trump Boasts ‘Amazing’ Visit To Grieving Cities. They Don’t Seem So Thrilled.

The president visited Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, both grieving after mass shootings this weekend, but he made much of the trip about himself. Golly gee whillickers! Really? I never would've guessed that happened! Meanwhile....

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From Dayton (NOT Toledo):

Dayton Mayor Calls Trump ‘A Bully And A Coward’

From El Paso:

Beto O’Rourke Flatly Calls Trump A White Supremacist On Live TV

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Trump Echoes Infamous ‘Both Sides’ Quote By Comparing White Supremacy To Antifa

Despite the huge body count in the name of white supremacy, the president suggested “other kinds of supremacy” are an equal threat. Well, of course he did. In Trump's find, white supremacists are basically good people after all.

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Shepard Smith Fact-Checks Tucker Carlson On Live TV About White Nationalism

Fox News host makes it clear for Carlson: “White nationalism is without question a very serious problem in America.” I can't for the life of me understand out how Smith hasn't been fired by Faux News for not toeing the company line when it comes to slurping Trump and his administration.

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Chuck Schumer Says He Won’t ‘Settle’ For Only Red Flag Laws After Mass Shootings

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far refused to take up two House bills that would expand background checks for gun purchases. Massacre Mitch continues living up to his handle. I'm sure the NRA is proud of him.

Shep Smith, just like Chris Wallace, provides FOX News cover, so they can say that they're not all conservative mouthpieces.

[ed2962]

I mean in terms of actually affecting the country what's the difference between supporting white supremacy strictly for profit, and doing so because you actually believe it?

Sure at the end of the day, you can admit what you said is bullshit, but if it ends up pushing candidacy, policy, normalcy toward white supremacy what difference does it make?

It sort of depends, is the goal/results of your grifting to create an ethno-state or is it to protect the bank accounts of an already existing oligarchy?

[InformationGeek]

Let's keep making this more and more awful.

News via @BobMooreNews --> None of the eight victims still being treated at El Paso's University Medical Center agreed to meet with President Trump today when he visited the hospital

And yet they made a campaign video out of it.



Then there's Miss Wishy Washy over here.

NEW: After two mass shootings, @SenatorCollins thinks it’s "extremely disappointing" that people are calling for gun reform.

She says "there are times for political debate, but this is not one of them." We beg to differ. #mepolitics #EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/su2xv3Is4i

[mathew101281]

People are bringing up an old debunked use of stats that claim to show that use doesn’t lead the world in mass shootings
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/un...ath-shootings/

[Tami]

Children of those arrested in Wednesday’s #ICE raids near Forest, MS. are being put up in a local gym tonight by neighbors/strangers. Many are left scared & crying after coming home from school & being locked out without their parents. Donated food & drinks are being provided.

Twitter Link

Children of undocumented immigrants arrested in Mississippi rely on strangers for food and shelter

Following this massive illegal immigration enforcement many children of those arrested across the state are now left homeless with nowhere to go.

12 News Alex Love went out to Forest, Mississippi where community leaders are coming together to put them up for the night in a gym.

These children who some are as young as toddlers were relying on neighbors and even strangers to pick them up outside their homes after school and drive them to a community fitness center where people tried to keep them calm. But many kids could not stop crying for mom and dad.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Shep Smith, just like Chris Wallace, provides FOX News cover, so they can say that they're not all conservative mouthpieces.

Who are Faux News trying to convince of that, the public, or themselves?

Let's keep making this more and more awful.



And yet they made a campaign video out of it.

The notion of Trump bringing in actors to pose as nurses doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

[Michael Watkins]

Then there's Miss Wishy Washy over here.

geezus christ! When is it ever time to discuss it with these people? if a mexican individual had engaged in mass murder, there would be no moment of silence before it would be politicized.

People are bringing up an old debunked use of stats that claim to show that use doesn’t lead the world in mass shootings
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/un...ath-shootings/

yeah, i'm pretty sure that Ben Shapiro used these stats on his show.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

geezus christ! When is it ever time to discuss it with these people?

I could be mistaken, but I suspect the answer to that question is....

NEVER!

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

100,000+ dead civilians plus 5,000+ dead American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with nothing to show for it beyond creating a new Renaissance era of terrorism, not even getting into horror story setups like Abu Ghraib and our use of white phosphorus, says otherwsie. W and his entire administration should be rotting in prison.

W oversaw the worst Recession since the Great Depression

The biggest foreign policy blunder besides Vietnam

Ignored warning signs that led to the greatest attack on US soil outside of Pearl Harbor.

His tax cuts led to an increased wealth in equality

Trump’s an ******* and is ineffective, but nobody will likely ever outdo the harm W did to the country