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    Quote Originally Posted by Iron Maiden View Post
    To tell the truth, aren't these SOTU events a big waste of time anyway? One side remains seated while the other gives a standing ovation if Trump farts. I wonder what the count of lies were. I caught several without even thinking....fighting for existing conditions, lower prices on prescription drugs, credit for the growing economy (that happened with Obama) . I truly think someone on his campaign staff was assigned to go find some black people they can help and put them on TV.
    Sometimes the other side gives a standing ovation too.

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    A first hand account of the impact of the internet ban in Kashmir:

    https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/9...QPDTjlKCVqSBJA

    Since 2012, Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) has been witnessing the deliberate disruption of internet connectivity, cell phone services, and access to social media on an increasing scale. These disruptions are caused by the Indian authorities who allege that these services spread rumors and ‘fake news’, providing outside forces with a chance to disrupt the internal situation in Kashmir; thereby giving rise to violent protests. In order to prevent rumor mongering, the authorities claim that these deliberate blackouts, the longest of which have occurred in Kashmir as compared to any other part of India, are useful in pacifying or preventing the protests. However, no empirical evidence to support this assertion has been presented till now.
    Yes, keeping people in the dark sure does prevent 'rumor-mongering'.

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    I say thus fairly frequently. India (as a national government just to ignore any terrible "ur racist" "cant criticise Israel" BS) is a shithole mired in corruption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    I say thus fairly frequently. India (as a national government just to ignore any terrible "ur racist" "cant criticise Israel" BS) is a shithole mired in corruption.
    The BJP is definitely terrible, but then, a government lead by folks who at the very least casually did little to stem a riot that killed a thousand and wounded thousands more because it was primarily aimed at and harmed Muslims isn't exactly going to be anything but.

    For those who aren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots

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    On this date in 2015, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" ran a profile of John Johnston, who was a former Marine and member of the NSA who was a candidate for District 10 of the Indiana State Senate in 2014. At first, it seemed like he might be a good challenger to incumbent Democrat Chuck Mosely... until Johnston went on social media to rant about America's social safety net, and how he wanted to cut it, lamenting that in dealing with the poor, that "no one has the guts to just let them wither and die". The media asked him if he would like to retract that statement, and instead, Johnston doubled down, comparing the downtrodden on welfare to "like training a child". Predictably, he lost the election after that, and has not made a run for office since.

    On this date in 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” posted a profile of Tim Donnelly, a former two terms member of California State Assembly from 2011-2015, in spite of the fact that Donnelly was featured as an anti-immigrant goon trying to "fix the fence" on the Colbert Report back in 2006. During his 2010 campaign, he was speaking at Cal State University at Fresno, and called for the resignation of the student body president because he was an undocumented immigrant on the school's dean list (which only made the crowd gathered heckle Donnelly) and made it a personal quest once in office to see them kicked out of the country. If nothing else, though, Tim Donnelly had great aspirations, and felt like his place in the California legislature wasn't enough, getting ballsy enough to run for Governor of California in the hopes that he could win the GOP nomination to challenge the legendary Jerry Brown in the 2014 elections. However, Los Angeles times uncovered a speech delivered by Donnelly in 2006 when he was running around with the Minutemen militia, and he compared illegal immigration to warfare, with some proud reflections on our ancestors killing Mexicans. Somehow, though, Donnelly got even more xenophobic in May, getting on social media to link to an article by radical anti-Muslim commentator Frank Gaffney, that claimed his primary opponent Neel Kashkari, a former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Stability, who worked on helping the American economy recover from the 2007-2008 banking crisis, and a Hindu... was part of a secret plot to institute Sharia Law upon the American financial system. In spite of being a politician in California, Donnelly campaigned against the ban of the sale of the Confederate flag in state-owned souvenir shops. At this point, Donnelly only floats around the fringe of California politics from outside the legislature, trying to prevent people from being required to give their kids their vaccinations before they go to public school. Donnelly actually ran for U.S. House to represent California’s 8th Congressional District in 2016, but finished third in the primary with only 21% of the vote, far behind Rep. Paul Cook.

    On this date in 2017, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" profiled Clayton Fiscus, a now former member of the Montana House of Representatives from 2013 through 2017, who prior to ever being elected, stated his desire to try and pass a bill to have intelligent design taught in public school classrooms, in spite of the fact that repeatedly, such legislation has always been overturned as a violation of the separation of church and state. Shortly after his re-election in 2014, Fiscus tried yet again to strike a blow for Creationists, with a bill to allow students to challenge the theories of evolutionary biology, under the guise of “critical thinking skills”, without any irony. But let’s not let that one issue be the only thing in Fiscus’ voting record we take exception to. The rest of it has some equally frustrating stances, like in February of 2013, when he voted for HB 384, a bill that would have made it legal for children to bring their guns to school. (Hell of a way to respond to the Newtown Massacre, only a few weeks earlier, right?) Or his vote against SB 107, which would repeal Montana’s law that any sexual contact between two individuals of the same sex should be considered “deviate sexual relations” (Yeah, effectively, he was standing for homosexuality still being a crime.) Fiscus introduced a bill to begin drug testing welfare recipients in Montana (that old failed conservative policy chestnut), and voted for HB 245, one of those bizarre Republican efforts to legalize the sale of raw milk. Fiscus abruptly decided to not run for re-election in 2016.

    On this date in 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Alan Harper, a man who was first elected to office in the Alabama House of Representatives back in 2006 as a Democrat, but switched his party affiliation to Republican in 2012, partly to preserve his own career after the rest of the GOP redrew his district, but it’s not hard to understand why, when you hear some of the ideas he’s floated the past several years. Alan Harper earned his share of infamy on November 30th, 2015, when he got on Facebook, and posted a screed asking people to take care to only shop at American (Christian) businesses, claiming that non-Christian businesses send the money back to home countries to fund terrorism. After facing well-earned criticism for his nativist, ill-informed rant (which included not just an opinion editorial in his local newspaper, but a denouncement from the Alabama Republican Party), Alan Harper took what passes for the high road in Republican politics by choosing to not apologize and said he was, what else, double down on his claims and say he was “being taken out of context”. The Daily Beast, while filing report, took a look back only a few weeks early and noted that Harper also expressed support for a police officer in a news story where he dragged an African American girl student of their classroom in South Carolina. Harper’s voting record included support for a Constitutional amendment to Alabama’s state constitution to allow for a monument to the Ten Commandments to be placed on state property, for “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion bills, support for legislation to begin drug testing welfare recipients in Alabama, a bill aimed at denying gay couples the ability to adopt by giving adoption agencies the “religious freedom” to decide to reject adoption applicants as they see fit, and supported a bill meant to preserve Confederate monuments in Alabama. We are glad to report, however, that after twelve years as a state legislator, and now that he’s started delving into bigotry unabashedly, Alan Harper did not run for re-election in 2018.
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    On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” first profiled Heather Scott, a member of the Idaho House of Representatives first elected in 2014 based on her qualifications of owning a gun store, and who has quickly made a name for herself as a kook, even among the Idaho GOP.

    Her position stances on issues are, like you’d expect, hard to the right, including her support for fetal heartbeat abortion bills, the Castle Doctrine and “Stand Your Ground” laws, and how she has co-sponsored legislation to have the Bible taught in public schools. While that might seem like we’re off to a great start with this profile, if you’re thinking that isn’t quite “out there” enough, in 2015, she chose to wave a Confederate flag around in a local parade (because Idaho’s south of the Mason-Dixon, right?). But even that is only the tip of the iceberg with Scott.

    In 2017, Scott was stripped of all of her committee assignments within the state legislature after taunting another female lawmaker that the only reason they could advance and be given leadership positions in the legislature as a woman was if they “spread their legs”. Other legislators, at the time, also reported on how Scott often complains about the building being bugged with listening devices, and one reported that they witnessed her oncel smash a fire sensor to disarm the “recording device” within (Spoiler Alert: She’s imagining things like Michael Shannon in the movie Bug).

    More so, she already has called for emergency sessions of the state legislature to put a stop to Sharia Law in the United States (she voted for a bill to try and prevent it) and Scott made it a point to travel to Oregon to check up on the domestic terrorists who were occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where she collected a “petition of grievances” from them. Because that’s exactly the sort of thing you want your state representative doing… legitimizing militia lunatics a state away rather than making policies to help you at home.

    About that last detail… We here at CSGOPOTD have often profiled Washington state legislator Matt Shea, who recently was in the national news when a report from federal investigators said that his activities associating with militia groups were actually tantamount to him participating in domestic terrorism in the United States. Fun detail a lot of folks missed about that story… Heather Scott is also named in that report twelve times, and has the codename “greenbean, and was tasked with identifying “Patriot bail bondsmen”.

    Scott survived attempts by the Idaho GOP to unseat her in the 2018 Primary, and remains in office. However, perhaps in 2020, with her being implicated in domestic terrorism in news reports… maybe this is the year that they’ll be successful in getting the hell out of there. At least, we’d like to think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    The BJP is definitely terrible, but then, a government lead by folks who at the very least casually did little to stem a riot that killed a thousand and wounded thousands more because it was primarily aimed at and harmed Muslims isn't exactly going to be anything but.

    For those who aren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
    The funny thing is I'm British and will fully own up that we fucked up India SIGNIFICANTLY (taking decades to sort out) and whilst I also subscribe to the post colonial culture has killed uncolonised culture thus leaving a new culture...its come to a point now where you just cant point at my nation anymore and go "Its there fault".

    Now I'm not a nationalist, far from it. Nationalism and Patriotism are poison created by Governments to stir up the populace. But what I don't like is being a scapegoat for another nations horrendous policies and corruption.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    The funny thing is I'm British and will fully own up that we fucked up India SIGNIFICANTLY (taking decades to sort out) and whilst I also subscribe to the post colonial culture has killed uncolonised culture thus leaving a new culture...its come to a point now where you just cant point at my nation anymore and go "Its there fault".

    Now I'm not a nationalist, far from it. Nationalism and Patriotism are poison created by Governments to stir up the populace. But what I don't like is being a scapegoat for another nations horrendous policies and corruption.
    I mean, the British Raj starved three million Indians to death in 1943 alone under the policies of Winston Churchill. That's in the living memory of people around, and the devestation wreaked on India is still keenly felt and vividly understood by Indians today, to say nothing of the appropriation of wealth and cultural history. England hasn't really come to terms with this and deserves the endless amount of scorn that its formal colonial possessions reserve for it in most cases.

    None of that is to say that they don't have their agency to make their own bad decisions. The fascistic, authoritarian nationalism that the BJDP represents isn't some foregone conclusion or inevitable consequence as some might argue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PwrdOn View Post
    I do like how Republicans are cheerleading Bernie because they think that Americans will be so triggered by any hint of socialism that it'll be an easy win in the general. I mean, that may be the case, but I think Trump will completely have his way with any of the establishment clowns if he just keeps throwing cheap insults and they have nothing to say in response but lame centrist rhetoric about bringing America back together or some ****.
    The conservative pundits have been going in hard on Sanders for almost a year because they know some of his policies actually have some appeal for some people in their camp. They actually want anyone but Sanders to run against Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosa Luxemburg View Post
    Her ripping up his speech is inconsequential.

    Perfectly emblematic of the "resistance" she offers against Trump.
    Exactly this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    The BJP is definitely terrible, but then, a government lead by folks who at the very least casually did little to stem a riot that killed a thousand and wounded thousands more because it was primarily aimed at and harmed Muslims isn't exactly going to be anything but.

    For those who aren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
    Gujarat riots reflect the few hundreds of years old hatred between the Hindus and the Muslims.

    India is a nation of hundred different faiths. Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, and dozen other small religions or cults etc. Every religion has disagreements with other religion. Many people fought, killed and died over religion. The religious intolerance has been going for a couple of thousand years. Huguenots (French Protestants were driven out of their own country, France due to the Catholic Church's oppression.
    That is why I am glad to be an irreligious atheist.
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    So any reports on who won Iowa ? I mean have they detailed who won the state ?
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    Nobody won Iowa yet. At first some people said it is Buttigieg and others said Sanders. The candidates are already disputing the results

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    Quote Originally Posted by SUPERECWFAN1 View Post
    So any reports on who won Iowa ? I mean have they detailed who won the state ?
    71% in. Buttigieg has a narrow lead with like 26.8% and Sanders is at 25.2%. Warren's third with 18.4%, and Biden is way back in fourth, with 15.4%.
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    71% in. Buttigieg has a narrow lead with like 26.8% and Sanders is at 25.2%. Warren's third with 18.4%, and Biden is way back in fourth, with 15.4%.
    I admit it would be funny to see Buttigieg possibly get the nomination since I don't think ANYONE imagined he would.
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