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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    I am all in favor of stricter rules and regulations. However, there really aren't many ways to regulate the creation of support or attack ads by outside groups/PACS, as long as the money is U.S. and not foreign.
    I know there's no solution. And there will be no change. But it's so easy to see where the disillusionment with politics comes from.

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    Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US

    President Donald Trump is hoping to block German luxury carmakers from the U.S. market, according to an exclusive report by German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

    Citing several unnamed U.S. and European diplomats, the weekly business magazine reported that Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron last month he would maintain his trade policy with the aim of stopping Mercedes-Benz models from driving down Fifth Avenue in New York. The report didn't give any further details on what policies would be used to effectively ban the premium carmakers.
    The first thought that came to mind when I read that was: Was this spurred by Trump not seeing eye to eye with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues like climate change and the Iran Nuclear Deal? We all know grudges and vendettas drives actions Trump takes in the political theater, but banning Mercedes-Benz (and maybe Audi and BMW) vehicles is crazy talk, especially when scores of people in the US drive their cars compared to American luxury brands which are next to nonexistent. My second thought was if Japanese luxury imports would face the same restrictions, but I guess that would depend on if Trump was getting along with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US



    The first thought that came to mind when I read that was: Was this spurred by Trump not seeing eye to eye with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues like climate change and the Iran Nuclear Deal? We all know grudges and vendettas drives actions Trump takes in the political theater, but banning Mercedes-Benz (and maybe Audi and BMW) vehicles is crazy talk, especially when scores of people in the US drive their cars compared to American luxury brands which are next to nonexistent. My second thought was if Japanese luxury imports would face the same restrictions, but I guess that would depend on if Trump was getting along with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
    Trump and his people are going ahead with Tariffs against the EU, Mexico and Canada. Meanwhile, Trump wants to help that Chinese company, I forget it's name, but it is the oen accused of spying.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Trump and his people are going ahead with Tariffs against the EU, Mexico and Canada. Meanwhile, Trump wants to help that Chinese company, I forget it's name, but it is the oen accused of spying.
    That'd be ZTE. Funny how he was bitching about China taking all our jobs just a few weeks prior.

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    Could Chrysler Be Killed This Friday?

    Swirling rumors suggest that one of America's oldest remaining automakers could be on the chopping block.

    Sergio Marchionne will hold an investor's meeting in Italy on Friday, June 1, in Balocco, Italy, where the CEO will possibly kill one the corporation's most historic brands. FCA specialist Larry P. Vellequette of Automotive News reports that "a source told a European colleague" that Marchionne would declare the end of the Chrysler brand in the speech to investors.

    If Marchionne actually kills the Chrysler brand, it would be the end of a nameplate with over 90 years of history in the United States. However, the lineup consists of just two models today: the ancient 300 sedan and the still fresh Pacifica minivan. With so few products, axing Chrysler is easier than ever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheInvisibleMan View Post
    screw her and anyone who took a paycheck to work with her

    double bird to ABC for shelving an episode of Blackish that wanted to address the anthem protests

    f**k John Goodman, Sarah Gilbert, and the lot of them


    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Watkins View Post
    that's a bit harsh. the original series was very progressive. and Sarah Gilbert was pro-black lives matter, irrc. she was just as angry about Barr's tweets.
    The cast has been mad at her long before this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Why am I not surprised? D'Scumbag is just the sort of turd Trump loves to pieces. Maybe Dolt45 is angling to have Dimbulb do a documentary on how great and awesome his administration has been.
    So D'Souza would be Trump's Leni Riefenstahl?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    So D'Souza would be Trump's Leni Riefenstahl?
    Hey, why not? They could call that documentary "Triumph of the Morons".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    Samantha Bee covered the missing migrant children crisis.



    (Warning for Strong language.)
    This video was removed because Conservatives threw a fit that Bee could refer to Ivanka with a certain word that starts with "C" and not get fired and Barr's show was cancelled because she equated a black woman with an ape.

    (It's also a false equivalency. Never mind that Conservatives have referred to Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi or whatever Democratic woman with such words for years now. They elected Mr. Donald "Grab Them by the Pussy" Trump.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    This video was removed because Conservatives threw a fit that Bee could refer to Ivanka with a certain word that starts with "C" and not get fired and Barr's show was cancelled because she equated a black woman with an ape.

    (It's also a false equivalency. Never mind that Conservatives have referred to Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi or whatever Democratic woman with such words for years now. They elected Mr. Donald "Grab Them by the Pussy" Trump.)
    And conservatives call us liberals "snowflakes". Sheesh!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Why am I not surprised? D'Scumbag is just the sort of turd Trump loves to pieces. Maybe Dolt45 is angling to have Dimbulb do a documentary on how great and awesome his administration has been.
    I already joked once about Trump's America: The Greatest President of All-time being a possibility in 2020. Now it WILL happen.

    It's proof that you don't have to be white to be an *******.

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    I'm annoyed that Samantha Bee apologized for her comment.

    Everyone apologizes except Trump's administration.

    We lose a little each time someone caves to Trump and his team's entitled victim playing.

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    Bee is pathetic and I'd be tempted to not accept her apology.

    She doesn't control immigration policy and she never will. She's a sick hypocrite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JBatmanFan05 View Post
    Bee is pathetic and I'd be tempted to not accept her apology.

    She doesn't control immigration policy and she never will. She's a sick hypocrite.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    Samantha Bee is cool.

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    Three years ago, we profiled Chris Simcox, a primary challenger to Sen. John McCain in the 2010 elections who ran to McCain’s right, particularly on the issue of immigration. Simcox did so because he just so happened to be a co-founder of an anti-immigrant militia group known as the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps (the other half being mass murderer, Neo-Nazi, and aspiring Arizona state legislator J.T. Ready). Simcox, prior to running for office, was interviewed in a documentary called “USA Under Attack” where he openly talked of revolution, and lynching politicians in Washington, D.C. He also accused John McCain, of all people, of having ties to ACORN, and was a frequent guest of Alex Jones on InfoWars and J.D. Hayworth on Newsmax to rant about McCain’s supposed soft stance on immigration. His campaign came to an abrupt end, however, after Simcox went on the lam from law enforcement, after he was accused of molesting three little girls, one of them his ten-year-old daughter. He was arrested in 2013, and was found guilty, being sentenced to prison for quite a long stretch.


    It was in both 2016, and 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Tennessee State Senator John Stevens, who shortly after South Carolina removed the Confederate flag was removed from their state capitol, was dismayed to hear a small minority of Democrats in the Tennessee state legislature then begin debating whether or not the state should change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park, named after the Confederate general who went on to be the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Stevens went ballistic, and said it would lead to a slippery slope that would lead to people acting like ISIS, saying, “I’m certainly not going to defend Gen. Forrest. I just think it’s a slippery slope when you start changing names and taking down statues. What separates us from ISIS? Because that’s what they do, they go around and tear down history in those nations that they’ve conquered. If that’s what America is about now, then it concerns me.”

    Alright, let’s unpack that a little, just for giggles. Comparing any dissenting opinion to the worst of humanity, be it ISIS, Nazis, or terrorists of whatever kind… is just terrible discourse in that whole Godwinn’s law vein. But that’s not even quite correct, in any aspect. ISIS destroys historical landmarks of religious significance, as part of their radically perverted views of Islam. So for anyone to be attacking Nathan Bedford Forrest, he would have to be held as some sort of figure of revered spiritual significance. Unless Stevens was saying he felt Bedford was that sort of icon…

    Anyway, John Stevens has been involved in some of the most ridiculous legislation to come out of Tennessee the past several years, including voting to bring back the electric chair as a method of execution, voting for TRAP laws to try and shut down every abortion clinic in the state, voting for a highly unconstitutional measure to make the Bible the state book, trying to block Syrian refugees from being resettled in the state, and voting to allow for firearms to be carried in parks around the state.

    Wouldn’t you know it, Stevens was re-elected to a second term in 2016 on the benefit of getting to run for re-election unopposed. He continued wasting time and money on quests that are… well, of a bigoted nature. In March of 2017, he became one of a few Tennessee State legislators to file a lawsuit against the federal government, trying to use the Tenth Amendment and claim “State’s Rights” like Republicans do… because they’re upset that the state will have to resettle Syrian refugees. In August of 2017, he tried to re-write language in state marriage law to better gain footing to attack the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, and not recognize same sex marriages.

    Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this Islamophobic, Confederate monument defending nitwit will remain in office now until the 2020 elections. Dandy.
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