All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

It sucks because he used a white board?

Or because Cuomo was having Sanders breakdown Medicare for All?

Oh, wait, I just got to the "pro-establishment" line from the dude commentating on the video, nevermind.

The guy says he's parroting right wing talking points. Well, that's what Sanders or anyone else pushing Medicare For All/Single Payer is going to have to answer to throughout a campaign...come one now.

Trump's totally winning in 2020. Keep it up guys.

I am all for 100% socialized healthcare, but leadership is going to have to fucking sell people on the idea and that will involve answering questions like the ones on the fucking whiteboard.

As he said, Cuomo would never try to pull that against a conservative. And honestly this shouldn’t be controversial. These are the same talking points that stifled Obamacare from being what it should have been. They largely rely on ignorance.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Me having some chocolate raisins = 10% more votes for Trump.

Is this affirmative action against the nine chocolate raisins?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Okay, serious question. Even if North Korea denuclearizes who is going to vacation there?

Ha half of American’s favorite vacation spots are effectively third world countries with a couple of nice strips and beaches to distract from the walls that block off the ghettos the locals live in. Can see it now. “Yo bro me and the boys are packing up for during break in NK. Gonna fire cannons on the beach. Got some molle I can score?”

[numberthirty]

It sucks because Cuomo and CNN only ever do things like this to Progressives...

You ever see him try and breakdown a Republican this way? Nope, they don't do that.
You ever see him call out lies using a whiteboard? Nope, they don't do that.

CNN sucks because under the "GUISE" of Equal coverage, Democrats, and Progressives get less coverage, and more Scrutiny.
I'm not against scrutiny when it's applied equally.

You ever see them do this to Santorum?

As he said, Cuomo would never try to pull that against a conservative. And honestly this shouldn’t be controversial. These are the same talking points that stifled Obamacare from being what it should have been. They largely rely on ignorance.

Definitely.

That outfit make their bank off of the whole "D Vs. R" paradigm. You can tell by the number of times they have Stormy Daniels' lawyer on even though almost nothing has really happened in that case in a while.

Anyone that is seriously talking about the fact that there are potential solutions outside of that whole business as usual "D Vs. R" paradigm?

You can put you last money on that outfit going after it.

You just want this guy to walk into the frame...

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[aja_christopher]

[Malvolio]

That's because they've been cowed by the cries of 'liberal bias' despite the conservatives being the one with their own network.

CNN thinks objectivity is giving a conservative a few minutes to speak and then giving a liberal a few minutes to speak and "leaving it there." The only one willing to call out bullshit for being bullshit is Fareed Zakaria, but CNN feels it's necessary to apologize for Zakaria daring to say the word "bullshit."

[Iron Maiden]

No, this is not satire from Stephen Colbert but the Department of Homeland Security has announced a strengthened border strategy amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Just look at all the dangerous Canadians that have slipped over the border and taken jobs away! We could have had an American actor play Captain Kirk, not that Canadian Shatner!

[ed2962]

Queer people are upset about pushing Chick-fil-A because the company treats us like second class citizens and supports politicians who want to strip us of our civil rights. I think the comparison to man babies whining over Thunder Cats is not the most precise.

Oh, I get it. I mean...even if you think some people over reacted to the Chick-fil-A thing, at least there's a real issue behind it. Thundercats was a cheesy cartoon that existed for no other reason than to sell toys to children. Grown men are OUTRAGED because there's a remake done in the style Steven Universe or whatever aimed at people who are children now, and they feel that it's a "slap in the face" for not catering to their nostalgia. My point was that "Outrage Culture" knows no bounds.

[Michael Watkins]

Ant-Man and the Wasp has a Canadian co-lead, a Mexican-American supporting cast member, and Randall Park (who played Kim Jung Un in 'The Interview'). so topical.

[ed2962]

No, this is not satire from Stephen Colbert but the Department of Homeland Security has announced a strengthened border strategy amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Just look at all the dangerous Canadians that have slipped over the border and taken jobs away! We could have had an American actor play Captain Kirk, not that Canadian Shatner!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

No, this is not satire from Stephen Colbert but the Department of Homeland Security has announced a strengthened border strategy amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Just look at all the dangerous Canadians that have slipped over the border and taken jobs away! We could have had an American actor play Captain Kirk, not that Canadian Shatner!

Well, ****, Canadians ARE dangerous! Look at all the trouble Justin Bieber’s gotten into, and think of all the eardrums Celine Dion’s made bleed with her horrid singing. Oh, yeah, who decided to let that raunchy rock band Rush into the country? Get rid of all those rotten Canucks!

[numberthirty]

Well, ****, Canadians ARE dangerous! Look at all the trouble Justin Bieber’s gotten into, and think of all the eardrums Celine Dion’s made bleed with her horrid singing. Oh, yeah, who decided to let that raunchy rock band Rush into the country? Get rid of all those rotten Canucks!

You left out that they have beer-power super dogs...

[Tazirai]

This is why Republicans are Dangerous. The real Political Correctness is this right here.

GOP lawmaker wants Michigan teens to learn the KKK is anti-Republican — not anti-black

Colbeck also insisted the phrase “core democratic values” was not political neutral enough for students to learn about.

“They had this term in there called ‘core democratic values,’” Colbeck said. “I said, ‘Whatever we come up with has to be politically neutral, and it has to be accurate.’ I said, ‘First of all, core democratic values (is) not politically neutral.’ I’m not proposing core republican values, either.”

[InformationGeek]

Mark Sanford, hiking the Appalachian Trail, will not be finishing first in his primary for 1st Congressional District of South Carolina. Instead, Trump pick, Katie Arrington, will be taking over as the GOP nomination.'

Meanwhile, Corey Stewart wins the GOP nomination for the Senate in Virigina. Who is Stewart? If you missed WBE's profiles...

In 2016, Stewart spent several months as the Virginia chairman of Donald Trump's campaign, though the campaign fired him before the election for participating in a protest outside the Republican National Committee.

Stewart launched his Senate campaign after surprising -- and alarming -- national Republicans by winning 42.5% in last year's gubernatorial primary against former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie.

He made Charlottesville's push to remove its statue of Robert E. Lee the centerpiece of his campaign for governor, holding rallies for the monument and displaying Confederate flags while defending "heritage" at his events. At one point, he attended an Old South ball.

He attended a news conference with the leader of the white supremacist protest that later resulted in the death of a counter-protester in Charlottesville. And after that counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed in a hit-and-run, Stewart blamed the violence on "both sides."

He's challenging Tim Kaine for his seat and I know some of you have problems with Kaine... BUT, do you really want Stewart? Do you want the racist?

[InformationGeek]

Arpaio would be impressed.

Texas may soon be the site of tent cities that will house immigrant children separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, McClatchy reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is eyeing Fort Bliss, an Army base close to El Paso, as a potential location for a cluster of temporary shelters that could house between 1,000 and 5,000 children, McClatchy reported. The department is also considering Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo.

Thousands of immigrant children have been separated from their parents in the wake of the new policy, which U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April. The policy requires immigration authorities to prosecute adults who enter the country illegally seeking asylum, while children are placed in shelters or with families. The tent city proposal is the Department of Health and Human Services' latest idea for housing the growing number of children under their care, who are quickly filling shelters.

The department did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat who represents Fort Bliss, could not confirm the report late Monday afternoon.

“We have nothing confirmed about where or if military bases will be used for certain," he said. "But, I first and foremost am opposed to this policy of family separation."

“This is absolutely the wrong thing for our country to be doing, and I would hate to see us continue this," he added. "The prospect of building tents or using resources at military installations is just wrong.”

Also, the Trump Administration is looking to strip people of their citizenship.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green cards and citizenship through naturalization.

Cissna said the cases would be referred to the Department of Justice, whose attorneys could then seek to remove the immigrants’ citizenship in civil court proceedings. In some cases, government attorneys could bring criminal charges related to fraud.

Until now, the agency has pursued cases as they arose but not through a coordinated effort, Cissna said. He said he hopes the agency’s new office in Los Angeles will be running by next year but added that investigating and referring cases for prosecution will likely take longer.

“We finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,” Cissna said. “What we’re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.”

He declined to say how much the effort would cost but said it would be covered by the agency’s existing budget, which is funded by immigration application fees.

But yeah, keep telling me the Democrats are awful and the worst.