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

[worstblogever]

Somehow... don't ask me how... a chain of events has happened that has made conservative media pundits suddenly change course, and now, they are apparently coming out as "Pro-Schoolgirls-Being-Kidnapped-by-Muslim-Terrorists".


Your big candidates so far for this are Ann Coulter, Thomas Purcell, and Eric Erickson, as well as Fox News' Brit Hume and George Will.

Here's how that happens:

1) Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria kidnap hundreds of schoolgirls.
2) To create global awareness, and motivate world leaders to do something, anything about this tragic turn of events, and rescue the girls, concerned people create the # for BringbackOurGirls on Twitter.
3) Michelle Obama re-Tweets said hashtag.
4) The associative part of the brains of the most polarizing members of the conservative media remembers Michelle Obama is married to the Democratic president.
5) The reflex action in the brains of the conservative media forces them to be against whatever the Democratic president is for causes them to start mocking and deriding the efforts of those who wish to see the girls rescued.
6) Thus, somehow, much like how they have recently begun praising the intelligence of Vladimir Putin for, in their mind, outwitting the sitting president, they have begun to laugh about Muslim extremist terrorists who are an offshoot of Al Qaeda mass kidnapping hundreds of young girls from a school to be sold off as unwilling wives to high bidders to fund their terror network.


Someone might want to remind morons like this, just because people you're against politically are for something, doesn't mean you need to be against it.

[king mob]

It's a fair question to ask "Why now?"

Because of a campaign on social media organised by the parents of the missing girls to get Western governments to get up off their arses and find their children.

[king mob]

Sanya-Jeet Thandi,the 18 year old who defended UKIP on Channel 4 News only just last week has quit the party because she's somehow only noticed UKIP are being racist in their campaigning.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...ya-jeet-thandi

Why she's only just noticed this now as opposed to when she joined is up for debate, but it's a bit of news UKIP won't like as she was the young, non-white face Farage counted on to try to convince younger voters UKIP weren't old Tory bigots.

[king mob]

Back in January UKIP were saying the UK would be 'flooded' with Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants.

In fact the numbers have dropped.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...order-controls

[Vibranium]

Because of a campaign on social media organised by the parents of the missing girls to get Western governments to get up off their arses and find their children.

so its ok to violate the borders of a sovereign nation when its a cause that people agree with?

just devils advocate here

[Lightsabretooth]

You're right. Though, that's not leadership, that's consensus. There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

Also, it may be what a complicit media helps dictate. Useful idiots and all...

And if he didn't follow what the consensus wanted the right would be calling for his head asking for his impeachment, while screaming "you work for us!"

Oh wait, I'm sorry, they're already doing that, every day, over any little thing.

[Arundel Armor Hunter]

They did far worse with Clinton accusing him with murder and such. I wish Bush was impeached.

[king mob]

so its ok to violate the borders of a sovereign nation when its a cause that people agree with?

just devils advocate here

Except the US, the UK, and all the other countries helping to find the girls are there because they offered help and it was eventually accepted. No borders have been violated. However when the US launch a drone attack in Pakistan then they're violating sovereign territory.

[7thangel]

They did far worse with Clinton accusing him with murder and such. I wish Bush was impeached.

not only is prez obama supposed to be an affirmative action uppity socialist Kenyon gay nazi islamist anti-christ on a secret mission to allow his terrorists friends to start a race war and take over 'Murica, he also watched the murders at Benghazi on drone tv, doncha know?.

oh, i almost forgot, murdered his gay lover in chicago.

which is why the repubs had that meetings around the first inauguration where it was decided that they would set out to obstruct everything

[Vibranium]

oh, i almost forgot, murdered his gay lover in chicago.

did he do the murdering himself or have the Secret Service handle that?

[Arundel Armor Hunter]

not only is prez obama supposed to be an affirmative action uppity socialist Kenyon gay nazi islamist anti-christ on a secret mission to allow his terrorists friends to start a race war and take over 'Murica, he also watched the murders at Benghazi on drone tv, doncha know?.

oh, i almost forgot, murdered his gay lover in chicago.

which is why the repubs had that meetings around the first inauguration where it was decided that they would set out to obstruct everything

It was way more part of the mainstream with Clinton.

[7thangel]

did he do the murdering himself or have the Secret Service handle that?

c'mon son, he's from chi-town before it became known as chiraq. of course he had some one else do it. like Jarret or Rahm

[CenturianSpy]

I know the mods closed the "What do you think about the Middle East and/or Muslims" thread, but this is political news (and it shows what I think of the Muslim world):

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/...asy/index.html

[md62]

I know the mods closed the "What do you think about the Middle East and/or Muslims" thread, but this is political news (and it shows what I think of the Muslim world):

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/...asy/index.html

It's horrible. There is so much hatred in the world.

[Charles RB]

Because of a campaign on social media organised by the parents of the missing girls to get Western governments to get up off their arses and find their children.

The Nigerian government off its arse. That was the original point.