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

[Tazirai]

Tom Green > Trump considering his 'working Nuclear button' and everything else.

If people want things to change they have to vote and keep voting instead of withholding their votes when they don't feel enthusiastic enough. Not Voting only hurts since there's no note of it to those in power, and protest votes are ridiculed by both sides even in the few cases they actually swing the outcome. However who said that the people saying "Go Vote!" want you to do so without forethought?

Whoever wins the election doesn't care about people who didn't vote. And whoever lost the election cares even less. If they run again, they care more about changing the vote of those who do vote than the double task of getting someone to vote, and then to vote for them. At least the people who voted for the other candidate are now in the habit of voting.

I actually agree with both of you. But the problem is you have to take into consideration the lowest common demoninator when it comes to human beings, especially Americans.
We all have our thoughts on how we think or want others to act or follow our lead.
But that's not how reality actually works.



Agreed. If dude was event TANGENTIALLY associated with BLM or other "scary" black group the right hates, or with ISIS, or Mooslims, and Hispanics, it'd be on tv all day.

[Dalak]

I actually agree with both of you. But the problem is you have to take into consideration the lowest common demoninator when it comes to human beings, especially Americans.
We all have our thoughts on how we think or want others to act or follow our lead.
But that's not how reality actually works.

It would also help if we don't get as many folks promoting protest voting or skipping it altogether this time around, as that was significant during the last election.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Some Trump Supporters Think Mueller’s Grand Jury Has Too Many Black People

The racist attack on the federal grand jury in D.C. adds to the ways the president’s backers are trying to discredit the Russia probe. What? WHAT?!?!? Trump's lemmings have sunk to a new (weekly) low.

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White House Says Secret Rounds Of Golf Make Donald Trump A Better President

But Obama was apparently a slacker whenever he played golf. Yeah, we darkies do nothing but screw around while on the links. Makes perfect sense to me.

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Tweeters Ridicule Donald Trump For Bragging About Size Of His ‘Nuclear Button’

“Please don’t make me picture your ‘Button.’”

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Quarter Of World’s Land Will Be Permanently Drier If Paris Climate Goals Not Met: Study

Countries need to work to prevent the Earth’s temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees.

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Michele Bachmann Says She’s Considering Running For Al Franken’s Senate Seat

First, the former congresswoman needs heavenly approval. Oh, WBEEEEEEEE...!

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

. That disenchantment also helped to bring about the tea-party wave.

Most of the Tea-Party was formed prior to Obama getting in office as a response for what he MIGHT do.

[Tendrin]

Most of the Tea-Party was formed prior to Obama getting in office as a response for what he MIGHT do.

The groundwork for the Tea Party was laid well in advance by astroturfing Republicans but the disenchantment helped make that wave a wave.


Meanwhile, the /actual/ Witch-Hunt continues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

Republicans on key congressional committees say they have uncovered new irregularities and contradictions inside the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's email server.

For the first time, investigators say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken when the former secretary of State and her top aides transmitted classified information through her insecure private email server, lawmakers and investigators told The Hill.
That evidence includes passages in FBI documents stating the "sheer volume" of classified information that flowed through Clinton's insecure emails was proof of criminality as well as an admission of false statements by one key witness in the case, the investigators said.

[Tendrin]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/go...ces-retirement

Bill Shuster, a WBE alum, has announced he is not seeking reelection. Another one bites the dust.

[worstblogever]

Michele Bachmann Says She’s Considering Running For Al Franken’s Senate Seat

First, the former congresswoman needs heavenly approval. Oh, WBEEEEEEEE...!

Well, there's a comeback I don't need to see.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/go...ces-retirement

Bill Shuster, a WBE alum, has announced he is not seeking reelection. Another one bites the dust.

NICE.


By the by, Orrin Hatch's retirement announcement didn't even have 24 hours pass before someone noticed Mitt Romney changed his residence on his Twitter account from Massachusetts to Holliday, Utah.

Mitt's going for the Senate. Count on it.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Mike Pompeo, the current U.S. House Representative for Kansas’ 4th District and a man who we noted at the time was first elected to office in the Tea Party Wave on the strength of the largest single campaign contribution from the Koch Brothers, at $80,000, and using racist dog-whistles (and in some instances, air raid sirens) against his Indian-American opponent who his campaign floated theories about on social media saying he was a secret Muslim or a "turban topper" while telling people to "Vote American". His Islamophobia continued at the capitol, where he declared all Muslim clerics "complicit" in terror attacks for not criticizing them vociferously Pompeo also has also been one of the loudest warmongers in the GOP the past few years, calling not just for boots on the ground against ISIS, but insisting the United States should start bombing Iran with tens of thousands of sorties to curtail their nuclear program instead of trying to negotiate a treaty to do so. Hell, he’s even gone on conservative talk radio and said he feels President Obama has an "kind of an affinity for, if not the violent beheading and crucifixions and slaying of Christians and all that", before beginning to speculate that Muslim Congressman Andre Carson could be part of an "Islamic fifth column" with "deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood". Pompeo is far enough to the right on abortion that he didn’t just vote to defund Planned Parenthood, but he classified that vote as a move to “defund the selling of baby parts". He was also particularly paranoid about Benghazi, declaring on an episode of Meet the Press with Chuck Todd that "Benghazi was worse than Watergate", and later at the Benghazi hearings themselves, insinuating that the consulate in Benghazi was being used by Sec. of State Clinton to run guns illegally to Syria. Lastly, we will reiterate that Mike Pompeo often makes conservative arguments while claiming "history" backs up his statements, when he's completely talking out of his hind end, like the time he gave a lesson on gun control around the world by claiming the United Kingdom doesn't have their own Bill of Rights (they do, and it predates our own by a century), or the time he argued against gay adoption by saying that same-sex couples don't have the same ability to properly rear children that traditional couples do (statistics show that might be completely false).

As we predicted this time last year, Mike Pompeo was given a position in Donald Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors” as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mind you, because Trump is a tragically f***ed up misanthrope, his administration has a revolving door for firings, resignations, and indictments. As such, you’ll see news stories about how Rex Tillerson wants to quit as Secretary of State and Pompeo is going to end up replacing him. Until folks within the White House start trying to get rich by writing tell-all books, we’ll never know how close those moments are to being true. This also applies to rumors that there are high-ranking people within the CIA withholding information from Trump (because he’s a moron and blurts out top secret information to whatever Russians he meets face-to-face). We do know that once the election was over, at some point he went from giving a thumbs-up to Wikileaks, to calling it a hostile intelligence service (maybe he should have checked to see all the colluding the president’s son did with them during the campaign.

All we know is… Mike Pompeo is still a war hawk, and a moron, and we now that he’s not in an elected office, we can stop checking up on him… for now.

[worstblogever]

Some Trump Supporters Think Mueller’s Grand Jury Has Too Many Black People

They're spinning it all wrong. They should be touting all the fine jobs they're creating for African Americans with all the corruption rampant through the administration getting them on juries.

I mean, the administration lost 33% of their diversity hires when they fired Omarosa last month. Now it's just Ben Carson and Idjit Pai.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Well, there's a comeback I don't need to see.

Aww, c'mon now, WBE! The lulz from Batty Bachmann running for office would be neverending.

[Tami]

The groundwork for the Tea Party was laid well in advance by astroturfing Republicans but the disenchantment helped make that wave a wave.


Meanwhile, the /actual/ Witch-Hunt continues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

When it comes to Republicans, I wouldn't call it a wave. Democrats have their Blue Wave, Republicans have their Red Tide.

[Tami]

They're spinning it all wrong. They should be touting all the fine jobs they're creating for African Americans with all the corruption rampant through the administration getting them on juries.

I mean, the administration lost 33% of their diversity hires when they fired Omarosa last month. Now it's just Ben Carson and Idjit Pai.

And don't forget McConnell's wife.

[KOSLOX]

They're spinning it all wrong. They should be touting all the fine jobs they're creating for African Americans with all the corruption rampant through the administration getting them on juries.

I mean, the administration lost 33% of their diversity hires when they fired Omarosa last month. Now it's just Ben Carson and Idjit Pai.

A grand jury that looks nothing like you, and likely has little sympathy for you based on phenotypical difference? Man, this is a problem no black person has ever faced before. What a predicament; no one has ever been treated so unfairly.

[Tami]

A grand jury that looks nothing like you, and likely has little sympathy for you based on phenotypical difference? Man, this is a problem no black person has ever faced before. What a predicament; no one has ever been treated so unfairly.

Seems apropos considering that Non-whites/Minorities are the ones being hurt the worst by Trump's administration [though, to be fair, there are also a whole lot of whites who are being screwed over as well].

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Seems apropos considering that Non-whites/Minorities are the ones being hurt the worst by Trump's administration [though, to be fair, there are also a whole lot of whites who are being screwed over as well].

Especially all those poor, dumb whites in coal country who thought sure Trump would ride to their rescue and allow them to return to those cherished and wonderful mines where cave-ins and black lung disease walk hand in hand. But hey, as long as those inbred hillbilly yokels and scraggly toothed mouth breathers are happier than pigs in shit because Trump is sticking it to those prissy liberals, what do they care that they're being screwed by Sunkist Satan like a five dollar whore?