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

[numberthirty]

Except for the fact that he is, like Rauner a business man. Great that he's taking a stand, but how is that going to hold up against certain groups.

As for Maples, good that he got caught but I don't see this doing any thing for any one in the end politically speaking.

For the time being, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. It absolutely could go nose over tail.

As for the news out of Illinois that I thought was actually important...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburb...608-story.html

Family of Decynthia Clements files federal lawsuit against Elgin over fatal police shooting

[Tendrin]

U.S. border agents made more than 50,000 arrests in May for the third month in a row, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, an indication that escalating enforcement tactics by the Trump administration — including separating migrant parents from their children — has not had an immediate deterrent effect.

DHS took 51,912 migrants into custody in May, nearly three times the number detained in May 2017, a period when illegal immigration plunged following Trump’s inauguration.

Arrests at the border this spring have jumped to their highest levels since Trump took office, and the reversal has left the president furious at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other aides who he believes aren’t doing enough to stop the trend.

Yes, clearly we need to be arresting even more people.


#@#@'s sake.

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

[Gray Lensman]

Rudy Giuliani is in no position to judge or attack someone on another's sexual morality.

Those comments are meant for the evangelical base, who will swallow them whole.

[Tendrin]

Attachment 66760

It's a good tweet.

[Darkspellmaster]

Attachment 66760

It's a good tweet.

It got a chuckle out of me.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The White House Is Getting Pounded On Its Lies Again, So It’s Blaming The Media Again

Asked about Trump’s repeated untruths, Kellyanne Conway replied, What about Benghazi? This "shoot the messenger" game would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.

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Trump’s Hurricane Maria Response Is His ‘Most Significant Failure,’ Congressman Says

Puerto Rico’s massive estimated death toll was due to the federal government’s lack of action, said Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.).

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Arizona Cops On Paid Leave After Video Shows Them Beating Unarmed Man

Robert Johnson, 33, was repeatedly kicked and punched in the head during his arrest by Mesa police on May 23. Now it's "Standing Near An Elevator While Black". When is this shit going to end?

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Manafort Likely To Go To Jail After Court Hearing, Former U.S. Attorney Predicts

“He’s going to have to bring his toothbrush,” a former U.S. attorney said. And be careful not to drop the soap in the shower.

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First Lady Melania Trump Makes First Public Appearance Since May 10

She has criticized the press for inquiring about her activities, even though she is a public figure. Recall those milk cartons with her face on them. FFLOTUS (Fake First Lady Of The United States) is back, baby!

[numberthirty]

Man, somebody needs to hand Rudy a "Chill" pill.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Man, somebody needs to hand Rudy a "Chill" pill.

You mean this bit of nonsense from Rantin' Rudy:

Giuliani: Kim Jong Un got 'on his hands and knees and begged' for summit

Better yet, someone needs to just plain gag that nutcase.

[ed2962]

Rudy Giuliani is in no position to judge or attack someone on another's sexual morality.

Trump is a know adulterer, what about his credibility? I mean, even his base believes he had an affair with Daniels. They just don't care.

[ed2962]

You mean this bit of nonsense from Rantin' Rudy:

Giuliani: Kim Jong Un got 'on his hands and knees and begged' for summit

Better yet, someone needs to just plain gag that nutcase.

I think Rudy is out here saying this stuff because he's hoping to land a Fox TV show.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump is a know adulterer, what about his credibility? I mean, even his base believes he had an affair with Daniels. They just don't care.

The same with evangelicals. They've bent over backwards and twisted themselves into pretzels dreaming up excuses for Trump's adultery.

[worstblogever]

I think Rudy is out here saying this stuff because he's hoping to land a Fox TV show.

Rudy should realize that he has a face meant for radio.

[worstblogever]

In both 2015, as well as 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Jacqueline Schaffer, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who won two terms in office without ever being challenged by a Democrat in both 2012 and 2014. She first gained some notoriety for sponsoring a sex-selective abortion ban (in spite of the practice not existing), and then after co-sponsoring an anti-Sharia Law bill a few months later, decided it wasn’t conservative enough and amended the legislation to include the sex-selective abortion ban again. In her first term in office, she also voted for North Carolina’s rigid Voter ID Law, the “motorcycle safety/anti-abortion” law, and voted to drug test welfare recipients. In her second, she sponsored North Carolina’s first attempt at a “religious freedom” law, HB 348, to allow for the discrimination of LGBT citizens based on one’s supposed deeply held faith, and was a co-sponsor of the state’s highly discriminatory HB 2 law. But perhaps her most outrageous moment came after she sponsored HB 465, a bill to stretch the medically unnecessary waiting period for an abortion in North Carolina from 24 to 72 hours, where she advocated for the measure by comparing women’s bodies to real estate. She did not run for re-election in 2016, and decided to resign because of “business responsibilities” she was having trouble staying on top of.


It is but one year ago today that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented its original profile of Mississippi State Senator Jenifer Branning, who in 2015, emerged from a 4 candidate Republican primary by touting her involvement in her Pentecostal Church, winning with 43% of the vote, and then facing no Democratic challengers in the general election. She very quickly made an impression upon the state, taking LGBT bigotry to a new level by filing HB 1523, a “religious freedom” law that makes North Carolina’s HB 2 look like an invitation to a gay pride parade. Not only would it allow legalized discrimination towards the gay and transgendered communities, but it also stated that marriage should be recognized as the union between one man and one woman, and that sexual relations should be reserved for marriage only (!), and that someone’s gender is limited to whatever it is listed at the time of their birth. In spite of the obvious amount of legal discrimination in the bill, Branning had the unmitigated lack of conscience to claim it wasn’t discriminatory at all:

"It gives protection to those in the state who cannot in a good conscience provide services for a same-sex marriage. I don't think this bill is discriminatory — It takes no rights away from anyone."

When Branning’s bit of extremism was criticized widely online, she deleted her Facebook page rather than answer for what she was trying to do. And of course, after its passage, the bill was almost immediately blocked by the courts, because large portions of it are obviously contradictory to the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.That may have had something to do with the fact that the state tried defending the law with the logic that Christians have a right to challenge the freedoms of gay people. So there’s that.

What kind of bigotry will Jenifer Branning stand against? Will you believe that she voted for a bill to classify attacking law enforcement as a hate crime? You heard that right, people are born gay, but they don’t have rights… but people who choose to be a cop, they do, based off of their jobs.

Anyway, we’re not just going to chalk up Branning’s obsession with LGBT rights as our only complaint with her, as she also has already voted to try and block state funding of Planned Parenthood, and for someone who’s so adamant that she’s pro-life, she also voted not just to maintain capital punishment in Mississippi, but allow the state to bring back the electric chair and firing squads as lethal methods of execution. No hypocrisy there, either, no sir. She furthered that disconnect about what “pro-life” means this year as she voted for Mississippi to ban abortion at 15 weeks, flying in the face of the Roe v. Wade ruling.

Branning isn’t up for re-election until 2019, and we’re hoping that she’s only a one term state senator, considering what she’s done in only about a year and a half on the job.

[ZombieHavoc]

Attitudes like are the real reason nothing changes in this country.

You sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a small number of rich people actually dictate everything, all politicians are owned by whatever lobby paid to get them elected and the majority of the people in this country are really, really dumb?

I mean, I vote. But we have to be honest with ourselves. It's just a placebo to make us feel like we are part of this great democracy (or republic) that was forged by the slave-owners that didn't want to pay their taxes who founded the country.

And if we the people are in fact responsible for our government, maybe it should be taken out of our hands, because that shit is broken as hell.

[Iron Maiden]

Rudy should realize that he has a face meant for radio.

He could take over as a TV horror movie host