All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!(Part II)

[JCAll]

Facts. Remember when they used to matter?

No facts, just Fox.

[PaulBullion]

JFC:

Michael Avenatti accused of hiding a $4 million settlement from a mentally ill paraplegic on disability

Basta.

Indicted on 36 charges.

[numberthirty]

Oh please. Of course she knows. She's trying to make the point that even if the banks are no longer doing it, that doesn't mean they shouldn't pay for their past crimes.

To me, that's not how the following clip looks. I don't see any real attempt to discuss that. Just a quick shift to small business. Even that shift felt like a stumble. She doesn't seem like she knows that one of those banks is probably doing the small business lending that she doesn't seem to believe they are doing.

Thought about if the clip could have been edited. Doesn't feel that way.

[numberthirty]

While this one is a very "Local" sort of a news piece, it's still worth a quick look.

https://idahonews.com/news/local/tod...tment-building

Toddler miraculously survives 6-story fall in Redmond

[numberthirty]

JFC:

Michael Avenatti accused of hiding a $4 million settlement from a mentally ill paraplegic on disability

Basta.

Indicted on 36 charges.

So...

I can accept that FNC is collectively too stupid to have even suspected any of this.

That said, not one of the other major news outfits that used to have this guy one five times a day had a clue about any of this?

Seriously?

[InformationGeek]

Thomas Massie insulted John Kerry for having a political science degree. People called him out on it. Massie spews more BS.

When I asked Kerry if he had a science degree, he answered “no” but forgot to turn his microphone on. The left has been using his flub to conceal what this exchange proved which is Kerry admitted he doesn’t have a science degree, even though his degree says “science”

Then it goes further crazy with this reply...

Do you think that all of these twits sniping at you really are this obtuse or is it just more fake organized lefty fraud?

And then Massie answering it with this response.

It’s a combination. Notice that virtually none of them dispute any scientific fact that I stated in the hearing?

This guy is soooooooo full of himself.

[4saken1]

Step one: Georgetown pollster polls 1000 people, finds Trump has a disapproval rating of 55.

Step two: Lou Dobbs thinks this poll would be better if it was upside, down, and claims the approval rating is actually 55.

Step three: Trump retweets Dobbs' lying graphic.



Facts. Remember when they used to matter?

Not a FOX! They knew exactly what they were doing. Their viewers don't actually give a **** whether it's true or not. I guarantee that we will be seeing conservatives on the interwebs stating that Trump's approval ratings are 55% this time next year despite the fact that they likely won't have budged.

[Malvolio]

Thomas Massie insulted John Kerry for having a political science degree. People called him out on it. Massie spews more BS.




Then it goes further crazy with this reply...



And then Massie answering it with this response.




This guy is soooooooo full of himself.

I want to know how this guy graduated from MIT. He really doesn't know how someone can earn a Bachelor of ARTS degree in Political SCIENCE? Either he doesn't realize that there's more than one definition of "arts," and more than one definition of "science," or I'm calling shenanigans here.

[Tendrin]

According to The Washington Post, documents show that the Trump administration and hardliners like WH adviser Stephen Miller pressured the Department of Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction over ICE, to release detained migrants in sanctuary cities in order to exert political pressure on rivals like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The report says that Homeland Security officials pushed back against the proposal, and it was ultimately rejected.

This administration is bad.

[TriggerWarning]

Suspect Arrested in Fires at Black Churches in Louisiana


They keep telling me I am supposed to be afraid of hungry refugees who came here to find jobs, escape persecution, and feed their families. But, apparently a Sheriff's son running around setting historically black churches on fire terrorizing communities?

Bad kids with mental illness can happen to anyone and in this case the Sheriff assisted law enforcement in arresting his son without incident as he was as horrified as everyone else over what his son did.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump Says He Knows ‘Nothing About WikiLeaks’ After Once Saying ‘I Love WikiLeaks’

With Julian Assange’s arrest, the president appears to have forgotten how he lavishly praised the nonprofit in 2016. No, Trump didn't forget, like Pontius Pilate, Caramel Caligula washed his hands of Assange and kicked him to the curb after he outlived his usefulness.

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Women Sexually Abused By Catholic Nuns Speak Up: She Told Me It Was ‘God’s Love’

Two survivors share stories of grooming, emotional manipulation and sexual abuse by nuns in the Catholic Church. So, it's not just priests behaving badly. Damned disturbing.

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Tennessee Lawmakers Consider Fines And Criminal Penalties For Voter Registration Drives

Activists say the measure would chill efforts to register people in a state that already has significant problems with voter registration and turnout. What? WHAT?!?

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Trump Railed At Illegal Immigration But Now Owns The Worst Numbers In A Decade

His erratic decisions and inflammatory rhetoric, critics say, are actually making things worse at the Mexico border. Show of hands if you're surprised.

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James Comey Doesn’t Know ‘What The Heck’ Barr Meant About ‘Spying’ On Trump Camp

Has the attorney general come to the belief that “court-ordered electronic surveillance is spying?” the former FBI director said. “Wow.” Barr is simply repeating Dolt45's crazy ass rhetoric like he was told to do, nothing more.

[worstblogever]

I want to know how this guy graduated from MIT.

Maybe his parents know Laurie Laughlin?

[worstblogever]

It on this date in 2015 that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had a profile of Charles Key, a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives who was nationally noteworthy for being an Oklahoma City Bombing Truther, who garnered a fanatical support base from right wing militia groups who believed that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were framed, and after 1998 hearings confirmed the guilty parties were in fact, those militia goons, Charles Key denounced the jury he picked's decision. As a legislator, though, Key pushed for the 10th Amendment to be used to nullify everything from the Affordable Care Act to firearms laws, and even co-sponsored Oklahoma's attempt to ban Sharia Law in their state, as if there is a huge Muslim population there in the first place. Key was thankfully forced out of office due to term limits.



In 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented profiles of Colorado State Senator Vicki Marble, who was first elected in 2012 with the help of Glenn Beck's 9/12 Tea Party movement. Since reaching office, she has been an utter embarrassment for the Colorado GOP. Marble's first debut in the news cycle about being, for lack of a better term, a marble-head was in April of 2013, where in a discussion over the pre-school education budget, she decided it would be a good time to rant about an MSNBC commercial promoting Melissa Harris-Perry's show, and also to compare Democrats' plans to Communism and ideas Hitler and the Third Reich had. She then had people paying attention when she spoke, and it didn't take too much longer for her to deliver. In August of 2013, when she decided to weigh in on the floor of the Colorado State Senate about the poverty levels of African Americans and Hispanics, and blamed the genetic health problems "the black race" faces on their love of barbecue and chicken. And guess what? Vicki Marble refused to apologize for her statement, even as the Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party threw her under the us for what she said. In her mind, she didn't do anything wrong, she was just "trying to start a dialogue". But as her first year in office was coming to a close, Vicki Marble brought colossally stupid to the table, instead of just her inflammatory and bigoted remarks previously when she began calling for legislation to prevent people from using food stamps to buy pot brownies from Colorado marijuana dispensaries... because she was afraid that was happening after she read an article on a parody news site about it. Marble's voting record has also seen an obsessive fascination with gun rights where even in light of the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting, she's been voting against any and all gun control bills, including co-sponsoring a bill to allow domestic violence offenders to continue to own a firearm, in spite of studies that show they are more likely to use those weapons against their accusers. On social issues... for whatever reason, Marble voted against Colorado's attempt to repeal the classification of adultery as a criminal offense in the state, and she also made news for being so anti-abortion that she sponsored a bill to amend the definition of assault and homicide to include any fetus "from conception through birth", which is the most overwhelming wide range of time in any of those end-around attempts at repealing Roe v. Wade we've ever seen from a Republican. And that's saying something.

In spite of getting lambasted by the Denver Post for being a "hateful dissident" in opinion editorials, and having lackluster fundraising, Marble was re-elected rather easily with 58% of the vote in 2016. She has entered her second term in office, attempting to find ways to allow people to find loopholes to getting their kids vaccinated, and sponsoring a repeal of Colorado's rather modest gun control law to outlaw large-capacity ammunition magazines (the kind that was used to carry out the Aurora Massacre).

That is, until October of 2017, when Vicki Marble went to visit a Cub Scout troop, and an 11-year old kid present asked her why she voted to allow domestic abusers to continue to have access to firearms, and why she made her comments about African Americans liking chicken back four years earlier. Now, staring a child in the eyes and admitting you made a mistake would be the human thing to do, but apparently, that sort of morality is beyond Vicki Marble, who LIED to the face of a Boy Scout and told him the story was “made up by the media”. (Not according to the record in the legislature it’s not, Vicki.) A week later, she wrote an op-ed in her local newspaper, changing her story again and admitting she DID say those things, and that they were “widely recognized as true”, but her remarks were “twisted by the PC police”. Can the optics get any worse? Marble threw enough of a fit that the Cub Scout was thrown out of his troop for asking the question Marble didn’t like (another troop quickly invited him to join, instead).

While we have noted that Marble is scheduled to remain in office until 2021, she’s quickly becoming the target of ethics investigations, because she’s blissfully unaware of the fact that it’s a conflict of interests and pretty corrupt to have the employees of oil and gas companies who donate money to your campaign also pay for town halls you host in public restaurants, then shrug and claim you had “no idea” who actually was footing the bill. Because we all know ignorance absolves you of a crime, right?

But more alarmingly, she’s shown herself unable to accept the reality that Colorado has begun trending towards being a blue state, with a Democratic Governor, and a Democratic majority in the state legislature. Twice in March of 2019, she has responded to her frustration over oil and gas tax breaks that she sponsored not getting anywhere in the Colorado State Senate, she took to social media, and twice called on Northern Colorado (the more conservative part) to “SECEDE: from the state and form its own." And that’s not a misquote, or a misuse of capitalization, when she writes the word, it’s in all caps so you know she’s serious. She then began prodding her followers to potentially commit a domestic terror attack, telling one, "Let the ‘Ambush begin….you know what I mean…. Kyle.” When a local reporter tried following up to find out if she was serious and what the hell she was playing at, she threatened HIM, saying, "I’m coming after you." After much criticism, she tried blaming it on her constituents, saying she’s being hearing talk of secession from THEM (even if that’s the case, she’s been caught throwing gas on that fire.)

The next two years cannot fly by fast enough so that Colorado can be rid of this bigoted, brain-addled twit.

[worstblogever]

So should someone start an "All New Politics Thread Vol. 4- The Center Cannot Hold", then, now that we're on page 1000?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

A thousand pages in what, just little over eight months? That's amazing!