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ponder said:
We have some people here on mybb defending trump, I have some really staunch rep friends in the us & they fscking hate trump. They will go so far as to vote dem (as much as it grates their ass) just to get rid of the sack of schit as they call him. That speaks volumes.
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Lol, that's some A-grade #Nevertrumper butthurt.
 
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buka001 said:
The sooner you realise Trump's only interest in this, is self enrichment and the perpetuation of his "Brand", the sooner you will realise there is no 4D chess game at play.
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His presidency is harmful to his brand so you have that wrong.
 
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Quite something.

Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller's Investigation

I’d like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.

Sometime last year, I went to the FBI and provided information on a person whom I had come to believe had played a significant role in the Russian election attack on the US. Since that time, a number of public events have made it clear I was correct.

I never in my life imagined I would share information with the FBI, especially not on someone I had a journalistic relationship with. I did so for many reasons. Some, but not all, of the reasons are:

I believed he was doing serious harm to innocent people
I believed (others agreed) that reporting the story at that time would risk doing far more harm than good
I had concrete evidence he was lying to me and others, including but not limited to other journalists
I had reason to believe he was testing ways to tamper with my website
I believed that if the FBI otherwise came to understand what kind of information I had, their likely investigative steps would pose a risk to the privacy of my readers

To protect the investigation, I will not disclose this person’s true identity or the identity and/or role I believe he played in the attack. Nor will I disclose when I went to the FBI. I did so on my own, without subpoena; I did that in an effort to protect people who have spoken to me in confidence and other journalists. Largely because this effort involved a number of last minute trips to other cities, I spent around $6K of my own money traveling to meet with lawyers and for the meeting with the FBI.

I always planned to disclose this when this person’s role was publicly revealed. But I’m doing so now for two reasons. First, I think the public deserves to see the text he sent me at 3:15 PM on November 9, 2016.
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ponder said:
We have some people here on mybb defending trump, I have some really staunch rep friends in the us & they fscking hate trump. They will go so far as to vote dem (as much as it grates their ass) just to get rid of the sack of schit as they call him. That speaks volumes.
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crackersa said:
This
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Yeah yeah, that's what everyone said before the 2016 election.

Newsflash, people lie. Newsflash, people who vote for lying sacks of s**t like Trump lie more.

The only way he'll ever get the justice he deserves is if people who claim to be against him, put words into action by getting up off their lazy a**es and VOTING.
 
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Affirmative action: Trump 'to scrap' college racial bias policy
The Trump administration is set to roll back the Obama-era policies promoting diversity in universities, known as affirmative action, US media report.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked 24 guidance documents on Tuesday, many involving race in schools and affirmative action recommendations.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44703874

How very fascist of the Trumpenfüherer, taking away government incentivised racism.
 
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Senate Intel concludes Russia interfered in 2016 presidential election, preferred Trump over Clinton: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ed-2016-election-preferred-trump-over-clinton

The Senate Intelligence Committee released its summary of its review of the U.S. intelligence community's January 2017 assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In a press release, the panel, led by Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Mark Warner, D-Va., said that the judgments in the intelligence community’s assessment “were well-supported and the tradecraft was strong.”

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been reviewing the assessment for 16 months, and Burr, the panel's chairman, said it “sees no reason to dispute the conclusions.”

The panel said it supports the assessment that Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election “represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the U.S.-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.”

Further, the Senate intelligence panel said it agrees with the finding that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the interference campaign, with the goals of “undermining public faith in the U.S. democratic process,” as well as “denigrate” Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“[T]he IC’s [assessment] provided a range of all-source reporting to support these assessments,” said the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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The_Assimilator said:
Affirmative action is racism just as war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
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It ticks every box for racism, even the B.S Marxist definition.

It is making assumptions about a person's character based on their race by people in positions of power.
 
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konfab said:
It ticks every box for racism, even the B.S Marxist definition.

It is making assumptions about a person's character based on their race by people in positions of power.
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You should probably at least learn the difference between racial discrimination and racism first...

racism
ˈreɪsɪz(ə)m/Submit
noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
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How does the above apply to affirmative action in any shape or form?
 
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R13... said:
#MAWA
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That's quite racist to think that fair non-racial policy will favour White people and that somehow brown people need special treatment to complete. Do you believe they are inferior?
 
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rietrot said:
That's quite racist to think that fair non-racial policy will favour White people and that somehow brown people need special treatment to complete. Do you believe they are inferior?
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Do you believe that whites and blacks currently receive equal treatment in the US in terms of access to quality primary education...?
 
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Cray said:
Do you believe that whites and blacks currently receive equal treatment in the US in terms of access to quality primary education...?
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Do you think Bill Gates' kids and a coal miner's kids have equal access?
 
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