US politics general thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
crackersa

crackersa

Honorary Master
Joined
May 31, 2011
Messages
29,028
cerebus said:
/shrug. The original story you posted is terrible behavior, but it pales next to some of the stuff perpetrated by the far right. That's all I'm saying. If you think something like this ****er throwing a drink into a kid's face is going to make people vote Trump, what about the racial hate attacks by MAGA'ers? What about stuff like this:

https://www.themarysue.com/trump-trolls-wrong-restaurant/
https://hillreporter.com/watch-a-racist-trump-supporter-attack-mexican-family-3070
http://www.wweek.com/news/courts/20...s-test-the-limits-of-free-speech-in-portland/

The list goes on...
Click to expand...

Is any of those sites considered MSM?
 
Garson007

Garson007

Honorary Master
Joined
Jan 26, 2007
Messages
11,838
cerebus said:
So you think there's nothing wrong with a wrestling coach molesting his kids, then when the kids complain about it the whole story gets hushed up?
Click to expand...
Molestation is incredibly serious.

I could have sympathy for someone not speaking up, but for that person to then become Speaker (the irony) might be a bit much. At this time however I'll take Jim at his word - for what it's worth.
 
cerebus

cerebus

Honorary Master
Joined
Nov 5, 2007
Messages
49,122
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-pruitt-wasnt-corrupt-enough-for-trumpistan

Gem of an article here

What, precisely, did you expect? Donald Trump is unequivocal proof that As hire Bs and Bs hire Cs, and Trump hires people without the judgment, qualifications, ethical foundations, and moral stature to run an underground bum-fighting operation. Scott Pruitt’s obvious money problems should have screamed out in any background check, to say nothing of a Senate confirmation hearing.

Pruitt is a man, like so many of Trump’s claque of low-rent hoodlums, bus-station conmen, edge-case dead-enders, and caged-immigrant child porn aficionados, utterly unsuited to a role of public trust and responsibility.
Click to expand...
 
OrbitalDawn

OrbitalDawn

Ulysses Everett McGill
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
47,031
cerebus said:
So you think there's nothing wrong with a wrestling coach molesting his kids, then when the kids complain about it the whole story gets hushed up?
Click to expand...

Seems child molestation is one of the "family values" conservatives are keen on.

I mean, Jordan told at least 2 immediately bunk lies, then changed his story, then accused the wrestlers of being Derp State agents. :rolleyes:
 
T

Techne

Honorary Master
Joined
Sep 28, 2008
Messages
12,851
In the interest of equality, Trumpistan should treat illegal immigrants like illegal immigrants are being treated from the countries they come from. E.g. treat illegal Mexican immigrants like Mexico treat illegal immigrants.
 
The_Assimilator

The_Assimilator

Executive Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2005
Messages
5,923
Techne said:
In the interest of equality, Trumpistan should treat illegal immigrants like illegal immigrants are being treated from the countries they come from. E.g. treat illegal Mexican immigrants like Mexico treat illegal immigrants.
Click to expand...

Or... or... the (supposedly) greatest nation on Earth could set a standard for others to follow.

Amazing thought, huh?
 
Hamish McPanji

Hamish McPanji

Honorary Master
Joined
Oct 29, 2009
Messages
42,089
Techne said:
In the interest of equality, Trumpistan should treat illegal immigrants like illegal immigrants are being treated from the countries they come from. E.g. treat illegal Mexican immigrants like Mexico treat illegal immigrants.
Click to expand...
You mean, give them safe passage north?
 
OrbitalDawn

OrbitalDawn

Ulysses Everett McGill
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
47,031
Weird how this keeps happening...

California GOP congressional candidate runs as open Holocaust denier

A Republican candidate for Congress in California is openly running as a Holocaust denier, calling it a "complete fabrication" in an interview with The New York Times published Friday.

John Fitzgerald secured one of the top two spots in California's "jungle" primary system last month, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation advance to the general election.
Click to expand...
 
OrbitalDawn

OrbitalDawn

Ulysses Everett McGill
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
47,031
Nice parting gift from the swamp monster.

‘Super Polluting’ Trucks Receive Loophole on Pruitt’s Last Day

In the final hours of Scott Pruitt’s tenure as administrator, the Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to effectively grant a loophole that will allow a major increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produces as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls.
Click to expand...
 
The_Assimilator

The_Assimilator

Executive Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2005
Messages
5,923
Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family: https://www.apnews.com/4cb60fc06ca34160bf7445fdc1f47eed

PHOENIX (AP) — The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for “agua.”

Then it was the child’s turn for his court appearance before a Phoenix immigration judge, who could hardly contain his unease with the situation during the portion of the hearing where he asks immigrant defendants whether they understand the proceedings.

“I’m embarrassed to ask it, because I don’t know who you would explain it to, unless you think that a 1-year-old could learn immigration law,” Judge John W. Richardson told the lawyer representing the 1-year-old boy.

...

In Phoenix on Friday, the Honduran boy named Johan waited over an hour to see the judge. His attorney told Richardson that the boy’s father had brought him to the U.S. but that they had been separated, although it’s unclear when. He said the father, who was now in Honduras, was removed from the country under false pretenses that he would be able to leave with his son.

For a while, the child wore dress shoes, but later he was in just socks as he waited to see the judge. He was silent and calm for most of the hearing, though he cried hysterically afterward for the few seconds that a worker handed him to another person while she gathered his diaper bag. He is in the custody of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department in Arizona.
Click to expand...

If you try to defend a court system that puts one-year-olds in the dock, I don't care who you are or what you believe in, I will call you what you are: a human-shaped sack of s**t.
 
rietrot

rietrot

Honorary Master
Joined
Aug 26, 2016
Messages
33,200
The_Assimilator

The_Assimilator

Executive Member
Joined
Nov 7, 2005
Messages
5,923
rietrot said:
Wow look at you go Thrumpie. Obviously it's a shît system. Trump said so many times. Why do you even need these judges?
Click to expand...

No court system in the world is designed to handle babies, because nobody would ever be stupid enough to put a baby in the dock. Until, of course, Trump came along.

And now he says the system needs fixing, and you're repeating his idiotic utterances like a retarded seal's barks. Here's a hint: what really needs fixing is the pea-sized brain of the man who made the system deal with babies.
 
crackersa

crackersa

Honorary Master
Joined
May 31, 2011
Messages
29,028
The_Assimilator said:
Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family: https://www.apnews.com/4cb60fc06ca34160bf7445fdc1f47eed



If you try to defend a court system that puts one-year-olds in the dock, I don't care who you are or what you believe in, I will call you what you are: a human-shaped sack of s**t.
Click to expand...

Damn that baby is going to be scarred for life, especially since they are trying to follow the constitution with due process.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top