US politics general thread

[Techne]

The student survivors of the Parkland, Florida massacre have been planning the March 24 rally since shortly after the shooting at their high school on Valentine’s Day that left 17 dead.

http://time.com/5167102/march-for-our-lives-parkland-school-shooting-protest/

Summmbody is lying.

 

[greg0205]

http://time.com/5167102/march-for-our-lives-parkland-school-shooting-protest/

Summmbody is lying.

Like Emma tearing up the constitution, right? I'mma let you take a guess at which side... Go.

 

[Xarog]

http://time.com/5167102/march-for-our-lives-parkland-school-shooting-protest/



Summmbody is lying.

You can't direct link twitter images anymore.

 

[greg0205]

You can't direct link twitter images anymore.

Working for me. Is this a new forum thing we need to know about?

 

[Xarog]

Like Emma tearing up the constitution, right? I'mma let you take a guess at which side... Go.

:crylaugh:

Do you have any evidence that it was intended to fool anyone? Do you think every other meme on the planet is similarly meant to represent factual reality?

 

[Xarog]

Working for me. Is this a new forum thing we need to know about?

No, if it's working for you then the fault lies with me. Or my browser. I think perhaps Firefox has improved its do-not-track feature.

Edit: Confirmed. Kudos to Mozilla for filtering out social media from the web to protect privacy.

 

[greg0205]

:crylaugh:

Do you have any evidence that it was intended to fool anyone? Do you think every other meme on the planet is similarly meant to represent factual reality?

Meh. Techne and rietrot's trolling has been weak for a while now, and you, well, you should be spending your time here better... Finite as it is.

 

[Xarog]

Meh. Techne and rietrot's trolling has been weak for a while now, and you, well, you should be spending your time here better... Finite as it is.

The whole thing was such a blatant PR op from start to finish. Those kids never organised anything and are being cynically manipulated by the Dems, exactly as I initially said was happening. Apparently you think exposing all of this is weak trolling? :wtf:

Perhaps you think your preferred choice of propaganda is still effective even after it has been exposed as a contrivance?

 

[Xarog]

https://twitter.com/THEREALMRSAZON/status/980326179201830913

:crylaugh:

Methinks the lady doth protest slightly too much. Does Harry Reid have something to hide?

 

[greg0205]

The whole thing was such a blatant PR op from start to finish. Those kids never organised anything and are being cynically manipulated by the Dems, exactly as I initially said was happening. Apparently you think exposing all of this is weak trolling? :wtf:

Perhaps you think your preferred choice of propaganda is still effective even after it has been exposed as a contrivance?

And your willingness to have grifters wearing your tribal colours dictate your thinking is breathtaking. There is no round hole you can't imagine a square peg in if Fox/Breitbart/RedState/DailyCaller/Drudge/Rush/SHS et al tell you to.

 

[Xarog]

And your willingness to have grifters wearing your tribal colours dictate your thinking is breathtaking. There is no round hole you can't imagine a square peg in if Fox/Breitbart/RedState/DailyCaller/Drudge/Rush/SHS et al tell you to.

I suppose you think its a complete coincendence that people like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz swooped in on the kids while they magically organised this "grassroots" movement like a bunch of pros.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/george-amal-clooney-donate-parkland-shooting-1202704831/

Totally organic, right?

 

[greg0205]

I suppose you think its a complete coincendence that people like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz swooped in on the kids while they magically organised this "grassroots" movement like a bunch of pros.

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/george-amal-clooney-donate-parkland-shooting-1202704831/

Totally organic, right?

'Cos folk like Clooney, Winfrey, Speilberg and so on, were *never* left-leaning political until March For Our Lives... amirite?

Also, y'all keep trying to inject Dem bogeymen into everything... It's pathetic.

 

[Xarog]

'Cos folk like Clooney, Winfrey, Speilberg and so on, were *never* left-leaning political until March For Our Lives... amirite?

Also, y'all keep trying to injecting Dem bogymen into everything... It's pathetic.

Of course they were on the left. Hollywood is also a breeding ground for anti-Trump activism which means that they're a great source of public money for the Dems. So the Dems offer the A-list celebs a PR opportunity to make a massive donation to the stage-managed kids which then provides the majority of the funds for the astroturfed movement.

http://time.com/money/4967700/mike-...ating-tens-of-thousands-to-las-vegas-victims/

This is actually the only other news story I can find that specifically mentions celebrities donating funds in response to a mass shooting. They didn't spontaneously offer money for this event, someone prompted them for it and they went along with it because they knew that the funds were being controlled by DNC operatives.

 

[greg0205]

@Xarog

Here's Steve Schmidt letting you know that we know why your tribe has a problem with these kids.

http://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/979475267004649478



Also, 'cos everyone really, really should follow Schmidt... Here he is on the crooks, weirdos and wife-beaters staffing the WH.

http://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/979851051108102144

Happy Easter

 

[greg0205]

Of course they were on the left. Hollywood is also a breeding ground for anti-Trump activism which means that they're a great source of public money for the Dems. So the Dems offer the A-list celebs a PR opportunity to make a massive donation to the stage-managed kids which then provides the majority of the funds for the astroturfed movement.

http://time.com/money/4967700/mike-...ating-tens-of-thousands-to-las-vegas-victims/

This is actually the only other news story I can find that specifically mentions celebrities donating funds in response to a mass shooting. They didn't spontaneously offer money for this event, someone prompted them for it and they went along with it because they knew that the funds were being controlled by DNC operatives.

Comic Sans... I forgot to use Comic Sans... You should also use it when you start up with the "stage managed' BS too.

 

[Xarog]

@Xarog

Here's Steve Schmidt letting you know that we know why your tribe has a problem with these kids.

http://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/979475267004649478

Also, 'cos everyone really, really should follow Schmidt... Here he is on the crooks, weirdos and wife-beaters staffing the WH.

http://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/979851051108102144

Happy Easter

My problem lies with the fabricated MSM narrative contrived to manipulate people against their own interests. I find your hostility to be surprising but nonetheless amusing.

 

[C4Cat]

Comic Sans... I forgot to use Comic Sans... You should also use it when you start up with the "stage managed' BS too.

Apparently providing money and support to causes and principles you believe in is something only Hollywood dems do. :wtf:

 

[Xarog]

Comic Sans... I forgot to use Comic Sans... You should also use it when you start up with the "stage managed' BS too.

All of this from a small troupe of teenage drama kids at a Florida high school whose only worry last week rose from the stress of trying to memorize their lines. This week they all have much larger roles to play.

Several of the Never Again leaders are members of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama club. “All these kids are drama kids, and I’m a dramatic kid, so it really meshes well,” says leader Emma González.

Being “dramatic” doesn’t make any of these young people insincere. They are furiously committed. Even so, a dark fringe of “Fake News” conspiracy wackos on the internet are already accusing some of the kids of not being real students at all but professional “crisis actors” paid to cause trouble. Asked about this charge, student Cameron Kasky told CNN that anyone who had seen him in the school’s production of Fiddler on the Roof knows that “nobody would pay me to act for anything.”

Are you surprised that these teenage drama nerds are now taking the international stage by storm? I’m not.

A theatre class is more than an artistic distraction for students. It can serve as a lightning rod of empowerment for young people. For many teens, the experience of standing in a spotlight on a stage in a play or musical, galvanizing the attention of adults in the audience, is the first time a young person discovers that what they say matters. They learn that words have power, that their voice can move and inspire others.

https://www.americantheatre.org/201...-never-again-leaders-are-theatre-kids-im-not/

Just wondering, do you think drama students would find an offer of fame to be enticing? Do you think duplicitous political operators would be willing to cynically make this sort of offer to a bunch of gullible children?

 

[C4Cat]

https://www.americantheatre.org/201...-never-again-leaders-are-theatre-kids-im-not/

Just wondering, do you think drama students would find an offer of fame to be enticing? Do you think duplicitous political operators would be willing to cynically make this sort of offer to a bunch of gullible children?

Do you think 'children' who narrowly escaped death by a fellow 'child' with a gun may genuinely think gun control is a good idea? Do you think guns should be kept out of the hands of 'children'? Do you honestly think these 'children' do not have their own opinions and principles? Do you really think these teenagers are just gullible children, easy to manipulate because they aren't yet capable of forming their own opinions?

 

[greg0205]

My problem lies with the fabricated MSM narrative contrived to manipulate people against their own interests. I find your hostility to be surprising but nonetheless amusing.

Let me tell you what I find amusing... Y'all spent a year in the election thread, and going on a year and a half in the Trump threads, gleefully skipping and dancing to your own, "Trump is the disruptor Washington and the MSM need" tune... Yet here we are, with *actual* disruption from these teens, and your tribe has come out in a rash and run straight home to "fake news", "staged managed" and "nazi salute" to hide out, lay low and throw stones.

I get the irony will be completely lost on you, but for the rest of us its delicious.