Same...
... and yes, only two answers to each of these political questions? Can't get more American than that, basicallyI gave up midway, the options are pretty much the 2-party response and nothing beyond that.
For fecks sake.
Remember when he said he'd give key positions to his children and what laughed at the absurdity of the possibility?
For fecks sake.
Yup, he's clearly ignoring more laws (nepotism) and yet again just carrying on doing whatever the feck he likes. I mean he's already had his daughter and son in law take positions so why not his daughter in law too? It's unreal how much the US public will accept, and the Republicans for that matter.
For fecks sake.
This is about Puerto Rico and the continuing aftermath, from 7:30 to 39:00.
The person being interviewed has some articles here: https://theintercept.com/staff/aidachavez/
which have probably the same information.
The US is undergoing an epistemic breach
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy having to do with how we know things and what it means for something to be true or false, accurate or inaccurate. (Episteme, or ἐπιστήμη, is ancient Greek for knowledge/science/understanding.)
The US is experiencing a deep epistemic breach, a split not just in what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know things, and what we believe we know — what we believe exists, is true, has happened and is happening.
The primary source of this breach, to make a long story short, is the US conservative movement’s rejection of the mainstream institutions devoted to gathering and disseminating knowledge (journalism, science, the academy) — the ones society has appointed as referees in matters of factual dispute. #
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Say Mueller reveals hard proof that the Trump campaign knowingly colluded with Russia, strategically using leaked emails to hurt Clinton’s campaign. Say the president — backed by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Fox News, Breitbart, most of the US Cabinet, half the panelists on CNN, most of the radio talk show hosts in the country, and an enormous network of Russian-paid hackers and volunteer shitposters working through social media — rejects the evidence.
They might say Mueller is compromised. It’s a Hillary/Deep State plot. There’s nothing wrong with colluding with Russia in this particular way. Dems did it first. All of the above. Whatever.
Say the entire right-wing media machine kicks to life and dismisses the whole thing as a scam — and conservatives believe them. The conservative base remains committed to Trump, politicians remain scared to cross the base, and US politics remains stuck in partisan paralysis, unable to act on what Mueller discovers.
In short, what if Mueller proves the case and it’s not enough? What if there is no longer any evidentiary standard that could overcome the influence of right-wing media?
More at the link....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16588964/america-epistemic-crisis
On the day Obama came out and informed the public of Russian meddling in the election her candidate was on video admitting to sexual assault and her party were reveling in the crime of hacking the files and private emails of members of the DNC which were then released by a person who has a vendetta against the democratic candidate and who the vast majority of republicans and Fox News wanted executed only three years ago. What a fecking sneaky bitch she is.
Look who's back
It will be awesome if he tweets like Ron Howard voiceovers on Arrested development everytime someone in the Trumpverse lies.
They love weapons so much that they made one President.
I read (think I posted it here too) that original article and then read a piece about it and it's supposedly 'sexist' undertones on WaPo. I thought about posting that in the "Has political correctness gone to far" thread, but couldn't be bothered, given the discussions going on there.
I still don't understand how looking like a "soccer mom" can be seen as derogatory, on the contrary, insinuating that it is is insulting to millions of women who raise their children themselves (including taking them to soccer practice....). That she's chunky is simply an observation, and to be fair to her, one of the kinder ones that come to mind to anybody who has seen her press briefings.
I mean Sean Spicer was being portrayed by a woman. How wasn't that an insult to his masculinity? Heard anyone complaining?
Well if one goes down, they will all sink with SS Trumptanic
Well I'd previously thought you a sensible chap.Going on about her chunkiness is not a good comment to make considering she has many other traits worthy of severe criticism. However, to call such things sexist is fecking laughable, made only by the hypersensitive types.
That's what saying, @oates. It's an unnecessary comment especially coming from the mainstream media. I just don't agree with it being sexist, that's all. But this thread probably isn't the place to debate that anyway.Well I'd previously thought you a sensible chap.
It is simply something that you do not need to say if you want your criticisms to be taken seriously.
Juli Briskman didn't think twice when she gave President Donald Trump the finger as his motorcade passed her while she was cycling on a road near his golf club.
"He was passing by and my blood just started to boil," the Democrat mother of two, 50, told HuffPost.
"I'm thinking, he's at the damn golf course again."
But the obscene gesture, captured on 28 October by AFP White House photographer Brendan Smialowski, who was riding in Mr Trump's convoy, quickly went viral. And it has now cost the single mother her job.
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But it didn't please Ms Briskman's bosses at Akima LLC, a builder that does work for the US government and military.
Three days later they told Ms Briskman, a marketing officer, she had to go.
"They said, 'We're separating from you,'" Ms Briskman told HuffPost.
"Basically, you cannot have 'lewd' or 'obscene' things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off 'obscene.'"
I agree it's not the place but it was your opinion on the sensitivities of people that I found unnecessary but let's leave it.That's what saying, @oates. It's an unnecessary comment especially coming from the mainstream media. I just don't agree with it being sexist, that's all. But this thread probably isn't the place to debate that anyway.
John Oliver absolutely fecking nails it yet again.
Trump CANNOT use the stupid defence because that means he's incompetent and too naïve to continue to be President. If he didn't know what Gates, Flynn, Manafort and co were up to then he's a fecking idiot that is too dumb and not fit to be President.
If HE DID know then he's a meticulous man who made strategic decisions fully aware of the consequences of his actions. Therefore completely unfit to be President.
Nail on head!
John Oliver absolutely fecking nails it yet again.
Trump CANNOT use the stupid defence because that means he's incompetent and too naïve to continue to be President. If he didn't know what Gates, Flynn, Manafort and co were up to then he's a fecking idiot that is too dumb and not fit to be President.
If HE DID know then he's a meticulous man who made strategic decisions fully aware of the consequences of his actions. Therefore completely unfit to be President.
Nail on head!
I virtually the same about Sessions a few days back.
He’ll play the I’m too inexperienced card again and it’ll brush off him. Guy is teflon of the highest standard.
You did indeed mate. It didn't go unnoticed
I don't doubt that for a second. I don't think there is anyone like him in history. He has evaded more scandals than anyone ever, and many are serious, serious scandals. Just imagine if Obama had done 1/100th of what he had done. Pure insanity and until he gets his comeuppance he convinces me that karma is bullshit, not everyone gets what's coming to them and I would say the rich get away with everything but look at Harvey, Spacey and Cosby. It just seems Trump is untouchable.
Unbearable, hideous cnut.