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Nightmare Norman Rockwell

"Rubbing One of the King's Balls"

"Freedom to Worship False Idols"

"Basking in Unpopularity"

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

Anomynous.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses...86447037112321

Solid gold

O-BAMA YOU'RE SO FINE YOU'RE SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND O-BAMA! O-BAMA!

After years (feels like centuries at this point) of Drumpf's incoherent rants on Twatter and Monty Python versions of the Nuremberg rallies, Obama's both rational and moving speech seemed like beamed in from another PLANET. Glad to have him back.

The Best People, episode I lost count:

Former Trump aide George Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Says he "can't guarantee" he didn't tell Trump campaign about Russian dirt

Of course, it's only 14 days for now, and only because he flipped. Noice.

From The Washington Post:

Trump's 9/11 starts like any other day — with him mad at something he saw on Fox

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The morning of Sept. 11 began like any other. That was true in New York City in 2001, before terrorists struck the World Trade Center. And it was true in Washington in 2018, when President Trump began his day not with a somber remembrance of those killed 17 years prior but with a tweet excoriating the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [...]

Which brings me to — from Brand New Congress:

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Is this how we honor our heroes?

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That's how many times John Feal has testified before Congress seeking help for first responders and people of the community exposed to dangerous toxins in the clean-up at Ground Zero.

John is a veteran, a 9/11 first responder, a survivor, and a tireless advocate for victims who continue to suffer the effects of that day. John himself is afflicted with asthma and GERD, and struggled with PTSD for years, but he considers himself one of the lucky ones. Others are suffering from multiple, aggressive forms of cancer. Every 3 days, we lose another one.

Since 2004, survivors like John have been lobbying Congress to provide compensation and adequate medical care to address the long-term health impacts of those who worked at Ground Zero, and lived in the surrounding community.

First, our lawmakers told them, "This is a New York problem."

But there were people from 433 Congressional Districts represented in those recovery efforts.

Then, Congress asked them, "How are we going to pay for it?"

...a question they've never asked in the 18 years we've been at war in Afghanistan, or any of the conflicts we've entered since.

Outrageously, some lawmakers even accused Feal and his fellow victims advocates of fabricating their illnesses.

It took six years of relentless lobbying by first responders, many of whom were dying, and their advocates to shame Congress into taking action. The Zadroga Bill was passed in 2010 and the Victims Compensation Fund was established. The bill went through a vicious reauthorization fight in 2015. Now it's set to expire again in 2020.

Unfortunately, the long-term health effects are accelerating, and the fund will run out of money before it can be reauthorized. It's estimated by 2020 the official death toll for the September 11th attacks will more than double once all affected by the Ground Zero clean-up are counted. Today, more than 10,000 survivors registered with the VCF have a government-certified 9/11-related cancer. Over 40% of VCF registrants have three or more illnesses.

Every year, like clockwork, our politicians somberly acknowledge the terrible events of that day, telling us to "Never forget."

But when their efforts are truly needed many are, at best, absent or worse, fighting against the commitment we made as a nation.

Where is their sense of duty? Where is their honor?

And if they won't stand up for the survivors of 9/11, how can we expect them to stand up for the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet every day? How can we expect them to support our citizens in Puerto Rico, still struggling to rebuild the island one year after Hurricane María? Or the working poor left homeless after Hurricane Harvey? Or the millions of Americans financially devastated by the Great Recession?

If we can't count on Congress to step up and do their duty for our most venerated heroes, we can't expect them to look out for any of us.

On days like this, we pause to reflect on this long, difficult, necessary path before us, and remember why we're doing this. This is some of the hardest work any of us have ever undertaken, but we believe the only way to have a Congress that truly works for all of us is to elect an entirely new one, unburdened by financial dependence on the super rich and special interests, and committed to what all Americans want.

Healthcare for all. Opportunities for a debt-free education. The chance to learn a new trade, launch a new business — or simply to earn an honest day's pay for an honest day's work.

We need to fill the halls of Congress with advocates and champions, allies and activists, whistleblowers and working class heroes. We need a Congress who will fight for our first responders, and for all of us. We need a Congress humble enough to serve, and dedicated to their duty to the nation.

Thank you for being part of this journey with us.

In solidarity,

Isra Allison, Executive Director

Brand New Congress

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Acting ICE Director attends annual media event of anti-immigrant hate group FAIR

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...ate-group-fair

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Originally Posted by ilduclo

Acting ICE Director attends annual media event of anti-immigrant hate group FAIR

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...ate-group-fair

Charming. :mad:

"LET'S KICK THESE FUCKERS OUT!"
—Lee Ranaldo, August 25, 2018

Speaking about the family separation policy, a program that has received bipartisan condemnation, Vitiello shrugged off that “only 2,500 people were affected by that situation.”

and about 500 of the kids are still in custody. and, building more kids jails and cages as we speak

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/u...detention.html

MANAFORT FLIPS THE FUCK ON TRUMP

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

<- it's coming for ya, motherfuckers...

Told ya...

Nikki Hailey gets 52,000$ taxpayer bought curtains for her 58,000$ a month taxpayer paid apartment.

Should be Nikki Jailey

I just hope that apocalypse predicted for 2012 simply got stuck in space traffic.

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I just hope that apocalypse predicted for 2012 simply got stuck in space traffic.

I dig the one predicted for 1991.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

MANAFORT FLIPS THE FUCK ON TRUMP

Told ya...

Don't expect a reply from the Trump twins on here. There's no way they can spin this one into a Democrat lies or drain the swamp thing.

Walls are closing in on him.

On Tuesday, Congress woman Tulsi Gabbard pointed out the glaring hypocrisy of the White House honoring those who were killed by Al-Qaeda during 9/11 while the US is simultaneously supporting Al-Qaeda in Idlib.
“While President Trump & VP Pence give 9/11 speeches about how much they care about the victims of al-Qaeda’s attack on our country, they are simultaneously acting as protectors of AQ in Syria/Idlib, threatening Russia and Syria that if they attack al-Qaeda, we will punish them,” Gabbard tweeted.

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I think he's got serious chances to become a republican candidate for the big elections. But I don't believe that the world has become such a dump that he would actually become the president.

unfortunately it has

as you can witness

Forget the Trump Circus: Focus Instead on his Ruinous Policies

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When Trump was elected, Luigi Zingales, an Italian-born professor and a close observer of the smarmy Italian tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi — in my view, the closest modern-day parallel to Trump — advised Democrats not to focus on the man or his personality or the latest scandals. Doing so would only reinforce Trump supporters’ views that the discredited establishment was trying to frustrate their champion. Instead, Zingales said, the opposition should probe the forces that brought Trump to power and expose the big lie behind his fake populist posturings.

As Zingales argued, demagogues such as Trump come to power because people are alienated and angry — often justifiably so. The demagogues behave repugnantly, but when the opposition focuses on that awful behavior — as Hillary Clinton did in the election campaign — it is playing a losing hand. The more the elite go after Trump, Zingales suggests, the more people think, “He’s one of us.” Reflecting on this, David Leonhardt of the New York Times concluded, “The successful strategy . . . is to treat the demagogue like a normal politician who is failing to deliver. . . . Democrats need to cast [Trump] more like a plutocrat and feckless president and less like a buffoon and a cartoon villain.”

[…]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...17b_story.html

We have a president who is protecting us against Chinese dumping and slave labor and the transnationalists all go WAAH!! Trump is horrible, we want a trannie for president!

“One pastor in Beijing not long ago was told by the government, ‘pastor we don’t mind if you continue holding your services, we just want to put this camera on your platform looking out at the audience and it’s attached to facial recognition software so that we can tell who comes to church on Sunday and who’s there and what they are doing and how involved they are,'” he said.

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Originally Posted by tesla69

We have a president who is protecting us against Chinese dumping and slave labor and the transnationalists all go WAAH!! Trump is horrible,

“One pastor in Beijing not long ago was told by the government, ‘pastor we don’t mind if you continue holding your services, we just want to put this camera on your platform looking out at the audience and it’s attached to facial recognition software so that we can tell who comes to church on Sunday and who’s there and what they are doing and how involved they are,'” he said.

If you honestly don't believe governments around the world (be it the US or the UK for me) will be implementing facial recognition into every facet of life they can you're mental. Hell, it's already started

Amazon, the company synonymous with online shopping, is supplying facial recognition technology to government and law enforcement agencies over its web services platform.

As for the tariffs I guess you're too far up Trumps ass to realise that the only people who are going to be affected by it are the American consumers. Yay good going, Trump!

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we want a trannie for president!

Rather a "trannie" with brains than a rich white male with shit for brains

I read that at first as Chinese dumplings. That would be a damn shame!

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Don't expect a reply from the Trump twins on here. There's no way they can spin this one into a Democrat lies or drain the swamp thing.

Walls are closing in on him.

“It’s not clear why Manafort agreed to flip after a year of refusing to do so.”

What are considerations at sentencing......a possible pardon?

Alex Trbeck: CORRECT!

Now for the Daily Double

Any walls closing in will be on Muller’s employment as I hope President Trump sets a deadline for the investigation once the midterms are over.

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Rather a "trannie" with brains than a rich white male with shit for brains

but shit for brains is what tessie is all about...

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

“It’s not clear why Manafort agreed to flip after a year of refusing to do so.”.

I think Manafort is going to take down Podesta & Group - and I keep hearing Weiner's laptop is back in play. One can hope!

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Amazon, the company synonymous with online shopping, is supplying facial recognition technology to government and law enforcement agencies over its web services platform.

No shit sherlock. Do you use Amazon? I stopped several years ago when I realized my quest to save 25% was a quest to destroy my literal community and how they bottom feed every other job from warehousing to delivery, destroying real workers real union jobs.

I think you people are the most beautifully deluded generation ever, I say 'well, I think that might be good' and I'm automatically 100% Trump for Life + some drunken slur - I won't have your ideology forced on me and many people feel the same way. Generation Deluded!

Trump is a certified moron, watch this video and be amazed

https://nowthisnews.com/videos/polit...-are-invisible

"If Dr. Christine Blasey Ford said you pinned her on a bed and tried to rape her, would she be lying?"

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Originally Posted by tesla69

Ooh he's an angry elf!

I actually don't get what you're babbling on about. I'm pointing out how you post about the Chinese government using facial recognition and how HORRENDOUS it is (which it is and bad sign of the directions we're heading in). I just replied back with the fact that your own government is quite happily using them. I wasn't attacking you in anyway. Just trying to highlight some flaws in your arguments. Don't point to another country and say what they're doing is so wrong when your own is doing the exact same thing.

Actually, seeing I started pointing out your flaws I'll carry on.
I love how you profess to care about workers and "real union jobs" when your hero of the hour Trump has started the strangle to kill union jobs. But of course, let your obsessive hatred for my "generation" blind you. Even though a)you have no idea how old I am or anything else about me and b)the reason workers rights even exist is because of the left.

Once again, Trump and his cronies couldn't give a fuck about you and your workers rights, and will happily try to destroy every bit of it.

Anyway, cheer up doll.

i’ve been saving this to read since it appeared the other day and now im in the middle of it

since i’m not big on patience i came here to post the link to it

“a manifesto for renewing liberalism”

https://www.economist.com/leaders/20...ing-liberalism

pretty good so far!

"what happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep, that's been a good thing for all of us" ---Brett Kraven-augh 2015 Columbus School of Law speech

audience laughed their asses off

here is the essay with analysis and policy proposals that go with that thing above. lots to digest:

https://www.economist.com/essay/2018...onomist-at-175

i didn’t know the economist was so old! bananas. ok.

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Originally Posted by tesla69

We have a president who is protecting us against Chinese dumping and slave labor and the transnationalists all go WAAH!! Trump is horrible, we want a trannie for president!

What exactly would be the problem with an LGBTQIA+R/-R/RW president anyway?

hey tessie check this out

Kathleen Parker in the WP :

"Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger?

As crazy as that sounds, it wouldn't be unheard of. And, given the high regard in which Kavanaugh has been held throughout his life, including during high school, it would make the most sense. Could there be a Kavanaugh doppelganger?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...a7 1ca9c03115

Wonkette's reply:

It could actually be his evil identical cousin. Like Patty Duke and David Duke.
It was his doppelganger, but much like Princess Gina/Hope on Days of Our Lives, said doppelganger was actually someone who got plastic surgery to look exactly like Brett Kavanaugh and pretended to be him in order to win back the love of his life/go around trying to rape ladies at shitty house parties, and the REAL Brett Kavanaugh was trapped in a cage the whole time!
The doppelganger is actually Dark Brett Kavanaugh from another dimension, in which he is a vampire and wears a lot more PVC than the regular Brett Kavanaugh from this dimension.
It actually was Brett Kavanaugh but he has a split personality, but he doesn't know he has a split personality on account of how it only ever comes out when he wants to sexually assault someone or rule against women's reproductive rights.
It actually was Brett Kavanaugh, but he was under an evil witch's spell, like Evil Charity on Passions.
Brett Kavanaugh and Bart O'Kavanaugh were separated at birth because their real mother couldn't afford to keep both of them and so she gave Brett to her employer to raise as her own -- and the rich one, the real Brett Kavanaugh, is the one who tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford. BUT, the poor one murdered him and took over his life. Like in the Bette Davis movies Dead Ringer and A Stolen Life and also kind of like in Blood Brothers, but not really because they both die in that.
Dr. Blasey is actually the one with the secret twin, and her secret twin was dating Brett Kavanaugh, and they were very into role play, and Brett Kavanaugh thought she was her own twin, which she wasn't.
It was Brett Kavanaugh, but he was possessed by an evil inter-dimensional entity named BOB -- known to be prone to both rape and murder -- at the time, so he is not responsible for his actions at this time.

Jesus Crap on a cracker, now it feels like the shit's really close to hit the fan (as we all knew it eventually would). This motherfucker better lose both houses in November — otherwise get ready to see the Four Horsemen of the Saturday Night Massacre Trumpocalypse descend on D.C.

^House alone would be enough to prevent a lot of damage, has the budget power and the power to start holding hearings about a whole lot of shit. And a great group of chairs of committees, too. Looking forward to Nov!!

K.T. McFarland revised her statement on Flynn

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McFarland, who served as Flynn's deputy on the National Security Council, was first interviewed by the FBI without a lawyer at her Hamptons home in summer 2017. She said at that time she didn't have a precise memory of whether Flynn had spoken to the then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak or what they may have discussed.

But shortly after Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about his conversation with Kislyak about sanctions, McFarland spoke to the special counsel's office. She had reviewed her notes and documents by then and walked back what she previously said — this time saying that she could infer from a general conversation with Flynn that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak.

Convenient...