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- zaq4
- Not bad.monospaced
- Kinda beautifulrobotron3k
- lol stormypango
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- mg334
You really have to admire Fox News in their relentless ability to avoid featuring any negative stories related to Trump. Weisselberg and Pecker getting immunity are HUGE stories.
Just go browse the homepage. http://www.foxnews.com/
Keyword search for "Pecker" or "allen weisselberg" - not a single link or instance of their names on the homepage.
More astonishing is that the story about John McCain a REPUBLICAN - isn't even a top featured story.
- robotron3k-12
Interesting drone vid of the New Mexico portion of the "wall"–although from the lower budget is really a metal fence with openings-but based on the wall design. They look around 20-30 feet tall with 5 feet of smooth paneling on top. You can see the previous fence on the Mexico side, left on the ground, looked like barbed wire and cedar posts! Still, I think even though this cheaper version, will help to keep the ecology somewhat in place with smaller animals able to squeeze through and create a border they could only be scaled by the healthiest. People will still cross but they will have to think twice if they want to fall 2-3 stories either side. This will also save many peoples lives, on both sides, which is always a plus.
- I bet the wall will be progressing much faster now everything is closing in on ya man ;)fadein11
- I think downvoters have ever taken a 2-week vacation in Chihuahua Mexico across the border. Because if you did, you probably wouldn't have returned alive.robotron3k
- if only every country worked as well as the US of A :)fadein11
- god this site needs emojis, it really would help matters.fadein11
- I just posted this to make mono throw up in his mouth a little...robotron3k
- oh so you admit you are a troll, cool.fadein11
- what a wastescruffics
- that isn’t the wall no matter what they tell you robomonospaced
- This should solve all the drugs and murders in the USA.fooler
- If it saves one life and/or deters others from exposing themselves dangerous criminal abuse, it will be a yuuge success!robotron3k
- why aren’t bigoted, fearful, moronic trumptards upset that this is what they got for a wall, and thst they have to pay for it, not Mexico?monospaced
- Is anyone gonna tell robo that this is actually the obama wall?monospaced
- See fade, he falls for it every time ;)robotron3k
- At least I’m not a dumb troll, and women actually spend time with me.monospaced
- lol mono.fadein11
- angry, bitter, white men.fadein11
- Chicken fenceSalarrue
- Would a wall around Colorado saved Chris Watts family????????fooler
- you can see it from space?Fax_Benson
- allthethings2
"For years, John McCain existed to perpetuate the idea that there is a heart to the Republican Party when there is not, and Americans everywhere are still paying dearly for that ruse. You shouldn’t get extra credit for being the nicest asshole in a room full of assholes."
John McCain Should Have Been Better Than He Was
Drew Magary on the senator's legacy and what he meant to American politics.
- Trump moved the asshole bar so low, the entire scale had to be reassessed. Compared to Trump, McCain looks like a really upstanding guy. Hell, even Bush.monospaced
- So when McCain's family bans the standing Republican President of the US from attending his funeral, it actually is saying something.monospaced
- Where normally that would be an honor, even for a scumbag republican, Trump is actually too big of an asshole for them.monospaced
- He was grandstander and held way to much influence for too long and voted hard right despite his bi-partisan speak.robotron3k
- you could say the same about Trumpmonospaced
- "Great people on both sides"BonSeff
- mg334
While I think it's right to praise McCain for his heroism in Vietnam ( I don't care how many planes he crashed or what his graduation rank was, or who his dad was, if you spend 5 years in captivity and endure what he did, you're a hero to this country, no question about it) and for his steadfast belief in certain ideals regardless of always agreeing with them, there are two sides to every coin and we can blame McCain for the rise in the utterly ignorant, politically disconnected candidates and supporters who have had a legitimate platform since McCain chose Palin as his running mate in 2008. Palin was absolutely unfit for the VP spot, was a poorly spoken, intellectual simpleton who had no business on the national stage.
Palin gave way to people Michelle Bachman, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, etc having a voice among their party, able to play fools for fools for their own self-promotion. Nevermind the rise in Fox News and countless lower-level political blogs that fed off the collective ignorance of those who loved Palin for all the wrong reasons.
McCain can be blamed for that, no doubt.
- I feel it goes further back than McCain to Karl Rove who refined 'facts don't matter' type campaigning. Anything for short term political gain.T-Dawg
- The N. Vietnamese got him to publicly confess. Treated him better than lower ranked, made sure he was embarrassed on his return. He never lived it downrobotron3k
- stuff, the guy was totrtured. He was there for 5+ years. Im sure it was like the Ritz Carlton right? And then you have Capt. Pussy Bone Spurs.severian
- You guys wearing Red jerseys are hilarious. Is it because he didn't agree with you guys all the time? Just pathetic.severian
- Robo, u are such a cunttank02
- They don't like him because he refused to stoop as low as them during Trump's campaign. He called Trump out as incompetent and that was that.monospaced
- He also refused to entertain any nonsense about Obama, especially the racist-motivated shit that Trump and his retard followers still parade around.monospaced
- Tank, the USA is the only country with freedom of speech, get over yourself.robotron3k
- You're so full of SHIT robo. Goddamn, you really are one ignorant motherfukcing cunt aren't you? https://en.wikipedia…monospaced
- BonSeff1
FLAG-GATE !!1!!!1!!
(The orange one is such a small person)
- allthethings2
https://www.rollingstone.com/pol…
Taibbi: Why Did John McCain Continue to Support War?
And why has the rest of America never come to terms with the defining crimes of our age?
- ...just be prepared, tank is gonna be calling you a cunt soon.robotron3k
- sted2
Mike Pence knew.
- zaq4
Conservatives don't want freedom. They want power. Freedom for those at the top is power over everyone else. Freedom for those at the bottom is a threat to power at the top.
"Freedom" for the GOP means taking out the government's ability to balance out the needs of the many against the needs of the few. Who cares if clean air regulations save literally thousands of lives? They cost shareholders money. Privatize the gains from polluting, but shove the cost onto the public.
In this case, regulation means putting the thumb on the scale to ensure that Facebook and Google become vehicles for conservative propaganda. It's never been about freedom. It's always been about power and control.
"States rights" = the freedom to oppress black people. It was about protecting slavery and then Jim Crow. "States rights" advocate Scalia still argued for the government's right to regulate marijuana. "States rights" has always been about protecting the power of old white conservatives. It was never a real ideology. It was always about power over others.
"The right to bear arms" = the right for white people to bear arms. Ronald Reagan and the Republican-controlled legislature in California repealed open-carry? Why? Because the Black Panthers carried openly. "Stand your ground" often doesn't apply to black people.
The TEA Party was created by Big Tobacco. The entire "get government off our backs" movement was funded by major corporations fighting deregulation. The TEA Party, which supposedly cared about the federal deficit, has gone entirely silent as Donald Trump blows up the deficit. It existed entirely to hamstring The Democratic Party's ability to control federal spending. They didn't want "freedom" from government healthcare. They wanted "freedom" for one of "their" guys to decide the budget, to work it so they get enormous subsidies in the form of unpaid tax cuts.
"Tough on crime" = "tough on poverty". Crimes associated with having none, such as property crimes, are responded to with the full force of the police state. SWAT teams are called out 50,000 times a year, often to serve warrants. Property crime account for $14 billion in losses each year. Wage theft accounts for $50 billion. Meanwhile, the agencies in charge of enforcing wage theft, protecting consumers, and policing corporations are gutted.
It's never been about freedom. It's always been about power. Power to tell women what to do with their bodies. Power for Christians to tell others how to worship. Power for wealthy businesses to pollute, cheat, and steal with impunity. Power to do whatever you want to black people--structural racism allows for poor whites to still have absolute power over others, so that they can buy into a system that has no constraints on power for those with money. The modern GOP is a fucking sham. It's about giving the powerful more power, and it spends literally billions of dollars a year to try and convince people otherwise, because it's a fundamentally untenable moral position. It's cancer.
copy/paste from Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/politic…
- link?teh
- < This is a bit stupid.Morning_star
- Yup. People don't want "freedom", they want what suits their agenda and other's agendas controlled/eliminate...formed
- why are Americans obsessed with "freedom"?inteliboy
- I came for art & design.. but I stay for the meltdowns :-)Dillinger
- what meltdown?monospaced
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- yuekit0
The new state of politics in America post Trump...
Republican candidate for governor in Florida refers to his black opponent using the word "monkey"
- No it isn't. It's lots of people being offended on someone elses behalf. Pointless, and divisive media manipulation.Morning_star
- I guess it was also a coincidence when Trump insisted against all evidence that Obama was born in Africa.yuekit
- At some point you need to use common sense. Yes there is a racist right wing. And rhetoric likes this appeals to them.yuekit
- seems pretty tenuous to me, especially given the context of the rest of the quote and the fact he declined to call it racist himselfFax_Benson
- Here's the same guy's campaign ad, subtlety is not really his thing.
https://www.youtube.…yuekit - yeah, I don't know anything about him and that vid is creepy as fuck, but it doesn't mean he was therefore calling the guy a monkey.Fax_Benson
- Of course you can't read his mind, but given the fact that he seems to be trying to copy Trump I don't think you can rule out that it was calculated.yuekit
- Even if it was calculated the fact that the press overreact and interpreted the word negatively does more to damage the cause than heal it. FFS what you...Morning_star
- ...and the press seem to be suggesting is that the word 'monkey' can never be said in a conversation between a black person and any other race.Morning_star
- ..the word 'monkey' can never be said in a conversation between a black person...How about you go ahead and try it. See how that goes. Moron.severian
- Morning_star I agree that the press reaction is part of it. Doesn't change the fact that he is (most likely) intentionally creating a controversy to stir upyuekit
- racial divides. Same tactic Trump has done again and again.yuekit
- Trump is a shitgibbonmonospaced
- #notracistmonospaced
- You can say "monkey" in a conversation with a black person. The point is you shouldn't say "monkey" when talking about a black person.ben_
- Especially if you're a representative of a political party clearly at odds with race.ben_
- @Severian...i don't get your point. Look at what ben_ said. And I agree with him.Morning_star
- Oh snap. Now they mention "spearhead" when referring to Gillium... what's to become of us! https://www.politico…robotron3k
- https://www.politico…robotron3k
- Of course Morning_star sees nothing wrong with this, the clown who waxes lyrical about Sam Harris, the noted advocate of race science and screaming islamophobe.face_melter
- When did this place start becoming a magnet for shitheads? Y'all getting brave now, crawling from under your rocks?face_melter
- Thanks f_m, as usual your analysis is laser sharp. I had noticed that this place was getting too full of precious cunts and wanted to address the balance.Morning_star
- LMFAO5
LOL
- That laughtrack is perf!!!!!Ramanisky2
- America's angel.PhanLo
- allthethings4
I missed this when it was published in early 2017. Written by a Republican.
Unspeakable Realities Block Universal Health Coverage In America
- great readcolin_s
- The cost of health will soon decrease as robot doctors take the field, they have just passed their medical exams... fact.robotron3k
- lol @ drs being the main barrier to universal healthcarefadein11
- lol, yeah, cause all that amazing new technological/medica... machines have reduced costs! FACTformed
- Just means fewer jobs and worse care you heartless dick.monospaced
- Already standardized in India as GPs with 65% accuracy, just like a real doctor.robotron3k
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- robotron3k-7
screeching Dems...
- Chubby white chicks can scream bloody murder...robotron3k
- you'd knowFax_Benson
- ^^ LOL ^^capn_ron
- hahahahaha^^^^FNP14
- Looks like Pete Holmes********
- Pasty white dude is pasty.BusterBoy
- ok_not_ok1
- you should see the way districts are drawn in texas.BonSeff
- @BonSeff, I imagine they look like a swastikamonospaced
- If you're paying attention you'll note that Texas is turning blue... I guess dems like those swastikas, huh mono?PonyBoy
- it was a joke ... autistic much?monospaced
- Also. Stupid ass question. Nobody likes swadtikas except for Nazis and racist assholes. Gerrymandering in Texas is racist. Hence the Joke.monospaced
- It's not a joke though—you truly think this way—it's easily spotted in your snarkiness throughout the site that you think this way... nice try though, Jokester!PonyBoy
- And let's be honest... who 'jokes' about swastikas?PonyBoy
- Texas is really only turning blue in metro hubs. rural texas will continue for vote against their best self interests. because god and the bible. and guns.BonSeff
- same can be said of many states, bon... Rural vs. City has always had that separation... it was just never so vicious that the 'joke' is all those rural...PonyBoy
- ... folks are nothing but gun-loving nazisPonyBoy
- It was 100% a joke. Proof? Nobody would gerrymander to draw a swasrika. That’s why it’s a joke. Funny you didn’t catch on.monospaced
- And it’s no mystery that gerrymandering is in place with a racist bent. Denying that is simply ignorant. Love ya buddy.monospaced
- Again—who 'jokes' about swastikas? That's not a joke but a clear admittance of your own ignorance of what rural folks are actually like. Pathetic, dude. :(PonyBoy
- LOL. I obviously made the joke. And I’m also not naive enough to think the assholes doing the gerrymandering are that rural. They’re just racist, not a mystery.monospaced
- Also, please answer your own dumbass question. Asking it over and over is weird. Tell me what you are saying ffs.monospaced
- lowimpakt1
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shake hands with @realDonaldTrump's Supreme Court nom., Brett Kavanaugh, right, during a lunch break. Kavanaugh did not shake his hand. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
- What a fucking weasel.PhanLo
- Shit weasel...see_thru
- https://twitter.com/…Gnash
