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- dorfsman1
Francis Fukuyama: Identity politics is undermining democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n…
AMP page which may get you around the paywall:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/w…Worth a read this.
- he was on Start the Week on Radio4 this morning.
https://www.bbc.co.u…Fax_Benson
- he was on Start the Week on Radio4 this morning.
- ********0
- robotron3k-2
Trump vs Bloomberg in 2020??
Donald Trump with Michael Bloomberg (far right).https://www.weeklystandard.com/c…
The Democrat turned Republican turned Independent re-registers as a Democrat with 2020 on his mind.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday morning that he was changing his party affiliation for the third time this century.
“Today, I have re-registered as a Democrat,” part of the post read, “because we need Democrats to provide the checks and balance our nation so badly needs.”
- Lol.PhanLo
- interesting.********
- Bloomberg would be a much better president. More qualified, smarter, better educated, more successful, and more in touch with people.monospaced
- If he was a woman, he'd be robo's worst nightmare.monospaced
- Now that he's a Dummocrat he can switch genders, since you Dems believe gender is fluid... yes a Jewish female President would scare me, like most of the USA.robotron3k
- Oh dude. Even republicans can switch genders. You didn’t know?monospaced
- The Democrat Primary's for 2020 will be hysterical, Avenetti, Bloomberg, Kamilla, Sanders, Biden, and Pocohantas!!!robotron3k
- Sanders? nah. he's too old********
- Robo Repubtard™********
- Every four years Bloomberg announces he is considering running for President and then doesn't. He would probably make a fairly competent moderate Republicanyuekit
- president, but for the same reason why would Dems nominate him? He's not exactly a left-winger.yuekit
- Bloomberg, meh. If that's what they go for they're not going to win the WH. He's too bland, gonna need some serious retooling of his image.zarkonite
- BonSeff1
This had me rolling Friday
- sted0
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- PhanLo1
Some Russian airport souvenirs. :-)
- Gnash-4
- one of the minor lawsuits regarding a tweet.fadein11
- https://i.kym-cdn.co…Gnash
- facts as opposed to retarded screengrabsfadein11
- thanks for the bennsplaining. of course it's a minor suit, retard.Gnash
- it always helps to read first ;)fadein11
- The sad part is that now the debate is going to be over whether the judge is a republican or a democrat.zarkonite
- ^ of course, that's all that matters.Gnash
- What exactly are you celebrating here Gnash? That the President of the U.S. got away with paying off a porn star and lying about it?yuekit
- Is that something to be proud of? The whole thing is a pathetic embarrassment for Trump and his media defenders like Tucker Carlson and Fox :)yuekit
- celebrating? lol. just being amused by the circus. everyone involved is a clown here.Gnash
- Calling yourself a clown, then? Speak for thyself! The fact that our Pres is involved w this, makes such childish comments, and still has support...formed
- +1 formedfadein11
- is everyone stupid? obviously trump is an idiot - that's a fucking given. jesus. that does not preclude the idiocy of those that engage with him.Gnash
- people don't get some magic cloak of awesomeness just because they're they're on the other end of cheetos' chirpsGnash
- (lol, fadein, speaking of chirping)Gnash
- robotron3k-10
Harvard Law School's "first woman of color" Elizabeth Warren
- By the downvotes, there must be fellow "white" Native Americans must be supporting Warren.robotron3k
- your logic only reveals your bigoted ignorance ... carry on you sad puppymonospaced
- I guess his Polish stock photo girlfriend must have dumped him, and that's why he's more than unusually contemptible.Continuity
- You American Indians need to lay off the firewater!robotron3k
- 1/64th of me is highly offended!fooler
- what I still can't understand is why conservative fucktards spend so much time thinking about this aspect of Warren, when it's absolutely irrelevantmonospaced
- literally, the ONLY reason you care about this is because Trump made a big deal about it, and now she called his bullshit bluff, and you're just a bitter bitchmonospaced
- next thing you'll go around parroting trump, saying that he never said he would donate $1M if she took the DNA test (hint, he said it numerous times, on camera)monospaced
- it should be irrelevant. but warren is the one that's been making a big deal of it for decades.Gnash
- she's tried to exploit another culture for her personal benefit. she should be mocked for it.Gnash
- and trump should pay the equivalent % of cherokee in her blood.Gnash
- South parks take on it... https://www.youtube.…robotron3k
- I'm not sure she actually made a big deal about it.monospaced
- she did, throughout her career. she wore it like a badge. Granted, I'm sure she believed it to be true.Gnash
- https://pbs.twimg.co…Gnash
- it's how she presented herself.Gnash
- now that she knows, she should just drop it, apologize and get on with work. Engaging with trump is pointless.Gnash
- you do realize he offered up the money, right, and she followed through?monospaced
- you don't think Trump should live up to his word, his promise, pay and shut up also?monospaced
- I do, he should pay her .098% of the millionGnash
- he said he'd give $1M to a charity if she took a DNA test, and she did ... so he'd pay a charity 100% of that if he were to follow through on his promisemonospaced
- instead he's saying he never said that (it's on film, several times).monospaced
- amazing how you only seem to give a fuck about some charitable promise and not the fact some old white hag got hired and plays political games based on the...PonyBoy
- ... idea she's a 'minority', mono... of which she isn't remotely close to being... 1/1024th... lOLOL... SHE made this as big a deal as any righty fuck did, guyzPonyBoy
- "literally, the ONLY reason you care about this is because Trump made a big deal about it"
uhh... BULLSHIT, dude... BULLSHIT. :)PonyBoy - hahaha... SHE made a HUGE fucking deal about it over and over for a number of years. She got called out and is now FUCKED. Good riddance. <3PonyBoy
- "Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."—Cherokee Nation Secretary of State
https://tinyurl.com/…PonyBoy - I really hope you massholes wake up and shit her out of your state already... she's a walking mockery to realityPonyBoy
- I would assume that trumps condition on paying is based on the test results showing that she’s native. They clearly shows that she’s not.Gnash
- Er...they show she does have native ancestry. She never said she was 100% Native American. And Trump never set any condition on it, that is completely made up.yuekit
- If you're a Trump supporter or conservative how is this even remotely an issue, considering the ridiculous amount of things the guy you support has lied about??yuekit
- How on earth are you able to pretend to be outraged about something like this? Truly surreal.yuekit
- lol, she has less native blood than the average random american (0.098% vs 0.18%).Gnash
- the only people outraged (rightly so) are the cherokee. everyone else is laughingGnash
- Laughing at her but not at the guy with the horrible fake tan and ridiculous combover? lol. Just seems bizarre to me.qoob
- Gnash aren't you cherrypicking the extreme low end of what they estimated her NA ancestry as? Not very objective is it?yuekit
- All she ever did was claim she had some NA ancestry. Trump is the one who made a huge deal out it, not her.yuekit
- +1 again yuekitfadein11
- But she didn't make a big deal about it, PonyBoy, and she's isn't "fucked" as you put it. Your all caps are just exposing how triggered you are over this.monospaced
- Nothing about her heritage was used in any nefarious way, and none of it was a lie either. The only people making a big deal are Trump and his retard cohorts.monospaced
- and since you aren't a retard, I won't lump you in with a typical Trump supportermonospaced
- Trump just wanted her to take a test. He never said anything about it needing to prove a certain % of native in order for him to live up to his bluff.monospaced
- she claimed she was cherokee. she presented herself as a person-of-color. for years, no less. And we all have more neanderthal DNA than she has of native.Gnash
- (even at the high end of the estimate)Gnash
- and of course trump is an idiot - I'm certainly not arguing otherwise.Gnash
- Claiming connection to a marginalized minority was politically advantageous for her. plain and simple. not a crime, just not coolGnash
- she should be embarrassed, instead she doubled-down. she's earned the flakGnash
- lol, she even produced a campaign style video about the DNA test proving her Cherokee HeritageGnash
- for all the morons that still don't quite get it. Yes, trump is worse. yes, he's a bad person. Yes, warren is an infinitely better human being than he is.Gnash
- she's still not native.Gnash
- to anyone say 'all she did was say she had some NA' blah blah and the right / Trump blew it out of proportion... ffs... do some research.PonyBoy
- Let's say she literally came out in full headress and proclaimed herself the second coming of Sitting Bull... well judging by what conservatives seem to valueyuekit
- in their leaders right now, this level of bullshitting is almost like a qualification for office, no? :)yuekit
- It's the absolute height of hypocrisy for anyone who defends Trump or the GOP to even pretend to be outraged over something like this.yuekit
- She really didn't make a big deal about it and never claimed full cherokee. All the stories about how her claim somehow helped her career are just false rumors.monospaced
- BonSeff1
Horseface vs. Mushroom Dick.
2018 Ya'll- In a few months time when all the excitement calms down, he'll be claiming she called him Horse Dick and he Mushroom Face of her.Fax_Benson
- Cartoonists will draw him with a pendulous horse's cock and it will become fact.Fax_Benson
- ^ Ben Garrison probably already has, and jerks off to it every night after his mum puts him to bed.Continuity
- lolfadein11
- ha, no doubtFax_Benson
- BonSeff0
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip…
Trump in 2015: “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”
For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!
- yuekit4
U.S. and international businesses and CEOs flee Saudi Arabia left and right as Trump continues to defend them.
- Haven't they been imprisoning and murdering people for years?PhanLo
- Yup, but this was pretty brazen. US citizen, working for Bezos and killed with an easy timeline (vs. just disappearing).formed
- It's funny that all the other people were fine, but a US citizen is too far for Dicky Branson.PhanLo
- yup, pretty brazen. Let's see what Chump will say about this.
https://nyti.ms/2QYd…brandonp - #MAGAutopian
- yuekit0
“Well, I think we have to find out what happened first,” Trump said. “Here we go again with, you know, you’re guilty until proven innocent. I don’t like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh. And he was innocent all the way.”
- Wow that really gives me confidence Kavanaugh was innocent...LOL!yuekit
- Keep in mind the Turks claim they have already shared this tape of the murder with the Trump administration.yuekit
- it's mind boggling how trump's playing this.Gnash
- https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- erm, not to be that guy, but until some independent review's confirmed the evidence is actually real "Innocent until proven Guilty" still applies, right?Nairn
- I personally believe that what's accused transpired, but then there's a whole mess of internecine politics at play between Turkey and Saudi ArabiaNairn
- Well it's not going to be tried in court so you have to look at the available evidence... I don't think anyone looking at it objectively could possibly buy theyuekit
- Saudi story. For one thing if he left the embassy, presumably it would be trivial for them to produce security cam footage showing this.yuekit
- Also, if he was accidentally killed during an interrogation then surely they could produce a body right? Or is it Saudi policy to cut people up into tiny...ben_
- pieces and vanish them when accidents happen?ben_
- + yuekitfadein11
- As I said, I personally believe the accusation - but this is the middle of a three way power play in one of the most contentious regions in the world..Nairn
- ..and the Turks have a bit of recent history in playing their own games. What proof have YOU that the available CCTV footage is real? None, so..?Nairn
- @nairn - he was referring to why there is no CCTV footage of him leaving the building I think. He can be seen entering, surely it would be easy to clear it upfadein11
- by producing that, no?fadein11
- Both countries are abusers of human rights, historically US Presidents always looked the other way when it comes to that region... shit is still crazy afrobotron3k
- Sure, and i'm referring to the CCTV footage going IN. Personally I think SA's just too used to being off the leash and has no need or history of subtletyNairn
- The business community's response will be the most interesting response - SA has fuck all the world wants except money and hydrocarbon reserves...Nairn
- ..things the rest of the world has in abundance. It needs everyone else a lot more than everyone else needs it.Nairn
- Believing either Turkey or Saudi Arabia makes no sense. The one thing we know for sure, the guy is dead or captive.zarkonite
- yupfadein11
- chukkaphob1
So, what will be the West's response to the Saudi murder?
- As always.PhanLo
- The same as with the murders in Yemen we are funding.BonSeff
- The Saudis run/own the world.chukkaphob
- When have we ever commented on their issues? Never. Bit it would be a first from a US President.robotron3k
- Where Saudis will feel it is here, where companies have obligations to shareholders https://www.cnn.com/…robotron3k
- https://www.cnn.com/…robotron3k
- Of course Mnuchin is still going.BonSeff
- The Saudis got no backlash for producing the 9/11 perpetrators and you think this shit is going to??zarkonite
- The Saudis run/own the world.chukkaphob
- The difference here is that it was a US citizen. In the end, though, $$$ means more to everyone than a life, lives, or, hell, countries.formed
- I am interested to see if Bezos does anything. He was an employee of the wealthiest man alive. I would think he would/could do something (if he wanted to).formed
- I'm pretty sure that guy was not a us citizen, and also he was just a contributor to the WAPO... so like a freelance writer.zarkonite
- @formed he was NOT a US citizen. He was just a 1-yr resident of the US. He's a Saudi citizen criticizing the silencing of the media in the Saudi kingdomchukkaphob
- The Saudis run/own the world.chukkaphob
- what chukka said!utopian
- robotron3k-6
- Whether you like his policies or not, don't pretend like half the shit Trump does isn't a big fucking joke.FNP14
- Of course comedians are going to point out all the dumb things he says/does on a daily basis. It's their jobs.FNP14
- You know who’s job it is to not do and say stupid shit every day? The president. That’s who.monospaced
- Continuity6
- https://www.bbc.co.u…robotron3k
- surely twitter banning it is the goal? Otherwise what's the point?Fax_Benson
- robotron3k-9
- Create straw man, attack straw man, declare victory.T-Dawg
- https://youtu.be/dEw…robotron3k
- paul Watson is... dim.shapesalad
- So weird how both sides are motivated by the other side attacking their dignity.mathinc
- have yet to meet a conservative with dignitymonospaced
- Why do you get off on people telling you how absolutely boring and ignorant you are?garbage
- * yawn *Bluejam
- PonyBoy-5
- jeez we're a civilized bunchPonyBoy
- indicators are lownuggler
- This is backwards.teh
- ShitholeBusterBoy
- Is this guy actually part of Antifa or is that just a catch all label for someone conservatives don't like at this point?yuekit
- Love it Yuekit. Shine your spotlight of socialist reason back at the conservatives. That guy is a cunt and a coward who got caught out when he realised he...Morning_star
- ...wasn't shouting at the internet from the safety of his home. Don't excuse behaviour like that.Morning_star
- Sorry, I see a bunch of random douchebags chasing another douchebag. Can you explain the connection to socialism or Antifa?yuekit
- 1. He is with People protesting a Trump supporters rally.who are Antifa 2. He is wearing a hoody with AK Press - a worker-managed, independent publisher...Morning_star
- ...and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. I'd take a bet that he was socialist and Antifa.Morning_star
- So because he has a hoody with the name of a left wing bookstore he's automatically Antifa? You have to admit this is a bit silly...yuekit
- Personally I'd be more concerned with the actual president encouraging violence than someone random dude on the street making a snide remark.yuekit
- Like literally what does this prove one way or the other? It's just confirmation bias porn for people to circle jerk over.yuekit
- It's not snide it's repugnant. The prick ridiculed a woman about the fact her husband had died. Then went on to get all Alex Jones regarding police sodomizing..Morning_star
- ...people with night sticks. Then, he ran away like many spineless group-think arseholes. A shit human being. I, personally don't think that behaviour is...Morning_star
- ...acceptable, by anyone, ever. However, you can keep on trying to dodge the issue and lay blame elsewhere.Morning_star
- I just find it extremely silly. Anyone with an objective view would tell you a video like this proves absolutely nothing about the left or the right, much lessyuekit
- concepts like "socialism" or "Antifa." It's one guy being a dick, who cares?yuekit
- Fair enough.Morning_star
- Wilde said it best; Morality is an attitude we adopt towards people we dislike.Gnash
- people can be remarkably tolerant of the immoralities of their political favouritesGnash
- I didn't realise she was such a philosopher. I loved "Kids in America". ;)Morning_star
- haGnash
- How does a situation like that even happen? That guy was a dickhead. What a weasel.PhanLo
- Everyone can agree the douche is a douche, silly retards still only have generalisation to fall back on.fadein11
- yuekit0
Trump praises Republican candidate who assaulted reporter
"That's my guy"
- from the article ...
“It’s an election of Kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense,” the president told the crowd,"Bluejam - its when Trump starts talking about 'common sense' that you should start worryingBluejam
- careful there, you may trigger the apologists/supporter... on here.fadein11
- https://media.giphy.…robotron3k
- from the article ...
- Ramanisky20
This was being played on a black radio station in Arkansas
Did they hire Diamond & Silk for this??- Whoooooops .. my badRamanisky2
- Now she's gonna die of lung cancer. People still smoke cigarettes?teh
- If she said Valerie Jarrett played Ari in Planet of the Apes to save on make-up that would be funny.teh