Everything posted by sivad40
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The Politics Thread
The Bernie Bros and some neoliberal blacks are lashing out against Boomers and southern blacks for Biden winning tonight "Biden is just not good, very backwards on a lot of policies and his response to millennials was to work harder. If voting for a guy who won’t tweet in the morning is the democratic goal then they succeeded. There were plenty of better candidate" "Gotta wonder what "southern values" he's talking about. The truth is that most older black voters, particularly in the south vote establishment on autopilot. They dont know the issues. They're easily duped. And they're deeply closed minded. Baby boomers (both black and white) are fukking this country's future. And the youth are so disengaged that they cannot bother get off their lazy asses and vote. In 10 or 20 years they'll realize the 2020 election (and politics in general) were a matter of life and death. We had the option to vote in a progressive two times and blew it. It isn't just another 4 years of Trump that's at stake here. Its our environmental crisis. Its the climate crisis. Its the rise of right wing populism. Its the rise of wealth inequality. What many people fail to realize is that Bernie is the compromise. He is the middle ground. Another 4 years of Trump or a centrist maintaining the status quo will inevitably have grave consequences on ALL the aforementioned issue" "No matter how many times y'all wanna try and erase us from existence, we're not going away. There are millions of black people like myself who love and support Bernie." But keep pretending black Bernie supporters don't exist. Pretend like his national co-chair and press secretary aren't black while y'all at it." "I agree but we need to seriously address the political ignorance of our parents and grand parents. There is just no excuse for a man like Biden to get the majority of our votes for just being present." https://www.thecoli.com/threads/official-2020-super-tuesday-primary-thread-3-3-2020.763434/page-79
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I had to laugh at this tweet.
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The media ignoring her comments about Trump's state of mind.
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Mitt is already getting the McCain treatment by some of us on the left. They are saying that it took guts to do that, he would've been a good president, he's one of the last true members of the "real" GOP, etc. Donald and Don Jr. have already went on the offensive on Mitt. Here's Trump trolling but I believe he's seriously about installing his children as next in line for the presidency.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/trump-plots-revenge-on-bolton-impeachment-enemies With Senate Republicans on track to acquit Donald Trump on Wednesday, Washington is bracing for what an unshackled Trump does next. Republicans briefed on Trump’s thinking believe that the president is out for revenge against his adversaries. “It’s payback time,” a prominent Republican told me last week. “He has an enemies list that is growing by the day,” another source said. Names that came up in my conversations with Republicans included Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mitt Romney, and John Bolton. “Trump’s playbook is simple: go after people who crossed him during impeachment.”
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The right leaning Hill with this op-ed blaming the House on why impeachment failed. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/481015-how-the-house-lost-the-witness-battle-along-with-impeachment
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I haven't what much of the impeachment hearings, but I see that my local Fox channel isn't showing the hearings.
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It probably would have crashed or be worse off than it is if the Federal Reserve wasn't pumping Wall Street to prop it up. I wascan imagine what Fox News and the conservative talk radio would be saying if Obama was propping up the economy by the pumping into Wall Street. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/01/federal-reserve-admits-it-pumped-more-than-6-trillion-to-wall-street-in-recent-six-week-period/
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You could be right but they have already given him enough unchecked power as is. I just hope I'm still alive when he finally dies. Breaking news. Now back to our regular schedule programming, the Bernie and NYT bashfest.
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I doubt there will be a succession of states to split from the USA. All Fox News and the rest far right media with some help of the MSM like the NYT with paint those states and the Democrats as being sore losers and they will cave. Fox News and conservative talk radio whether you like it or not control the narrative in this country. If they say 2+2=5, then 2+2=5, no matter what the facts are. The GOP has successful created a reality in which they can do anything they want to do and they will always have 45%-55% of Americans there side no matter what. They control 75% of the branches of the government, all of the government agencies, most of the media, and all of big business. I told a cousin of mine last night that Trump has no intention of ever leaving office if he's re-elected and there will be Trump dynasty. He will either run for re-election until he dies for by repealing the amendment that abolished term limits (The GOP will probably have control of 3/4 of the 50 states to do this).. If Trump can't change the term limits, he will just name one of his children as his successor (probably Ivanka) and they will be elected President. The Presidency will be passed down from Trump to Trump for at least the rest of the century. My cousin didn't believe this and he said there will come a time when enough is enough. I said it's been past way time for that because Trump keeps getting away with stuff just like Bush did and for his misdeeds.
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And so the cover up begins. It's not that I expected Trump to be removed anyway but the depths that GOP will go to exonerated this bastard has no bottom.
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Stories like these are basically the Kavanaugh Hearing 2.0 - so-called moderate Republicans will express fatuous concern for the situation and then will, of course, do nothing. https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/25/politics/lisa-murkowski-senate-impeachment-trial/index.html
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For those that are interested in what was Trump ranting and raving about during the impeachment vote.
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Right Wing distraction 101. Fox News has to have something else to primarily focus besides the Trump part of the impeachment hearings. For the record, I'm not planning on watching any of the hearings (unless I'm somewhere where the hearings are being televised and I can't avoid it). https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/11/supreme-court-hears-daca-challenge-700000-dreamers/2533001001/ Trump is willing to make a "deal" when the SOCTUS sides with him over DACA.
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The MAGAts on Twitter are claiming they heard more cheers than boos, they didn't hear any boos at all, or the fake news media dubbed the boos in (the conservative media often dubs out any boos or jeers that Trump gets). I read that Meghan McCain dismissed the booing at the World Series as a bunch of Washington elites and I can imagine she will say something similar about this round of booing.
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The effort Fox & Friends puts forth to preserve their precious leader.
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Conservative radio talk show host and conspiracy theorist Mark propping up Trump as being white as snow when it comes to scandals.
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The world are already knows America is divided.
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ALL: Soap Stars - Where are they now?
It shouldn't have been an issue between him and Budig considering he didn't end up being with her anyway. It was going to be a problem with taller actresses. Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley from One Tree Hill) was cast as Michelle when Budig left and St. Albans was the next Michelle when Lenz left. Michelle wasn't Lenz first role on GL.
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ALL: Soap Stars - Where are they now?
The next Michelle was Rebecca Budig, who is 5'1. How tall is he too be considered to be short for her??! I looked it up and he's 5'4. I guess I that could've been an issue.
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I'm not spooked at all. I just know who and what I'm dealing with. While I'm not a far leftist (A Bernie Bro, or a Green), I've been wanting Trump removed from office long before this Ukraine stuff even came up. I'm a get rid of Trump by all costs type of person and let the chips fall where they may type of person. You have some left leaning posters here and elsewhere have been scared to even impeach Trump (even now) because the Senate doesn't have the voter or the polls don't have enough Republican support to do it. If Trump was to get the military to destroy a city like Chicago and Los Angeles, many left wingers still wouldn't do anything because the polls don't have enough support to do anything.
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And just like that, Trump has won again. Rudy, the MSM and the conservative media hammer this point over the weekend and Trump will be doing rallies next week stirring up to the KAGA crowd chant something about the Bidens.
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Trump's twitter account trolling for a civil war
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/17/cokie-roberts-journalist-abc-news-npr-dies-75
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You know that Burr can attack Michelle Obama because his wife is black (sarcasm). Along with comedian Dave Chapelle going attacking the LBGT community, the Me Too and the PC crowd, conservatives have some kindred spirits within the elite "liberal" comedian community.