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16 minutes ago, marceline said:
I'm continually amazed at how often Americans want to keep sending our volunteer military to war.
This.
The only way to have stopped Assad would have been a massive international coalition. It would have been a long and dirty impossible war.
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I'm sorry, but encouraging revolutionaries does not make President Obama culpable in what transpired. The only way to make a marked difference would have been to send thousands of troops and there was no way that was going to fly, no matter what Obama did.
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1 hour ago, Juliajms said:
It's sad that we have to celebrate what should be an easy win, given that he flat out said he did it. Not even sure there there was a trial. Why didn't he just plead guilty? Of course given how some of these police officer's trials have gone even when there is a damn video a conviction isn't assured. Crazy days.
Very much yes.
1 hour ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:Good. But I don't want him on death row for years eating up tax dollars. I hope someone offs his ass before it gets to that point.
In general, and in most cases, I am adamantly against the death penalty. But ICAM with this.
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2 hours ago, cassadine1991 said:
Dylan Roof found GUILTY
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/15/us/dylann-roof-murder-trial/index.html
YES!!! From what I understand, it was a majority white jury too.
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1 hour ago, Roman said:
He can't distract if the TVMSM doesn't go along with it.They will. They can't help themselves.
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11 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
This story really grabs me in the heart. I can barely stand to think of what those people went through in their last moments and the survives who only barely emerged with their lives while having to witness the death of family and church brothers and sisters. Out of respect from the victims and the survivors, I've read about them so as not to forget that these were human beings, not merely victims of evil.
Today, I also had another pit in my stomach thinking about the parents who should be celebrating the coming Christmas but can only mourn the loss of their children who were viciously taken away from them. I wish the news would stop giving oxygen to the disgusting conspiracy theorists whose opinions aren't worth the dust beneath the parent's feet.
Agreed, DD. They both break my heart.
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It was just reported that the victims in Charleston were each shot 5 times. The oldest victim 10.
I have no problem reiterating...white supremacists do not deserve to exist. DR has claimed to be a part of this group, and if they had officially denounced him I may think differently. But silence is golden and they are complicit in this crime.
I'm so fuckin pissed right now.
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Where I live in FL, it's a pretty mixed community. There are a lot of minorities and a lot of rednecks in this town, so I always see yard signs for both candidates but usually more so for the republican. I didn't think much of it at the time. But looking back, in 2008 and 2012, I had Dem operatives knocking at my door very early in the election season and continuing about once a month, someone would come a-knockin. In between that, the phone would ring, 1/3 robo calls and 2/3 a live volunteer.
This year - no knocks on the door. Nada. And 90% of the phone calls were robo calls. The lone exception when a live volunteer called my home asking for my vote was either the weekend or Monday before election day. When I told her I was supporting Hillary, she was noticeably happy ("Oh, WOW! Thank you" or something like that). She then said it had been a very rough day on the phones but didn't elaborate. Guess now we know why she was having a rough day.
And btw, I don't know about where y'all live, but once a republican wins the White House, quite a few people around the neighborhood adorn their houses in red/white/blue lights at Christmas time. Apparently they only feel patriotic when their candidate wins, which is funny ain't it? How does one's patriotism depend on their party's success? Do y'all see that where you live?
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3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
They claim they're not trolls but when you say trolls, they respond like it's their name.
Anyhoo,
folks are losing their sh*t over Kanye meeting with DJT in Trump Tower and I say, people still regard Kanye's actions? The man just recently got out of psychiatric hold. Either Kanye likes attention or he's asking Trump for a loan.
Ain't that funny how that works?
I wish Kanye would just go back to makin good azz music and fuc the rest. IDK who takes the man seriously anymore but back in day, I fell out the chair with his GWB comment lol. He shoulda stopped there...
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2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
Guys this ignore feature...where is it? I am hoping trolls don't start flocking here now, it's been a relatively troll-free thread.
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8 hours ago, Vee said:
ABC apparently just repoted - on air - that intelligence agencies are hesitant to report to Trump because they fear it will go straight to Russia.
Holy [!@#$%^&*]. The last month has been a complete clusterfuck
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23 minutes ago, Skin said:
Well that is the myth of the presidency, without Senate or Congress you can't get much done that will be effective in the long-term. The Republicans really worked to make sure he could and would accomplish nothing, and they succeeded. I remember in 2015 feeling as if he had accomplished so much to bring the nation forward: same sex marriage, universal healthcare, economic progress, bank regulation, death of Bin Laden, Climate regulations, etc. But all of that looks to be undone. The Republicans want to bring the entire nation back to the dark ages, and it's only going to get worse. 2020 can't come fast enough. But I fear what the disgruntled white population will do when Trump fails. I feel like race relations will just get worse.
Will they even acknowledge that he's a failure? Or will they watch or consume any news that doesn't kowtow to how "great" he is making America again? That's equally scary.
I see what you're saying though. President Obama legitimately tried to do things for the betterment of this nation. Congress went against him simply because there was a "D" after his name and I truly believe to a larger extent, the color of his skin. It's sickening. In the end, he is still consequential.
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And come to find out (surprised - NOT) that Trump and that alt-right rag that Bannon hails from, called President Obama out for not getting intelligence briefings (he was).
Trump is a pathological liar, yet he was able to cast Hillary as the dishonest one. Thanks, MSM.
And another happy report from Trumpville.
What in the total hell are we in for, yall...
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3 hours ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:
This idiot is gonna get us nuked off the map...
Fuc.
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Usually, yes.
Reports that Trump supporters don't believe or trust the "liberal media" might undo that theory. Will the MSM will grow a pair when it comes to calling out Trump on his bullshit is another thing that will need to happen.
I just don't know if historical trends will hold with the Orange Menace in the WH.
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Honestly, y'all. The last few days of news has me feeling more and more hopeless. Dylann Roof's trial, the Walter Scott mistrial, the Trump transition, the "heartbeat" bill, fake news, Russia, white supremacists.
Its all all so depressing
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3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
This Rex Tillerson guy from Exxon Mobil looks like he is rising to the top of the list for the Secretary of State position in a Trump Cabinet. He'll probably get it since he has ties to Russia.
This guy is fuckin scary. He's said he doesn't believe in sanctions, denies climate change and stands opposed regulatory agencies. The icing on the cake, he has zero experience. SoS is a role for a seasoned diplomat, not a rich oil executive. I mean, what the total [!@#$%^&*] is this??
If there's a plus side to him, looks like he's LGBT friendly (at least a little) and has supported Common Core in the past.
DJT has loaded his cabinet with rich white guys. I haven't done any comparisons, but this has got to be the whitest administration in what? 50 years? And most probably the wealthiest one ever.
These people are gonna do a number on this country. That's fo sho.
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1 minute ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:
We have a damn treasonist about to be in the White House. What a shame.
It's sickening.
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The thing is, how have the republicans become so much better at PR than the Dems? Is it because of the need to appear "fair and balanced" bullshit?
Recall GWB's stunt on the aircraft carrier. The "Contract With America" and now with Carrier. Not to mention, DJT's many conflicts of interest with his businesses never seem to resonate.
Yet when the ACA was being crafted and after it passed, zero positive press coverage. At the time, I was thinking why Obama wasn't out there selling it. Ditto historically...republicans shout to the roof tops of giving tax breaks, the Dems should be shouting back, equally loud, that they are for the rich and businesses.
Until the left is able to discredit every underhanded thing the right does, things look grim. The left has to devise a plan, somehow and someway against impossible odds, to make the white poor and working class realize that the right's priority is rich Wall Street businesses.
The people that have been appointed to the cabinet are scary. DJT has filled almost every spot with people that don't believe in it's purpose. It makes no fuckin.g sense.
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This is so infuriating and terrifying all at once. I simply can't wrap my mind around how republicans hold such contempt for things as crucial as clean water and air. Let them go to Flint. You know if they had water flowing into their homes that wasn't crystal clear or tasted funny, they would howl.
For [!@#$%^&*].s sake.
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1 minute ago, DRW50 said:
They take it as being attempts to regulate business
The religious right generally doesn't have as much of an issue against climate change, but they're suckered into silence.
The guy sounds like a real mess.
Ahhh. True.
He does sound messy scary. I suppose when President Obama took office, and he appointed someone that believed in protecting the environment, clean water, clean air...republicans were pissed?!?!? Because, how dare you give me water to drink that won't result in uncontrollable diarrhea or lead in my bloodstream. Ugh.
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Why doesn't this surprise me. He's given an anti-environmentalist the reins of the EPA, a charter school advocate the Education post and now this.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/08/news/economy/andrew-puzder-trump-labor-secretary/
I can't understand how things that logically wouldn't be politicized, are. Why are things like climate change anathema to the right?
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2 hours ago, Juliajms said:
I see a lot of people on twitter railing against "trailer park trash" for voting for Trump, but I'm pretty sure that's a misconception. It's not the working poor who put Trump in the white house, it's the blue collar middle class. Also, I think more educated republicans (including white women) voted for Trump then people originally thought would.
IA that there were probably more educated republicans that voted for DJT than was originally forecast, the (white) working poor were/are big DJT voters. My family is from rural north FL, and they overwhelmingly vote republican. It still amazes me to see a family of 4or5 riding down the street in a 1990 Ford Escort with the back bumper taped on...and a Trump bumper sticker
Just sayin. The trailer park is Trump country.
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I don't feel they do. At all.
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The pictures out of Syria are so sad, but our military can't be everywhere, all the time. If there were a unilateral, committed force then maybe it would have made a difference.
The right's refusal to take refugees will be judged more harshly IMO