The Politics Thread

[Chris B]

The Clinton thing is so wild considering they have no power right now. If anybody wanted to kill him logically I feel it would either be someone whose name isn't out yet or Donald Trump, who has the power to get it done. Ultimately, I feel he probably DID commit suicide, but who knows. I just hope this doesn't kill the investigation into him.

[DRW50]

 

It makes no damn sense. If you want to believe in that type of insanity, it may have made sense in the '90s, but stopped once we got to 2008, where Obama not only did a great deal of damage to her political career (really, I'd say he effectively ended her political career) but also led to something of a black eye to Bill's legacy. You can say that the way Bill and Hillary spoke about him was terrible, because it was, but if there was ever a "body count," surely it would have sprung up somewhere around then.

[Wendy]

 

Please. Right-wing loons gave up "sense" and critical thinking skills ages ago. The Clintons have lived in their brains rent free since the '90s and now have the Obamas to keep them company. The tinfoil is strong with that crowd.

[Khan]

 

Which is ironic, since the vast majority of them either are too cheap or too broke to buy anything other than the off-brand kind of tinfoil that tears easily.

Edited August 11, 2019 by Khan

[DramatistDreamer]

Don't worry about it, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth's umpteenth split knocked the Clinton and Trump body count hashtags right off of Twitter yesterday. (*shrugs*).

[ReddFoxx]

Right-wingers always portray Hillary Clinton and her husband as these super villains, but if that were really true she'd be in the White House right now because she would have used some unethical means to get there like Trump did.

 

With that said Epstein was taken off of suicide watch and he was in federal custody which means that Trump's Department of Justice was in charge of that call. Somebody wanted Epstein to off himself and knew that he would do it.

[Juliajms]

That's how I see it too.

[DramatistDreamer]

And this man was unarmed.  I'm in awe.

 

[DramatistDreamer]

One economic analyst put the chance at 75% for a recession before the 2020 election.  I'm not one for those types of prognostications (the kind where people reel off odds as if they're taking bets on the odds at Preakness)  but I continue to hear/read of the red flags for the economy going forward.  

 

[Khan]

I just go back to what @marceline said once in this thread: the Republicans always wreck the economy.  Always.

[Ponds]

Amen!!!!

[Khan]

I've no idea where else to post this -- and I certainly don't think it deserves a thread of its own either:

 

https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/12/chris-cuomo-threatens-man-who-hurled-italian-slur-fredo-at-him/

[DRW50]

 

He's just another example of a two-faced media personality. People have used the word "fredo" on his network. Yet he's upset when the term is thrown at him. Oh it's just as bad as "the n word," how dare you, blah blah blah.

 

He gets a free pass because a lot of people want to [!@#$%^&*] him. He's just as worthless as anybody else at CNN.

[Khan]

On the one hand, I agree with you that Cuomo was (and is) being hypocritical, since he, too, has used the name in the past.  But, OTOH, I don't believe for one second that the other guy never intended to come across as anything other than racist when he called CC "Fredo."  He knows who Cuomo is, and he knows "Fredo" is not his name.  Any explanations to the contrary are just flat-out lies.

[DramatistDreamer]

I've been trying to say this for the longest time!  Yet like mentions of the "working class", mentions of American farmers are assumed to be white.  This has never been the case. Even today with all racism has stripped away, black farmers still exist and they are suffering.