The Politics Thread

[marceline]

 

The Berners are desperate for a win and they love to take credit for other people's work.

 

 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Looks like a 'quiet' attempt to dip into a more "centrist" strategy by the Our Revolution folks.

 

Bernie and his cohort are certainly not above being calculating, despite what the purity ponies claim. He's a politician who has been in office for decades, likely backed by a cohort of other politicians and no matter how well their intentions all are, they function as politicians. 

 

Every day, it's a burning trash fire with Trump Inc. So much so that it's now become an entire garbage dump.

How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment

 

 

Tillerson tries to talk around this but he still has yet to deny that he said it.

Edited October 4, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[JaneAusten]

Good article by Ari Berman on the case in front of the Supreme Court on gerrymandering.

 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/anthony-kennedys-questioning-suggests-extreme-partisan-gerrymandering-could-be-in-danger/

 

 

And when people want to claim Jim Crow is over, just another version of a "poll tax". discounting thousands from the ability to vote

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/04/alabama-voting-poll-tax?CMP=share_btn_tw

Edited October 4, 2017 by JaneAusten

[marceline]

 

The Berniacs are trying to change the narrative because Bernie is being dragged to hell for being bought and paid for by the NRA.His pro-gun votes are getting a lot of scrutiny right now.

Edited October 4, 2017 by marceline

[Khan]

 

I'll probably get into some trouble for saying this, but speaking as someone who (unfortunately) toiled for a season at Gorsuch's alma mater, Columbia University, it REALLY doesn't surprise me to see him grandstanding.  Students at Columbia have a tendency to grandstand.

[DRW50]

The media obsession over Tillerson calling you know who a "moron" reminds me again just how useless and harmful the circle jerk of the press often is. 

[Vee]

[DramatistDreamer]

At least the odds of us all choking on methane gas has been reduced again with this ruling.

 

[Juliajms]

Why do mass shootings always bring out the anti choice loons? Someday I'll learn not to debate with the nutjobs on the internet.

[JaneAusten]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/aclu-launches-nationwide-voting-rights-campaign-in-the-backyard-of-its-biggest-nemesis/

[NothinButAttitude]

Pro-Life Congressman Asks Mistress to Get Abortion

 

Boy have I heard it all...

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[Khan]

It's almost like watching an old episode of Y&R, isn't it?

[Juliajms]

I can't even pretend to be surprised. These guys are hypocrites almost down to a man.  How many times have gay bashing congressmen been caught having sex with a man? How many times have "family values" congressmen been caught having an affair or worse yet leaving a wife with cancer? Even John McCain is said by some to have left his first wife because she was disfigured in a car accident. He cheated on her first of course.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

 

[marceline]

 

That's nothing new. I used to work for an abortion rights group so I occasionally visited abortion clinics for work. I can't tell you how many times people protesting have come into clinics to get their own abortion then were right back out there protesting in a few weeks later. I went to one where a nurse said "Two of the women out there have been patients."

[DramatistDreamer]

Cognitive dissonance. Some people are so committed to this.

 

I liken this to the raging homophobes who are then caught 'tapping' signals in the men's bathroom stall.