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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
They go on a trip to the Evergrades and Trump drowns in a real-life swamp.
Newsweek: Fears of more leaks in the Trump era
@164,525: That's a silly comparison. Misses are inherently deadly and cyber-attacks aren't.
@164,567: Yup. As Bellweather from Zootopia said, "fear always works".
@164,582: Have you heard Billy West reading Trump quotes in his Zapp Brannigan voice? It's really funny!
Look, I hate Trump too, but there's no evidence of him being a Russian puppet. Praising someone - even a bad person - doesn't make you that person's puppet. Not wanting war with someone doesn't make you a puppet. This is a Republican-like trick being appropriated by Democrats.
edited 29th Dec '16 9:04:30 AM by SeriesOfNumbers
He's surrounded himself by people with ties to the Russian government, we have seventeen three letter organizations saying the Russians are involved in his victory, all of his foreign policy stances run directly counter to NATO's long standing interests and agreements and support Russian encroachment, and he even asked them publicly on TV to hack the DNC and support him.
What more do you want?
Oh really when?We also have Republicans more or less announcing Wiki Leaks one day before they happened.....
From the New Republic:
Democrats don’t really have a religion problem
It’s true that Democrats have historically tolerated abortion opponents in the party. See: Bart Stupak, who successfully pressured President Obama to issue an executive order banning the use of ACA funds for abortion. Or the Hyde Amendment, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 and repeatedly re-authorized by Obama. The Democratic party platform didn’t pass a call to repeal Hyde until this year. Wear begged them to reconsider.
It’s obvious the party’s been willing to compromise with abortion opponents. It’s also obvious that women have suffered every time they’ve done so. And that is particularly important to emphasize now as American women prepare for four years under a Republican administration that promises to be sweepingly antagonistic to abortion rights. American women need a party that won’t hesitate to frame abortion access as a moral good. The party Wear seems to want is a party women can’t afford to support.
There’s also little evidence to support Wear’s assertion that the party is overly hostile to evangelicals. Hillary Clinton is a committed Methodist who is known to have attended Bible studies in Washington, D.C. Obama is also deeply religious. Both are latecomers to the cause of marriage equality. And their faith commitments aren’t unusual for Democrats: There’s only one Democrat currently serving in Congress who’s ever identified as non-theistic.
The country is becoming increasingly secular and increasingly liberal on issues like marriage equality. The Democratic party won’t win by catering to social conservatives, and it shouldn’t try.
Milo’s book deal also hasn’t been confirmed by Simon & Schuster, but a page for his book does exist on the company’s website and Threshold Editions did retweet the Hollywood Reporter story. But THR was not able to get comment from representatives from Simon & Schuster or Threshold. I’ve reached out multiple times for comment and will update this piece when I hear back.
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Alternately, as Agent Carter and Captain America said: "No, YOU move."
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That guy is like a bloodless 15 Minutes (2001). He takes Refuge in Audacity and lives it.
Nonsense. Religion is politics, and has been from the beginning. So long as organized religions take moral stances, they will form voting blocs.
edited 29th Dec '16 10:08:40 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Social conservatives can't be reasoned with, give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Opposing them and rolling over are the only options you have when dealing with those sorts, they are the worst of the right.
edited 29th Dec '16 10:36:59 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.To elaborate on my earlier point:
Normally I'm the first person to propose a pragmatic solution over maintaining ideological purity, BUT you can only compromise so much before your victory becomes pyrrhic.
In much the same way that the democrats should not court aggrieved racists, they shouldn't be courting any other types of reactionaries either, because it's not worth winning if you have to take those kinds of steps. Not just from an ideological standpoint, but from the fact that it will bring the democrats closer and closer to the GOP and that's pretty damn bad.
Evangelicals, individual exceptions aside, tend to be so "conservative" to the point of being reactionary. So no, the GOP can have them.
edited 29th Dec '16 10:43:13 AM by Draghinazzo
"U.S. expels 35 Russian diplomats, closes two compounds: official" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN14I1TY
Things are heating up it seems
There are claims that the expulsions were due to harassment of US diplomats in Moscow
I've always hated that speech, ever since Cap delivered it to Spider-Man in the Civil War comics. "No, YOU move," is why we're in this situation to begin with. It's been the GOP's rallying cry for the last eight years. It glorifies obstructionism and represents the death of compromise.
It is bitterly ironic that although Cap without question would vote Democrat, his most famous speech is something that could easily be heard coming out of Trump's mouth today. It's a truly awful piece of writing from a terribly mismanaged event comic that has somehow been immortalized.
edited 29th Dec '16 11:46:55 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The movie reused it in a better form. In the film the speech is framed in the context of the heavily sexist world Carter lived in heavily underestimating and mistreating her, so the "No, you move" becomes more analogous to underground resistance of social movements like feminism and the like.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I don't read mainstream comics, as a rule. They hurt my brain. Unless they're Thor, but then I don't need to bring my brain. Or Grant Morrison, but then my brain is useless.
I meant it that way.
edited 29th Dec '16 12:06:11 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Well, I shortened it a little bit....I cut out the part where you are supposed to do it even if the whole world is telling you that you are wrong. Which does kind of terrible, but when you put it in the context of the feminist movement, or the Civil Rights movement or WWII, it makes perfectly sense. The majority isn't always right.

Or possibly he's planning to throw Trump into a pit in 2020.
edited 29th Dec '16 12:01:00 AM by Gilphon