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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#172401: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:02:39 AM

Behold, the most despicable, dastardly, heartless and cruel EO Trump's Administration has Drafted (so far). It includes:

  • Deny or Deport Immigrants dependant on Welfare.
  • Force SS to report on Immigrants that use it.
  • Force people (including Natural-Born Citizens) to pay the Government for supporting Immigrants.
  • Study the benefits of keeping Immigrants off of Welfare (supposedly $100 Billion in Savings).

This administration is so terrible...

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#172402: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:05:58 AM

Oh my God, the xenophobes must be jizzing in their pants right about now.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#172403: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:07:50 AM

Re: Bowling Green Massacre:

This is the worst "apology" I've ever read.

edited 3rd Feb '17 10:08:24 AM by speedyboris

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#172404: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:11:34 AM

[up][up][up]Welp, it looks like it's time for another protest.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#172405: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:27:57 AM

@Point #3 of Trumpenfuhrer Directive: Pretty sure we are already compelled by force of law to pay the government for that. It's called taxes.

Also, was that shortening to "SS" intended to enhance how fascistic this sounds, or was that just a coincidence?

edited 3rd Feb '17 10:29:13 AM by Balmung

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#172406: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:28:31 AM

RE immigrant welfare: Don't go too crazy on it: as the article says, a lot of this stuff is already done since the Clinton era. So know which parts are Trumpite "additions".

edited 3rd Feb '17 10:29:16 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#172407: Feb 3rd 2017 at 10:32:12 AM

Trump did jack shit to get the Federal Bureaucracy on his side or did anything to get its respect. As a result, the FB are just leaking stuff lol
When will the IRS leak his tax returns?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#172408: Feb 3rd 2017 at 12:50:08 PM

[up][up]Man, Bill Clinton sure ran with the idea of Conservatism by Democrats.

No wonder he was so popular.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#172409: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:01:54 PM

Bill Clinton ran on being a centrist candidate, if I'm not mistaken.

Again, more of a conservative than most anyone in the GOP right now.

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#172411: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:10:36 PM

Just came across Flippale.org, a site listing all of the upcoming special elections in the first 100 days of the Trump regime. Specifically, it notes whether the the election is a chance to flip a seat, or a place where it's necessary to hold one. It also provides donation links.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#172412: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:15:44 PM

You know, there might be one tiny upside to Trump being a walking diplomatic incident. Tilerson's life is going to absolutely suck. He'll be doing nothing but damage control.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#172413: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:23:06 PM

Yeah Bill, Hillary and Obama are all third way Democrats.

Fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Ideally, they'd be the actual conservatives.

The actual left-wing is Bernie Sander's branch of the party.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#172414: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:23:46 PM

[up][up]Except he's facing being a forest ranger armed only with a blanket while facing an out-of-control brushfire that's turning into a full-scale, region-wide burn in a dry summer. tongue

edited 3rd Feb '17 1:24:19 PM by Euodiachloris

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#172415: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:23:46 PM

The Atlantic: The Rise of Progressive 'Fake News'. Meaning: let's be careful, the state of desperation many people here are currently in is being used to sell people bullshit.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#172416: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:25:16 PM

My dog is staring me down.

She thinks I have something to eat and If she pressures me long enough she'll get some.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#172417: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:25:34 PM

[up][up][up]Or trying to keep the Titanic afloat with a busted bucket (State's budget got cut again).

[up]Think you have the wrong tab open.

edited 3rd Feb '17 1:25:58 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#172418: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:32:07 PM

[up][up][up]This is quite common in Brazil though.

Inter arma enim silent leges
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#172419: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:36:33 PM

[up][up]Nope. I think we should take a short break from hearing how bad America is being fucked up and instead concentrate on how my beagle is perfect in all ways.

edited 3rd Feb '17 1:39:03 PM by HextarVigar

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#172421: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:44:27 PM

That article proves there's so much talent being lost in fake news. I'd pay money to see a movie where the climax is Queen Elizabeth sword dueling Trump.

edited 3rd Feb '17 1:45:01 PM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#172422: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:46:50 PM

Would they be wearing cybernetic armour?

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#172423: Feb 3rd 2017 at 1:50:27 PM

Bill Clinton ran on being a centrist candidate, if I'm not mistaken. Again, more of a conservative than most anyone in the GOP right now.

Yeah Bill, Hillary and Obama are all third way Democrats. Fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Ideally, they'd be the actual conservatives. The actual left-wing is Bernie Sander's branch of the party.

And that's why I laugh at economic justice warriors who claim the Dems ditched the WWC. They always catered to them, what more could they possibly fucking do beyond throw the minorities under the bus?

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
(•̀⤙•́)
#172425: Feb 3rd 2017 at 2:02:16 PM

It's a weird world we live in in which the majority demographic enjoys massive privilege, but that privilege is not as great as the one we were promised, and so while everyone else struggles to even get a leg up, it's our voice that cries "UNFAIR" the loudest.

Because ours is the only station well enough off that we have time to waste on crying.

My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

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