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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#176976: Mar 5th 2017 at 12:53:58 PM

Meanwhile on Earth-2, this thread is arguing on the best ways President Clinton can codify maternity leave into Federal Law.

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JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#176978: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:20:22 PM

Does anyone know if those Mexican legal aid centers are taking donations? I checked online but didn't see anything but news articles.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#176979: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:23:17 PM

Honestly, one issue I think we're gonna have to tackle later on, when the Democrats are in power again?

ICE is a huge problem. The culture of the agency itself.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176980: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:25:53 PM

Meanwhile on Earth-2, this thread is arguing on the best ways President Clinton can codify maternity leave into Federal Law.

... sad

I don't want to live in the Evil Doppelganger Universe anymore.

My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.
ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#176981: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:29:43 PM

[up][up]Also CBP, TSA, and the incredible oversight that there is no agency directly under the command of the Judiciary to enforce their rulings-seeing the Federal Marshals blow off the courts in favor of a politically appointed Attorney General was legitimately terrifying.

edited 5th Mar '17 1:30:00 PM by ViperMagnum357

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#176982: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:33:15 PM

Is Trump ever going to address the expected crackdown on recreational marijuana? Or is he gonna slip it by when we're distracted by some scandal?

Do not obey in advance.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#176983: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:36:20 PM

And in Earth-3 we're bickering about whether pres. Sanders is actually capable of accomplishing what he wants and if he's creating a cult of personality or not. Meanwhile, Earth-4 is everyone is cowering in fear at Holy Roman AMERICAN Emperor Cruz' attempts at turning the US into a theocracy and lamenting that the GOP pulled a coup on Trump during the election since there's no possible way he could've had a chance at winning the presidency, while Cruz did have a chance. Finally, on Earth-5 everyone forgot the name of the POTUS. It's Kasich, by electoral college coup.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#176984: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:38:03 PM

[up]x4 Have you considered shaving off that goatee.

edited 5th Mar '17 1:38:12 PM by nightwyrm_zero

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176985: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:40:47 PM

No, I need it. It helps me fit in.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#176986: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:41:05 PM

Actually the "Earth-2" where Clinton wins is an endless circus of impeachment attempts and continued obstruction by the GOP because they still control every other part of the government other than the Presidency, and might very well end up with enough power at the state level in 2018 (because the incumbent party almost always loses seats in congress in midterms) to enact constitutional amendments. "Earth-3" is the same circular firing squad Labor in the UK went into after Corbyn ended up in charge of the party leading to epic losses in the midterms of 2018, and "Earth-4" and 5 are about the same as the one we're in now without the massive protests (just moderately sized ones) because Kaisich and Cruz have a veneer of respectability. There was pretty much no good outcome to 2016, because the trends which lead us here have been progressing for decades without being meaningfully addressed; only one of the 2016 candidates (Sanders) seemed interested in seriously addressing these trends (the others either didn't realize what was going on or didn't care), and he almost certainly would've failed to do so.

edited 5th Mar '17 1:52:22 PM by CaptainCapsase

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#176987: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:43:24 PM

You're forgetting the part where Trump maintains that the election is a fraud, and he would have "won bigly and been a great (so good) president." The Republicans do nothing to dissuade this.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#176988: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:59:00 PM

Guys, lets be real here. WE'RE Earth-2. Hell, we're probably like Earth-8.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#176989: Mar 5th 2017 at 2:03:59 PM

Earth-Y.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#176990: Mar 5th 2017 at 2:04:54 PM

[up][up]We start counting from our own dimension. Alternate universes can see themselves as earth-1 and so on.

edited 5th Mar '17 2:05:06 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
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?
#176991: Mar 5th 2017 at 2:39:29 PM

No, we're definitely Earth 2. On Earth 1, the Nazis won, and 2016 was the Clock Roaches (or Time Squad) balancing time's books.

David Perdue gets a seat at the White House table
Plain and simple, Purdue is a firm Trumpist. He's even wearing the hat, but...

Ossoff strikes back: Democrat rushes to define himself with trio of ads

Democrat Jon Ossoff released a trio of television ads on Friday in a rush to define himself in his bid for a conservative-leaning suburban Atlanta House district before his Republican opponents can.

In the first ad, former Gov. Roy Barnes calls Ossoff a “relentless warrior against corruption” and Rep. John Lewis says he can “shake things up in Congress.” It argues that his role as a national security aide in Congress will help him root out corruption.

A second ad focuses on his campaign pledge to attract more high-tech jobs to the district, which stretches from east Cobb County to north De Kalb. And a third spot, debuting online, features the Democrat’s most critical comments of Donald Trump this campaign.

“He’s not only embarrassing us on the world stage, he could start an unnecessary war,” said Ossoff. “I’ll work with anybody to do what’s right for our country, but we can’t let Donald Trump put us at risk.”

He’s also attracted the attention of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which called him a “Bernie Sanders-type candidate” trying to win in a ruby-red district.

“Not only is Jon Ossoff not fit for his district, it’s not his district at all. He does not live in GA-06,” said Maddie Anderson, a spokeswoman for the committee. “Aside from this factor, which should disqualify him, he is completely and wholly unprepared to serve in office. We are looking forward to giving the Democrats a dose of reality over the next several months.”

(Ossoff said he lives south of the district’s border so his girlfriend of 12 years, an Emory University medical student, can walk to work. Members of Congress don’t have to live in their districts, and Ossoff said he will move to the 6th after she graduates.)

Still, Ossoff has fast become a darling of the Democratic party. His campaign claims nearly $2 million in donations in less than two months. He has racked up celebrity support and a string of big-name endorsements. And national Democrats are pouring staff and resources into his race.


This race is getting weird—it started off weird, but when this could be either Verdun or Sedan...

edited 5th Mar '17 2:41:42 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
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#176992: Mar 5th 2017 at 2:47:40 PM

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-seeks-inquiry-into-allegations-that-obama-tapped-his-phones.html

Comey is rejecting the wire tapping nonsense

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.

Mr. Comey, who made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter, has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down the claim because it falsely insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.

Mr. Comey’s request is a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation’s top law enforcement official in the position of questioning Mr. Trump’s truthfulness. The confrontation underscores the high stakes of what the president and his aides have unleashed by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump’s young administration

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
#176993: Mar 5th 2017 at 3:17:16 PM

The plot thickens.

Lets see if Trump will see that request as a betrayal.

Inter arma enim silent leges
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176994: Mar 5th 2017 at 3:24:47 PM

He'l see it the way he always does, as an opportunity to grandstand.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#176995: Mar 5th 2017 at 7:05:51 PM

I wonder how the rank-and-file see this? Maybe, if things work out, law enforcement will take white supremacy more seriously.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#176996: Mar 5th 2017 at 7:25:25 PM

The fact that the FBI has not actually released the statement Comey requested suggests dissension in the ranks which is a thing I've noticed before - the Bureau's actions have been pretty inconsistent in whether they favor Donald or not.. We know there is a signifigant pro-Trump faction but it hasn't meant the Bureau is following him in lockstep.

With law enforcement in general, it depends on the precinct. There is a large scale of difference in which they handle institutionalized racism.

edited 5th Mar '17 7:30:13 PM by Elle

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#176997: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:19:31 PM

Not entirely surprisingly, former workers at Mar-A-Lago have come forwards with information that Trump can and has listened in on landline phone calls there.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176998: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:23:12 PM

[up] So he's spying on people without a warrant...

... Can he at least please get scolded at some point by Republicans in congress? Do we really have to let this crazy man get away with countless crimes until 2018?

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#176999: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:26:07 PM

[up]Not just that, but if that's habitual... Well, we now know where the projection comes from. tongue

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#177000: Mar 5th 2017 at 8:32:17 PM

[up][up][up],[up] Agreed. In light of his bullshit recent wiretapping accusations, this is hilarious.

It's also somewhat horrifying that someone who apparently did this in the past either doesn't know or doesn't care that the POTUS can't legally order a wiretap — and currently is the POTUS.

It would not suprise me at all if it turns out that Trump has illegally wiretapped Obama's and HRC's phonelines.

edited 5th Mar '17 8:36:00 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised

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