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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?
#178801: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:37:40 AM

With that in mind.
US TV host Tomi Lahren 'suspended over pro-choice comments'

US conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren has reportedly been suspended from her talk show after saying she holds pro-choice views on abortion.

Ms Lahren has faced huge online backlash since speaking on ABC's "The View" last week.

Ms Lahren said: "I'm someone that is for limited government, so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think that the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

"Stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well."

Ms Lahren has since defended her comments on Twitter, saying: "I speak my truth. If you don't like it, tough."

Reports suggest her show may now be cut altogether, amid rising tensions between Ms Lahren and other Blaze employees and hosts.

The network's founder Glenn Beck has spoken out again Ms Lahren and another reporter Kaitlyn Schallhorn, tweeted: "Even Hillary Clinton didn't call pro-life conservatives hypocrites."

The conservative network describes itself as "a platform for a new generation of authentic and unfiltered voices".

Ms Lahren has 4.3 million followers on her Facebook page, almost 3 million more than President Donald Trump himself.

(emphasis added)
I just hope the bold says it all.

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
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#178802: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:39:33 AM

Well, the stupid keeps coming. And it shows how the groupthink causes anyone inside the movement who calls out its hypocrisy to be excommunicated.

"Authentic and unfiltered voices" — that's like a dictatorship calling itself a "democratic republic".

edited 21st Mar '17 8:40:26 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#178803: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:46:07 AM

[up][up] Figures she'd suffer backlash over saying something that actually makes sense.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#178804: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:56:14 AM

^^ I can't be too sympathetic to one who calls out hypocrisy only when it negatively impacts them personally, while otherwise happily swimming in the bullshit pool. Because, wouldn't you know it, that makes them a hypocrite.

Again.

See also my lukewarm reaction whenever Megyn Kelly takes shots at the rest of Fox News for their misogyny.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#178805: Mar 21st 2017 at 8:57:45 AM

Can't help but notice what's happening to Lahren is an example of the pretty flagrant misogyny we tend to see on the right. Is it just me?

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#178806: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:04:22 AM

[up]Republicans only tolerate women when they believe entirely in the party line and do what they are told. As much as the Republican party wallows in misogyny, a big portion of that is internalized misogyny among women and the utter lack of self awareness-a solid counterpoint to the toxic masculinity the GOP loves to enshrine as the "Ideal".

Not quite two sides of the same coin, but definitely cut from the same line of thinking.

edited 21st Mar '17 9:06:32 AM by ViperMagnum357

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#178807: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:13:01 AM

Not that I feel sorry for that racist clown.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#178808: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:18:34 AM

We can't be too rough on the people who try to escape from the groupthink. Rather, we should welcome their original thought and encourage more of it. How else can we ever hope to reach anyone? We certainly don't want to drive them back in, Heel–Face Door-Slam style.

edited 21st Mar '17 9:19:21 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#178809: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:40:28 AM

I can't help but hope that Tomi Lahren's suspension isn't the end of her problems. She's repeatedly denied the existence of MRAs, alt-right trolls, etc. For her to get attacked by them now would be a pretty perfect comeuppance for all she's said and done. It would also demonstrate to her that this is a real problem, and maybe help to push her out of the echo chamber. Though given what she's like I wouldn't hold my breath.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#178810: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:50:28 AM

In some good-but-out-of-a-screwed-up-situation news...

A man who sent Trump-critical journalist Kurt Eichenwald a tweet of a GIF with flashing lights has been charged.

Eichenwald is epileptic and it's entirely possible this was intended to kill him.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#178811: Mar 21st 2017 at 9:55:11 AM

Fox News pulls Andrew Napolitano due to his claims of Britain helping Obama 'Wiretap' Trump illegally.

In short, Trump got him fired, because he got the idea of Britain helping Obama from Napolitano.

The Conservative/Neocon circus is on fire and Trump continues to pour Gasoline on it.

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#178812: Mar 21st 2017 at 10:01:04 AM

About time somebody finally got hit with the consequences for peddling lies and fabrications.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#178813: Mar 21st 2017 at 10:43:42 AM

New York Times: Trumpcare would actually result in less people getting healthcare than just repealing Obamacare.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#178815: Mar 21st 2017 at 10:53:17 AM

And I love all the outrage in the Republican town halls.

"We knew he was gonna screw over the brown people, but not us good ol white folk!"

New Survey coming this weekend!
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#178816: Mar 21st 2017 at 10:59:38 AM

Y'know what?

The Republicans don't get to complain.

It's their fault Trump is president, so they should spend the next four years sucking it up, considering what they did wrong and try hard not to fuck up next time

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#178817: Mar 21st 2017 at 11:18:32 AM

And maybe offer a solemn apology to the entire human race if we're still around.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#178818: Mar 21st 2017 at 11:39:45 AM

@lightysnake: thank god. about time people started facing consequences.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#178819: Mar 21st 2017 at 11:53:59 AM

NYT: Fewer Americans would be covered under GOP health plan than by straight repeal

So in other words, if you simply just repealed the ACA and did nothing afterwards, the amount of people insured would be HIGHER than if the Republican replacement bill passed.

New Survey coming this weekend!
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#178820: Mar 21st 2017 at 11:55:47 AM

As I said before, Tea Party's gonna love that. Though I hate the idea of giving them potential ammo.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#178821: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:53:12 PM

Trump's meeting with Republicans on Ryancare was filled with threats from the President. He threatened anyone that said no, specifically Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), he would 'go after them'. No one actually took him seriously, though, and most of those already saying 'no' are still saying 'no' to Ryancare. He also said that if Ryancare wasn't passed, that the Republican Majority would be swept away in 2018.

The continued Self-Cannibalization of the Republican Party continues.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#178822: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:55:23 PM

Trump might be right about Ryancare not passing hurting the GOP. But passing also might hurt them. They are stuck between people who like healthcare and fanatics of their own creation.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#178823: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:56:42 PM

Looks like the rider wars are starting for Trumpcare in the House:

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#178824: Mar 21st 2017 at 12:56:47 PM

FBI Reportedly Looking At Breitbart, InfoWars As Part Of Russia Probe.

Hey, Tobias, didn't you once speculate maybe Bannon is the liaison between Trump and Putin?

EDIT: NRA has links to Russia too. No one told me Winter Soldier was a documentary.

edited 21st Mar '17 1:06:03 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#178825: Mar 21st 2017 at 1:06:28 PM

Bannon is Trump's FSB case officer.wild mass guess

His real name is "Stipan Bannonov."

"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."

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