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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#258976: Oct 26th 2018 at 4:48:51 PM

[up]The left? yes, the center? not so much, some of course by how blatant clown he was but some liked his trollish actituded and the fact the not plataforming mean people didnt really pick him apart like the idiot he was, between that and being gay and having a black boyfriend(of so he said) it was dificult to said he was racist, allow him to run uncheck.

Until he self destruct.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#258977: Oct 26th 2018 at 4:53:03 PM

The left? yes, the center? not so much, some of course by how blatant clown he was but some liked his trollish actituded and the fact the not plataforming mean people didnt really pick him apart like the idiot he was, between that and being gay and having a black boyfriend(of so he said) it was dificult to said he was racist, allow him to run uncheck.

To be fair I did say Left of Center, so anyone who more left-wing than the political Center.

Furthermore, I will point out his primary audience was the alt-right and other people who were on the far-right, thus I am highly skeptical that "true" centrists supported him (as vague as that may be) in any significant numbers.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Oct 26th 2018 at 7:58:17 AM

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258978: Oct 26th 2018 at 4:53:53 PM

this is beautiful

It chronicles the remarkable silence of a number of “False Flag” Conspiracy Theorists after the reveal that the bomber predictably was a Trumpist.

PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Eats moldy bread and flies into windows
#258979: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:04:11 PM

I doubt this will completely silence them, though. I guarantee by tomorrow a load of them will start saying he's a plant, because he's 'too stereotypical' or something.

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#258980: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:05:03 PM

[up][up][up]no much the center soport him but many kinda wondering the no plataforming issue to the point it have become quite a topic in general, as many saw the lack of confrontation against him as sign they have nothing to said, specially as Milo was quite carefull in who to target, he was cleaver until he overstep the line.

" What, precisely, did he think would happen?"

If I have to answer this.....trump pretty much expect everything to go to is favor: he will said some trumpian thing, is enemies will cover in terror, people cheer for him, he wins, end of story.

Because that it, trump is pretty confidence in the idea he wont fall, no matter what, everything will be right in the sense he must get exactly what he wants(and more).

He didnt expect everything like this because otherwise, that would be bad.

Edited by unknowing on Oct 26th 2018 at 8:05:28 AM

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
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#258981: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:09:08 PM

Actually, I take back my last statement; after reading that article it's apparent they've already started doing what I said, complete with the 'too stereotypical' rationalization. What a shocker.

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258982: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:31:06 PM

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/26/day-645/

Day 645: This "Bomb" stuff.

1/ Trump is considering an executive order to close the southern border to Central Americans and deny them the opportunity to seek asylum, similar to 2017's "travel ban." The proposed order has not been finalized, but would put in place new rules that would disqualify migrants from claiming asylum who cross the border in between ports of entry. Current U.S. law allows foreign nationals fleeing persecution to apply for asylum once they reach American soil. (San Francisco Chronicle / ABC News / New York Times / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal)

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-weighs-options-executive-action-bar-migrants-deny/story?id=58766690

📌 The Re-Up: Day 8. Trump executive order suspends admission of all refugees for 120 days while a new system is put in place to tighten vetting for those from predominantly Muslim countries and give preference to religious minorities. Trump said that the goal is to screen out “radical Islamic terrorists” and that priority for admission would be given to Christians. (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-approves-extreme-vetting-of-refugees-promises-priority-for-christians/2017/01/27/007021a2-e4c7-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide additional U.S. troops on the U.S.-Mexcio border. The Pentagon sent about 2,000 troops to the border earlier this year. (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mattis-approves-sending-more-troop-to-mexican-border-1540566532

2/ FBI agents arrested Cesar Sayoc Jr., a registered Republican voter, in connection with the 12 suspected mail bombs sent to Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, George Soros, Cory Booker, John Brennan, Robert De Niro and other critics of Trump. Agents also seized his white van, which had most of its windows covered in pro-Trump stickers, including Trump standing on a tank in front of fireworks and an American flag, crosshairs over the faces of Clinton, Michael Moore and Obama, and a "CNN Sucks" sticker. Authorities said they were looking at "right-wing paraphernalia" found at the scene. In 2002, Sayoc was arrested for allegedly making a threat to throw, place, project or discharge a destructive device. (CNBC / Miami Herald / NBC News / New York Times / Washington Post / The Guardian / Wall Street Journal)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/person-in-custody-in-connection-with-mail-bomb-probe.html

Two more suspicious packages, addressed to Sen. Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were intercepted. Booker's package was addressed to his office in Camden, NJ, while Clapper's was addressed to CNN's New York offices. Law enforcement officials are treating the bombs as a matter of domestic terrorism. (CNN / CNBC / NBC News)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/politics/cory-booker-package/index.html

3/ Trump tweets that 'this "Bomb" stuff' is hurting Republicans in the midterms because the "news [is] not talking [about] politics." Trump's allies have suggested – without evidence – that the packages are the work of liberals to undercut Republicans ahead of the November election. A few hours after his tweet, Trump said these "terrorizing acts are despicable" and "the bottom line is that Americans must unify." (New York Times / Washington Post / The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/26/trump-bombs-response-latest-twitter-midterms-momentum-complaint

Trump complained that Twitter reduced his follower count, accusing the company of "total bias." Trump did not provide evidence to support his claim, but added that "a few weeks ago [Twitter] was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp!" (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/trump-twitter-follower-count-943005

Notables.

George Papadopoulos is considering withdrawing from a cooperation agreement he entered into with Robert Mueller. The former Trump-campaign adviser said he believes he has been "set up" by the government and that his plea deal was the result of inadequate counsel. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a foreign professor. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/papadopolous-plea-deal-942346

Papadopoulos requested immunity to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Legal experts believe the former Trump-campaign adviser is worried that his testimony could implicate him in a crime. (The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/george-papadopoulos-requests-immunity-from-senate/574102/

Trump spent $10,000 in charity money on a portrait of himself because no one else wanted it. During a 2014 auction benefiting the Unicorn Foundation at his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida, Trump opened the bidding on the portrait with a $10,000 bid. Nobody else bid. Trump billed the Donald J. Trump Foundation for the cost. (New York Post)

https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/trump-used-charity-money-to-buy-his-own-portrait-because-no-one-else-would-lawyers/

The Trump administration admitted that it failed to account for at least 14 migrant children who were separated from their families at the southern border. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement told a federal court that it separated 2,668 children from their parents instead of 2,654. The latest HHS filing said it "recently completed another review of case management records to ensure that its characterization of certain children in ORR care remain accurate." (The Hill / Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/hhs-identify-separated-migrant-children-942313

National security adviser John Bolton said Putin has been invited to visit Washington, D.C., early next year. It would be Putin's first visit to the White House since September 2005. (Politico)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/putin-white-house-2019-942355


On a side note: I'm hearing that Fox News is blurring the stickers on Sayoc's van.

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 26th 2018 at 6:34:14 AM

Cris_Meyers reluctant author, willing misanthrope from Chicagoland (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
reluctant author, willing misanthrope
#258983: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:34:47 PM

Everything I saw before my eyes rolled back into my head and I passed out to stop the pain was "the stickers are too new!"

I...just, damn. This is never going to end, is it?

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#258984: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:34:58 PM

Trump spent $10,000 in charity money on a portrait of himself because no one else wanted it. During a 2014 auction benefiting the Unicorn Foundation at his Mar-a-Lago country club in Florida, Trump opened the bidding on the portrait with a $10,000 bid. Nobody else bid. Trump billed the Donald J. Trump Foundation for the cost. (New York Post)

I state this and the pussy conversation say everything you need to know about Donald J. Trump.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#258985: Oct 26th 2018 at 5:39:02 PM

I...just, damn. This is never going to end, is it?

The most fanatical age demographic in support of Trump are Baby Boomers and they won't last forever.

Will things be perfect? No, but the current insanity could end eventually.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#258986: Oct 26th 2018 at 6:56:43 PM

America has so many sins racked up that I wonder if there's really any way for us to correct our course.

Do not obey in advance.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#258987: Oct 26th 2018 at 7:12:04 PM

It is never too late to start doing the right thing. Starting at all is the hard part.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#258988: Oct 26th 2018 at 8:20:53 PM

Some very encouraging news, 2018 polls: Latino Voters are turning in and turning Blue

The name more or less sums it up, Latino enthusiasm seems to be rising rapidly and unsurprisingly they favor the Democratic Party.

If this proves accurate then this would be really big, Latinos are the largest minority group and they're only growing larger. If they could decisively turn against the Republicans and actually vote then this could be massive. It could turn out that Trumpian Republican politicians simply aren't sustainable for the party, and if that is true then they're fucked. They simply cannot afford to stop being blatant White Supremacists, neither the base nor cancerous Media apparatus would permit it.

I'm extremely excited, I dearly hope that the Republicans pay for their evil. grin

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Oct 26th 2018 at 11:21:27 AM

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Kakuzan Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to. from Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to.
#258989: Oct 26th 2018 at 8:24:03 PM

Bit of a reminder to mail in voters to double check to make sure your county didn't find anything wrong with your ballot and/or signature. I have to fill out an affidavit myself since it was the latter for me.

Don't catch you slippin' now.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#258990: Oct 26th 2018 at 8:24:44 PM

[up][up]I hope they pay for it too, more than anything.

Edited by BearyScary on Oct 26th 2018 at 7:25:22 AM

Do not obey in advance.
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#258991: Oct 26th 2018 at 9:31:18 PM
Thumped: Wow. That was rude. Too many of this kind of thump will bring a suspension. Please keep it civil.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#258992: Oct 26th 2018 at 9:43:08 PM

@ native Americans and political parties, I guess it really varies between tribes. Openly claiming to support the Democrats here in the Cherokee tribe is a good way to get your tires slashed.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#258993: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:10:03 PM

Why do the Cherokee dislike the Democrats so much, but not the Republicans?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#258994: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:20:31 PM

[up]Jackson.

Disgusted, but not surprised
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258995: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:23:58 PM

[up] why don’t people seem to get that while names may stay the same, the type of people in those parties have flipped? The constituencies of the Modern Republican Parth is basically the same as the Democratic Party Pre-Civil War. (Me just getting frustration out)

(And Granted, the Republican Party wasn’t that much better regarding native Americans. That was just the standard of the time, even if it was a decidedly bad one.)

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 26th 2018 at 1:33:34 PM

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#258996: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:26:44 PM

'This organization attempted genocide against my people' is the kind of wound that takes a long time to heal, even if the organization in question has changed enough that them supporting that kind of atrocity today would be unthinkable.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258997: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:31:56 PM

[up] Again, I get it. It’e just a bit frustrating sometimes, more than anything else.

It’s actually pretty cool that we have that perspective here.

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 26th 2018 at 1:36:38 PM

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#258998: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:36:17 PM

That's the kind of thing I get being frustrated about, but it also feels kind of... bad to be frustrated about.

But people generally fall back on emotion before reasoning, in general. When talking about things like this, it becomes harder to be mad about it.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258999: Oct 26th 2018 at 10:38:54 PM

[up] It’s more just general frustration with the very human knee-jerk reaction than this situation in Particular.

I don’t know, it’s just kind of the opposite of how my mind usually works.

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 26th 2018 at 1:48:31 PM

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#259000: Oct 26th 2018 at 11:29:21 PM

Party of Lincoln vs. Party of Atrocity. That stigma clouds our politics to this day, making it difficult for people who aren't politically active to know which side to stand on.

Urged on by Republican propaganda, of course.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 26th 2018 at 12:31:37 PM

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