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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Switching gears a bit, it seems like the Sanders' campaign reached a deal a few days ago with their union over the workers' pay. The deal they got was a pay raise to $42,000 annual salary, full health premium coverage, and limiting their hours to 50 a week.
Sanders had better hope the union doesn't demand more based on Sanders' promises. Because they totally could, considering that Sanders hasn't only promised $15 minimum wage and health coverage.
Disgusted, but not surprisedWhy would we care to avoid siding with the people he considers terrorists? Trump is a white supremacist, they always consider anti-fascists and other racists to be terrorists. Avoiding to validate his claim gives the impression that it has any validity, which it obviously doesn't.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAgain, though, moderates aren't entirely convinced that "antifa" aren't as bad, or that white supremacists are even terrorists in the first place. We need to bring them around on these two points if we're going to convince them Trump is siding with terrorists.
Edited by PhysicalStamina on Jul 28th 2019 at 11:49:13 AM
i'm tired, my friendTrump’s Family Fortune Originated in a Canadian Gold-Rush Brothel
Umm....
Edited by megaeliz on Jul 28th 2019 at 7:10:50 AM
Trump is replacing the current Director of National Intelligence with one of his own.
Things will get worse before they get better.
There's an active shooter at a California food festival, with confirmed casualties.
Edited by LSBK on Jul 28th 2019 at 8:44:07 AM
Quick overview of what that means for Ratcliffe's seat. Likely will stay Republican with an upcoming special election as the entire District spans all of northeastern Texas from north and east of Dallas proper to the borders of Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Based on what I'm reading from Wikipedia, the District has not supported a Democratic president since 1964, the last Democrat to hold the seat was Ralph Hall who flipped to Republican in 2004 and then lost to Ratcliffe in 2014. There was also not a Democratic nominee in the District in 2014 or 2016 and both Romney and Trump won three-quarters of the District in 2012 and 2016 respectively.
Edited by tclittle on Jul 28th 2019 at 8:53:27 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."@ megaeliz: Aren't brothels also how the Roarks got their power from in the start? I only say that because one of the weird things from the movie was that Powers Boothe as Senator Roark looked like Trump's dad.
Though I shouldn't really judge, I mean the term "hooker" comes from Fighting Joe
So... it's Monday and there's a fresh scandal. Trump repeatedly attacked Elijah Cummings and Baltimore. I refuse to become numb to this. This is shocking behavior from the president.
Honest question; why do none of the Reporters ask "If you think (Democratic Controlled Area) is so bad, and you're the President who's 'Making America Great Again', why don't you do something about it?" It's such a simple question that I think any reporter should've asked by now, and I'm just surprised either no one's asked it, or it hasn't been asked this year (when he's really been going after Democratic places like California, Chicago and now Baltimore).
Of course the reason Trump isn't doing anything about it is because he can't get the Republicans to do anything and he needs to be able to harass others (especially minorities) and rally his base, but I just want to see what he would actually say to the Reporters that ask the question.
x3 Non-Fox mainstream media seems to have this intense fear of being accused of "partisanship", so they won't call things out as nearly as they should. The Golden Mean Fallacy is God for a lot of them.

This announcement is even more ludicrous considering this (from the Military thread):
FBI Director: Majority of Domestic Terrorism Cases Tied to White Supremacy
“I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well,” Wray said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the Hill reports.
According to Wray’s testimony, the arrests began in October, which marks fiscal 2019.
Here's The Hill article that is referenced in it, for reference:
FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve white supremacy
Edited by M84 on Jul 28th 2019 at 6:41:25 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised