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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Snyder made sure that Flint officials had clean water 8 MONTHS before everyone else
He's at Captain Planet tier of villainy.
And with the Oregon situation, the FBI released helicopter footage of the arrest and shooting
. The report saying Finicum ran the stop into a snowbank is proven, and it does look like he was reaching for his waistband when he got shot.
Ironically, the Bundy account was also accurate, as Finicum also had his hands up immediately after stepping out of the truck - he just reached for his pocket afterward.
edited 28th Jan '16 8:00:46 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Really don't understand why people say they only watch for Trump. Yes, he remains an egotistical piece of shit, but he's become more and more boring with each debate. He's now only really starting to speak at the halfway point.
And besides Cruz and Carson, the debate was actually more like a debate this time. Or maybe I'm just being stupid and not getting it.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."Many people don't want a debate, they want theatre, they want reality TV, they're not interested in a debate, they're interested in drama.
edited 28th Jan '16 8:47:40 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIt's important to understand that the core viewing demographic for both parties has little patience for or interest in politics in and of itself. They want to see their biases reinforced. They want to see theater. They want to see Trump or Cruz slam down whatever people or group cheeses them off.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Hardly surprising. They've turned the defaults on Reddit into even more intolerable shitfests than they already were. Criticism of Hillary has always had a misogynistic current as well.
What a fanny.
edited 29th Jan '16 3:37:31 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiI'm watching the MSNBC coverage of Trump's event last night. He had the gall to call himself out in his list of donors to his veterans' fund. And then just over five minutes in, there was another protester disruption. Theater.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Krugman's been getting vicious attacks from Sanders supporters. It's starting to look like they are competing for toxicity with Trump's supporters.
Edit: I, too, played games last night. Finally downed Heroic Archimonde in Hellfire Citadel, and if you know what that means, you are a WoW geek. But I always watch the evening talk and comedy shows the next morning.
edited 29th Jan '16 7:23:24 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"How the GOP created and continues to nourish the toxic atmosphere that led to the rise of Trump
.
It was a breathtaking sight. Only moments after decrying the destructive extremism of Donald J. Trump, the candidates and moderators paused for a commercial break and, without even a hint of self-awareness, urged their audience to embrace exactly the sense of fear and desperation that so fuels Trump.
What you saw in this debate was the GOP field and the party's most powerful media institution declare their opposition to Donald Trump, then go about, for two hours, painstakingly maintaining the eco-system of fear that allows him to thrive.
...
Here are four of the things that a viewer would learn from Thursday's debate, which, in sum, practically compose a recruiting pamphlet to volunteer for the Trump campaign:
(1) Barack Obama deliberately hollowed out our military, leaving us weak
"Barack Obama right now, number one, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military." — Ted Cruz
"You cannot destroy ISIS with a military that's been diminished." — Marco Rubio"
(2) Obama is allowing terrorists to flow into our communities
"I don't know of anyone who is not in favor of fully vetting people trying to come to this country, other than perhaps Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton." — Marco Rubio
"You can't defend us against Islam if you're not for border security." — Rand Paul
(3) Political correctness prevents law enforcement from protecting us
"We need to stop allowing political correctness to dictate our policies, because it's going to kill us if we don't." — Ben Carson, after being asked whether "GOP messaging on Muslims has stoked the flames of bias, as the Democrats suggest"
"Barack Obama has made law enforcement the enemy, Hillary Clinton has made law enforcement the enemy. ... It's making people nervous to go to law enforcement. As president, I will support law enforcement and we'll stop radical terrorist attacks in this country by supporting our intelligence and law enforcement community." — Chris Christie
(4) ISIS could defeat America unless we make a change and soon
"Radical Islamic jihadists, what they want to do is impose their faith upon each and every one of us. Every one of us. The reason why this war against them is so important is that very basis of religious liberty. They want everyone in this country to follow their religious beliefs the way they do." — Chris Christie
"They're the best funded radical group in the history of the world and have shown a sophisticated understanding of the laws of other countries and are planning to attack us here at home and around the world." — Marco Rubio
Megyn Kelly won the award for debate moderators who explicitly called for racial profiling and showing off casual bigotry.
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Because you can do it without profiling. You do it on the facts. What those facts knew was that these folks had weapons, they knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it. That's not profiling, that's law enforcement. That's the difference between somebody who knows how to do this and somebody who has done this before.
KELLY: They didn't know they were going to attack the country.
CHRISTIE: They knew they were talking about attacking people.
KELLY: Neighbors said they saw men going in and out of the garage. They saw packages being delivered. They saw muslims and they did not think that was enough to call the cops. Do you?
CHRISTIE: Listen, I think what people should do is use common sense. And the fact is, let law enforcement make those decisions. I told people that from the time I was U.S. Attorney 13 years ago. You see something that's suspicious, you call law enforcement and let law enforcement make those decisions. That's what should be done and can be done. That can be done without profiling people. What that is, it's common sense. They thought something was wrong. Here's the problem in this country right now. The problem is, Barack Obama has made law enforcement the enemy, Hillary Clinton has made law enforcement the enemy. They're not supporting law enforcement, it's making everybody nervous to get out of your cars if you're a law enforcement officer. It's making people nervous to go to law enforcement. As president, I will support law enforcement and we'll stop radical terrorist attacks in this country by supporting our intelligence and law enforcement community.
Kelly's line of questioning culminates in her — the debate moderator! — expressing alarm that neighbors did not call the police on Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik simply because they were Muslim. She lectures Christie that police should have arrested the attackers, even in the absence of any evidence, simply for being Muslim and having "packages coming and going."
It is difficult to overstate the significance of a presidential debate moderator throwing off any air of moderating the debate rather than participating in it, and punishing a candidate because he has strayed from the conventional wisdom that all Muslims are threats until proven otherwise, that they should be targeted by police even in absence of evidence, and that this combination of Islam and political correctness puts communities across America at risk.
Well, now I'm glad I didn't watch.
Every now and then I have hopes for Megyn Kelly, but she is, after all is said and done, a Fox News employee and an agent of the GOP political establishment.
edited 29th Jan '16 7:54:27 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Anyway, it's easy to understand why they feed into the same fear narrative that Trump thrives in: It's because they're all trying to profit from it. Fear of the Muslim makes Republican voters, and Republican candidates all want a slice of this cake, they don't care that Trump is getting the biggest one.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Politico Implodes: Top staff for Politico leave the media company after the 2016 Election Cycle.
How Trump Is Romancing the Christian Right
Basically: The religious right have sold out their principles since Reagan, and no longer concerned with the religious virtue of a candidate, they're after the big issue that matters most to them after Godliness:
"It's the economy, stupid." Evangelicals don't care about the fact Trump's a sleazebag, they care if he can deliver economic prosperity.
So, no reactions to the news of the FBI's footage of the arrest and shooting being released
, or did it just get lost in the shuffle?

I'm watching the debate. I'm too young for alcohol and I don't have any popcorn so I'll just have water or something. At least Trump isn't there.
edited 28th Jan '16 7:15:06 PM by LinkToTheFuture
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