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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#165126: Jan 3rd 2017 at 11:52:05 AM

[up] Which is why I hope "THANKS, TRUMP!" catches on like "THANKS, OBAMA!" did.

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
#165127: Jan 3rd 2017 at 12:05:17 PM

[up][up]If they can blame the Jews and Obama for everything they can claim everything nice that happens to be Trump's doing.

Inter arma enim silent leges
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#165128: Jan 3rd 2017 at 12:14:38 PM

Right now I'm on a trip the Middle East. "The Jews" do get blamed for every bad thing that happens in the Middle East. Every major leader in the world is a Zionist, and every Arab leader a sellout. As the joke goes, Israel must be the most budget-efficient touristic destination in the world.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#165129: Jan 3rd 2017 at 12:20:26 PM

Arab-Jewish conflicts go back millenia though.

I mean, heck, in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament's most important book, the Hebrews arrive and conquer or enslave the native Canaanites and claim the land as divine right. Before that, they were nomadic shepherds who didn't claim land as their own, weren't they?

So these attitudes didn't just spawn yesterday. They've literally been around for as long as there have been Arabs and Jews.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
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
#165130: Jan 3rd 2017 at 12:46:12 PM

[up][up]We're so powerful and so much in control of the politics and the media that the candidate we backed and wanted to win the US election lost...

but it was ugh...part of the plan...

Inter arma enim silent leges
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.
#165131: Jan 3rd 2017 at 12:51:44 PM

I have no witty retort to that. It's just so dumb that I have no possible counter to it.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165132: Jan 3rd 2017 at 1:03:51 PM

Well, people desperately want to believe that someone can bring the jobs back that giving Trump the benefit amounts to a form of wishful thinking.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#165133: Jan 3rd 2017 at 1:32:31 PM

This book continues to be politically relevant.

Only surgeon in town: "You’ve seen the worst of [the townsfolk], these last few years, but there was a time before that, a good time. They’re mine, son. And I’m theirs. They’re my responsibility, now that [old Citylord] has gone. I can’t leave them to [new Citylord who has been bullying surgeon].”

“Even if they like what he’s doing?”

“Particularly because of that."

The Way Of Kings

edited 3rd Jan '17 1:33:13 PM by Yinyang107

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165134: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:00:04 PM

Megan Kelly to NBC?

Ugh I wish her racist ass would take her settlement money and just go him and take care of her kids

New Survey coming this weekend!
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#165135: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:03:46 PM

I always though Megan was the voice of reason on Fox News?

Not to mention she was unapologetically critical of Trump the whole way through this campaign.

What are some of the problems we have with her?

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
Mio Since: Jan, 2001
#165136: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:24:44 PM

[up]She may not be as extreme as say, Sean Hannity, but make no mistake, she is firmly on the right and espouses a lot of the usual Republican rhetoric.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165137: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:29:47 PM

As much disdain as I may have for Kelly under normal circumstances, normal circumstances these ain't. She's got no love for Trump, and right now, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I predict a lot of Teeth-Clenched Teamwork in however many years it takes us to get through this. Assuming we ever do.

I'll say this for her, when some Trumpling asshole was citing the Japanese-American internment camps as "precedent" for a Muslim registry, she seemed dumbfounded and immediately called him out for supporting such a monstrous act. Again, I'm not saying she's a good person - but she may have some principles, at least compared to most Republican pundits.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#165138: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:34:12 PM

Evidently she does. I recall her calling out some intellectual dishonesty on part of the trump campaign prior, though it's been so long i can't remember what it was.

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
#165139: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:41:53 PM

Was it the Trump installed disabled person access in every one of his buildings followed by he is required by law to do so comments?

Inter arma enim silent leges
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#165140: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:50:13 PM

So apparently, the barrage of outraged phone calls from constituents was a primary deciding factor in getting the House's neutering of ethics shelved. It's not a permanent victory, but it is a lesson: our voices matter. This was in many ways the Resistance's first victory of 2017. We need to remain vigilant and keep them under a spotlight, and maybe more will follow.

Also, make no mistake, they will try to further obfuscate their actions and create smokescreens to avoid coming under public pressure of this nature. Hell, they've already started.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#165141: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:52:51 PM

@Megyn Kelly - Being a republican (or, more accurately, not a liberal, and that too assuming she is espousing personal beliefs rather than the company line) does not suddenly mean she's bad people. She did her job as a journalist, which is more than can be said for most people on television news right now, right or left.

Her sin, as far as can be observed from her time at Fox, is her penchant for sensationalism. And we do not know if that was simply the culture of FNC or if it is just her. But we will know definitively one way or another once she starts at NBC.

edited 3rd Jan '17 3:53:44 PM by FFShinra

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#165142: Jan 3rd 2017 at 3:52:54 PM

Which makes me wonder: What were they trying to sneak through under the furore over this?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
justhelping Since: Dec, 2016
#165143: Jan 3rd 2017 at 4:01:52 PM

I'm living proof of Trump's ability to alienate. I'm a registered republican, and I have voted such in the four elections I have been a part of, except this one. I simply didn't mark my presidential ballot. The man's a fool and incompetent, and I can't believe we've handed America to such a cretin.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#165144: Jan 3rd 2017 at 4:07:24 PM

Some people will open all Pandora's boxes you offer to them until something pops out and eats them.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#165145: Jan 3rd 2017 at 4:11:29 PM

We're so powerful and so much in control of the politics and the media that the candidate we backed and wanted to win the US election lost...but it was ugh...part of the plan...

I've heard this said before because these people think the Jews are in control of both parties. Trump's children are all married to Jews, his son in law and closest advisor is Jewish, and his Cabinet is even more kosher than Obama's not to mention that he's more pro-Israel than Obama.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#165146: Jan 3rd 2017 at 4:14:39 PM

I think Megyn Kelly was the anchor that got famous for insisting that Santa was white as a fact. Which uh... says some not so great things about her, but really she came out of this whole Trump mess looking like the better person. And considering how Fox sort of threw her under the bus I'm kind of not surprised she's decided to go for another network.

[up]The alt right seemed to ignore the whole thing about his son in law being Jewish, despite much of their conspiracies. I always found that weird. I'm not aware of who else his other children have married, or even if they're married. Because that's not a thing I had to care about, before.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165147: Jan 3rd 2017 at 4:38:59 PM

The thing about Fox News is that they're not going anywhere, and they're not going to stop being the news source of choice of a lot of people on the right. Expelling the person most prominently willing to criticize Trump from their ranks can only be considered a bad thing.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#165148: Jan 3rd 2017 at 7:11:33 PM

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but several NAACP members were having a sit-in at Jeff Sessions' office in Alabama. They said they would stay there until they were arrested or Sessions withdrew himself from consideration for Attorney General.They were just arrested about seven hours in.

Edit: it's talked about in another OTC. Well, it's relevant here, anyway.

On a lighter note, I downloaded the extension that changes pictures of Trump into pictures of kittens (because it's going to be a long four years, regardless), and I just realized that it also changes any arrow in a post that mentions Trump into a tiny little picture of a kitten. I love it.

Did we talk about the Ford plant not moving to Mexico? Because apparently it had nothing to do with Trump
The top reply in that Twitter thread pisses me off so much that I'm actually considering logging into Twitter. Apparently, reporting what the goddamn CEO of Ford has actually said is an anti-Trump conspiracy. Do people think!?

edited 3rd Jan '17 7:20:55 PM by Pseudopartition

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#165150: Jan 3rd 2017 at 7:25:34 PM

Not even pretending anymore.

Oh really when?

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