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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#165976: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:12:14 PM

Holy shit. You can't let this happen, people!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#165977: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:26:41 PM

They're asking Sessions questions on civil rights ATM.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#165978: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:29:17 PM

Question: Is Sessions the guy who was deemed too racist to be a federal judge way back in the relatively more relaxed about racism than now 80s?

edited 10th Jan '17 1:29:32 PM by sgamer82

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#165979: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:29:43 PM

Yes.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165980: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:32:14 PM

Please have him be too racist to be an AG in 2017.

EDIT: Following the other cabinet members who're completely against the thing they've been put in charge of, Trump's gotten an anti-vaxxer to lead commission on vaccine safety.

This would be comic if it wasn't so pathetic.

edited 10th Jan '17 1:35:26 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#165981: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:39:54 PM

It's gonna be a rough four years. Hope the energy to keep pressuring Congress can be kept up, because I'm not so sure we can reliable pressure Trump into anything.

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165982: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:41:18 PM

Ah, yes, ye olde Fox News "It's okay to lie if the viewer is stupid enough" defence.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165983: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:54:00 PM

Jury Has Sentenced Dylan Roof to Death.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#165984: Jan 10th 2017 at 1:55:52 PM

OK, but I suspect he was just a tool...

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#165985: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:01:40 PM

[up] He's definitely a tool in one sense of the word...

I probably should be opposed to him getting the death penalty on principle...but I'm honestly having trouble mustering up the urge to care.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#165986: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:11:08 PM

Anti Vaxxer in charges of Vaccines in the USA.

Welp. hope you guys enjoy smallpox. :(

edited 10th Jan '17 2:12:01 PM by Ghilz

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#165987: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:13:52 PM

[up]Nah. But, the polio, tuberculosis and measles epidemics have set their alarm clocks. :/

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#165988: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:17:12 PM

Out of all the potential disasters the Trump Regime can unleash, I keep telling myself that a public health crisis is the least worst, as opposed to nuclear war or rounding up the Muslims.

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?
#165989: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:27:06 PM

At least the appointment is getting (mostly) the desirable reaction in the comments, abject horror and disgust. Still (if I may quote a comment) you have this:

"I am SO GLAD that finally this issue will be researched by people outside of the pharmacy industry's pocket. Ten or so years ago the school nurse discovered one of my own children had missed a vaccine. By that time I had read about and seen a child of a coworker and a friend have their child become autistic after the vaccine; I was concerned but not unusally worried, but I gave her a fever reducer an hour before the shot.
Within hours, her personality changed. She was dead silent and had no eye contact. I gave her more Tylenol that night. This went on for three days before she got back to normal, but something is still a little detached about her, and she wasn't like that before. I also have never seen her cry since that time period, and she's more intellectual.
It's a very, very mild change, but it's there. Now as an adult, she comes across as being intellectual and unusually stoic in matters of emotion. This will bode her well in life, I think, but I shudder to think of what damage the vaccine would have had if she had been younger and didn't have the Tylenol to keep the fever down.
I don't think they should be eliminated, but Trump is right that vaccines should be spaced out. I'm enormously glad that he picked Robert Kennedy Jr to lead this new commission b/c Big Pharma can buy whatever scientific opinions they want - and possibly have. "

Does anyone imagine this kind of thinking actually spreading beyond the fringe? (I know it can we're living amidst the results of less logical decisions). So far the comments are dead against vaccine conspiracy theories but after it has official sanction, idk.

Our generation (in the States) might be the one that gets to say "so this is what its like to on this side of the WHO (and UNICEF and UNESCO...)." I must admit, I knew the time would be miserable but I thought the body count thing was hyperbole. The results of one election night...

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
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#165990: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:31:38 PM

Every time I think Trump has managed to offend every moral standard I have, he digs up a new one I'd forgotten about. It's actually kind of impressive, the way he goes against literally everything I stand for.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#165991: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:33:56 PM

[up]The same.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#165992: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:42:41 PM

By this point I would not be surprised if Trump announces a drug-dealing mass shooter as the head of the ATF....

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165993: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:43:12 PM

Yet again proving that people care more about Team R than any moral principles they would assuredly destroy Democrats for having.

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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#165994: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:48:38 PM

Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him

Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.

The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

The two-page synopsis also included allegations that there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government, according to two national security officials.

You know what, fuck the FBI, fuck Wikileaks, fuck everyone who could have done something about this but didn't.

edited 10th Jan '17 2:50:40 PM by NoName999

iflewaway someone from somewhere Since: Dec, 2016
someone
#165995: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:54:24 PM

Remember when we were worried about Trump appointing Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie to positions?

something
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165996: Jan 10th 2017 at 2:57:52 PM

[up][up] Was just about to post this.

Are you FUCKING kidding me? How the fuck is the media just rolling over thinking this is no big deal?

Comey won't say if FBI is investigating contacts between Moscow, Trump campaign

Fuck.

James.

Comey.

edited 10th Jan '17 3:00:35 PM by TacticalFox88

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#165997: Jan 10th 2017 at 3:00:40 PM

"It's a difficult thing for a city to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice"

Too bad.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#165998: Jan 10th 2017 at 3:44:09 PM

So, guys remember this article?

other Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer's conversations with Russian sources, noted, "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." It maintained that Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals." It claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him." It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls."

Article written a week or so before the election.

Says that they've been doing this for five years.

What happened five years ago by the articles timeline in Trump land?

His birther shit.

Could that have been part of a large Russian effort to test the waters and see where long term trends could be cultivated on the Republican base?

Holy fuck.

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Jasaiga Since: Jan, 2015
#165999: Jan 10th 2017 at 4:03:09 PM

BUZZFEED HAS THE WHOLE REPORT!!!

Holy fuck

And this on point 3 here

Mother of fucking god

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#166000: Jan 10th 2017 at 4:04:29 PM

You know, a this point it look we are in marvel universe and Putin did the same trick Hydra did with Shield.

I mean...he is a tought magnificent bastard.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

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