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Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#169426: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:06:59 PM

OK, so Spicer is apparently now backtracking, claiming that Trump was being impulsive, and was really an offer to provide help requested by local leaders.

Essay.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#169427: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:08:02 PM

Septimus: Aren't both of those articles about the Huntington Beach plant? Except for a small part on the second one about opening a new reservoir.

some humor in all this.

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#169429: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:08:28 PM

One of Trump's nominees is registered to vote in two states.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/kfile-mnuchin-voter-registration/index.html

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#169430: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:10:55 PM

@Parable: The second article discusses a project to take water from an area of the Mojave Desert and get it to Los Angeles. Not sure why anybody thinks that a desert basin would be a good source for water. The idea to extend the California Aqueduct to Nevada by comparison seems almost to make sense.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#169431: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:15:00 PM

[up][up]And Bannon is also registered in two states.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#169432: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:18:13 PM

#AlternativeFacts: Torture works.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
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
#169433: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:18:45 PM

OK, so Spicer is apparently now backtracking, claiming that Trump was being impulsive, and was really an offer to provide help requested by local leaders.

Essay.

I've seen this one before, those guys love to complain how Ruby Ridge and Waco Siege were the government overstepping their boundaries and enacting unconstitutional laws.

That also happened when the Civil Guard and other law enforcement agencies confiscated weapons in the Katrina aftermath.

But this time don't expect them to say a word on it because it is happening to minorities and the urban population.

So, how long until something like the Zoot Riots happen again?

edited 25th Jan '17 12:19:16 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#169434: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:19:14 PM

I hate these fascists so very much.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#169435: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:20:29 PM

[up][up] . . . in getting anwsers.

Actual information? Nope, that's another "alternative fact" for ya.

Seriously though, one of the far right's favorite tactics is to exploit the academic notion instilled in all high-school students that they need to visit multiple sources when analyzing one issue.

edited 25th Jan '17 12:20:44 PM by FluffyMcChicken

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#169436: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:23:58 PM

[up] That's something you really should do though, but that's just a single piece of critically reading news.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169437: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:24:13 PM

Holy hell. Go to 2:02.

This was in 2014:

Trump: You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a total disaster . Then you'll have a [chuckles], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.

https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/823932713912696832/photo/1

edited 25th Jan '17 12:24:29 PM by MadSkillz

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#169438: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:26:16 PM

[up] Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.

She (Kendzior) tried to raise the alarm. She tried to warn people, and let people know that this was Trump's actual stated intention. Nobody listened.

And not just Trump. Bannon. Bannon's express goal is to cause chaos across the world and bring the global order crashing down. And he is doing a bang-up job so far.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169439: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:26:41 PM

Bannon: I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#169440: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:28:14 PM

This seems like a good time to remind people of Rule One.

Believe the autocrat.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#169441: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:29:09 PM

Also Jill Stein's stated intention, if I'm remembering right.

So, what are the chances the Trump administration has a change of heart in the interest of maintaining power?

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#169442: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:42:01 PM

[up][up][up]Meaning: Bannon is a nutjob who doesn't understand Lennin

edited 25th Jan '17 12:42:11 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#169443: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:44:40 PM

[up]Well, him and the "totes left" people who read Breitbart...

EDIT: How to request an audit of Trump's finances for any conflicts of interest.

edited 25th Jan '17 12:46:06 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#169444: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:54:06 PM

Trump says that his immigration orders will "save thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and billions and billions of dollars". I predict that that is the precise opposite of what is actually going to happen.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#169445: Jan 25th 2017 at 1:01:50 PM

[up]x8 and x6: This makes Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory harsher in hindsight, as the main villain in that game is a American who thinks America is sick and dying and that whatever comes about after throwing the world into turmoil via a war in East Asia would be better.

edited 25th Jan '17 1:04:39 PM by Bat178

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#169446: Jan 25th 2017 at 1:02:31 PM

[up][up]Indeed. Chances are, his new fancy policies will ' lose thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and billions and billions of dollars.' 'Make America Poor Again.'

edited 25th Jan '17 1:03:02 PM by kkhohoho

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#169447: Jan 25th 2017 at 1:09:26 PM

[up][up] I'd say Modern Warfare 2 is more relevant, what with a high-ranking government official shamelessly colluding with ultraconservative Russians in a bid to further both of their powers in a war between their respective nations.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Boston Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
#169449: Jan 25th 2017 at 1:11:14 PM

Now that he actual is the President, can we FOIA his tax returns? Or would that only apply to tax returns filed while he's in office?

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#169450: Jan 25th 2017 at 1:12:02 PM

More general question - does anyone know what's going on with Kasich? At this point he and Chief Justice Roberts are the only two high-profile conservatives I have any amount of faith in their decency.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.

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