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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#171126: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:07:34 AM

[up]Well, "tank the US economy" is kinda what needs to happen for Trump to lose his cult.

RabidTanker God-Mayor of Sim-Kind Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
#171127: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:14:23 AM

[up] But then an lot of people would have to suffer for it if that actually happens.

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iflewaway someone from somewhere Since: Dec, 2016
someone
#171128: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:22:21 AM

A lot more people will suffer if Trump remains in power for 8 years.

edited 30th Jan '17 11:22:52 AM by iflewaway

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RabidTanker God-Mayor of Sim-Kind Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
#171129: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:26:07 AM

Well, what happened to impeachment?

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#171130: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:26:18 AM

So Sean Spicer just used the shooting at a mosque in Quebec (at Muslim people that were praying peacefully and killed/wounded by a suspect who is French-Canadian) as justification for the Muslim ban.

God, what a scumbag.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#171131: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:28:23 AM

@Rabid: You need a willing Congress for that, and even with that I'm betting that they'd not do it a mere week after he came into office. Also that doesn't necessarily mean he'd be stripped of office; being impeached means Congress is bringing criminal charges against him.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#171132: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:28:32 AM

As a note, the name, religion, origin, and motives of the shooter are not known yet.

Still, that Nazi can fuck off.

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higherbrainpattern Since: Apr, 2012
#171133: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:31:26 AM

@Rational Insanity: Actually, there is. According to Reuters, the shooting suspect was Alexandre Bissonnette, a French Canadian college student.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#171134: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:32:28 AM

Isn't that basically the reasoning he's using right now anyway? "Those nasty brown people are killing each other in another country; what stopping them from doing it here!"

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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
#171135: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:32:45 AM

It's Spencer the punched Neo-Nazi, not Spicer the press secretary. If it were Spicer then that would be the official public WH take on it and that it would be deplorable. Now, they probably already think that anyway, but not publicly.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#171136: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:34:17 AM

Ah, he was one of the names floating around. But there was another man detained as well, with a Middle Eastern name. One of the two is confirmed to be a witness. I'm waiting for the authorities to say something on the record.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#171137: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:36:09 AM

Something we need to remember: Trump was elected under freakish circumstances, and he’s not running against Hillary Clinton any more. His first week was a combination of grotesque incompetence and overtly fascistic gestures like putting Steve Bannon (described accurately this morning in the Times as a “right-wing agitator” with no other qualifications for the position) on the National Security Council.

Trump is also utterly incapable of tolerating criticism. For a narcissist of his magnitude, the current outcry against him among the public and in the media inflicts the sort of grave psychic injury that’s difficult for a less twisted person to comprehend.

He's vulnerable. The left is mobilized and these protests need to continue, with open defiance and mockery of him and his. And we damn well tell our Democrats to stand with us. We are dealing with a President who is illegitimate, the second choice of the American people and who has never been a popular candidate.

edited 30th Jan '17 11:36:53 AM by Lightysnake

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#171138: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:40:30 AM

Again, be very careful of public apathy by going to hot too early. Some of that fire needs to be saved for the midterms and special elections and local politics.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#171139: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:43:21 AM

Exactly. Protests need to translate into grassroots organization. Otherwise this will have all the impact of fucking Occupy...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#171140: Jan 30th 2017 at 11:59:46 AM

RoguePOTUS: Expect an anti-LGBT Executive Order by the end of the week.

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#171141: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:01:58 PM

[up] Make or break for the Twitter Account, I suppose.

Also, I'm sorry in advance for anyone on here who suffers from whatever Trump does.

Victin Since: Dec, 2011
#171142: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:02:24 PM

Blue Feed, Red Feed - See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side, by the Wall Street Journal. I actually saw a news saying Trump's first week has been great: "just listen to his critics."

edited 30th Jan '17 12:03:15 PM by Victin

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#171143: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:03:07 PM

[up][up]That's part of the scariness: he has so far only gone after popular targets, increasing the "othering" of our society, but the true effects of his idiocy on his key white constituency won't be felt for months or years.

edited 30th Jan '17 12:03:26 PM by Fighteer

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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#171144: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:03:28 PM

[up][up] Exactly. We need to elect people.

But right now, this is what we CAN do. Fight fascism.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#171145: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:03:55 PM

Freakish or not, the ones who voted for Trump and are now aghast that he actually is the racist sexist and incompetent a——hole he has been during the whole election campaign, should have known better.

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#171146: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:04:50 PM

Not all of them. He has his die-hards who love that.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#171148: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:08:40 PM

light is right on something: he is vulnerable right now to is on mad choice and temper, he will screw up more and more and the dems need to take the oportunity soon, otherwise people will normilized this and you WILL regret that.

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Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#171149: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:08:49 PM

Blue Feed, Red Feed - See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side, by the Wall Street Journal. I actually saw a news saying Trump's first week has been great: "just listen to his critics."
Serious question: how do you even begin to start fighting this? It's not like misleading news articles, or sites like Brietbart are just going to go away.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#171150: Jan 30th 2017 at 12:10:44 PM

The anti LGBT stuff was only a matter of time, regardless of whether the account is correct or not.

Fucking Pence.


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