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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#186451: May 3rd 2017 at 6:49:01 AM

Hell, I'm pretty sure his professional wrestling cameos have more depth than his own personality...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#186452: May 3rd 2017 at 6:49:29 AM

It's not surprising that a Republican Representative would believe something like that about Muslims, but it is still a bit surprising that they keep putting stuff like that out there for the public to see. It displays a basic lack of public consciousness.

edited 3rd May '17 6:53:56 AM by LSBK

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?
#186453: May 3rd 2017 at 6:53:37 AM

He has repeatedly criticized the historic Voting Rights Act. He voted against hate crime legislation that protected LGBTQ people, arguing, “Today, I'm not sure women or people with different sexual orientations face that kind of discrimination. I just don't see it.”
Don't know where to start with this one...Even if I knew nothing about Sessions or Trump and even if wasn't wilful ignorance besides, that statement was criminally stupid.

prosecutors argue that “the laugh amounted to willful ‘disorderly and disruptive conduct’ intended to ‘impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct’ of congressional proceedings.” In court, they have tried to emphasize that the laugh was extraordinarily disruptive, with a US Capitol Police officer claiming that Fairooz laughed “very loudly” and people in the hearings turned around when they heard it.
Stepping back from horrifying implications of laughing netting one a six month prison term and a $500 fine, Sessions must have found some brave prosecutors to argue that in front of a judge. Hope the defense has fun with rule 11.

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
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#186454: May 3rd 2017 at 6:54:09 AM

I would take Schwarzenneger. He seems to be a pretty cool guy, and he isn't burying his head in the sand about Climate Change.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#186455: May 3rd 2017 at 6:56:18 AM

[up] Too bad he's not a natural-born citizen.

Disgusted, but not surprised
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#186456: May 3rd 2017 at 6:58:01 AM

Honestly, I feel like Putin's checkmate stroke right now would be to reveal that Russia actually hacked the votes themselves to push Trump's numbers just past Hillary's. State in no uncertain terms that Hillary won the election and it was only through his interference that Trump took the White House.

It would, without question, be a lie.

No, that's actually pretty much exactly what happened. Clinton lost the electoral college by literally a percentage point or less in a handful of key states. Without the artificial October Surprise of James Comey and Russian Wikileaks, there's an excellent chance that she would have won.

Nice going, Pepsi. You escalated it.
How the hell is it Pepsi's fault? The only difference is that they threw cans of Pepsi instead of bricks.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#186457: May 3rd 2017 at 7:09:39 AM

I have to say that I find it darkly amusing that Pepsi tried to co-opt the protest movement for their branding and then protesters started throwing Pepsi cans at police. I mean, it's not actually funny, but I can't help thinking that if it showed up in a fictional work, it'd be quite the Black Comedy.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#186458: May 3rd 2017 at 7:28:32 AM

CNN refused to air a Trump ad that called CNN fake news. Can't imagine why.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#186459: May 3rd 2017 at 7:31:27 AM

[up]I[up]n "fairness", I remember coming across a video clip recently on twitter showing one of the recent protestors. In the clip, there's the usual protesters and heavily armed police and you see in the clip one of the protesters had an officer a Pepsi. After a Beat in which the officer obviously realizes the intent, he throws the can at the crowd (or possibly the person who handed it to him) as hard as possible. So, I don't know if this is the same city/protest, but the previous incident gives me a slight sense of "turnabout is fair play".

But yeah, thanks Pepsi.

edited 3rd May '17 7:32:05 AM by Hodor2

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#186460: May 3rd 2017 at 7:31:51 AM

If you think discrimination doesn't exist, there's no reason to remove anti-discrimination laws. There are a ton of useless out of date laws on the books and no one cares about them because they don't affect anyone.

The only reason to remove anti-discrimination laws is if you want to discriminate against people.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#186461: May 3rd 2017 at 7:37:39 AM

I wonder what's the first movie that's gonna make a pepsi joke, lol

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#186462: May 3rd 2017 at 7:38:39 AM

Lucky I'm a Coca-cola guy.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#186463: May 3rd 2017 at 7:41:18 AM

I'm both.waii

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
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
#186464: May 3rd 2017 at 7:46:10 AM

I drink whatever there is to drink.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#186465: May 3rd 2017 at 7:46:30 AM

Meh, they're still anarchists which makes them idiots at their absolutely best

I prefer "edgelord hippy."

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#186466: May 3rd 2017 at 7:46:32 AM

@Madskillz: I do not know how to quote at all, the markups are an unintuitive bitch on this site. Anyway, this is my recollection: Yiannoplous was going to give a speech at Berkeley and there was a sizable peaceful student protest against this. At some point some antifa folks showed up and started setting off firecrackers and fires in barrels. Lots of the cable news networks sensationalized greatly how big these were, but it was still a jackass move to show up and do that shit in a crowd you supposedly agree with. (I personally did not see much of the news exaggerating how big these were, and I watch MSNBC.)

In the end Yiannopolous's talk was canceled amid a fuck ton of tension. The antifa there declared it a victory of their making. Now, this was weeks ago, and I'm reciting this from memory, so there's probably a lot of stuff that I'm forgetting or never knew, but that's the gist of it.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#186467: May 3rd 2017 at 7:47:21 AM

James Comey at this hearing is mildly infuriating.

He literally just said that even in hindsight six months later he would STILL make the decision to send that letter to Congress on Oct. 28th.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#186468: May 3rd 2017 at 7:50:12 AM

Wasn't he legally obligated to send it? Comey strikes me as a By-the-Book Cop type. He's going to follow the law explicitly even if it doesn't always lead to the best outcome.

edit: There's also a case to be made that if he says he wouldn't send it people will use this as evidence he wanted to fix things for Hillary.

edited 3rd May '17 7:50:45 AM by Kostya

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#186469: May 3rd 2017 at 7:52:05 AM

[up] "The book", specifically the Hatch Act (?), forbade releasing sensitive information right before an election due to the potential for influence on the outcome.

What Comey did was release/announce sensitive information, in this case that there were more emails to look at, two weeks before the election, and it's generally agreed that had an influence on the outcome

edited 3rd May '17 7:55:13 AM by sgamer82

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#186470: May 3rd 2017 at 7:53:31 AM

I mean, there's no guarantee that Hilary would have won even if he didn't do that, and it's not like it should be assumed her winning is his preferred outcome. Or even that his personal feelings on the matter should be taken into account.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#186471: May 3rd 2017 at 7:53:44 AM

No, he was not legally obligated to send it. Out-of-nowhere 'updates' on ongoing investigations like that are really unusual.

In fact he actually broke the law by sending it- he's not allowed to influence elections.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#186472: May 3rd 2017 at 7:59:53 AM

IIRC, the standard action when new information is found is to investigate first, and then create the report after you know whether or not something of import is there. You don't want the intelligence agencies reporting on every potential lead, because then Congress would be drowning in a sea of reports. Especially if the NSA was doing it.

Also, that letter he wrote. That's incredibly strange too, since Comey was basically editorializing in it. A professional report (if one had to be written) would be "More e-mails exist. Investigating now." That's it.

People might have used a reluctance to release information as him supporting Hillary, but he could have defended it by citing standard procedure and the Hatch act. Not releasing information that may or may not be incriminating, because no one knows what the information is, is a normal thing to do, because it prevents problems down the road.

edited 3rd May '17 8:01:40 AM by Zendervai

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#186473: May 3rd 2017 at 8:03:42 AM

I'm short, Comey violated department of Justice policy, if not the actual law, by releasing info on the new emails so close to the election like he did.

Whether he thought he had to or was working on an agenda, the result is the same. He did a boneheaded thing for bad reasons and, if tactical's post is accurate, he's apparently doubled down saying he'd do it again even knowing what he does now.

edited 3rd May '17 8:04:31 AM by sgamer82

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#186474: May 3rd 2017 at 8:14:45 AM

Comey violated the Hatch Act to help Hillary lose.

Notably, his behavior since the election strongly indicates it was specifically to help Hillary lose, not to help Trump win. Comey, like several people in the FBI, seems to have been drinking the Slander Kool-Aid for the last couple decades and jumped on the "Hillary Clinton is literally worse than Satan" bandwagon.

He's been an awkward ally/strange bedfellow against Trump since the election because he hates Trump, but he was the treasonous enemy who literally broke the law to see us fail before because he hates Clinton more.

Do not mistake his actions against Trump as some kind of Heel Realization.

edited 3rd May '17 8:15:48 AM by TobiasDrake

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#186475: May 3rd 2017 at 8:16:33 AM

The democrats opening statements to the house hearing on energy policy.

http://democrats.science.house.gov/press-release/ranking-member-veasey’s-opening-statement-oil-and-gas-rd-hearing

Does this work

edited 3rd May '17 8:41:25 AM by megaeliz


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