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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187553: May 7th 2017 at 9:07:15 PM

[up][up]Not really sure this is US Politics material. Granted, it's not much dumber than what's been coming out of the WH these days.

[up] ...I don't know whether to praise you or despise you for that crude joke.

edited 7th May '17 9:07:42 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
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.
#187554: May 7th 2017 at 9:16:06 PM

Imma say despise. Because it's cock-a-doodle-doo.

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#187555: May 7th 2017 at 9:23:10 PM

[up]That's what I get for being phonetic.tongue

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187556: May 7th 2017 at 9:23:47 PM

[up] Yes, that was bad and you should feel bad, you filthy savage. tongue

Disgusted, but not surprised
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
#187558: May 7th 2017 at 9:35:26 PM

Case in point: Trump voters tell 60 Minutes they’re sad their ‘good hombre’ friend got deported.

They forgot, better yet, ignored that when Trump said bad hombres he meant anyone with a skin tone darker than a light tan and not with English as their first language.

Inter arma enim silent leges
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
#187559: May 7th 2017 at 9:49:24 PM

The 2019-20 Dem primary season is going to get really messy.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#187560: May 7th 2017 at 11:07:02 PM

And that's something new?

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#187561: May 7th 2017 at 11:17:23 PM

I think the whole issue with minorities is that they dont see as people, craked said in article that we judge people for what they are and ourself for what we intent or think and therefore we put lower standars, with people here is pretty much the same in a bigger scale in their narrative: everyone have the same mision to get better, is just that white people tend to be softer with themselves and people like them(even when they are nothing like them in the case of trump) and subject other to harsher estandars because they have to overcome our bias.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187562: May 7th 2017 at 11:27:06 PM

[up] Basically, they think that whenever other people do things they consider bad, it's because they are inherently bad people. OTOH, when they do those same things, it's because of bad circumstances.

This in part is why too many people in the USA have trouble acknowledging white rightwing nationalist terrorism is, well, terrorism.

edited 7th May '17 11:27:43 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#187563: May 7th 2017 at 11:36:37 PM

[up]to be fair that is a typical human condition, you see that with some asian immigrant who belive the whole "minority model" thing or when some mulism complain about religion in US but said nothing about their on comunity.

but yeah, in fact I will said that is the biggest reason people hate so much obama: if he take vacation them is just proving the idea that black are lazy while donald is someone who "just happen" to take vacation, the focus is always in the idea the white men chose something.

or let me put it even better: is like race version of men do women are, minorities just ARE terrorist,criminals,etc while white men "chose" to be one for one reason to another.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#187564: May 8th 2017 at 2:12:26 AM

John Oliver on Net Neutrality 2: FCC Bugaloo

Apparently the FCC page is crashed again, this time due to the friendly people from Last Week Tonight creating the address http://www.gofccyourself.com/ to bring you quick and easy to the place on the FCC where to complain about attacking Net Neutrality.

And then daring everyone who tweeted 'Choke me Daddy' at the Pope to use it.

edited 8th May '17 4:36:29 AM by 3of4

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Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#187565: May 8th 2017 at 3:51:32 AM

[up]Which pope was it? Because it was the previous Pope who could force-choke people, not the current one.

Edit: It might be because I'm not in the States, but the above URL doesn't redirect me anywhere.

edited 8th May '17 3:54:21 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#187566: May 8th 2017 at 4:04:30 AM

The current one just makes sinners do the Walk of Shame.

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.
#187567: May 8th 2017 at 4:17:23 AM

That's cause they wrote it wrong. It's gofccyourself, not gofccyouself. Even with the proper address, it still doesn't come up because that part of the FCC website has crashed. Even if you go through the slightly longer process, it still doesn't work.

edited 8th May '17 4:24:02 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#187568: May 8th 2017 at 4:33:47 AM

And in interesting news, Pearland, Texas High School senior managed to beat out a two term incumbent on his district's school board.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#187569: May 8th 2017 at 4:36:58 AM

[up][up]yeah, sorry. typo cause my keyboard is crap -.-

"You can reply to this Message!"
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#187570: May 8th 2017 at 5:52:00 AM

Following town hall backlash, Labrador says health care comment ‘wasn’t very elegant’

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/article149149844.html

Labrador tries to clarify what he actually meant by "not having health care doesn't kill people"

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#187571: May 8th 2017 at 6:25:00 AM

So he's trying to pull the "People go to the ER anyway and that's still available" thing. Which is dumb, because insurance covers ER visits. All it's going to do is jack up costs for everyone else and put people into massive debt.

I want someone to ask these people what they think about the US having the most expensive and least effective healthcare system in the developed world. The US government (even aside from Obamacare, this has been a thing for ages) pays more per capita for healthcare than Canada, or Australia or the UK, or pretty much anyone in Europe. They really want to save money? Maybe go to a healthcare system that demonstrably costs less.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#187573: May 8th 2017 at 6:34:10 AM

Bluntly speaking, I do not understand what Labrador's "context" is or why it would make a difference. It comes off like he realized that his assertion is nonsense and rather than admit to it is blaming others for not accepting his unpersuasive excuse.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#187574: May 8th 2017 at 6:37:31 AM

[up][up][up] Failing to pay ER bills in the USA also means they get to sue you and leave you homeless.

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?
#187575: May 8th 2017 at 6:44:52 AM

[up]x 4 I can't tell you about now, but before the ACA passed, the (then) opposition commonly said, with utter sincerity, "the US has the best healthcare system in the world!" while giving examples (that may or may not have been made up) of individuals fleeing socialized medicine tm regimes to be treated here. Technically the new narrative is a step forward.

edited 8th May '17 6:49:21 AM by CenturyEye

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

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