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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
. It's also a show of solidarity and support for the brave kids who are speaking out against this.
And speaking of The March for our lives, the winner for the most empty works goes to Marco Ruuubio!
edited 25th Mar '18 4:10:53 AM by megaeliz
The interesting thing about my feelings about Rubio is that I just can't dredge up the same degree of contempt for him that I have for Cruz or Trump, unlike them his primary characteristics is not personal ugliness but rather just empty disingenuousness and that's not really a good motivator to strongly or specifically dislike someone.
edited 25th Mar '18 5:25:18 AM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangHow you know something's true: When Trump tweets that it's not on Twitter
If he's saying the Democrats are colluding, he's clearly guilty and needs to be thrown in jail. He never blames Democrats for something he isn't guilty of himself.
edited 25th Mar '18 7:53:22 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Trump's been having a field day again today.
Oh, and two announcements along with it...
Don't look now, but these satellite photos show a decrease in activity around the North Korean nuclear missile silos. Could they actually be calling Trump's bluff? Maybe we aren't giving "little rocket man" enough credit.
edited 25th Mar '18 8:38:09 AM by ElSquibbonator
Trump Won’t Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago note
“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”
The upheaval on the legal team comes at a critical time for Mr. Trump. The president’s former lead lawyer, John Dowd, quit the team on Thursday, just as Mr. Trump is deciding whether to sit with Mr. Mueller for an interview.
While Mr. Trump’s lawyers, including Mr. Dowd, had told the president that the investigation would be over by this point, it seems to be accelerating, as Mr. Mueller appears to be looking into a wide range of matters related to Mr. Trump’s corporate activities, his 2016 campaign, his associates and his time in office.
The president met with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing, who are married, in recent days to discuss the possibility that they would join his legal team in the Mueller case. According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
But beyond that, Ms. Toensing is representing Mark Corallo, who was the spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team in 2017 before they parted ways.
Mr. Corallo has told investigators he was concerned that a close aide to Mr. Trump, Hope Hicks, may have been planning to obstruct justice during the drafting of a statement about a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. during the campaign.
Ms. Hicks’s lawyer has strongly denied that suggestion, and White House aides said that Mr. Corallo’s assertion had come up in discussions with the president as he weighed whether to go ahead with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
Earlier on Sunday, Mr. Trump took to Twitter from his Florida resort to insist that he faced no problems finding lawyers to represent him in the Russia investigation.
“Fame & fortune will never be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted,” Mr. Trump said in a tweet.
The president insisted that “many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case,” and that reports of flux on his team were a “Fake News narrative.” Adding new lawyers, he said, would be costly because they would take months “to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more).”
“I am very happy with my existing team,” he added.
The news about the canceled legal appointments came as White House officials were girding themselves for an interview on Sunday evening on the CBS program “60 Minutes” with the porn star known as Stormy Daniels.
Ms. Daniels claims to have had a sexual relationship with Mr. Trump, and she signed a nondisclosure agreement with one of his lawyers, Michael Cohen, during the 2016 campaign.
On Sunday, one of Mr. Trump’s closest friends, Christopher Ruddy, said the president was “perplexed” by reports of turmoil in his administration. Speaking on the ABC program “This Week,” Mr. Ruddy, who is the chief executive of Newsmax, said he expected the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to stay in his job, despite the president’s chafing at what he sees as the restrictions Mr. Kelly has placed on him.
But Mr. Ruddy, citing sources other than the president, said he expected the secretary of veterans affairs, David Shulkin, to leave the cabinet soon. Mr. Shulkin’s departure has been widely expected. And Mr. Ruddy played down reports that Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, was in trouble, despite Mr. Trump’s private criticism of Mr. Carson to advisers after revelations of excessive spending on an office dining room set.
I think I figured out why he was so up in arms today.
Rick Santorum, all round religious fanatic and general piece of shit, said that instead of calling for "phony gun laws" that the kids marching should take CPR courses instead. Solve your own problems instead of asking others (you know, the people who make the laws...) to do it for you!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/rick-santorum-guns-cnntv/index.html
While CPR/basic First Aid is an excellent skill to have, can Rick kindly fuck off?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Has Santorum ever tried giving CPR to a gunshot victim with half his or her face blown off by a rifle round? Like, do these people even comprehend what happens when you get shot?
It's a basic skill that everyone should learn, but it's totally irrelevant here. There's little that it can do to save a person that's taken a whole magazine of hot lead.
edited 25th Mar '18 8:46:16 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Apparently, a Fox poll is showing that 60% of people want assault weapons banned. The screenshot I've seen says the following, and Fox News is reporting the results on its site, although I won't link directly to it. It's probably not good news for the GOP.
| Require universal checks | 91% | |
| Require mental health checks | 84% | |
| Raise legal age to buy to 21 | 72% | |
| Put armed guards in schools | 69% | |
| Ban assault weapons | 60% | |
Polling conducted: March 18-21, 2018
Registered voters (+/- 3 pts)
edited 25th Mar '18 9:03:42 AM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.There's definitely room for outrage here at his comments, but are any of us really surprised at Santorum? His name has been a watchword for corrosive stupidity for like twenty years.
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Is there any way to get some of these nigh-universally supported measures through as ballot referenda, so at least there's a clear indication of electoral pressure?
edited 25th Mar '18 9:06:41 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."![]()
Man, my signature really does apply to a lot of things these days.
"We're sorry, Mr. President. We couldn't get you a good public defender because your administration kept cutting budgets."
edited 25th Mar '18 9:08:15 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
x7 The craziest thing about gun control is that most of America wants it, and yet we never get it. It’s because pro-gun people are a mobilized bloc of single-issue voters, while the same isn’t true for most gun control advocates. The country has been statistically in favor of gun control for a long time now though.
Personally, I don’t think an assault weapons ban would be productive at all. But if it’s more politically possible than the other stuff then we should go for it.
edited 25th Mar '18 9:08:35 AM by archonspeaks
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That's a strong possibility. I understand the principle of everyone deserving representation before the law, but lawyers are — don't laugh — still human beings, and I can't imagine any self-respecting, competent one touching Trump's case.
edited 25th Mar '18 9:08:49 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Just because it's primarily a US issue doesn't mean it's only a US issue with no knock-on effects in other places. And, other people are allowed to sympathise.
Also, marching in hope that the US wises up and joins the rest of the world in viewing guns not as a right, but a very dangerous privilege is a thing we're allowed to do.