comingafteryouall posted:

Well, I guess we're going to learn if BLM's diffuse structure was a good idea or bad idea now that the administration will obviously be gunning for them.

Will the Trump admin be unable to shut them down since they don't have clear nationwide leaders to target, or will they take the route of jailing everyone?

comingafteryouall posted:

Well, I guess we're going to learn if BLM's diffuse structure was a good idea or bad idea now that the administration will obviously be gunning for them.

Will the Trump admin be unable to shut them down since they don't have clear nationwide leaders to target, or will they take the route of jailing everyone?

mcmagic posted:

This stuff with the tweet about the Ford plant is loving chilling. There really is no such thing as truth.

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After previously mischaracterizing certain countries' efforts at drug decriminalization as "legalization" and incorrectly arguing that they have "failed," Sessions lamented that Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign against drugs has been relegated to history and replaced by a growing tolerance for the legalization of adult recreational use of marijuana.

I can't tell you how concerning it is for me, emotionally and personally, to see the possibility that we will reverse the progress that we've made....

It was the prevention movement that really was so positive, and it led to this decline. The creating of knowledge that this drug is dangerous, it cannot be played with, it is not funny, it's not something to laugh about, and trying to send that message with clarity, that good people don't smoke marijuana. We are at the cusp of a sea change. More than 80% of states still recognize the danger of marijuana and it can be rolled back. These states are still operating in violation of federal law.

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Sessions sympathized with those who "might feel uneasy" about the prospect of a gay Supreme Court justice, which he described as "big concern."

Unsurprisingly, he also called the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage across the country "unconstitutional" (he had previously voted in favor of a ban on gay marriage to be enshrined in the Constitution), and was one of 31 Senators on the losing side of the 2010 Senate vote to end the ban on gays in the military. He says that as Attorney General he will "take a look at ways to protect people with traditional views from being discriminated against, eliminate "special rights" for certain groups by promoting equality under the law, and promote religious freedom."

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A former US Attorney (Thomas Figures) and another Justice Department employee (Gerald Hebert) both testified that Sessions had described the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as "un-American" and "communist-inspired." For his part, Sessions himself said during his confirmation hearings that these groups could rightfully be called "un-American" when they "they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions," particularly when addressing foreign policy issues.

Hebert also testified that Sessions had claimed these groups "forced civil rights down the throats of people," and Figures (who is black) claimed Sessions had called him "boy" and had said that he used to like the Ku Klux Klan until he found out some of its members smoke marijuana. Sessions claimed he was merely joking about the KKK.

comingafteryouall posted:

Well, I guess we're going to learn if BLM's diffuse structure was a good idea or bad idea now that the administration will obviously be gunning for them.

Will the Trump admin be unable to shut them down since they don't have clear nationwide leaders to target, or will they take the route of jailing everyone?

ReV VAdAUL posted:

There will likely be a heavy crackdown which causes a split between those who want to fight back and those who think peaceful protest is the only way. It isn't hard to imagine Deray Mckesson becoming a talking head who attacks BLM activists for not protesting peacefully enough.

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

It's WJ, he's just salty that Bernie is turning out to be a better leader than Hillary.

Has she come out of hiding yet? If I was her I'd donate every penny I have to charity and direct the DNC to back the new leadership. Never gonna happen though.

I wonder if Goldman Sachs still wants her to give speeches now that she's not gonna be president anymore.

Goa Tse-tung posted:

rip the weed

Covok posted:

So, who did he announce officially for his security team? Heard he did on the news?

Tatsuta Age posted:

Flynn is natl security advisor

Covok posted:

Good or bad?

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“Field of Fight,” a new book Flynn co-wrote with historian Michael Ledeen, argues that America is up against a global alliance between radical jihadis and anti-American nation states like Russia, Cuba and North Korea. They say this war will last at least a generation. And they say it will require outside ground forces to go after al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and other international hotspots as well as a sustained information campaign to discredit the ideology of radical Islam.

Covok posted:

Good or bad?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Depends. How scared are you of Muslims, like, as a group.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

icantfindaname posted:

For as much as people lament the weakness and incoherence of liberalism and the left, including the liberal center itself, I think that long-term this crisis will radicalize the farleft in a similar way to how the 1970s radicalized the right in the US and UK, and is in the process of doing so right now. This is bad news if you're a radical centrist op-ed writing rear end in a top hat, and is probably bad news because it returns us to an interwar polarization between a totalitarian right and left with no solution besides the complete destruction of the other side, but I think if you just want the left to be strong you'll get your wish shortly, along with attendant monkey's paw consequences

Covok posted:

Good or bad?

Pollyanna posted:

Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, and Stephen Bannon? The US government is officially white nationalist.

Pollyanna posted:

Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, and Stephen Bannon? The US government is officially white nationalist.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Jeff Sessions is going strong right out of the gate. Here's his priorities as Attorney General.

Glazier posted:

Again, you mean. Don't forget this is the default state of America, hell my father was born in a Negro Hospital and I'm a Gen X'er. The last 50 years have been an aberration, it was inevitable there would be a whitelash.

Pollyanna posted:

Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, and Stephen Bannon? The US government is officially white nationalist.

Pollyanna posted:

Just means we need to start a matching leftlash. The pendulum swings harder, motherfuckers.

Deadulus posted:

What is the source for this?

Covok posted:

Sounds like the war on terror will intensify. Strange, though. Trump wants to strengthen bonds with Russia, why hire someone who wants to war with them?

iospace posted:

It's a bit different when the democrats are saying "We'll work with him on things like infrastructure spending or a minimum wage increase", which are things the GOPe /hates/ but their base wants.

twistedmentat posted:

Can't wait for The Washington Monument brought to you by Proctor and Gamble.

Old James posted:

No no no... Use your advertising brain.

"Viagra, the official boner pill of The Washington Monument"

Mr. Belding posted:

I swear, if the government actually hires people, fixes the student loan crisis, and increases the payroll tax cap I will be so angry!

No actually all of that would be great.