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Bicyclops posted:Jeff Sessions is truly the darkest of elves and I wish that back when Trump was mad at him that he'd been ousted. Trump is just an ugly little animal driven by spite and avarice, but Sessions I find far more repulsive given that he'd walk through fire just to gently caress over a single person who fails the paper bag test.
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Mustached Demon posted:I'm not so sure about it just being because Obama policy. It could just be someone putting a prewritten thing in Trump's face and saying we want. Or Trump has GOP views on women too because gently caress he's Trump. The GOP would repeal women's suffrage if they could I reckon. I just picture him in a room with Sessions being briefed on this kind of having his interest wane and lulling off to sleep and replying with just "uh huh...uh huh....yeah...." and then hearing Obama's name and snapping too attention beat red in the face with manchild anger. "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW JEFF!"
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Watching Ch4 News (UK) and they have Billy Corgan on talking about the existential threat of FAKE NEWS. is billy corgan a white nationalist? it seems on brand for him
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And yet Sessions refuses to fire Muhler. I wonder if he's hoping to work for a President Price.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Everyone feel free to ignore the following post. That's a good point. I'm not a linguist, so heres me spitballing. English is weird and while gender is a noun, transgender is not. Transgender, transgendered, and gendered are all adjectives. I think it is because there aren't classifications of transgender people like there classically are with genders, so there isn't a correlating phrase to "My gender is male" with transgender. So I think "transgender rights" would be saying that the rights don't identify with their birth gender, which is nonsensical, but "transgendered rights" means that the rights have to do with transgender people specifically. I think the "equality" example is still covered by "gender rights," since transgender people do pick a gender, so they aren't exclusive.
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If this was President Pence or Cruz or whoever then "religious freedom" would not only be something Sessions is doing "quietly" but would be something they'd be yelling from the rooftops. That's they're thing and there's tons of "Never Trumps" in my life who love this. It just seems silly to assign everything the government does to Trump's petty actions. Sessions is hard at work pushing HIS agenda in the DOJ and the religious right has been pushing for stuff like this since before Trump. In the short and long term Sessions may well be the biggest villain in this story. Maybe "you can stick it to Obama" factored in somewhere to getting Trump on board but Trump isn't even especially involved in this story. He probably barely knows what's going on. He's too busy mocking Puerto Ricans and teasing nuclear annihilation and getting to the bottom of whether someone called him a mean name.
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Mustached Demon posted:The GOP would repeal women's suffrage if they could I reckon. There's no doubt. Having been around a lot of hardline, pentecostal evangelical Christians, this is absolutely their opinion. They claim that because the man is the head of the household, allowing women to vote is redundant because she should have the same opinion as their husbands. The only reason they do it is because they see it as a necessary evil or exploitation of the system.
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the talent deficit posted:is billy corgan a white nationalist? it seems on brand for him He's been on Infowars before I think
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:He's been on Infowars before I think yeah he's been a conspiracy weirdo for years now and nobody really cares since he stopped mattering in the 90's https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-smashing-pumpkins-billy-corgan-became-an-sjw-hating-conservative-crusader
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That is what people are lookibg for re: Complex https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/916348496864862209
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It's Friday, has anyone been fired yet? I only tune in for the end of the show.
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TremorX posted:There's no doubt. Having been around a lot of hardline, pentecostal evangelical Christians, this is absolutely their opinion. They claim that because the man is the head of the household, allowing women to vote is redundant because she should have the same opinion as their husbands. The only reason they do it is because they see it as a necessary evil or exploitation of the system. It's been a long standing Freep opinion that a woman votes in the bedroom.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:And yet Sessions refuses to fire Muhler. I wonder if he's hoping to work for a President Price.
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Is this worth the read, because it has some heft to it. I'm still blown away that buzzfeed is doing actual journalism.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Sessions recused himself from the Mueller thing, so at this point either the Deputy AG would have to do it or whatever person they can find below him who will not refuse to do it Sessions probably did that to keep nose clean.
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Mustached Demon posted:It's been a long standing Freep opinion that a woman votes in the bedroom. I would be absolutely shocked if Freep regulars didn't fill out their wive's mail-in ballots for them and leer over their shoulders to make sure they didn't try to change anything while she signs.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Is this worth the read, because it has some heft to it. I'm still blown away that buzzfeed is doing actual journalism. Yes. It's very good
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:And yet Sessions refuses to fire Muhler. I wonder if he's hoping to work for a President Price. He legally can't, since he recused himself from all things russia related. Additionally, he likely has wind of what the Senate would do of Mueller were fired.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Is this worth the read, because it has some heft to it. I'm still blown away that buzzfeed is doing actual journalism. It is extremely worth the read.
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CommieGIR posted:They rolled back Birth Control, the DOJ rolled back Obama era Trans protections, and then the DOJ released a vague memo about 'Protecting Religious Freedom' which practically nullifies any protections for gays or trans Government employees Remember the rule, for every new regulation you have to get rid of 2. How much do you want to bet birth control and transgender protections count as 2 regulations so now here comes a new regulation protecting religious freedoms!
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Is this worth the read, because it has some heft to it. I'm still blown away that buzzfeed is doing actual journalism. It's pretty funny/terrifying and confirms a lot of things that people already suspected. Buzzfeed has actually done some very good original journalism recently. They hired a bunch of veteran political reporters in 2014 and they put out 3 or 4 really good original investigative pieces a year. It just feels like they never do because it only happens once every 3 or 4 months and "lol Buzzfeed."
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the talent deficit posted:is billy corgan a white nationalist? it seems on brand for him He's been part owners of a company with neo-nazis does this count 
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FizFashizzle posted:He legally can't, since he recused himself from all things russia related. A recusal isn't a legally binding thing. He could do it today, if he wanted. It would just be very obvious and set off a firestorm because he would have to sign off on it.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:That is what people are lookibg for re: Complex I wonder if he went to get an ENCHILADA afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw
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that buzzfeed story is really good and has some great original reporting, but the broad strokes have been known forever. you used to be able to download logs from the milo slack where his unpaid interns did all his work for him
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's pretty funny/terrifying and confirms a lot of things that people already suspected. Thanks. Man yeah I tell people this and they do go "lul." I emailed it to myself for when I get home.
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/916383341900959748 Resignation confirmed, who's is gonna be?
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Billy Corgan is also recognized as a loan shark in the state of Tennessee.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:He's been on Infowars before I think Fame kind of broke his brain or so I've heard. Doesn't he also own a wrestling promotion now? There was a goon in the music subforum Smashing Pumpkins thread who use to be a Smashing Pumpkins roadie or something like 3-4 years back that talked about Billy being a gold hoarder and IIRC Billy found the post and made him delete it due to said goon signing a NDA about his employment or some such. It happened a while ago and I'm not sure if it requires archives or not. Edit: Billy Corgan use to own a wrestling promotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_Pro_Wrestling DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Oct 6, 2017 |
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It really feels like they're really trying to tear it all down. I remember a time, around Halloween of last year when I stumbled on the Frontline Documentary about both trump and Clinton. I was already anti-trump as hell and in the camp of "lol not gonna happen". The Frontline Doc was okay, but I specifically remember being genuinely afraid of what a trump Presidency really meant- especially after seeing this bit with Omarossa talking about "trumps revenge" (specifically around the 4:47 mark) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwM Out of all the online noise, all the ads, all the nonsense, this is the clip that has stuck with me. All the white supremacist bullshit, all the rolling-back of progressive policies, the affirmation of religion-based discrimination, voter fraud bullshit, fake news promotions, the absolute othering of non-white, non-cis, non-hateful people. All the absolute bullshit that this administration does and continues to do is because a thin skinned Millionaire couldn't stand for a black man in power roasting his tv personality and making him feel bad for a few minutes. Or more realistically, he (and richie richers like him) hate that a black man was given the keys to the white house in the first place. And here we are. Its all true, and Omarossa was right. I didn't believe it at the time and some pert of me still doesn't, but here we are.
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I think that the reason they've been so specific about saying that the Russian hacks of election departments not changing the vote tallies is that they instead hacked the registered voters database, removing likely democrat voters from the rolls so they'd get turned away in battleground states.
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Words of a strongman https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/916381291855122432
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DeathSandwich posted:Fame kind of broke his brain or so I've heard. Doesn't he also own a wrestling promotion now? He owned one, sold it, tried to buy another but got beat out in court by nazis and a trust fund idiot, and then bought the rights to the NWA which isn't really a promotion. (It was a promoters alliance, but no one is in it anymore and it doesn't have an actual promotion)
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Did any other republican president in history staff cabinets with horrible people the way Trump did?
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the talent deficit posted:is billy corgan a white nationalist? it seems on brand for him I agree, but surprisingly he seemed pretty ideologically correct at this particular moment. And no mention of like, crystal healing or anything
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Nah, the lawn needs mowed.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Did any other republican president in history staff cabinets with horrible people the way Trump did? Yeah. Rumsfeld was basically a Bannon-like figure in the Nixon administration and also served in the Ford administration. They've been appointing a whole lot of creeps to high positions for a long time
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Yeah. Rumsfeld was basically a Bannon-like figure in the Nixon administration and also served in the Ford administration. They've been appointing a whole lot of creeps to high positions for a long time
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Did any other republican president in history staff cabinets with horrible people the way Trump did? Just every single Republican since Nixon.
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DeathSandwich posted:Fame kind of broke his brain or so I've heard. Doesn't he also own a wrestling promotion now? He still does, just a different one. He founded that little one and owned it for years, then he bought part ownership in TNA/GFW/Impact which is ostensibly the #2 or 3 or something in the US but that place is a mess, and now he owns the NWA which was THE center of wrestling for a long time but has been pretty deadish the last 30 or 40 years. Wrestling is a welcoming business for crazy rear end people with bad ideas and treatment of people who are bad with their money. And the lady on top of it is in Trump's cabinet.
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