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Miller has been one of the most successful at enacting a horrifying agenda while keeping his head down. The concentration camps and ICE slipping its leash are both on him and both will take a very, very long time to unfuck. He'll be a right-wing media superstar for decades and we're going to have to keep hearing and responding to him. That's assuming whoever he's a painting of doesn't rip him up in a fit of conscience.
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fool_of_sound posted:Prester and the people arguing with her, please go to her thread. The last thing we need in here is a debate on the theories and predictions of Prester T Jane. I responded a single time to a poster who was trying to attack/discredit me by intentionally misrepresenting posts I had made in the past. The rest of my posts in this discussion have not referenced my work/theories. Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oct 1, 2019 20:52
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Luckyellow posted:What crimes has he involved himself with? He's pretty closely tied into ICE/Trump's most discriminatory policy actions (eg, the Muslim ban), so I don't know how much luck he'll have on getting out of things cleanly.
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The CIA have an amazingly spotty competency record, so I'm not sure if it's better or worse to have them on your side. It's sort of like having the best of what's lying around, I suppose. And most Western spy agencies have arguably hyped themselves up way more than is justified by their records.
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haveblue posted:Miller has been one of the most successful at enacting a horrifying agenda while keeping his head down. The concentration camps and ICE slipping its leash are both on him and both will take a very, very long time to unfuck. He'll be a right-wing media superstar for decades and we're going to have to keep hearing and responding to him. I'm okay with keeping Guantanamo for the sole purpose of housing Steven Miller for the rest of his unnatural life.
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Oct 1, 2019 20:54
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a federal judge just blocked the georgia abortion ban from going into effect while a court challenge is pending
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Brony Car posted:The CIA have an amazingly spotty competency record, so I'm not sure if it's better or worse to have them on your side. It's sort of like having the best of what's lying around, I suppose. Pros: They don't like Trump and apparently have a lot of goods on him. Cons: How long have you got?
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Luckyellow posted:What crimes has he involved himself with? I think he probably oozes his way past charges for Immigrant Stuff in the absence of a revolutionary tribunal; so far, as far as we know, he's had the low cunning to just create policies that will cause suffering without actually telling ICE/CBP officers to abuse immigrants. But who knows, maybe he got arrogant and crimed.
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This whole derail only started because someone saw a person standing out on a ledge and decided that it’d be appropriate to say how they had the right idea.
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I'm looking forward to struggling alongside a bunch of drunk Yalie perverts that have propped up fascist regimes around the world. To the barricades, comrades!
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Oct 1, 2019 20:57
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luxury handset posted:a federal judge just blocked the georgia abortion ban from going into effect while a court challenge is pending This sounds like great news! Is it? I'm worried whenever I get my hopes up.
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Oct 1, 2019 20:58
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the CIA's toolkit contains two tools. one, pay for the creation of right wing death squads to neutralize opposition. two, make copies of the enemy's mail. The part where they are doing neither of those things to me. Actually the "make copies of the enemy's mail" sounds like it could be useful too. quote:although a shitload of subpoenas are working their way through the court system What does this really, like, mean, though? What is actually happening with them, and why does it seem like it's not anything for any of them? Ninja Edit: Ah, actually I guess this is sort of what I was looking for. GreyjoyBastard posted:The last thing I'm seeing on the subpoena lawsuit against Don McGahn, for example, is a request for expedited process in, uh, late August. Fake edit: article from yesterday? on this stuff: https://www.rollcall.com/news/impeachment-inquiry-likely-to-move-faster-than-house-lawsuits-making-some-moot It's a bit worrying to see this stuff all stalled up for months, especially since none of these sound like "last steps" and a lot of them seem simple enough to resolve. Is there a reason such high priority issues are taking so long for the courts to address? Especially with that request for expeditating looking like it was effectively just ignored. None of these subpoena outcomes seem like they need much in the way of complicated legal argument. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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got a pretty good laugh out of the idea that Stephen Miller would just go away if you shine a light at him. Like, Kissinger, Ollie North, Barr, Rumsfeld, Roger Stone are all fine examples of the fact that these ghouls do not just loving disappear
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Oct 1, 2019 20:59
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Dammerung posted:This sounds like great news! Is it? I'm worried whenever I get my hopes up. it's not great news, the law was not yet struck down, but it was going to become law on jan 1 and that's been delayed until the court challenge is resolved. so that's pretty good
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Oct 1, 2019 20:59
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Prester Jane posted:How'd that work out for the Kurds? Pretty okay for Rojava though that’s more SOCOM money than the CIA
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Oct 1, 2019 21:01
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Dammerung posted:This sounds like great news! Is it? I'm worried whenever I get my hopes up. it’s at least promising because one factor in staying a law is whether the challengers are likely to succeed on the merits of the suit. of course, even if the court ultimately strikes the law down, it’ll get appealed to the Supreme Court eventually and who knows what those wackos will do
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Oct 1, 2019 21:01
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Dammerung posted:This sounds like great news! Is it? I'm worried whenever I get my hopes up. It's good that for a while longer Georgia women will not have their rights violated any more than they already were being. It's not a permanent solution but it will prevent a significant if finite amount of suffering.
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Oct 1, 2019 21:01
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Stephen Miller might be simply too stupid to successfully parlay his time with Trump into a decades long career as some political lich.
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Oct 1, 2019 21:02
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Dammerung posted:This sounds like great news! Is it? I'm worried whenever I get my hopes up. I mean, it means we aren't currently living in Gilead. Give it another year
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This whole derail only started because someone saw a person standing out on a ledge and decided that it’d be appropriate to say how they had the right idea. This. Stop talking about CW2 you big nerds On the topic of Pompeo, can they arrest his smug Evangelical fat rear end and throw him in a jail? Because the mental image of that is thrilling 
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Oct 1, 2019 21:05
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Stephen Miller might be simply too stupid to successfully parlay his time with Trump into a decades long career as some political lich. History strongly suggests that one doesn't need to be all that particularly intelligent to succeed at that particular task. And while Stephen Miller is no Einstein- he's handily intelligent enough to pull off this particular trick.
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GlyphGryph posted:It has not yet been made clear to me the manner in which the House will enforce fines.
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Prester Jane posted:https://twitter.com/StewartRhodesOK/status/538611970199396352?s=19 FMguru posted:Here are the stone-cold badasses who are going to powerslam all you weak pussy libtards once Civil War II begins: (Stolen from the freep thread)
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Oct 1, 2019 21:11
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Oracle posted:Well if they're State Dept employees Congress having the 'power of the purse' can garnish their wages I believe. Suddenly being unable to make your house payment would likely be quite compelling. They can't do that unilaterally, the power of the purse refers to passing legislative budgets. They would need the Senate and executive (barring veto override) to do targeted defunds of departments. There are also probably constitutional issues with passing a law for the express purpose of "gently caress that guy in particular".
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Dick Trauma posted:My god, the endless lies about EVERYTHING... To engage with the madness for a moment - what would have happened in that random studio for weeks after an election had occurred?
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bird cooch posted:(Stolen from the freep thread) Oath Keepers are the same people who succesfully backed down a bunch of federal agents and nearly triggered a massive shootout over a bunch of cattle.
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TulliusCicero posted:This. Stop talking about CW2 you big nerds Acceptable topics for the US Pol Thread: Vaping
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Groovelord Neato posted:almost like the founding fathers were dumb and instituted a system worse than the one they rebelled against. Counter point Brexit
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Prester Jane posted:https://twitter.com/StewartRhodesOK/status/538611970199396352?s=19 Also, White supremacist groups have been talking about us being on the verge of the RaHoWa for decades, does that mean it's about to happen?
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Acceptable topics for the US Pol Thread: Food Is the chicken sandwich back at Popeyes yet?
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Skex posted:Counter point They are both bad systems for different reasons, one doesn't have a written constitution, the other somehow puts all the executive power in a single person, controlling all of the federal goverment. Like it doesn't make sense to me that you would rebel against "those monarchists and the king", and then make a system based on an king elected by land owners basically
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Skex posted:Counter point Britain and the US are currently in a long going contest of "who can destroy their representative government first". it seemed like Britain was pulling ahead, but we have really come in to our own this last week!
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Jaxyon posted:Also, White supremacist groups have been talking about us being on the verge of the RaHoWa for decades, does that mean it's about to happen? I don't know- was the sitting president of the United States openly encouraging them in decades past or is that some sort of new development that dramatically alters the context around this discussion?
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Celexi posted:They are both bad systems for different reasons, one doesn't have a written constitution, the other somehow puts all the executive power in a single person, controlling all of the federal goverment. Because if you let just anybody elect the king, they could end up putting some demented yahoo in power!!
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Trump would often need a babysitter on phone calls with foriegn leaders because he was unprepared, and would go off on "random tangents" about the Mueller probe. https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-staff-reportedly-needed-063748000.html?.tsrc=fauxdal
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bird cooch posted:(Stolen from the freep thread) thank heaven that the Pragmatic Compromise of unconditionally submitting to these people was successfully deployed by the Oregon legislature, eh? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oregon-walkout-republican-end-climate_n_5d182d50e4b07f6ca57e8a42 i'm sure they didn't give up anything too important, in the name of decorum, though.
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Latest Ukraine Clown Posse update: Ukraine is surrendering to Russia for unknown reasons. https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/1179067720941408260 Guessing Trump had too many riders on those aid packages?
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Prester Jane posted:Oath Keepers are the same people who succesfully backed down a bunch of federal agents and nearly triggered a massive shootout over a bunch of cattle. sort of but not exactly, the Oath Keepers specifically were a secondary element in the Bundy ranch standoff and made the other militias Real Mad when they withdrew early over drone strike fears; technically they DID almost trigger a massive shootout, but it was hot militia-on-militia action, not militia-on-fed That's still not my favorite Oath Keeper story, though. In one of the early Black Lives Matter events, a bunch of Oath Keepers showed up to 'keep the peace' and 'prevent looting', because of course they did. The leader of the little band, however, made a fateful mistake: he talked to the Black Lives Matter folks and listened to their grievances. He promptly went to the Oath Keeper national leadership and said "hey guys, you know how we're against tyranny and pro constitutional rights and terrified of jackbooted stormtroopers killing us and our families? I think these BLM folks make really good points and are our natural allies, I want to march with them and start coordinating with them." This did not go over well. Specifically, he was told that if he persisted in this nonsense he would be kicked out of the movement, whereupon he went "YOU CAN'T KICK ME OUT IF I QUIT" and left in a huff with a bunch of his buddies. Good on you, guy whose name I can't be bothered to look up.
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