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jazz_music says

The middle class is vanishing

This is impossible by definition.

Pretty convincing white face, looks Caucasian to me, probably Irish.

You got us, you caught Commandant Tatter.

I almost wish we were just to see a bullet hole put in Colbert and Soros's head.

Without due process of course!

MisterLearnToCode says

OK Jazz here's my definition of Fascism, presented as a factual representation through an illustration devoid of any hyperbole.
Now show me yours!

Ah get some of that Facist.

It's a shame the Liberals in Washington are a bunch of Animal Godless cretins that don't know how to behave, and are only there to obstruct Democracy.
That it has to come down to this.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/28/senate-nuclear-option-trump-nominee/

Fuck em in the Ass Commandant Tatter!

And Democrats are St. Mother Theresa

People bitching about FOX news really scare me. They are quite content with the fake news institution as a single cohesive unit bought and paid for by a Nazi Soros.
These are the same people that bitched about the Koch brothers mind you. But as it turned out, those two sorry cock suckers are just one of them. So in the past when they were bitching about the Koch brothers and the FOX news being beholden to them. They were bitching about their own guy, doing their own shit, for their own party.

When will Liberals ever figure out we're not trying to make them happy.

All titles -

Extinction Of The Middle Class
Militarized Police
Corporate Money Rules Politics

are correct in that all these are serious problems. However, explanations under them seem hyper-partisan. For example, why are Koch's singled out? Why not so-called "green" energy businesses which receive subsidies and are not very green and may contribute to hunger in world (corn ethanol)?

jazz_music says

Look at the rest of the article. Click on the link.

Did that. Analysis of police militarization, Secret Trade Agreements and Corporate Media Ownership are the only one that seems to be written without hyper-partisan ventilating.

Edit: if anything will change, it will be if reasonable people on left and right will find common ground and work together on what they agree. For example, left and libertarian right both dislike police militarization and secret trade agreements. Why not work together against those?

jazz_music says

Other people are rapists to so what’s the big deal with having a rape club?

Screaming "A is raping" while B is raping as well seems like a wrong policy. Perhaps we should scream "A and B are raping, arrest both of them".

Actually said today by Smollett's lawyers:

“It is the Mayor and the Police Chief who owe Jussie - owe him an apology - for dragging an innocent man’s character through the mud. Jussie has paid enough.”

They actually said this.

jazz_music says

It turns out General George S. Patton was right in 1945 to compare the Nazi Party to the Republicans and Democrats, because there isn’t as much difference between them as we would like to believe.

Patton was reprimanded, but who knew, after all, that in just a little more than half a century, the Republicans would themselves become Nazis?

Patton thought we fought the wrong enemy after overseeing the Germans and getting to know them. Many think he was killed for his later views.

Quigley says

Dude, have you even ever heard of logic?

DOn't accuse me of logic problems. I wasn't suggesting anything you think I might have been thinking with your logic "skills."

I was just observing a pattern and a coincidence.

First I saw many right wingers posting memes comparing Trump to SMollett. For reasons totally beyond me. No connection, No reason to compare. No reason for meme, I guess other than possibly right wingers think liberals are as embarrassed by Smollett as you guys are by Trump ? (but Smollett is just a dumb actor....Wait...)

Then about a week later, both are suddenly declared to be exonerated of many crimes that many believed they had committed.

It's an ironic coincidence. I now understand a reason for a meme involving both of them.

marcus says

Then about a week later, both are suddenly declared to be exonerated of many crimes that many believed they had committed.

It's an ironic coincidence. I now understand a reason for a meme involving both of them.

Except in Trump's case, there is no 66 pages detailing evidence from Uber rides to Check #1063 signed by the defendant to the assailants.

Nor a CONFESSION by the assailants.

I didn't say it was identical. The crime Smollet was suspected of committing was a hoax attack against himself. With Trump it was treasonous conspiring with Russia in the 2016 election campaign. That's why I originally didn't get the comparison, unless it was the guy we are embarrassed bout versus the guy you are embarrassed about.

Very different yes. Quite an astute observation.

MisterLearnToCode says

no 66 pages

Today it came out that the Mueller report was 300 pages, that Barr summarized with very few patial sentence Mueeler quotes, in 4 pages.

marcus says

Today it came out that the Mueller report was 300 pages, that Barr summarized with very few patial sentence Mueeler quotes, in 4 pages.

But since there were no indictments, it's pretty much safe to say there was no Check #1063 written out to the Trump Organization signed by Putin.

Just observing an ironic coincidence. In a period of less than a few days they are both exonerated.

We could probably find others similarities.. Trump says Obama wiretapped him. His own highest level security experts say that's bullshit.

A President lying about another President wiretapping him without ever disclosing why he thinks its true (reminiscent of what he said about Obama's birth certificate for a couple years). Trump is notorious for his lies. Some of them quite huge.

But yeah, it's not as bad as some small time actor I've never heard of hiring some guys to do a fake attack (assuming that's true).

marcus says

A President lying about another President wiretapping him without ever disclosing why he thinks its true (reminiscent of what he said about Obama's birth certificate for a couple years). Trump is notorious for his lies. Some of them quite huge.

Hang loose. Unlike the FISA abuses, which are going to be declassified and haven't so far because of fears the Dems would call it obstruction of the now unsupportable Russian Collusion Claims.


marcus says

But yeah, it's not as bad as some small time actor I've never heard of hiring some guys to do a fake attack (assuming that's true).

Marcus, you fail to note the abundant physical, eyewitness, and even Confession evidence in the Smollett case is of a kind that can only be described as a slam dunk. The Assailants have confessed, and their own electronic communications and bank transactions confirm their narrative. On top of Smollett's iCloud records uncovered by warrant, also confirmational.

I'm almost getting tired of repeating myself about the overwhelming evidence of Smollett's guilt and the strange and highly unusual legal limbo tactics employed by Foxx The Chicago Chief of Police, the Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, and the entire Prosecutor's Association of Illinois have all condemned the handling of the Smollett case against a member of their own party.

The comparison isn't remotely similar in terms of evidence or circumstance.

MisterLearnToCode says

Marcus, you fail to note

Wtf, you're in an argument with a straw man. I never said they were nearly identical or that Trump is just as guilty of crimes (that are a million times worse) as Smollett is of his. I've never really been interested in the Smollett case. What, he's some small time actor that the OBama's were friendly to. So fucking what ?

For the 10th time, I was just putting two things together.

1) Memes about Trump and Smollett that I didn't understand.

2) Them both being exonerated witin a few days of eachother.

Nothing else dude.

Although as you make me think about it, and I ask myself, who do I think has less integrity ? Trump or Smollett ?

It's an interesting question. And I really don't know. We know about Trumps massive tax avoidance, probably illegal, stiffing people that did work for him, huge lies. The whoremongering while married, and on and on. And then we have this one story about Smollett, a guy whose actions don't really affect any of us at all, other than in the right wing media, but certainly reflect very poorly on him. Probably smokes way too much weed.

You people are mighty selective about the people whose behavior you choose to judge (not that I disagree with you ) about Smollett, as small time as it was, versus a guy you gave a psss to and voted for, for President, and now defend endlessly just becasue he appealed to you know what.

Now, in terms of proportionality, the total lack of sentence does not fit the crime. However, the other points are true; specifically, this isn't a violent offense, he poses no immediate risk to physical safety, he has no violent priors.

That said, a more appropriate sentence would be to make him pay the costs for his own apology tour: a series of televised appearances where he will apologize to Chicago and the State of Illinois, and in particular past victims of real violent crimes whose dignity he besmirched by trivializing their suffering with a self-serving hoax. A tour where he can express his contrition for stoking animosity between groups and remind everyone that though hateful violence is in fact at an all-time low, we should remember that acts like his could cause a reversal to that trend.

Nothing to see here Trump Cucks. GO back to your bubble before you learn how utterly fucking stupid you are and the degree to which you have fucked yourself.

Kakistocracy says

“Fixing our debt will now require reversing the harm that has already been done with unpaid-for tax cuts and spending increases, in addition to confronting the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare with spending changes and/or additional revenue,” CRFB says.

Oh yeah, forgot to add to this: he should also pay for the cost to the state of the investigation, as those resources could have been committed to actual crime instead of his hoax.

marcus says

marcus says

Although as you make me think about it, and I ask myself, who do I think has less integrity ? Trump or Smollett ?

It's an interesting question. And I really don't know.

Whoa!
Really?
TDS deranged

Failed culture.

marcus says

We could probably find others similarities.. Trump says Obama wiretapped him. His own highest level security experts say that's bullshit.

You really need to update your current events knowledge. This info is now known. Trump proven right once again. That “fact check” was proven to be a lie. But I doubt you will even accept the truth, deep as you are in the narrative you wish to believe.

People will believe a lie for two reasons:
1)They want it to be true.
2)They are afraid that it’s true.

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/325648-trump-was-right-after-all-on-the-obama-wiretapping

willywonka says

Failed culture

Are you talking black culture or American culture? The first one seems self evident, the second is definitely teetering towards the abyss.

The man self-identified as a dog, so either he has to be let free or euthanized.

National Advancement of Cock Chugging Pattieboys he deserves that award.

Clearly he needs to be adopted to a “forever home”. Should be on those scammy celebrity infomercials... “for just 5$ a month you can provide food and love to a pet that never had love”. Don’t you feel bad for the sad looking puppy?

Again?

Didn't they create bacteria that feed on that stuff?

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-newly-bacteria-plastic-bottles.html
Is this how civilization ends?

His defense attorney said he is a Pomeranian now who after the spay and neuter clinic is no longer a threat to society and should be adopted by a good home.

Do the winners still get to be DA's in Chicago?

Mariana's Trench? Isn't it wise to use a condom?