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03-01-2017 , 08:29 PM

#14626

5ive

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Quote:

Originally Posted by truefish

Fascist? Facts to back this up?

Quote:

Originally Posted by th14

Make America Great Again

03-01-2017 , 08:38 PM

#14627

5ive

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Also in before "lol you think there are 62 million fascists/white supremacists in the United States." Yes. Yes I do.

It's a lower bound.

03-01-2017 , 08:50 PM

#14628

chip&aprayer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...9a3u11v0553ik9

While I'm not part of the deport everyone camp (my gf is here on a work visa from Colombia), I'm not sympathetic to stupid people. This lady knew her visa was expired. After they looked the other way and gave her a pass the first time, she went out and started doing press conferences drawing attention to herself. Not the smartest move.

03-01-2017 , 08:52 PM

#14629

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

I have a question about the political spectrum. You have the RWNJ that love authoritarianism and fascism. But fascism is on the left of the political spectrum. What gives?

Quote:

Granted that the XIXth century was the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy, this does not mean that the XXth century must also be the century of socialism, liberalism, democracy. Political doctrines pass; nations remain. We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the " right ", a Fascist century.

-Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism

It's more complex than that, but the tl;dr is: Stop paying attention to graphs made in MSPaint by internet libertarians.

03-01-2017 , 09:00 PM

#14630

PrsHarlequin

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Oprah 2020 ?

..... ... You get a caaaaaar

03-01-2017 , 09:01 PM

#14631

Namath12

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We have Internet dullards to this day claiming that socialism in all its forms must be evil because National Socialism I mean it's right there in the name!

03-01-2017 , 09:06 PM

#14632

amurophil

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/u...e-iphone-share

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As Inauguration Day approached, Obama White House officials grew convinced that the intelligence was damning and that they needed to ensure that as many people as possible inside government could see it, even if people without security clearances could not. Some officials began asking specific questions at intelligence briefings, knowing the answers would be archived and could be easily unearthed by investigators — including the Senate Intelligence Committee, which in early January announced an inquiry into Russian efforts to influence the election.

03-01-2017 , 09:11 PM

#14633

All-In Flynn

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Originally Posted by Namath12

We have Internet dullards to this day claiming that socialism in all its forms must be evil because National Socialism I mean it's right there in the name!

First they came for the socialists,
And I was all, that doesn't even
Make sense, bro.
The Nazis are socialists, you
Should probably read a book
Or something, LOL you.

03-01-2017 , 09:16 PM

#14634

PrsHarlequin

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Must you be a reality show owner to be president of your country

03-01-2017 , 09:19 PM

#14635

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by amurophil

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/u...e-iphone-share

Seriously what the f*ck Obama?

03-01-2017 , 09:19 PM

#14636

OmgGlutten!

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So what exactly happened that the media just seemed to decide last night that Trump was not terrible anymore and was really awesome? This just gets more and more surreal. The complete lack of policy detail is just astounding. The context was just as gloomy.

03-01-2017 , 09:20 PM

#14637

Dominic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/sta...83274082152448

lol that's amazing...and astoundingly stupid. I hope someone forces the issue and it goes to court.

03-01-2017 , 09:22 PM

#14638

wheatrich

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03-01-2017 , 09:34 PM

#14639

PrsHarlequin

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I agree that your only chance is someone who is like really really popular.

How old is Honey Boo Boo now how much you have to be to be #1

03-01-2017 , 09:46 PM

#14640

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

White House rebuffs ethics office recommendation to discipline Kellyanne Conway

Stefan C. Passantino, who handles White House ethics issues as deputy counsel to President Trump, wrote in a letter Tuesday that his office concluded Conway was speaking in a “light, offhand manner” when she touted the Ivanka Trump line during a Feb. 9 appearance on “Fox & Friends.” At the time, she was addressing efforts by activists to persuade retailers such as Nordstrom to drop Ivanka Trump-branded items.

“We concluded that Ms. Conway acted inadvertently and is highly unlikely to do so again,” Passantino wrote to Walter M. Schaub, Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, adding that Conway made the comments “without nefarious motive or intent to benefit personally.”

Secret Inner Heart remains secret, benefit of the doubt shockingly given.

03-01-2017 , 09:50 PM

#14641

HastenDan

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ICE is chilling outside of Home Depots and after a latino gets behind the wheel they are pulling them over, and if things don't check out 100%, to the deportation you go.

03-01-2017 , 10:00 PM

#14642

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https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/837115390799069184

03-01-2017 , 10:01 PM

#14643

Namath12

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where the **** do we post about this McCain Graham bore off?

03-01-2017 , 10:02 PM

#14644

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Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Secret Inner Heart remains secret, benefit of the doubt shockingly given.

I believe this is technically known as the White Privilege doctrine.

03-01-2017 , 10:07 PM

#14645

5ive

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

Someone on twitter, I forget who, made the insightful point that one reason people glow about how "presidential" Trump's speech was is that they so desperately want things to be OK that they will seize on any sign, however flimsy, that Trump is starting to act normal. But nope, he's actually demolishing the deep foundations of our country's prosperity and security at a very rapid pace.

It's been a reoccurring theme since the Nov8. It's why I give people a pass in my mind to various degrees when they go full trumpologist. I'm not the one to judge how a particular persons copes. Desperation manifests in strange ways.

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03-01-2017 , 10:11 PM

#14646

ScreaminAsian

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Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say

Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.

03-01-2017 , 10:12 PM

#14647

einbert

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

Sessions spoke twice with Russian ambassador during Trump’s presidential campaign, Justice officials say

Sessions was part of the Trump campaign. This means Trump lied multiple times including at his press conference when he said his campaign didn't have any contact with Russian officials during the election.