Tell me what's on your mind.I have a few things on mine.
Like Melania finally emerging from exile, and her husband telling the media that they were "vicious and unfair" to her. I guess when he was having unprotected sex with a porn star while she recovered from giving birth to his son that wasn't "vicious and unfair".
Like this video of these cops in Arizona beating the crap out of an innocent man for no reason. (This is why NFL players choose to kneel.)
Like the fact that literally anything black folks do in America warrants some kind of "color aroused syndrome" type behavior. Let's go ahead and add walking your dog while black to the list of things that will cause the cops to be called on you.
Like that incredibly impromptu press conference given by Malcolm Jenkins of the Eagles today.
Like the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, and what it means for civil rights issues going forward in this country.
Like the fact that trump made such a big deal about NFL players honoring the national anthem, but he himself doesn't even know the words.
Like the fact that Karma is so real.
Thoughts?
"Like Melania finally emerging from exile, and her husband telling the media that they were ‘vicious and unfair’ to her. I guess when he was having unprotected sex with a porn star while she recovered from giving birth to his son that wasn't ‘vicious and unfair’.”
ReplyDeleteFor all that wingnuts claim that lefties are easily outraged snowflakes, wingnuts are major (and majorly dishonest) offense-takers. And this is yet another example of that thing they do, where they deliberately pretend to not understand a joke in order to try to make the joke teller seem like he’s being unfair or cruel.
Trump is saying that all these jokes are “vicious and unfair” to Melania. Except the jokes are almost all about how Melania is running away from Donald because he’s horrible, and how she’s sexually unsatisfied, and she can’t wait for him to die so she can finally get his money.
Now, if you understand the basic concept of a joke ... who is the butt of those? Clearly, it ain’t Melania; it’s him.
And while vicious, none of them are unfair. Donald is a jerk who treats women like crap. Women only ever marry him for the money and eventually come to despise him. It isn’t defamation if it’s true.
Really. If she took half the shit Michelle took. She was called a mooch, ugly, mannish, a wookie and everything under the sun but did they complain 24/7? No, they took it all in grace and stride and respected the dignity of the office.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100% with the kneeling because I remember the time I was arrested for something that I should have been issued a citation at most and the cop taunting me by saying I was going to have to spend the weekend in jail. Luckily I have lawyers as friends and family and was out in under an hour but I know what he was doing, giving a Black man the business. Had I been a regular joe blow without the luck or means to obtain an attorney I would have spent the weekend in the pokie, missed work and had the cop and some handpicked "witnesses" swear I did a lot more than I did. Maybe he learned his lesson maybe not. Welcome to America.
No first lady in history has been treated so harshly by the left/liberal media.
ReplyDeleteLike FN said, Karma is so real. And the left shall reap what they sow....
Take a close look at the guy who threw the hardest punches in that police video. Look familiar?
ReplyDeleteBETRAYED
ReplyDeleteChicago schools fail to protect students from sexual abuse and assault, leaving lasting damage
They were top athletes and honor-roll students, children struggling to read and teenagers seeking guidance.
But then they became prey, among the many students raped or sexually abused during the last decade by trusted adults working in the Chicago Public Schools as district officials repeated obvious child-protection mistakes.
Their lives were upended, their futures clouded and their pain unacknowledged as a districtwide problem was kept under wraps. A Tribune analysis indicates that hundreds of students were harmed.
Drawing on police data, public and confidential records, and interviews with teens and young adults who spoke out, a Tribune investigation broke through the silence and secrecy surrounding these cases and found that:
When students summoned the courage to disclose abuse, teachers and principals failed to alert child welfare investigators or police despite the state’s mandated reporter law.
Even in cases where school employees acted swiftly, they subjected young victims to repeated interrogations, inflicting more psychological pain and defying basic principles intended to preserve the integrity of an investigation.
Ineffective background checks exposed students to educators with criminal convictions and arrests for sex crimes against children. And CPS failed to disclose to other districts that past employees had resigned after investigators found credible evidence of abuse and harassment.
http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/chicago-public-schools-sexual-abuse/index.html
Another day. Another story about big government,liberalism, Democrats failing blacks.
Should i feel sorry? Over 90% of blacks vote Democrat. Some might say blacks get what they deserve...When are blacks going to hold Democrats accountable?
"Like the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, and what it means for civil rights issues going forward in this country. "
ReplyDeleteIt means the left can't discriminate and violate the rights of Christians. SCOTUS tells the left Christians have civil rights.
And the left is shocked and outraged.
”Like the fact that literally anything black folks do in America warrants some kind of ‘color aroused syndrome’ type behavior. Let's go ahead and add walking your dog while black to the list of things that will cause the cops to be called on you.”
ReplyDeleteFor what it’s worth, the black man in this story didn’t have the cops called on him.
What happened is that the cops were trying to solve a crime in the neighborhood and they put out a call for anyone to provide tips of any suspicious behavior they may have witnessed. In such a circumstance, you can expect a lot of the tips will be crazy/useless — people reporting their neighbors and the like. There’s nothing unusual about that.
What is strange is that the police didn’t disregard this picture of a man doing something totally benign and not at all suspicious, and instead they put out a flyer to the public with the man’s picture, to the effect: “Have you seen this dangerous individual? Please provide any information about his whereabouts.”
The police should really be smarter than this.
“Like the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, and what it means for civil rights issues going forward in this country.”
ReplyDeleteNot sure what it will mean for future civil rights cases, but it doesn’t bode well that even Justices Breyer and Kagan bought the ludicrous “cakes = speech” argument.
Civil Rights = forcing people to participate in homosexual sanctification ceremonies.
ReplyDeleteYou are so fucked in the head.
First they came for blacks - I said nothing
ReplyDeleteThen they came for jews - Still, I said nothing
Then they came for Mexicans - Finally I said something. "Are you sure you got all the jews?"
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete“Like the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, and what it means for civil rights issues going forward in this country.”
Not sure what it will mean for future civil rights cases, but it doesn’t bode well that even Justices Breyer and Kagan bought the ludicrous “cakes = speech” argument.
10:50 PM
The SCOTUS decision was a rebuke of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
Nothing more.....
Like Melania finally emerging from exile, and her husband telling the media that they were "vicious and unfair" to her.
ReplyDeleteShe had kidney surgery, you fucking moron. What is wrong with you people?
PilotX said...
ReplyDelete"Really. If she took half the shit Michelle took. She was called a mooch, ugly, mannish, a wookie"
She was all of those things, but no one in the mainstream media ever printed a negative word about her. You have a weird perspective.
So a former hooker is out playing 45 and the media with their drip, drip, drip stories to keep the negative details in the press.
ReplyDeleteBAWHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
First they came for blacks - I said nothing
ReplyDeleteThen they came for jews - Still, I said nothing
Then everything was pretty much okay so they stopped coming.
"She was all of those things, but no one in the mainstream media ever printed a negative word about her. You have a weird perspective."
ReplyDeleteSo, what should have the mainsream media have said negatively about her? BTW, I disagree with your assessment of her.
"When are blacks going to hold Democrats accountable?"
ReplyDeleteThey hold them accountable for representing their interests instead of trying to ruin their lives like Republicans do by voting for them.
1) I say give Melania a break. She had surgery and didn't feel up to supporting her repugnant beast of a husband who has humiliated her so publicly and so often that it can't be an easy job. She deserved a little time off.
As for the press coverage, that comes with the territory, and everyone knows that. See also: Clinton, Hillary, and Obama, Michelle.
2) Police poltroons, they always gang up and pile on and punch and kick from a safe distance while other pigs hold them down.
3) But, but, what if he was STEALING THE DOG???? I mean, never mind that he looks nothing like the suspect, he's black so he must be guilty whenever the white folks get scared, isn't that how it works?
4) They're not paid to listen, they're paid to make money for their networks by covering conflict.
That exasperated look on his face after he held up the "YOU AREN'T LISTENING" sign for the third time? That's how sane people feel about the destruction of the concept of facts by the goddamn Republicans, and I would imagine also how people of color feel when confronting yet another instance of racist bullshit while they try to get on with their day.
5) Perhaps justice Kennedy should spend some time among the folks his rulings affect, and see how much comity and polite discourse they encounter in an average day.
6) Well, on the bright side, if he knew the words, he might sing them, and as long as I never have to hear him do that, I can live with him not knowing them.
Still it's a disgrace for a president to not even bother to learn those two songs, so right in the sweet spot of repugnance and expectability where he lives.
7) Karma doesn't actually mean "poetic justice" the way it is mostly used these days, it's original meaning is destiny.
So if it's a Nazi's destiny to be vehicular manslaughtered by a wasted babysitter, I guess that's better than having a Nazi as a US senator, but I feel that to be a woefully ineffective method of killing Nazis, as would our grandparents, who developed much more scalable techniques when confronted by them.
-Doug in Oakland
As I recall there were several negative stories about Michelle on Fox. They used to use Michele Malkin, who wrote a very negative (and misinformed) book about Mrs. Obama. This went on for a while. If you do a quick internet search I bet you can find all types of negative stories about Michelle, even when Sarah Palin attacked her for trying to push kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. She was a good First Lady who tried to help kids "be best".
ReplyDeletehttp://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/26/nation/la-na-michelle-obama-obesity-20110227
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/amp/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/20/palin-disses-michelle-obama/amp/
Delete"So, what should have the mainsream media have said negatively about her?"
ReplyDeleteNothing.
They should also treat Melania with the respect the position deserves.
And let's not forget that the scaling of those techniques began in earnest 74 years ago today.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
"They should also treat Melania with the respect the position deserves."
ReplyDeleteThey do, late night comedians and such not so much. Give me an example of the MSM not being respectful to FLOTUS.
And let's keep in mind her husband is diminishing the standing of the office daily.
DeleteStay tuned sports fans, two Scott Pruitt aides resign amid ANOTHER scandal. Time for this guy to go but we all know he'll appoint the dude from Massey Coal😖
ReplyDeleteOh, did you also love the Secretary of State spokesperson who said Germany was an ally on D-Day? Yeah, trump certainly hires the best.
"Yeah, trump certainly hires the best."
ReplyDeleteObama's head of NASA:
When I became the NASA administrator, [President Obama] charged me with three things. One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.
Oh you mean General Charles Bolden who was actually an astronaut who went on actual space missions and a Naval Academy graduate. Ok, let's look at trump's guy, he was the head of the air and space museum in Oklahoma. Sure, no comparison.
Delete"His nomination drew controversy given his lack of formal qualifications in science or engineering, and his rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change."
DeleteYeah, he hires the best people. Well at least he has "come around" in his views on climate change. Maybe in his free time he can get a science degree.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/06/michelle-obama-and-bad-faith-right-wing-media-regarding-melania-trump/220385
ReplyDeleteI guess some people don't learn. This lady who was a HR manager at UPS for 25 years is now unemployed after making racist statements online. You gon learn today.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theroot.com/ups-employee-fired-after-posting-that-black-thugs-deser-1826611430
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/epa-imploding-under-weight-of-scott-pruitt-scandals-1249973315798?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ai
ReplyDeleteI'm going to hire the best people😖
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DeleteDinky Juan- the name Dennis Hastert ring any stoopid fucking wingnut bells for teacher/student molestation in Illinois schools?
ReplyDeletePoor little snowflakey stoopid fucking wasicu wingnuts whining about Melanoma getting talked about while stoopid fucking wingnuts have spent 30 years and countless millions of dollars calling HRC every name in the book, but can't convict her of a single crime. Incompetence thy name be stoopid fucking wingnuts.
ReplyDeleteHRC is a career criminal and one of the most awful people in the world:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/Fgcd1ghag5Y
Black people confuse credentials with competence.
ReplyDeleteWhite conservatives confuse pretend competence with real experience and actual subject matter expertise.
DeleteChicago June 2018 to Date:
ReplyDeleteShot & Killed: 8
Shot & Wounded: 57
Total Shot: 65
Total Homicides: 8
HRC is a career character assassination target of every stoopid fucking wingnut in the world. Name me a single crime she has been indicted and found guilty of? Can't do it, can you?
ReplyDeleteAny stoopid fucking wingnuts bother to notice that pretty much all illegal voting done in 2016 was perpetrated by stoopid fucking wasicu wingnut perpetrators?
ReplyDeletethe New York Times’ Maggie Haberman has revealed that Trump ordered current Attorney General Jeff Sessions to interview Pirro for the job of deputy attorney general, which is a position currently held by Rod Rosenstein.
ReplyDeletePirro has a hit list of people she'd love to rid the world of because they make her look like a stoopid fucking moronic wasicu wingnut POS and then some. When she is on the rag she makes Drumpf appear to be a docile Kzin.
Mike sure likes to double down on lunacy!!
ReplyDeleteBlack Woman Released After Trump Commutes Her Life Sentence For Nonviolent Drug Offense
ReplyDeleteJune 6, 20181:07 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/06/617513060/president-trump-commutes-sentence-of-grandmother-serving-life-in-prison
No comment from the alt-left crowd??
Sure, I'll comment. Kinda scary that Sylvester Stallone and the Kardashians have so much influence over our "president".
Deletehttp://wgntv.com/2018/06/04/mother-who-allowed-men-to-rape-her-daughters-5-and-6-sentenced-to-prison/
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmm, guess white meth dealers love to rape babies and white moms love letting them do it.
Rural white America June to date:
ReplyDeleteOD's: 20,000
Babies sold for meth: 21,000
High school diplomas: 14
Number of teeth: 7
Showers taken: 0
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteMike sure likes to double down on lunacy!!
Reality in the real world is what you call lunacy because yer stoopid, wasicu and fucking wingnutty! Otoh, I'd let you play with my Gila monster because his venom is worse than yers and he is not racist and can't be made so.
Black people confuse credentials with competence.
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Typical response from a loser who didn't finish high school. All that book lernin don't mean nothing huh? Bwahahahahahahaha! At least trump loves you poorly educated.
More stoopid fucking wingnut revisionist history. We were Germany in WW2 and Harry Truman was potus.
ReplyDeletehttp://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/image1-768x752.jpeg
Mike from Iowa is a retard.
ReplyDeleteNot near as retarded as you and Drew Ferguson honoring German soldiers on D-Day with his campaign post. Need I remind you retards he is a stoopid fucking wingnut from stoopid fucking wingnut Georgia?
ReplyDeleteHe'd be a natural in the4 Drumpfuck the dumbfuck WH.
Fuck the gooks and chinks!
ReplyDeleteWhy is black narcissism and entitlement such a detriment to this country?
ReplyDeleteTrump supporters are the dregs of society.
ReplyDeleteWhy are white boys so cocky and arrogant when their dicks are so tiny? Butt Trumpet is a prime example.
ReplyDeleteKill white men.
ReplyDeleteFuck white women.
tr**p is the worst President ever, and Melania is the most worthless and useless "First Lady" ever.
ReplyDeleteWhite people are synonymous with mediocrity and retardation.
ReplyDeleteIf I was gay and looking for a baker to bake my cake, I would find out ahead of time if they serve gay couples or not, and if they don't, move on to the next one. It's that simple.
ReplyDeleteQuote: 'Dave Zirin'
ReplyDelete"Why is black narcissism and entitlement such a detriment to this country?"
I emailed the real Dave Zirin a couple of years ago - he confirmed that this guy isn't him. Yet here he is still pushing this shit that nobody cares about and nobody engages with - whilst pretending to be someone he's not.
Ask yourself this: Just how empty and meaningless must this guy's life be?
If you bake cakes for the public, you cannot discriminate against anyone- fuck your phony religious bigotry.
ReplyDeleteYou don't want to bake for Gays, take your public business private. Simple, isn't it, except for stoopid fucking wasicu wingnuts.
Jesus! What's going on? RIP Kate Spade, now chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead they're saying of apparent suicide also! Lawdy! What are they putting in the water.
ReplyDeleteAnd he at least gave people, those that cared to see anyway, an insight into other cultures and peoples of the world. Rest in peace bro!
Trump is breaking the Resistance! MAGA!
ReplyDeletemike from iowa said...
ReplyDeleteIf you bake cakes for the public, you cannot discriminate against anyone- fuck your phony religious bigotry.
You don't want to bake for Gays, take your public business private. Simple, isn't it, except for stoopid fucking wasicu wingnuts.
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Civil rights Commissions can't violate the constitutional rights of Christians.
No one was being discriminate against. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Well, well, well. Looks like Trump is embracing his buddy (or maybe his boss?) Vlad. Trump has suggested that Russia should be readmitted to the G7 group of nations.
ReplyDeleteOf course Vlad was eventuality going to want some return on his criminal investment.
How about Philadelphia schools handing out middle school graduates bullet proof plates for backpacks?
ReplyDeleteI can see Russia/NRA filing suit to stop children from preventative measures so NRA members can get their jollies killing busloads of kids.
Civil rights Commissions can't violate the constitutional rights of Christians.
ReplyDeleteThere is no constitutional right to discriminate. stoopid fucking wingnut.
Stoopid fucking wingnuts attempting tocarve out sdpecial rights for themselves. Been there. Done that. When they lose theyclaim it is a special right for the other side. All it is is equal rights for all. But stoopid fucking wingnuts can't process deep thoughts like equal rights. Fake Noize doesn't allow it.
ReplyDeleteSCOTUS in a 7-2 ruling, disagrees with you.
ReplyDeletehttps://chicago.suntimes.com/news/concealed-carry-license-holder-shoots-attempted-armed-robber-in-south-chicago/
ReplyDeleteBlogger Kinky Con said...
ReplyDeleteSCOTUS in a 7-2 ruling, disagrees with you.
What the fuck does the Scotus know? O'm telling you when Dems sweep in the next couple elections Drumpf's name will only appear on a police blotter and none of the favors for the koch bros will remain except as distant memories.
Why is white narcissism and entitlement such a detriment to this country?
ReplyDeleteA Koch brother retired, or some horse shit. Now if we can just get the other one and a few Mercers and Waltons...
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland
mike from iowa said...
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck does the Scotus know?
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Seriously? You are touched....
Even two libtard justices voted correctly and applied some common sense on the gay cake issue. The baker has gay customers he sells too on a regular basis but only refused to make an obscene cake, that's not a civil rights violation.
ReplyDeleteA business owner can refuse service to whomever they please.
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ReplyDeletemike from iowa said...
What the fuck does the Scotus know?
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Seriously? You are touched...
A few short years ago the Scotus ruled there is no more racism in America and allowed stoopid fucking wingnut Guvs to make it harder for POC to vote. Seriously, Dinky Juan, you are a touched racist.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteEven two libtard justices voted correctly and applied some common sense on the gay cake issue. The baker has gay customers he sells too on a regular basis but only refused to make an obscene cake, that's not a civil rights violation.
A business owner can refuse service to whomever they please No they can't.
Total bullshit. The cake was not obscene. It was a religious objection about serving Gays that this case was about. It was also a narrow ruling in keeping with the mind width of stoopid fucking wingnuts.
The reason and motive for the baker's refusal were based on his sincere religious beliefs and convictions," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented while Breyer and Kagan, considered to be liberal-leaning, joined the more conservative justices in a majority ruling.
ReplyDelete“This will surprise lots of people until they read what actually happened,” Richard Primus, a constitutional law expert at the University of Michigan Law school, told Newsweek of Kagan and Breyer’s decision to join the majority. “It’s a very specific case.”
According to Primus, the court found a way to rule in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, while making it clear the first amendment is “not a shield against anti-discrimination law.” Had that not been spelled out clearly, Primus added, there’s “not a chance” Breyer and Kagan would’ve joined the majority.
Not a word about obscenity.
And I can guarantee your religious freedom bullshit will come back and bite wingnuts hard. You still cannot discriminate!!!!!
ReplyDeletePaul Manafort is being hit with an additional obstruction charge because he tried to influence witnesses against him. His bail has also been revoked, so he’s probably off to jail as well.
ReplyDeleteI guess we can expect another flurry of pardons from Trump to try to signal to all his flunkies that he’ll come to their rescue and they shouldn’t rat on Trump to save their own asses.
Purple Cow is a faggot. No debate about that.
ReplyDeleteSo before Manafort even made it to the hearing where they might revoke his bail, the other indictment hit. The witness tampering is being indicted as obstruction of justice and conspiracy and doubles whatever sentence he gets in the trial he was attempting to obstruct.
ReplyDeleteHe flips or dies in prison, or if we're lucky, both.
-Doug in Oakland
As a Chinese-American I know that blacks lack the critical thinking skills necessary to improving their communities. That's a big reason why you people can't get ahead in society.
ReplyDeleteSee more at:
bigwowo.com
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Dave Zirin said...
ReplyDeletePurple Cow is a faggot. No debate about that.
Prove it, micro dick.
!172 children died of flue and it is all drumpf's fault.
ReplyDeleteDrumpf claimed the US exported energy for the first time ever. Pants on fire.
Drumpf claimed people hopped on boats and sailed out to watch Hurricane. Brain on fire.
Drumpfuck claimed thios is the best economy ever. Pants wrapped around his head and set on fire.
I'm wondering why Dennis Rodman is heading to Singapore. Who invited him? Is he part of Trump's preparation, at his invitation? Or Kim's?
ReplyDeleteAnd I still am not clear on whether police brutality has been ongoing, through the Obama adminstration too, or whether we're just seeing more of them because of the presence of cell phones. Anybody know?
As a Lebanese-American I know that whites lack the critical thinking skills necessary to improving their communities. That's a big reason why you people can't get ahead in society.
ReplyDeleteDrumpfuck said he didn't need to prepare to meet Kim. It is all attitude spoke the world's greatest negotiator ever. Rodman is Drumpf's attitude coach. Expect Drumpf to show up wearing dreds with his nose pierced.
ReplyDeleteMadness is rampant in these states! Bizness as usual,racists,bigots,dummies,savages,ask the Indians!
ReplyDeleteRodman better watch his ass. He pisses of Kim and Drumpf, Kim will feed him to the dogs while Drumpf will market Rodman as Drumpf's Primo Dog Food.
ReplyDeleteDrumpf's claim Obama administration allowed Iran to illegally access US financial entities gets 4 Pinocchios, a dozen Pants on Fire and a partridge in a pear tree.
ReplyDeleteAnother day, another Pants on Fire lie from the pants on fire liar.
PS John Kerry is not going to jail, either. Nice try, wingnuts.
ReplyDeleteFrom August 2017, a classic. Trump explained. It's really very simple.
ReplyDeletehttps://thebaffler.com/latest/the-president-of-blank-sucking-nullity-roth
UH OH, The Daily Beast reported that the company hired Bryan Lanza, a former adviser to both the Trump campaign and Trump's White House transition team, just a day after the president tweeted that he was considering helping ZTE regain access to American markets.
ReplyDelete"President Xi [Jinping] of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!" Trump tweeted last month.
But Obama did it, too. HRC is a croooook.
Fuck Trump.
ReplyDeleteFrom the United Nations report on Drumpfuck's dumbfuckery-
ReplyDeleteThe report acknowledges that previous administrations haven’t distinguished themselves by their concern for these inequities, but quotes Alston to the effect that the Trump Administration has “deliberately targeted the most vulnerable in society, kicking away every ladder of social wellbeing in order to serve Trump’s rich supporters and his alt-right agenda”.
In other words, it’s not that this government can’t take care of the poor. It won’t. It has no interest in doing so.
The blogger, Mel Gurtov, provides examples of the measures that Alston identified as particularly onerous to the most vulnerable:
• Debasing civil society: Supporting limits on voting rights with specious arguments about voter fraud and “covert disenfranchisement” such as gerrymandering and various ID requirements.
• Giving huge tax breaks to millionaires and big corporations while about 40 million people live below the poverty line—among them, 23.8 million considered in extreme or absolute poverty. The richest 1 percent of Americans now account for 20 percent of national income, double the percentage in 1980. “The proposed tax reform package stakes out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in the world,” says Alston in a separate statement (www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533).
• Putting new limits on basic anti-poverty measures such as work requirements for welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, health insurance, and veterans’ benefits.
• Limiting opportunity: “The United States now has one of the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility of any of the rich countries. . . . The equality of opportunity, which is so prized in theory, is in practice a myth, especially for minorities and women, but also for many middle-class White workers.”
• Promoting racist stereotypes that seek to stigmatize non-whites as being mainly poor, lazy, and unworthy of uplifting.
• Tolerating the highest rate of infant mortality, the highest rate of youth poverty, and the highest income inequality among all rich countries.*
• Treating Puerto Rico as a colony, and imposing fiscal discipline that fails to take into account people’s need of social protection. (The mayor of San Juan says it all: Trump’s , total neglect has to be called [out]. The United Nations says that when people are denied the right to access to basic human services — like electric power, like water, like food, like appropriate medical care — that it is a violation of human rights.”)
We have gone from a war on poverty to a war on Impoverished.
Shoot straight you bastards. Let's get the comment count over a hundred, you lazy buggers.
ReplyDeleteDNC cockblocks Bernie...….
ReplyDeleteInteresting. 100!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-respect-20180607-story.html
"And I still am not clear on whether police brutality has been ongoing, through the Obama adminstration too, or whether we're just seeing more of them because of the presence of cell phones. Anybody know?"
ReplyDeleteA little of both, I would say. I've seen police brutality since the Reagan administration (I moved to Oakland in '84) and not much was done about it because nobody who wasn't there when it happened saw it, and afterwards it was the cops words against the "suspects" words.
Then came the Oscar Grant murder, streamed in dying color on the internet, and everyone freaked the fuck out. Can a police officer actually do something like that?
All the damn time, said the people who actually saw it in their neighborhoods.
I think the real question is now that we have video evidence, will anything change?
We had a civil case against the OPD (because all of the corrupt pigs that didn't flee the country were acquitted in the criminal trial, like always) over the "riders" case that levied mandated reforms against the department, and they were actually making progress for a while, but Thelton Henderson, the no-bullshit judge who was overseeing the implementation of the reforms and repeatedly threatened to throw the whole department into receivership when they missed deadlines, has gone into semi-retirement, so I don't have the same confidence about the reforms that I used to have.
-Doug in Oakland
Doug, take yer pick of articles saying Police brutality is getting worse and 2018 might be a record.
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I don't recall a pol advocating violence against the public (Drumpf did several times) since Nixon had union hardhats helping beat up Hippies and protestors during the VietNam debacle..
ReplyDeleteWhat a dipshit. This is what Trump said at the G7 economic conference, foolishly and pointlessly making enemies out of every other powerful nation on Earth:
ReplyDelete“‘It’s not a question of “I hope it will change,”’ he said. ‘It’s going to change, 100%. Tariffs are going to come way down because people cannot continue to do that. We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing. And that ends.’
‘If they retaliate, they’re making a mistake because you see we have a tremendous trade imbalance ... There’s very bad spirit when we have a big trade imbalance and they keep raising it so we never catch up. That’s not a good thing to do. And we have very, very strong measures that take care of that ... the numbers are so astronomically against them ... we win that war a thousand times out of a thousand.’”
Trump also said that Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea was a long time ago (you know, wayyyyy back in 2014), and why is everyone still being so mean to Russia?
ReplyDeleteFederal judge blocks Indiana from purging voters using Kris Kobach's discredited Cross Check scam since it returns a majority of false positives on double voters.
ReplyDeleteIn other good news, a federal judge ordered EPA to show scientific evidence behind their claims that global warming is a hoax. This could get interesting.
What would not surprise me in the least is if Drumpf's favorite grope toy and her disgraced hubby Jarhead are in Singapore telling people they need to purchase Drumpf approved tickets to get into the lowest summit e3ver imagined by anyone.
Story going around Charles Krauthater has advanced nasty cancer and is on his way out.It behooves him to ask someone for forgiveness for his treatment of the Clintons during the impeachment witch hunt, imho.
Fuck white people. Fuck the white race.
ReplyDeleteDrumpf's comments after G-7 debacle channel his inner dumbass dubya Dushisms. What a fucking moron!
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Wait, what are you still doing around? I could have sworn you were sodomized with a bayonet and dragged around until chunks of you fell off on the road...
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