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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26865 on: January 28, 2020, 02:32:58 PM »
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« Reply #26866 on: January 28, 2020, 03:11:12 PM »
 Trump’s legal defense essentially was to show that the two articles charged refer to crimes that are ongoing and accumulating public participants and acts in furtherance of abuse and contempt.

This is probably contributing to why the fox audience is increasingly deciding that the crooked imposter needs to be removed now he is impeached.
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Will the Supreme Court grant trump work release to attend the republican national convention?

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26867 on: January 28, 2020, 03:37:17 PM »
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 28, 2020, 03:11:12 PM
Trump’s legal defense essentially was to show that the two articles charged refer to crimes that are ongoing and accumulating public participants and acts in furtherance of abuse and contempt.

This is probably contributing to why the fox audience is increasingly deciding that the crooked imposter needs to be removed now he is impeached.


“Trump's lawyers didn't:
- deny he asked a foreign government to sabotage his political rival
- deny he withheld military aid they desperately needed and a White House meeting
- or even promise he'll stop soliciting foreign election interference, as he did with China and Russia

Trump's lawyers did:
- argue that he should be allowed to coerce foreign election interference
- bizarrely claim Trump couldn't even be impeached if he gave Alaska to Russia
- get Senators to threaten to commit the election interference that he failed to get Ukraine to commit”

— Walter Shaub
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26868 on: January 28, 2020, 03:43:24 PM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26869 on: January 28, 2020, 03:57:26 PM »
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 28, 2020, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: barton on January 28, 2020, 01:02:15 PM
Quote from: luee on January 28, 2020, 12:46:19 PM


Too many American citizens are fighting for homes, jobs, and social programs. Mainly veterans and the elderly.


The elderly are fighting for jobs?  Tell me more.  I assume all these old folks are out there, doing battle with immigrants for positions on roofing crews, construction crews, meatpacking plants, backbreaking agrarian fieldwork, and so on.  We need citations here, so that we can share your concern and fire up our Outrage Machines!  Let grandpa nail down those shingles and pick those strawberries, godammit!
Remember the good old days when the right used to argue they were not racist or.xenophobic? "We are only against ILLEGAL immigrants! We support legal immigration!"

It was bull shit then. I am glad they have dropped the pretext.

No BS.
Good policy.

Which countries are the "poor and huddled masses" from overpopulated etc countries rushing to move to?
Answer; "White majority" countries.
Why?  no degree from Harvard needed for this one either.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26870 on: January 28, 2020, 04:08:03 PM »
The argument from the good old days was always too complicated for Bambu.

He can’t even digest the nibblets of bullshit he gets babybirded by his #1 radio host.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26871 on: January 28, 2020, 04:25:40 PM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26872 on: January 28, 2020, 04:33:28 PM »
Quote from: luee on January 28, 2020, 01:23:44 PM
Elderly are fighting ... sometimes low paying part-time jobs.

What country are you talking about?

We have tons of low paying part-time jobs with employers begging to get them filled (but not so much that they are significantly raising wages).
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26873 on: January 28, 2020, 04:36:08 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/joni-ernst-joe-biden-senate-impeachment-trial/index.html

The attacks on Biden are about the election.

Even the GOP is admitting it, now.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26874 on: January 28, 2020, 04:50:42 PM »
Kinsley Gaffe.   They are often nice little gifts in your stocking.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26875 on: January 28, 2020, 05:04:00 PM »
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 28, 2020, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: barton on January 28, 2020, 01:02:15 PM
Quote from: luee on January 28, 2020, 12:46:19 PM


Too many American citizens are fighting for homes, jobs, and social programs. Mainly veterans and the elderly.


The elderly are fighting for jobs?  Tell me more.  I assume all these old folks are out there, doing battle with immigrants for positions on roofing crews, construction crews, meatpacking plants, backbreaking agrarian fieldwork, and so on.  We need citations here, so that we can share your concern and fire up our Outrage Machines!  Let grandpa nail down those shingles and pick those strawberries, godammit!
Remember the good old days when the right used to argue they were not racist or.xenophobic? "We are only against ILLEGAL immigrants! We support legal immigration!"

It was bull shit then. I am glad they have dropped the pretext.

Yep,  it was bullshit when Sen. George Murphy (immortalized in a Tom Lehrer song)  was slurring Braceros back in the early sixties.  Let them in for picking season,  then make sure you send them back!   
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26876 on: January 28, 2020, 05:33:08 PM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26877 on: January 28, 2020, 05:33:41 PM »
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 28, 2020, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: barton on January 28, 2020, 01:02:15 PM
Quote from: luee on January 28, 2020, 12:46:19 PM


Too many American citizens are fighting for homes, jobs, and social programs. Mainly veterans and the elderly.


The elderly are fighting for jobs?  Tell me more.  I assume all these old folks are out there, doing battle with immigrants for positions on roofing crews, construction crews, meatpacking plants, backbreaking agrarian fieldwork, and so on.  We need citations here, so that we can share your concern and fire up our Outrage Machines!  Let grandpa nail down those shingles and pick those strawberries, godammit!
Remember the good old days when the right used to argue they were not racist or.xenophobic? "We are only against ILLEGAL immigrants! We support legal immigration!"

It was bull shit then. I am glad they have dropped the pretext.

Xenophobic to me is hijacking an airliner and suicide flying it into a landmark building. The US already is the most diverse nation in the history of the world and very modern. You want primitive and xenophobic go to central America or the middle East. So much self-loathing!
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26878 on: January 28, 2020, 07:10:51 PM »
Quote from: barton on January 28, 2020, 05:04:00 PM
Quote from: Hairy Lime on January 28, 2020, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: barton on January 28, 2020, 01:02:15 PM
Quote from: luee on January 28, 2020, 12:46:19 PM


Too many American citizens are fighting for homes, jobs, and social programs. Mainly veterans and the elderly.


The elderly are fighting for jobs?  Tell me more.  I assume all these old folks are out there, doing battle with immigrants for positions on roofing crews, construction crews, meatpacking plants, backbreaking agrarian fieldwork, and so on.  We need citations here, so that we can share your concern and fire up our Outrage Machines!  Let grandpa nail down those shingles and pick those strawberries, godammit!
Remember the good old days when the right used to argue they were not racist or.xenophobic? "We are only against ILLEGAL immigrants! We support legal immigration!"

It was bull shit then. I am glad they have dropped the pretext.

Yep,  it was bullshit when Sen. George Murphy (immortalized in a Tom Lehrer song)  was slurring Braceros back in the early sixties.  Let them in for picking season,  then make sure you send them back!

It's called …"work visas".     
And … "legal and orderly immigration system."
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #26879 on: January 28, 2020, 07:17:59 PM »
Quote from: facilitatorn on January 28, 2020, 04:08:03 PM
The argument from the good old days was always too complicated for Bambu.

He can’t even digest the nibblets of bullshit he gets babybirded by his #1 radio host.

No 1 radio host is great.
Today he told us that;

" Eucalypts are incinerators from hell dressed up as trees".

Which is 100% correct.

They're in CA.
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