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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

[josh]

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[kiidcarter8]

I see the Liberal Facists at Pro Publica are soliciting ( via Twitter) photos or pictures of Brett Kavanaugh and any seatmates at any 2017 Washington Nationals game.
Their stated reasoning:

Figuring out who Kavanaugh brought to games could be relevant to his confirmation. It would help:

Understand more about his relationships and any potential questions they might raise for the Supreme Court justice.
Get a better sense of what went into this unusual amount of debt for a judge in his position.
Or maybe just affirm that the guy really does love baseball for the judicial inspiration.

Were going to need the records on his time covering up torture and his superiors’ sex crimes as well.

Full hearings lead Kavanaugh to his retirement not to a confirmation.

That would be interesting.

Then what?

[facilitatorn]

Merrick Garland or an 8 member court.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/missouri-voters-overturn-right-to-work-law-by-referendum_us_5b69b189e4b0b15abaa751fb

Missouri voters prefer unions.

Cool.

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/politics/avenatti-trump-2020-president/

heh

[whiskeypriest]

And I am sure you are one of the fairly high % that didnt know kids separated at the border from parents were fostered under Obama's 8 year run

Actions based on individualized suspicion and circumstances are not the same.thing as a broad based policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering.

And.Grump is npt.acting to keep us safe. Throwing asylum,seekers in jail,and separating families does nothing to keep us safe. He is.a bigot playing to other bigots.

[NeedsAdjustments]

A story for our times:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/politics/melissa-howard-miami-university/index.html

A conservative news outlet finds that a Republican candidate in Florida didn't graduate from a university she claims to have graduated from.

She says she did, so the conservative news outlet spikes the story.

But...The university says it has no record of her graduating, though she did attend for four years.

The candidate posts a picture of herself with her diploma, which the university then points out is an obvious forgery.

The picture is taken down.

The candidate's response to all this?  "Fake news."

Liars and con-men and con-women.

An update since I know you are all on the edge of your seats on this:

Melissa Howard, in a post since taken down, posted a message to Facebook apologizing for making the false claim, while saying that she will stay in the race.  Given the obvious deception, she really didn't have much choice, but some props for owning up for what she did.

But of course, being a Republican, she could not help lace her apology with bullshit.  "It was not my intent to deceive or mislead anyone."  It wasn't?  You disputed a truthful media story as a baseless attack coming from your opponent, you took a picture next to a fake diploma and posted fake transcripts, and called (through your spokesperson) the whole issue "fake news."  But your intent wasn't to deceive or mislead?  What, exactly, was your intent then?

Words have meaning.  Are people who use them in this way stupid, or assuming we are?

And for the record, no, she did not apologize to media outlets for calling their correctly reported story "fake news" because disparaging the media without cause has become so much the MO of Republicans its not even worth noting.

[NeedsAdjustments]

And I am sure you are one of the fairly high % that didnt know kids separated at the border from parents were fostered under Obama's 8 year run

Actions based on individualized suspicion and circumstances are not the same.thing as a broad based policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering.

And.Grump is npt.acting to keep us safe. Throwing asylum,seekers in jail,and separating families does nothing to keep us safe. He is.a bigot playing to other bigots.

kiidcarter8 has yet to explain how it is that immigration and granting of citizenship to immigrants present an existential threat to the United States.

This should go without saying, but if an opinion is so shitty that you can't say it out loud, or so without merit that you can not argue for it with facts, it should not be the basis of governing policy for the United States of America.

But our President isn't the President of the United States of America.  He is the President of False White Grievance, and the fact that he can give a shit about anyone who doesn't share those false grievances makes him a hero to today's GOP.

[barton]

An update since I know you are all on the edge of your seats on this:

Melissa Howard, in a post since taken down, posted a message to Facebook apologizing for making the false claim, while saying that she will stay in the race.  Given the obvious deception, she really didn't have much choice, but some props for owning up for what she did.

But of course, being a Republican, she could not help lace her apology with bullshit.  "It was not my intent to deceive or mislead anyone."  It wasn't?  You disputed a truthful media story as a baseless attack coming from your opponent, you took a picture next to a fake diploma and posted fake transcripts, and called (through your spokesperson) the whole issue "fake news."  But your intent wasn't to deceive or mislead?  What, exactly, was your intent then?

Words have meaning.  Are people who use them in this way stupid, or assuming we are?

And for the record, no, she did not apologize to media outlets for calling their correctly reported story "fake news" because disparaging the media without cause has become so much the MO of Republicans its not even worth noting.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people probably just dismissed that British newspaper's announcement of our being in the "Post Truth Era," as vague sociological musings and hand-wringing.  Because stories like this, and many others, are making very clear that our civilization is in deep trouble as truthfulness and integrity crumble.  What we are reaping right now is the result of public school systems that drastically reduced their emphasis on teaching basic critical thinking skills. 

[kiidcarter8]

And I am sure you are one of the fairly high % that didnt know kids separated at the border from parents were fostered under Obama's 8 year run

Actions based on individualized suspicion and circumstances are not the same.thing as a broad based policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering.

And.Grump is npt.acting to keep us safe. Throwing asylum,seekers in jail,and separating families does nothing to keep us safe. He is.a bigot playing to other bigots.

I think you and Josh are out on the limb with this

The second part you are wrong about.

Trump is what?  German?  Do you think if young immigrant Germans were committing ghastly crimes vs children in the US en masse' he would act to do anything about stopping them at the southern border?

The fact that he is acting to protect LATINO youth in this nation (by going after MS13) and you are scoffing at it makes YOU seem racist, I'd say.  Maybe you'd be more behind it if little Jane and Jessie Whitegirl had been beheaded.

No?  You don't like being labeled that way?  Exactly.

[kiidcarter8]

Needs - I am not against current immigration policy.  Immigrants CAN become citizens.  I know this first hand.

[kiidcarter8]

Kelly Anne on Strzok: 

"Was a jerk with a smirk.  Now he's just a two bit ex-FBI employee with a Twitter feed"

Ouch.

[whiskeypriest]

Trump is what?  German?  Do you think if young immigrant Germans were committing ghastly crimes vs children in the US en masse' he would act to do anything about stopping them at the southern border?

The fact that he is acting to protect LATINO youth in this nation (by going after MS13) and you are scoffing at it makes YOU seem racist, I'd say.  Maybe you'd be more behind it if little Jane and Jessie Whitegirl had been beheaded.

en masse? Nope. Not happening. That scare.tactic is the racism. Equating all immigration with MS13 is the racism.

And - protecting Latino youth be separating them from their parents at the border? Seriously? Sending them back - because this country sill eventually send them back - to the violence and danger they escaped protecting them? That's Orwellian logic.

MS13 is not an immigration problem. It is a law enforcement problem. Arresting parents and seizing minor children has nothing to do with MS13. That you and Trump argue it does is the racism.

[whiskeypriest]

Ke;;y Anne on Strzok: 

"Was a jerk with a smirk.  Now he's just a two bit ex-FBI employee with a Twitter feed"

Ouch.

A Twitter feed and a law suit.

[kiidcarter8]

Trump is what?  German?  Do you think if young immigrant Germans were committing ghastly crimes vs children in the US en masse' he would act to do anything about stopping them at the southern border?

The fact that he is acting to protect LATINO youth in this nation (by going after MS13) and you are scoffing at it makes YOU seem racist, I'd say.  Maybe you'd be more behind it if little Jane and Jessie Whitegirl had been beheaded.

en masse? Nope. Not happening. That scare.tactic is the racism. Equating all immigration with MS13 is the racism.

And - protecting Latino youth be separating them from their parents at the border? Seriously? Sending them back - because this country sill eventually send them back - to the violence and danger they escaped protecting them? That's Orwellian logic.

MS13 is not an immigration problem. It is a law enforcement problem. Arresting parents and seizing minor children has nothing to do with MS13. That you and Trump argue it does is the racism.

Kids separated at the border can stay in the US.  That is the aim of many of the parents legitimately bringing the kids in.