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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

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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.

[kiidcarter8]

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.

heh

Usually I say YES to that type drama. This one isnt worth my time

Like Hilary,  applaud him for his years of service.  Now he's (like Hilary) a discard.

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Needs - I am not against current immigration policy.

Demonstrably false.  You don't support Trump's effort to end chain migration?  Reduction of legal immigration?  The wall? 

Immigrants CAN become citizens.  I know this first hand.

You posted a tweet about the Trump Administrations reduction in granting green cards and applauded it as an effort to "save" the country.

Can you explain that?

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Catholic priests committing ghastly crimes vs children in the US en masse'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/08/14/pennsylvania-grand-jury-report-on-sex-abuse-in-catholic-church-will-list-hundreds-of-accused-predator-priests/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5e3cad8beed0

Trump should act to do anything about stopping them.  A Catholic Ban at least, would be our POTUS just being cautious-for the good of the nation.

[barton]

A palpable hit,  sir.   

[REDSTATEWARD]

Source:
https://www.adl.org/heat-map

Perhaps in your neverending search for extremism you could pass along any relevant leads to the Alt-Right.  It couldn’t fill a 30 passenger bus in D.C. last weekend.

[josh]

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.

Then she took the apology down - and her campaign website is offline.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/melissa-howard-miami-university-apology/index.html

[josh]

Source:
https://www.adl.org/heat-map

Perhaps in your neverending search for extremism you could pass along any relevant leads to the Alt-Right.  It couldn’t fill a 30 passenger bus in D.C. last weekend.

Yup! Noticed that, did you?

It wasn't because they don't exist, but because after watching their fellows get outed and fired, they are scared to show their faces.

Shocking, I know.

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Perhaps in your neverending search for extremism you could pass along any relevant leads to the Alt-Right.  It couldn’t fill a 30 passenger bus in D.C. last weekend.

For that credit the opposition and response to the march in Charlottesville:

Sunday’s sparse turnout on the streets of Washington says little about the country’s current levels of intolerance, bigotry and xenophobia. Hate crimes in the 10 largest American cities were up last year, and fearmongering talk of “massive demographic changes” has made its way into the mainstream. But it does say something about the disarray within a movement that last August had a disquietingly large turnout at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

“It was a dead-enders event from the get-go, meaning that Charlottesville a year ago had an intention and agenda, and both failed,” said Lawrence Rosenthal, chairman of the Berkeley Center For Right-Wing Studies. “And the coalition that came together to put it together dissolved.”

The view from those inside the movement is not that different. “Now, we are facing so much pushback that people are not in the mood to celebrate,” said Richard B. Spencer, the white nationalist and prominent alt-right figure, who declined to attend Sunday’s event. “And I’m not going to do something demoralizing.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/us/charlottesville-unite-the-right-white-supremacists.html

Include in that push back the Republicans who made clear (for that moment) that their party had no place for white supremacists and its associated movements.

You can not include, unfortunately, the President of the United States.

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...But if REDSTATEWARD's argument is that the paltry turnout in DC proves that the prominence of the alt-Right in conservative politics is a liberal straw man, he needs to take a closer look at his party's slate of 2018 candidates.

[REDSTATEWARD]

...But if REDSTATEWARD's argument is that the paltry turnout in DC proves that the prominence of the alt-Right in conservative politics is a liberal straw man, he needs to take a closer look at his party's slate of 2018 candidates.

You planning on riding a non-existent wave of ersatz racism and impeachment talk to a takeover of the House?
How soon you forget the disaster of the “deplorables”strategy. 

[NeedsAdjustments]

...But if REDSTATEWARD's argument is that the paltry turnout in DC proves that the prominence of the alt-Right in conservative politics is a liberal straw man, he needs to take a closer look at his party's slate of 2018 candidates.

You planning on riding a non-existent wave of ersatz racism and impeachment talk to a takeover of the House?
How soon you forget the disaster of the “deplorables”strategy.

I'm not running for the House.  But the Democratic candidates are running against the Trump Tax Cuts.  And its working.

And yes, also running as a check on the most corrupt administration in our history after Republicans have made clear that they have no plans on fulfilling their constitutional responsibility in that regard will certainly help too.

[facilitatorn]

With presidential popularity toilet bowling into the mid-thirties, steadily falling real wages even prior to the shock of health care sabotage, an insecure White House in every sense of the word, Harley Davidson being driven from our shores by trump to be replaced by FoxCon, the campaign against deplorably bad government works because it’s true. It doesn’t matter wether you deplore the incompetence, the corruption, or the racism, and other callous choices and brute discrimination, or if you just deplore the ceaseless clumsy lies.

[Yankguy1]

...But if REDSTATEWARD's argument is that the paltry turnout in DC proves that the prominence of the alt-Right in conservative politics is a liberal straw man, he needs to take a closer look at his party's slate of 2018 candidates.

You planning on riding a non-existent wave of ersatz racism and impeachment talk to a takeover of the House?
How soon you forget the disaster of the “deplorables”strategy.

ERSATZ!!!!!!

[REDSTATEWARD]

...But if REDSTATEWARD's argument is that the paltry turnout in DC proves that the prominence of the alt-Right in conservative politics is a liberal straw man, he needs to take a closer look at his party's slate of 2018 candidates.

You planning on riding a non-existent wave of ersatz racism and impeachment talk to a takeover of the House?
How soon you forget the disaster of the “deplorables”strategy.

I'm not running for the House.  But the Democratic candidates are running against the Trump Tax Cuts.  And its working.

No it’s not. Even if the dems take the House they can’t roll back the tax cuts. But go ahead and use it as a campaign strategy. You will only cause dems to stay home while inspiring greater turnout by the GOP.

And yes, also running as a check on the most corrupt administration in our history after Republicans have made clear that they have no plans on fulfilling their constitutional responsibility in that regard will certainly help too.

Constitutional responsibility?
Over the last decade voters have used their Constitutional voting responsibility to put the GOP in power at the Federal Level and in a majority of states.