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imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

Ugh, Barron Trump should not be a target.

http://www.lifezette.com/popzette/snl-writer-bullies-donald-trumps-son/

That seems like a nice example of modern liberals; hypocrites who preach “tolerance” when things go the way they want, and intolerant, quick to insult and acting like spoiled kids when things do not go the way they want.

If I were to generalize as grossly as you do, I would say that your post was a nice example of modern conservatives. But I’m not like that.

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Crosspost from the Anime thread.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-trumps-alt-right-fans-childless-single-men-who-masturbate-to-anime/

Wilson talked to Chris Hayes about a very specific section of Trump’s fans; not his mainstream supporters, his “alt-right” fans. The ones, he explained, that have lots of “Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons.”

He went on to say, “Most of them are childless single men who masturbate to anime. They’re not real political players. These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity.”

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TV’s Frink said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

Ugh, Barron Trump should not be a target.

http://www.lifezette.com/popzette/snl-writer-bullies-donald-trumps-son/

That seems like a nice example of modern liberals; hypocrites who preach “tolerance” when things go the way they want, and intolerant, quick to insult and acting like spoiled kids when things do not go the way they want.

If I were to generalize as grossly as you do, I would say that your post was a nice example of modern conservatives. But I’m not like that.

Do not flatter modern conservatives.

真実

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TV’s Frink said:

Jetrell Fo said:

From that same article:

Interestingly, CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted in response to Rich’s original tweet: “That it even need be said is ridiculous, but mocking the 10-year-old child of a politician you loathe is odious, immoral, & self-defeating.”

I think CNN needs to give Jake Tapper a break as well as it appears he agrees with the SNL writers sentiment on homeschooled children being violent shooters when they grow up.

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I have no idea how you got there. He was condemning the original tweet by Rich.

“That it even need be said is ridiculous, but"

^This is how I got there. To me, it sounds as if he agees the homeschool suggestion is so true, that it need not be said … as in it’s obvious. Now, I’m not saying that is what he meant, it is how I perceive what he wrote. This isn’t his first rodeo and certainly would not be the first controversial thing he’s said openly.

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Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

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TV’s Frink said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

Ugh, Barron Trump should not be a target.

http://www.lifezette.com/popzette/snl-writer-bullies-donald-trumps-son/

That seems like a nice example of modern liberals; hypocrites who preach “tolerance” when things go the way they want, and intolerant, quick to insult and acting like spoiled kids when things do not go the way they want.

If I were to generalize as grossly as you do, I would say that your post was a nice example of modern conservatives. But I’m not like that.

You actually do generalize when it comes to Trump supporters so you might want to rephrase yourself, LOL.

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Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

Jetrell Fo said:

From that same article:

Interestingly, CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted in response to Rich’s original tweet: “That it even need be said is ridiculous, but mocking the 10-year-old child of a politician you loathe is odious, immoral, & self-defeating.”

I think CNN needs to give Jake Tapper a break as well as it appears he agrees with the SNL writers sentiment on homeschooled children being violent shooters when they grow up.

😦

I have no idea how you got there. He was condemning the original tweet by Rich.

“That it even need be said is ridiculous, but"

^This is how I got there. To me, it sounds as if he agees the homeschool suggestion is so true, that it need not be said … as in it’s obvious. Now, I’m not saying that is what he meant, it is how I perceive what he wrote. This isn’t his first rodeo and certainly would not be the first controversial thing he’s said openly.

No, Tapper is definitely saying “I can’t believe you need to be told this because it should be obvious, but that’s a really terrible thing to say about a child.”

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Tyrphanax said:

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Handman said:

Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.

Amazing.

I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.

How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉

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Solar energy in the US employs more people than traditional coal, gas and oil combined, a report has found, in a revelation that could undermine Donald Trump’s argument that green energy isn’t good for the economy.

The latest report from the US Department of Energy (DOE) reveals solar energy accounts for the largest proportion of employers in the Electric Power Generation sector, with wind energy the third largest, while the coal industries have declined in the past 10 years.

Solar energy employed 374,000 people over the year 2015-2016, making up 43 per cent of the sector’s workforce, while the traditional fossil fuels combined employed 187,117, making up just 22 per cent of the workforce, according to the report.

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But… muh coal jobs…

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Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.

Amazing.

I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.

How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉

I mean, that would be funnier if it wasn’t apparently the actual agenda of the current administration.

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Tyrphanax said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.

Amazing.

I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.

How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉

I mean, that would be funnier if it wasn’t apparently the actual agenda of the current administration.

I don’t know how something posted on twitter could be considered anything less than hearsay. I mean, can it actually be verified, that it is what it says it is?

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Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

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Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.

Amazing.

I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.

How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉

I mean, that would be funnier if it wasn’t apparently the actual agenda of the current administration.

I don’t know how something posted on twitter could be considered anything less than hearsay. I mean, can it actually be verified, that it is what it says it is?

Tyrphanax said:

I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.

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Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues. Besides, it never stopped Obama from using Executive Privellege to get what he wanted so I am unsure as to why it’s even a topic of dicsussion.

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Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

They don’t like things Obama did. The things he did are irrelevant, that it was him who did them is what is important.

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Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

Besides, it never stopped Obama from using Executive Privellege to get what he wanted so I am unsure as to why it’s even a topic of dicsussion.

But that is my point. Whenever Obama used executive privilege to get what he wanted, the Republicans were outraged. But now a Republican President seems to be doing the same thing.

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Warbler said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

In our democracy, yes he is.

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Warbler said:

Whenever Obama used executive privilege to get what he wanted, the Republicans were outraged. But now a Republican President seems to be doing the same thing.

There will be a ton of things that the Republicans will suddenly forget their previous positions on over the next four (or less) years. Although to be fair to them, they’re just following their leader, who, you know, used to be a Democrat.

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Warbler said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

Besides, it never stopped Obama from using Executive Privellege to get what he wanted so I am unsure as to why it’s even a topic of dicsussion.

But that is my point. Whenever Obama used executive privilege to get what he wanted, the Republicans were outraged. But now a Republican President seems to be doing the same thing.

I’m not arguing the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency, but I find a hilarious irony in the Republican outrage that Obama was basically forced to sign the executive orders he did by an uncooperative and useless Republican congress (remember when our government shut down for no reason than whiny Republicans?), but nobody’s saying anything about Trump’s non-stop executive orders since day one of his presidency.

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Reagan used to be a Democrat, though I hardly doubt Trump will be able to mobilize and reinvigorate the conservative movement the way Reagan did. Trump is a chaotic mess so far, and has zero chance at unifying the country. His actions thus far have only further divided us, and he doesn’t even care.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

In our democracy, yes he is.

technically, we are not a democracy. We are a democratic republic.

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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the vote on Trump’s education pick Betsy DeVos, hours after receiving the completed ethics review for the Michigan billionaire.

The committee vote, originally scheduled to take place Tuesday has been rescheduled for Jan. 31 at 10 a.m., according to a statement from the HELP committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). The announcement arrived after the Office of Government Ethics, an agency that examines nominees’ financial disclosures and resolves potential conflicts of interest, released its long-awaited report Friday. Alexander said he wants to give each Senator on the committee time to review the documents.

Ethics Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. had said a full vetting of extremely wealthy individuals, such as DeVos, could take weeks, if not months, much to the chagrin of Senate Democrats who wanted to review it before DeVos’s confirmation hearing, which took place Tuesday evening.

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Good. America needs an educated populace that can take the jobs that are replacing jobs lost to automation and progress, and DeVos is very likely not the one to deliver that America.

It would be nice to see some more of these ethics reports done on the rest of the insanely rich cabinet, most of which have ties to large corporations in conflict with their interests concerning the country.

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Warbler said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

As you know, it is not the Popular Vote that elects a President so I find your point a bit moot. It’s okay that you’re not happy about it but he was elected by the lawful process this nation uses to determine this.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.

and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.

It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.

It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.

That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?

In our democracy, yes he is.

technically, we are not a democracy. We are a democratic republic.

Then he is demoratic-republically elected. Regardless, he was legally elected, so the rest is all semantics.