Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 334

Someone wrote an article about me!

https://babylonbee.com/news/social-justice-warrior-dislocates-shoulder-trying-pat-self-back/

Local progressive and self-described “brave social justice advocate” Brian Dyer often pats himself on the back after winning an online argument with “backward conservative bigots.”

But on Friday, Dyer may have gone too far, as he shot his hand down his back and began patting with such vigor that he dislocated his shoulder entirely.

“I guess I got a little carried away this time,” he told the team that responded to his tweets for help. “I often strain my muscles while giving myself a round of applause or patting myself on the back. This time though, I was particularly pleased with myself for my superior virtue signaling, and my arm moved violently to pat my back just as a natural reflex.”

One medical professional said that over 40,000 progressive activists are taken to the hospital with dislocated shoulders that occurred in an attempt to pat themselves on the back in a moment of smug superiority each year.

“It’s a very common injury among the left,” Dr. Evan Stine of Johns Hopkins told reporters. “Many hospitals in large, left-leaning metro areas are upgrading their trauma wards to handle the influx of dislocated shoulders.”

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

White privilege time.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0726-shipp-damond-20170725-story.html

In this latest incident, even without video and before any witnesses have come forward, Justine Damond’s death has already resulted in the firing of the Minneapolis police chief. There are calls for better training of police officers. When the Black Lives Matter movement has sought such responses in situations where blacks have been killed, they have often been castigated as too-racially-sensitive troublemakers.

To people who ask me why everything always comes down to race, I respond: Because it does. That has been this nation’s truth since American European colonies were established on this continent in the 17th century.

Look at what is happening with the opioid crisis. So long as black and brown people were the faces of addiction and drug-related crime, lawmakers were perfectly fine with the tough law-and-order approach. But now that white people in New England and in the Rust Belt are opioid victims, there is a sudden interest in public health solutions rather than punitive measures. To persuade reluctant senators to sign onto a stalled Trumpcare bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act, there was talk of making more money available to address the effects of opioid abuse. They could care less about addiction on Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore. It’s all about white addicts in “Red State” America.

I do not know the full story, but I find it difficult to believe they just fired the chief before having any evidence as to what occurred. I doubt they fired him before witnesses came forward.

I think you’ve missed the point, which is that the cases aren’t treated the same when it’s a black man vs. a white woman.

*sigh*

I’m serious.

I am not going to get into this with you right now. Perhaps at a later date.

No need, it will just be the same as all the other times.

TV’s Frink said:

No need, it will just be the same as all the other times.

I hope not. That is why I am waiting.

Well, here’s the story behind Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from the military, and as usual the thing that shines through is his utter incompetence.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/trump-transgender-military-ban-behind-the-scenes-240990

House lawmakers took the matter to the Trump administration. And when Defense Secretary James Mattis refused to immediately upend the policy, they went straight to the White House. Trump — never one for political correctness — was all too happy to oblige.

“[P]lease be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”

The president’s directive, of course, took the House issue a step beyond paying for gender reassignment surgery and other medical treatment. House Republicans were never debating expelling all transgender troops from the military.

"This is like someone told the White House to light a candle on the table and the WH set the whole table on fire,” said one senior House Republican aide.

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

No need, it will just be the same as all the other times.

I hope not. That is why I am waiting.

I guarantee it will, but whatever ™.

*sigh*

TV’s Frink said:

Well, here’s the story behind Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from the military, and as usual the thing that shines through is his utter incompetence.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/trump-transgender-military-ban-behind-the-scenes-240990

From that same article:

“It’s not so much the transgender surgery issue as much as we continue to let the defense bill be the mule for all of these social experiments that the left wants to try to hoist on government,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a conservative supporter of the Hartzler proposal, said last week.

He added: “It seems to me, and all due respect to everyone, that if someone wants to come to the military, potentially risk their life to save the country, that they should probably decide whether they’re a man or woman before they do that.”

It’s like they hate the people they are supposed to serve or something.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump’s call to ban transgender people from serving was a military decision, and “not meant to be anything more than that.”

dahmage said:

WRONG

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

*sigh*

It’s just that there’s two wildly incompatible viewpoints.

The truth is indeed incompatible with

dahmage said:

WRONG

™ impscum

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

*sigh*

It’s just that there’s two wildly incompatible viewpoints. Eventually somebody is going to get angry and threaten to post the middle finger.

This is how it goes every time.

I wish to do my best to avoid that next time. Again, that is why I don’t want the have this discussion now. I need distance from our last blow up.

Even if the middle finger doesn’t pop up and consume my screen completely, it will still be the same fruitless discussion.

I regret the middle finger pic, and I hope for more fruitful discussion next time.

It’s been the same for years. You don’t seem to see the unequal treatment of whites and non-whites in these situations, and I don’t know why it would be different this time.

Live vote tracker on the senate bill(s).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/us/politics/senate-votes-repeal-obamacare.html

TV’s Frink said:

It’s been the same for years. You don’t seem to see the unequal treatment of whites and non-whites in these situations, and I don’t know why it would be different this time.

Maybe it won’t be different, I don’t know. But I am going to try my best to make the next time different.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

Everyone has an opinion on this transgender/military issue, when I suspect that .01% of people actually know anything about it. I certainly don’t know anything about it. I’ve never known a transgender soldier. I don’t know how successful or unsuccessful they have been in the military compared to other enlistees. I don’t know how much they have cost the military compared to other soldiers. I don’t know how much they request medical care related to their status. I don’t know their rate of mental stability compared with other military personnel, etc. etc. Such numbers might reveal that it’s an issue, or they might reveal that it isn’t. So whereas everyone (including, I suspect, Trump) has formed and stated their final opinion with utter conviction, I prefer to wait until some informative data is made available. As it is, I think most people have made their decision already, along party or religious lines.

If there are sound logical military reasons(and not prejudice and bigotry) why Transgenders shouldn’t serve I will listen to them. But I am willing to bet that transgenders can aim and fire a rifle accurately.

I assume his rationale is that he voted yesterday to allow debate and he doesn’t approve of where the debate has taken them.

Either way, I’ll take it.

JEDIT: nvm, he voted Yes on the earlier one.

Latest bill goes down 55-45. Four R’s switch from Y to N, six switch from N to Y. I’m not even sure anyone knows what they’re voting on.