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Yes, Republicans used their only African-American senator, Time Scott, to speak for Jeff Sessions. No big surprise that he is supporting his party.

Saying that Corretta Scott King was thanking Jeff Sessions for the Rosa Parks Library is rather misleading. She was just acknowledging his presence. There was no thank you in the speech to Jeff Sessions. He was just acknowledged as being there along with all the other notable people in attendance. She was given a list of names to read for the opening of the library; his name was on the list. If you actually watch the video she has to pause and force herself to even read the name and she does not look happy about it.

Jeff Sessions was not liked by Coretta Scott King, you can read her letter for yourself:

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Sean Spicer said “I can only hope that if she was still with us today, that after getting to know him and to see his record and his commitment to voting and civil rights, that she would” regret her opposition. In some right wing news this is being used as a claim that if Coretta Scott King were alive today she would support Jeff Sessions; that is another alternative fact being put out by the right.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Jeff Sessions has a 20% voting record on civil-rights according to the ACLU, which are some of the major issues it is now his job to protect. He has a 7% voting record for African-American issues according to the NAACP. Jeff Sessions has called the NAACP, the ACLU, and other civil rights groups "un-American."

http://www.ontheissues.org/Dom...

Jeff Sessions allegedly told a black attorney that the Ku Klux Klan was "OK until I found out they smoked pot." Sessions used to call a black assistant U.S. attorney that worked for him, Thomas Figures, "boy." When asked about the comment "Sessions apologized and said the remark was a joke." Personally, I don't accept the excuse every time a politician is caught making a racist statement that they were just making a joke and telling an African-American that you think the KKK is OK isn't very funny.

Jeff Sessions believes government services should only be available in English even though the US has no official language.

Jeff Sessions refused to support the removal of a racist judge who said black people "don't want to work" and that affirmative action is repugnant. Sessions said that the judge was "insensitive at worst."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

http://fortune.com/2016/11/19/...

The digital divide in the US became most evident (to me) in this last election cycle.

If you look at the page weights of 'conservative' vs 'liberal' news sites the former are much smaller and tailored to people on even a dial up, in large part because they know their demographic. Rural internet in the US flat out sucks. We have counties in my state, not more than 3 hours outside of Chicago that still have dialup as a viable option.

Drudge Report loads amazingly fast. Huffington Post does not. Drudge was 1.13 MB in size with 44% of that images. (The site I used to analyze them was done with Drudge's 14 assets long before Huffington Post stalled at 220/222 assets.)

The art of optimization seems to have disappeared, it made a small resurgence when web developers tried to optimize for the mobile web, but it doesn't look like most developers ever tried that hard.

It's a closed feedback loop. Developers live in places with fast Internet, test in places with fast Internet and then don't understand what it's like anywhere else. Students on college campuses live with gigabit internet and Internet2 connections to peer universities. They move to cities that Comcast pays attention to.

The best suggestion I have: Turn off images, configure the browser not to thread connections, and get involved in local government to get faster internet to your area.

He flirts and hits on 10-15 year old girls regularly (often enough that there are multiple tapes of him doing it). He liked walked in on underage teenage girls naked changing and bragged about being the only man allowed to do it on the Howard Stern show. He had his staff try to encourage the underage teenage girls that were naked to flirt with him saying they were more likely to win the contests if they did. He talked about wanting to sleep with teenage girls on the Howard Stern show. In my opinion, that makes him a pedophile.

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I don't recognise the website, but I leave you to investigate

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Not RT accused directly but

http://www.businessinsider.com...

A reminder about the lies at the time of the invasion of the Crimea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

And finally

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10...

God doesn't care about that fucking shit.

S/he didn't care about this fucking shit.

About the Photo of the Dead Boy on the Beach

#priorities

Don't they load Beats with weights so they feel heavy and 'substantial'?

Haha yup they do...

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Small wonder they object -- the open secret in the tech industry is that they're using H-1Bs to generate a slave caste in the tech industry.

It's not just about the lower wages. It's also about the fact that these employees aren't allowed to quit.

Trump has openly said he will be going after H-1B abuse, and any restrictions in travel means they can't find some bright but desperate young adults from Europe and abuse the hell out of them. Turns out there's a bit of swamp in Silicon Valley, too.

Mothers have been telling daughters that forever (apparently). Around the 1980s the press decided they could get a lot more people paying attention and get more lovely ad revenue if they hyped things up as an "epidemic of crime".

I don't disagree with you, but it isn't that simple. In my workplace - a University setting, in the early 80's, we had our first sexual harassment meetings. There was no press or advertisement involved. But it gave a sneak preview of the future.

We were told first and foremost that "anything a woman considers to be sexual harassment by definition - is sexual harassment. We were told that if we even complimented a woman on her appearance, we were skating on very thin ice, and could be "charged". It did not take long to come to the conclusion that the harassment program was being run by people who hated males, and hated them with a passion.

The results? An incredibly toxic atmosphere, where men avoided the women unless there was no way of getting out of an interaction with them, and in most cases, a witness was present, and interaction was terse. The sad part was the creeps who were harassing women? Didn't change a thing on their part. They were known to be creeps before this started, and remained creeps. So the program was an abject failure. It was like a dress rehearsal for MGTOW.

This went on for several years, until women had about enough of that crap. Most women didn't have a problem with a guy telling her he liked her new earrings or haitstyle or that her dress was cute. But it is so difficult to force men to interact in a friendly manner with women if that friendly manner can destroy their career. So we started all over with more realistic guidlines. It helped, but a lot of the people who were there during the cold war were still way reserved around females.

So instead of going to already adult males, the misandry project moved into the schools and families, catching them at an early age. And they succeeded - sort of.

Humans, left or right wing, liberal or conservative, can be easily manipulated by pointing out to them what they should hate. With hate being a core competency of humans, they will assimilate and pick up the cause pretty quickly.

Gay's, Christians, Muslims, Gun owners, people who do not own guns, nerds, hipsters, women, and men. It's a big list though - so many things to hate. And so hard for most to break out of what they have been inculcated their whole lives.

The problem of course is that even though we males are all rapists and pedophiles, parthenogenesis has not been perfected. And avoiding women is hard to make into a crime.

Manspreading” is essentially part of rape culture."

Idiots writing shit to sell magazines will write shit. Don't tell me you also thought those horoscopes in those magazines were real?

You are taking what I gave as an example, and trying to make it look like I am saying all women think this way. Don't do that. Some placed have even enacted laws to prevent manspreading - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... which even huffpo disagrees with. But how do you think the whole thing got started? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think it's a deeper problem and not a new one - most of America just seems to be scared of sex yet despite being the land of sleaze.

I think it is more like the consequenses.

Maybe go on a holiday somewhere to a place where bare boobs on a beach are common and women breastfeeding in public is just normal. Maybe if the silicon valley kids did that they wouldn't be so damned uptight when they get home.

As I noted in another posting, I suspect that the increase in males getting counseling is probably friendzone guys. That's

Give me falsifiable but true evidence of Soros doing any of this. There have been documented paper trails of the Koch brothers, along with other right-leaning mill/billionaires dumping money into conservative agendas. Is that bad? No, he's free to put money to causes he believes in.

What's bad is the video of that Republican woman on camera caught trying to hire people to disrupt Trump's inauguration. There has been no such evidence of George Soros being involved in anything I've heard people claim but there has been some evidence of Republicans hiring people to disrupt Republican events so they can blame Democrats.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Believe HuffPo is fake news? Feel free, but it's hard to refute a video.

Do you want import their "uncivilized" culture with fast-track green cards? https://qz.com/889524/the-us-s... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Reality is countries who letting these refugees in are finding out the hard way how incompatible the cultures are, and some people are paying for it with their lives.

The residents of the countries on that list have performed 0 terror attacks on US soil since 1975. And the source for this is not some 'libtard' site bit the conservative as Cato institute:

Foreigners from those seven nations have killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and the end of 2015. Six Iranians, six Sudanese, two Somalis, two Iraqis, and one Yemini have been convicted of attempting or carrying out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Zero Libyans or Syrians have been convicted of planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil during that time period. - -

In addition to the visa restrictions above, Trump’s executive order further cuts the refugee program to 50,000 annually, indefinitely blocks all refugees from Syria, and suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days. This is a response to a phantom menace. From 1975 to the end of 2015, 20 refugees have been convicted of attempting or committing terrorism on U.S. soil, and only three Americans have been killed in attacks committed by refugees—all in the 1970s. Zero Americans have been killed by Syrian refugees in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The annual chance of an American dying in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee is one in 3.6 billion. The other 17 convictions have mainly been for aiding or attempting to join foreign terrorists.

President Trump tweeted earlier this week that executive orders were intended to improve national security by reducing the terrorist threat. However, a rational evaluation of national security threats is not the basis for Trump’s orders, as the risk is fairly small but the cost is great. The measures taken here will have virtually no effect on improving U.S. national security.

Meanwhile, Saudi-arabia is the largest propagator of Wahabbism which is both the state religion of the kingdom and also at the core of ISIS ideology. Saudis are also largely behind the funding of ISIS. 15 of the 911 attackers were Saudi nationals, 2 were from United Arab Emirates, 1 was Lebanese, and one was from Egypt, But is Saudi-Arabia on the list? Nope. And neither are Egypt or Lebanon. They're still considered your 'allies'. In fact Saudis themselves seem 'very optimistic about Trump.'

So he's planning to combat radical Islam by maintaining military and financial support to its largest state sponsor in the world, while banning a list of countries that have done the US zero harm comparatively? So what, exactly is this 'fixing' outside playing right into the hands of your enemies by allowing them to trump up the rhetoric of 'holy war' and senseless persecution of muslims in an attempt to radicalize the american muslim population?

Nothing. You're being played like a cheap fiddle. The ISIS commanders are laughing their beards off and Sun Tzu is rolling in his grave because of such utter strategic incompetence.

Is not building roads/bridges/tunnels something, only a government can do? Crazy Libertarians may disagree, but we know, they are wacko...

No, it's something that the private sector will not do adequately, not something the private sector will not do at all.

Left to the private sector we'd get roads that are operated like ISPs or cable companies.

Is not building roads/bridges/tunnels something, only a government can do? Crazy Libertarians may disagree, but we know, they are wacko...

Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.

Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to
make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc
having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.

No it's not. It raising the alarm over alarming actions. It's the same thing thing that happened to some other guy. It's the same thing that yet some other guy did many many times.

when you think the press is critical of you, and not the other guy, you're just biased. when you complain and criticize almost non-stop, then call it unfair when other people criticize and complain about you, you're just a fucking cry-baby.

Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.

Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to
make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc
having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.

No it's not. It raising the alarm over alarming actions. It's the same thing thing that happened to some other guy. It's the same thing that yet some other guy did many many times.

when you think the press is critical of you, and not the other guy, you're just biased. when you complain and criticize almost non-stop, then call it unfair when other people criticize and complain about you, you're just a fucking cry-baby.

That's not how pathological liars work. They absolutely know they're lying. But they assume everyone else is lying, too, and it's okay to lie to a liar. Gotta fool them before they fool you, right?

I don't think that describes Trump, though. What he mainly does is exaggerate, or a variation of Cunningham's Law. He says things that are imprecise, but in the direction of truth that otherwise the media would never report.

Oh my, Trumpeteer's are getting so desperate, they try to ascribe a genius to his actions.

Too bad you've just said that Trump is so maliciously dishonest that instead of speaking the plain truth, he acts surreptitiously just to manipulate people.

That is not a point in his favor. Either way you lose.

Example, Trump wants people to know "employment numbers are bad." Obama/Hillary says 5%. Trump throws out any random high number (42%, whatever) and then everyone "proves" Trump wrong by saying "well yeah the 5% number is bullshit so maybe it's really like 15% or 20% when you start factoring in underemployed..." etc etc. Okay, great, Trump had a number wrong, but at least he recognizes the problem. Most importantly, the voters who are struggling to find work are now very aware that Trump is aware of their employment problems. They don't really give a shit about the exact number, because the only number they care about is the number of jobs they have. Obama and Hillary also both have wrong numbers, and are wrong about the existence of the problem.

If Obama and Hillary did the same thing, you'd accuse them of populist politics and promising to put a chicken in every pot and you know it.

Same thing with Mexican rapists. If he just said "some illegal immigrants are criminals" he would be ignored. So he said Mexico is sending rapists, and then the media has to start arguing over just how many Mexicans are rapists. Fun(?) fact, 80% of central American women and girls are raped during their illegal border crossing. So, as Trump said, "well, somebody's doing the raping." Voters are then more concerned with stopping the rapes rather than nitpicking over the number of rapists.

Except Trump shows no interest that he cares about those rapes, about any sexual abuse at all,.and will make no suggestions or effort to deal with those problems.

In fact, his supporters went out of the way to castigate California for ceasing to prosecute the victims of forced prostitution in their state in order to focus on actually helping them, because...well, it sounded better.

Sorry Meta-monkey, your con-game requires ignorance to work, and that ain't the case.

That's not how pathological liars work. They absolutely know they're lying. But they assume everyone else is lying, too, and it's okay to lie to a liar. Gotta fool them before they fool you, right?

I don't think that describes Trump, though. What he mainly does is exaggerate, or a variation of Cunningham's Law. He says things that are imprecise, but in the direction of truth that otherwise the media would never report. Example, Trump wants people to know "employment numbers are bad." Obama/Hillary says 5%. Trump throws out any random high number (42%, whatever) and then everyone "proves" Trump wrong by saying "well yeah the 5% number is bullshit so maybe it's really like 15% or 20% when you start factoring in underemployed..." etc etc. Okay, great, Trump had a number wrong, but at least he recognizes the problem. Most importantly, the voters who are struggling to find work are now very aware that Trump is aware of their employment problems. They don't really give a shit about the exact number, because the only number they care about is the number of jobs they have. Obama and Hillary also both have wrong numbers, and are wrong about the existence of the problem. If Trump gave the 15% or 20% number himself everyone would just ignore it.

Same thing with Mexican rapists. If he just said "some illegal immigrants are criminals" he would be ignored. So he said Mexico is sending rapists, and then the media has to start arguing over just how many Mexicans are rapists. Fun(?) fact, 80% of central American women and girls are raped during their illegal border crossing. So, as Trump said, "well, somebody's doing the raping." Voters are then more concerned with stopping the rapes rather than nitpicking over the number of rapists.

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One major emphasis of the TPP was expanding US copyright and patent "protection" internationally, provisions which large-corporate globalists desperately wanted. All sorts of copyright terms would be extended, generic drugs would be more expensive and harder to get. Go ahead and support Hollywood and Big Pharma now that Trump was the one to kill it. Had Clinton or Sanders been the newly elected president to kill it, we would be hearing from a different set of critics.

Dude, you are a moron, try this nice liberal publication to see that wages are flat while the cost to do basic important things like go to college has doubled since 1987. Wages may have had a little bump last year, but guess what so did the cost of health care, college, property taxes, insurance etc....

Look at the pretty graph.

The kids today are getting totally screwed. No pensions, crappy high-fee 401Ks, crappy insurance, crushing college debt, and are stuck in a service economy because their parents generation free-traded all the manufacturing jobs away allowing new-economy jobs to be offshored and/or replaced with H1-B's.

I realize we can never go back, but your one year of statistics is meaningless over the long term trend.

Please someone mod this parent into the basement.

Dude, you are a moron, try this nice liberal publication to see that wages are flat while the cost to do basic important things like go to college has doubled since 1987. Wages may have had a little bump last year, but guess what so did the cost of health care, college, property taxes, insurance etc....

Look at the pretty graph.

The kids today are getting totally screwed. No pensions, crappy high-fee 401Ks, crappy insurance, crushing college debt, and are stuck in a service economy because their parents generation free-traded all the manufacturing jobs away allowing new-economy jobs to be offshored and/or replaced with H1-B's.

I realize we can never go back, but your one year of statistics is meaningless over the long term trend.

Please someone mod this parent into the basement.

You are a fucking idiot. The problem is people like you who have no fucking clue about reality, but seem to think your worthless fucked in the head opinion means something. The problem with the right is their base is the most gullible, uneducated, self serving, anti-American, anti-Christian pieces of shit around.... and their politicians are all lying sacks of shit.

Here's a good example of my point. This post adds nothing to the conversation, it's simply a leftist vomiting insults at the other side.

Look, I want there to be competition among politicians. I want the left and the right to compete against each other for best policies, best governance, and best leadership.

I'm an independent, so I'm free to vote for whichever side I want in any election. The left has several positions I agree with, such as abortion rights for women, universal health care, and social safety net (and others).

I'd really *really* like to support your side, and have sided with these issues in the past, but your group is just so toxic right now that no one wants to have anything to do with you.

A recent poll showed that about 5% of Trump voters regret voting for him, but almost twice as many (9%) Clinton voters now regret voting for her(*).

Your group is protesting the outcome of fair elections that you participated in, it's whining and cursing about unfair rules that everyone agreed to. Your group is breaking windows, smashing cars, and lighting things on fire. And because of it, people are regretting having supported you.

You lefties just don't get it. You could get your way by earning respect, being smarter and better than your opponents.

You don't look to yourselves as a way to succeed, your only action is to make other people look worse.

(*) Which, BTW, erases and reverses the popular vote that Clinton won.

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WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.

The event — which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured — serves as the prologue of Robert Draper’s much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.”

According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) — who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.

For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama’s legislative platform.

“If you act like you’re the minority, you’re going to stay in the minority,” Draper quotes McCarthy as saying. “We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”= = =

Especially considering he didn't start *any* wars

Dafuk? What do you call Libya and Syria, just for starters? He also joined the Saudi's in bombing Yemen. Hell, at least Bush got authorization for his war against Iraq - Obama just ignored Congress completely and bombed the country for months. Something his own vice president threatened Bush with impeachment if he had done the same thing with Iran.

From this article:

The OK

Turns out making a circle with your index finger and thumb is not OK in certain countries. In France, for example, it means “zero” or “worthless.” In Venezuela, Turkey, and Brazil, it’s a vulgar slang that will offend pretty much anyone you flash it at.

I believe that vulgar slang is 'you're an asshole'. The new logo was already cringe worthy, but this just adds a new dimension to just how terrible it is. In all those meetings, how could noone realize how culturally insensitive this is?

On the other hand, perhaps a member on the team is French and is trying to send us a message...

Considering the US has the highest recidivism rate, around 76%, in the world, the EU countries by definition are doing better. Norway, as an example, has the lowest recidivism rate, around 20%, in the world.

Hey! We pour the most money into our prison system, so it must be the best.

Sad to say, the get tough on crime crowd in conjunction with the war on drugs, has turned the US Prison system into insanity. Then there is the aspect of money, which in some cases gets you three months for sexual assault rape, http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/02/... versus getting 50 years for stealing a rack of ribs. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And yet, the people who think that what amounts to a life sentence for stealing food is a fine idea, almost universally don't want to pay for that incarceration.

We're Kookoo for Cocoa-Puffs some times.

You're running that Obamabot crap up the wrong flagpole, son. This is the same president that can out-conservative Reagan any day of the weak. Reagan publicly stated - repeatedly - that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Yet Obama appointed his Catfood Commission (because the only thing seniors could afford to eat after it was cat food) to reduce the deficit centered around those who want to cut Social Security.

Reagan granted amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants.
Obama deported them in record numbers.
Reagan withdrew from Lebanon.
Obama arranged to continue Afghanistan occupation until after his predecessor's predecessor.
Reagan signed arms reduction treaties with the USSR.
Obama started a trillion dollar upgrade program of America's nuclear arsenal.
Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of those who commit torture.
Obama immunized officials from torture and other crimes against humanity.
Obama started a war without Congressional authorization
Obama repealed habeas corpus with an NDAA
Obama wanted to re-legalize whaling when there isn't even a whaling industry to pander to

I could go on all day, Obamabot. You might want to put the shovel down now.

Obama is a hard core neoliberal neocon freakshow. This is the guy that bombed more countries than Bush, make the Patriot Act look like the Magna Carta by repealing Habeas Corpus with an NDAA, and started a war in Libya without Congressional authorization. Which his own VP said he would have supported Bush's impeachment if he had done the same thing with Iran.

For not being progressive, well, here you go.

You mean after he tortured Manning for a year with solitary confinement, and committed unlawful command influence by declaring Manning guilty before a conviction - and promoted the judge during the trial. But now, after seven years in prison, with consistent humiliation (and a little torture mixed in) is he not merciful?

If Clinton had won, you would be fighting in Trump's revolutionary army and decrying the continued Democratic tyranny. Which ok, would amount to you trolling on the Internet some more, so no, we would be having this discussion, and you'd be doing the same things as you are now.

Funny. Because that sure didn't happen when Obama won, but the left were right there back when Bush Jr., was elected for a second term screaming that they should violently oppose him.

Nope, it's confirmed that there were internet trolls then. Some continue to this day.

2012 also had plenty. Including a special one you may know.

And gee, look again...it's the left doing exactly the same thing.

Yes, yes, pity you, because the Left surely is the one making you the victim, you internet troll you. Poor you. Why do you lie? Do you think everybody else is too dumb to spot your bullshit?

When Trump himself jumped into it with vigor, that's a losing game.

But oh boy, let's look at Obama's decisions shall we? A head of the DoJ that refuses to enforce immigration law, and is now in the running to defend criminal illegals. Very progressive, much law and order!

Even Donald Trump admitted that Obama had deported millions. Strangely he had no problem lying about it otherwise. Just like you.

Couldn't Trump find a non-racist attorney general candidate? Couldn't Trump find a candidate for secretary of state who knew what a war crime was? Couldn't Trump find a way to not create more conflicts of interest?

You mean the joke? Did you actually read/watch what he said. I guess not, that's what happens when you let the media lie to you. Yep, he's so racist he's prosecuted KKK members.

Oh goodness, he's not so stupid he can claim that the KKK is a perfectly normal civil organization. But he's stupid enough to crack jokes about them. Well, that's not a point in his favor, nor is his position on marijuana, which remains opposed to legalization. Nor the failure to list his failed judicial nomination. Or the other things he mysteriously left out.

But I guess it's too bad there's plenty of other things to know about Jeff Sessions.

Really, couldn't Trump find ANYBODY else?

Now, let's move on to that "war crime" bit. Smart move. You know why?

Because you aren't thinking, and believe being stupid enough not to condemn actual war crimes because of some carefully inculcated desire to be legally scot-free equivocator is a good thing?

It's dumb. Dumb-ass stupid shit that would get you worked up into a frenzy if it were the other side saying it, but when it's yours, well, you just think it's the greatest thing ever.

Because if he didn't answer the way he did, he would have let every nut with an axe to grind go after the government.

They already do. What's your point? That we should keep doing the things that are fucking dumb?

Starting right at the top with the previous Obama ad

LOL!

"Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Will the Theranos suit divert resources that are used to enforce important public safety laws, such as:

In Arizona it is illegal to have more than 2 dildos in a house.

8 Photos That Prove Some Laws Should Have Never Been Written
Big Government. Small Brains. Dumb Laws.
10 Arizona "Dumb Laws" That Are Complete Horse S**t

And you should also admit that Trump is largely the source of the "hire local" climate, he's caused companies to rethink their outsourcing plans, especially in light of the alternative candidate who said explicitly that she wants completely open borders for job seekers.

Nope. That's been something proclaimed for YEARS. It's been a scam.

So is Trump's "Carrier deal" and "Ford and he lied about "Boeing too.

Durp, durp, durp. You lie about Hillary Clinton as well. Just like Your Orange God

Who also made up a story about bidding on drugs. LOL. Yeah, let's see him change the Republican's opposition to the reform proposed by Democrats for decades. He'll either come up with a way to screw us, or fail and claim he somehow saved us anyway.

But none of that matters. I don't think many people really care who takes the credit.

Is it important to you?

Help me out here.

Why should credit even matter?

Ask your good buddy, Donald J. Trump, who puts his name on everything.

Sorry, but some of us know that Donald only wants CREDIT for success, he doesn't even care if the job gets done.

Maybe you like his over-the-top bombastic style of self-aggrandizement, maybe you think his much vaunted narcissism is a matter of virtue, but you're the one who has to look at what you've embraced.

With open eyes. He's already said he likes being liked. He can't see a problem in that. He'll be a suck-up to anybody who offers him praise.

And if you dare to criticize or challenge him, he'll throw a tantrum.

It never ceases to amaze me how prevalent and commonly accepted are UFOs in the Chilean collective psyche. You can even do a general search in the news for UFO-related articles and come back with a bunch (in Spanish). In virtually all cases, the generally accepted belief is that they have an extraterrestrial origin.

An overwhelming 85% of Chileans believe in the phenomenon, compared to a 48% of Americans, and the topic can easily come up in any colloquial conversation among regular people as something totally accepted.

Coincidentally, Chile is also fertile ground for "spiritual movements" that very regularly include UFO elements. As a Chilean myself, and as someone who was attracted to those movements in my 20s, I struggle to come up with a clear explanation of why Chile in particular seems to be so captivated by beliefs in the supernatural. Michael Shermer does a good job explaining generically why people believe weird things, but doesn't explain why certain specific cultures or countries seem to be more susceptible than others.

I, for one, believe the reason is the lack of formal teaching of Critical Thinking as a subject, throughout the school curriculum. In the US, critical thinking is virtually part of all subjects in the new Common Core standards, from K to 12. They were even part of the old standards, at least in all science classes. Although things may be different in Chile now (I graduated high school in 85), I don't recall to have ever been taught critical thinking skills. That's something I discovered years later when I moved to the US. That in spite of having gone through a rigorous degree in Computer Science at the University of Santiago. University careers, at least back in my day, were very technical in nature, and focused very narrowly on deep subjects, without concern to create a more rounded individual. That was an exercise left to each student.

It never ceases to amaze me how prevalent and commonly accepted are UFOs in the Chilean collective psyche. You can even do a general search in the news for UFO-related articles and come back with a bunch (in Spanish). In virtually all cases, the generally accepted belief is that they have an extraterrestrial origin.

An overwhelming 85% of Chileans believe in the phenomenon, compared to a 48% of Americans, and the topic can easily come up in any colloquial conversation among regular people as something totally accepted.

Coincidentally, Chile is also fertile ground for "spiritual movements" that very regularly include UFO elements. As a Chilean myself, and as someone who was attracted to those movements in my 20s, I struggle to come up with a clear explanation of why Chile in particular seems to be so captivated by beliefs in the supernatural. Michael Shermer does a good job explaining generically why people believe weird things, but doesn't explain why certain specific cultures or countries seem to be more susceptible than others.

I, for one, believe the reason is the lack of formal teaching of Critical Thinking as a subject, throughout the school curriculum. In the US, critical thinking is virtually part of all subjects in the new Common Core standards, from K to 12. They were even part of the old standards, at least in all science classes. Although things may be different in Chile now (I graduated high school in 85), I don't recall to have ever been taught critical thinking skills. That's something I discovered years later when I moved to the US. That in spite of having gone through a rigorous degree in Computer Science at the University of Santiago. University careers, at least back in my day, were very technical in nature, and focused very narrowly on deep subjects, without concern to create a more rounded individual. That was an exercise left to each student.

Close. The actual plan is this:

Step 1: Target Asia by dumbing down complex dialog, plots, (hard to follow with a language barrier) and reducing the number of black people in your movies.

Step 2: Release

Step 3: Profit.

Bill Maher: "Part of it is--and this is the dirty little secret--is that most movies are made with an eye to the foreign market, and Asians [in Asian countries] really are racist. [...] They don't want to see black people generally in their movies."

Of course, I can't wait for plenty of people to refute this without any sources by just going "Nu-uh."

[Bill Maher] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...

http://www.truthdig.com/report...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://atlantablackstar.com/20...

The list of citations could go on for days if you're willing to put the time into finding and sorting them.

Interesting interview with a couple of them here. “The reason I’m hired is to make simple people change their mind about their vote and also about Russia,” the woman said. She later added that she identifies herself as an American housewife from Nebraska while online, and not as a Russian.

Did you try showing them your own hand drawn image of Mohammed? Did you criticize Islam in any way? Did you ask them if violent jihad or suicide bombings against civilians could ever be justified? Did you tell them you are gay or had gay friends?

If not, then it doesn't mean anything that you say all the muslims you've ever encountered have never attacked or condemned you .

Ah, but the religion isn't the problem, yeah sure. Try telling that to Molly Norris. Radicalizing your peaceful, everyday friendly muslims into murderous maniac is so easily, apparently, that we have to censor cartoonists in our own country and make sure armed police are present for any mohammed themed art shows.

To even say that it is just the fundamentalists or extremists that is the problem is to pretend that they appear out of a vacuum, and to completely ignore that it happens almost exclusively with this particular religion. If that isn't disingenuous, I don't know what is.

Salvadoran Civil War
Time for a US apology to El-Salvador
Revisiting American Involvement in El Salvador: The Massacre at El Mozote

Prison without trials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Indefinite solitary confinement:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/res...

Spying on all citizens:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Current government supports executions of whistleblowers:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...

Executing citizens without a trial:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Just to name a few.

Here's a story from the anointed Huffington Post claiming 80% of migrants are raped coming to the US. That's a pretty alarming figure. Here's another story on it by Fusion. Here's an Amnesty international story citing health care professionals claiming 6 out of 10 are abused.

There already is legal precedent: 8 U.S. Code 1182 - Inadmissible aliens clause f Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President. If you don't believe in western values don't come to the west. Show us a democratic country that is majority Muslim. Islam is more than a religion, what should be addressed upon entry is a question about supporting Sharia law. It's incompatible with western values. How do other religions work in Muslim majority countries? How do they treat women or gays? Why do you feel it is superior to the US present stance?

In the case of Julie Bass's vegetable garden, Oak Park did end up dropping the charges.

The "Anonymous" asshats are all in jail.

Now, whenever something fabulously clever happens, "Anonymous," which consists of wannabe script kiddies, steps forward to take credit.

Also, "Anonymous," often threatens to to DDoS someone (as if that really is effective) because it sounds cool.

Real hackers are too smart to be "Anonymous."

The problem is not just with the hate for HRC. She lost because of an inept campaign. They basically blew it in Michigan and Wisconsin, where the margin was thin and all they need was to have a more effective campaign operation. But they lost those states because of their own arrogance, the belief that they get to win there by default. And now people like Podesta can't man up and admit it was their own fault. No. They say that Putin and Russian hackers stole the election, it was fake news, and FBI director, or some other external force.

The Clinton Campaign Was Undone By Its Own Neglect And A Touch Of Arrogance, Staffers Say

because it demonstrates a significant lack of appreciation for the text, spirit, or values enshrined in the Constitution

Overall, I find the lack of appreciation for same by the other party to be far more discontenting. It is the Democrats, who wish to:

• Illegalize "hate speech", contrary to the First Amendment;
• Illegalize weapons — from knives and brass knuckles to firearms, contrary to the Second Amendment;
• promote Affirmative Action — contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment;
• abolish Electoral College and otherwise diminish the role of the member-States in the Union;

But those threats to the Constitution do not worry you, only Christianity does?..

the survey you cited includes no evidence that American Muslims agree with Sharia Law

Seriously? Are you that dense? The article I linked to is called (emphasis mine) "Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world". What does it tell you, that, while it has Sharia-support figures for about 20 other countries — and even a graphic showing same — the figures for the US are omitted? Ok, maybe, my growing up in the USSR gave me the ability to read between the lines, that the blissfully naive Americans do not possess. Fine. Let's look for other sources:

According to the just-released survey of Muslims, a majority (51%) agreed that “Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah.” When that question was put to the broader U.S. population, the overwhelming majority held that shariah should not displace the U.S. Constitution (86% to 2%).

and:

nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, “It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed.”

Now, these results are politically inconvenient to the still-prevailing dogma, so, as could be expected, the study is denounced (such as here) as "deeply flawed". But what better rebuttal could there be, than offering results of your own study contradicting those of the "flawed" one? And yet, none of the critics could cite their own numbers. Does that not tell you something?

a completely made up story

Once again, it is not "made up" at all — and certainly not completely made up. It is a real problem, and not just in the US (for which we, curiously, do not establishment-blessed figures at all), but also in Canada, UK, and Norway...

Quit denying it — makes you look stupid. You'll get better mileage out of arguing, "it is nothing to worry about" instead.

You mean how to build an economic powerhouse that pisses away billions,
http://www.sfchronicle.com/pol...

destroys affordable housing, forcing the poor to live in tent cities,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

and is hugely racist
http://www.thetoptens.com/most...

Why the hell would we want the folks in that state to have the ability to override the popular vote in the other 49 states, when they can't even get their own state into the democratic socialist utopia they're trying to make?

Apparently, the US has enough to offer that many wealthy leave China and open up "Chinese" restraunts all over, as well as the birth tourism of the welathy Chinese.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

But I guess you know more than all those Chinese looking for a better life in the US.

http://www.migrationpolicy.org...

Most Slashdotters may not know about the minute details of Russia's propaganda-war on Ukraine, but it had salvos like "When Ukrainians enter cities, they crucify little children".

Trump administration could seek to wipe government websites

Trump could seek to rape every woman too, should these "scientists" not attempt to hide their wives and daughters instead of some data?

Some worry the information could only be retrieved with a taxing Freedom of Information Act request.

OMG! Now we are learning, FoIA-requests are undully taxing...

I wouldnt say it is complicated, only that it is the result of unpleasant truths.

There major form of psychoactives used in the US is that of anti-depressant medications, used for various kinds of depression and anxiety disorders.

Take that, along with some scary findings ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ) that the US's "PRODUCE MORE NOW! WITH LESS THAN YOU DID LAST QUARTER, OBEY OR BE FIRED! DO NOT DARE ASK FOR MORE THAN THE 1-WEEK OF VACATION ALLOTED TO YOU! CORPORATE HAS SPOKEN!" culture produces unbearable levels of stress, which increases risk for depression. ( http://www.mayoclinic.org/heal... )

The obvious low hanging fruit to investigate is workplace related stress causing anxiety disorders and other mental disorders, such as dementia. (https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1744 )

But somehow, this is "Damn complicated", because damnit, without slavedriving people, how will americans be cost effective compared to foreign labor and developing economies!? How will C-level assfucks get to feel good about themselve without driving the company lexus or taking rides in the corporate jet!?

The problem is that the world values money and wealth more than health and happiness, just not in the way that the GGP suggested with the quip about balance reports-- but it was pretty close to the mark, even if he did not know it.

Yes, "damn complicated", because "Damnit, I want my gold-encrusted jet to rival Donald Trumps!" and not "complicated" because "There isnt a glaringly obvious common factor massively contributing to poor american mental health."

just a few examples

Doesn't change the reality - Podesta's email was not hacked. As for stirring up the China-Taiwan situation, it should be. China is going to have a larger military than the US at some point, so either stand by your allies now, or you'll end up with even less credibility, same as Obama kept drawing "big red lines" that shouldn't be crossed, and when the barrel bombs and the chemical warfare started, did absolutely NOTHING.

And you're ignoring the facts if you claim that the DNC process wasn't rigged, you're being wilfully ignorant. resigned over it and was immediately hired by clinton. But first, she tried to muzzle MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, demanding he resign after he complained about the DNC's bias against Sanders.

As for Sanders scaring people to the republicans, give me a break. Polls showed Sanders with a 20 point lead over Trump. The only reason many people voted for Trump was because they couldn't bring themselves to vote Clinton. Look at the 3rd party votes - how many of them would Sanders have scooped up?

Clinton was unelectable, even after the DNC diverted funds to support her campaign that were supposed to be shared with the state campaigns, reserving 99.5% to Hillary. And let's not forget the scam to get around FEC maximum donor contributions.

Certainly hypocritical for a candidate who said they would fight for campaign financing reform and undo Citizen's United.

And we have yet to see any proof that Russia interfered. However, given that Clinton herself admitted that she tried to interfere with Putin's election, stop being so damn hypocritical. The US has interfered in elections in many countries, including it's allies. Why not look at how the CIA undermined ally Japan's election as just one of over 50 examples since ww2. Or go back further and look at the origins of the term "banana republic".

It's stuff like this that has nobody believing anything the government says without ironclad proof. All we've heard is people citing other people's opinions. Opinions are like assholes - everybody has one, and they tend to be full of shit on a regular basis.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/yelp-extortion/

http://nypost.com/2014/10/13/restaurant-fights-yelps-alleged-extortion/

https://www.facebook.com/YelpExtortion/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046136/Is-Yelp-scared-bad-review-Company-defensive-filmmaker-nears-completion-documentary-exposing-website-s-extortion-small-businesses.html

And 126,000 other results on Google from a search for "Yelp extortion." Took all of 0.50 seconds.