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Just remember that, as in the case of the chief executive's personal life, all Trump administration commitments are short-lived.

It's OK, it's the most racist paper anyway. Citation: http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

Let's see you buy an 8-ball of crystal meth with a credit card or Apple Pay. You think Robert Kraft is slapping down his Discover Card when he goes to the Chinese rub'n'tug to get his egg roll dipped in sweet and sour?

Do you think that when the human trafficking owner of that Chinese rub'n'tug sells access to Donald Trump that they're taking credit card payments?

Fuck no. There somebody, somewhere, with a wad of currency. As it will ever be.

And no, I'm not making any of the above up:

https://nymag.com/intelligence...

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/...

http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

His "evidence" was an IRC chat with an anonymous conspiracy theorist.

Which makes sense since it was supposed to finance a small percentage of the full project, not a bigger percentage of a scaled back project.

From http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

"The San Joaquin segment was supposed to be finished by 2022, and the whole enchilada by 2029. But it’s not looking good, and if that first deadline is missed, the state could be exposed to the clawback of up to 3.5 billion in federal funds awarded the project in 2010 as part of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program."

My own total loss of the last shreds of respect I once had for the police came after seeing this video:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

At least this perp was prosecuted, though a cabbagehead jury let him off. Te Wichita cop was not even prosecuted.

Roger Stone is indicted for blatantly lying before congress and witness tampering.

That would be fair if the law was applied equally, but when are they going to arrest any Democrat for blatantly lying before Congress about running arms to al-Qaeda and Mexican drug lords, giving $billions to Iran, having the GCHQ spy on the opposing party's candidates, or any of a half dozen other scandals that would have gotten anyone other than America's First Black President impeached and possibly hanged for treason, or "witness tampering" Michael Hastings, FBI Anon, the DNC's "Russian hacker", and several pizzagate investigators and sources?

There has been two years of noise about possible Russian interference in the election because Donald Trump did business with the Russians as part of an FBI sting operation that got a Russian bank sanctioned. When are they going to talk about Qatari interference in the election? Do you remember the "Safe Space" campaign a few years ago or the appearance of "Social Justice" "feminists" who never badmouthed Islam but tried to tell you that Hamas was a feminist group? That was them. Have you heard of Common Core? That was also a Qatari operation by the same people who put Jamal Khashoggi at the Washington Post.

Donald Trump is a genione fool that will end funding for all things science & progress.

Dude, didn't you read the story about Trump wanting to provide NASA with "unlimited funding" to get a man on Mars before the end of his presidency?

So much Trump Derangement Syndrome...

I recently caught an article by Max Read about how much of the Internet is "fake" in the sense that the readership is actually bots defrauding those paying for the ads:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

I bring up this topic because it strikes me that the people paying for all these sites may soon demand to know how many verifiable human beings are actually in the audience.

5 years ago, much less 20, you wouldn't have caught me saying that a lot of the web should be not locked behind paywalls exactly, but require proof-of-individual-humanity at least. And that would in practice lead to "proof" via credit card. Now I'm ready to cave on that anyway.

I'd rather live in a society that has cops; rather drink in a bar that has bouncers. I'd rather talk in a space where threats of violence result in not only permanent expulsion, but the same legal consequences as saying the same thing to my face. (An assault charge. Mere threats are an assault. Hence the term "assault and battery" if actual contact occurs.) Right now, assault is a crime IRL but not on the Internet, in any practical sense.

And I think that 99% of this crap would stop if the commentators all knew that the threatened person could find out where they live and send over cops with an assault charge.

I have an appalling habit, of comments on news columns. It's pointless, I know, it's identical to shouting at the TV, but there you go. (It started with /. in the 90s) I notice that the NYT and WaPo, which require a sign-up to comment, almost never have harsh language, much less threats. I used to comment at The Atlantic, which did not...and now The Atlantic has shut down the whole comment system, since they were just providing a chat room that was mostly used by angry people, the thoughtful ones having been chased out of the bar with no bouncers.

Like election fraud: All the "There's little to no election fraud occurring." claims turn out to really be: "There's little to no PROSECUTION of election fraud."

The fact is that republicans shout voter fraud, and then when we go looking for it we only find republicans. This absurd myth of Democrats winning because of voter fraud is the last, desperate measure of the tiny little minds of anti-progressives who cannot conceive of the idea that the majority do not agree with them. They manipulate elections at every level in order to win, and can not only conceive of the idea that the opposition is not doing the same, but then go on to seemingly forget that they have done it and then be surprised when the majority doesn't feel it's represented by government.

Ted Cruz: Evidence doesn't support global warming:
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/09...

GOP leaders view climate change as fake science:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

GOP-Climate change education is propaganda:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

Next lie, snoflake?

of being Conservative? If change isn't happening then they're winning.

I think you're mixing up the radical right (alt-right?) with actual Conservatives. But even then the radical right wing is doing pretty well for themselves. There's been a massive and successful attack on gov't regulation. Much of Dodd Frank has been repealed. Most of the Obama era EPA guidelines have been eliminated or toned back. Net Neutrality is dead putting control of the internet in the hands of private industry. Mitch McConnell is even able to talk openly about ending Social Security and Medicare. These are policies the far right has wanted for decades and had to back down on.

Meanwhile the left can't get any tracking on Medicare for All, even though a majority of Republicans support it (let alone Democrats). The left are completely on the defensive in all respects. The right is winning on all fronts.

I disagree that income inequality isn't a problem or a problem we should desire to fix. The top 1% has traded places with the bottom 50% since the 80's. To say we're pretty good, but maybe not as good as Europe is misleading when you know that most European countries are at the top of the charts, and the US is at the bottom. [1]

Countries in Europe seem to be doing pretty ok in terms of production and equality. And they're all happier than we are in the US with more vacation time. I think we can and should demand both.

I disagree that income inequality isn't a problem or a problem we should desire to fix. The top 1% has traded places with the bottom 50% since the 80's. To say we're pretty good, but maybe not as good as Europe is misleading when you know that most European countries are at the top of the charts, and the US is at the bottom. [1]

Countries in Europe seem to be doing pretty ok in terms of production and equality. And they're all happier than we are in the US with more vacation time. I think we can and should demand both.

Yes, other groups such as Russia. This is how we wound up with Trump.

The whole Russia false narrative is getting really old, and I can't believe how many people have fallen for it. Hot off the press: Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results It's pretty easy to see that when Trump won instead of lost, they decided to go forward with the false narrative anyway, and their useful idiot friends in the media helped to perpetuate it.

It's not an open secret if only his own company and some Hollywood insiders know about it. If it's not widely known, it's just a regular secret.

It was an open secret among many within Hollywood, that bastion of liberals and the crowd that the Democrats love to have campaign for them. The story was also squelched by multiple liberal media outlets until the New York Times ran with it.

Consider their record, compared to the record of the Republicans on Roy Moore and Trump himself. This is the beginning of a trend where you've begun to move the goalposts

No, this is where you move the goalposts from the supposedly moral high ground that liberals maintain:

"Liberals happily "eat their own" because they have these things called morals and principles, rather than just simple party tribalism."

Such high ground being they only act when it is politically expedient to do so.

Biased sample fallacy. Most liberals would not support Polanski.

Hahahahaha. Hollywood is about as liberal as it gets. Now you're playing the No True Scotsman fallacy. Not only did Hollywood circle the wagons, they even gave him an Academy award: "After the announcement of the Best Director Award, Polanski received a standing ovation from most of those present in the theater."

And yet you claim these same liberals had such moral principles for eventually turning on Weinstein.

A ridiculous description of well-documented events?

Either you have eyes and use them or you look the other way. You choose to look the other way. Another disgusting example of liberal "morals and principles".

So is he still in good standing? Hard to tell.

Yes, he is. There was some grumbling right after #MeToo, but he's still invited to liberal events. In fact, he had prime seating at Aretha Franklin's funeral, right along with... Louis Farrakhan.

If the allegations from the '90s happened today and he was in office, it would likely be a different story.

Oh, is that why Ellison hasn't been disavowed? Did you think I would just let you slide by without noticing that you completely skipped over him? Thanks for demonstrating, yet again, that "morals and principles" are only for when they are politically expedient.

As for Sarah Jeong, like it or not parodying racism isn't racist, and there is a difference between punching up and punching down in comedy.

She wasn't parodying racism, she was just being racist, where it was openly acceptable among her circle, as the Forbes article you linked to demonstrated. But that's just another example of liberal "morals and principles" on display.

Pretending otherwise harms your credibility.

Thanks for the laugh. You've displayed what your "credibility" amounts to:

"But the alternative view -- that of today's political left -- is that Jeong definitionally cannot be racist, because she's both a woman and a racial minority. Racism against whites, in this neo-Marxist view, just "isn't a thing" -- just as misandry literally cannot exist at all. And this is because, in this paradigm, racism has nothing to do with a person's willingness to pre-judge people by the color of their skin, or to make broad, ugly generalizations about whole groups of people, based on hoary stereotypes. Rather, racism is entirely institutional and systemic, a function of power, and therefore it can only be expressed by the powerful -- i.e., primarily white, straight men. For a nonwhite female, like Sarah Jeong, it is simply impossible. In the religion of social constructionism, Jeong, by virtue of being an Asian woman, is one of the elect, incapable of the sin of racism or group prejudice. All she is doing is resisting whiteness and maleness, which indeed require resistance every second of the day."

Story about CNN outright lying for a month and refusing to retract a story after EVERYONE knows its a lie. Its their Trump is getting impeached any day now, so its not a minor story either.

You believe CNN is honest, you are an idiot. Thanks for letting us know how dumb you are and that your opinion doesn't matter.

Like CNN saying Cohen has evidence of Trump colluding with Russia.

A story by a single source that admits to lying to them. Yet they refuse to pull the story. When CNN runs a story for a month straight, that they know is false, and refuse to retract it and say it is incorrect, it is BIASED.

Just because you are too stupid to realize CNN is lying doesn't mean it is telling the truth.
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So yes, the alt-right are right, and Antifa are wrong. The alt-right aren't using violence to silence Left wingers, are they.

I don't know, does driving your car through a crowd of people count as using violence? http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

Median income increased from the 3rd quarter of 2016 (just before Trump was elected) until now by about 50% as much as median income increase from Obama's inauguration until Trump's election. If you look closely at the chart linked below, you'll see median weekly wages only increased by $100 dollars from when Obama entered office until Trump's election, but from Trump's election until now weekly wages have increased by about $50. Again, not even 2 years in, and he's just getting started.

"Median income". Do you understand what "median income means"? Do you know what inflation is?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

Elaine Herzberg, 49, was killed in Arizona in March after she was struck by an Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode. The crash prompted investigations by both the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. (Herzberg is believed to be the first person killed by a vehicle operating without a driver.) According to a report from the Tempe Police Department, the driver, Rafaela Vasquez, could have avoided the crash if she had been paying more attention to her surroundings. (Cars operating autonomously have a safety rider in the driver’s seat, like Vasquez, who can throw the vehicle into manual and override the autopilot.) The report also found she had been streaming The Voice on her phone right up until the moment the accident occurred, Reuters reports.

The crash was “deemed entirely avoidable” by the police report. “Vasquez looked up just 0.5 seconds before the crash, after keeping her head down for 5.3 seconds, the Tempe Police report said. Uber’s self-driving Volvo SUV was traveling at just under 44 miles-per-hour,” Reuters also reports. Earlier reports in May attributed the crash to a software problem, citing programming designed to let self-driving vehicles “ignore ‘false positives,’” — like detritus in the road — which errantly registered Herzberg as such. Following the crash, Arizona suspended Uber from conducting any further autonomous tests.

http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

"there's nothing to the Russia collusion"

I'm inclined to believe this of Trump personally though he and his circle have acted so damned suspiciously over contacts with Russians that it's hard to dispel all doubt.

It makes as much sense, maybe more, to suggest that Trump has been influenced or controlled by Russia for the past 30 years.

The question of collusion with Trump and his campaign is only part of the total pattern of Russian interference which is still coming to light.

Multiple sources say that Facebook confirmed that the message is real.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

I guess you have a Pastebin or a blog or something that says otherwise... But rather than argue, it might be easier to wait until his trial to see what evidence is presented. Doubtless Facebook will have provided logs etc.

No thanks. Not interested. FedEx, UPS, USPS have earned my respect for the quality of their delivery. I have little confidence in Amazon digging up someone who wants to deliver packages. I once had a package delivered by a gig-based delivery service, and it did not result in a good experience. http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Because that's clear. We've literally already had guilty pleas and indictments related to that. We have a lot of actual information about what the Russians were trying to do. See e.g. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/more-than-half-of-russian-facebook-ads-focused-on-race.html. The question is how high up it went, how involved Trump was, and most difficult, how much, if any, impact it had on the election. The last is least important from a criminal investigatory standpoint, but is something we will hopefully still get information about.

Neither is laziness.

So stop being so fucking lazy. There is an absolute assload of evidence of collusion, and Republicans have blocked every effort to follow up on it. Why? Because they already know what you don't want to know. The Trump Administration colluded with Russia. That's why Trump needed a distraction, which we now know beyond any doubt. Since Giuliani just confirmed for us that Trump knew about the payment and that it was made in violation of campaign finance laws (since the payoff affected the outcome of the election) we have clear evidence of collusion all the way to the top.

Neither is laziness.

So stop being so fucking lazy. There is an absolute assload of evidence of collusion, and Republicans have blocked every effort to follow up on it. Why? Because they already know what you don't want to know. The Trump Administration colluded with Russia. That's why Trump needed a distraction, which we now know beyond any doubt. Since Giuliani just confirmed for us that Trump knew about the payment and that it was made in violation of campaign finance laws (since the payoff affected the outcome of the election) we have clear evidence of collusion all the way to the top.

Need an eye-rolling gif right about now.

http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Quilette did not save Damore's shitty memo.

The bias wasn't that they didn't look at left-wing groups, it was that a typical left-wing process might take a couple of months at worst while when looking at a tea party group, it would take years.

Actually, it took years for both. Again, the left-wing groups didn't whine about it, so they did not sue. Which means they did not get a settlement and an apology.

Inspector's General report:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Overall story:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

A settlement is not a complete story. It is about the groups involved in the litigation. So it is not actually evidence that only Tea Party groups had trouble.

Whistle-blowers are afforded protection under the law (at least in theory) as an exception.

Bradley Manning, for one, was not a "whistle blower". He just wanted to impress a boyfriend.

Are you arguing that publicly reporting war crimes, e.g. targeting civilians, shouldn't come under whistle-blower protections based on unsupported allegations from a magazine?

Whistle-blowers are afforded protection under the law (at least in theory) as an exception.

Bradley Manning, for one, was not a "whistle blower". He just wanted to impress a boyfriend.

... along with the attempts to punish ATT for not agreeing to exercise editorial control over CNN

Lesseee.... got both the Senate and the House of Reps under my thumb, what can I do about the DOJ, and the Forth Estate

My plan to Make America a Banana Republic is coming along just fine.

Thankfully both Jared and Ivanka are working furiously on the issue of prison reform:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/jared-kushner-is-turning-his-focus-to-prison-reform.html

Did people really think they could just create a financial market which was outside of government control?

Yes.

You mean monuments dedicated to a man who didn't want monuments dedicated to him, erected long after the subject of their rememberance as a protest against equality in law? Those ones?

Citations please, specifically that the monuments torn down by the alt left fascists: http://nymag.com/daily/intelli... were all erected as remembrances to protest equality in law.

@Anonymous Coward: "Yes, wouldn't want them to grow up to be insane, right-wing shitheads who will never feel the touch of a woman. Your inadequacies are literally steaming off your post history."

Dear anonymous gutless fuck, thank you for that brief extract from your autobiography, now why not fuck off back to Reddit and fap off over furries, an expansive ornate building or yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin :]

... raising questions about how Mulvaney will police a data-warehousing industry ...

He won't. He was appointed to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

From Mick Mulvaney to Run Consumer Watchdog Agency He Hates and others:

As a congressman, Mulvaney called the CFPB a “sick, sad joke.”

Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat would beg to disagree.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

I suppose one could argue that the above was not a "verdict" since both parties "reached an agreement", but I'd still argue that standard copyright/trademark protection isn't anything new in the world of memes.

America is not authoritarian. You may want to look up what the word means.

"Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms." Check. "Juan Linz's influential 1964 description of authoritarianism characterized authoritarian political systems by four qualities: Limited political pluralism," (Check.) "[...] A basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" (Check.) "Minimal social mobilization" (Check.) "Informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers." (Check.) ... you were saying?

Russia is openly authoritarian, and does not pretend otherwise.

That's not at question currently, but thanks for handwaving.

If you reject religion you should also reject theists like Newton and LeMaitre and start from scratch.

Only theists think this way. Once you classify someone as a heathen, you must automatically reject anything they've ever done or said. Rational people do not think that way. I am perfectly fine with accepting Newtons contributions to mathematics and physics without also having to accept his musings on alchemy and religion. I don't subscribe to your absurd absolutism.

Unfortunately the trend for topics in general, especially for the perpetually offended class, is that if a person commits a single faux pas then they should be banned for life from everything. It's a dumb approach I agree, and I push against it as much as possible.

Citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

I sure hope so. Have you ever seen all the predicted effects of global warming put together? Neither had I, until I saw this article:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

I heard ZERO indictments of him about his political leanings

https://qz.com/1055466/the-alt... basically calls him a liar when he denies being 'alt right'.

Then there are the suspicious string of articles all basically going, "Damore is an alt-right [hero|martyr]":
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.recode.net/2017/8/...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.vox.com/culture/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.newsweek.com/who-ja...
http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Maybe that was just because there was too much material to get to boring stuff like that in his 15 minutes of fame.

No, it's because his political leanings are by all accounts very much aligned to the people trying to demonise him, hence the multitude of articles trying to position him with the people they don't like.

I hesitate to say 'conspiracy' but it sure as fuck doesn't look like independent and honest reporting to me.

Orly?

"This perception became worse when we opened up verification for public submissions and verified people who we in no way endorse"

The verified status literally means Twitter endorses them.

By the way, as long as we're talking about it, I ran across this story the other day that explained where Richard Spencer got his start. It was the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case that was made up and never happened. The Left literally created the alt-right movement. In 2014 Rolling Stoneâ(TM)s false rape story at UVA didn't help either.

I can see where he would feel vindicated," K. C. Johnson said. "His basic take on the case proved to be correct, and he was right in a way that the establishment media was not. It took a lot of guts to do what he did."

To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber.

Everybody likes Elon Musk. Nobody likes Travis Kalanick. It can be as simple as that.

On the one hand, if these allegations are true, heads should damn roll.

On the other, Tesla is a great target for a he-said-he-said lawsuit. High profile, lots of cash, great timing right before the make-or-break moment where they have to make good on their affordable cars before GM and the other old guys power into the market.

Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.

Who the fuck to believe. To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber. But who the fuck knows... news and lawsuits are full of bullshit these days, it's not easy to know truth from some Russian kid with a smartphone masquerading as a Texan. All that's reliably true is Tesla has money, and any cheap-suit lawyer would see an opportunity to make a quick settlement out of them, rather than risk more bad press and production delays as they try like mad to make their delivery date.

No, we're not talking about nominations that aren't getting through. We're talking about nominations that haven't been MADE.

You mean like Brock Long, head of FEMA?

The Brock Long that isn't incompetent?

The Brock Long that was confirmed in June?

A category 4 hurricane just hit the Texas coast and our President still hasn't appointed anyone to head the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, or any of the agencies that deal with hurricanes.

Today, as he flew off on a golfing trip to Camp David, he was asked if he had a message for the people of Texas. His reply was, "Good luck".

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

If Trump appointed Brock Long to head Fema you'd be lying.

Oh wait... you are!

And wonder of wonders, Brock is not incompetent!.

Also, Democrats are slowing down the confirmation process so that at the current rate, congress will get through all of Trump's nominations in 11 years (!).

Also also, the senate pulled a parliamentary trick to block Trump recess appointments.

Be sure to blame all of that on Trump!

Then you ended up attacking an innocent pizza parlor.

Really? I did?

Yup. It was a vicious attack. Why did you do it? Did you really believe that story, or were you just trying to get attention?

You mean the story that you were screaming over for weeks, if not months, that you, and the GOP and House Republicans kept trying to fan into a fire, desperate that we believe all their smoke?

So wait, you're trying to dispute FOIA documents now?

Mashiki, can't you even try to respond in a coherent fashion? Or do you think your lies aren't as obvious if you gabble around a lot?

Or we can look at Michael Flynn, Paul Manaforte, or Donald Jr. Himself. Now there is some meat. Or Trump's un-independent business dealings.

Oh, media matters huh? Not one to shoot the messenger, but considering they're an actual political advocacy group...that's in violation of their non-profit status, and has a long history of quote mining in order to create "gotcha
moments" which turn out to be nothing, you'll need to do better.

Oh, isn't it CUTE how you're quoting the part that isn't related to Media Matters, rather than responding to what you quoted. Can't defend those individuals, but you can clamor about Media Matters. But that's a tough sell. Especially from somebody who cited Judicial Watch, American Center for Law & Justice, not to mention Alex Jones, Breitbart and other sources of "alternative facts" that turn out to be lies. Like you know, your lies about the Alberta power grid.

What is it with you, can you just not resist the urge to lie?

So, again those FOIA documents aren't real?

What, you think I don't know you're lying about their contents?

Want to stick to those.

Why, you aren't. You're just randomly babbling. Because you know your lies about the contents of the documents would be exposed if you started talking about them.

Remember that salon article? Yeah it's not an article either, but an out-of-context opinion piece.

Oh noes! You mean they have a negative opinion about the political advocacy group you cited? With a long history of factual misrepresentations and exaggerations. My oh my. Who knew?

No different then something coming from the mouth of Dowd.

Oh no, not Dowd!

In other words, if you believe that, why are you lying? They're telling you what to believe.

Why are you lying? Why do you want me to believe your lies? What do you have to gain?

Not leaving the evidence and letting you make the choice.

Wank wank wank, pretending you aren't just screaming your own narrative, full of lies, as usual.

You were better off when you were assaulting the Pizza Parlor. At least you weren't lying so badly. It may have been crazy, but it wasn't fraudulent.

Those have damaged your brain.

Yeah, you tell 'em brother, because nothing like that would ever happen in the United States. No religion would carve out its own enclave in this country or force women to submit to its "teachings". Nor would they harass girls or demand their religious take precedence.