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In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims

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Here is a list of another area of breakdown in the U.S.: In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims

these are sub-minimum wage gigs.

My sister drives for Uber and makes about $18 per hour after expenses. This is in line with the national average of about $20 per hour. Some areas are lower, with Detroit being the lowest at $8-$9 per hour, but even that is above minimum wage.

People are not as stupid and helpless as you assume. If Uber really paid sub-minimum wage, they wouldn't be able to attract drivers.

Funny thing about "expenses". People never seem to calculate the cost of replacing a $20,000+ asset 3-4 years before they would have normally had to replace it due to wear and tear.

There's a valid reason the IRS mileage deduction rate is over 50 cents per mile.

You are probably a white man to believe that. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

these are sub-minimum wage gigs.

My sister drives for Uber and makes about $18 per hour after expenses. This is in line with the national average of about $20 per hour. Some areas are lower, with Detroit being the lowest at $8-$9 per hour, but even that is above minimum wage.

People are not as stupid and helpless as you assume. If Uber really paid sub-minimum wage, they wouldn't be able to attract drivers.

Although the science is still evolving, there are concerns among some public health professionals and members of the public

Translation: They have no evidence at all. This is the liberal version of replacing "evidence-based" recommendations by recommendations based "on science in consideration with community standards and wishes".

Allowing the entity that can arrest and charge you with something allowing them to seize valuable assets from you, seems quite dangerous if they are to directly benefit from them.

Of course you're correct. I just find it funny when people who support the Trump administration complain about police seizures. The current administration has made it clear that they want to increase such seizures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Keep waiting. Still waiting for evidence to be presented, some two year after they started investigating Trump....

That happened today https://www.washingtonpost.com... and it wasn't anything he said, but what he didn't say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com... Now I don't know if the guy was guilty or not, but I suspect that some people are very pleased with his death.

Clapper, Comey, and Brennan. A more dishonest trio would be tough to find.

Saw this article, Net neutrality is gone. Feel the freedom coursing through your veins and thought she summed things up nicely:

“Today is a great day for consumers, for innovation and for freedom.” That is what Commissioner Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission said as he voted to strip net neutrality protections.

Whenever people tell me that we are on the verge of new, undiscovered freedom for consumers, I always feel a little nervous. “Unprecedented freedom for consumers” is usually what people call it right before placing rabid hedgehogs in the stocking stuffer display. Before, you only had the choice of things you wanted that would make appropriate gifts. Now, you might also get a rabid hedgehog! What a day this is for the consumer.

I can't wait to get my rabid hedgehog for Christmas.

Try a real citation next time. Random local news and blogs have no place other than for low information 10 second googlers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

https://www.indystar.com/story...

I don't know what exactly you would consider "extraordinary"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://america.aljazeera.com/o...

It sounds to me like rendition continued, but with some attempt to ensure the suspects were not tortured.

Is that true when there are non-negligible parts of the United States that don't have access to basic sanitation?

We had court rulings that permitted ISPs to block BitTorrent (see the results of Comcast v. FCC)

Of course, Comcast had already stopped blocking BitTorrent about two years before that ruling, due at least in part to a class-action lawsuit filed in the same general timeframe as the FCC investigation. And who knows what the FTC would have done had Comcast not folded.

It would be awesome if people would open their eyes a bit to the overall system of checks and balances we have in this country and not just declare the only two options to be a state-controlled Internet or the wild wild west.

All true democracies limit majority rule to protect the rights of minorities. For example, it is not possible to enact regulations so people of a given race are not allowed to live in a given area. Likewise, it should not be possible to vote a law imposing an artificial income barrier that is well above to whatever the forces of the market dictate in order to prevent "undesirables" from moving to the neighborhood. And yet that is what most zoning regulations are for. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

It still stuns me when people say stuff like this. But then I remember, maybe they weren't here, and didn't see what happened.

The net has always been neutral. From time to time an ISP would try to test the boundaries, and then we would stop them:

2005 - Madison River Communications was blocking VOIP services. The FCC put a stop to it.

2005 - Comcast was denying access to p2p services without notifying customers.

2007-2009 - AT&T was having Skype and other VOIPs blocked because they didn't like there was competition for their cellphones.

2011 - MetroPCS tried to block all streaming except youtube. (edit: they actually sued the FCC over this)

2011-2013, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were blocking access to Google Wallet because it competed with their bullshit. edit: this one happened literally months after the trio were busted collaborating with Google to block apps from the android marketplace

2012, Verizon was demanding google block tethering apps on android because it let owners avoid their $20 tethering fee. This was despite guaranteeing they wouldn't do that as part of a winning bid on an airwaves auction. (edit: they were fined $1.25million over this)

2012, AT&T - tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money.

2013, Verizon literally stated that the only thing stopping them from favoring some content providers over other providers were the net neutrality rules in place.

2015 was just the FCC formalizing what we've had since the internet was first invented. The Internet only exists because it was always neutral. This is about breaking the entire premise of the internet, after decades of it working properly.

You think you can have meaningful competition in "last mile" for internet, any more than you can have it for electricity? Hilarious. Someone's going to start up a new ISP, somehow get right of way to everyone's last mile? That's your competitive marketplace?

"Oh but the local governments." I can give you another list of all the cities and towns full of people who can't get decent service at all, from any ISP, and then when they try to build their own, the big ISPs sue and harass them to stop them from doing it...

I also see REAL news from CNN

Um...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I don't know how you could describe CNN as "real news".

I also see REAL news from CNN

Um...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I don't know how you could describe CNN as "real news".

Charities are often scams on both sides. e.g. The Clinton Global Fund.

Sorry, but the Clinton Global Fund has been assessed as not a scam, nor has its parent entity.

Why did it's funding go dry the day the bitch lost?

Why did the GOP tell so many lies about it?

Sorry HornWumpus, but you've discredited yourself.

You're just too much of a partisan ideologue.

PS:

Increasing the average farm plot size should be a goal.

It is. Of the Corporate Farming Oligarchy.

Stop being an ignorant mouthpiece, at least insist on being an informed one.

Then again, you're obsessed with the losing candidate, while the winning one just might be incapable of feeding himself in a few weeks.

You can think Jimmy Carter for giving the world Robert Mugabe.

No, really, you can.

In April of 1979, the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history's occurred. Of the eligible black voters, 64% participated, braving the threat of terrorist attacks by Mr. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, which managed to kill 10 people. Prior to the election, Mr. Mugabe had issued a death list with 50 individuals he named as "traitors, fellow-travelers, and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic running-dogs and other capitalist vultures." Nevertheless, Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United Methodist Church emerged victorious and became prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the new country was called.

Yet the Carter administration, led by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, would have none of it. Mr. Young referred to Mr. Muzorewa, one of the very few democratically elected leaders on the African continent, as the head of a "neo-fascist" government. Mr. Carter refused to meet Mr. Muzorewa when the newly elected leader visited Washington to seek support from our country, nor did he lift sanctions that America had placed on Rhodesia as punishment for the colony's unilateral declaration of independence from the British Empire in 1965.

As we were repeatedly told during the campaign when good employment numbers kept coming out, these are fake numbers.

The words of the con artist ring true. These are fake numbers. And the same reasons he gave for calling the numbers fake hold true now.

19 times he said the numbers were fake.

Job numbers are biggest hoax in modern politics.

So there you have it. More fake numbers.

Clearly you don't have a clue how the world works.

So you claim, but your demonstration is false.

We don't have a 'single world government' YET.

What does this matter? Do you think it is really necessary? I actually pointed out how the rich can't really escape to another government without consequence anyway.

And government's like money more than those who actually produce it do.

The printers?

Ireland didn't create themselves as a tax haven for Apple just for 'shits & giggles', they made money off it, via jobs or limited taxation.

Indeed, Apple promised things to Ireland in order to get favorable treatment. That's a commonly recognized problem. You give people an incentive, they can do things that are ill-advised, immoral, or just mistaken.

See how much they fought the EU in not wanting to collect 'owed taxes'.

Yes, the Irish government wanted to have their cake so they could eat it. Delicious! But somebody had to remind them that they'd agreed to eat their vegetables. See also how Ireland is reacting to the Brexit demands. They want the UK to act in accordance with existing agreements too.

Now consider all the African countries, South American etc. looking to grow & need money. They'll gladly set up rules to allow these corporations to legally avoid taxes in the US & other Western countries for a much smaller cut of the buy...presumably to fund their own version of UBI maybe?

Yes, various countries are already compromising themselves, but no, I wouldn't presume they'd be funding their own version of UBI, they'd be funding the palaces for their wealthy potentates. This may be cheap in a fiscal sense, but it's morally expensive. And like I said, puts them in a place where the rich risk their existing gains.

And let's get this straight, EVERYONE is 'desperate to keep what they have', actually poor & middle class more than the rich. I don't know anyone in the poor & middle class that likes paying their taxes or would not prefer to pay less, the rich may care but it hardly matters to whether they can feed themselves or live.

Indeed, the rich don't have to worry about deprivation like the poor and middle class, that's always been the case. But they are quite willing to go to many lengths in order to ensure their further enrichment, even including fabricated moralities.

This is why the poor & middle class keep claiming the rich "don't pay their fair share" even though the top 20% of earners pay 88% of taxes (https://nypost.com/2017/10/05/yes-us-tax-cuts-will-mainly-benefit-those-who-pay-the-most-taxes/)...

Yes, the rich keep claiming it's the poor and middle class who are the parasites and leaches, even as the share of wealth held by the rich grows, and their servants in government can't make promises about helping anybody except the rich.

It was also the case back in the early 1900s, the 1800s, the 1700s...

And no the Greece issues weren't 'manufactured hysteria', I don't know who you're trying to troll, but go away, and maybe take some of your own advice on understanding world politics & economics.

Your complete lack of foundation to your assertions is hardly persuasive. Sorry, I don't know if you're just fooling yourself, but maybe you should reflect on your own arguments before chiding others.

I mean, you could have endeavored to present your case better, but all you've got here is vituperation.

The crime rate isn't that great in the larger cites but the UK, Italy, Germany, France, and Spain aren't in the top 100 lowest crime rates either.
Obviously I talk about violent crime. Not about shoplifting.
When was the last robbery in Germany that involved a weapon (knife or a stick ... most certainly not a gun)? It is December 6th now ... definitely not this year. And I can not remember a case last year.

I'm not really sure what education situation you are talking
Weapon controls at the school entrance.
Low level education.
Long ways to school.
No way for kids to walk to school (because of laws that directly forbid it - or to long distances)
No free universities.
On top of that absurd "tenures" for universities. Or call it colleges.
And then "rules" like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com... Not sure if that is true, it sounds absurd or at least bizarre from an european point of view.

In basically all European countries education to the level where a pupil graduates and can go to an university: is free
Going to an university is free beyond a kind of $100 fee for re-registering every semester.
On top of that you can get a state given credit to pay your expenses (rent, energy etc.) in case your parents can not pay for you (in some countries, like scandinavia you get the credit regardless of your parents situation)
You are automatically in healthcare till age of 25 or 27 (or so), payed by your parents employer and your parents (and if they had no kids, they would pay the same price anyway).

Sure, if you prefer you can pay for private education in private schools and private universities. If you extend the typical study time of about 4 - 5 years it might be a fee of about $500 per semester is due (in public universities).

Rich corporations and people will simply move their wealth out of reach. We've already seen this phenomenon with Apple and MS and how they structure their international holdings and with individuals with what was revealed in the Panama Papers.

Apple and MS of course both having their headquarters in the socialist united states. Excellent example! /s

Rich people and corporations are greedy and will work to evade taxes and distort democracy period. This argument is akin to "Well murders will just go to great lengths to hide their crimes if we make murder illegal."

Focus on making tax evasion and avoidance impossible. Don't say "Well we can't afford to take care of our citizens cause we need to lick the boots of our rich overlords."

A US UBI would eventually result in the US following Greece down the toilet. And if *that* happens, the entire world will dissolve into chaos and violence.

We've had three or four recessions/depressions that resulted from cutting taxes to placate the wealthy so they would let some wealth trickle down. Financial catastrophe and eventual violence followed.

Greece's problems were complex, but they were definitely not due to high taxes from UBI. A large cause of it was government failing to collect ENOUGH taxes. If the right wing rich-worshipers were correct, Greece should have lead us out of the recession with trickle-down economics.

The other side of the coin was that greece spent too much. If you want to talk cutting spending down, by all means, cut spending. Start with the biggest expenditure

Also, if you're going to talk about socialist financial ruin, you should cite more than a single example. The country that initiated the last financial catastrophe? The United States (again, we're not socialist.) The country that recovered the best? Socialist Sweden.

I mean, maybe the gods of capitalism and supply side economics will finally accept the sacrifices of our country and bless us THIS time, but I'd prefer to be evil, socialist, and have a roof over my head in retirement. Lets try eating the rich for once instead of licking their boots?

Rich corporations and people will simply move their wealth out of reach. We've already seen this phenomenon with Apple and MS and how they structure their international holdings and with individuals with what was revealed in the Panama Papers.

Apple and MS of course both having their headquarters in the socialist united states. Excellent example! /s

Rich people and corporations are greedy and will work to evade taxes and distort democracy period. This argument is akin to "Well murders will just go to great lengths to hide their crimes if we make murder illegal."

Focus on making tax evasion and avoidance impossible. Don't say "Well we can't afford to take care of our citizens cause we need to lick the boots of our rich overlords."

A US UBI would eventually result in the US following Greece down the toilet. And if *that* happens, the entire world will dissolve into chaos and violence.

We've had three or four recessions/depressions that resulted from cutting taxes to placate the wealthy so they would let some wealth trickle down. Financial catastrophe and eventual violence followed.

Greece's problems were complex, but they were definitely not due to high taxes from UBI. A large cause of it was government failing to collect ENOUGH taxes. If the right wing rich-worshipers were correct, Greece should have lead us out of the recession with trickle-down economics.

The other side of the coin was that greece spent too much. If you want to talk cutting spending down, by all means, cut spending. Start with the biggest expenditure

Also, if you're going to talk about socialist financial ruin, you should cite more than a single example. The country that initiated the last financial catastrophe? The United States (again, we're not socialist.) The country that recovered the best? Socialist Sweden.

I mean, maybe the gods of capitalism and supply side economics will finally accept the sacrifices of our country and bless us THIS time, but I'd prefer to be evil, socialist, and have a roof over my head in retirement. Lets try eating the rich for once instead of licking their boots?

This is the current problem with such sites -- that's too expensive. Back when you had to subscribe to newspapers, they didn't cost that much even with the additional expense of printing and distributing physical paper.

Here's the kicker. The physical paper subscription is much cheaper - and it includes unlimited digital access. Check out the plans. Digital only for $100 / year or Sunday paper + digital sub for $40 / year. This is insane. I would sign up for the $40 a year plan to get digital access - but I refuse to have their nasty dead tree pulp deposited on my driveway.

Even when newspapers go digital they fuck it up. Newspapers deserve to die if this is all the better they can do. Wasn't Bezos supposed to save WaPo? You can't teach and old dog new tricks.

Sightings of bigfoot are also probably sightings of bears walking upright.

I disagree.

Sightings of bears are really yetis walking on all four.

Sightings of bigfoot are also probably sightings of bears walking upright.

>Nah, it's just the right wing constantly screaming about false flag operations, then getting caught staging them

Funny, almost all of the supposed recent racist attacks have been false flags set up by the supposed victims. For example, Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria excoriated the Air Force Academy class because of some racist graffiti that was written by...the person that "found it"...a black male.

https://www.washingtonpost.com... That's just the most recent version.

>The people who are obsessing over gender and a thousand separate pronouns? They're actually on the fringes of the left, and the rest of the left are kinda embarrassed by them.

Funny how that embarrassment doesn't seem to translate into any sort of action of slowing down the million different gender identity juggernaut. It's ridiculous in the extreme that pretty soon all "women's" athletic world records are going to be held by XY transgender "women". This is a direct output of actions by the left. Not the fringe folks you are embarrassed by, because fringes don't get comprehensive legislation and rules changes pushed through.

It is different in that you can challenge an expert witness with your own witness. How can you challenge an algorithm that no one really knows? Considering that the FBI has used flawed statistics in DNA matching for a decade, this is not the first time that there are issues with how forensic science is done.

You don't somehow think that all of the missiles that North Korea has been firing were somehow summoned by magic since the start of the Trump administration, do you? They were obviously being worked on during the Obama administration. What we are seeing is the flowering of Obama's work. (Or do you blame Her?)

For what? North Korea wasting their limited resources on a tool that's only useful when you want to provoke an ill-tempered boob who will go off on freak out over them, then erroneously claim to send an aircraft carrier to deal with it?

So what you're saying is that at best, he's par for the course. "Par" is not what we were told to expect.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year yet and he already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than Obama achieved, has China cooperating, and missile defense is getting a big boost in funding.

Except it turns out those sanctions are a failed policy that only harms the innocent North Korean people, China is, as usual, lying, and putting money into missile defense has been a favorite way to waste tax dollars since the Reagan years.

He seems to be making progress that Obama couldn't.

So far, your examples are only repeated examples of waste, fraud, and failure.

That's not a common definition of progress. Admittedly, to somebody trying to sabotage America, it would seem different.

Lets see what happens between now and the end of the eighth year of the Trump administration.

Let's see what happens between now and the end of the next year.

I'd say this year, but eh, you won't have any results.

Sure, why not! It worked for President Clinton after all... Oh wait...

Don't be silly, that was just a TV show.

I doubt lawsuits will get very far - an entirely computer generated notice along the lines of "if you feel suicidal, you can call XXX-XXX-XXX to talk to someone" is going to fail tests for invasion of privacy

Sigh. Even TFS outright says "or contact local first-responders." Calling the cops on you because you might be suicidal is never the right thing to do, especially since there is a significant chance that the cops will just show up and murder you, even if people are standing by begging them not to.

and not exactly play well with a jury that can see Facebook is trying to do the right thing.

You mean "believe that" Facebook is trying to do the right thing, because they are not.

I happened to recently read a couple of insightful articles by law professors about this specific case.

The first article made the very good point that a positive law rule covers a lot of this. In other words, if a regular private citizen couldn't normally get the information, then the Police should need a warrant to get it.

The second writer says he disagrees, but mostly makes the point that just using that standard isn't enough, because sometimes there are other factors which would go into a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

Personally, I'm hoping for a bright-line test for the police to come out of this case which lets everyone know that the police can't go through data people normally don't have access to. I'm not holding by breath, though.

I happened to recently read a couple of insightful articles by law professors about this specific case.

The first article made the very good point that a positive law rule covers a lot of this. In other words, if a regular private citizen couldn't normally get the information, then the Police should need a warrant to get it.

The second writer says he disagrees, but mostly makes the point that just using that standard isn't enough, because sometimes there are other factors which would go into a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

Personally, I'm hoping for a bright-line test for the police to come out of this case which lets everyone know that the police can't go through data people normally don't have access to. I'm not holding by breath, though.

Look at all the other countries laughing their asses off at us.

So? People laugh even when they're the fools.

This, as a Spaniard it always amuses me how can people vote without an official ID and how try to enforce that is considered racist.

So a Spaniard is uneducated as to the particulars of American bigotry and racism, as well as the political drive to keep IDs from people? This random, unknown, unidentified person is suppose to know better than any of the multiple federal court judges who have heard the testimony and seen the evidence in Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Alabama, and more?

Sorry guys if it sounds rude, but it makes your Election look as the election from some African cheap dictatorship.

Yeah, an expensive African dictatorship would do a much better job of faking elections, but you know Republicans...cheap.

In here (Spain) you have to bring a national Country-provided ID, national driver's license or passport. All of them have a picture on them to easily figure out if you're that person or not.

Oh goodness, does he or she even know that the National Government of the United States only produces one of those(directly), and the latter is not used or useful to the vast majority of Americans who won't want to bother with the trouble and expense? Or does he or she even know about the court hearings that revealed how DMVs were impeding and misforming citizens who wanted IDs, including the free ones they were supposed to provide?

You wanna vote? Proof that you are a citizen with right to vote.

None of those documents provide any such thing. In fact....watch out.

Any other way sounds like bullshit to me.

That's nice, now what's it got to do with the actual problems people have with the Voter ID system as implemented?

Oh wait, you still deny knowledge of it.

When you have millions of illegals who know they can go vote without repercussion, who know they are at increased risk of deportation under one candidate over another, and who know their access to government provided services are liable to be limited under one candidate, of course some number will vote.

Then you can find them, and identify them. And invalidate every single election, because if you believe millions voted, then you have a serious problem with your entire government. Throw everybody out, and reform things.

They broke the law to cross the border. They will not scruple at voting illegally.

Of course, we've identified some Trump voters who acted illegally.

Odd that you're not calling for their prosecution. Where were their scruples?

Hmm.

Look at all the other countries laughing their asses off at us.

So? People laugh even when they're the fools.

This, as a Spaniard it always amuses me how can people vote without an official ID and how try to enforce that is considered racist.

So a Spaniard is uneducated as to the particulars of American bigotry and racism, as well as the political drive to keep IDs from people? This random, unknown, unidentified person is suppose to know better than any of the multiple federal court judges who have heard the testimony and seen the evidence in Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Alabama, and more?

Sorry guys if it sounds rude, but it makes your Election look as the election from some African cheap dictatorship.

Yeah, an expensive African dictatorship would do a much better job of faking elections, but you know Republicans...cheap.

In here (Spain) you have to bring a national Country-provided ID, national driver's license or passport. All of them have a picture on them to easily figure out if you're that person or not.

Oh goodness, does he or she even know that the National Government of the United States only produces one of those(directly), and the latter is not used or useful to the vast majority of Americans who won't want to bother with the trouble and expense? Or does he or she even know about the court hearings that revealed how DMVs were impeding and misforming citizens who wanted IDs, including the free ones they were supposed to provide?

You wanna vote? Proof that you are a citizen with right to vote.

None of those documents provide any such thing. In fact....watch out.

Any other way sounds like bullshit to me.

That's nice, now what's it got to do with the actual problems people have with the Voter ID system as implemented?

Oh wait, you still deny knowledge of it.

When you have millions of illegals who know they can go vote without repercussion, who know they are at increased risk of deportation under one candidate over another, and who know their access to government provided services are liable to be limited under one candidate, of course some number will vote.

Then you can find them, and identify them. And invalidate every single election, because if you believe millions voted, then you have a serious problem with your entire government. Throw everybody out, and reform things.

They broke the law to cross the border. They will not scruple at voting illegally.

Of course, we've identified some Trump voters who acted illegally.

Odd that you're not calling for their prosecution. Where were their scruples?

Hmm.

Do you think that the birther conspiracy theory could ever have thrived for a white president?

Only if McCain had become President.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Your view is really the same view as the Enlightenment. It's only been around hundreds of years and most of Western civilization was founded on it, but that doesn't stop conservatives from rejecting the Enlightenment and wishing for the golden age of artisans, serfs, nobles, etc.: (might be behind a pay wall)

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

And this is how science dies in America.

They closed the entire DMV for several years in order to prevent people from acquiring an ID?

No, they focused heavily on the offices that minorities could conveniently use, which was kinda revealing.

The freaking blog you pointed to is a lie,

Identify one falsehood in it. Go ahead.

there are a lot of other things going on into making those decisions, you can get an ID at the post office, from the DMV through the mail or online.

Yes, racists are practiced at finding excuses for their behavior, literacy tests and poll taxes were usually defended under those same terms. Including you know, misinforming the public about the situation.

But hey, if you want the state to mail out ID to everybody, go ahead and propose it.

You need an ID to buy booze, medicine and cigarettes, you're saying no black person buys booze, medicine or cigarettes?

Actually, I've found that sales clerks will rarely bother me about booze or cigarettes even if they are supposed to get ID, but I understand some people do have complaints about that process, medicine is somewhat different, but then, there are problems with pharmacists denying people's prescriptions. And don't even get my mother started on the way they hassled her about her diabetic testing strips refill, then tried to bill her after they FAILED to give her the number of strips she needed the first time when she asked for more. She gets quite irate at them.

If you close 31 DMV offices you do not "save only $100,000" ... argh, there is just so much wrong with this that it's not even worth pointing out. If it isn't obvious that this is partisan bullshit grasping at straws to make a point then you're dumber than you realize..

Sure man, you come right after an accusation that relied on false counter cries of racism and bigotry to ignore actual racism and bigotry, and you think it's other people who are full of partisan bullshit.

Sorry man, there's a reason it keeps being revealed.

And it gets worse as apparently it was Bentley's paramour behind it.

Crickets, eh? Interesting sound they make.

As I've pointed out elsewhere, the sheer volume of comments on either side of an issue is irrelevant to the U.S. administrative rulemaking process. That being the case, the "Rooshun interference" meme sorta loses its bite here.

But to the extent you feel otherwise, comments from Russia were actually pro Net Neutrality:

Brian Hart, an FCC spokesman, said the agency lacks the resources to investigate every comment. Supporters of the net neutrality rules are not blameless either, he added, pointing to 7.5 million comments filed in favor of the regulations that appeared to come from 45,000 distinct email addresses, "all generated by a single fake e-mail generator website." Some 400,000 comments backing the rules, he said, appeared to originate from a mailing address based in Russia.

"The most suspicious activity has been by those supporting Internet regulation," said Hart.

A description of the process from the Federal Register :

The notice-and-comment process enables anyone to submit a comment on any part of the proposed rule. This process is not like a ballot initiative or an up-or-down vote in a legislature. An agency is not permitted to base its final rule on the number of comments in support of the rule over those in opposition to it. At the end of the process, the agency must base its reasoning and conclusions on the rulemaking record, consisting of the comments, scientific data, expert opinions, and facts accumulated during the prerule and proposed rule stages.

So whoever thought that flooding the site with automated comments could tip the balance either way (and there were millions
on both sides of the issue) was just flat wrong.

As is everyone on here moaning that this is a harbinger of the fall of democracy in the USA.

Lois Lerner and the IRS apologized for targeting conservative teams. That is a plain and obvious admission of guilt. Where's your proof that the IRS did the same under President Bush?

So in your retarded world you can take out a loan... Then never pay it back... Because reasons. Exploitation, or something.

You are a fucking imbecile.

Let's see what I said again:

Nope. I mean somebody got a mortgage where the rules were fixed, that is, set to take advantage of them, rather than repaired. If you want to call it relaxed in the sense that the banks weren't under enough scrutiny to keep them from being a bunch of crooks, that could also work, but somehow I doubt that you are quite honest enough to admit it, even though they were caught red-handed doing their robo-signing, their fake accounting, and their foreclosing on people who didn't even have a mortgage.

I suppose I might have said "keep themselves" to make it clearer, but that's not the source of your misapprehension, now is it?

So you, in your desire for hasty rhetoric, you completely ignored what I actually said, in favor of an empty and shallow remark that applies more often to folks like say, Donald Trump.

You know, one of the very same "rich" criminals that people like Archangel Michael and ScentCone sought to ignore as a source of perfidy.

Good on you, huh?

Michigan just jailed a woman in October for refusing to vaccinate. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Actually that's false:

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPSâ(TM)s research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

That an anonymous GOP donor funded research in the primary does nothing to change the fact that Hillary did as well, and did what she accused Trump of doing: conspiring with foreign interests to influence an election in the United States.

Why did you leave out the DNC paid for that report or Natlia got her entry into the US approved by Obama administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

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