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Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps:
At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower.
Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes:
Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."
Hillary lost. Get over it.
Using a trusted mass reference to detrimentally affect a multimillion dollar brand like.. "Trump Towers" is to invite a civil lawsuit that will be devastating. He can afford to out-lawer the idiot that pulled this. Google will not fall on their sword to protect an employee who puts their petty political activism above their brand as a trusted, reliable, and accurate reference.
Someone who is feeling all warm, fuzzy, and smug needs to polish up their resume and find a good attorney.
I bet you're a hoot at parties.
... on the constant mockery, this will be Dubya all over again, won't it?
Check that definition.
You need a refresher course on defamation. Political figures and other celebrities are fair game, IIRC from my torts class. And even if he were neither of the aforementioned, he'd have to show damages. Other than his yuge ego that is.
I bet they can't even vote.
Oooooo, sick bern.
Get it? Bern. As in Bernie Sanders. Oh that's right he lost, and then Hillary lost, but not for lack of cheating....er I mean trying.
Can we kick her, along with anyone who committed voter fraud on her behalf, out of the country if the recount comes up with her still loosing?
A few million illegal immigrants can stay in their place if they go. (If they don't go it means they hate all Mexicans.)
Here's proof - he visited Moscow in the past and talked to Putin a couple of times.
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Today they write supposedly comedic Amazon reviews.
And they wonder why the word "pussy" is the first one that comes to mind. I guess Trump grabbed you really good.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
I'm guessing you didn't do that well in your torts class. We aren't talking defamation, we're at least potentially talking about trademark tarnishment.
There of course has never been any case like this one would be -- a trademark so intimately tied to a personality who is also a public political figure. My guess is what *should* happen is First Amendment should beat trademark law, in that the intent was political rather than commercial.
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He is going to be our next president for the next ten years. You're not going to fight this, you're going to shut up, and like it. Get over it already. You're redefining what it means to be a sore loser. No matter what you do you're only getting more people to support God-Emperor Trump, and hate liberalism in all its forms. Congratulations, this is exactly why you lost, and why you will keep on losing.
He can only be elected to two 4 year terms (total of 8 years). I can't see him running as some one else's vice President running mate on the hope that the President would leave office and let him take over for a partial term to exceed the 2 term limit.
Maybe the reason it was out of fashion was because Obama was so boring.
The only things to mock him for were mom-jeans and big ears.
This new guy, he's pretty damn interesting. He practically writes the hecklers' material for them.
Seems to me that the owner of said trademark is doing a fine job of applying tarnish to it, every time he tweets.
At least until Trump opens up the libel laws (or passes new ones since Federal libel laws don't exist). Then, mocking the President will simply be illegal.
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Name licensing is how he's ran so many bankrupt businesses and still manages to walk away with money. "Dump Tower" won't affect those licenses. He creates a property, (e.g. the Scottish golf course) using third party investors money, promising them pie-in-sky. He licenses the Trump name to that property at an inflated rate with lock-in penalty. That business loses money hand over fist. Liquidators find that its cheaper to continue paying the name licensing than pay the penalty to terminate it, so they sell it with name bill attached. Trump profits from yet another bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, since he's busy ranting against the election, can I point out:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien-able Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
She won more votes, votes of equal more men, men whose votes ARE EQUAL under the constitution, she's the President elect of the United States. Trump is hoping to be the President elect of the electoral college.
Electoral College should not try to overrule the will of the people, and Trump cannot be President with so many conflicts of interests, thats a violation of Constitution’s emoluments clause. You can't have a Trump Brand USA (tm)
Even Trump doesn't think he won:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/27/13758538/donald-trump-vote-illegally-tweet
Which is correct, his Russian hacker friends cannot put him in power, and his foreign business partners cannot buy license to America.
Ah, the sweet display of irrational fear. Civics question: Which branch of government passes laws?
A brand that cannot trust its own own staff .... or a brand that cant secure its own tools ...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Hey the poor fella just wants a safe space as all the harassment against him is just a bunch of Orangism, though I have no idea what the hell it has to do with the Dutch.
As the grant parent pointed out, perhaps the left will realize what a shit idea clamping down on speech is and stop pushing for that so called kind of progressivism. At the least the Republicans spun off their ultra-loony and fringe elements into the Tea Party. Democrats tried to embrace their own inner crazy instead of pondering whether something with such a bilious taste might not be good for them.
Oh, please. Don't pretend that mocking Obama and mocking Trump are anywhere near the same thing. That's stupid. But then again, voting for Trump is about as stupid as you can get, so I'm not all that surprised that you don't get it.
I don't respond to AC's.
She won by 2 million votes.
AMERICAN votes too, not Russian ones.
The Judicial Branch?
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Ok explain to me why this is okay, but this isn't?
Why is this okay but this isn't?
If you say because one is black and the other is white then you are the textbook definition of a racist.
Hillary lost. Get over it.
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking tight races.
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
"The rules existed when the the race started"
The rules said clear as day, that hacking election websites using foreign government hackers, and using that data to forge absentee ballots in swing states is espionage.
What part of Trump lost by 2 million votes do your Ruskies not understand?
And so much for accepting the results of the election.
I can't wait to hear Tim Kaine squeal like a pig when a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court is rammed through using the nuclear option, after he stated he was looking forward to using the nuclear option to ram President HIllary!'s nominations through the newly Democrat-controlled Senate. Ooops. You reap what you sow...
Gotta love that double standard.
Hey the poor fella just wants a safe space as all the harassment against him is just a bunch of Orangism, though I have no idea what the hell it has to do with the Dutch.
As the grant parent pointed out, perhaps the left will realize what a shit idea clamping down on speech is and stop pushing for that so called kind of progressivism. At the least the Republicans spun off their ultra-loony and fringe elements into the Tea Party. Democrats tried to embrace their own inner crazy instead of pondering whether something with such a bilious taste might not be good for them.
LEFT?
REALIZE?
SHIT IDEA?!?!
Those smug crybullies?
I ain't holding my breath.
First you have to prove that his trademark wasn't already tarnished. Settling a fraud lawsuit for $25,000,000.00 sort of puts a little patina on it. How do you prove that having "Dump Towers" on Google maps for a few minutes is what did the damage and not him talking about grabbing women's pussies?
Before this Google maps prank, you already had bookings at Trump hotels way down.
You are welcome on my lawn.
One of the reviews was very insightful in that it pointed out that this $149 ornament was MADE IN CHINA. Trump supporters are suckers. He doesn't give a flying fuck about you. Neither does Hillary, but she isn't selling $149 ornaments. What a joke.
I guess they don't teach US civics in Russia.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I don't recall any election during my lifetime when the elected party has been on the receiving end of such disrespect. It's a disgusting example of what we've become I'm afraid.
They love Trump in the UK:
http://janeygodley.com/wp-cont...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Maybe because one of them has a clue how government actually works, and the other doesn't? You ever think of that? Of course not. To Trump supporters, facts don't matter.
Who judged any if them okay or not? I personally think the former are okay (mocking the person) and the latter are not (implying violence toward the person). But that's me.
It's cause Obama isn't shit his pants stupid
Anyone can add a pin, not just Google employees. Google need not be complicit it these actions.
Maybe because one of them has a clue how government actually works, and the other doesn't? You ever think of that? Of course not. To Trump supporters, facts don't matter.
Facts like it's the Electoral vote not the popular vote that matters.
Facts like Congress has no obligation to confirm nor even hold hearings on whoever the president selects for an appointed position.
Facts like arm ownership is a conditionally protected right.
No you're right, facts don't matter to the left.
The parent post is another example of the left resorting to personal attacks. As a note to the parent post, if you are going to call someone stupid, you should end your sentences with a grammatically correct period.
Voting for a racist was a great way to make your point.
talking about trademark tarnishment.
How much will daddy have to pay Ivanka for the damage that he did to her brand?
For shame.
And now I'll ask for evidence of Donald Trump's racism, and you'll say "David Duke!!!"
Go on, make my day...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Clearly, I must be one of those self-hating, heterosexual white males.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
They are racist against the human race. Clearly.
Yes. Yes you are. Just like you accuse people like Ben Carsons of being.
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
Mocking Obama was always fine.
Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist. Just like mocking Hillary with obviously sexist insults was sexist.
Just because it's possible to mock Obama or Hillary without being racist or sexist doesn't mean that any offensive thing you say magically becomes not racist or sexist.
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That's the sentiment you're expressing. It is not, not matter how you feel right this moment, a positive thing. Letting base feelings govern our country instead of reason and humanity is a bad thing all around. Somewhere in you you've got to know this.
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Dude, this is the internet age. It doesn't take much of a google search to know you're either drinking the kool aid or full of shit.
One search. That's all you need to do to educate yourself. But its too much to ask. Typical Trumpy. You want everything handed to you. You can't compete on your merits, so you cry "Its Racism. Its all the blacks and mexicans getting an unfair advantage and taking all our jobs."
Here's your search: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=racist+shit+trump+has+said
But since that's probably too much for you to click here's a summary
- He tweets racist quotes.
- He operated apartment building that didn't rent to blacks.
- His closest advisers are white supremacists.
- Blacks were not allowed to work the floor in his casinos when he was at the casino.
- He wants a ban on immigration, for Muslims.
- He thinks Mexicans are rapists and thieves.
- He thinks blacks are lazy.
- He hates it that there are blacks in his accounting department. He rather they were jews.
I could go on, but you already made up your mind weeks ago. This is wasted on you.
Because of the long history of black people being likened to apes, originally out of ignorance but now out of malice (which is still often combined with ignorance) but you knew that.
she's a progressive. Not necessarily a great one, but she is at least trying. You're massively underestimating the height of the bar she was trying to leap, the amount of effort needed and the compromises required to get even close to what she was trying to do. For one thing, she was poised to put single payer back on the table (Mr Clinton was going around talking about it).
Well, America just pissed that all away for good 'ole fashion apathy. Trump got the Republican base out just like Rhomey did. Clinton couldn't get the Blacks and Latinos out. She couldn't get them excited with vague promises... Meanwhile Trump promised them the world. Lies, all lies of course. But it _felt_ good.
Sad thing is those Blacks and Latinos are really going to regret staying home. Trump's cabinet isn't going to do them any favors, and somebody's got to fill all those private prisons...
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Your caps lock got stuck.
Because of the long history of black people being likened to apes, originally out of ignorance but now out of malice (which is still often combined with ignorance) but you knew that.
Your racist argument boils down to Obama is black and Bush is white.
Your boring got stuck on 'on.'
It's called historical context, you stupid anonymous fuck. Pick up a history textbook that's not from Texas and learn something.
I don't respond to AC's.
Once you've had 2 terms in office (or at least more than 50% of two terms in office), you are ineligible, period. You get skipped. And since the VP's entire reason for existence is tied to taking over for an incapacitated president, you can't be VP either. You can go back and be a senator, but you'll be ineligible for pro-tem duty, and should there be a major disaster, you'll be skipped in the line of succession.
Such is the wrath of the 22nd.
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How do you prove that having "Dump Towers" on Google maps for a few minutes is what did the damage and not him talking about grabbing women's pussies?
You have a point, but so far I haven't heard about Trump suing whoever released that recording of a private conversation. It certainly makes sense that he could, if he thought it was important enough to do so.
But it's not.
Suck on it, losers.
It's called one is black the other is white.
Fixed that for you. Also again the left resorting to personal attracts. Let me lay it out to you because you're too stupid to under stand it. If it was no okay to refer to black people as monkeys in the past. It's also not okay to refer to any one as a monkey in the present.
Also black people weren't the only people lynched by mobs in the past.
Again the left resort to personal attacks when they have no valid arguments.
You'd probably find that many educated non-Americans know as much or more about US civics than most Americans.
You're the one who is supposed to say smug stuff like that about the stupid Americans, dintcha know?
He threatens lawsuits, but as expected, he doesn't follow through. Trump will never sue anyone for libel or releasing or reporting on a private conversation, because he worries about what would be learned in the discovery phase. This is a guy who was comfortable with his teenaged daughter being called a "piece of ass". He's a urinal cake.
https://variety.com/2016/tv/ne...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Can't wait to get it.
Dear me. It's not wrong to liken anyone to a monkey but if you liken a white person to a monkey, it will be taken to mean that you are racist, insensitive or ignorant, because why else would you do that? To further racial equality?
Fixed that for you.
Trump's not going to get any work done! He'll be orange and blue in the face from all the apologies he's going to be constantly demanding, with so many people being rude to him.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation. The positives will just keep coming. The media is supposed to exist in eternal opposition to the government, but during Obama they twisted their purpose and became pro-government mouthpieces. They were caught red-handed supporting Hillary's campaign. California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Clearly you haven't spent much time reading tweets from "progressive" liberals lately.
Who is this Hillary person you speak of and why should I care about her?
Anyhow, if you think the Birther thing wasn't about race I have a wonderful bridge to sell you. It's a great deal, you really don't want to miss it.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
I don't know if you noticed, but there was no shortage of criticism of President Obama. You may be confused because there were so many racist criticisms of Obama that were mocked. When you have idiots coming up with conspiracy theories abut 57 Islamic States and Gold curtains in the White House, what do you expect? Not to mention bad photoshops.
Not to mention ignorant and inaccurate criticisms, that while not racist, still deserved to be mocked.
Your own fault really, for letting them prosper. If you wanted to be taken seriously, you should have cleaned your own house. Did you ever even try?
No, you were completely silent even when Trump himself was ranting about Obama's birth certificate on Twitter? Huh?
Of course, the worst part for you would be that the strongest criticisms of Obama would come from the left. The Affordable Care Act, for example, was a right-wing sop to insurance companies with far too little for the public.
With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Ok, here's your chance. Go ahead, practice what you preach.
Let us know any criticisms you can bring yourself to make about Trump.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation. The positives will just keep coming.
Hah. They couldn't find out anything on their own during 8 years of Bush II. They barely managed to catch Iran-Contra, and were almost distracted by Abscam.
The media is supposed to exist in eternal opposition to the government, but during Obama they twisted their purpose and became pro-government mouthpieces. They were caught red-handed supporting Hillary's campaign.
Sure man, that's why they spent the 8 years of Obama's administration completely failing to report any denunciation of the GOP's false claims, completely dismissing the successes of Obama, and why half of the network CEOS admitted that Trump's campaign was good for their ratings.
California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
Sure man, if you believe that is a problem, take the voter rolls and chase down the non-citizens yourself. Present some evidence. Trump didn't, you know.
Seems like something you could criticize. You know, if you weren't a total Trump sycophant.
That's why you have to roll with it. Next, when Trump makes up a story about an invasion from Mars, you'll insist there really are space invaders. After all, what else would a Green Party be about?
Illegal human beings?
Yeah, they're all a bunch of bad hombres. Real pussies. Islamic terrorists, every last one of 'em.
If you're waiting for Putin to send in the Soviet military to rescue you, I think you ought to know . . . there are certain areas of New York I would advise them not to invade.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands? What if you would do the same with Obama and mock him about his skin color, his hair, his large hands? Don't you see the hypocrisy? Doesn't even one single person in mainstream media thinks about that? Do you really think that nobody cares about this hypocrisy? Well I do care. I don't care for Trump, but I do care that apparently it is okay to be racist against white people, but everything a white person says can be considered racism.
The problem is that anti-racism is based on the color of the skin. Europe is a diverse continent. Every 40-50 km to the east, west, north or south you have a different culture with different dialects, different food, different habits, different cultural expressions, sometimes even different languages.
Yet socialist people are often convinced that the whole of Europe is mono-cultural. Not only is it mono-cultural, but mono-cultural is extremely bad and should be fought by importing as many people as possible to create that much wanted multi-culture. Multi-culture is extremely good. Not only has there to be multi-culture, all cultures should interbreed to create a new human species with one shade of brown. In that multicultural species all good values of all cultures will be saved while bad elements are bred out. This is the common idea of many socialist, liberal and christian politicians shared by their followers. The people who are now in charge share this view on the future.
Now you can turn and twist this ideology in every way possible. It is an extremely racist ideology and it is extremely offending. I don't want these politicians in power. But something happened in the 90's. More and more parties from the left the the right have accepted this ideology. I don't know where it came from, who was behind it, who thinks this is a great idea. Of course there will be opposition against this idea of multiculturalism. But you can't dismiss any opposition to multiculturalism that is extremely racist at its core, as racist. What mainstream media today calls populism and racism is the only opposition to the scary ideology that is being spread. What sane person wants to live in a new Lebanon? Opponents talk about cultural Marxism, since it's almost the same concept as the economic 'soviet worker'.
When Fidel Castro died, the masks started to fall off. When the first 'right' politician started to remember him as a well love person and the greatest politician of the 20th century, many politicians followed with their praise of an in my opinion evil dictator, even from self proclaim right wing politicians... The danger of today doesn't come from 'far right extremist', the danger comes from the 'far left'. Go
Once Trump gained the candidacy it was never about Hillary. A turnip would make for a more qualified president.
Too bad you don't want that bridge ... Funny though, Trump actually displayed more insight when he observed that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and his base wouldn't mind. There is nothing that would convince you that the man has a racist bone in his body.
What, no dreidels or candelabra?
Good. As a Jew, I'm frankly quite happy to be classed in with those who practice Islam. What's that old bit about the enemy of my enemy?
Waaaah, crybaby conservatism lol.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Well I do care. I don't care for Trump, but I do care that apparently it is okay to be racist against white people, but everything a white person says can be considered racism.
It's not OK to be racist against white people.
Thankfully it's also relatively rare (at least compared to racism against non-whites).
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I only use grammatically incorrect periods. To annoy you.
Hey the poor fella just wants a safe space as all the harassment against him is just a bunch of Orangism, though I have no idea what the hell it has to do with the Dutch.
As the grant parent pointed out, perhaps the left will realize what a shit idea clamping down on speech is and stop pushing for that so called kind of progressivism. At the least the Republicans spun off their ultra-loony and fringe elements into the Tea Party. Democrats tried to embrace their own inner crazy instead of pondering whether something with such a bilious taste might not be good for them.
LEFT?
REALIZE?
SHIT IDEA?!?!
Those smug crybullies?
I ain't holding my breath.
People like you make me wonder why we even bother with this representative democracy shit, seeing as how you guys are always right anyway and the everybody else is always wrong. What humanity should be doing is appointing you guys it's overlords and chosen dictators for life. Why don't they all just see the light? I ain't holding my breath but they really should see the bright light of universal truth that shines out of your mouth.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation.
Even if that were true (and IMHO is not) that would do no more than speak volumes about the poor quality of the right wing press. However, the right wing has always proven to be every bit as adept as their left wing colleagues at digging up dirt on people which belies your statement.
I burst out laughing when I got here. I'm sure we can get the Republicans to purge the people who say mean things right after the Democrats purge their cop killers, their terrorists and sympathizers, and the KKK.
See that "Preview" button?
this nontech story would have been unthinkable here a decade ago. It would have been hated a few years ago. Today, it is part of the norm.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Trump, much like many other public figures with an elevated sense of self worth, tends to keep these jokes alive with his reaction to them. I bet Bill Maher never dreamt he would get the mileage he got out of that ridiculous orangutan joke. Trump's attorney even sent Maher Trump's short form birth certificate which allowed Maher to demand, oh irony of ironies, that Trump present his long form birth certificate. That joke would have flown off into the ether and been forgotten 10 seconds after it was made if Trump had not raised a stink about it.
"anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist"
Nope. This is simply not true. But keep being intellectually lazy, I'm sure it's really easy - just believe what you want to believe about the world without looking up the facts, then repeat them for others to consume. Just smear your shit all over the screen. No problem.
Here's SNL mocking Obama, and they were not called racist for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
Mocking Obama was always fine. [...] Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist.
I seem to remember, during Bush's presidency, a popular website named www.bushorchimp.com, on which users would submit pairs of photos - one of Bush, and one of a chimpanzee - in which the two subjects had a similarity of posture or other resemblance.
If a similar site had mocked Obama in exactly the same way, would you consider it racist? Do you think the media would consider it racist?
Your question is like asking me to provide proof that I can swim just after you watched me in a meet. It's fucking nuts.
Either you believe in the electoral college, in which case the election hasn't happened yet because per the constitution they are supposed to exercise independent judgement, despite the mediocre penalties some states would levy. In which case, Hillary Clinton remains a valid option however unlikely an option you may view her or however much you may dislike that reality.
All that would need to happen is for some electors to view Trump as dangerous to the country, to the future of the Republican party, or just simply bad.
Alternatively you believe in democracy, not in an archaic relic of a slavers' era, and therefore believe the popular vote should decide this election. That is you believe the electoral college should, until it's abolished, follow our strong democratic tradition rather than the republic framework in place and allow the peoples' choice, Hillary Clinton, to be president.
In either situation, you cannot call anyone a cry baby and be rational.
The lefties still do not accept defeat. They want to cheat Trump out of his victory.
You should now do the following:
I. Go to the streets and peacefully show your support for Trump. That impresses the Marxists, Maoists and their Bankster overlords most.
II. Go to the comment sections of all the Bankster rags like NYTIMES, CNN, THE ECONOMIST and voice your support for Trump.
III. Oversee the "recount" and make sure they do not manipulate.
"Godwinning" the opposite side of a discussion is one of the oldest tricks of the lefties and their bankster overlords.
"I call you a nazi and therefore you must accept all my demands and hand all your bills. We leave your CHANGE".
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
Google overlords met the Mad Kim of North Korea. That means Google does the bidding of North Korea ?
It would explain some things :-)
Seriously. GET A GRIP.
They never accept any rules, and fair play, if it means conceding power to somebody else.
You should now do the following:
I. Go to the streets and peacefully show your support for Trump. That impresses the Marxists, Maoists and their Bankster overlords most.
II. Go to the comment sections of all the Bankster rags like NYTIMES, CNN, THE ECONOMIST and voice your support for Trump.
III. Oversee the "recount" and make sure the lefties and other Bankster agents do not manipulate.
While Trump MIGHT have burned a few billions, your ilk, and your puppets Hillary, Bush and Obama have handed the banksters thousands of billions. That "property" now hangs around the neck of your fellow Americans in the form of massively increased public debt.
Dozens of millions of your compatriots have seen their jobs shipped to China, so that New York could make a quick buck. But that was not enough for Hillary, she also allowed herself to be bribed by the REAL Nazis of 2016 - the Wahabists of Riad.
Why are we surprised you do not concede ? Out fault to expect fair play from you criminals !
People ! Go to the street and show your support for Trump!
You are the fair players, ever since you exterminated the Romanovs in 1917 and the proceeded to kill millions of Russians in cold blood.
Hillary was the agent of
A) New York Banksters. Those who stole TRILLIONS without any serious punishment.
B) Riad Nazis. Those who actually kill in cold blood in 2016.
C) Corporations who fire Americans or Germans and then replace them with cheap Indians. Because it is cheaper to fund a family back in India in some slum. Who needs Americans or Germans, when we can have the New World Order rule of the corporations ?
She got what she deserved and democracy worked exactly as it was supposed to do.
They love Trump in the UK:
http://janeygodley.com/wp-cont...
Perhaps she misspelled "cute"... then again, I didn't see a white cane leaning up against her ;-)
I wish Obama WAS the guy Republicans kept saying he was... that guy would use his constitutional right to appoint Garland in the recess period and give the senate a last major fuck you.
The actual Obama is too damn nice to you idiots.
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>There is nothing that would convince you that the man has a racist bone in his body.
If a picture surfaced tomorrow of Trump slobbering David Duke's knob under his old grand wizard robes - they STILL wouldn't believe he's had a racist's bone in his mouth !
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No. You know what was called racist ?
When you people attacked the president for the EXACT SAME SHIT that you PRAISED when Bush did them - and got your panties in a bunch in wild-assed conspiracy theories.
Republicans praised the military for doing exercises in Texas in 2003. The then-governor Rick Perry held a party to welcome them.
When they held the EXACT SAME excercises in 2012 - half of Texas were trying to get them kicked out, the governor sent the state guard to monitor them and everybody was declaring that they were really being deployed as the first stage for Obama to declare martial law and become dictator.
Notice how the events were IDENTICAL but the REACTION was completely different - THAT was the racism. When the exact same thing looks evil JUST because it's the black guy doing it.
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> And now I'll ask for evidence of Donald Trump's racism, and you'll say "David Duke!!!"
Paul Ryan: Trump's Comments on Judge 'Textbook Definition of Racist Comment' and 'Indefensible'
When even the republicans are calling you racist, you are 100% racist.
Check Wikipedia. Mrs Stein is the same type of people who tried to take over Russia. Like Khodorkovsky or Timoshenko. They are raised as elitists, they get excellent education, they are big in finance. Then they think they are invincible, they can do whatever they please:
- Ruin Russia. Sell the riches to their foreign friends, while their compatriots suffer hunger.
- Ruin the US. Sell off the riches to China. Fire Americans, hire cheap Indians. Hang a millstone of debt around the necks of the 99%
- Make sure the president is their puppet: Bush, Obama, Clinton. Well, now we are where we are. They are offended that their "acceptable" candidate did not make it.
What you must do:
+ Go to the streets and voice your support for the president you elected
+ Go to the comment sections and voice your support
+ Don't be a sheep, be a patriotic warrior
+ Wear sunglasses and keep your rifle well oiled, ammo stocked.
Way to beat the straw man. Not all mocking of Obama was racist, just the ones calling him a monkey or referencing watermelons.
we know your agitation and propaganda techniques. the louder you shout, the deeper hole you dig for yourself. keep going.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
I disagree. I shared that image on social media, sadly it failed to take, probably because I didn't add any snappy text caption. I thought the bottles did the job, but I guess not. I got zero accusations of racism. Absolutely zero, and I have some pretty PC types in my feed. I come from Santa Cruz, see? Only the racism was necessarily called racism.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Have you considered that he may not KNOW who did it ?
It's generally very difficult to sue somebody you can't identify - serving process requires an address.
If's entirely possible that after he takes office, and command of America's surveilance state, that lawsuit will come.
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>He's a urinal cake.
Hey now, that's not fair. Urinal cakes are actually worth pissing on.
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While Trump is only worth pissing off.
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I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
What utter bullshit. Know how I know you're a Trump voter? It's because you invent your own version of reality then get outraged about it.
There was plenty of criticism aimed at Obama with no racial overtones and not shouted down as racist. I had some pretty strong words to say about TTIP, for example, but no one called me racist for criticising Obama about that. If you were getting shouted down as racist, then it's probably because you were being racist.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Nice use of a Neo-marxist neologism.
Nice that you're yet another useful tool.
anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist
That's demonstrably untrue. Just search YouTube for SNL sketches about Obama, for example.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I'm sure we can get the Republicans to purge the people who say mean things right after the Democrats purge their cop killers, their terrorists and sympathizers, and the KKK.
The KKK voted for Trump, so it's the reps who are going to have to purge them. The vast majority of terrorist attacks on American soil have been by white conservatives, so that's the republicans again. And the democrats will purge the cop killers just as soon as the republicans purge the killer cops. It's the safest time in history to be a cop in America, but they're killing more and more citizens every year. It's not a war on cops. It's a war by cops.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Amazing how you have eyes that can see into the very soul of a man and judge him for things he never did or said.
Are you a god?
Hah. If that had happened to a Clinton or Obama property, the label would have been "malicious hackers". The double standard being so blatant is just so amusing, and I voted third party.
Wouldn't the small hands thing be counted as body shaming though? Isn't it typically considered only the thing an asshole would do to mock somebody over something that's known they are insecure about? Face it, you're just as much of an asshole as he is.
And as to the statement that it's relatively rare to be racist against whites is horse shit. I've personally been told on multiple occasions to "check your white privilege" when I tried to talk about systemic problems I encounter. That in its base is trivializing problems of whites, which is fundamentally racist. Argue whites don't have it as bad as others and I'll agree, argue that it's rare and I'll argue until the end of time that you're wrong.
Wow, your shitty OC that no-one ever saw and thus was never called racist didn't get called racist, therefore no-one else who wasn't racist didn't get called racist.
Ladies and gentlement and genderqueers of all types, I present to you: liberal logic!
This would have merit... if there was ACTUAL proof of racism in the last decade from Trump.
It would also have merit... if the left didn't militantly ignore ACTUAL proofs of racism from the left.
The problem is simply this: Trump wasn't racist until he became a Republican. At that point, the SAME THINGS the Clinton's did (anti-illegal immigration, MAGA, etc) are racist from Trump but not from Hillary. At the same point ACTUAL racism ("Super Predators", "CP time", "Hot Sauce" in the purse, taco bowl voters, wikileak emails calling blacks/Muslims/illegals lazy, etc) gets ignored. ACTUAL working with people of all color/creed/sexual orientations/etc (Trumps LOOOOONG history including pictures with Rosa Parks and awards from the likes of Jesse Jackson) gets brushed under the rug.
Until the left acknowledges the hypocrisy and double standards? It's all bullshit. Trump is FAAAAAAAR from perfect... but he's not the demon the left claims him to be. Their escape from reality is why the Republicans control 25 states and both houses... while the democrats control 4 states.
Wow, your shitty OC that no-one ever saw and thus was never called racist didn't get called racist, therefore no-one else who wasn't racist didn't get called racist.
Well, I shared it here on Slashdot, and got a couple hundred hits immediately, then almost nobody else ever saw it. But I also shared it on Fb into a group which I know contains people who like to make accusations of privilege and plenty of 'em saw it. And I posted it on G+, where (in spite of its massive unpopularity) I have at least around a hundred active subscribers. So, several hundred people saw it, lots of them are mouthy, and nobody called me racist.
As I said, it didn't exactly take off like a rocket. But more than enough people saw it to accuse me of racism if that was going to happen.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
True, but not nearly as BIG a threat to democracy as giving the white house to a known fascist demagogue.
The electoral college was invented for one reason and one reason only: to over-rule the voters and deny Trump the presidency.
The fact that they won't is all the proof you need that the thing is obsolete.
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At least it wasn't sexist when we mocked Obama's husband Chewbacca.
Easily sorted so we can cull the subhuman Left without remorse.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
For wont of mod points...
One side of the political fence has decided that it's allowed to be obnoxious, arrogant, sanctimonious, and sophomoric while complaining that that's how the other side behaves.
Hillary Clinton isn't a progressive in any way at all. She pushed the actual progressives, especially Sanders, out of the way during the primaries because it was her turn. She's a neocon and her time in office would have been filled with more middle eastern wars (or maybe an exciting war with Russia!) and corporate hegemony-building. Nothing about her political past suggests that she's every even tried to be a progressive. Where are you getting this from?
Progressives didn't fail to vote for her out of apathy, but because she had nothing of substance to offer them. The only votes she got were from party loyalists who looked no farther than the "D" and from lesser-of-two-evils votes against Trump. Very very few people voted for her.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
Hardly. I see no hew and cry to see Trump's birth certificate. Is the irony of Trump being the progenitor of the Birther Movement completely lost on you?
Yeah, that's because you were already a leftist. But seriously, how can you be a leftist and be for right-wing things like nationalism? Hillary promised us more and more and more globalism, and fuck the American worker. Her plan was to give citizenship to fuckloads of Syrians, WTF? How would that possibly help the American people?
How can you be simultaneously pro-Obama and anti-globalism? That's like being pro-Hitler and pro-Semite. They're two ideas that don't go together.
The whole "calling people racist for disagreeing with Obama's globalist vision of the future" went out of fashion the day after Election Day. Maybe you didn't get the memo?
If you want to know how we ended up like this, please watch this video: "President Trump: How & Why...". It is a must-view for people exactly like you for how the level of political discourse got so low. It's by a leftist, so you know he's telling the truth and has been fact-checked. It's really sad what he's saying and it is all 100% true.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I was going to say "Gonzalo Curiel!!!"
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
GNU tool for decades, but the neo-marxist label is new.
He's not a demon at all. Actually enjoyed him as an entertainer. The man is just dangerously unstable and mentally unfit to be president.
Switch him out for Pence and I am all good. I don't subscribe to any of Pence's political beliefs, but clearly the guy has some governing experience and is mentally stable.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
Yeah, the racist bastard!. And since the NYT is completely unbiased, everything is clear now!
Peace is easy to achieve, just surrender. Liberty is much harder get/keep.
Glad to hear that this helped. And I agree, the NYT was very biased against Hillary.
any right wing source mocking Obama. Hell, I had multiple Lefty friends call me racist for being pissed about the whole Fast and Furious debacle, because it involved Holder and I mentioned Obama should have handled it better. Because I was criticizing two black men.
That's not racist, that's hypocritical.
Hypocritical: I hate Obama for doing what Bush did.
Racist: I hate Obama for being black.
Perhaps it was just partisan based hypocrites, and not race based? Don't be so quick to jump on that nonsense. There's a good chance had Gore been in office, it would have been the same thing.
The amount of constant panicking conspiracy theories can only be explained by people being truly scared to their bones of Obama. Since his center right policies contained nothing to fear, not once, the fear (never seen of past democrats - not even FDR, JFK or carter who were far more socialist than Obama) that does not fit your explanation.
The fear and hatred Obama evoked was unique. Trump may match it but his actual policies inspire that fear. People are right to be scared they may lose the insurance paying for their lifesaving meds if he repeals the ACA. People are right to worry he could lead to their marriages losing legal status and their families torn appart. He promised to do those things
But for Obama there was no reason to be afraid - the fear had no connection to his ideas or words or actions. The only explanation left is his identity. When you have eliminated all other possibilities whatever is left, however improbable, must be true.
And this was a panicked response. It was not a sudden reversal of opinion on a policy (that would be mere hypocrisy) it was a panicked belief that he was trying to become a tyrant. That kind of irrational fear is not explicable by run if the mill politics.
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He is going to be our next president for the next ten years.
He'll only be our next president until January 20th.
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Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
Yeah, I remember conservative cartoonist publishing a cartoon with Obama's kids as dancing monkeys and conservative were not only okay with this obvious racism but even defended it! Only people on the right seem to think its okay to attack children and to portray minority as monkeys. Oh wait...
I am Jewish. It's cunts like you back in '36 that gave us the shoah.
You mean the birther thing that came from Hillary's camp? That birther thing? And... why does the birther thing have to be racist? Dems tried it against McCain after all... Projection? Feels a lot like it, at least.
>Perhaps you were just saying racist things?
I remember a senator or some figure who, upon learning Barack Obama was running for president, said he was a good, smart, sharp, clean cut man who would make a great candidate.
Guess who got up in arms about the word 'clean' and reminded us all that such a description was rasiss? It was announced that to use the word clean really meant that the senator, (and other white people), actually consider his race to normally be dirty, yet Barak was the outlier and now acceptable because he was clean.
All because of a compliment. There are those with an axe to grind, a chip on the shoulder, or race baiting- as to 'never forget'. There are non-white racists. Such a position is given wide berth actually. Remember Travon Martin's girlfriend recalling her last phone conversation with him? And how they both referred to Zimmerman with racial slurs? She was begged by her lawyers to not take the stand because of the potential for her to look stupid.
Guess what- it turned out not to matter and she was praised by the media for her candid vernacular. She claimed such language was 'not racists only slang' and that she & Travon meant nothing by it. By framing her use of racists slurs as just a pro-noun for another person, she got a pass.
Anyway, not defending racism- merely noting your use of white guilt to keep the poster in check. It is fashionable these days to hate oneself.
Last I checked there was no debate about where McCain was born. Apples and oranges, and the Hillary projection has been debunked so many times ...
Trump kept the thing alive even after Obama's birth certificate was released. It was a dog whistle and you heard it as clearly as all the other birthers.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all? Despite evidence that this attitude is alienating huge swathes of swing voters and young independents?
How about this: when it comes to politicians, "proposing policies that would discriminate based on race" is racism. Nothing more, nothing less.
The really, really sad part of this election is Trump's policies (such as they were) re: police brutality and Mexican immigration had a ton of holes. The left could have easily torn them to pieces; instead, they choose to howl and howl not just "Trump is racist" but also "Why aren't you leaping up and down and frothing at the mouth like we are?? We said TRUMP IS RACIST!!!!!" and now "It's not ok. It's not normal. A RACIST is soon going to be in the White House!!!!"
Replace racist with Communist if you cannot see how dumb this strategy appears from the outside. It makes you look weak and unable to engage in actual policy debate.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all?
Nope.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all?
Nope.
Fair enough. But it's people like you who are responsible for the waning left and the rise of the alt-right. Just so you know.
Fortunately this is one of those problems that will eventually take care of itself, one case of untreated influenza at a time. The new generation, though they are (fortunately) left-leaning, has by and large lost patience for hysteria-based and witch-hunt politics.
Fair enough. But it's people like you who are responsible for the waning left and the rise of the alt-right. Just so you know.
Nope to that, too. Because I live in Canada and hardly ever interact with heartland Americans outside the series of tubes.
Oh, we have people like you down here. (I didn't say you personally.) And despite popular reports, enough right wingers (in addition to a few left wingers like myself) down here are aware enough of Europe's existence to view it as a cautionary tale as to what happens when the left is allowed to get too smugly self-absorbed in imagined grievances that they forget the real ones.
How is your Human Rights Commission doing these days? And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah, or is it still considered kosher (a word I use advisedly) to imply that only West- and women-haters are permitted to be the official voice for the Islamic community?
Oh, we have people like you down here.
Not enough.
And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah?
About as much as Joe 'You Lie' Wilson.
BTW Mitchell is not a cabinet member but a senator. Senators are appointed for life. There's no easy way to get rid of them. Probably easier to abolish the senate all together, which has been under discussion on and off over the years that I lived here.
BTW I am very thankful we have outspoken, progressive Muslims like Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah up here. They provide a much needed reality check.
Nope, it doesn't. You shouldn't comment on legal matters. You obviously have no knowledge of the subject.
John Doe lawsuits are common. You sue John Doe for the damage, then use the court's powers of subpoena to identify the human that John Doe represents, and replace John Doe with the culprit. That's quite common. And you should know about that, being on Slashdot, as it's essentially what media companies suing uploaders do. Sue the IP, then attach a person to it later.
Learn to love Alaska
Have you never heard him talk about Mexicans and the need for the wall? Have you never heard him talk about Muslims?
Learn to love Alaska
California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
A picture of a form with no context is proof of nothing. Most states require proof of citizenship to get a state ID. Some places will allow a person to "vote" without an ID, but require proof of citizenship to get on the voter rolls. So your photo of nothing shows nothing and proves nothing.
Learn to love Alaska
Not walking back anything, as an entertainer his racism wasn't of much consequence. You know I enjoy Wagner operas, too. Despite Wagner's well documented antisemitism.
Can't help it, if you have a reading comprehension problem.
But Google should have known that there are people in this country who hate fascism and racism. Google should have been prepared. FAIL.
Yeah, that's because you were already a leftist.
Don't tell anyone this. There's actually a secret cabal of leftists. Not only do we have a secret handshake in real life, but there's also a database of known leftists and rightists. We have a browser plugin that highlights usernames with a known party affiliation on many common forums.
That's why no one ever called me racist for criticising Obama, you see. Instead of reading what I wrote and deciding if my criticisms had racial overtones, they simply saw the little "leftist" flag next to my name. For you of course they saw the bright red flashing warning sign of a rightist.
Or you know people actually read what I wrote.
How can you be simultaneously pro-Obama and anti-globalism?
Because I'm capable of realising that I like some things Obama does/did while disliking others. Overall, I think he was a decent president despite some bad missteps.
Thing is you're viewing the world through your ludicrously partisan lens (rah rah left bad rah rah right good) and don't seem to realise that not everyone blindly cheers on "their team" in the same way that you do. In fact, some people don't feel an affiliation to any political party especially strongly.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
You're an idiot. I've been dead for seven years.
Okay, I used to come to Slashdot for technology news and information. I've gotta find a new place to get real factual technology related news and dump all this Slashdot political and click-bait crap. At least for the next four years so I can avoid the constant bickering.
So, anyone recommend another site I can start visiting with actual Technology news and nothing but real actual technology news?
Yeah he's such a dood he has put more whistle-blowers in prison and killed more IS citizens without trial than any other President. Rock on Bro!
You fucking idiot.
They endorsed Clinton.
The NYT actually RAN THEIR ARTICLES THROUGH HILLARY'S CAMPAIGN.
Even the liberal shitrag Rolling Stone called them out on their pro-Hillary propaganda bullshit.
What fucking PLANET were you on this whole fucking election? Were you attempting to be the first human to drink a full gallon of Mercury in the course of a year?
About time to leave your echo chamber and enter another one, where the MSM gave tons of free air time to Trump and the NYT is down on Hillary:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...
Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist
Actually Obama is white. He's half white. He's just as white as he is black. His actions through his time in office shows just how white. Whiter than white sometimes. He's actually whiter than I am yet I need a government card to prove that. Without the card then I am white. but I am only 1/4 white.
I really wish whites and blacks also had to carry a card to show their whiteness and blackness.
I never said he is perfect, he just isn't who republicans claimed he was. The things you complained about - liberals also disliked, that's why we wanted an actual leftist this time. Why Sanders had so much support.
But republicans acted like he was Fidel Castro, when in fact, he was the most Reagan-like president since Reagan himself ! And frankly - those scandals, bad as they are, pale in comparison to Reagan's scandals. At least Obama didn't actually commit high treason against the USA while he was president and then get a 4-star general to be his fall-guy.
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To be fair, undocumented citizens did receive assurances that they would not be deported if they voted: http://www.bizpacreview.com/20...
GOP politicians go on massive hunts looking for voter fraud after every election, and never comes up with anything but a small handful of people who were just confused.
Here's a list of ~400 people who were not just charged, but convicted of voter fraud: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws....
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
It's not OK to be racist against white people. Thankfully it's also relatively rare (at least compared to racism against non-whites).
That's a strange claim. I've seen a guy call for killing "cracker" babies, but I've never seen anyone call for killing black babies. (Directly, that is. Millions of them have been killed before birth; Dr. Martin Luther King's niece correctly pointed out that "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.")
it's the job of the Senate to ratify such a treaty
You are correct; and grandparent's point was that the Administration, knowing that the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA) with Iran -- which is a treaty by any reasonable definition* -- would not receive enough votes in the Senate, simply chose to implement the deal via executive action and not call it a treaty.
The Senate could have simply ignored this semantic maneuver and held an up or down vote on the treaty, but it did not. Instead, it allowed a treaty to go into effect without performing its Constitutional duty to ratify.
* A Wikipedia editor wrote, "The 159-page JCPOA document and its five appendices, is the most spacious text of a multinational treaty since World War II." This statement is sourced to a Persian-language BBC article.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
GOP politicians go on massive hunts looking for voter fraud after every election, and never comes up with anything but a small handful of people who were just confused.
Here's a list of ~400 people who were not just charged, but convicted of voter fraud: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws....
400 people over at least 8 elections.
About half are registering ineligible voters (no reason to think they actually voted, more likely someone trying to scam a turnout organization like happened to ACORN), or voting when ineligible (non-citizen? felon?).
There were only 7 cases of impersonation at a poll, and it's unclear how many voter ID laws (the major push for the GOP) would have stopped.
And I did see 32 cases of absentee ballot fraud.
Are there more than listed there? Of course.
But nothing that would sway an election, and certainly not "millions".
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Uh, that was his dad. You could at least read the article you use to back your misguided point. Also, the birther thing was started by the Hillary camp! Do some freaking research for Christ's sake. Not saying Donald didn't jump on that bandwagon, but he didn't start it...
Maybe in the past, but today? We're gonna need a citation for that claim. When you literally have people spray-painting "KILL WHITES" on buildings, it's safe to say we're past the point of racism against whites being rare.
Yes, the policy was started by his dad (who was also once arrested at a Klan's rally) but Jr. was aware of the policy and happily went along with it.
As to the birther Hillary origination story, that has been debunked so many times it's not even funny that you still believe it.