Anonymous sources inside the intelligence agencies tell me this is fake news. I can't give you any evidence, but you have to trust me and these anonymous sources. So I'm sure you're 100% on board with my political agenda now.
Or perhaps the system was rigged against Trump and he won anyway? Both the RNC and DNC nominating processes were rigged to choose their anointed candidates (Jeb and Hillary), just Trump had a plan to beat the RNC and Bernie didn't have a plan to beat the DNC. And a system where the media organizations are feeding debate questions to one side and acting as propaganda outlets while claiming to be impartial is certainly a rigged system.
When did Assange ever lie? You may not like his bias based on what he chooses to reveal or not, but to my knowledge I can't think of a single lie he's ever told.
Also, how would Assange know? Perhaps the person identified themselves. "Hi Julian, this is Seth Rich, DNC staffer. Here's the emails." We're pretty damn sure Assange knew he was getting the military intel dump from Bradley Manning from the chat logs. There's little to suggest Assange doesn't know where his information comes from. He would probably want to know where it comes from to help him verify the information so he can keep his 100% spotless record of never releasing anything that's been shown to be false.
But the Watergate burglars were caught. We have no evidence Russia did squat. And even if we did, okay, what do you want to do about it? Anoint Clinton to spite Russia? Go to war with Russia because Podesta can't spot a fucking phishing email?
How about instead, 1) don't do shady shit you wouldn't want the electorate finding out about like getting the debate questions early from the news network, and 2) practice better computer security.
There's just as much evidence of Russians hacking as there is of illegals voting: it sounds like something they would do. I am as bothered by Russians hacking emails as you are by illegals voting.
We've got the house, the senate, the presidency, soon the Supreme Court, almost 3/4 of the state legislatures, and (I think) 38 or so of the governor's mansions. Just need one more state legislature and Republicans can pass constitutional amendments without opposition. What need have we of an insurrection? All I'm saying is leftist opposition is futile.
No, "drain the swamp" refers to a particular set of 5 or 6 policies from this speech.
First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.
Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.
Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.
Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.
There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
"Draining the swamp" has nothing to do with his cabinet or advisers. However, leftists and the lefty media have picked up the term as demoralization propaganda by either actually not knowing what it means and making up their own definition (which of course Trump will never fit) or by knowing what it means and lying about it. That's the thing when dealing with a lefty. You always have to figure out if they're one of the stupid ones who don't know what they're talking about or if they're one of the evil ones who knows what they're talking about, and are lying to brainwash the stupid ones.
Or is it too hard to grasp that allowing the future president to write himself a long list of people to dispose of the moment he takes office is a Bad Thing?
But that's his job. Running the executive branch. That's literally what we put him there to do.
The left in the US has blue haired feminists and drug-addled pajama boys packed into the cities with no food, supplies, survival or weapons training. The right has the rural areas and farmland, the police, the FBI, the rednecks, the veterans, most of the military. How exactly is the left going to stage an armed insurrection?
We haven't had a budget in 8 years and all of a sudden McConnell is talking about how he's worried about a deficit under Trump. Imagine his surprise when Trump submits a proposal well under current expenditures.
That is what these agencies are supposed to do - they're not supposed to be partisan tools for the current ruing party; they're supposed to be an impartial apparatus that does a job mandated by Congress to the best of their abilities.
But they're currently partisan tools for the Obama administration. So you agree with replacing them?
First is expense. Costs that would be borne by the average American citizen can easily violate their interests.
Wrong. The US spends over $110B each year providing services to illegals. Pretty sure we can defend the border for less than that. The cost is also largely irrelevant, as the most basic task of government is "defend the border from outsiders." The first government was two cavemen saying "okay, we'll take turns watching the cave entrance, and if anybody who's not us comes inside, throw this rock at them." There's lots and lots of bullshit the government can stop spending money on before we can't afford basic border defense. At that point you no longer have a country or a functioning government.
Second is the laws being unreasonable. The attitude that the law must be mindlessly followed is a pernicious one, but very dangerous.
Moralistic bullshit.
Third is the laws being counter-productive. They actually foster many of the complaints you brought up.
Counter-productive to what? The average citizen wants to be left alone to work a job, raise a family and enjoy their life unmolested. In no way does allowing the economic migration of at best indifferent and at worst hostile aliens help in that endeavor. Illegal immigration helps businesses that want to exploit cheap labor, and it helps democrats who want to replace Americans with a more compliant slave class.
The corporations that own the government and own the media are pissing on you and telling you it's raining. News flash, friend: that ain't rain.
"Race" is not a scientific term and can mean anything you choose it to.
But haplogroups are distinct, and marked by different features and traits. This is one of those topics that the left makes annoyingly nitpicky when it's convenient for their argument. You only hear "race isn't a scientific thing!" when it's in response to someone on the right to derail the topic into pointless hair-splitting. Nobody on the left ever responds to Black Lives Matter or people yelling about racial wealth inequality with "silly, race isn't a thing!" It's ultimately irrelevant, as few things in human interaction are determined according to "science." Culture isn't scientific, but it's very relevant to building functioning societies.
"Race" is blurry, but most people fit generally into one or another broad categories, and I don't think there's anything illogical about wanting a country that's for people who are basically alike and share similar culture mores. That's been how nations have worked since the beginning of civilization, and this modern multiculturalism is new, experimental, and I think really just an excuse to expand state power under the pretense of "protecting" from each other all the different ethnic groups the state crammed together. If everyone agrees shitting in the pool is wrong without thinking then you don't really need a sign up that says "no shitting in the pool." Who would do ever do that? Bring in some other culture where pool-shitting is natural and expected and all of a sudden you need signs, enforcement, a Department of Pool Shitting Regulations, etc. Good if you're in the pool shit monitoring business, but kinda bad for everybody else.
As for your statement about Japan I'd need a citation on that. As far as I knew Japan was essentially closed to immigration.
This may not influence them, but it sure as hell will influence those reading or listening to them.
When Jesus trolled the Pharisees he wasn't trying to convince them, or change their minds. They knew they were liars and thieves. Jesus led them into rhetorical traps that exposed them. His target was the crowds, who would see the buttmad Pharisees and wonder, "who is this man who says these things?"
Unlike Ronald Reagan, who just gave them the fucking weapons they wanted so they could use them against us.
Reagan was a mixed bag, but everyone since him as been a neocon or neolib, which are basically people who think the purpose of government is to exercise their morality and reshape the world to match their ideals (while enriching themselves, natch), rather than simply serving the interests of the people. A nation of the people, by better people, for their morality, rather than of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Take, for instance, illegal immigration. There is no reasonable argument by which the government ignoring the laws enforcing the border is in the best interests of your average American citizen. The illegals take jobs from our poorest and most vulnerable citizens, they settle in poor communities from which our poor cannot afford to leave and take them over (culturally or physically), they commit crimes that would not have occurred if they hadn't been here (crime rate is irrelevant), they bring drugs. This is not a good deal in any way for American citizens. Now, the real reason the establishment likes illegal immigration is because it provides a cheap labor force over which they have leverage. Get uppity about the shitty wages and working conditions and you'll get deported, Paco. But the establishment media and politicians sell this scam to middle America as "moral." It's wrong and evil and racist to not want the illegals, to not want to pay taxes for social services for them, to not want the crime and lawlessness.
The government has to make a choice: do what's in the interests of the citizens and enforce the law (protect border, deport illegals) or do what's in the interests of the elite and the foreigners (leave border undefended, sanctuary cities, etc). Same thing for the foreign wars, in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. The nationalist says "please do the thing in the interest of the citizens, not the foreigners, thanks." Nobody's done that in America for a long, long time.
That's what pisses me off the most about racism. It's just an excuse to give everything to the 1%.
From my point of view it's the anti-racism that's the excuse to give everything to the ruling elite. The Democrats split people into every category of minority imaginable and tell them that the majority wants to oppress, enslave or kill them. Joe Biden telling blacks "the Republicans want to put you people back in chains!" I had gay friends on FaceBook freaking out after the election because the left and the media has convinced them a Trump administration is going to round up everyone who isn't straight and put them in camps. The only way to prevent the evil Republicans from murdering everyone who isn't a straight white male and legalizing rape is to vote Democrat. And then both Dems and Republicans will argue for years about trans bathroom rights but when it comes to trade deals and regulations that enrich the elite and give more power to the government they're lock-step. Pass that shit in the middle of the night 99-1 no problem.
Nazism, White Supremacy, White Nationalism or alt-Right - whatever you want to call it, it's not just another ideology. It's not normal.
There's a difference between those things. In this case I think these people are ethnic nationalists, and how can you say that isn't normal? Isn't that what pretty much every nation in the world was and just about all still are? A nation for a people with shared culture and genetic lineage? Pretty sure you have to be Japanese to be a Japanese citizen, etc.
Or you could, ya know, engage him and explain why his ideas are wrong. Or just ignore him.
At the various anti-Trump protests this past year I saw people waving hammer and sickle flags. Commies! Real commies! Don't they know Stalin killed more people than Hitler?! Holy shit! These are terrible, terrible people! But I didn't freak out and give them national news coverage because a bunch of stupid street commies waved a flag. Those people are every bit as irrelevant as Spencer and the 300 people in a nation of 300 million who showed up to his convention. Either debate them or ignore them. I choose ignore.
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Anonymous sources inside the intelligence agencies tell me this is fake news. I can't give you any evidence, but you have to trust me and these anonymous sources. So I'm sure you're 100% on board with my political agenda now.
Or perhaps the system was rigged against Trump and he won anyway? Both the RNC and DNC nominating processes were rigged to choose their anointed candidates (Jeb and Hillary), just Trump had a plan to beat the RNC and Bernie didn't have a plan to beat the DNC. And a system where the media organizations are feeding debate questions to one side and acting as propaganda outlets while claiming to be impartial is certainly a rigged system.
When did Assange ever lie? You may not like his bias based on what he chooses to reveal or not, but to my knowledge I can't think of a single lie he's ever told.
Also, how would Assange know? Perhaps the person identified themselves. "Hi Julian, this is Seth Rich, DNC staffer. Here's the emails." We're pretty damn sure Assange knew he was getting the military intel dump from Bradley Manning from the chat logs. There's little to suggest Assange doesn't know where his information comes from. He would probably want to know where it comes from to help him verify the information so he can keep his 100% spotless record of never releasing anything that's been shown to be false.
But the Watergate burglars were caught. We have no evidence Russia did squat. And even if we did, okay, what do you want to do about it? Anoint Clinton to spite Russia? Go to war with Russia because Podesta can't spot a fucking phishing email?
How about instead, 1) don't do shady shit you wouldn't want the electorate finding out about like getting the debate questions early from the news network, and 2) practice better computer security.
There's just as much evidence of Russians hacking as there is of illegals voting: it sounds like something they would do. I am as bothered by Russians hacking emails as you are by illegals voting.
We've got the house, the senate, the presidency, soon the Supreme Court, almost 3/4 of the state legislatures, and (I think) 38 or so of the governor's mansions. Just need one more state legislature and Republicans can pass constitutional amendments without opposition. What need have we of an insurrection? All I'm saying is leftist opposition is futile.
No, "drain the swamp" refers to a particular set of 5 or 6 policies from this speech.
First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.
Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.
Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.
Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.
There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
"Draining the swamp" has nothing to do with his cabinet or advisers. However, leftists and the lefty media have picked up the term as demoralization propaganda by either actually not knowing what it means and making up their own definition (which of course Trump will never fit) or by knowing what it means and lying about it. That's the thing when dealing with a lefty. You always have to figure out if they're one of the stupid ones who don't know what they're talking about or if they're one of the evil ones who knows what they're talking about, and are lying to brainwash the stupid ones.
Excellent.
But no purges ever happened.
Obama spent 8 years purging the military of fighting officers to replace them with social justice political pansies. Good for the goose...
Or is it too hard to grasp that allowing the future president to write himself a long list of people to dispose of the moment he takes office is a Bad Thing?
But that's his job. Running the executive branch. That's literally what we put him there to do.
The left in the US has blue haired feminists and drug-addled pajama boys packed into the cities with no food, supplies, survival or weapons training. The right has the rural areas and farmland, the police, the FBI, the rednecks, the veterans, most of the military. How exactly is the left going to stage an armed insurrection?
We haven't had a budget in 8 years and all of a sudden McConnell is talking about how he's worried about a deficit under Trump. Imagine his surprise when Trump submits a proposal well under current expenditures.
That is what these agencies are supposed to do - they're not supposed to be partisan tools for the current ruing party; they're supposed to be an impartial apparatus that does a job mandated by Congress to the best of their abilities.
But they're currently partisan tools for the Obama administration. So you agree with replacing them?
You have no arguments and the political insight of a child. You should really stop talking about it. Please don't vote either.
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First is expense. Costs that would be borne by the average American citizen can easily violate their interests.
Wrong. The US spends over $110B each year providing services to illegals. Pretty sure we can defend the border for less than that. The cost is also largely irrelevant, as the most basic task of government is "defend the border from outsiders." The first government was two cavemen saying "okay, we'll take turns watching the cave entrance, and if anybody who's not us comes inside, throw this rock at them." There's lots and lots of bullshit the government can stop spending money on before we can't afford basic border defense. At that point you no longer have a country or a functioning government.
Second is the laws being unreasonable. The attitude that the law must be mindlessly followed is a pernicious one, but very dangerous.
Moralistic bullshit.
Third is the laws being counter-productive. They actually foster many of the complaints you brought up.
Counter-productive to what? The average citizen wants to be left alone to work a job, raise a family and enjoy their life unmolested. In no way does allowing the economic migration of at best indifferent and at worst hostile aliens help in that endeavor. Illegal immigration helps businesses that want to exploit cheap labor, and it helps democrats who want to replace Americans with a more compliant slave class.
The corporations that own the government and own the media are pissing on you and telling you it's raining. News flash, friend: that ain't rain.
"Race" is not a scientific term and can mean anything you choose it to.
But haplogroups are distinct, and marked by different features and traits. This is one of those topics that the left makes annoyingly nitpicky when it's convenient for their argument. You only hear "race isn't a scientific thing!" when it's in response to someone on the right to derail the topic into pointless hair-splitting. Nobody on the left ever responds to Black Lives Matter or people yelling about racial wealth inequality with "silly, race isn't a thing!" It's ultimately irrelevant, as few things in human interaction are determined according to "science." Culture isn't scientific, but it's very relevant to building functioning societies.
"Race" is blurry, but most people fit generally into one or another broad categories, and I don't think there's anything illogical about wanting a country that's for people who are basically alike and share similar culture mores. That's been how nations have worked since the beginning of civilization, and this modern multiculturalism is new, experimental, and I think really just an excuse to expand state power under the pretense of "protecting" from each other all the different ethnic groups the state crammed together. If everyone agrees shitting in the pool is wrong without thinking then you don't really need a sign up that says "no shitting in the pool." Who would do ever do that? Bring in some other culture where pool-shitting is natural and expected and all of a sudden you need signs, enforcement, a Department of Pool Shitting Regulations, etc. Good if you're in the pool shit monitoring business, but kinda bad for everybody else.
As for your statement about Japan I'd need a citation on that. As far as I knew Japan was essentially closed to immigration.
This may not influence them, but it sure as hell will influence those reading or listening to them.
When Jesus trolled the Pharisees he wasn't trying to convince them, or change their minds. They knew they were liars and thieves. Jesus led them into rhetorical traps that exposed them. His target was the crowds, who would see the buttmad Pharisees and wonder, "who is this man who says these things?"
Unlike Ronald Reagan, who just gave them the fucking weapons they wanted so they could use them against us.
Reagan was a mixed bag, but everyone since him as been a neocon or neolib, which are basically people who think the purpose of government is to exercise their morality and reshape the world to match their ideals (while enriching themselves, natch), rather than simply serving the interests of the people. A nation of the people, by better people, for their morality, rather than of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Take, for instance, illegal immigration. There is no reasonable argument by which the government ignoring the laws enforcing the border is in the best interests of your average American citizen. The illegals take jobs from our poorest and most vulnerable citizens, they settle in poor communities from which our poor cannot afford to leave and take them over (culturally or physically), they commit crimes that would not have occurred if they hadn't been here (crime rate is irrelevant), they bring drugs. This is not a good deal in any way for American citizens. Now, the real reason the establishment likes illegal immigration is because it provides a cheap labor force over which they have leverage. Get uppity about the shitty wages and working conditions and you'll get deported, Paco. But the establishment media and politicians sell this scam to middle America as "moral." It's wrong and evil and racist to not want the illegals, to not want to pay taxes for social services for them, to not want the crime and lawlessness.
The government has to make a choice: do what's in the interests of the citizens and enforce the law (protect border, deport illegals) or do what's in the interests of the elite and the foreigners (leave border undefended, sanctuary cities, etc). Same thing for the foreign wars, in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. The nationalist says "please do the thing in the interest of the citizens, not the foreigners, thanks." Nobody's done that in America for a long, long time.
But Trump is standing up to the 1% by filling his cabinet with Goldman Sachs executives!
One guy who worked there 15 years ago. Hyperbole much?
Also, I would think someone with high-level banking experience would be good for Treasury. Who would you pick?
That's what pisses me off the most about racism. It's just an excuse to give everything to the 1%.
From my point of view it's the anti-racism that's the excuse to give everything to the ruling elite. The Democrats split people into every category of minority imaginable and tell them that the majority wants to oppress, enslave or kill them. Joe Biden telling blacks "the Republicans want to put you people back in chains!" I had gay friends on FaceBook freaking out after the election because the left and the media has convinced them a Trump administration is going to round up everyone who isn't straight and put them in camps. The only way to prevent the evil Republicans from murdering everyone who isn't a straight white male and legalizing rape is to vote Democrat. And then both Dems and Republicans will argue for years about trans bathroom rights but when it comes to trade deals and regulations that enrich the elite and give more power to the government they're lock-step. Pass that shit in the middle of the night 99-1 no problem.
Nazism, White Supremacy, White Nationalism or alt-Right - whatever you want to call it, it's not just another ideology. It's not normal.
There's a difference between those things. In this case I think these people are ethnic nationalists, and how can you say that isn't normal? Isn't that what pretty much every nation in the world was and just about all still are? A nation for a people with shared culture and genetic lineage? Pretty sure you have to be Japanese to be a Japanese citizen, etc.
These literal fascists can't be "debated", they can't be coddled, they must be beaten and when they try to act they must be shot without mercy.
I think that's the most fascist statement I've seen on /.
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Or you could, ya know, engage him and explain why his ideas are wrong. Or just ignore him.
At the various anti-Trump protests this past year I saw people waving hammer and sickle flags. Commies! Real commies! Don't they know Stalin killed more people than Hitler?! Holy shit! These are terrible, terrible people! But I didn't freak out and give them national news coverage because a bunch of stupid street commies waved a flag. Those people are every bit as irrelevant as Spencer and the 300 people in a nation of 300 million who showed up to his convention. Either debate them or ignore them. I choose ignore.