Tim Pool has a verified Twitter account by the way. I'm pretty sure that fact alone has done more to hurt Twitter's credibility than anything Pool has said or done.
An oil man is in charge of the Dept of the Interior.
Coincidentally, the story broke today that the oil lobbyist who heads the Department of the Interior is now under investigation less than a week after starting the job. His name is David Bernhardt, and it turns out that the dude is up to his eyeballs in grift.
When the alternate was a warmonger and rape apologist Hillary Clinton? There's nothing fascist here.
Well, history proves you wrong. An oil man is in charge of the Dept of the Interior. Another oil man is in charge of the Dept of Energy. EPA, FDA, right down the line.
The working class has lost more ground in the past two years than at any time in the last 30. Did you know that the ranks of the permanently unemployed has grown by over 10 million since Trump has been president? More people have left the work force since January of 2017 than any two year period since the recession. Unemployment rate is down because so many people have stopped looking for work.
And working people still haven't gotten a raise.
The warmonger and rape apologist would have been a big upgrade over what we've got.
They can't even define socialism correctly. It doesn't mean labor unions.
In fact, labor unions were probably the only thing that saved many Western countries, including the US, from having full-blown socialist revolutions.
Labor unions are in many important ways the very opposite of socialism. Under capitalism, a corporation is the aggregation of capital for the benefit of a business. Labor unions are the aggregation of labor for the benefit of workers. They are two sides of the same coin. They cannot exist for very long without each other. You can chart the decline of capitalism and the rise of socialism in the US by the suppression of labor unions, which really got rolling in the early 1980s under Ronald Reagan and his "supply-side economics". That's when wages stagnated and middle class began to decline. Now it's gone so far the other way that a lot of young people see socialism as a reasonable way out of a completely corrupt system which is tilted against them.
In a way, the same impulses led to Donald Trump. People saw the utter destruction of democratic institutions as the best solution to a corrupt system that was tilted against them, and they were convinced Trump was just the chaos agent to make that destruction happen. They decided to burn the house down because the roof had been allowed to rot, and in this way they were led to proto-fascism.
I love crazy sonsabitches like this They make the world a better place.
"I have a lot of court cases going on."
I knew a guy like this once. He was a chemist with a PhD and a good job and one day he asked me if I would read his manuscript. It was a 400 page "theory of everything" based on the shapes of numbers and dark matter and klein bottles and some kabbalah-level code that was the most insane thing I'd ever seen short of the Voynich Manuscript. Here was a functioning guy, who cleaned himself, went to work every day and spent 10 years of his life in a fantasy world of his own imagination. He was certain that his work would shake the very foundations of modern science and that there were powerful forces out to stop its publication and then he started suing everybody in sight and then he disappeared. Sometimes, I like to believe that he used his theory to construct a wormhole generator and is in some parallel universe sipping bloody marys and laughing at the small minds who wouldn't take him seriously.
So god speed, you magnificent bastard. I hope you achieve escape velocity.
It's nice to see individual states trying to step up and pass this sort of bill, but I can't see those laws being very effective. This has to be a national effort, and an issue in the 2020 election. Politicians respond to pressure, and I'd like to see every Democratic candidate asked about this issue at town halls and debates.
I don't think it would matter if Donald Trump was asked about it, because, honestly, what are the odds of him giving a coherent answer, and what are the odds of his answer mattering one little bit anyway? You might as well ask my 8 year-old labrador retriever.
within hours of his asylum ending, because the US already had the extradition paperwork ready, because they've been preparing it for the best part of a decade.
Maybe Trump could have vetoed it, but he sure as fuck didn't need to initiate anything.
Donald Trump is now 100% in charge of the Justice Department. Has been for two years and two months. He knew this was happening and he signed off.
What happened today could have happened any time over the past 10 years. But it happened today. You want to go back in time and somehow blame Obama because Trump can do no wrong. I admire your loyalty to the man, but history has shown loyalty to Donald Trump is never rewarded and ultimately diminishes you.
They collated the evidence, translated it into an indictment, reviewed it, assured it would get through a Grand Jury, validated its legality and completed all of the paperwork on 8th March 2018?
No.
In March, 2018, Donald Trump had been president for over a year.
Certainly the behaviour of the Swedish prosecutors has been deeply questionable, which does lend credence to the inherent paranoia behind the story, and lets face it, today's events have hardly disproven the conspiracy theory.
If your conspiracy theory is true, then Assange could have been snatched up at any time over the past 10 years. But that is not what happened. Assange was snatched up today, and will be extradicted based on a March 8, 2018 indictment.
If Trump doesn't sign off on this, Assange is would still be abusing his cat and rubbing feces on the wall in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
How exactly does that negate the point of the person to whom you replied?
The decisions to indict, or not to indict, or to serve a warrant, or not serve a warrant, to arrest, or not to arrest in a case like this are made entirely by the Justice Department. The decision to pull the first trigger was made March 8, 2018, when the indictment was filed with the court. The decision to go forward today was made entirely by the Justice Department. As we saw recently, the Attorney General William Barr works entirely at the behest of the President (which is Trump today and was Trump back on March 8, 2018).
Now if those facts indicate to you that what happened to day is somehow because of the Obama Administration, there are absolutely no facts that would dissuade you.
The US were investigating Assange in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015, and that's just the explicit dates for which we have evidence. Claiming that this is specific to the current US administration is disingenuous at best, more likely just downright fucking maliciousness.
Lots of things get investigated all the time. The decision to indict and arrest were made entirely, 100% by the Trump Justice Department.
If you're going to blame this on Trump, at least have the self-awareness to also put blame on Obama for not exactly being helpful to Assange, either.
Would you like to see an actual PDF of the Assange indictment? Please notice the big stamp on it and the date. Who do you think was president when this indictment was filed?
This is the Trump/Barr Justice Department that's arresting Assange. It's not some shadowy "Obama deep state". The charges against Assange date from 2017 (when Trump was president) and the warrant was issued now (when Trump is president). They chose to do this now.
You've got to remember, Trump has a long history of screwing over people who have done work on his behalf. Don't be surprised.
I had a really insightful comment to make about this article, but it slipped my mind. But trust me, it would have definitely been +5 Insightful. It has something to do with...nah, it's gone.
There is a middle ground. If you donâ(TM)t have an ID, bring a bill, or something with your name on it, just like youâ(TM)d have to do to establish residency.
You have just described the way we currently do voter registration in the US.
If they send enough bills, then the GOP will accuse the Democrats of wasting Congress's time by bullying the Senate and refusing to produce workable legislation, while propping up McConnell as a stalwart defender strong enough to resist the onslaught.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the Republican spin machine isn't working as well as it used to any more.
Well I didn't post evidence because it was to FB friends in my community warning about mailers and the assorted mailers all clearly stated they were from the "Center for Voter Information"
But you are welcome to just do this
The only problem is that nothing in the searches you suggest imply anything about illegal activity. It was a get out the vote effort. They weren't actually stealing ballots and changing them like the NC Republicans were.
Give it up, dude. Pointing to George Soros and suggesting some vague illegality is not going to deflect actual illegal behavior by Republicans. The days when that shit works have passed.
Yeah, and unlike the ID law those are old legacy laws that nobody would bother trying to enforce and if they did they'd finally be stricken from the books in response.
You know what's an even older legacy law? The Second Amendment.
I understand why you'd want to limit the voting rights of certain people. But just be aware that what you want is morally wrong and makes you a shit human being.
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Tim Pool has a verified Twitter account by the way. I'm pretty sure that fact alone has done more to hurt Twitter's credibility than anything Pool has said or done.
Next, I suppose you're going to tell us that Zuckerberg made money off Facebook user data.
Coincidentally, the story broke today that the oil lobbyist who heads the Department of the Interior is now under investigation less than a week after starting the job. His name is David Bernhardt, and it turns out that the dude is up to his eyeballs in grift.
https://splinternews.com/trump...
There is no "downturn" in permanent unemployment. Just the opposite, in fact. The ranks of the permanently unemployed have grown under Trump.
Well, history proves you wrong. An oil man is in charge of the Dept of the Interior. Another oil man is in charge of the Dept of Energy. EPA, FDA, right down the line.
The working class has lost more ground in the past two years than at any time in the last 30. Did you know that the ranks of the permanently unemployed has grown by over 10 million since Trump has been president? More people have left the work force since January of 2017 than any two year period since the recession. Unemployment rate is down because so many people have stopped looking for work.
And working people still haven't gotten a raise.
The warmonger and rape apologist would have been a big upgrade over what we've got.
In fact, labor unions were probably the only thing that saved many Western countries, including the US, from having full-blown socialist revolutions.
Labor unions are in many important ways the very opposite of socialism. Under capitalism, a corporation is the aggregation of capital for the benefit of a business. Labor unions are the aggregation of labor for the benefit of workers. They are two sides of the same coin. They cannot exist for very long without each other. You can chart the decline of capitalism and the rise of socialism in the US by the suppression of labor unions, which really got rolling in the early 1980s under Ronald Reagan and his "supply-side economics". That's when wages stagnated and middle class began to decline. Now it's gone so far the other way that a lot of young people see socialism as a reasonable way out of a completely corrupt system which is tilted against them.
In a way, the same impulses led to Donald Trump. People saw the utter destruction of democratic institutions as the best solution to a corrupt system that was tilted against them, and they were convinced Trump was just the chaos agent to make that destruction happen. They decided to burn the house down because the roof had been allowed to rot, and in this way they were led to proto-fascism.
I love crazy sonsabitches like this They make the world a better place.
I knew a guy like this once. He was a chemist with a PhD and a good job and one day he asked me if I would read his manuscript. It was a 400 page "theory of everything" based on the shapes of numbers and dark matter and klein bottles and some kabbalah-level code that was the most insane thing I'd ever seen short of the Voynich Manuscript. Here was a functioning guy, who cleaned himself, went to work every day and spent 10 years of his life in a fantasy world of his own imagination. He was certain that his work would shake the very foundations of modern science and that there were powerful forces out to stop its publication and then he started suing everybody in sight and then he disappeared. Sometimes, I like to believe that he used his theory to construct a wormhole generator and is in some parallel universe sipping bloody marys and laughing at the small minds who wouldn't take him seriously.
So god speed, you magnificent bastard. I hope you achieve escape velocity.
It's nice to see individual states trying to step up and pass this sort of bill, but I can't see those laws being very effective. This has to be a national effort, and an issue in the 2020 election. Politicians respond to pressure, and I'd like to see every Democratic candidate asked about this issue at town halls and debates.
I don't think it would matter if Donald Trump was asked about it, because, honestly, what are the odds of him giving a coherent answer, and what are the odds of his answer mattering one little bit anyway? You might as well ask my 8 year-old labrador retriever.
My new PC is going to have a fuckton of storage.
Donald Trump is now 100% in charge of the Justice Department. Has been for two years and two months. He knew this was happening and he signed off.
What happened today could have happened any time over the past 10 years. But it happened today. You want to go back in time and somehow blame Obama because Trump can do no wrong. I admire your loyalty to the man, but history has shown loyalty to Donald Trump is never rewarded and ultimately diminishes you.
In March, 2018, Donald Trump had been president for over a year.
Yes.
If your conspiracy theory is true, then Assange could have been snatched up at any time over the past 10 years. But that is not what happened. Assange was snatched up today, and will be extradicted based on a March 8, 2018 indictment.
If Trump doesn't sign off on this, Assange is would still be abusing his cat and rubbing feces on the wall in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The decisions to indict, or not to indict, or to serve a warrant, or not serve a warrant, to arrest, or not to arrest in a case like this are made entirely by the Justice Department. The decision to pull the first trigger was made March 8, 2018, when the indictment was filed with the court. The decision to go forward today was made entirely by the Justice Department. As we saw recently, the Attorney General William Barr works entirely at the behest of the President (which is Trump today and was Trump back on March 8, 2018).
Now if those facts indicate to you that what happened to day is somehow because of the Obama Administration, there are absolutely no facts that would dissuade you.
Lots of things get investigated all the time. The decision to indict and arrest were made entirely, 100% by the Trump Justice Department.
Would you like to see an actual PDF of the Assange indictment? Please notice the big stamp on it and the date. Who do you think was president when this indictment was filed?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11...
Just in case you've forgotten, Assange was arrested today. Trump has been president for over two years.
This is the Trump/Barr Justice Department that's arresting Assange. It's not some shadowy "Obama deep state". The charges against Assange date from 2017 (when Trump was president) and the warrant was issued now (when Trump is president). They chose to do this now.
You've got to remember, Trump has a long history of screwing over people who have done work on his behalf. Don't be surprised.
Hook me up, brother.
I had a really insightful comment to make about this article, but it slipped my mind. But trust me, it would have definitely been +5 Insightful. It has something to do with...nah, it's gone.
I'm like Donald Trump: I don't want the government seeing my tax returns.
In a cost-saving measure, Apple will be contracting out the data migration tasks to the NSA.
Probably, but in Texas they say, "You can have my dildo when you wrest it from my wife's cold, dead hands."
You have just described the way we currently do voter registration in the US.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the Republican spin machine isn't working as well as it used to any more.
If that's true, then how is Trump president?
The only problem is that nothing in the searches you suggest imply anything about illegal activity. It was a get out the vote effort. They weren't actually stealing ballots and changing them like the NC Republicans were.
Give it up, dude. Pointing to George Soros and suggesting some vague illegality is not going to deflect actual illegal behavior by Republicans. The days when that shit works have passed.
You know what's an even older legacy law? The Second Amendment.
I understand why you'd want to limit the voting rights of certain people. But just be aware that what you want is morally wrong and makes you a shit human being.