"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Steve Bannon and the Theocracy crowd just told Trump to go fuck himself-
Trump isn't even respected by Republican primary voters in Alabama anymore. I'm so glad my boy Roy won. Because regardless of if he wins or loses the general election, he hurts the Republican party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/u...ma-senate.html
The outcome in the closely watched Senate race dealt a humbling blow to President Trump and other party leaders days after the president pleaded with voters in the state to back Mr. Strange.
Propelled by the stalwart support of his fellow evangelical Christians, Mr. Moore survived an advertising onslaught of more than $10 million, financed by allies of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. His victory demonstrated in stark terms the limits of Mr. Trump’s clout.
This was a bad day for the GOP establishment, the swamp & the socialists in the democrat party or the democrat party. Judge Moore who is to the right of Jeff Sessions won easily, was always going to win, and will better for President Trump than McConnell's boy Strange would have been.
Establishment Senator Bob Corker (R) Tennessee announced today that he would not seek reelection in 2018. Was looking forward to voting against him too. More than one way to drain the swamp.
Today was a very good day for America.
Make America Great Again, or Else!
yeah so trump literally spent his evening deleting the tweets he made supporting Strange.
definitely a reasonable thing for the president of the united states to be doing with his time.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Think back to last Friday. Hurricane Maria was demolishing Puerto Rico. North Korea and Iran had both recently fired new missiles. What was Donald Trump doing? He flew to Huntsville Alabama to tell Republicans that he needed Luther Strange in the Senate to help him "drain the swamp".
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/po...0c4f53f83.html
The same day Trump acknowledged that Strange losing would be a "total embarrassment" for him, but said not to worry about it because "Luther will definitely win". Moore won by 9%.
I love how Trump told the crowd that Strange "doesn't know Mitch McConnell at all", and said it was just a fake media rumor that Strange was "friendly" with someone who has actively campaigned and fundraised for Strange.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/po...-20170923.html
oh yeah time well spent
Last night, Steve Bannon gave an amazing speech at a Roy Moore rally-
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...e-moore-243131
The Republicans have "allowed" three investigations. It's not Trump's fault for doing the shit that caused the investigations. It's Congress's fault for doing the bare minimum of their jobs.Mitch McConnell and this permanent political class is the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in this country. They think you're a pack of morons. They think you're nothing but rubes. They have no interest at all in what you have to say, what you have to think or what you want to do."
"I told (Trump) I was going to go after the establishment, go after the establishment first and the Democrats later. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have allowed three investigative committees on Capitol Hill with full subpoena power, they're going after President Trump every day."
Guess which candidates those Russian front companies ran Facebook ads for?
Trump obv and
Drumroll....
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...s-stein-243172
You are making something about nothing. Trump being a politician is all it was. He lost. He will move on. & he learned a lesson I hope. The movement is stronger than he realized. He is not really the leader of the movement but its most powerful representative. He can say nuke North Korea all day, its no big deal, but never again under estimate the seething anger that got President Trump where he in. It is still growing.
Bullshit
read more: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.814262Trump and Israel Blasted an Iranian Missile Launch That Didn't Happen
Iran released footage from 'a successful launch over the weekend', and President Trump and Israel's defense minister were quick to comment on it. Actually it was a failed test from eight months ago
Gregg popovich (Spurs head coach) made a statement that we need to "talk about race to make people uncomfortable" (I am paraphrasing). Of course the liberal sports MSM and all the libs are lapping this up and agreeing vehemently.
Of course what he doesn't say that is explicitly understood is that this only applies to specifically talking negatively about white people and white privilege. I doubt Mr Popovich or any of the other libs want to have any sort of uncomfortable discussion about the high rates of violent crime, children out of wedlock, STD epidemic or generarional welfare in the black community.
So basically this is just another case of another wealthy limousine liberal white deflecting his own guilt onto people who don't have any privilege at all, and advocating for free speech he doesn't believe in at all. It is real easy to talk about how we should take away white privilege when you know it is other white people and not yourself who are the ones that are going to be doing the paying.
I see a lot of wealthy white people with good jobs talk about how we need to address white privilege.
However, I don't see any of them offering to give up their jobs to give to a minority. Or sending their white kids to community college to free up a spot at a top 4 year college to a minority. As far as I can see they are just fine with their spot on the top of the hill and they just want poor people to be fighting over the scraps over racial lines.
At this point I am as inclined to take as seriously a NYT political piece on Trump as I would an Alex Jones rant on Sandy Hook
That being said, even if we pretend that is a credible piece of journalism, the correct interpretation is that Trump styles himself as a modern day Moses promising to free his base (the non elite whites) from the tyrannical political oppression they have endured during the last 8 years by the democrat elites.
Greg Popovich is a big liberal, and the left likes quoting him because he's considered the best coach in the NBA (which he is), so people respect him. Also, he's a rich white guy, and he's obviously close to his mostly-black players, so it basically makes him the perfect spokesman.
But people have to put Popovich's coaching ability aside, and understand that he's nothing more than yet another celebrity making comments about his political views.
The white privilege crap has gotten out of control. It essentially demands that white people apologize for (and make concessions due to) the skin color they were born with.
The much better approach would be, "We have it hard in some ways you probably don't think about, so please keep that in mind next time you deal with a black person."
Instead, it's "You gained unfairly for being white. Feel guilty and give us special allowances, or you're racist!"
What's also foolish is that there are tons of other "privileges" one can be born with, aside from being white.
Attractive people are born with "good looks privilege".
Kids from rich families are born with "wealth privilege".
Kids of celebrities are born with "fame privilege".
Athletic people are born with "athletic privlege".
Intimidating-looking guys were born with "tough guy privilege".
I could go on and on with attributes which can aid one in life -- whether natural or societal -- where some people enter this world with advantages over others.
Are we supposed to neutralize them all, or make different rules depending upon each person's privilege?
Give me a break.
Your calm undercover racism totally flies under the radar dude. When verminaard posts, its just sooo hard to guess what the nature of his message will be.
The fact that you felt the need to point out that pop is the spurs coach tells me that your knowledge of him goes as far as post game pressers and random shots at team trump. I dont see any reason that he would have an issue speaking about problems in impoverished black communities. Are you you saying this because he doesnt disclose his half time adjustments mid game? So related bro. Thing is, what does that have to do with him or his position? Also, that part about the race discussion making folks uncomfortable is tailor made for people like you, who im guessing has a panic attack everytime a black dude walks into the same convenience store you frequent.
Originally Posted by Tyde
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
swamp got a little emptier today:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ho...er-found-dead/
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
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