I really cant decide if its because Florida is super stupid, or the other states just keep it low key.
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Azure
3797
Texas isnāt low-key about it.
They just scare us enough we donāt bring them up.
R.I.P. JFK.
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BR3N7
3798
Lets see should I trust someone who lives a normal life like me or someone taking millions from big business/NRA and the like?
This is how it should be and what she IS about and the Dem party is going to becomeā¦
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dab00g
3799
Don Lemon had a crazy threaten him and stalk him
Trump thinks running on racist rhetoric gets him 2020
Redisctricting with more blue seats and more dem governors sort of ruins that
dab00g
3800
See being a menās right advocate i can think of so many ways men get fucked by the justice system
But not all women are evil
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dab00g
3801
Domestic terrorists are real and they all consider themselves sovereign citizens
Just a group of gun toting psychopaths
Just in my experience two types of vets.
Ones who are normal and psychopaths
There is no middle ground
How this dude got an off roster hand gun and hicap mags makes me think he used his military id to make some purchases before hand
This dude was some worked up maniac
Waiting for the maga
Wanting to protect the taxpayers from 7000 drains on society is not racist rhetoric. I dgaf what color you are, what I do care about is your net impact on the economy. With illegal immigrants consuming more in social benefits than they produce, itās not an issue of race
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If anything, acosta disrespects his fellow reporters by bogarding the mic, ignoring presser protocol, and basically being a gotcha journalist. Heās the press equivalent of the Twitter people who quote racist tweets to dunk on them and make themselves look cool. I donāt think itās right that he was banned for the reasons they banned him, but hes been nothing but obnoxious and while I would like to hear the administration answer some of the questions he asks, Iād prefer them to be coming from someone who doesnāt seem to want to make everything about himself because at least I know that way, thereās a chance they might get answered rather than the press secretary writing off anything he has to say because he seems unable to control himself.
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Sheāll be just like the rest of them, she just hasnāt had the opportunity yet.
If someone could actively prove that gerrymandering was taking place, that a certain party was doing it, and that it was having an effect on elections, would it be enough to bring a lawsuit against said party?
Shin_Jr
3806
Tucker Carlson ? 
that guy always has that look on his face like he doesnāt know whatās going on.
In his mind he is trying to learn everything and confusing himself
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Preppy
3807
Itās generally legal just asshole. However the Republicans took it far enough that theyāve lost court battles on the subject. I or anyone can get you references tomorrow if youāre curious.
Related:
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Immigrants that are here legally donāt even get benefits beyond emergency healthcare and schooling for at least five years, as was signed into law in the 90ās, but illegal immigrants, who often procure fake Social Security cards in order to work, end up paying into those entitlement programs without receiving the vast majority of benefits because the SSA just puts that money aside because it canāt find the proper SSN to go with it. Money that is used to further finance those entitlement programs that are barely hanging on.
The idea that immigrants are these blood suckers who just eat and eat at our benefits but give nothing back doesnāt hold up under any scrutiny. The main peddlers of these theories are institutions like the Center for Immigration Studies, which, if you follow the organizationās pockets back to its origins, are run and founded by, shocker, racists and white nationalists.
Even the Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute, founded by the dipshit Koch brothers, has had its main immigration expert, Alex Nowrasteh, do extensive research into immigration and canāt find anything to back up those very common talking points.
But, as you can see, when you bring facts to the barking dogs repeating the faulty rhetoric founded on bigoted views, all they can is laugh incredulously and say youāre lying.
Now if the crux of the argument is actually a fundamental disagreement with the welfare state as it exists, then thatās a whole different can of worms. But most of the talking points about immigrants taking our jobs and sucking up our economy are not proven in any way by statistics, and are typically a talking point of bigots with money and their hired stooges.
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Azure
3809
Then you must absolutely hate billionaires.
Because they donāt even pay taxes.
They make money off of having money.
The economy is a rigged game.
And all the money trickles up.
So yeah, you are either ignorant or an elitist/elitistsā pawn, and that speaks of a rather extremely myopic, .99999 repeating mathematically approaching certainty of a racist world view.
Even the simple math illustrates it.
So yeah.
mr_punk
3810
well, their judgement has always been suspect. who else would follow a man whom is considered to be a moron by the people in his own administration. still, itās pretty funny to watch trump getting mad at the midterm results and lashing out at the press in a wwe like performance to deflect attention from his losses.
mad. they need to keep that same energy. the coordinated posts, the inability to squash beefs, the airing of grievances and resentments, etc were funny. also, showing up like an angry mob one day after midterms only makes it more hilarious.
agreed. itās not the mediaās job to lob softball questions at the president. trump can always go to fox news if he needs that kind of mollycoddling. presidents not named trump have a thick enough enough skin to handle these questions. they may not like it, but they donāt take it personally either.
OTOH, if a president is acting hoemotional because his ho card got pulled by a reporter (jim acosta, really?). if a president needs to lie about what happened, post doctored videos and pull press credentials in a fit of infantile petulance. how is he going to react when a real crisis hits?
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mr_punk
3811
completely disagree. i just watched the q & a on cspan. acosta is hardly the first and only reporter to shout, ask challenging questions or ask follow-up questions in an aggressive manner. peter alexander, who defended and followed acosta, did the same thing and even told trump,āyou didnāt answer my questionā. of course, trump acts offended about the question and cries about nbc news.
in any case, sam donaldson was well known for this during the reagan administration. the WH press corps donāt have 24/7 access to the president. itās not unusual for a president to go months without a press conference or briefing. the president doesnāt always answer or take questions whenever he invites the press to report on a statement or an announcement heās going to make. most of the time, the WH press corps are talking to other administration officials, aides or the press secretary to get information or insight. so, when they get their opportunity to speak to him no matter the conditions or setting. they have to make the most of it.
hereās a video of reagan giving a press briefing. at the end of his briefing (skip to 3:50), reagan said he wasnāt taking any more questions and what did the press do? they barraged him with questions anyway (you can hear donaldson shouting questions along with the other reporters in the background). why the fuck not? he might answer or he might not and reagan did answer another question.
more importantly, hereās what didnāt happen despite the look of exasperation on reaganās face. he didnāt take it personally. he didnāt take pot shots at reporters. he didnāt pout and act petulant in his response. he didnāt interrupt and try to talk over reporters while they were asking their question. he didnāt get combative and berate the reporters for asking questions. he didnāt air his grievances against the press. acosta isnāt the one with the abnormal behavior on display.
on a side note, did anyone see trumpās response to the pbs reporter?
trumpism, yāall.
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odin
3812
He is truly like his cult.
Canāt answer a hard-nosed question without spazzing out.
Lacks any tact or self-control. Iām surprised he didnāt take out a poster with an NPC and say āWE ARE WHITE NATIONALIST NAZIS, RIGHT? BUT YOU ARE PERFECT INDIVIDUALSā
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dab00g
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Blame puerto rico and claim there are no dead
I understand all that and itās normal for the press people to ask questions all at once like that. The problem I have with Acoata is what I said before, he soaks up time because it seems like he thinks hes more worthy of asking questions than anyone else and purposely takes up time asking questions he probably knows full well they arenāt going to answer, especially because hes purposely obnoxious. If I were a WH reporter, a guy like that would piss me off because that adds another obstacle to doing your job.
RE Reagan, I donāt like Reaganās policies, but as a man, Reagan is 10 times the guy Trump is. So why would you be shocked thwt Trump makes things petty and personal? Thatās the kind of guy he is.
