American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/980089697019023361

Shit is kinda creepy but short as hell and shows the fake that is Sinclair and all the right wing media at this point.

how strange, you provided a transcript. i guess you knew i wasnā€™t watching some random youtube video especially of ben ā€œculture warriorā€ shapiro. thanks.

is this what you people do? sit around watching nra propaganda and repeating the same thing? he still didnā€™t answer my question. he just repeated the same theory crafting nonsense based on some unfounded belief in the second amendment. it doesnā€™t mean it actually works or will work. case in point.

what militia? in 1957, governor of arkansas, orval faubus tried to use his state national guard to stop desegregation at little rock high school. president eisenhower took control of the entire arkansas national guard for disobeying a federal court order. he took all 10,000 of them out of the hands of the governor like a pimp collecting money from a hoe.

what was the response from the governor from what he viewed as government tyranny? bytchassness. what was the response of the citizens who felt their stateā€™s rights were being trampled and oppressed by the federal government? bytch ass hoeness. they didnā€™t want that smoke. what effect did the second amendment have on the federal government actions? not a goddamn thing. youā€™re up in here trying to tell me the federal governrment is going to be deterred by jim bob cooter and the boys down at the piggly wiggly based on nra propaganda. lolā€¦watch random youtube videos to fuel your paranoid delusions instead of reading a history book, brehs.

trump nominates a fox to watch the hen house? .

the sinclair broadcast group is pretty much the trailer trash version of fox for local news. related video.

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My main issue with our welfare system is the fact that it takes away $1.00 for every $1.00 earned by the recipient. It makes it a lot harder for people to get out of poverty, something welfare is supposed to help with. I think it would go a long way if they just took away a % of each dollar earned instead. This would actually help people see an increase in their income as they work their way up in the job market. Instead people come up with ideas of deadlines and etc that can put some people in a very bad position. I donā€™t think ideas like that are very helpful.

Iā€™m not against welfare but I am against the way itā€™s implemented. Iā€™m a more conservative leaning person when it comes to the money side of things but I think a safety net is very important to have. I just think itā€™s been poorly handled and promotes reliance more than advancement in itā€™s current state.

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Monsanto? Well he is getting voted in

Like seriously trump has sold america to the highest bidders

Fuck this fat blob. November is coming.

Go blue

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Go red

truth is because of DNC fucking shenanigans, they lost voter confidence and 2016 has the lowest turnout of dems in years. And we had the largest turnout of Republicans in decades and they felt ignored by the government.

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Democrat turnout was roughly the same in 2012 when Obama was reelected.

as regards welfare: sure, things arenā€™t perfected. The problem is that you need to come up with something better, since poor and failing people will still continue to exist.

At this point, Iā€™ll take DNC shenanigans over RNC shenanigans every single day of my life. I think weā€™ve happily reached the point now where anybody claiming ā€œthe two parties are the sameā€ is probably dangerously high on crack. And if somebodyā€™s snowflake ass lost confidence enough not to vote in 2016, then their two main propaganda wedges (make sure to vote if you like Trump, no reason to vote if you like Clinton) managed to win out with those peoples. Congrats, those people got played. This is campaigning 101, and it does really help when foreign powers make sure exciting but empty infodumps happen anytime people start to wonder what the fuck is up with the idiotic Republican choice.

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You can show a whole map that looks like the country is very red but most of the us pop lives on the coast

too bad Dems need to win more than just California.

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They are both the problem, both parties will sell us out for their own short sighted agendas.

The Republican short sighted agenda is apparently to destroy the planet, destroy the educational system, destroy the economy, and destroy the government in an effort to help the rich get richer and the poor get fucked.

Whatā€™s the Democratic short sighted agenda?

Sure, Iā€™ll agree that government is generally a problem, but thatā€™s like saying that breathing is a problem. Thereā€™s a reason why youā€™re doing it. If you need to struggle to make things better, do so. Itā€™s public knowledge now that for left-leaning voters they were trying to poison peopleā€™s interest in voting as opposed to convince you that their candidate was better. ā€œboth the problemā€ ā€œboth the sameā€ motherfucker have you not paid attention the past year? lol

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Please tell me you are trolling right?

Let me Show you the shit Democrats do.

This is a city Block in Baltimore City, you see the similar sights in Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, and every other major urban city across the country. The Democrats in charge allow banks to use predatory and racist mortgage policies to fleece low income families to loose their homes, but then just board the houses up. They donā€™t even allow for any Redevelopment. Doesnā€™t matter if a contractor willing to buy the homes from the city and rebuild and repair them for paying customers or give them away to the less fortunate. We got more abandoned houses in this country than we do homeless, yet all attempts to repair these house to get them in serviceable conditions are blocked. And the homeless arenā€™t allowed inside, they are found they get beaten by police for ā€œtrespassingā€.

And then you got shit like this

And in Democrat controlled Urban areas, the Educational system already destroyed. People are only upset by Trump and DeVos because they are now ruining the educational system for everyone (including rich protestant white anglo saxon folks), not just the inner cities.

How is it that a City that used to host a grand Prix, with the City making 5 Mill a year still end up with a -2 Million deficit only after two years. I watched as my state went from having a Budget Surplus under a Republican Governor (who inherit a budget deficit) goes to a even larger budget deficit Under the Next Governor who a Democrat in less than 6 mounts in office.

I am not debating Trump is a fucking piece of shit, and everyone that supports him is also just as a waste of breath. But the Democrats are just as guilty.

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Iā€™m unclear as to how those are uniquely Democratic plans. That sounds like a clusterfuck of a situation that doesnā€™t have any easy answers. In my state and to my knowledge, Democrats have more typically been on the side of reforming predatory lending policies - your example seems counterintuitive. And if thatā€™s an area of interest to you, it seems like currently Republicans are trying to allow for more predatory lending while Democrats are trying to disallow that.

I know in my state that the government funding is hamstrung by destructionist Republican policies. If you can establish the sexy notion that taxes are bad, that helps destroy peopleā€™s interest in investing in what should be the common good, and then you go down the death spiral of underfunding the government. Somebody comes in, has to actually fund the shit that is required for society, and either taxes and/or the deficit goes up. I donā€™t know the Illinois story, but at face value Iā€™m guessing thatā€™s about what Iā€™d discover if I looked into it.

vaguely looks into it

Yeah, looks like the state fucked itself through underfunding. Tax people less than is actually needed for the necessary services, and kick the can down the road so that you fuck the next guy.

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President Trump preemptively blocks Broadcomā€™s Qualcomm takeover, citing national security concerns

The seemingly never-ending saga of Broadcomā€™s attempted takeover of Qualcomm has all-but-ended, as President Trump today issued an order that the deal will not be allowed to go through under the assertion that it would be a threat to U.S. national security. Broadcom is primarily a Singapore-based company, but operates globally. Qualcomm and Broadcom have been dancing around the details of a potential merger or takeover for several months, but in recent weeks had clearly been nearing a deal as Broadcom finalizes moving its headquarters to the U.S.

this is good

Trump is a super genius that will fix America. Geniuses are often misunderstood by lower minds as crazy and stupid since they cannot comprehend them. He is like a good Roman Emperor. Emperors were God realized beings who were masters at what they do.

And why is ShinjiGohan showing a 2016 map? That is like me going look Ryu is top tier and showing a season 1 tier list.

Why not show maps of 2017/18 of like Alabama or Pennsylvania or all the other seats that have flipped in areas where Trump won by double digits?

I canā€™t wait for November because either we get confirmation this is just the darkest hour of our country or its the new reality. Either way its time to find out.

Trump is a embarrassment that going to take another president 8 years to undo all the damage he caused.
covfefe

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/980792815809650688
This is just greatā€¦:laughing:

Dems normally ARE on the side of trying to reform things but bureaucracy tends to thrive under Democrat power whereas the Republican idea is just to torch it all.

The Democrats spend too much time being the nice guys and that hasnā€™t helped them at all. Theyā€™re ineffective because they refuse to really get down, call things as they are, and act like itā€™s not the 90s anymore. Instead of wronging their hands, they need to talk tough and back it up with action. The Republicans get to behave badly because no one calls them on their shit.

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