American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

Son’s gonna get a visit from Baba Yaga

Yeah @preppy I’ve read all about that. He used it as a pretext to arrest anti-war protesters too. Shameful shit.

Elitist rants are part of the reason why Trump won. I’m left wing myself but the elitism and smugness that’s so rampant in left wing people these days just pushes everybody to the other side, and you got people who voted for a guy like Trump just because they wanted their vote to be a “fuck you” to people they don’t like.

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Ugh, forgot to respond to this sorry.

Fair (to my knowledge) article on the subject:

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I voted Jill Stein… The Democrats and the Republicans need to drain their own swamps…

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You know some Street Fighter fan took this picture…

bullshit. fox news, the gop, conservative radio, russian bots, culture warriors on social media are far more effective than anyone on the left at convincing their voters that the liberal elite hate them. the left didn’t encourage these people to be anti-government, anti-media and to believe in conspiracy theories and alternative facts. they didn’t finesse them into falling for some bullshit like gamer gate. they didn’t cause the republican party to devolve into a shit show. quite the opposite, it all came from within.


i recall when actual republicans didn’t trust putin back when romney ran for president, but since the party has been co-opted by trump set. apparently, it’s okay to suck putin’s dick because their cult leader says it’s okay.

on a side note. did anyone read that story of this cult45 member who got put on that summer jam screen? the funny thing is his wife didn’t get deported thanks to obama, but he voted for trump and got a wake-up call. i guess this is how trump thanks the veterans he claims to love.

also, there is a report that trump is working to propose new rules to limit the number of migrants who obtain legal status. in fact, he’s wants to make it even harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards. where fishjie? tell him to answer his wake-up call.

apparently in response to illegally mass jailing people in Turkey

lol I know this is the US Govt thread, but I like to treat it like the Politics thread.
Anyways, fuck these raghead cocksuckers. Projecting to the highest degree.

Hilarious propaganda.

Bullshits on your end. You demonize half the country during the Obama years and continue to do so into the next election cycle and are surprised when people had enough of it? 8 years of ignoring half the country, marginalizing them, treating them like shit and you seriously didn’t expect some reprisal from them?

You did it yourself, and if Trump wins again in 2020 you did it to yourselves again.

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I laughed so hard when I saw this. Never going to see Matilda the same again.

Seriously people been upping they meme game on Twitter lately…

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just found out Alex Jones aka InfoWars got banned from facebook, youtube and i forgot where else.
i dont agree with anything he says, but censoring the dude was 1,000% bullshit.
thats all i wanted to say.

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I find it utterly fascinating. They’re a private business and can do what the fuck they like. They don’t need to be a platform for anything they don’t want to be, but they do want to set clear boundaries for what they’ll put up with. They put up boundaries, he violated them, he got kicked out of the cool kids club. “Don’t be a dick” is a good baseline rule for participation in online communities, but theirs are a lot more verbose… and he fucked up.

Where’s the problem in this scenario?

I’m much more interested in his trials. Hopefully he pursues that as long as far in the court system, as I’m veerrrrry curious as to court interpretations here.

I agree with others who have suggested that he wants to be a martyr. He would neeeever intentionally be an attention whore, right?

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I dont actually think Youtubes guidelines are very clear at all. They are very vague and open to interpretation as is convenient for them.

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@PussyStuffer and everyone else… always remember…

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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They are illegally mass jailing people in the us

It is nazi status if you don’t have your papers you go to jail and they can hold you as long as they want

That is the President of a prominent Christian college.

There really is alternate universe people are living in… Fucking scary and amazing all at the same time.

Meanwhile Faux News is spending more time talking about NFL preseason than fucking ESPN…

Don’t forget the DAMNING EVIDENCE against Clinton, that we’ve never convicted her from and after she submitted to all the bootlicking that the Republicans made her do for the past 20 odd years.

You wouldn’t want to actually deal with the people CURRENTLY in power. People wonder at why the political discussion is fucked up right now: it’s because the right-wing conversation is dishonest and irrational. I’m curious as to where we end up ten years from now, because the current craziness is not sustainable.

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Look @ the irony…

The autocrats

The current craziness, as you call it, is just another day in the last 25 years of life in the MidWest of Bible Belt: Holster Edition.