pacino wrote:hey, i told someone to fuck off on FB for the first time in a while

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:hey, i told someone to #$!&@ off on FB for the first time in a while

Had my Trumpy aunt call CNN fake news on my brief whine about it. Reminded why I try to avoid politics on Facebook.

pacino wrote:he told us

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:hey, i told someone to fuck off on FB for the first time in a while

Had my Trumpy aunt call CNN fake news on my brief whine about it. Reminded why I try to avoid politics on Facebook.

Youseff wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:hey, i told someone to #$!&@ off on FB for the first time in a while

Had my Trumpy aunt call CNN fake news on my brief whine about it. Reminded why I try to avoid politics on Facebook.

I hate being in a position to have to defend CNN. I don't particularly care for them, but I think there are plenty of decent journalists that work for them, and I certainly don't think a wholesale dismissal of 99% of the press is helpful.

pacino wrote:the Kochs have come out against the ban...follow the money, folks

Youseff wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

pacino wrote:hey, i told someone to fuck off on FB for the first time in a while

Had my Trumpy aunt call CNN fake news on my brief whine about it. Reminded why I try to avoid politics on Facebook.

I hate being in a position to have to defend CNN. I don't particularly care for them, but I think there are plenty of decent journalists that work for them, and I certainly don't think a wholesale dismissal of 99% of the press is helpful.

WheelsFellOff wrote:I'm generally not a political person, let alone an activist, but I wrote an email to Senator Toomey's office asking him to come out in opposition of the ban. Here's the link for anyone else who wishes to do so:

https://www.toomey.senate.gov/?p=contact

I really don't see how anyone who claims to be an American can do anything BUT oppose it. And as I wrote in my email, silence is tantamount to support.

[Reveal] Spoiler: My email, if you're interested

Senator Tooomey

I am saddened and disheartened to find you still silent on the issue of President Trump's executive order banning entry to the US for those from majority-Muslim countries, particularly Syrian refugees. Such a ban does not reflect the ideals we as Americans profess to uphold. We claim to be strong in the face of adversity and courageous towards a threat of danger. The ban is a clear action showing the opposite. It is an act based on fear of the other and fear of making the hard choices we know to be right. If you claim to represent me, an OIF II Veteran who proudly served when called upon to do so, you will speak out in dissent of this ban. Your silence on the issue is tantamount to your support, and your support will show you to be on the wrong side of history as those who signed The Chinese Exclusion Act or opposed the Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. Please, do the right thing, not the easy or expedient thing.

pacino wrote:Someone should look into this george soros guy

TenuredVulture wrote:One thing these protests show is that millenials are awesome and can save America if they start voting in midterm elections and state legislative races. (I know,not all the protesters are millenials but I think they're really coming through here.)

Youseff wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:1) Okay so because 2% more people voted for HC the other 63 MILLION people shouldn't be understood?
2) Both parties knew exactly how that peculiar selection process worked. One did a way better job at playing the game than the other, who had the advantage of decades of experience.
3) Trump and his voters would get a biblical amount of #$!&@ for making the same arguments about the electrical college if the situation were reversed. Sour grapes argument, regardless of validity.
4) I do feel I genuinely understand their situations and didn't vote for Trump, so there you go. But HC offended those people repeatedly and Trump lavished them with (probably empty) promises of a return to prosperity. They chose to vote for the guy that might be a lot of bad things but seems to "have their back" when nobody else appears to vs. the woman who called them a basket of deplorables and basically ran her entire campaign on that fact that he was unfit to be President rather than trying to highlight her own fitness.

I think this is wrong. I, like a lot of left leaning people spend a lot of time reading and consuming lots or Right focused media. The average Trump supporter is actively proud that they don't consume any center or left leaning media. All it would take on these people's part, is to spend 10 minutes reading the details of the Trump University scam or his constant, consistent screwing of unions and contractors over the last 40 years to realize he doesn't give a flying #$!&@ about the average person. I'd be happy to start to see some come to Jesus moments where these people realize the error of their ways, but as of now I see them as culpable, conscious actors in bringing fascism to our country. Most seem thrilled Trump is dividing us.

The Savior wrote:The question will be how many voted Trump because they didn't want Hilary (or didn't want a woman in office).