Doll Is Mine wrote:I can't see how our country takes another 4 years of this.

It's only a matter of which he destroys first: the media, corporations that don't kiss his ass, our relationship with foreign allies, treaties with foreign adversaries, etc.

There's going to be a breaking point.

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TenuredVulture wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:I can't see how our country takes another 4 years of this.

It's only a matter of which he destroys first: the media, corporations that don't kiss his ass, our relationship with foreign allies, treaties with foreign adversaries, etc.

There's going to be a breaking point.

He can't destroy the media. It is his life blood.

pacino wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:I can't see how our country takes another 4 years of this.

It's only a matter of which he destroys first: the media, corporations that don't kiss his ass, our relationship with foreign allies, treaties with foreign adversaries, etc.

There's going to be a breaking point.

He can't destroy the media. It is his life blood.

Berlusconi had his own media to convey his message. parties are much more come and go in Italy and he fell in and out of power but he was a force for years and leveraged his personal fortune and media empire to gain and keep followers.

An off-duty Muslim MTA employee was assaulted and harassed by a man at Grand Central this morning who called her a "terrorist."
The incident happened around 6:20 a.m. this morning, when the 45-year-old victim, an unnamed off-duty Transit employee, was in her uniform and on her way to work. The woman, who was wearing a hijab, was aboard the 7 train when the suspect started yelling at her: "You’re a terrorist and you shouldn’t be working for the city."

When they got off the train, the man followed her into the station. The suspect then pushed her down the stairs, injuring both her ankle and knee.

As a U.S. Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s, Sessions said he thought the KKK "were OK until I found out they smoked pot.” In April, he said, “Good people don't smoke marijuana,” and that it was a "very real danger" that is “not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.” Sessions, who turns 70 on Christmas Eve, has called marijuana reform a "tragic mistake" and criticized FBI Director James Comey and Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch for not vigorously enforcing a the federal prohibition that President Obama has called “untenable over the long term.” In a floor speech earlier this year, Senator Sessions said: "You can’t have the President of the United States of America talking about marijuana like it is no different than taking a drink… It is different….It is already causing a disturbance in the states that have made it legal.”

Youseff wrote:http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/jeff-sessions-coming-war-on-legal-marijuana-214501

hopefully this pisses off and mobilizes the Joe Rogan type #$!&@

As a U.S. Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s, Sessions said he thought the KKK "were OK until I found out they smoked pot.” In April, he said, “Good people don't smoke marijuana,” and that it was a "very real danger" that is “not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.” Sessions, who turns 70 on Christmas Eve, has called marijuana reform a "tragic mistake" and criticized FBI Director James Comey and Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch for not vigorously enforcing a the federal prohibition that President Obama has called “untenable over the long term.” In a floor speech earlier this year, Senator Sessions said: "You can’t have the President of the United States of America talking about marijuana like it is no different than taking a drink… It is different….It is already causing a disturbance in the states that have made it legal.”

Youseff wrote:the latest Youseff 180: I like Chapo Trap House. It's good.

(cross podcast thread post)

td11 wrote:

Youseff wrote:the latest Youseff 180: I like Chapo Trap House. It's good.

(cross podcast thread post)

i am still on page 22 so sorry about this late response

i agree with almost all of their politics. still think they're unnecessary dickholes on twitter from time to time, but since the election i've found myself being way less annoyed by 'em. way too much actual horrible shit going on

still haven't listened to more than like 10 minutes of one episode

In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Ryan said he could not prove Trump’s baseless claim that “millions of people voted illegally,” which the president-elect tweeted to his millions of followers last Sunday.

“I don’t know. I’m not really focused on these things,” Ryan said when anchor Scott Pelley asked him about Trump’s blatant lie.

“I have no way of backing that up. I have no knowledge of such things,” he said.

When Pelley continued to press him, Ryan said that the fact that the president-elect of the United States circulates false information on social media is not a concern to him.

“It doesn’t matter to me. He won the election,” he said. “The way I see the tweets you’re talking about, he’s basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless. He’s communicating with people in this country who’ve felt like they have not been listened to. He’s going to be an unconventional president.”

“Who cares what he tweeted, you know, on some Thursday night, if we fix this country’s big problems?” he added. “That’s just the way I look at this.”

jerseyhoya wrote:He's trying to walk through a minefield to pass tax reform and healthcare reform. He will be ignoring all tweets until these things are either done or it's clear they cannot be done.