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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17175 on: February 14, 2018, 11:05:13 am »

The new thing about it, which is why it is a new article, is that it just became known that the lawyer paid it with his own personal money.
Surprise twist: maybe the lawyer was having the affair, and Trump was just the procurer!
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17176 on: February 14, 2018, 11:21:41 am »

Well he does have a background in "hospitality."
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17178 on: February 14, 2018, 09:56:02 pm »

Obligatory, depressingly frequent, posting of Onion article:
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1823016659
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17179 on: February 15, 2018, 12:19:26 am »

Not to downplay mass violence, but the ICE enforcement sweep of LA has begun.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ice-raids-20180213-story.html

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« Reply #17180 on: February 15, 2018, 01:07:14 am »

Not to downplay mass violence, but the ICE enforcement sweep of LA has begun.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ice-raids-20180213-story.html
I'm sure much pointless suffering will occur, much money will be spent, no one will be better off, and non of the problems in the system will be fixed.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17181 on: February 15, 2018, 05:31:11 am »

Rounding up people in razzias for their ethnicity to see if they can be deported?
US now officially full nazi country. I hope you're proud.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17182 on: February 15, 2018, 06:03:34 am »

Don't worry, we can live here and not agree with this shit.

Not that our disagreement seems to make a difference. This administration has an executive arm that's fairly effective at breaking stuff.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17183 on: February 15, 2018, 06:23:05 am »

I know there's plenty of people in the US who disagree with ICE.
I'm just a bit surprised at the lack of protests.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17184 on: February 15, 2018, 06:25:00 am »

Given the treatment of protesters in the US?

I'm not.  Remember the stupid oil pipeline?  The one that was in direct contravention of treaty? The one where fucking teargas grenades, and worse, were deployed on people, causing them to nearly lose arms?  The one that leaked the very next fucking year?  Yeah. that's pretty indicative of how protests get handled in the US today.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17185 on: February 15, 2018, 06:31:10 am »

I know there's plenty of people in the US who disagree with ICE.
I'm just a bit surprised at the lack of protests.
I figured you were just making the general observation, yeah.

Good point though, that's kinda disturbing.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17186 on: February 15, 2018, 06:41:53 am »

I still hold by that the US government has a LONG tradition of violence against peaceful protesters, when those protesters are protesting something that either the government is doing, or supports.

The Smithsonian even has a fucking exhibit about it.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-the-us-180964098/

Dakota access pipeline?  Big oil interests, in line with current government's political agendas concerning increased oil dependence, and shuttering of alternative energy. Treaty? who gives a shit about indians, this is the US, and that is inside our border! (except, it totally isnt, per the verbiage of the treaty-- go on, read it!)

Black lives matter? Certainly not-- (I mean, how else do you explain the Tuskegee experiment, and others like it?)

Occupy Wallstreet?  You have to be kidding--- protests against the super rich and connected!? Never, not in THIS country!

Seriously-- if I keep this up, I will blow up every sarcasm detector for miles.


Let's just say that if the citizens of LA were to protest the ICE actions there, it would turn very nasty very quickly, as the ICE would call in a federal goon squad, and start "Dispersing" people.
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17187 on: February 15, 2018, 08:43:38 am »

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
 Because I was not a Socialist.
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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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17188 on: February 15, 2018, 08:52:08 am »

I prefer the Desaparecido version, personally; "Then they came for me, and I did not speak out, because I was not me."
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Re: AmeriPol: Russia investigation sheneinighans
« Reply #17189 on: February 15, 2018, 09:06:03 am »

Pretty ashamed of my fellow Americans these days. How did we let things get so corrupt?
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