***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[EddieDoyers]

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/pentagon-war-plans-7-countries-5-years/

Pentagon War Plans in 2001: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, & Iran

 

[RustyShackleford]

I love bringing up Somalia to libertarians to tease them, it has become such and easy way to mock their ideology that the second my libertarians friends here it coming off my tongue I can see them fuming. Like....

I only use it when the "handouts" talk starts though.

 

[trueprada]

 

[northoaklandfc]

They would say "Segregation ain't all that bad", "I like drinking at separate water fountains", "GEORGE WALLACE 1964", "MLK is a race agitator", "It ain't that difficult to vote" and "Da forthcoming 1970 census will prove I'm not Black".

@ 1:33 of this video.







You had dudes saying THAT during the height of segregation and civil rights era. Throwback Rico

Threw up in the mouth a bit watching rico x hood paternal grandfather dancing like that.

 

[rexanglorum]

I love bringing up Somalia to libertarians to tease them, it has become such and easy way to mock their ideology that the second my libertarians friends here it coming off my tongue I can see them fuming. Like....

I only use it when the "handouts" talk starts though.

 

[everysingletime]

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/pentagon-war-plans-7-countries-5-years/

Pentagon War Plans in 2001: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, & Iran

Those names look familiar

 

[RustyShackleford]

I love bringing up Somalia to libertarians to tease them, it has become such and easy way to mock their ideology that the second my libertarians friends here it coming off my tongue I can see them fuming. Like....

I only use it when the "handouts" talk starts though.

Yeah, I have sent this video to so many people

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Will forever love and appreciate Brother Malcolm.

 

[rolaholic]

The Apprentice: SCOTUS edition ladies and gentlemen!

@ReutersPolitics: Trump's #SCOTUS pick is Neil Gorsuch or Thomas Hardiman, source says. Watch announcement LIVE at 8 pm ET http://reut.rs/2kOrZlN

Bizarro land idiocracy for real

Will forever love and appreciate Brother Malcolm.

I'll never co-sign Farrakhan or any of the other NOI figureheads that get propped up banking off his legacy

 

[Armada]

No class about the way they are doing this SCOTUS 

 

[Mark Antony]

Field research doesn't count as science now?

Alternative science/research >

I wish people would spend the time to understand the scientific method/process before jumping to dismiss research publications. They don't come to these conclusions lightly, usually findings have to be falsifiable and repeatable.

 

[Mr.Guy]

 N

 

[Mr.Guy]

The President has some terrible grammar.

 

[EddieDoyers]

The President has some terrible grammer.

Pot calling the kettle black I'm jk

But yeah for an Ivy League alumni, he's quite disappointing in his grammar

 

[EddieDoyers]

So Gorsuch is SCOTUS nominee
Meh don't care

 

[RustyShackleford]

49 Staunch conservative, thinks the constitution should be interpreted in original form.

Voting rights and abortion rights are under serious threat. Advancing social justice might be lost for a damb generation.

**** me

 

[Mr.Guy]

49 Staunch conservative, thinks the constitution should be interpreted in original form.

Voting rights and abortion rights are under serious threat.

**** me

Can the dems prevent him from getting confirmed?

 

[rolaholic]

49 Staunch conservative, thinks the constitution should be interpreted in original form.

Voting rights and abortion rights are under serious threat.

**** me

Any way the Dems fight it the same way those clowns fought the Garland nod for over a year?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Yes they can filibuster. But the GOP could use the nuclear option

 

[RustyShackleford]

Some Dems don't want to filibuster because they want to hedge against a liberal judge being next to be replaced.

 

[Trey Bantz]

49 Staunch conservative, thinks the constitution should be interpreted in original form.

Voting rights and abortion rights are under serious threat. Advancing social justice might be lost for a damb generation.

**** me

Scalia 2.0

SCOTUS will function the same way it did before he died. Not worth the Dems filibustering

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Novocaine analogy from that speech is so real.

It’s like when you go to the dentist, and the man’s going to take your tooth. You’re going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they’re not doing anything to you. So you sit there and, ‘cause you’ve got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don’t know what’s happening. ‘Cause someone has taught you to suffer peacefully.

The white man do the same thing to you in the street, when he wants to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don’t have to be afraid of your fighting back. To keep you from fighting back, he gets these old religious Uncle Toms to teach you and me, just like novocaine, “suffer peacefully.” Don’t stop suffering—just suffer peacefully. As Reverend Cleage pointed out, “Let your blood flow In the streets.” This is a shame. And you know, he’s a Christian preacher, if it’s a shame to him, you know what it is to me!

 

[RustyShackleford]

49 Staunch conservative, thinks the constitution should be interpreted in original form.

Voting rights and abortion rights are under serious threat. Advancing social justice might be lost for a damb generation.

**** me

Scalia 2.0

SCOTUS will function the same way it did before he died. Not worth the Dems filibustering

Voting ID and gerrymandering is taking a beating in lower courts. SCOTUS could reverse all those wins.

There is an argument for the filibuster too.

 

[rexanglorum]

Yes they can filibuster. But the GOP could use the nuclear option

That's the thing though, make them do just that.

For one thing, the nominee's judicial philosophy is irrelevant here. What matters is that this seat is stolen so Democrats should vote no on any Trump nominees. If Democrats stand firm, the GOP would have to use the nuclear option and in the future, Dems can take back the Senate and no longer have to deal with that 60 vote hurdle ever again.

If Democrats form a "gang of 8" and approve any Trump Supreme Court nominee, they will be rewarding McConnell for what he did last year. It's time to create the "Harris rule" where a President cannot fill a vacant Supreme Court seat unless that seat was vacated during his term.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Let's just be glad Trump didn't pick his sister to be SCOTUS