***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[RustyShackleford]

Bannon would never run with that talking point, not enough casual antisemitism. At least throw some brackets around Fed.

I think Bannon echos every noun in every sentence he types. Beware the (((Fed))) and its ability to manipulate the (((Economy))) and also be weary of (((flouride))) in the (((water))) and (((chemtrails))) in the (((sky))).

Dear white progressives, stop bringing Ralph Nader around.

If you want to make minorities wary of white supremacy being able to coexist happily with social democracy, Nader will do exactly that

I honestly don't know much about Ralph Nader, what white supremacists things has he been saying and doing?

He may or may not be a white supremacist, I can't call it yet. But I wouldn't bring him around anyway, because he will probably say some clown ****.....

-He famously had a blow up with the Congressional Black Caucus, like a screaming match between him and the entire Caucus because they wouldn't support his play to run independent in 2004, they want to to stay out. The CBC said it was too important to get Bush out of office for Nader to be messing around He claimed he was called an unspecified racial slur, demanded an apology.

-He ran in 2004, as the under the 'Populist Party of Maryland" at one point (it ballot access hustle was so weird that year). Kinda weird to use that name given its previous history with white supremacy. Also, he took support from the Reform Party, when David Duke and Pat Buchanan were in it. Mind you, a one Donald Trump left the Reform Party in 2000 because he couldn't stand the racism.

-There was this on election night 2008:



-He worked on a project with some Conservatives to make Harvard admissions more fair. The headline of the effort was arguing how unfair affirmative action is.

-There was this last year about him looking back fondly to a time when white males could harassing women and make ethnic jokes whenever they pleased.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Academic-Home-of-Trumpism/239495

Now that you mention it, Trump is a fascinating phenomenon. What does his popularity tell you about the electorate and what they want?

Nader: Well, and you see this when you walk past construction sites and you talk with white male workers, they feel they have been verbally repressed. It’s hard for someone your age to understand what I’m about to say. They like to stand on a corner and whistle at a pretty lady. They like to flirt. But they can’t do that anymore. Multiply that across the continuum. You can’t say this about that, and you can’t say that about this. And the employer tells you to hush. And perhaps your spouse tells you to hush, and your kids tell you to hush. So they have a whole language that they inherited — ethnic words like Polack. A lot of these people grew up on ethnic jokes, which are totally taboo now. Do you know, Lydia, there are no ethnic-joke books in bookstores anymore?

There used to be?

Nader: All the time. There were Negro-joke books, Jewish-joke books, Polish-joke books, Italian-joke books. They used ethnic jokes to reduce tension in the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s. And they’d laugh at each other’s jokes and hurl another one. But it still flows through ethnic America, you know. There are hundreds of things that people would like to say. So here’s this guy — he doubles down on them, he blows their minds. So that’s the first way he got their attention.

the 30s, 40s, and 50s, ahhh da golden era

-Had this gem too......

Well, what if it serves a purpose in the moment — which is to make an impact on the debate — and doesn’t carry on as an institution?

OK, well, there’s a negative, which is demoralization when they can’t get there. You’ve already seen that with Black Lives Matter. They’re so sensitive to injustice, and then they don’t see any response to their work. One young man committed suicide. The tension is incredible. And what will happen when the press turns on them? The press finished off Occupy. The minute they were ejected it was no longer news. Not that they knew how to organize anything. Not that they knew how to take any advice from the ’70s and ’60s.

So yeah, I do suspect some things.

 

[AZwildcats]

Ralph Nader can come see these hands 

 

[ksteezy]

I'm 33 now as well and was a freshman in college on 9/11 at 18 years old. September is the Fall means my dude was probably STARTING sophomore year of HS. Jesus, at that point just let me rock my GED.

My son didn't wanna leave high school anymore than he does his mommas crib....gotta say, ninja knows how to commit.

 

[ninjahood]

I'm 33 now as well and was a freshman in college on 9/11 at 18 years old. September is the Fall means my dude was probably STARTING sophomore year of HS. Jesus, at that point just let me rock my GED.

My son didn't wanna leave high school anymore than he does his mommas crib....gotta say, ninja knows how to commit.

****** still ain't brush their teeth this morning talking **** bout me @ 5:30am

at least wipe da eye crust off jeez.

 

[ksteezy]

****** still ain't brush their teeth this morning talking **** bout me @ 5:30am

at least wipe da eye crust off jeez.

Bruh I work overnight, the hell you talmbout....go to sleep b.

 

[ksteezy]

Yo so Trump really stood there as reporters and even Merkel herself asked for a handshake and ignored it like some 4 year old having a tantrum with an adult?...man we just keep hitting a new low b...what a classless POS

Also I find it extremely ironic that a dude who's constantly throwing around the word "snowflake" mocking everyone's intolerance of HIS idol, is the same dude that is constantly screaming for Meth to come and clean up his safespace....

 

[gry60]

http://www.voanews.com/a/african-tr...r-visas-denied-african-delegates/3770907.html

LOS ANGELES —
Each year, the University of Southern California brings delegations from Africa to meet with business leaders, government officials and others in the U.S. But this year, the African summit has no Africans. All were denied visas.

Visa issues are not uncommon for people traveling from African nations. During her prior three summits, Mary Flowers saw a high percentage of her attendees at the African Global Economic and Development Summit, unable to attain visas.

"Usually we get 40 percent that get rejected but the others come," said Flowers, chair of the African Global Economic and Development Summit. "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation. And it was sad to see, because these people were so disheartened."

Flowers estimated that she lost about 100 attendees, including speakers and government officials. The countries affected included Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa.

'A discrimination issue'

"I have to say that most of us feel it's a discrimination issue with the African nations," said Flowers. "We experience it over and over and over, and the people being rejected are legitimate business people with ties to the continent."

A request for comment from the State Department was not immediately returned.

Flowers said those who were denied visas were called for embassy interviews just days before they were supposed to travel, despite having applied weeks or even months ahead of time.

One of those denied a visa was Prince Kojo Hilton, a Ghanian artist whose work includes special effects and graphic art. He paid his $500 fee to attend the event and was asked to lead a session on filmmaking. But he held off buying his plane ticket until his appointment at the embassy on March 13, four days before he was supposed to travel.

"I was really disappointed when I went to the embassy," Hilton said in an interview with VOA.

Travel ban

It remains unclear why all of the Africans heading to the event were denied visas this year.

Diane E. Watson, who formerly represented a Los Angeles-area district in Congress, said she had called the State Department to ask for information about the denial of visas for would-be delegates to the USC summit. But the State Department isn't allowed to discuss individual visa cases.

With the heightened attention on foreign nationals coming to the U.S., there have been stories of more visas being denied to people from countries other than those named in the Trump administration's executive orders. But visas are routinely denied by U.S. embassies without explanation.

If there has been an increase in the number of visas rejected under the new administration, it's hard to verify. The publicly available State Department data dates only to late 2016.

 

[Nike Jordan]

"What do you have to lose?"

 

[ksteezy]

I sit here watching these Republics, majority of whom grew up completely privileged and unhinged from the struggles of the lower class, preach on about what the kid of a low income household needs or doesn't need, how does this make sense? Dudes legit saying there is no proof of feee lunch improving a child's grades, as if that's the purpose of feeding them, so that they can score high grades, what a POS, how about you feed them because they can't afford to buy 3 meals a day, some of these kids get dropped off and their parents have to pick them up at the after school program, do you now expect them to go hungry all day? Or should parents have them eating PBJ sandwhiches for breakfast lunch and dinner? Is cringeworthy watching these clowns try to defend the cuts to the DOE....smh

 

[frink85]

https://theintellectualist.co/trump-attacks-germany-twitter-morning/

Says meeting with Merkel was great but Germany needs to pay up. Body language don't lie.

Just like the meeting with Pena Nieto where the wall didn't come up. Bruh punked out. Man up, son!

 

[lightweight champion]

That's some real Smokey **** right there.

"When she here I be quiet....when she leave I be talkin' again."

 

[whywesteppin]

for why he ignored the requests for a handshake with Merkel, maybe he's just hard of hearing. he is 70-years-old and obviously consumes a poor diet and is out of shape.

if he has a heart attack or stroke that leaves him in a vegetative state, would he stay as president or would pence take over? I'm trying to imagine a best-case scenario where he isn't able to tweet or talk but he's not dead enough for pence to become president.

 

[Xennial]

 

 

[IATT]

 

[lightweight champion]

From the looks of it he won't get anything passed anytime soon. A certain someone said very recently Cheeto has only been in office for one month, but we're two days away from Day 60. So he's really been in office for two months and he hasn't had any bills passed while two times he's been rejected on the travel ban.

If he were to be physically incapacitated I would rather it be this time next year so if/when Pence takes over he won't get anything done either.

 

[lightweight champion]

Not necessarily in college but out of HS, or at the very least pass your sophomore year before you can see an R-rated movie.

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

Meals on wheels? PBS? cost too much. A billionaire's weekly trips to a resort? we can handle that.

 

[ksteezy]

Bruh do you understand how tired this routine of yours is?

 

[AEA18]

 

[ksteezy]

Is not even like free lunch was some gourmet style meal, I grew up on these struggle meals, but at the very least I wasn't starved because my mom had to work crazy hours to make ends meet and couldn't provide me with every essential meal of the day.

 

[aepps20]

The cruelty of Da Don and the Republicans is staggering. Meals on Wheels and reduced cost food programs are vital.

 

[ksteezy]

The cruelty of Da Don and the Republicans is staggering. Meals on Wheels and reduced cost food programs are vital.

They rich, what do they care

 

[frink85]

You want to eat?? Bootstraps, b. Maybe don't buy that new iPhone or pay your bills. Food > electricity.

 

[Mark Antony]

Who knew "make America great again" meant making the rich white elite stonger and the poor more desolate?