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evollove 08.17.2018 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
 


This looks really good and perhaps vital, but the only people who'll read it don't need to, y'know?


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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
John Brennan is NONE of those things!!!!

At the height of the Cold War, John Brennan votes for a Stalinist.



Did you read the link? Never a member. Cast a vote for a CPUSA candidate 40 years ago.

"Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?"

"No."

"I'll take that as a yes."

h8kurdt 08.17.2018 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ha ha ha ha

i stayed away this past summer but renewed activity in the thread lured me back

i’ll have to say it’s clear people are living in alternative realities and it’s pointless to discuss anything here... once i thought it was possible but now i know it’s a fool’s errand

i hope at least you saw the ivanka “commercial” i posted for your amusement haa haaa haaa.

anyway yeah... laughter might save us...


 


All you can do man

ilduclo 08.17.2018 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Skuj
Guys....good luck.

I'm seriously done here. (I mean it this time!!)

It's too fucking depressing to be in a slow motion trainwreck. I'll figure out something I can do to help the cause in some small way.



Done HERE is one thing and is certainly understandable. But, please keep on working as hard as you are able for progressive change. Even though we are in a reversal right at the moment, you just need to look back in history a short time to see that we are continuing to advance. And the ONLY resason for that is continual work by progressive people and groups.

ilduclo 08.17.2018 04:21 PM

The world looks pretty scary once you start seeing sinister patterns everywhere

 

Bytor Peltor 08.17.2018 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
And yet it took Trump this long to do it? Funny that.


One of his campaign promises was to drain the swamp!

!@#$%! 08.17.2018 10:46 PM

'Rapists, animals, drug dealers': woman abuses US Latino man in echo of Trump

A Latino man who was filmed being racially abused by a white California woman has said similar incidents have become “increasingly regular” since Donald Trump took office.


Video of Esteban Guzman being verbally attacked by the unidentified woman has been watched more than a million times since it was shared early on Monday morning.

The footage shows the woman pointing her finger in Guzman’s face.

“Why do you hate us?” Guzman asks.

“Because you’re Mexicans,” the woman replies.


Guzman tells her “we’re honest people”.

“Yeah, rapists. And animals,” the woman says. “Drug dealers.”

The language closely echoes words used by Donald Trump during his campaign and since becoming president. Trump kicked off his campaign by claiming Mexicans seeking immigration were “rapists” and “drug dealers”.

In May Trump, discussing his administration’s efforts to deport “people trying to come in” to the US, said: “These aren’t people. These are animals,” Trump said.

Guzman, 27, works in construction on weekends to supplement his full-time job in IT as a systems administrator. He and his mother were clearing a yard in Running Springs, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, when the woman approached.

“She was yelling at my mom go back to Mexico,” Guzman told the Guardian.

Guzman said he was “afraid” for his mother’s safety when he approached.

“I was like hey, what’s the problem? And she said we were all illegals,” Guzman said. “I told her: ‘I’m a United States citizen.’ And she obviously she didn’t believe me.”

Guzman said he had suffered racial abuse “all my life”, but said it had become more frequent since Donald Trump’s emergence on the political scene and use of racist rhetoric.

“Ever since last year it’s becoming increasingly more regular,” Guzman said.

“I think his speech gave everybody permission to call us those names and to think bad of us,” Guzman said. ““I know a lot of people that have had it said to them”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...al-drug-dealer

h8kurdt 08.18.2018 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
One of his campaign promises was to drain the swamp!


Imagine actually being this deluded.

Bytor Peltor 08.18.2018 10:11 AM

I’m guessing Sarah Huckabee Sanders will now be using the ashes from Michelle Wolf’s career for her smokey eye makeup :rolleyes:

!@#$%! 08.18.2018 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
I’m guessing Sarah Huckabee Sanders will now be using the ashes from Michelle Wolf’s carrier for her smokey eye makeup :rolleyes:

proof that the good die young and evil doesn’t :D

!@#$%! 08.18.2018 10:46 AM

no question there, but trump and his minions sell the snake oil of racial scapegoating instead of offering actual solutions

typical. has happened before as history shows.

ilduclo 08.18.2018 10:57 AM

new congressional ad

https://youtu.be/y70tdrCfQQg
 

tesla69 08.19.2018 05:35 PM

"Meanwhile, Benghazi survivor and former Army ranger Kris Paronto - who lost his security clearance years ago after telling his account of the Benghazi attack - slammed Brennan in a Thursday tweet which reads: "My principles are greater than clearances too John, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punished us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton ‘s & @BarackObama ‘s failures. You put your politics before us."

!@#$%! 08.20.2018 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
Not quite. Illegal immigrants hardly constitute a race,


nothing really constitutes a “race,” except a social construct, deliberately obtuse one

since a certain segment has deemed “mexicans” a “race” based on their appearance, guess what happens socially

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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
and I've previously demonstrated


i dont think you drunkenly babbling to yourself on the internet feigning rationality like a latter-day pseudointellectual archie bunker “demonstrates” anything :rolleyes:

!@#$%! 08.20.2018 11:25 AM

‘Please come help’
Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn’t get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...sing-business/

[...] The situation illustrates a general unwillingness among U.S. workers to perform certain kinds of labor, some of the business owners here in Dorchester County say. It also demonstrates how President Trump’s “America First” policies have not necessarily helped those workers or small-business owners but instead have dealt them a new economic reality.

Crab-picking houses are boosting wages and expanding overtime but are losing customers — and profits — because they can’t provide a reliable supply of crabmeat. One local supplier buys meat elsewhere to serve at its restaurant because the in-house picking plant has none. And at Russell Hall, Phillips is weighing whether to pack up and move his operation to Mexico.

“What future’s gonna be here if we don’t know if we’re gonna get our workers?” Phillips said. “Our girls are right in Mexico, and they have crabs just like we have.”

!@#$%! 08.20.2018 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk


Substantially raising the wages of workers is the whole point. To paraphrase John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America: if the employer cannot pay a living wage to those entitled to earn it, then let it go out of business.

I am well aware of the dependence of this country's grossly bloated hospitality industry on cheap labor, largely to cater to nouveaux riches finance sector rentiers. The whole system amounts to the hospitality workers constituting an out-of-house domestic staff, and is founded upon income and wealth inequality. A massive reorganization of that sector, and of relative wage rates generally, is urgently called for.

THERE ARE NO MORE WORKERS

everyone who can have a job already has it

get it??

there are no more people to shuffle around

how much are you gonna pay for a dental assistant to go crab picking in the summer?

Bytor Peltor 08.20.2018 08:34 PM

Cities with the highest homeless populations:

- New York City (76,501)
- Los Angeles (55,188)
- Seattle (11,643)
- San Diego (9,160)
- Washington DC (7,474)
- San Jose (7,394)
- San Francisco (6,858)
- Las Vegas (6,490)

All of them are run by Liberals.


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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
Right now I'm watching a Dateline report on homelessness in Los Angeles (and, by extension, the country as a whole) entitled City of Angels. It features much discussion about people "falling through the cracks", and of wages too low to supply basic necessities, but little mention of the starvation of the public sector for funding. President Trump's tax cuts clearly exacerbate the problem, which predates his administration. Redistributive taxation, an end to excessive military spending (and to the chronic wars which such spending feeds), and a general reprioritizing of government expenditures are desperately needed.


evollove 08.20.2018 09:17 PM

You mean the cities with the largest population have the largest homeless population? Go figure!

Just kidding.

Actually, Houston is the fourth largest US city and isn't on that list. The mayor is democrat. And black. Philadelphia is fifth largest. Not on list. Mayor is democrat. Phoenix is sixth. Democrat mayor.

I don't know if you were being serious, but if so, there doesn't seem to be much connection between a city's homeless population and which party tends to run the city. Plenty of democrat mayors can keep the problem under control.

Not sure what's up with Seattle. Twentieth largest city but third largest homeless population? The democrat mayor there must suck. I'll give you that.

!@#$%! 08.20.2018 09:29 PM

it’s because liberals are more tolerant and charitable.

i mean, if you were homeless—would you wanna beg from the bible thumpers in dallas?

imagine the horror of your christian brother sicking the cops on you for the “crime” of being homeless

lmao

they give them tickets so they can’t get ID

lol megachurch people

“thoughts and prayers”

plus new york is walkable and has better street theater and better restaurants that give food away when the shift is done.

oh look!

https://pix11.com/2018/01/07/manhatt...lace-to-sleep/

“suspicious” muslim-sounding name for some....

lolololol

tw2113 08.20.2018 09:43 PM

*checks in*


Yep, shit still be fucked.

!@#$%! 08.20.2018 10:32 PM

 


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