newshinycd
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Bannon is as bad or worse than Cruz. Yes they are both smart, but both are incredibly manipulative and dangerous.
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Bannon is as bad or worse than Cruz. Yes they are both smart, but both are incredibly manipulative and dangerous.
A Link to the Past
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What are the odds that the Trump admin does anti-porn legislation
A Serious Man
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I can't think of an issue that would upset the alt-right more.
Fragamemnon
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Google and Facebook are Silicon Valley companies, and the culture in the Valley is heavily against any government regulation of any type (interferes with start-ups) and strongly economic and social libertarian (young, educated white/asian men). It's bad to an extreme and that's why you get such baffling, craven behavior from those companies (Google to a much lesser extent) and Twitter/Reddit.
Microsoft (disclaimer: proud employee) is old tech company and based out of Seattle. If it was MS or Amazon with these issues I think that it would be handled differently than the way the Valley companies are handling it.
A Link to the Past
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same lol, that's why I hope it happens. It won't be able to get off of the ground, and it will establish that young nerds giving power to older, traditional politicians tends to not benefit you.
Lol. Trump's assault on net neutrality is going to make these fuckers wish they never spent a minute supporting him.
Abstrusity
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Moot isn't really "Amoral," he curated content for 4chan as much as possible over his tenure, banned people for being racists and sexists as per the rules which, while not as stringent as GAF (and only because better mod presence), still lean toward the "don't be a dick" sort. /pol/ for instance was removed four times before being reinstated, because it would get as bad as it is now, and he made clear that open racism and sexism do not belong there.
Now moot isn't pulling the strings and Japanese moot doesn't care.
Without a real mod presence, 4chan goes to shit. Political correctness and the complaints of it definitely originated from there -- but it was always clear that "political correctness" didn't mean "racist, sexism, bigoted bullshit."
Now? ...Not anymore. :/
Politico did a roundtable with a group of GOP strategists, and one of them -- I think Jeff Roe, Cruz's former campaign manager -- mentioned how the Dems fucked up by not attacking Republicans enough on policy, and instead made the election more of a referendum on Donald Trump than on Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand fetish.
We know that was a deliberate strategy of the Clinton's campaign -- to isolate Trump from the rest of the party in a bid to pick up moderate Republicans and undecideds -- and if it worked, we'd probably look at it as some genius move that won a broad cross-election of Democratic and Republican voters. As it was, because so many of those voters ended up breaking for Trump anyway, they dragged many incumbent Republicans along the finish line without being told why Republican policies are going to crush them.
Guess they'll find out soon enough, I suppose.
@realDonaldTrump:
I settled the Trump University lawsuit for a small fraction of the potential award because as President I have to focus on our country.
The ONLY bad thing about winning the Presidency is that I did not have the time to go through a long but winning trial on Trump U. Too bad!
I can't take this for four years.
I settled the Trump University lawsuit for a small fraction of the potential award because as President I have to focus on our country.
The ONLY bad thing about winning the Presidency is that I did not have the time to go through a long but winning trial on Trump U. Too bad!
I can't take this for four years.
I can't take it now and he's not even in office yet.
He is Zaphod Beeblebrox, don't focus on him. Congress and administration are now a black box. Judge what comes out of it.
A Serious Man
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What. A. Twat.
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
WHAT THE!?
Seriously?!
Ridiculous if he is tweeting about that Hamilton stuff already, and distorting what it was, yet still has done little or nothing in response to all the hate crime upswing and concerns like what the Hamilton crew spoke on.
Holding out hope that if there hasn't been enough to convince them already, that Trump and/or Pence do something really stupid before being confirmed and the electors pick someone else out of disgust.
Holding out hope that if there hasn't been enough to convince them already, that Trump and/or Pence do something really stupid before being confirmed and the electors pick someone else out of disgust.
A Serious Man
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Asking to not be discriminated against is now considered harassment. Don't worry, AG Sessions is on the case!
i_am_ben
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or eight!
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THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
CoffeeJanitor
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I hate that he uses his Twitter as his own spin machine
UGH
UGH
Dubbedinenglish
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The President elect picking a fight with a musical cast. Fuck me, 4 years of this shit.
shinra-bansho
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Make Theatres Safe Again (for Old White Men)
A Serious Man
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Typical liberals ignoring the sanctity of the theater when it suits them. Hypocrites!
He doesn't deserve to be President.
He's going to be the leader of the free world and he's actually wasting time complaining about having to settle. He's lucky that his status and now the Presidency basically makes him immune from jail.
There are so many challenges we face and he's still acting like a loser on social media.
On top of everything else we have to deal with him being a fucking baby for four years.
Dubbedinenglish
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#NameAPenceMusical Is starting to trend. Sand outs:
Annie get your gun without a background check
Rent, but not to those people
The KKKing and I
Lying King
Annie get your gun without a background check
Rent, but not to those people
The KKKing and I
Lying King
RustyNails
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Rich privileged white assholes need safe spaces too.
Springtime for Hitler (can't take credit)
I kinda liked these too:
Racist Horror Picture Show
Register Aladdin
How The Grinch Stole The Electoral College
BreezyLimbo
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People on twitter saying pence going to see hamilton is a ploy to distract people from other trump things
These woke people dont realize that this is how its going to be for the next 4 years. Everwhere trump or pence go will be met with hate
These woke people dont realize that this is how its going to be for the next 4 years. Everwhere trump or pence go will be met with hate
JetBlackPanda
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Unless they show up in a corn field.
BreezyLimbo
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Yup
Was talking to my friend about that. If they ever show up in a liberal area or city that skews liberal, there will always be hate against them. The only place theyd get love is at a farm in the middle of no where.
thehypocrite
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I've been looking at Bannon. His message is economic in nature. He allows some people to wrap their hate under economic anxiety. If you listen to him talk his message to this voter is coded in many ways, but is overtly economic and subtle white nationalist. The fact that they'll be in government forces them to deliver.
Going forward we need to listen and learn from Bernie on this message, he's a key asset for what's to come.
The funny thing, the establishment is what you become after you win power. The goal will be to blindside them from the economic side to capture enough of their voters.
Going forward we need to listen and learn from Bernie on this message, he's a key asset for what's to come.
The funny thing, the establishment is what you become after you win power. The goal will be to blindside them from the economic side to capture enough of their voters.
Trump's voters are gonna be among the first to feel the brunt of his policies: trade wars and tariffs that spike the prices of consumer goods, tax cuts for the wealthy that hurt lower-income families, the gutting or elimination of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security, financial sector deregulation that will inevitably lead to another recession (not that we aren't already heading for one already), etc. All the while there will be no revival of U.S. manufacturing jobs, no end to the opioid/heroin epidemic, no infrastructure investments and certainly no wall.
thehypocrite
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If this happens, rather likely, Democrats need to be ready to pounce.
jack_package_200
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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Trump demanding a safe space at a public theater is fucking amazing.
These fucking losers need to grow some thicker skin.
These fucking losers need to grow some thicker skin.
Rofl, so now he wants safe spaces huh? I would say I'm surprised, but then I'd be lying.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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What has happened to masculinity in the western world is a tragedy.
Toxic masculinity has always been horrible, but at least there were some positive aspects of masculinity.
But now men decided that "masculinity" is represented by a guy who is constantly offended by minorities asking him to be nicer and is constantly offended by minor criticism. What happened?
Toxic masculinity has always been horrible, but at least there were some positive aspects of masculinity.
But now men decided that "masculinity" is represented by a guy who is constantly offended by minorities asking him to be nicer and is constantly offended by minor criticism. What happened?
Slurpy2k20
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Not sure if a more hypocritical public figure, and one utterly lacking completely in self-awareness, has ever existed.
Apologize for what? The message was utterly respectful. He wants "safe spaces" now? Coming from someone who has lobbed grenades at everyone, crossing every line imaginable, lies through his teeth, insults and bullies, sexually assaults, and has smeared and attempted to delegitimatize the current President? Thin-skinned fuck. Amazing how the same people who also are pretending to be offended by this are the same ones who called Obama a Muslim, homosexual, communist monkey for 8 years.
I can't believe that's what he went with. I can't believe they're letting him run his own Twitter account again. It would have been so easy for him and Pence to essentially respond with "We hear their concerns and are committed to running America in a way that is for all Americans."
He didn't have to mean it, just... Is it not Humanity 101 to respond to "We are your people, and we are scared." with something other than "Uppity peons dared speak out of turn; this is unacceptable!"
Winning the goddamned Presidency of the United States apparently isn't enough to soothe his ego for even a couple of weeks, it's back to getting bruised at every perceived slight.
thehypocrite
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So many lies in 140 characters. A true magician.
Dubbedinenglish
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So what is the running bet on his approval ratings by him taking office? Low 30's?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Why is the news using "fiery" to describe General Michael Flynn?
"Mentally unstable" is the correct description. Flynn is not a normal person.
"Mentally unstable" is the correct description. Flynn is not a normal person.
Good Job Bob
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Ignore his antics.
AntraxSuicide
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Tech is the Wild West. Sure, you'd like to hire only good, upstanding sheriffs to handle that region, but they don't exist at the level you need. Sort of how you needed a person who was a great gunslinger to be sheriff in the Old West, and the only good gunslingers were bandits. So you grab one of them and pay them off to shoot up other bandits, which is better than there being no sheriffs at all.
In tech, the only top-level coders are people who learned this shit in the fires of illegal activity. Eventually it'll get better, but not right now.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Weird Twitter having to decide between their hate of Mike Pence and their hate of Hamilton is great.
A West Virginian official called Michelle Obama "an ape in high heals" and instead of saying the remarks were racist, they said they were "controversial."
Our media fucking sucks.
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