The All-Purpose Political Thread

[lester1/2jr]

shes also raising tons of $

[Trevor]

shes also raising tons of $

My apologies, Lester and to anyone else if I misspoke: I remember you saying that you had family members at the WTC.

[lester1/2jr]

no no I mean its shocking at first to refer to 9/11 as "some people did something". as if it was no big deal but i thought she meant that because people who we have no relation to did an act we would never dream of we are getting s**t from the govt

[Svengoolie 3]

What worries me most about 911 is we have a generation of young a Erica s who:e never known a pre 911 world, an america full of sursurveillance, the a negation of the constitution thru the patriot act,  visa courts, no fly lists, etc. We have kids who think all this is just how america is.  Some of us remember an america before all that was slid bien out throats in the holy name of "national security"...

[lester1/2jr]

been thinking abuot this tweet https://twitter.com/brandonmcg/status/1101279234864173057

"The three-legged stool, but it’s Bernie’s economic policy, Ron Paul’s foreign policy, and Rick Santorum’s social policy. That’s a majority that would last a generation."

not too many people would fit into all three categories but interesting concept for a party. the "three legged stool" refers to what used to comprise the GOP evangelicals, free market guys and...some other one

[RCMerchant]

What worries me most about 911 is we have a generation of young a Erica s who:e never known a pre 911 world, an america full of sursurveillance, the a negation of the constitution thru the patriot act,  visa courts, no fly lists, etc. We have kids who think all this is just how america is.  Some of us remember an america before all that was slid bien out throats in the holy name of "national security"...

We're gonna be ok.
I really believe that. This country has been in worse situations.
No matter who's in the White House-we're still gonna survive.

[El Misfit]

In case anyone wants to know why more people in my age group is leaning heavily on socialist ideas is because a lot of people in my age group feels like that student loan debt is racketeering, and that more and more companies are becoming racketeers.

[Svengoolie 3]

In case anyone wants to know why more people in my age group is leaning heavily on socialist ideas is because a lot of people in my age group feels like that student loan debt is racketeering, and that more and more companies are becoming racketeers.

That and the fact that a company like amazon makes nearly qw billion in profit in 2018 a d lays no taxes plus gets money from the government too.

[indianasmith]

I get everlastingly sick of the Trumpsters on my FB feed talking about the "Nazi sympathizer" George Soros.
Some even say he was an SS officer during World War II.

First of all, Soros is JEWISH. He barely survived the Holocaust.  Secondly, he was 14 when the war ended.
Third, he's politically far left, not far right, which is the opposite of Nazism.
A ten second Google search is all it takes to show how false that story is.  But no one bothers to fact check anything.
EVER.

[Rev. Powell]

I get everlastingly sick of the Trumpsters on my FB feed talking about the "Nazi sympathizer" George Soros.
Some even say he was an SS officer during World War II.

First of all, Soros is JEWISH. He barely survived the Holocaust.  Secondly, he was 14 when the war ended.
Third, he's politically far left, not far right, which is the opposite of Nazism.
A ten second Google search is all it takes to show how false that story is.  But no one bothers to fact check anything.
EVER.

Don't you know Google is owned by George Soros and he directs them to put out fake news about him? All it takes is a check of the Trumpsters on your FB feed to figure that out.

[Pacman000]

Is Gigablast? http://gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q=george+soros

[Rev. Powell]

Is Gigablast? http://gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q=george+soros

Just in case you're being serious... that was a joke. Indy's far-right followers believe all media is owned and manipulated by "globalists" who lie (not just spin the truth, but create elaborate falsehoods), so you can't go to Google or Wikipedia or Snopes or whatever educate them with facts. How he attracts these people, I can't say.

[Pacman000]

Yes, it was a joke. Tho I did want to point out Google isn't the only search engine.

[Alex]

Is Gigablast? http://gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q=george+soros

Just in case you're being serious... that was a joke. Indy's far-right followers believe all media is owned and manipulated by "globalists" who lie (not just spin the truth, but create elaborate falsehoods), so you can't go to Google or Wikipedia or Snopes or whatever educate them with facts. How he attracts these people, I can't say.

I guess I should be worried that Indy added me on FB then.

[lester1/2jr]

I thought the mueller report was gonna show that trump worked with russia to win the election and then paid them back in secrets and clandestine cooperation afterwards?

instead I'm supposed to be mad that he wanted to obstruct the investigation into all that but, following the advice of his staff, did not.

the russia thing was a bigger headache than Mitt Romneys two failed presidential campaigns. hey, yelp ads I'm not going to a clam joint in the next state over we have a billion of them here