The All-Purpose Political Thread

[indianasmith]

My biggest takeaway from this investigation is a strong admiration for the professionalism of Robert Mueller.
No grandstanding, no press interviews, no passionate defenses against the daily shower of abuse heaped on his head by the "Trump can do no wrong" brigade.  He just does his job, quietly, grimly, relentlessly, handing down one indictment after another on Trump's crooked cronies.
Whether he proves actual wrongdoing by Trump himself or not, one thing he has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt is that our President has surrounded himself for decades with a bunch of felons, liars, crooks, and cheats.

[Allhallowsday]

My biggest takeaway from this investigation is a strong admiration for the professionalism of Robert Mueller.
No grandstanding, no press interviews, no passionate defenses against the daily shower of abuse heaped on his head by the "Trump can do no wrong" brigade.  He just does his job, quietly, grimly, relentlessly, handing down one indictment after another on Trump's crooked cronies.
Whether he proves actual wrongdoing by Trump himself or not, one thing he has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt is that our President has surrounded himself for decades with a bunch of felons, liars, crooks, and cheats.

Sad truth.

[lester1/2jr]

my biggest take away is trump is still president and it was a huge waste of time.

the whole "russia" thing was concocted out of whole cloth to try and cover up for the DNC leaks, where it was revealed Bernie Sanders was getting screwed over. rather than apologize Hillary and co came up with this ridiculous conspiracy theory

RC- let them have it then. assad is their president its up to him. why would I care? let them have a base or something in Syria

[Svengoolie 3]

Ok if we're going to get into Syria here,  I kinda gotta go heath ledge joker here.

The Syrian civil war has lasted 7 years and over 500,000 people bad  been killed in it,  about 85% of which we're civilians killed in the crossfire or by assad's forces for suspected disloyalty.

They were  killed by bullets,  guns,  bombs,  artillery, beatings,  stabbings,  hangings,  lack of food,  water and medical aid.

For years all the world did was b-tch about the refugees from Syria fleeing to othe countries.

Then a few dozen people were killed by (GASP!  ERMUHGURD!)    nerve gas!!!


Suddenly  the world loses its mind over that.

Why?

Now sure I can see Trumpa the hutt,  who during the campaign vowed to tell Syrian refugees in america "Yuhr going' back! " because he's a megalomanical psychopath who got a sense of  godhood at the thought of ordering "Yuge, byoodiful bombs making huge,  byoodiful 'sploshuns at my command, killing' hundreds of nobodies because yes,  I am God. I AM GOD!!!  "

But how it's it the wrest of the world ignored half a million  causalties over 7 years and went absolutely nuts for a news  cycle or two over nerve gas strikes? 

Peolle,  I am insane and have been adjuged so,  and do not deny it. But honestly I think i'd rather be insane than inane.  And frankly the world's reaction to Syria is utterly inane.

[Trevor]

I was no fan of President Obama, but he NEVER behaved or spoke the way Trump does.  I disagreed with many of his policies, but at the end of the day I could have some respect for him as a person.  

Agreed: I am a fan of neither Presidents but I would be pleased to have a beer with President Obama: I know he likes a beer as he had one with Congressional Medal of Honour winner Dakota Meyer at the White House.

[RCMerchant]

my biggest take away is trump is still president and it was a huge waste of time.

the whole "russia" thing was concocted out of whole cloth to try and cover up for the DNC leaks, where it was revealed Bernie Sanders was getting screwed over. rather than apologize Hillary and co came up with this ridiculous conspiracy theory

We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin!

[Svengoolie 3]

Trump openly  asked russia to get hillary's emails.

[Leah]

I'm surprised that vaccinations doesn't have a federal law about getting your children vaccinated (that is if your child doesn't have a condition where they can't) Seems like we wouldn't have this outbreak. Personally since I'm sick of these people being ignorant about it that we should start calling these parents bio-terrorists. It's extreme I'll admit, but drastic measures should be taken if these parents refuse to do the right thing of keeping their alive and everyone else's children alive.

[Alex]

Kristi mentioned something about California having brought in a law saying that if you don't vaccinate your children they can't attend public schools after a measles outbreak.

I did see a meme that I agree with that we should stop calling people 'Anti-Vaxxers' and call them 'Pro-Plagues'.

[Trevor]

We interrupt this program for a special news bulletin!

Daffy: what are you doing?  + 

[Svengoolie 3]

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/rand-paul-mandatory-vaccines-measles-1240542

[lester1/2jr]

svengoolie - it was a joke.  he was onstage. I agree with you about Syria and we should not have been feeding the opposition, unrepentant jihadists, at all much less for 8 years. maybe it started out as an arab spring sort of thing but it devolved into sunni- shia age old stuff that has nothing to do with us.

RC- well some people liked bernie and resented the way the DNC treated him. maybe you're not one of them

[Svengoolie 3]

I was no fan of President Obama, but he NEVER behaved or spoke the way Trump does.  I disagreed with many of his policies, but at the end of the day I could have some respect for him as a person.  

All right indy, just what was your problem with obama? What policies of his were bad?

[Allhallowsday]

State by state, more gun ownership equals more mass shootings, study shows 
 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-by-state-more-gun-ownership-equals-more-mass-shootings-study-shows-220918498.html 


...Gun rights advocates have long held that mass shootings could only be prevented by the proverbial "good guy with a gun." But the new study finds that, in fact, states with less restrictive gun laws are more likely to experience mass shootings, defined as a shooting in which four people or more were killed... 

[Svengoolie 3]

AHD,  my reply to this study,  and not  you for posting it, is "Duuuh! ".