posted by like_that

 I am 100% fine with the bolded though, especially considering the left loves to legislate thru the courts. 

Can we get Kavanaugh and one more?  I really want to see the nuclear meltdown on the left over abortion.

posted by gut

Can we get Kavanaugh and one more?  I really want to see the nuclear meltdown on the left over abortion.

That would be fantastic.  This is coming from a guy that despite personal views, really doesn't GAF about abortion.  I just want a conservative court for rest of my life. By conservative I mean, judges who actually interpret the constitution instead of pulling shit out of their asses like RGB. 

posted by like_that

That dude has been in the mud all his life.  It is not surprising.  I am 100% fine with the bolded though, especially considering the left loves to legislate thru the courts. 

"The Right" does it just as much as "the left" when they perceive they have a friendly majority in the courts. The 1st Amendment Jurisprudence that has come out of the Roberts Court is not anymore grounded in any sort of real originalism or textualism than the 14th Amendment Jurisprudence of the Warren Court. It's equally pulled out of the ass when used to deviate from precedent. Activist Conservative Groups have used the courts to overturn have a half-century of labor and campaign finance precedent under the first amendment when no plausible claim could be made that this is based on originalism and textualism as it was the founding fathers who passed the Sedition Act of 1798 and prosecuted newspapers and journalists for speech critical of the government. It's ALL bullshit. 

Most of us in this forum dislike Trump and for many, many reasons. We sometimes give him a green light when, in rare moments, he does something that seems logical or correct. With that said, there is an obvious trend of taking that dislike and being purposely ignorant or hypocritical about it. For example:

https://www.newsweek.com/white-farmer-killed-every-five-days-south-africa-authorities-do-nothing-851470 (from March)

https://torontosun.com/news/world/white-south-african-farmers-protest-murder-spree (from last year)

So it makes me wonder... if Trump is being a white supremacist by bringing up the murder and land theft of farmers in SA, does that mean that left leaning sites like Newsweek and the AP are also pushing white supremacy? 

This has been known for some time that this was going on. Numerous articles, reports and documentaries about it. Why is it only a white supremacy issue when Trump says it? Granted, he's being inflammatory because usually whatever he tweets about is inflammatory, that just cannot be denied. But are we picking and choosing when something or someone is being white supremacist? Is this literally TDS*?

Am I actively being a white supremacist because I don't like Trump and consider his latest tweet to be inflammatory while at the same time I never thought the news reports or documentaries to be white supremacy? Can we have it both ways?

* I hate to admit it but I own that I've had TDS upon occasion.

posted by BoatShoes

The Trump water-carrying by Gut is something I didn't expect after 2016 I'll be honest but it is very entertaining. Take a minute and just try to imagine a world where this was happening under Obama. Gut would be hysterical. 

It did happen.  The obama campaign broke campaign finance laws to the tune of at least $1.4 million.  Of course they just paid a $375,000 fine for said illegal reporting/activity, and it was all swept under the rug.

I'm back.



Carry on ....

posted by CenterBHSFan

Most of us in this forum dislike Trump and for many, many reasons. We sometimes give him a green light when, in rare moments, he does something that seems logical or correct. With that said, there is an obvious trend of taking that dislike and being purposely ignorant or hypocritical about it. For example:

https://www.newsweek.com/white-farmer-killed-every-five-days-south-africa-authorities-do-nothing-851470 (from March)

https://torontosun.com/news/world/white-south-african-farmers-protest-murder-spree (from last year)

So it makes me wonder... if Trump is being a white supremacist by bringing up the murder and land theft of farmers in SA, does that mean that left leaning sites like Newsweek and the AP are also pushing white supremacy? 

This has been known for some time that this was going on. Numerous articles, reports and documentaries about it. Why is it only a white supremacy issue when Trump says it? Granted, he's being inflammatory because usually whatever he tweets about is inflammatory, that just cannot be denied. But are we picking and choosing when something or someone is being white supremacist? Is this literally TDS*?

Am I actively being a white supremacist because I don't like Trump and consider his latest tweet to be inflammatory while at the same time I never thought the news reports or documentaries to be white supremacy? Can we have it both ways?

* I hate to admit it but I own that I've had TDS upon occasion.

 

I don’t know if you read the Newsweek article u referenced but it says that activists say a farmer is killed every five days. One paragraph later it says white nationalist activists say lol so no they aren’t also pushing white supremacy, they cite the source. White nationalists. 

Both articles referenced the source of the claims. A white nationalist group. 

geeblock you are proving my point, rather easily. Thanks!

posted by CenterBHSFan

geeblock you are proving my point, rather easily. Thanks!

Full disclosure....I'm kind of amazed by Trump.  He makes stupid people even dumber. 

Most of us see him and think "What a retard".  Other people just go balls out retard.

posted by geeblock

Both articles referenced the source of the claims. A white nationalist group. 

You understand how to use the font button?

posted by CenterBHSFan

geeblock you are proving my point, rather easily. Thanks!

I guess I misunderstood the point you were making. Theyy reported it as “claims made by activist group@ he tweeted it as “facts”. This is two very different things. The claims made by the articles and by trump are mostly not true from any other data source i read I might add. Some farmers have been killed though. 

posted by gut

You understand how to use the font button?

I chatter from my phone sometimes while sitting in traffic 

Brennan on Maher....LMAO it was a left wing version of Infowars hopped-up on meth.

In IL cops are called on an 8-yr old girl walking her dog alone.  The girl is white. 

So how will the media make this about race?

Lol trump just tweeted but her emails 

posted by geeblock

Lol trump just tweeted but her emails 

Yea....because HC broke numerous federal laws that are way worse then what he is accused of doing and she walked

Fuck Trump for hating on McCain. Regardless of what people think, dude was a war hero. 

posted by iclfan2

Fuck Trump for hating on McCain. Regardless of what people think, dude was a war hero. 

Dude was also a war monger.

posted by iclfan2

Fuck Trump for hating on McCain. Regardless of what people think, dude was a war hero. 

That was imho inexcusable

posted by FatHobbit

That was imho inexcusable

Yeah.....McCain served....and then he came home and served some more.  IMO, he was the rare politician that was there to actually serve, rather than get rich.

I guess I missed a lot of stuff happening. Was outside with no tv, no cell, no radio. It was NICE!

posted by FatHobbit

That was imho inexcusable

Goddamn I remember thinking Trump was done when he criticized McCain & being a little sad because he would no longer be able to derail the GOP leaders like Rubio who I thought we couldn't beat. Boy was I wrong. 

posted by BoatShoes

Goddamn I remember thinking Trump was done when he criticized McCain

We know he's an insufferable dick....And teflon.....But, c'mon, put politics aside and credit McCain for his service.

posted by gut

 

We know he's an insufferable dick....And teflon.....But, c'mon, put politics aside and credit McCain for his service.

Yea Trump was dumb to disrespect him and McCain was dumb to play politics with his Obamacare vote.  McCain political legacy will not be cemented in the flip flop he did on that.

Despite McCain's views on the Iraq war and his views on Obamacare, you can bet your last penny that his legacy is secured as a patriot. For many reasons.