USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town

[benjipwns]

The #Resistance is boycotting CNN:
https://twitter.com/maryderrickart/status/1653121439233351686

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/bean_joyanna/status/1653136805821284352
https://twitter.com/PatiKRoll11/status/1653121192084254720
https://twitter.com/dudeonthebay/status/1653138877547159553
https://twitter.com/Longjacket2/status/1653140303820234775
https://twitter.com/hapkidogal/status/1653122115623583745

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[BIONIC]

I’d rather be strapped to a chair, have the Magna Carta branded on my chubby white arse w/ a white hot poker, while acid is dripped on my toes

Some people would pay good money to see that

[Uncle]

"with their ratings in freefall, CNN just announced that they will host Donald Trump for a live town hall in New Hampshire next week. GARBAGE"

so they agree with all the times Trump said shit like "failing CNN" 

[benjipwns]

Trump was only right for the wrong reasons.

[Nintex]

Are we going to have this song and dance with every show Trump is going to be back on, including calling into Morning Joe from the can again?

[Potato]

Any Republican wanting to go up against Trump in the primaries should focus on calling him fat, useless and stupid. That's the kind of thing that sticks with typical modern Republican voters. It also plays to his weakness which is vanity. They could throw some insults about having to buy a wife from eastern Europe too.

[team filler]

Sounds like Trump, he was even complaining about the length of the Wonderful Diamond, of Diamond and Silk's funeral during his eulogy at said funeral

That eulogy was amazing, I don't think anyone posted the whole thing. There's only bits and pieces with soy commentary on YouTube.

This has some highlights with decent commentary

he was really up there talking to silk like it was the first time ever seeing her   

the beautiful diamond he knew very well, but somehow has no clue who silk is 

[Joe Molotov]

She's gonna carry on beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Just like this funeral, am I right? They told me it would only last 15 minutes!

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1653448224517271552

Good Lord.

I voted for you to do something about this Abbott.

[team filler]

let them all in so they can vote for tio bernie

[Himu]

https://www.newsweek.com/no-theres-no-border-crisis-republicans-are-perpetuating-another-big-lie-opinion-1579671

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1653383580981116932



CNN is actually doing this. 

[james]

Good Lord.

I thought we were done hating people different from you?

[Uncle]

Good Lord.

I thought we were done hating people different from you?

that's disingenuous, it isn't hatred to recognize that there's a fundamental breakdown/disconnect there

if these people should be allowed into the US, then change the law so they are here legally

if they shouldn't be allowed into the US, then enforce those laws

it has nothing to do with the individuals, their cultures, beliefs etc.

you can also say "good lord" at all the gun violence in the US, and say if we want less shootings, either change the law so there are fewer/no guns, or enforce the existing laws in better ways

[Nintex]

From personal experience the migrant problem is only going to get worse because apart from all the other problems in a few years time there will be very few jobs these folks can do to sustain themselves.

We've offered an internship to a Syrian girl after request from the local government and while she is learning the language and everything you can't help but think that what she is able to learn (entry level HTML/CSS) is absolutely useless now that AI's exist. A lot of low level desk jobs simply won't exist anymore in 5 to 10 years time (perhaps even sooner). Learn to plumb?


https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1653464633854836754
What is bro cooking?

[james]

Another Bernie win

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1653431454800510977

[team filler]

buying a one way ticket now, tio bernie! 

[benjipwns]

From personal experience the migrant problem is only going to get worse because apart from all the other problems in a few years time there will be very few jobs these folks can do to sustain themselves.

We've offered an internship to a Syrian girl after request from the local government and while she is learning the language and everything you can't help but think that what she is able to learn (entry level HTML/CSS) is absolutely useless now that AI's exist. A lot of low level desk jobs simply won't exist anymore in 5 to 10 years time (perhaps even sooner). Learn to plumb?

Malthus was wrong.

Also, plumbing is a specialized field and potentially lucrative career.

[benjipwns]

"There is a website, you may or may not have heard about it, called PornHub..."


 

[Uncle]

From personal experience the migrant problem is only going to get worse because apart from all the other problems in a few years time there will be very few jobs these folks can do to sustain themselves.

We've offered an internship to a Syrian girl after request from the local government and while she is learning the language and everything you can't help but think that what she is able to learn (entry level HTML/CSS) is absolutely useless now that AI's exist. A lot of low level desk jobs simply won't exist anymore in 5 to 10 years time (perhaps even sooner). Learn to plumb?

Malthus was wrong.

Also, plumbing is a specialized field and potentially lucrative career.

[james]

Himu do you live in Harris County?

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1653497335471656987

[who is ted danson?]

of course kamala harris county is trending blue... you ain't slick with this election rigging, jack 

[Himu]

Good Lord.

I thought we were done hating people different from you?

I don't hate them. I deeply empathize with their situations. But this isn't good for Texas and it's not good for them. We don't have the resources to endlessly supply them what they need. They are now in the streets of El Paso destitute in a foreign nation that doesn't share their language.

[Himu]

Himu do you live in Harris County?

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1653497335471656987

I'm from there, yes.

[james]

Himu do you live in Harris County?

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1653497335471656987

I'm from there, yes.

Do you think the GOP should be able to cancel results in one county because they don't like them?

[Joe Molotov]

Another Bernie win

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1653431454800510977

[Nintex]

The walls are closing in

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1653823204731887617

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1653830220842139650

[Pissy F Benny]

wow big if true

[benjipwns]

Do you think the GOP should be able to cancel results in one county because they don't like them?

Look who suddenly dislikes socialism.

[Uncle]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3983439-biden-expected-to-send-1500-troops-to-border-ahead-of-expected-migrant-surge/

The Biden administration is planning to temporarily deploy 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of an expected surge in migrants.

The announcement comes as Title 42, a policy that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border and blocks them from seeking asylum, is set to expire May 11.

A U.S. official told The Hill the troops would be deployed for 90 days to assist with work including ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support, but they would not be doing law enforcement work.

The troops are meant to station at the border until U.S. Customs and Border Protection can more adequately address its needs through contracted support, according to the official.

DHS officials have predicted that attempts to cross the border could climb following the end of the policy, which was first implemented under the Trump administration.

In March, U.S. officials encountered more than 191,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border; administration officials have said they expect that number to go up significantly with the end of Title 42.

[team filler]

 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1653160391206158339

 

[james]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1654270959002562562

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/7d93371/status/1653459486714019862

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1654136255637082113

Look I love the Mickey and the Mouse. The best Marvel movie, well I like all of them but Captain USA is probably the greatest in terms of America and with regard to movies

[who is ted danson?]

Ron DeGroomer

[Pissy F Benny]

Thing is, Pudding Rons voice is that of the kind of bitch assed individual who would have a Disney land annual pass

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1654580383000797184

Holy fucking shit, peak trump moment

[benjipwns]

Thing is, Pudding Rons voice is that of the kind of bitch assed individual who would have a Disney land annual pass

Now that you mention it, he does sorta seem like a jilted lover, like all the Harry Potter fans with Joanne.

[benjipwns]

https://cherp.medium.com/rebekah-jones-the-unbearable-lightness-of-truth-6b14142083d5

 

https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1654638242069880832

[team filler]

changed the role 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1654048268718940160

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1654541484291399681

How I report things on C-SPAN for downplaying near permanent fascist takeovers of the planet in a sensitive thread?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/damonimani/status/1654629404083904513

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1655224875815153664

Bare-knuckle brawlers from Trumpworld are standing by.

"Now, we're going from peacetime to Defcon 1," the friend added. "His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom."

[Nintex]

Holy fucking shit

https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1655237814315892737

and this leaked: "Write in all caps at the top of the pad 'LIKEABLE' "

https://twitter.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1655206666818682881

[Himu]

Another weekend another protest from the left. All over an unhinged homeless. I'm sorry that he died but New Yorkers know what it's like to be attacked by a homeless man. This guy was ranting violently, throwing trash at passengers. Imagine being underground stuck in a car with nowhere to go as a mentally ill man SCREAMS AT YOU. Nope. The Marine did good work helping the people in that train car and I'm sorry that Neely died but protests over this? Absolutely ridiculous.

Our education system has done us a disservice. "Let's protest!" as the way to solve things ever since the civil rights movement as the answer to every single thing. Ugh.

All these protests the last decade. Just tired of it.

[Himu]

said the terrible episode broke New Yorkers’ hearts and that it disrupted a place where all New Yorkers have to learn to co-exist.

Lmfao

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/public-safety/2023/05/05/mta-chairman-urges-new-yorkers-to--deescalate--on-subway-after-neely-s-death

[Himu]

I can't stand this.

https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1654977961810960384

Oh my goodness.

[Nintex]

I read up on it and it's a sad story overall. The guy was apparently a sort of street performer/dancer that entertained folks with his Michael Jackson moves. At some point he started to attack people and people were even warning others on Reddit that he had snapped. He apparently tried to kidnap a kid at some point too.

It seems like a failure of the city to act but this is sort of a trend in neoliberal cities. It reminded me of the report that one of the first things the Taliban did when they took back Kabul was to open rehab centers for all the homeless addicts.
Of course the Taliban way was to strap them to a bed and have them 'sweat it out' with prayer which does not meet modern medical standards but it's telling that they didn't just leave them out of the streets. Perhaps this sort of thing is the other side of the coin that you just can't prevent in free societies and that is why public workers have mostly given up trying to fix it. 

[Himu]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3991724-so-i-hear-im-transphobic-dee-snider-responds-after-being-dropped-by-sf-pride/

Another day another reason to OUTRAGE! Whether it's the right (Bud Light) or the left (Dee fucking Snider is a bad person that hates human rights ) everything is a WAH WAH fest. Modern American society is SHIT .

It seems like a failure of the city to act but this is sort of a trend in neoliberal cities.

I have been railing on this issue for a year plus. NYC is a city where the homeless are neighbors of sort and you know them by name.

All this over protest over a mentally ill homeless man. Blocking subways, getting on subway tracks. Good Lord, this fucking country.



i"M pORteStiNg

[Himu]

The Fiscal 2023 Preliminary Budget for the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) totals $2.2 billion, which represents 2.2 percent of the City's overall budget of $98.5 billion.

https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2022/03/DHS-.pdf

Your and my tax dollars at work

Libs: if we raise taxes on this issue it'll work!

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/FLAGUSA1776/status/1654954640637657090
Trump congratulates Nick Adams on his 3 million social media followers and the 'alpha male' movement

[benjipwns]

Our education system has done us a disservice. "Let's protest!" as the way to solve things ever since the civil rights movement as the answer to every single thing. Ugh.

Especially since that would be an inaccurate characterization of the sustained multifaceted effort that was intelligently considered.

Not that I wouldn't be surprised if it was taught as "there was a protest, MLK gave a speech, Congress acted, everyone agreed" considering this is about how 99% of Americans believe politics to work.

It seems like a failure of the city to act but this is sort of a trend in neoliberal cities.

Here's an example of what I mean.

[benjipwns]

FACT CHECK: Protest works!

California’s Reparations Task Force voted on Saturday to recommend that the state issue a formal apology for slavery and potentially provide billions of dollars in cash payments, moving forward a historic effort to enact remedies and compensation for descendants of African Americans who were enslaved in the U.S.

Economists calculated preliminary estimates of monetary losses in three categories of community harms: health disparities, African American mass incarceration and over-policing, and housing discrimination.

The amounts each individual receives would be determined by the number of years they have resided in California for a minimum of six months. The money would be given to every eligible recipient and no one would need to provide proof that they suffered individual harms in each category.

Compensation for health disparities: $13,619 for each year of residency. This figure was derived by comparing life expectancy between Black non-Hispanic and white non-Hispanic Californians.
Compensation for mass incarceration and over-policing of African Americans: $2,352 for each year of residency in California during the war on drugs from 1971 to 2020.
Compensation for housing discrimination: $3,366 for each year between 1933 and 1977 spent as a resident of the state of California.

The proposal calls for additional compensation for unjust property takings and the devaluation of African American businesses, which have not yet been quantified. The task force also suggests the Legislature adopt an individual claims process to provide reparations for those who can prove particular harms.

The report recommends that the Legislature provide initial down payments to begin the process, with more payments to follow, and prioritize the elderly as the first in line for compensation. The task force also noted that the amounts are conservative estimates and not final.

A draft of the final report recommends “a range of policies needed to guarantee restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and non-repetition,” included, but not limited to:

Repeal or amend Proposition 209, a measure approved by California voters that banned affirmative action in 1996.
Analyze laws, policies and ordinances from the local to the state level for racial impact prior to passage and after implementation.
Amend the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude.
Pay fair market value for jail and prison labor.
Abolish the death penalty.
Fund community wellness centers in African American communities.
Strengthen the Bane Act by eliminating the requirement that a victim of police violence show that the officer “specifically intended” to commit misconduct.
Declare election day a paid state holiday.
Restore voting rights to all formerly and currently incarcerated people.
Implement rent caps for historically redlined ZIP Codes.
Increase grants and financial assistance to improve homeownership rates among African Americans, including subsidized down payments and mortgage payments to those who reside in formerly redlined neighborhoods
Allow descendants who reside in formerly redlined neighborhoods to transfer the assessed value of their primary home to a newly purchased or constructed primary residence.
Provide free college tuition for all California residents eligible for monetary reparations.
Build more parks in African American communities.
Identify and remove Confederate monuments, markers and memorials.
Create a guaranteed income program for descendants of an enslaved person.
Automatically increase minimum wage on a regular basis to adjust for increases to the cost of living, including inflation.
Provide interest-free loans to owners of small businesses in African American commercial areas.
End the cash bail system.
Repeal the “three strikes” law.
Adopt universal single-payer healthcare coverage and a healthcare cost control system.
Increase Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to match reimbursement rates of private insurance.

I especially liked this one because the minimum wage was originally pushed by progressives in hopes of driving Blacks out of employment:

Automatically increase minimum wage on a regular basis to adjust for increases to the cost of living, including inflation.

Then once all the lower classes were driven out of employment it'd be easy for the state to just sterilize everyone unemployed and protect society from their tainted blood allowing for the progressive utopia to begin.

The fucking yts are going to get away with it again though with excuses:

“By participating in these horrors, California further perpetuated the harms African Americans faced, imbuing racial prejudice throughout society through segregation, public and private discrimination, and unequal disbursal of state and federal funding,” the panel noted, according to NPR.

Though up to $1.2 million in reparations was approved by the task force, some voiced their displeasure at the offer, arguing the amount should be much higher. Citing a 19th century promise of “40 acres and a mule,” activist Rev. Tony Pierce demanded an “equivocal” amount for every black citizen, amounting to a total he figured to be $200 million, Fox News reported.

While the panel approved the $800 billion in reparations, the proposed payments are not likely to pass through the state’s legislature as $800 billion is more than 2.5 times higher than the state’s annual budget, NPR reported.

“There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact,” Roy L. Brooks, a professor and reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law, told NPR.

[Himu]

OUR TAX DOLLARS

[Himu]

Liberals are nuts, conservatives are nuts, both are annoying my head off. Cons want you to kill someone for ringing your doorbell or turning around on your driveway. Liberals want to disrupt society for the most baffling of reasons with a new protest every other weekend. Both want you scared. Both want you stressed. Fuck all that.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1655030412425478147

[james]

The Marine did good work

If I was a black man with a history of mental illness, I would not be cheering on the vigilante murder of a black man with a mental illness

[Himu]

Your opinion would be if value if you were a black man but you aren't and I have never ranted violently to other people or threw trash at them.