Trump: Kavanaugh sex assault claims were 'all made up'
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tbf Trump's rantings and spewing of bullshit is reminiscent of the Martians going ACK ACK in Mars Attacks.
I hope they probe trumps anus on live tv
So it'll just be a close up shot of his face?
This Twitter bot is fucking amazing for showing how bullshit his tweets really are by converting them into official communications.
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Just in case it wasn't immediately obvious how monumentally stupid this comment is:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fascism/2017/04/preparing_for_an_american_reichstag_fire_how_modern_authoritarians_consolidate.html
On Feb. 27, 1933, at about 9 p.m., the building housing the German Parliament, the Reichstag, began to burn. Who set the fire that night in Berlin? We don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that this spectacular act of terror initiated the politics of emergency. Gazing with pleasure at the flames that night, Hitler said: “This fire is just the beginning.” Whether or not the Nazis set the fire, Hitler saw the political opportunity: “There will be no mercy now. Anyone standing in our way will be cut down.” The next day, a decree suspended the basic rights of all German citizens, allowing them to be “preventively detained” by the police.
On the strength of Hitler’s claim that the fire was the work of Germany’s enemies, the Nazi Party won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections on March 5. The police and the Nazi paramilitaries began to round up members of left-wing political parties and place them in improvised concentration camps. On March 23 the new parliament passed an “enabling act,” which allowed Hitler to rule by decree. Germany then remained in a state of emergency for the next 12 years until the end of the Second World War. Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world.
James Madison nicely made the point that tyranny arises “on some favorable emergency.” For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. After the Reichstag fire, political theorist Hannah Arendt wrote that “I was no longer of the opinion that one can simply be a bystander.” Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
Jokes on you, it's going to be a big ass domestic terrorist attack.
No the fuck we aren't. I am not on the same team as a bunch of mysognistic homophobes that wear their xenophobia like a badge of pride. Fuck them. They are a bigger threat to our country than any other nation by a huge margin.
So was 9/11 America's Reichstag fire?
Well, he mentioned James Madison, so it was probably the British burning down The White House.
The response was bad not "we lost the bill of rights" bad
Trump can be funny - mostly accidentally, but sometimes on purpose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-s7eG2ckN4
I mean, 9/11 did result in the suspension of habeas corpus at least temporarily, vastly amplified the surveillance apparatus and normalized indiscriminate collection of domestic American communications including telecommunications, and set off a near-permanent cultural rift that painted all Muslims as jihadi sleepers just waiting to discard their sham normal lives.
It didn't throw the Constitution out the window but it activated the racists' trap card, leading to fully embracing the Tea Party virus and then joining the Trump cult because he promised to fix everything wrong with today's society (which his base blamed on immigrants, the left, and progressive democratic ideals). We're now looking at a Republican voting base that would prefer embracing totalitarianism and a totalitarian Russia over letting the Democrats take office. The long-term consequences of 9/11 cannot be overstated.
You do realize quite a lot of the shitty stuff happening ended up coming about in relation to 9/11, right?
Exactly this. 9/11 is what got us shit like the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.
I'm pretty sure in today's climate it would just divide people further between "The Obama/Clinton deep state did the terrorism" and "The terrorists did the terrorism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rXxaoQqfY
Should probably link that to the original creator rather than a re-upload:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34hehRgw9g
Oh shit. I had no idea. Fixed it.
This is why my parents don't call themselves Evangelicals or Republicans anymore.
9/11 and the subsequent fallout pretty much caused all of this.
On the topic of 9/11, it didn't just affect America. The US isn't the only nation to have begun monitoring their own citizens 24/7 and invade their private lives: every Western nation began doing it to some degree, some more overtly than others. It has gotten especially bad since ~2008. How many scandals and reports have been leaked that reveals the massive extend to which we're being monitored by
our own governments? And what has actually been done to curb this?
I think the true test of America - and the rest of the West - is whether or not their governments will one day trust their citizens again, and stop this rampant attempt at controlling our lives.
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