I used to be an NRA member. I thought their politics was getting weird so I quit.
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If my memory serves me well, according to that video, I'm meant to fist liberals like you... Or something.
I'm googling about the NRA now, and they're almost unrecognisable compared to 40 years ago.
They also sound rather wealthy and powerful, with a lot of political pull... Although there are HEAPS of things that sound like conspiracy theories too.
Liberals are supposed to snowflakes and need a safe space. But we are also very violent and need to be taken out. k
Good for you. They are getting very weird. The problem is people think anti-NRA means anti-gun when of course that isn't the case. I know lots of gun owners who feel the exact same way.
Normal conservatives need to stop ignoring the crazy on their side. I actually used to consider myself "conservative" and I bet many do. What this Trump GOP has become is anything but conservative.
The GOP gets all wrapped up in "loyalty" and seeing everything in black and white. You are either with them or against them, and that brings too many crazies into the fold.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-ca...-crime-watchdog-resigns-saying-trump-makes-it
One of the Justice Department’s top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration have been engaging in conduct that she said she would never tolerate in corporations.
Hui Chen -- a former Pfizer and Microsoft lawyer who also was a federal prosecutor -- had been the department’s compliance counsel. She left the department in June and broke her silence about her move in a recent LinkedIn post that sounded an alarm about the Trump administration’s behavior.
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome," Chen wrote. “To sit across the table from companies and question how committed they were to ethics and compliance felt not only hypocritical, but very much like shuffling the deck chair on the Titanic. Even as I engaged in those questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts. Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those conduct. I wanted no more part in it.”
Hui Chen -- a former Pfizer and Microsoft lawyer who also was a federal prosecutor -- had been the department’s compliance counsel. She left the department in June and broke her silence about her move in a recent LinkedIn post that sounded an alarm about the Trump administration’s behavior.
“Trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome," Chen wrote. “To sit across the table from companies and question how committed they were to ethics and compliance felt not only hypocritical, but very much like shuffling the deck chair on the Titanic. Even as I engaged in those questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts. Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those conduct. I wanted no more part in it.”
Chen came to the Justice Department in 2015, after officials there created a compliance counsel position to help guide the agency’s enforcement of criminal laws against corporations.
A department announcement at the time said Chen would guide the fraud section of the Criminal Division in “the prosecution of business entities, including the existence and effectiveness of any compliance program that a company had in place at the time of the conduct giving rise to the prospect of criminal charges, and whether the corporation has taken meaningful remedial action.” The release also said Chen would help the department make sure that corporations who had negotiated agreements with prosecutors were following through on their commitments to stop violating laws.
In recent months, Chen had attracted attention for tweets she posted that were seen as critical of the Trump administration. Chen tweeted her LinkedIn post slamming the Trump administration. In that post, Chen also asserted that she had been muzzled by Justice Department officials.
A department announcement at the time said Chen would guide the fraud section of the Criminal Division in “the prosecution of business entities, including the existence and effectiveness of any compliance program that a company had in place at the time of the conduct giving rise to the prospect of criminal charges, and whether the corporation has taken meaningful remedial action.” The release also said Chen would help the department make sure that corporations who had negotiated agreements with prosecutors were following through on their commitments to stop violating laws.
In recent months, Chen had attracted attention for tweets she posted that were seen as critical of the Trump administration. Chen tweeted her LinkedIn post slamming the Trump administration. In that post, Chen also asserted that she had been muzzled by Justice Department officials.
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41 out of 50 states refuse to comply with Trump's witch hunt...errr voter fraud investigation. A Republican official has resigned from the commission already.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-official-quits-bogus-voter-fraud-group
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-official-quits-bogus-voter-fraud-group
I'm sure they're none too pleased that the steroid-infused addition to Stand Your Ground just got ruled unconstitional here in Florida. Basically, the new version said that the prosecutor had to prove that the shooter wasn't acting in self defense. Now, during the trial, I can see that, but what this did instead was force the prosecutor to prove it before the trial at the pre-trial hearings, and if he couldn't, case dismissed.
That's sad, although I can imagine the right would hate the Declaration of Independence since it was written by people here who were terrorists and not even American Citizens at the time.
Good. I'm not really anti-gun, but laws like stand your ground are scary. I would not live in a state with it. Bunch of redneck, cowboy logic to make murder legal. Self defense covers everything. I'm even ok on castle doctrine. You can't just gun people down in public because you didn't feel like diffusing the situation.
Where is muh Limo?
Also at the end it looks like Melania decides to walk down by herself instead of stepping out with her husband.
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Where is muh Limo?
Also at the end it looks like Melania decides to walk down by herself instead of stepping out with her husband.
I can't believe that f***ing loser gets to ride in that car.
He's playing 12-D chess in the plan to bring down Putin. He's the Maxwell Smart of predisents.
Here's your daily right wing hypocrisy report:
Republican congressman visits Auscwitz and thinks it is a good idea to start ranting about "evil" in the world and how the US is more accessible to this. You just can't make this stuff up.
http://gizmodo.com/congressman-is-s..._source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Next Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby was too "offended" to offer birth control as part of Obamacare. It violated their ultra-sensitive beliefs. However, what doesn't violate their beliefs? Stealing religious artifacts from ISIS controlled parts of Iraq.
All they got was a $3 million fine and have to return the artifacts. How could they have known that stealing them was wrong and that they were taken illegally?
http://ktla.com/2017/07/05/hobby-lobby-to-pay-3m-fine-forfeit-smuggled-ancient-artifacts/
Republican congressman visits Auscwitz and thinks it is a good idea to start ranting about "evil" in the world and how the US is more accessible to this. You just can't make this stuff up.
http://gizmodo.com/congressman-is-s..._source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Next Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby was too "offended" to offer birth control as part of Obamacare. It violated their ultra-sensitive beliefs. However, what doesn't violate their beliefs? Stealing religious artifacts from ISIS controlled parts of Iraq.
All they got was a $3 million fine and have to return the artifacts. How could they have known that stealing them was wrong and that they were taken illegally?
http://ktla.com/2017/07/05/hobby-lobby-to-pay-3m-fine-forfeit-smuggled-ancient-artifacts/
I love how they don't even get the connection between themselves and nazis. Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it.
They don't realize that many nazis early on thought they were the "good guys" too.
They don't realize that many nazis early on thought they were the "good guys" too.
Also don't let their lies and fear of ISIS manipulate you.
We're winning the war on ISIS, and we have been since Obama. Trump is going to say "he" won the war on ISIS, but the truth is that we've been winning that war all along.
ISIS isn't sneaking refugees in or sneaking in over Mexico. The truth is that our brave forces are actually running out of targets.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/trumps-secret-plan-to-defeat-isis-is-the-exact-same-pla-1796657918
We're winning the war on ISIS, and we have been since Obama. Trump is going to say "he" won the war on ISIS, but the truth is that we've been winning that war all along.
ISIS isn't sneaking refugees in or sneaking in over Mexico. The truth is that our brave forces are actually running out of targets.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/trumps-secret-plan-to-defeat-isis-is-the-exact-same-pla-1796657918
How can anybody deny that this scumf***er isn't controlled by the Soviet Union? He's putin's bitch. Second amendment people, maybe you can do something about it?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/trump-election-meddling-russia/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/06/politics/trump-election-meddling-russia/index.html
Trump says election meddling 'could be Russia' but 'no one really knows for sure'
Warsaw, Poland (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday that he thinks Russia was behind 2016 election meddling, but added that he feels "it could have been other people in other countries" and that "no one really knows for sure."
"I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have been other countries," Trump said during a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in which he also slammed the news media, including CNN and NBC. "I think a lot of people interfere."
Trump, asked about the fact the United States intelligence community has said it was Russia, compared that assessment to the eventually debunked claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
"I think it was Russia but I think it was probably other people and or countries. I see nothing wrong with that statement," Trump said. "No one really knows. No one really knows for sure."
Warsaw, Poland (CNN)President Donald Trump said Thursday that he thinks Russia was behind 2016 election meddling, but added that he feels "it could have been other people in other countries" and that "no one really knows for sure."
"I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have been other countries," Trump said during a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in which he also slammed the news media, including CNN and NBC. "I think a lot of people interfere."
Trump, asked about the fact the United States intelligence community has said it was Russia, compared that assessment to the eventually debunked claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
"I think it was Russia but I think it was probably other people and or countries. I see nothing wrong with that statement," Trump said. "No one really knows. No one really knows for sure."
If only there had been some set of edicts set down by the Almighty Father, something catchy, maybe with a round number like 10, that specified things that thou shalt not do, all of this could have been avoided.
I find myself on Facebook a lot mainly to catch news all in one place. Never paid too much attention to comments but have more recently to get a better sense of what people thought. Something I'm definitely seeing more of lately are troll accounts. You know the ones. Copy paste a lot of the same pro Trump comments, account is either private or incomplete (no friends or posts), or the best one I found last night of some guy that had nothing but probably 5 or so shared articles PER HOUR to your standard far right, conspiracy type sites. I scrolled through 10 hours of his posts before getting bored. Isn't this the type of accounts Facebook was going to remove? I submitted it as spam either way.
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