-
Rubin said 2018 would be the year of strange alliances and he's been proved pretty damn right. People are just done to death of progressive sjw culture. From comments on stuff articles to Kanye joining Trump and a conservative perspective. Shit is changing.
-
Interesting read published in The Hill today:
From the Middle East to Korea, Trump has been the transformational president
[...]
Whether it’s Korea, the Middle East, China or here at home, President Trump has transformed realities that “the experts” considered immutable.
[...]
-
@reprobate said in US Politics:
People saying celebrity status doesn't matter in the age of trump. Riiight. If he had been a nobody saying the things he's said, would he be president now?
It is not just what he said, it was how he said it.
And had wedges of cash to kick things off.
But most importantly. .. I think most of his target voters saw him as a businessmen, not a celebrity.
-
@baron-silas-greenback said in US Politics:
@reprobate said in US Politics:
People saying celebrity status doesn't matter in the age of trump. Riiight. If he had been a nobody saying the things he's said, would he be president now?
It is not just what he said, it was how he said it.
And had wedges of cash to kick things off.
But most importantly. .. I think most of his target voters saw him as a businessmen, not a celebrity.
Celebrity businessman, as opposed to businessman?
-
I see that Guiliani, now Trump's legal aide, has come out on Fox News to say Trump did repay the $130K to his lawyer to compensate for the Stormy Danielle hush money.
I'm not sure that this will overly harm Trump as he's been pretty Teflon coated against this sort of stuff. Though it seems it is the spectre of the original payment by the lawyer as constituting an illegal campaign donation that some of the MSM are majoring on. Not sure that has any legs TBH.
-
So here's one for Fake News on the starbucks racism debacle.
Notice the difference in the content of these two articles.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/black-men-arrested-starbucks-settle-200k-program-54882092
The narrative is these poor innocent men were unfairly racially vilified yet magnanimously offered to settle for only $1.00 each and instead put the real money to a youth program....
The reality is they refused to purchase goods or services at a cafe and per store policy could not use the bathrooms without a purchase. They refused to leave when asked thereby breaking the law. The police were called and despite asking multiple times still refused to leave forcing their arrest (also verbally abusing the police in doing so). They were released with no charge because the store decided the colour of their skin meant the law shouldnt apply to them so dropped charges. The city also decided that being 'black' was above the law so apologised for their lawful arrest. Starbucks has paid then an undisclosed (no doubt enormous) settlement and the city topped that up by $2.00 and a youth program which media are latching on to in order to continue the lovely narrative and make these professional-victims and law breakers the fucken heroes.
Unbelievable...
-
@catogrande said in US Politics:
I see that Guiliani, now Trump's legal aide, has come out on Fox News to say Trump did repay the $130K to his lawyer to compensate for the Stormy Danielle hush money.
I'm not sure that this will overly harm Trump as he's been pretty Teflon coated against this sort of stuff. Though it seems it is the spectre of the original payment by the lawyer as constituting an illegal campaign donation that some of the MSM are majoring on. Not sure that has any legs TBH.
BBC bullshit. Ignoring the context and actual detail at the same time. Guilani worded it very carefully. ... and not how BBC represented it.
-
@rembrandt said in US Politics:
So here's one for Fake News on the starbucks racism debacle.
Notice the difference in the content of these two articles.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/black-men-arrested-starbucks-settle-200k-program-54882092
The narrative is these poor innocent men were unfairly racially vilified yet magnanimously offered to settle for only $1.00 each and instead put the real money to a youth program....
The reality is they refused to purchase goods or services at a cafe and per store policy could not use the bathrooms without a purchase. They refused to leave when asked thereby breaking the law. The police were called and despite asking multiple times still refused to leave forcing their arrest (also verbally abusing the police in doing so). They were released with no charge because the store decided the colour of their skin meant the law shouldnt apply to them so dropped charges. The city also decided that being 'black' was above the law so apologised for their lawful arrest. Starbucks has paid then an undisclosed (no doubt enormous) settlement and the city topped that up by $2.00 and a youth program which media are latching on to in order to continue the lovely narrative and make these professional-victims and law breakers the fucken heroes.
Unbelievable...
Madness. Did you see the video of the guy (black) who just walked into a Starbucks demanding a free coffee and got one? This whole situation is insane.
-
@rancid-schnitzel said in US Politics:
Madness. Did you see the video of the guy (black) who just walked into a Starbucks demanding a free coffee and got one? This whole situation is insane.
That's Hotep Jesus. The hotep movement is a bit odd. The more extreme end of it is very derogatory to other blacks. The moderate end is a bit like the nation of islam minus the islam. It's a tiny movement though.
But the guy was making fun of the BLM movement -
@duluth said in US Politics:
@rancid-schnitzel said in US Politics:
Madness. Did you see the video of the guy (black) who just walked into a Starbucks demanding a free coffee and got one? This whole situation is insane.
That's Hotep Jesus. The hotep movement is a bit odd. The more extreme end of it is very derogatory to other blacks. The moderate end is a bit like the nation of islam minus the islam. It's a tiny movement though.
But the guy was making fun of the BLM movementThis one:
-
@rembrandt how long were they there? No info on that in either article - I'll have another hunt but I caught on reddit (yes, I know!) that they'd been there for a pretty short period of time. That's a key bit of info in regards to whether they were loittering or had only been there briefly before being asked to leave. Either way it does sound like they were abrasive in their reaction, and haven't been slouches in taking advantage of the situation.
-
@paekakboyz yeah no idea on that. but I understand it was them asking to use the bathroom which made the manager aware of them as they hadn't made a purchase so in that regard the amount of time there is irrelevant. It is possible that the manager targetted them because they were black but this is only proven if she let white people use the bathroom without purchase and there is no evidence of that. I have had to make purchases in NZ before using a bathroom before, these guys purposely caused a scene due to their attitude and victimhood mentality and were rewarded handsomely for it. Now the starbucks manager has had her life tipped upside down and all starbucks staff have had to deal with not only agressive ill informed protestors (from the same group that advocated killing cops, with a number of deaths) but also a piece of shit ceo labelling them all racists and putting them in for mandatory race bias training.
And we see why the alt-right continues to grow.
-
@baron-silas-greenback said in US Politics:
@catogrande said in US Politics:
I see that Guiliani, now Trump's legal aide, has come out on Fox News to say Trump did repay the $130K to his lawyer to compensate for the Stormy Danielle hush money.
I'm not sure that this will overly harm Trump as he's been pretty Teflon coated against this sort of stuff. Though it seems it is the spectre of the original payment by the lawyer as constituting an illegal campaign donation that some of the MSM are majoring on. Not sure that has any legs TBH.
BBC bullshit. Ignoring the context and actual detail at the same time. Guilani worded it very carefully. ... and not how BBC represented it.
I haven't been able to track down the actual Fox interview, so am reliant on other sources for context (or lack). Despite this, I don't see this as an issue of campaign funding. I feel this has been the excuse to drive the enquiries and that the real issue would be that Trump has lied about the whole Stormy Danielle affair and subsequent hush up. Whether this will hurt him unduly or not I don't know, but there is precedent to suggest not. Not just Trump precedent either, Clinton was pretty much forgiven for the Lewinsky affair.
-
@rembrandt said in US Politics:
@paekakboyz yeah no idea on that. but I understand it was them asking to use the bathroom which made the manager aware of them as they hadn't made a purchase so in that regard the amount of time there is irrelevant. It is possible that the manager targetted them because they were black but this is only proven if she let white people use the bathroom without purchase and there is no evidence of that. I have had to make purchases in NZ before using a bathroom before, these guys purposely caused a scene due to their attitude and victimhood mentality and were rewarded handsomely for it. Now the starbucks manager has had her life tipped upside down and all starbucks staff have had to deal with not only agressive ill informed protestors (from the same group that advocated killing cops, with a number of deaths) but also a piece of shit ceo labelling them all racists and putting them in for mandatory race bias training.
And we see why the alt-right continues to grow.
Have been watching some of these alt-righters on YouTube and it is very disturbing. I wonder what's feeding it........
-
@rancid-schnitzel I've met some and they scare the bejesus out of me. Not because of who they are but who they could become if this ridiculous sjw nonsense doesnt stop soon.
-
Could go here or could go in the morality thread. Since, it's US focused, I'll put it here.
Very very very small minority of crazy nazis in the states, but they are there, and they are crazy.
-
@gt12 said in US Politics:
Could go here or could go in the morality thread. Since, it's US focused, I'll put it here.
Very very very small minority of crazy nazis in the states, but they are there, and they are crazy.
Thanks for posting. But what a bloody painful propaganda piece of crap It is almost cliche in the facile and ignorant left wing assertions it makes (happy to give examples)... but then it is Rolling Stone so I knew what to expect. And i like read opposing views to test my views.
I do find it I interesting in one important way... and I am guessing thst was your point in posting it. It is in the way that the victim culture and oppresion Olympics has migrated to young white males. Identity politics relies on splitting people into groups. ... friction is sure to follow.
This is going to get ugly. -
Welp...
Mueller’s Tough Week in Court
Judges in Virginia and Washington have the special counsel reeling.
Well sure, we filed an indictment. And yeah, we took a victory lap in the big bells-n-whistles Main Justice press conference. But that doesn’t mean we, like, intended to have a trial . . .
That seems to be the Justice Department’s position on its mid-February publicity stunt, the indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian businesses for interfering in the 2016 election.
Let’s back up. [...]
US Politics