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@tim said in US Politics:
Crazy that a news outlet would just sit on a big scoop like that. The partisanship is off the charts.
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Why did nobody mention that Beto O’Rourke’s wife is a billionaire heiress?
LOL at a guy called Robert O'Rourke calling himself "Beto" to appeal to latino voters.
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@jegga said in US Politics:
@rembrandt I think it’s called Ben and Sharia ice cream now according to that twitter thread.
Good marketing. They have picked a side and gone hard. They will hope sales actually increase form the exposure.
However they are a nasty piece of work, mainly because despite claiming to be a values led company, they are using and furthering the division within the US. They are using the current schism in the US for corporate profit. The only values they are showing is to make a profit from dumb people... which is actually laudable from a business perspective. But they are not a values led company unless those values are to be as bigger fluffybunnies as possible to make a buck. -
@baron-silas-greenback said in US Politics:
@jegga said in US Politics:
@rembrandt I think it’s called Ben and Sharia ice cream now according to that twitter thread.
Good marketing. They have picked a side and gone hard. They will hope sales actually increase form the exposure.
However they are a nasty piece of work, mainly because despite claiming to be a values led company, they are using and furthering the division within the US. They are using the current schism in the US for corporate profit. The only values they are showing is to make a profit from dumb people... which is actually laudable from a business perspective. But they are not a values led company unless those values are to be as bigger fluffybunnies as possible to make a buck.I wonder how their parent company Unilever feels about this?
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More on Ben & Jerry's pro-criminal, anti-Jew, pro-fgm, white-guilt, orange--man-bad flavoured icecream.
Watching the press conference it is so ridiculous you'd be forgiven for thinking it was some sort of comedy sketch, the thing is it's not, you have to come to terms with the fact that this isn't some weird right-wing conspiracy, this is our reality right now.
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Project Veritas have been very busy infiltrated a number of democrat midterm campaigns and have pulled up some damaging footage which may swing a few elections. This one is particular interesting where campaign funds were being used by workers to finance some of the Honduran migrants and this was approved by the campaign manager herself. The staffers also advised they new it was illegal.
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You probably haven’t heard much about this, because the Dems & CNN et al no longer give a rat’s rear-end, but one of those women who accused Brett Kavanaugh of raping her now admits she’d never even met him.
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[Jane Doe] further confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”; (2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.” She told Committee investigators that she had called Congress multiple times during the Kavanaugh hearing process – including prior to the time Dr. Ford’s allegations surfaced – to oppose his nomination. Regarding the false sexual-assault allegation she made via her email to the Committee, she said: “I was angry, and I sent it out.” When asked by Committee investigators whether she had ever met Judge Kavanaugh, she said: “Oh Lord, no.”
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Throw the book at her.
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@Salacious-Crumb I agree they need to make an example of people making false allegations like that. There never seems to be any consequences even though it can not only ruin the life of the accused, but also makes it so much harder for real victims to come forward.
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@frank said in US Politics:
This is a great article on the absurdities of current US immigration law.
It is indeed Frank. I will comment on two things - 1. who reads your piece Caravan Contradictions? and 2. migration then and now.
Who reads Caravan Contradictions?
Those who are inquisitive about facts and data, which precludes teachers and academics infected by herd mentality who are preoccupied with educating secondary and tertiary students about the evils of capitalism, the criminality of of individual financial success and the cruelty wrought on drongos and bludgers by exceptionalism.
Migration then and now
Reflecting on the post World War II migration I witnessed during my teenage in the 1960's and comparing that with what one sees now, the circumstances and characteristics of the migrants, the expectations of migrant and host and the prospects of a beneficial result could not be more disparate.
Back then Italians and Greeks and all sorts were departing the rubble of a six year war with a suitcase or two, spending several weeks on a boat with some limited financial assistance, then landing in a migrant centre and a Nissen hut stretcher bed. On Day Two they would be out looking for a job in the factories stretching from Mascot to Redfern and on the market gardens of the urban fringe in Melbourne.
Their sons went on to become the richest man in Australia (Harry Triguboff, Meriton), Wallaby captain (Nick Shehadie), husband of the State Governor Marie Bashir (Nick Shehadie), Lord Mayor of Sydney (Nick Shehadie), national flyweight champion (Rocky Gattellari), and founder of Aussie Home Loans (John Symonds) ... whose father, a greengrocer, was mates with the current Wallaby coach's father and hosted him when he landed alone in Australia.
Post war migration to Australia was a monumental success by any measure however the modern post audit report tells me we were in reality appallingly racist, bigoted, biased, frighteningly white and quite horrid.
Today the immigration department officer is instructed by a voice from inside the freedom sack to "Hurry up!" with the luggage, as he lugs it up to the door of the five bedroom Housing Commission town house. Mustafa settles in to quality time practising spelling his name on the several Centrelink accounts and putting in regular overnighters at the Lakemba chop shop re-birthing stolen Commodores. The very act of making such an observation is a "hate crime".
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