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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 7:39:47 GMT -5
Oh... Ummm... Ok.. Senator Dianne Feinstein (Ranking Member) Senator Amy Klobuchar Senator Mazie Hirono Senator Kamala Harris Unfortunately, this appears to be an extremely stupid question that resulted in an even more stupid answer. I'm just curious as to exactly how many women senators would be expected to be on this committee. Approximately 20% of the Senate is composed of women. So maybe there should be one more woman on the committee? Yes, that's serious underrepresentation. Yes, 23 out out of 100. 17 D's and 6 R's.. Not a large pool for Republicans to pick from and yes serious underrepresentation overall..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 8:52:17 GMT -5
Putting aside the fact that no President should talk about the opposing party like this...
Manafort: Trump Campaign Chair (Guilty) Gates: Trump Dp. Campaign Chair (Guilty) Flynn: Trump Nat’ l Security Advisor (Guilty) Cohen: Trump Personal lawyer (Guilty fingered the President as an unindicted co-conspirator) Papadopolous: Trump campaign (Guilty)
After he said this, he led the crowd in "lock her up" chants... That's not a joke, that literally happened.
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 8, 2018 19:29:10 GMT -5
Putting aside the fact that no President should talk about the opposing party like this... Manafort: Trump Campaign Chair (Guilty) Gates: Trump Dp. Campaign Chair (Guilty) Flynn: Trump Nat’ l Security Advisor (Guilty) Cohen: Trump Personal lawyer (Guilty fingered the President as an unindicted co-conspirator) Papadopolous: Trump campaign (Guilty) After he said this, he led the crowd in "lock her up" chants... That's not a joke, that literally happened. One never has to worry about President Scumbag being confused by the facts.
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 9, 2018 4:39:51 GMT -5
Americans are at an impasse in their understanding of racism today. The activist slogan “Black Lives Matter” is met by the rejoinder “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter.” Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protest about racial injustice is perceived only as an anti-American blast. President Trump tells reporters he is “the least racist person” they will ever interview. In each of these cases, conservatives feel deeply that they are not the bigots they are made out to be, declaring wide-eyed innocence in the face of any charge of racial animus. This claim to racial innocence is not a new feature of the conservative movement, but rather one woven into the development of modern conservatism, part of an effort on the right to cleanse itself of its support for segregation and other racist policies, while heaping the blame for any racist outcomes in American society on their opponents on the left. During the 1950s and 1960s, the editors at National Review steadfastly opposed the “ludicrously named” civil rights movement. Trained in political philosophy, the National Review editors adhered to an ancient distinction between civil and political rights while the “Negro revolt” blurred these rights together. Throughout, the editors maintained a self-deceptive innocence about racism that remains essential to conservatives’ self-image. In its earliest days, National Review defended Southern segregation in euphemistic terms. Buckley published articles by highbrow segregationists praising the conservative South as a check on liberalism. In perhaps its most infamous editorial, National Review asked whether whites should dominate in the South. Its “sobering answer”? Yes. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/05/conservatives-self-delusion-race/
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 9, 2018 5:01:51 GMT -5
Is the Tea Party racist? Broadly, the data support claims that the Tea Party is–for some White supporters, at least–a racially motivated movement. Anti-Black sentiment was associated with Tea Party identification across time points. This relationship, however, appeared to be masked by assertions of national decline and the embrace of libertarian ideology. The findings also suggest that identification with the Tea Party movement is related to racial identity, but not in the manner suggested by traditional models of racialized politics. Rather than causing affiliation with the Tea Party, White identity appears to be a product of immersion in the movement [41]. This phenomenon, which we term political racialization, merits further study to reveal the precise mechanisms by which identification with a political movement can shape racial attitudes and identities. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3692430/www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-racial-threat-has-galvanized-tea-party
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 9, 2018 5:31:43 GMT -5
The GOP as the ultimate "victim." The Republicans, however, have now eclipsed the Democrats as a threat to the rule of law and to the constitutional norms of American society. They have become all about winning. Winning means not losing, and so instead of acting like a co-equal branch of government responsible for advice and consent, congressional Republicans now act like a parliamentary party facing the constant threat of a vote of no confidence. Politics is about the exercise of power. But the new Trumpist GOP is not exercising power in the pursuit of anything resembling principles, and certainly not for conservative or Republican principles. But whatever my concerns about liberals, the true authoritarian muscle is now being flexed by the GOP, in a kind of buzzy, steroidal McCarthyism that lacks even anti-communism as a central organizing principle. The Republican Party, which controls all three branches of government and yet is addicted to whining about its own victimhood, is now the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.So I’m out. The Trumpers and the hucksters and the consultants and the hangers-on, like a colony of bees that exist only to sting and die, have swarmed together in a dangerous but suicidal cloud, and when that mindless hive finally extinguishes itself in a blaze of venom, there will be nothing left. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/tom-nichols-why-im-leaving-republican-party/572419/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 7:58:40 GMT -5
The Republican Party, which controls all three branches of government and yet is addicted to whining about its own victimhood, is now the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs. They are fighting a culture war - mostly of their own making: nativism, the "othering" of most anyone who isn't white and Christian, and the creation of a victim culture among privileged white men (which is an amazing thing, really). But they also know that they don't have the numbers to actually win that war in the long term. So they're doing everything they can in the short term to assert white male prominence and dominance: reducing the number of legal immigrants coming into the country, "Build That Wall", marginalizing the real concerns of African-Americans (police violence) and women (sexual assault, reproductive rights)...and on and on. It would be nice if they felt some degree of responsibility to more than 40% of the country, but that ship sailed a long time ago.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 8:21:12 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Oct 9, 2018 8:32:34 GMT -5
You are quite right. The torch wielding morons inCharlottesville were not fine people. Neither are the people who have threatened Justice Kavanaugh and his family, Senator Collins and her family, etc etc There are idiots on every side of every issue in this country. The vast majority of people have opinions, voice some frustration and get about to living the decent hard working lives of the ordinary American. We don’t hear much about them. Rather all the oxygen is taken up by the angriest, the loudest and the most ridiculous. And that is a damned shame.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 8:49:31 GMT -5
Rather all the oxygen is taken up by the angriest, the loudest and the most ridiculous. And that is a damned shame. It is a shame. But not enough of a shame for most Republicans, who decided that the angriest, loudest, and the most ridiculous of the 17 primary candidates for President in 2016 was the one they wanted as their standard-bearer.
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Post by Elvado on Oct 9, 2018 9:08:51 GMT -5
Rather all the oxygen is taken up by the angriest, the loudest and the most ridiculous. And that is a damned shame. It is a shame. But not enough of a shame for most Republicans, who decided that the angriest, loudest, and the most ridiculous of the 17 primary candidates for President in 2016 was the one they wanted as their standard-bearer. Well said. It is a sad, sad commentary on society that we have the “leaders” we have. Imagine that the other party ran someone so horrid that they lost. People get the government they deserve. That is the scariest part of all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 9:27:46 GMT -5
It is a shame. But not enough of a shame for most Republicans, who decided that the angriest, loudest, and the most ridiculous of the 17 primary candidates for President in 2016 was the one they wanted as their standard-bearer. Well said. It is a sad, sad commentary on society that we have the “leaders” we have. Imagine that the other party ran someone so horrid that they lost. People get the government they deserve. That is the scariest part of all. It’s been almost two years since the election. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has no bearing on Republicans’ continued reverence of all things Trump.
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Post by njhoya78 on Oct 9, 2018 9:44:02 GMT -5
Nikki Haley is out as Ambassador to the United Nations. Speculation that John Bolton has taken on a larger role and bled over into her sphere of influence. Very likely that we won't get the real story on why she's leaving until after the mid-terms.
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Post by Elvado on Oct 9, 2018 9:53:28 GMT -5
Well said. It is a sad, sad commentary on society that we have the “leaders” we have. Imagine that the other party ran someone so horrid that they lost. People get the government they deserve. That is the scariest part of all. It’s been almost two years since the election. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has no bearing on Republicans’ continued reverence of all things Trump. I think you rather broadly lump tolerance and reverence together there, but I get your point.
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Post by njhoya78 on Oct 9, 2018 10:13:37 GMT -5
It is a shame. But not enough of a shame for most Republicans, who decided that the angriest, loudest, and the most ridiculous of the 17 primary candidates for President in 2016 was the one they wanted as their standard-bearer. Well said. It is a sad, sad commentary on society that we have the “leaders” we have. Imagine that the other party ran someone so horrid that they lost. People get the government they deserve. That is the scariest part of all.Ain't that the truth....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 10:12:54 GMT -5
Donald Trump: “I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent.”
Narrator: They did not...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 10:46:03 GMT -5
Lol.. but it says a lot that a lot of Republicans think going to "Muslim Event" is controversial in the first place. Obviously going to a Christian Event would not be...
Pretty disturbing that those are the thoughts of a police officer tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 11:05:19 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 10, 2018 13:18:26 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 10, 2018 14:33:19 GMT -5
Former Republican Max Boot no longer in denial and recognizes the GOP for what it is and always has been: Upon closer examination, it’s obvious that the history of modern conservative is permeated with racism, extremism, conspiracy-mongering, isolationism and know-nothingism. I disagree with progressives who argue that these disfigurations define the totality of conservatism; conservatives have also espoused high-minded principles that I still believe in, and the bigotry on the right appeared to be ameliorating in recent decades. But there has always been a dark underside to conservatism that I chose for most of my life to ignore. It’s amazing how little you can see when your eyes are closed! In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites. As I now look back with the clarity of hindsight, I am convinced that coded racial appeals had at least as much, if not more, to do with the electoral success of the modern Republican Party than all of the domestic and foreign policy proposals crafted by well-intentioned analysts like me. This is what liberals have been saying for decades. I never believed them. Now I do, because Trump won by making the racist appeal, hitherto relatively subtle, obvious even to someone such as me who used to be in denial. The Republican Party will now be defined by Trump’s dark, divisive vision, with his depiction of Democrats as America-hating, criminal-coddling traitors, his vilification of the press as the “enemy of the people,” and his ugly invective against Mexicans and Muslims. The extremism that many Republicans of goodwill had been trying to push to the fringe of their party is now its governing ideology. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/08/the-dark-side-of-american-conservatism-has-taken-over/?utm_term=.6e000007925e
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