Random Politics & Religion #18

The AG's obligation is to the law, not Trump's agenda. She was fired for dissent and for doing her job, not insubordination.

This sets a nasty precedent.

Here’s Sally Yates at her confirmation hearing in 2015 for her then role as deputy attorney general.

She’s asked by Jeff Sessions – yes, that Jeff Sessions, who is now Trump’s nominee for attorney general – whether she could say no to a president who wanted to do something unlawful.

Here’s part of the exchange:

Welcome to Progressive thinking, formerly known as Communism. The only thing that matters is the group, individual desires are irrelevant if the corrupt leaders the group deems otherwise. You will serve the corrupt leaders the group and do as your instructed with politically acceptable ideas and speech. The further one goes down that mentality the scarier it gets.

Look, my intent wasn't to rag on you earlier. I get where you're coming from, but it all sounds a little too idealistic for the pragmatist in me, particularly the bolded part. Every nation acts in its own self-interest, and most aren't even good at that. That isn't changing anytime soon, and while unity is obviously worth fighting for it's naive to role-play as if it has already happened. If you can't get your own people to be happy and sing Kumbaya with each other, you're going to have problems convincing other countries to.

Btw and this is specifically for Nausi: the terrorist in Canada was a Trump supporter.

A MASS SHOOTING at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig’s head was left during Ramadan last June. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the episode a “terrorist attack on Muslims.”

Almost immediately, various news outlets and political figures depicted the shooter as Muslim. Right-wing nationalist tabloids in the UK instantly linked it to Islamic violence. Fox News claimed that “witnesses said at least one gunman shouted ‘Allahu akbar!’,”

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer exploited the attack to justify President Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. “It’s a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant and why the President is taking steps to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to our nation’s safety and security,” Spicer said at this afternoon’s briefing when speaking of the Quebec City attack.

But these assertions are utterly false. The suspect is neither Moroccan nor Muslim. The Moroccan individual, Mohamed Belkhadir, was actually one of the worshippers at the mosque and called 911 to summon the police, and played no role whatsoever in the shooting.

The actual shooting suspect is 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist. A leader of a local immigration rights groups, François Deschamps, told a local paper he recognized his photo as an anti-immigrant far-right “troll” who has been hostile to the group online.

The Globe and Mail added that he “was known in the city’s activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.” And Bisonnette’s Facebook page – now taken down but still archived – lists among its “likes” the far right French nationalist Marine Le Pen, Islam critics Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the Israeli Defense Forces, and Donald J. Trump (he also “likes” the liberal Canadian Party NDP along with more neutral “likes” such as Tom Hanks, the Sopranos and Katy Perry).

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in·sub·or·di·na·tion

defiance of authority; refusal to obey orders.

Guess some people just want fascism to settle in without resistance.

baseless Hitler comparisons

Here's a solution: Offer something better for once.

You do realize that this is the worst website online by far and this P n R section just proves it !

How bout this go one day without bitching about Trump.

Dude, it's not. ***. baseless.

No, he's not at the same level, but it's not bloody baseless.

And I'm sorry, when you're in the same ballpark as uncle Adolf, even if you're just the *** bat boy and he's the Babe Ruth of shitty people, that's still too close.

Dude, it's not. ***. baseless.

No, he's not at the same level, but it's not bloody baseless.

And I'm sorry, when you're in the same ballpark as uncle Adolf, even if you're just the *** bat boy and he's the Babe Ruth of shitty people, that's still too close.

This isn't about this side or that side. If you think it's one side being whiny about a shift, then you're ignoring the politicians that are on the now advantageous side reacting in the same manner.

There is a difference between sour grapes and recognizing through their actions that someone doesn't understand how the US government is intended to function.

Nobody understands how the US government is intended to function, and our last two administrations proved that. This is the problem!