***Official Political Discussion Thread***

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[dwalk31]

 

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[Upptempo]

False alarm, nothing to see here people

Trump not slick. He can't communicate through Twitter so he's trying to use smoke signals

 

[Upptempo]

same energy

 

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[aepps20]

 

[Air Champa]

Interesting how old girl that got shot in the neck and died used to be an Obama supporter.

Makes you wonder what happened.

 

[isu 42]

Interesting how old girl that got shot in the neck and died used to be an Obama supporter.

Makes you wonder what happened.

People are easily manipulated and their minds poisoned by all of the lies that have been spread the last 5 years. The end.

 

[frank 7he t4nk]

Critical thinking and common sense are not so common.

People are easily manipulated and their minds poisoned by all of the lies that have been spread the last 5 years. The end.

 

[Upptempo]

Perfect example of manipulation of the truth would be my boy who went into the police department. Knew dude for like 6-7 years before he became a cop. Was a neutral guy in terms of politics. Agreed with some liberal perspectives and a few conservative ideas. A year after he became a cop and was surrounded by MAGA types, he became one of those "THE DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING OUR SOCIETY" types. It was wild.


Used to chill with him a few times a month and now I go 5-6 weeks between chillin and when we do I just avoid politics as much as possible.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh among those seeking clemency from President Trump

Convicted former Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh is among those seeking clemency from President Donald Trump as he reportedly prepares to issue 100 pardons and sentence commutations on his final …

www.baltimoresun.com

Convicted former Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh is among those seeking clemency from President Donald Trump as he reportedly prepares to issue 100 pardons and sentence commutations on his final full day in office Tuesday.
Pugh, 70, is seeking to have her three-year fraud sentence commuted, according to a database of clemency appeals on the U.S. Department of Justice website. Her case’s status is listed as “pending.”

wavycrocket frshstunna this what B.More folk doing these days? Asking Trump for help.


-In all seriousness, ole girl is 70, and Covid is running rampant in prisons.

They should let her out and just put her on an extended probation sentence. Or just send her home, knock the time off her probation period, then let her come back later to do the rest of her bid.

 

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[aepps20]

People are easily manipulated and their minds poisoned by all of the lies that have been spread the last 5 years. The end.

The impact of the propaganda can't be understated. 24/7 of lies on Facebook, Fox News, OAN, Parlar is just too much. When you are told that Obama and liberals caused your plight and the only person standing up for you is Trump, I'm not surprised.

 

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[aepps20]

I remember making that statement years before and glad I was right.

 

[aepps20]

Darnell and Howard put da piping hot biscuit over the well being of people that look like them.

 

[KHUFU]

One of the funniest things that Trump supporters would state, was if you indeed brought about the discussion of racism? Then you are the racist. If you criticized the country and its policy, then you are also un american, and then do not support our troops.

Their logic is quite impressive, in the worst way.

 

[gry60]

In the category of ****ty white progressive having issue with race discussions, I present to you Mathew Yglesias taking time out to argue that discussing the insurrection as a racist event is....checks notes....problematic



Gotta love the analysis, sure it involved racism, but don't make that analysis central, because that helps no one. Even worse, if you focus on race, it somehow takes away from the focus that insurrection is bad.

Because we have one data point of non-white support for Trump increasing, that is not a trend, and liberals making race central will cost Biden reelection if they keep this up

This dude puts so much effort into making a lazy *** argument.

Has somebody tweeted that article back to him, along with Graham's video about minorities being welcome in SC as long as they are conservative?

Here’s some stuff I am not arguing
When I probed this issue on Twitter last week, I immediately got hit with a perhaps-inevitable firestorm of non-sequiturs and strawmen.
So here’s some stuff I don’t doubt:
There is a significant intermingling between racism and conservative politics in the United States and long has been (indeed I wrote a Slow Boring post about this).

Some of the insurrectionaries were sporting Confederate flags and other white nationalist paraphernalia and some of the ones who weren’t probably share the same ideological commitments.

The mob was overwhelmingly composed of white people.
Precisely because white racism and conservative politics freely intermingle, points two and three characterize basically anything that happens in large right-wing political gatherings.

What's the significance of the Confederate flag, and why does it continue to have such prominence within conservative circles?

If you go to a big pro-life event it’s overwhelmingly white people, and statistically some of those white people are going to have very ugly racial views, but I don’t think it illuminates anything to look at a rally whose purpose is to get abortion made illegal and characterize it as a white supremacist rally.
If somebody said “wow there’s a huge white supremacist rally happening on the mall tomorrow” and turned out to be referring to an anti-abortion march, you’d think that person was speaking to you in a confusing or misleading way.

No, nobody sane IRL is going to refer to an anti-abortion rally as a white supremacists rally, unless they start flying Confederate flags with baby pictures superimposed on the Stars and Bars. The presence of White supremacists at an event doesn't automatically make it a WS event. That would be a bad look for Jordan Brand.

The whole point of the Southern strategy is to use "clean" issues that appeal to right-leaning people in order to open the door to WS policies. WS is supposed to hide in plain sight.

Somebody should send him the quote by Nixon's aide about substituting "n****r talk" with "taxes, taxes, taxes."

The way I see it these days, those who refuse to address racism as the foundation of the American socioeconomic hierarchy betray:

1/ that they know exactly what systemic racism is

2/ that they play the ostrich in the face of it to avoid the consequences of discussing it and getting rid of it.

 

[Belgium]

Pardon-seekers have paid Trump allies tens of thousands to lobby president: NYT

Pardon-seekers have paid Trump allies tens of thousands to lobby president: NYT

Pardon-seekers and those lobbying on their behalf have paid allies of President Trump tens of thousands of dollars to press the president to grant clemency, The New York Times reported on Sunday.Th…

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And an associate of a convict reported Giuliani to the FBI because he felt Rudy was trying to solicit a $2m bribe for a pardon.

 

[frank 7he t4nk]

Happy MLK day political bros. ☺

 

[Belgium]

Guys, I unfortunately need to present you all with some truly horrendous news. I need a minute to grieve.