***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[osh kosh bosh]

Brah that's how **** works in Canada? Must be nice.

If you're the only black or brown person in town in America, you getting blamed for everything. Matter of fact, you don't even got to be around. You got people in Montana worried about urban crime, and people in rural Kentucky worried about Mexicans.

there just arent enough of us in total. other than Toronto most places only going to have small pockets of black folk.


doens't mean there isn't racism, it's just not as explicitly int retched in institutions.so many things exist in america specifically to rig the game against black/brown people. not quite the same in canada. just mostly the low level racism of idividuals you gotta deal with.



now Native people on the other hand get blamed for everythiiiing

 

[wavycrocket]

So I had 2nd interview for a job today to only get an email after I finished my interview for a job at another company. It's lit out here for your boy Tebow. I'm about to get a big boy job hopefully. No more broke boy Tebow.

Get paid young *****, get paid! Ugh huh!!!!!

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Breaking Kayfabe for an unprecedented second time. Has the slow down in the oil and gas market impacted Calgary?

i don't know i imagine it has given that's the center of oil and gas in canada.


but the city also has a bunch of other corperate headquarters, I think the second most in canada next to toronto, and unlike toronto affordable homes.

 

[Mr.Guy]

Good luck 
Wouldn't get your hopes up too much about the Comey hearing tomorrow though. At the end of the day the GOP still has to actually care

True I'm soo happy that I may mess around and have a celebratory drink smh. I'll only have one though.

 

[Black Lotus]

So I had 2nd interview for a job today to only get an email after I finished my interview for a job at another company. It's lit out here for your boy Tebow. I'm about to get a big boy job hopefully. No more broke boy Tebow.

time to pop some bottles 

 

[RustyShackleford]

Brah that's how **** works in Canada? Must be nice.

If you're the only black or brown person in town in America, you getting blamed for everything. Matter of fact, you don't even got to be around. You got people in Montana worried about urban crime, and people in rural Kentucky worried about Mexicans.

there just arent enough of us in total. other than Toronto most places only going to have small pockets of black folk.


doens't mean there isn't racism, it's just not as explicitly int retched in institutions.so many things exist in america specifically to rig the game against black/brown people. not quite the same in canada. just mostly the low level racism of idividuals you gotta deal with.



now Native people on the other hand get blamed for everythiiiing

Oh ok, I see.

-Yeah I read about how mistreated Canadian Native people are treated, was surprised. But then again not really.

America is kinda opposite when it comes to Native Americans, so little of them around that they get blamed for little.

Native Americans in American got deal with their own ****, and hardly anyone talks about it. All the major issues facing rural whites and urban black all happen to Native Americans. It is wild

 

[RustyShackleford]

SHIFTY, SMOOTHIE AND DA WHITE GIRLZ

You low key scumbag for always forgetting to shout out D-Money

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Oh ok, I see.

-Yeah I read about how mistreated Canadian Native people are treated, was surprised. But then again not really.

America is kinda opposite when it comes to Native Americans, so little of them around that they get blamed for little.

Native Americans in American got deal with their own ****, and hardly anyone talks about it. All the major issues facing rural whites and urban black all happen to Native Americans. It is wild

Yeah the treatment of natives is closer to the original sin of canada, so you got places where there are high native populations...and the racism will feel much more simlar to america.



Some people call winnepeg, Murderpeg and you can take a wild guess who they blame for that nickname...



but being black you can kind of hind out, in fact in some places it might give you a leg up.

like I would bet that most of the black people in Calgary are Nigerian ex pats on skilled worker visas...


so white people might actually assume you smart capable if you are black.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Good luck 
Wouldn't get your hopes up too much about the Comey hearing tomorrow though. At the end of the day the GOP still has to actually care

True I'm soo happy that I may mess around and have a celebratory drink smh. I'll only have one though.

So I had 2nd interview for a job today to only get an email after I finished my interview for a job at another company. It's lit out here for your boy Tebow. I'm about to get a big boy job hopefully. No more broke boy Tebow.

time to pop some bottles 

Not it is not. Don't encourage this man

Tebow, congrats, but all your *** needs to be sipping on is some Martinelli's

 

[IATT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...-contempt-of-congress/?utm_term=.afbac0fe6031

 

[RustyShackleford]

Oh ok, I see.

-Yeah I read about how mistreated Canadian Native people are treated, was surprised. But then again not really.

America is kinda opposite when it comes to Native Americans, so little of them around that they get blamed for little.

Native Americans in American got deal with their own ****, and hardly anyone talks about it. All the major issues facing rural whites and urban black all happen to Native Americans. It is wild

Yeah the treatment of natives is closer to the original sin of canada, so you got places where there are high native populations...and the racism will feel much more simlar to america.



Some people call winnepeg, Murderpeg and you can take a wild guess who they blame for that nickname...



but being black you can kind of hind out, in fact in some places it might give you a leg up.

like I would bet that most of the black people in Calgary are Nigerian ex pats on skilled worker visas...


so white people might actually assume you smart capable if you are black.

Like I said, must be nice

 

[Mr.Guy]

time to pop some bottles 

I can't really celebrate yet because I'm on my way to my cousins viewing. Life is crazy the good comes with the bad. I have great opportunities for my future but I gotta bury my cousin tomorrow.it hurts

 

[deleted]

The release of Comey's statement seems calculated

Trump is probably fuming

 

[Bobby Layne]

 

 

[Black Lotus]

Not it is not. Don't encourage this man

 

my bad

I can't really celebrate yet because I'm on my way to my cousins viewing. Life is crazy the good comes with the bad. I have great opportunities for my future but I gotta bury my cousin tomorrow.it hurts

sorry for your loss man

 

[RustyShackleford]

I don't really like Corbyn that much from what I have seen.

But May is so abhorrent, I hope he pulls off the upset.

 

[Nike Jordan]

calgary might as well be texas with snow and no Mexicans.

I'd rather live in Alberta than Texas. 

 

[Bobby Layne]

I don't really like Corbyn from what I have seen.

But May is so abhorrent, I hope he pulls off the upset.

Too left?

 

[RustyShackleford]

I don't really like Corbyn from what I have seen.


But May is so abhorrent, I hope he pulls off the upset.

Too left?

No, too flippant about economic impact of his policies

I have the same problem with Bernie Sanders

Far left politicians need to stop over promising ****

 

[Belgium]

Speaking of the UK election, I don't really like either candidate but May really is just awful. Especially given her recent statements about privacy and human rights in general.

 Theresa May says she will change human rights laws if they "get in the way" of tackling terror suspects.
She said she wants to do more to restrict the freedom of those posing a threat and to deport foreign suspects.

The UK could seek opt-outs from the European Convention on Human Rights, which it has abided by since 1953.

Labour said the UK would not defeat terrorism "by ripping up basic rights". The Lib Dems said it was a "cynical" move ahead of Thursday's election.

The Conservatives have faced criticism over police cuts and questions about intelligence failures following the terror attacks in London and Manchester.

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Speaking after Saturday's London attack, Mrs May said "enough is enough" and that "things need to change" in the terror fight.

Addressing activists in Slough on Tuesday evening, she did not make any specific new policy proposals but said she envisaged longer prison sentences for those convicted of terrorist offences and making it easier for the authorities to deport foreign terrorist suspects back to their own countries.

She added: "And I mean doing more to restrict the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court.

"And if our human rights laws get in the way of doing it, we will change the law so we can do it."
[h2]Can the UK get opt-outs from human rights laws?[/h2][h2]By legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman[/h2]
As a party to the European Convention on Human Rights, the UK is permitted under Article 15 to "derogate", or depart from, parts of the Convention in limited circumstances.

This can only happen in "time of emergency", ie there must be a war or other public emergency "threatening the life of the nation".

If that is the case, the UK can take measures derogating from its obligations, but only to the extent strictly required by the situation.

Any measures must not breach the UK's other obligations under international law. The government must keep the secretary general of the Council of Europe fully informed of the measures and its reasons for imposing them.

Derogation can be challenged in domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

The UK derogated from Article 5 of the ECHR - the right to liberty and security - during the troubles in Northern Ireland.

In 1979, the European Court of Human Rights found the circumstances of Northern Ireland and the use of preventative detention of terrorist suspects without trial met the criteria for derogation.

In an interview with The Sun, Mrs May said she would also consider extending the time suspects could be held without charge to 28 days. The limit was reduced to 14 days in 2011 under the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government. Mrs May was home secretary at the time.

"We said there may be circumstances where it is necessary to do this," she told the newspaper. "I will listen to what they [the police and security services] think is necessary for us to do."

The Conservative manifesto committed the party to remaining in the European Convention on Human Rights - which is separate to the EU and which the UK helped to establish after World War Two - for the whole of the next Parliament.

Conservative sources say they would not withdraw from the ECHR but would seek temporary opt-outs called "derogations" from certain aspects.

This could possibly include Article 5 - which guarantees individuals' rights to liberty and security and the right to a trial "within a reasonable time", while protecting against unlawful arrest and detention.

During last year's Conservative leadership campaign, Mrs May said she personally backed leaving the ECHR, saying it made it harder to deport terror suspects and criminals. But she later said she did not believe there was enough support in Parliament for the move.
[h2]'Cynical'[/h2]
The Conservatives have said they will reconsider the UK's human rights legal framework after leaving the EU but that the 1998 Human Rights Act will remain in place until that time. The party has long proposed replacing it will a British Bill of Rights.

Sir Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions who is now Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, told Today the Human Rights Act "had not got "in the way of what we were doing" during his many years prosecuting serious crime.

He warned against "throwing away the very values that are at the heart of our democracy and everything we believe in".

Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said laws were already in place to deal with people, including foreign nationals, who presented a threat and that the government must always act "within the law".

Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the PM was making a "very cynical" attempt to appeal to UKIP voters, telling the BBC "attacking the principles of human rights legislation is not the right way to keep us safe".

He denounced the "explosive claim, free from any evidence, that the problem lies with human rights legislation", saying the prime minister had a "track record" of making "ludicrous" claims about the impact of the laws.

He said ministers' focus should be on the fact one of the London Bridge attackers had been on a Italian terror watchlist - and whether this information was properly shared and acted upon.

Linking Brexit to security, he added: "I think we need to enhance our use of those EU-wide databases which are proving to be the most sophisticated pool of information about would-be criminals."

"It would be illegal for 27 other countries in the European Union to share data with us if we in the future, under Theresa May's plans, rule out abiding by European Union data protection rules."

UKIP has already backed extending pre-charge detention to 28 days. Their immigration spokesman Jon Bickley said the UK had to "stop being so tolerant of other people's intolerance".

 

[Belgium]

The delusion seems to be stronger than ever

 

[dreamer23]

Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 2h2 hours ago
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1. My takeaway on Comey statement. He went as far as Mueller would let him go. Mueller let him establish obstruction of justice re Flynn

Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 1h1 hour ago
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2. so the precedent is there and will be easy to prove together with Trump's other actions. He's confirmed obstruction. Trump's toast.

 

[aepps20]

You low key scumbag for always forgetting to shout out D-Money

He wasn't in Da Binder B. Grand Wiz LePage got Da LIBBIES shook B. D-money was just a metaphor for SMOOTHIE, SHIFTY AND DA WHITE GIRLZ B.

 

[sfc415]

at inbred rednecks crying about Trudeau and Obama's expensive "fine dining" (damn, they have some low standards, cause all I saw was a casual restaurant) which apparently they are paying for using money stolen from citizens.

Meanwhile Trump is stealing MILLIONS for his Mar A Lago trips. I don't even know how people can be this damn idiotic, even if their parents are siblings

I mean look at this comment regarding Obama:

Joe Krol This is what he does best....TALK.... all he did for 8 years...accomplished nothing except maybe improve his golf game...still costing the taxpayers a small fortune every time he pulls off another stunt for media attentionsad d...he should try to actually do something like President Jimmy Carter who builds houses for people...what a great man



HOW??? Of all people, how do Trump supporters make these types of statements????

 

[anomolie]

This is embarrassing... no other words.