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  1. 49 minutes ago, deech said:

    The integrity of Bolton bringing down the hammer on these fraudulent shysters.  Who would have thought?

    Some crazy fucking times we are living in.

    I'd like to see Trump try and keep Bolton from testifying, and I'm putting the odds pretty high that Bolton is called in at this point.  

    And Bolton seems like the kind of guy who would have plenty of notes/recordings to cover his ass. 

  2. 3 hours ago, RPM said:

    We have more people in prison than any other country on Earth. Guess that means we are the worst people on the planet or we have a police state. I vote the latter.

    I would go with worst people on the planet.  The people you are talking about are not in prison for crimes against the state, they are in prison for personal and property crimes - murder, theft, drugs, drunk driving, assault, the War on Drugs in general, etc., etc.  If you want to consider some guy beating the shit out of some other guy in a parking lot a crime against the state, then we need to define what the state actually is.

    And here's the thing - we the people, as voters, can even influence the number of people incarcerated.  We have states/locales that are starting to change up what is and isn't criminalized/worthy of prison time - states that are legalizing weed, expunging records, etc.

    And, as I said, Donald Trump cannot order NY Times journalists to be rounded up and the Times shut down, he can't have Jeff Bezos arrested (unlike Putin), etc. All he can do is mock and whine the people he doesn't like.

    I'm biased though - I've got some good friends who grew up in East Germany, and we are nowhere close to that.

  3. 3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    Don’t forget you may be shot in your home by a cop for no reason. Land of the free, brother. 

    And that cop has been charged with murder.  It's a start, even if such cops should have been nailed to the wall long ago.

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  4. 4 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Where is the line between “Police State” and “Not a Police State?”

    Seems like we’re very much there on a few metrics like incarceration numbers, concentration camps, and prisons for profit. 

    I mean, arming school teachers is now a legitimate debate. 

    Arming school teachers is not a legitimate debate, and you of all people should know political clickbait when you see it - that was tossed out there by people who are trying to avoid a conversation on mass shootings.

    I'll get into the incarceration stuff in another post, but suffice to say, the government does not have the manpower or legal power to pull off a traditional police state - otherwise Trump would be doing more than whining on twitter about media outlets and journalists he doesn't like.

  5. 15 minutes ago, Junior Miller said:

    It's like no one wants to believe what is happening is actually happening. That the USA is in free fall and becoming more of a dictatorial police state by the day. 

    I don’t buy the police state thing, but the first sentence accurately describes a lot of the US today.   

  6. I didn’t really care for Obama either way, but if somebody made a video like that with him shooting various Republicans/etc., I know he would ask his followers to take it down and not pass it around.  

    Meanwhile, we are all thinking “I wonder if there is a betting pool on when Trump is going to tweet that video out?”

  7. 2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

     

    “Do people really think we should go to war with a country I have a financial arrangement with?”

    And this shows how much he understands true military and economic power - we could get Turkey to stop if we wanted to, without firing a shot, but Trump is so used to being subservient to people like Erdogan and Putin that he doesn’t understand that.  

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