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Posts posted by SmokeyTheBear
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NY A.G. files lawsuit to dissolve the NRA
QuoteThe Attorney General of New York took action today to dissolve the National Rifle Association, following an 18-month investigation that found evidence the powerful gun rights group is "fraught with fraud and abuse."
Attorney General Letitia James claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday that she found financial misconduct in the millions of dollars, and that it contributed to a loss of more than $64 million over a three year period.
The suit alleges that top NRA executives misused charitable funds for personal gain, awarded contracts to friends and family members, and provided contracts to former employees to ensure loyalty.
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Silent majority is really pissed off that black people want equality.
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13 minutes ago, TexLonghorn said:
I only see "cock he blu"
NTTAWWT
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What happens when Trump jokes about his people needing to guard polling places during the election? You know those fine Boogaloo or Proud Boys with their ARs playing as Patriots at polling places.
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3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
I truly wonder how much if this shit is Putin's bidding.
It seems too much for it to be just pure stupidity on Trump's part. He has help around him with the Miller's and Pompeo's, but I think big stuff is strategic (lack of pandemic response, send in secret police to cause chaos in liberal cities, etc) which might have help from Putin. Regardless, Russia uses their troll farms to amplify anything that is going on.
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5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
Wait, so his supporters can vote from home but others need to go to wait in line for hours to vote during a pandemic?
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nevermind
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"Make America Great Again"
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16 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
You know, there's a certain level of acceptance throughout much of the world that a strong United States is, on balance, a good thing.
That said, anyone who thinks they aren't gonna bend us over and have their way with us as we try to rebuild relationships is a fool.
Hong Kong, Ukraine, India, Korea, Middle East......all at play if/when some bad actors want to make a move. We have largely diminished our negotiating power, our trust, and our alliances. We still have the most powerful military but that wasn't our real power around the globe, it was our values and partnerships that kept us up top. With all that eroded, who really will stop China from going after Hong Kong? Or Russia into the Ukraine? Added bit of fun, if we do not get COVID under control, how strong is our military really?
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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849625/pandoras-new-corporate-parents-gave-millions-to-trump-gop
Pandora Media shareholders voted Tuesday to approve its $3.5 billion acquisition by satellite radio company Sirius XM, adding the struggling webcaster and one of Oakland's largest employers to the portfolio of major Donald Trump and Republican Party donors at parent company Liberty Media.
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The deal consolidates Pandora and Sirius XM under the control of Liberty Media, a Colorado company owned and run by conservative donors, at a time when music industry political giving and tech ties to the Trump administration are increasingly scrutinized. Policy experts also say the merger empowers a company that’s aggressively fought to suppress royalty payments for artists and copyright holders.
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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:
I wish they would also include the handing over of bases in the Middle East to Russia. Seems a lifetime ago.
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1 minute ago, workswithseed said:
Did you miss something, or did I?
Bad grammar. Wonder what would happen if this was a black man.
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41 minutes ago, Herpa Derpa said:
Here she is having a nice conversation with Portland police. She really likes calling someone a douche out of her vajayjay. Seems like they're all familiar with the crazy they're dealing with.
Perfect example of why defund the police needs to be implemented at some level. These police officers did nothing wrong at all and super patient (wonder what would happen if this was a black man), but there needs to be a mental health professional there to manage the situation with one officer giving lots of space in case something goes sideways. Someone with mental illness will just escalate when they get surrounded by authorities with weapons.
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2 hours ago, Anastasis said:
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3 minutes ago, Fozzz said:
Try Google. She has said, in the context of rejecting a statewide $15 minimum wage, that she has no interest in doing class warfare because she wants to be wealthy. She’s openly acknowledged that she doesn’t want to upset the paymasters.
Ahhhhhh, this:
QuoteBut while Abrams supports raising the minimum wage to about $15 an hour in cities like Atlanta, she’d stop short of a statewide increase, explaining that Georgia’s history of resistance to unions has kept wages so low that a blanket hike would be too much of a shock to the economy.
“I’m not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy,” she tells the far-from-wealthy crowd at the Fair Fight rally. “You’ve probably got aspirations about that too.” Many in the room nod in recognition.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/stacey-abrams-whats-next.html
Yep, just like Trump and all the others out there that are running a grift through politics. She decided to look at things holistically and try to find answers that balance the impact as much as possible. What a worthless striver.
Her aversion to class politics in favor of identity politics is outlined better here:
QuoteFukuyama and other critics of identity politics contend that broad categories such as economic class contain multitudes and that all attention should focus on wide constructs rather than the substrates of inequality. But such arguments fail to acknowledge that some members of any particular economic class have advantages not enjoyed by others in their cohort. U.S. history abounds with examples of members of dominant groups abandoning class solidarity after concluding that opportunity is a zero-sum game. The oppressed have often aimed their impotent rage at those too low on the social scale to even attempt rebellion.
This is particularly true in the catchall category known as “the working class.” Conflict between black and white laborers stretches back to the earliest eras in U.S. history, which witnessed tensions between African slaves and European indentured servants. Racism and sexism have long tarnished the heroic story of the U.S. labor movement—defects that contributed to the rise of a segregated middle class and to persistent pay disparities between men and women, disparities exacerbated by racial differences. Indeed, the American working class has consistently relied on people of color and women to push for improved status for workers but has been slow to include them in the movement’s victories.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/node/1123763
She seems like someone who has thought thru this pretty deeply and I think would serve her well if ascending to President. But you are probably right, just a face who wants to be wealthy.
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4 minutes ago, Fozzz said:
I couldn’t care less about her or any other politician’s academic credentials. They are meaningless to how she would govern if Biden were to croak. If anything it just reinforces the fact that she’s a worthless striver looking to use her political career as a means, in her words, to become wealthy.
citation?
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2 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:
the other side turns out too. the 2018 out front should have told ya.
Yeah, but who from each side will want to hang out in lines for hours during a pandemic? The side who thinks its a mild flu and refuses to wear masks or the ones who know the risks and do everything they can to mitigate that risk? I know I will willingly stand in line all day with a mask but who else will? Especially if they think that Biden will win big due to how poll numbers are looking (2016 anyone?).
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Team Ranch water with sotol or oaxacan old fashioned
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What is an "expert" anyways?!
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24 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Lolz
Is it bad that there is so much Trump chaos that I forgot he assassinated a top Iranian general? But was it really the IC who ordered the hit?
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Bump for all things IC based hand waving
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"it's time for hunters to leave the NRA"
in Cloak Room
Posted · Edited by SmokeyTheBear
Maybe so. But justice should be done regardless of political issues. When we stop justice because of politics, we become the Trump administration.
*also, hoping that this will open up if/where money was funneled from and/to within the NRA. Which could include the GOP and Trump officials.