Politics Thread

[Strange Brew]

Censuring is stupid. Doesn't mean anything. It just shows how dumb they are.

Agree Bobbie so why do you and Paul care?

Cheney will be gone in the next election cycle anyway.

[Masterofreality]

I was commenting on the reasoning for the censure, that a riot is legitimate political discourse in the eyes of one party.

A riot should never be legitimate political discourse, and the fact that one party thinks it is...is not good for our country.

I'm pretty sure you'll not find a comment on here from me, where I said riots are a legitimate political discourse..

Amazing almost back to back posts.
You say that one party thinks that riots are legitimate political discourse. I guess I should assume that you mean the Democratic Party, since that one party's minions spent an entire summer of 2020 engaged in riots that were carried out by supporters of the Democratic Party ideas and philosophies? You, know. Defund the Police, soft on crime Prosecutors, Businesses are just evil profiteers so it's OK to steal and loot from them, and The Feds are so evil that it os OK to laser their troops eyes and try to burn their courthouses down? That private property and private businesses, including those owned by People of Color are nothing more than a pawn to be destroyed in the "Greater Good" of "Social Justice"? That promoting national contributions to fund the Bail Out of Violent Criminals who destroyed these private properties and businesses was proper, as KAMALA HARRIS and others did?
Nah, those violent displays were not carried out by those on the right, Paul. Which "side" carried out an attempted assassination vs Congressmen on a DC area softball field because of "ideas". Clue, it wasn't anybody in the Republican Party.
Let me predict that the next time a riot occurs, it will not be perpetrated by anything that Rand Paul or Lindsay Graham says. it very well may come from something that Maxine Waters ("Let's make sure that we show up whenever we have to show up. And if you see somebody from Trump's Cabinet in. restaurant, in a store or at a gas station, you get out and create a crowd. And you push back on them"), or Ayanna Pressley ("There needs to be unrest in the streets"). Or even Joe Biden, who famously made sure he went and got a photo op with a Felony Criminal and Woman abuser Jakob Blake in Kenosha.

Sooooooooo, Paul. Which "Party" believes that rioting and unrest are legitimate political discourse????? Seems pretty clear, but of course, clear views are impaired by Blue Colored glasses.

[bobbiemcgee]

Agree Bobbie so why do you and Paul care?

Cheney will be gone in the next election cycle anyway.

Yep. Sabotaged for telling the truth. Sad.

[Strange Brew]

Yep. Sabotaged for telling the truth. Sad.

Not really but sure.

[paulxu]

A lot of people who claim to be on a "side" do things for which they can and mostly do, end up in jail.

That's entirely different than "party" leaders saying that rioting is legitimate political discourse. Even a Mitch McConnell knows the difference.

[Masterofreality]

A lot of people who claim to be on a "side" do things for which they can and mostly do, end up in jail.

That's entirely different than "party" leaders saying that rioting is legitimate political discourse. Even a Mitch McConnell knows the difference.

Hundreds of “people that were on a side” in the summer of 2020 are not in jail, and in fact, were not prosecuted at all.
Many more just skipped their court dates and have never been held to account. Kamala Harris promoted a fund to bail violent rioters out of jail. Are you saying that Maxine Waters is A) Not a party leader and B) That she didn’t incite rioting with her statements?
Meanwhile, the idiots who created a disturbance at the Capitol have continually been arrested, with the full
support of McConnell, Mike Pence and other Republican leaders have been fully in favor of the rule of law.
Jeezuz Paul. Are you really this stupid? Or Blind? Or unable to see and hear reality??

https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/4...ing-prosecuted

https://www.mauinews.com/opinion/col...be-prosecuted/

[paulxu]

From your article:

The cases his office has presumptively declined to prosecute are ones that don't involve property damage, theft or the threat or use of force against another person.

They arrested a lot of folks for just being on the street. The ones that caused damage, looting, etc. they are trying to prosecute.

For the sake of your argument, let's say Maxine Waters did encourage people to do something, and they subsequently broke the law.
That would be the case of the insurrectionists at the Capitol.
I don't see anyone from the Democratic party leadership saying that the peoples' lawbreaking was legitimate political discourse.

And I don't know what your hangup is with Kamala Harris and the bail fund deal; that's part of our American jurisprudence system, for anyone.
A judge sets bail, and if you meet it, you can be released until trial. But you sure seem to be focused on it for some reason.

[Masterofreality]

From your article:



They arrested a lot of folks for just being on the street. The ones that caused damage, looting, etc. they are trying to prosecute.

For the sake of your argument, let's say Maxine Waters did encourage people to do something, and they subsequently broke the law.
That would be the case of the insurrectionists at the Capitol.
I don't see anyone from the Democratic party leadership saying that the peoples' lawbreaking was legitimate political discourse.

And I don't know what your hangup is with Kamala Harris and the bail fund deal; that's part of our American jurisprudence system, for anyone.
A judge sets bail, and if you meet it, you can be released until trial. But you sure seem to be focused on it for some reason.

This is art. The art of selectivity. The art of avoidance. The art of revision.
The art of tragic comedy, really.

Joe Freaking Biden went to Kenosha Wisconsin to comfort Jakob Blake. A felon. A woman abuser. A scum of society.
Seems to me that Joe Biden is “Democratic Leadership” and by giving comfort to criminals that would sure be supporting criminal activity and it’s aftermath in rioting as legitimate political discourse. For Gawds Sake, it WAS PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN STRATEGY!!!!
By the way. I guess storming the Capitol by leftists during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings is just no big deal either? Seems like that might have been excused as “legitimate political discourse” by your side?? How quickly one forgets inconvenient truths?
I could go on and on about Harris, but no need.
You are irrevocably broken.

[Xville]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-federa...043150552.html


I wish money was being spent on the problem rather than putting a bandaid on something, but such is government.

[Strange Brew]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-federa...043150552.html


I wish money was being spent on the problem rather than putting a bandaid on something, but such is government.

Agree, but you got to love Yahoo. Hey, it's not crack pipes but only clean needles (stupid conservatives). Reread that and think about it for a second.

In all seriousness, money would be better spent on mental health facilities. As you correctly stated, this is a bandaid and addresses nothing.

Humorous note, if someone wanted to "smoke" crack they now have the option to "mainline" it with their sterile needles. Heard that from a dude on the street...:)