Red Mosquito

Oh lord

Strat wrote:On the populations of other countries:

So I deal with foreign countries, and despite what you may read I have unbelievable relationships with all of the foreign leaders. They like me. I like them. You know, it’s amazing. So I’ll call, like, major – major countries, and I’ll be dealing with the prime minister or the president. And I’ll say, how are you doing? Oh, don’t know, don’t know, not well, Mr. President, not well. I said, well, what’s the problem? Oh, GDP 9 percent, not well. And I’m saying to myself, here we are at like 1 percent, dying, and they’re at 9 percent and they’re unhappy. So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people. You know, a lot of people say – they say, well, but the United States is large. And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it’s pretty amazing how many people they have. So China’s going to be at 7 or 8 percent, and they have a billion-five, right? So we should do really well.

Somehow the level of buffoonery continues to surprise me, but he's the best self-made businessman in history, the best speaker ever according to everybody, and the most presidential president ever, save for the late great Lincoln, so wtf do I know.

Bye, bye affirmative action. Thank god a racist like Jeff Sessions is over the DoJ and agrees with Trump that the white man has been held back for too long.

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The now is so profoundly unrelated to what's come before, that it's become a pretty stark reminder of just how much our lifetimes have been defined by government, and voter, complacency.

I mean to a point he kind of is talking to himself. The transgender thing, "the WH is a dump", starting to sound like a complaining old man.

Daily Beast:

As chaos unfolded at the nation’s airports, Trump administration officials issued clear directives: treat lawyers’ calls like “protests” and keep duly elected representatives out.

On the chaotic day the Trump administration’s travel ban went into effect, high-level Homeland Security officials directed their staff at airports around the country to stiff-arm members of Congress and treat lawyers with deep suspicion.

Members of Congress say they’re shocked by the orders, uncovered in documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from The Daily Beast and The James Madison Project, both of which were represented by the law office of Mark S. Zaid.

A CBP official wrote in an email on Jan. 28 that the agency’s employees were forbidden from speaking to members of Congress.

“As stated on the call earlier today, you and your staff are NOT to engage with the media or Congressional representatives at this time,” emailed Todd Owen, the executive assistant commissioner of CBP’s Office of Field Operations, at 7:49 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28. “Please make sure your subordinate Port Directors are following this direction. Please report any such requests to acting AC[REDACTED] from Congressional Affairs. Thank you.”

Owen sent that email about twenty hours after the travel ban went into effect. The ban—which blocked people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.—had already thrown airports around the country into chaos. Protesters flooded into airports by the thousands, waving signs and singing patriotic songs. Lawyers hauled laptops and printers into international baggage claim areas, trying to keep detained travelers from being deported or from accidentally signing away their green cards. And members of Congress held impromptu press conferences and demanded CBP officials tell them how many people were detained.

CBP wouldn’t tell them.

Sic semper tyrannis.

Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

It's OK, I diverted them to the fake address attached to your 'Mecca' second account.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

It's OK, I diverted them to the fake address attached to your 'Mecca' second account.

thanks I owe you one

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

Dang, how's this book?

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

Dang, how's this book?

It's interesting, even though I don't believe him when he says only he, Nichols, and Fortier were involved.

That sort of stuff doesn't get the FBI to your door; I can't tell you how many times I've Googled the Unabomber.

Isn't it ironic that given today's announcements re: affirmative action and immigration that the GOP is re-opening the identity politics can of worms?

cutuphalfdead wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

Dang, how's this book?

It's interesting, even though I don't believe him when he says only he, Nichols, and Fortier were involved.

I've never heard otherwise. I'm super into this.

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Between that post and the fact that I recently bought the book American Terrorist (McVeigh's story in his own words), the FBI should be at my door any minute now.

Dang, how's this book?

It's interesting, even though I don't believe him when he says only he, Nichols, and Fortier were involved.

I've never heard otherwise. I'm super into this.

John Doe #2 is real.

Check out the series Last Podcast on the Left did on him. https://soundcloud.com/lastpodcastontheleft

wease wrote:Bye, bye affirmative action. Thank god a racist like Jeff Sessions is over the DoJ and agrees with Trump that the white man has been held back for too long.

The NPR story this morning on this was infuriating. They continually mentioned 'discrimination against white people'. I'm fairly certain that language was not included in any document from the administration, and is just the assumed intent.

Is this journalism now? Assumed intent is good enough?

Whats far more likely is that the administration will find through its study that certain colleges including the University of California pretty blatantly discriminate against Asian Americans in admissions. "Holistic" or whatever preferred buzzword that precedes admissions at schools where they look at anything other than test scores and grades are largely used to prevent campuses from becoming " too Asian*". Are they not aware of this potential issue? Do NPR anchors just not pay attention to anything?

*At UC this concern does not extend to foreign students, who pay full tuition

It's even more pronounced in Ivy League schools. Asians basically have to be perfect, and even that is no guarantee of being accepted.