US Politics Mega-thread - Page 7528

On May 16 2017 00:25 hunts wrote:
Is rawstory credible at all? I recall them being very in credible, on same level as the hill or something and just above breitbart fox and the onion? Or am I wrong about those?

Also what's the operation deep throat thing I keep hearing about? Could anyone explain?

Edit: tupos, on phone.

On May 16 2017 00:33 Doodsmack wrote:


In this case they're just quoting Morning Joe, so the source doesn't really matter.

On May 16 2017 00:38 hunts wrote:


I see, I didn't see the morning Joe reference. Still curious about rawstory in general since I see some of thr more radical liberals on my Facebook link their articles.

On May 16 2017 00:38 hunts wrote:


I see, I didn't see the morning Joe reference. Still curious about rawstory in general since I see some of thr more radical liberals on my Facebook link their articles.

On May 15 2017 09:29 xDaunt wrote:
I'm ready for Trump to launch a full blown inquisition of the administrative state. Part of it must include clearing out the dead wood in his administration. I'm inclined to think that some of the establishment types (like Priebus) are part of the problem. What Trump has in place clearly isn't working for him, so he needs to clear the board and start over. The sooner he commits to this, the better.

Americans’ support for same-sex marriage has hit a new high, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

Sixty-four percent of adults surveyed said same-sex marriages should be legal, a 3 percent increase since last year and the most support for gay marriage since Gallup began tracking the issue in 1996, when just 27 percent backed legalizing gay marriage.

Democrats (74 percent) and independents (71 percent) have been most accepting of legalizing same-sex marriages, with support among Democrats reaching a majority in 2004, followed by a majority among independents in 2007. Forty-seven percent of Republicans support legalizing same-sex marriage, the highest ever mark from the GOP.

The Supreme Court in June 2015 legalized gay marriage nationwide in a landmark 5-4 ruling that said the Constitution bars states from denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

While some may still have objections to same-sex unions over moral or religious grounds despite the Supreme Court ruling, Americans are more accepting of same-sex relations, with 72 percent of respondents saying it should be legal.

The survey of 1,011 adults was conducted May 3-7 via landline and cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

On May 16 2017 01:18 Doodsmack wrote:
25th amendment anyone? Between the politico story on Trump's media driven agenda and this, this stuff (aka Trump's temperament) is actually dangerous for the country.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined once again to reinstate North Carolina's strict voter ID law, which was struck down last year after a court ruled it was intentionally designed to stop African-Americans from voting.

The nation's highest court refused to consider an appeal by North Carolina Republicans, NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

"Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the court's refusal to consider an appeal did not signify an opinion on the merits of the case," Pam says.

It's not the first time the Supreme Court has considered an appeal over the law, which was one of the country's strictest. It was put in place after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for states with a history of discrimination to craft new voting laws without federal oversight.

On May 16 2017 01:41 Tachion wrote:

Pardon my cynicism but these criticisms of his character were well known prior to the election to anyone who cared to look. As other Trump supporters in this thread have stated, they voted for him knowing he wasn't a "paragon of virtue" or something along those lines. Short of him throwing his own feces at the press, no one who didn't care before is going to care now that he is mentally and emotionally defective, and even then they would probably enjoy that.

On May 16 2017 01:41 Tachion wrote:

Pardon my cynicism but these criticisms of his character were well known prior to the election to anyone who cared to look. As other Trump supporters in this thread have stated, they voted for him knowing he wasn't a "paragon of virtue" or something along those lines. Short of him throwing his own feces at the press, no one who didn't care before is going to care now that he is mentally and emotionally defective, and even then they would probably enjoy that.

On May 16 2017 01:57 Danglars wrote:

Maybe because his opponents are defective in wholly different ways with further lasting deleterious consequences.

Pence agreed to be Vice President on the ticket. He knew who Trump was. The 25th amendment assumes he's on board with becoming the acting president. It's fanciful dreaming, but from looking at the rest of the news, that seems to be in vogue.

On May 16 2017 02:04 Plansix wrote:
Unless there is some amazing smoking gun in that investigation, people are really into some magical thinking with impeachment. I joke about it, but I have to be realistic with myself. Unless there is some natural disaster that Trump mishandles on a scale that overshadows Katrina by several orders of magnitude, we could be in for 3.5 more years of Trump. The liberals need and left leaning media really should be focusing on congress in 2018.

On May 16 2017 02:02 Piledriver wrote:


Another version of "ermagherd Hillary is the devil". A totally asinine, intellectually lazy argument, that frankly doesn't deserve a place on TL anymore.

On May 16 2017 02:16 Danglars wrote:

Reductionist bullshit. We had bad choice on November 8th of last year and almost half the country was not on board with what Hillary represented and what she was likely to do. I assume the casual "mentally and emotionally defective" comment has a place in TL in your opinion (If you live in a liberal echo chamber, I'm guessing insults against Trump are the only ones tolerated). I want to remind the mentally lazy out there, yourself included, that I'd still repeat my vote for Trump against Hillary today knowing what I do now. I see all the cheering for these disgusting political hacks and I'm reminded that people who think "[Opinion I don't like] doesn't deserve a place on TL anymore" are authoritarian nutcases that lack perspective and self-examination. Sorry, sir, but America will survive Trump just fine and discourse might improve a bit for the long run if you let it.