Politics and stuff

[Cnasty]

Having an American flag outside your house gets you in that category now a days as well it seems.

Everyone is so antsy.

[GeorgesGoons]

This is pretty darn funny on multiple levels.

Funny part #1: The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial had his phone go off in the middle of trial today, forgot to turn the ringer off.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/ ... ria%2Fc%2F

Funny part #2: The judge's ring tone is the song "I'm Proud to be an American"

Funny part #3: Folks on the left are freaking out and calling for a mistrial because I guess being proud to be an American means you're a far right extremist.

I think I genuinely hate the far left. Not Billy left but ANTIFA left, like Crowes

[GeorgesGoons]

Having an American flag outside your house gets you in that category now a days as well it seems.

Everyone is so antsy.

I don't think everyone is antsy, some are just plain idiots

[ReignOnU]

So we're going to have "anti-drunk driving" technology installed in our new vehicles by 2026? Another case of punishing the many (cost, inconvenience, defects, etc) for the shitty decisions of a few. Screw personal accountability and just clamp down everyone. Seems like a trend.

If our government can stop thinking that they need to protect me from everything in the world, that would be great.

[shel311]

In closing arguments, the prosecutor said word for word 2 things:

"You can't claim self defense against an unarmed man"

"You lose the right to self defense when you're the one who brought the gun"


Alrighty then.

[qazhby]

hahah this fucking thread is a cesspool

[GeorgesGoons]

In closing arguments, the prosecutor said word for word 2 things:

"You can't claim self defense against an unarmed man"

"You lose the right to self defense when you're the one who brought the gun"


Alrighty then.

he had a couple of others that raised the eyebrows.

Unfortunately I think this goes by way of political affiliation in the jury. Every democrat I know thinks Rittenhouse is a white supremacist and should be locked up for life. Every republican I know thinks this was a justified shooting. I'm hoping that is not the case and that the democrats that I know only watch MSNBC and puppet whatever they say and the republicans I know have watched some of the trial (or at least highlights from the trial).

[shel311]

Biden tweet last year:

Trump further diminished the U.S. in the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. This new “African Ban,” is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the United States. It’s a disgrace, and we cannot let him succeed

When saying anything to try and get elected goes wrong...

Today, Biden instituted a new "African ban"

[GeorgesGoons]

Kinda comical right?

[nick]

Ya one banned based on “weak security”. The other is so America doesn’t get overwhelmed with the new vaccine resistant variant of covid when half the country is too hillbilly to get vaccinated in the first place.

Also, trump is on record of calling the countries he banned “shithole countries”.

[shel311]

Ya one banned based on “weak security”. The other is so America doesn’t get overwhelmed with the new vaccine resistant variant

Man, when you gotta go out of your way to downplay terrorism, you're probably trying a little too hard.

The travel ban on the select countries:

because each country had either had not satisfied the administration’s information-sharing requirements related to terrorism or did not have updated passport systems.

[dakshdar]

The more reasonable comparison is whether other comparable countries were instituting either "ban". I don't honestly know from the Trump one. But other countries are taking the same action now relative to COVID.

[shel311]

Biden also called Trump banning travel with China xenophobic, so I don't think we need to go any further to realize Biden was extremely hypocritical and saying divisive things while fishing for votes, and is now eating those words and doing the same things he called out Trump for.

I'm pretty comfortable saying no more evidence is needed, Biden stepped in it pretty obviously at this point. But if you want to compare, did other countries ban travel to China would be the apt comparison, so Biden is still going to look really foolish, no?

I mean, think about that right now, 1 year later, would you claim that the travel ban to China was a bad thing? I highly doubt it...but Biden did.

[dakshdar]

Fair points. I think Trump made it easy to pile on him because of his rhetoric. "kung flu" didn't help make a point.

[shel311]

Fair points. I think Trump made it easy to pile on him because of his rhetoric. "kung flu" didn't help make a point.

Definitely agreed. Trump can't ever get out of his own way.

I just think once you look past a lot of the Trump nonsense and quotes(I'm not saying those dont matter at all) Biden is doing a lot of the same shit, like in this example.

[dakshdar]

Semi true.

With it established firmly now what COVID is, similar decisions have a different context.

[nick]

Governor Greg Abbott:

Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.

Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.

Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally.

Pure politics and hypocrisy.





Is this idiot mixing up South America and South Africa??

[GeorgesGoons]

Governor Greg Abbott:

Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.

Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.

Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally.

Pure politics and hypocrisy.





Is this idiot mixing up South America and South Africa??

I doubt he is. There have been people from multiple countries detained at the border

They coming from all over the world:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/growing-sh ... 1629122385

In 2019 5,000 Africans were detained, 10,000 in 2020....Numbers for 2021 are not out.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/ ... -us-report

Albeit, very small numbers compared to Central and South America but it's still happening.

He should have focused more on how we are allowing the migrants to cross and stay here during the pandemic rather than now hitting the political buzz worthiness of how Biden ceased travel from a couple of South African nations.

[ReignOnU]

Another Cuomo bites the dust

[GeorgesGoons]

Two Democrats (from Philly and Chicago) that wanted to defend police were carjacked this week.