US Politics November 2017

at which point some other corrupt Democrat can be appointed

oh hey look

Al Franken admits guilt after photographic evidence of his abuse surfaces.

Mitch: "Let's investigate."

In Alabama, ZERO evidence, allegations 100% rejected.

Mitch: "Moore must quit immediately or be expelled."

— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 16, 2017

yeah well with franken it was one adult woman and you have been creeping on dozens of children for years, roy

'Don Juan of the Cinnabon' got me

more Poppy

First on CNN: New George H.W. Bush accuser says he groped her during 1992 re-election campaignhttps://t.co/HL2M9wgwYQ

— Ram Ramgopal (@RamCNN) November 16, 2017

Shakey he apologised for the photo, which was juvenile and disrespectful. But not the unwanted tongue kiss, which is borderline assault, and about which he is calling her a liar. Unless there's something I'm missing in that screenshot you posted?

where's his left hand

btw

BREAKING: FCC votes to eliminate media ownership rules, paving way for one company to own multiple TV stations or both TV station/newspaper in one market

— Jeremy B. White (@JeremyBWhite) November 16, 2017

truly a champion of the common man

Shakey he apologised for the photo,

the opening paragraph of that 2nd statement reads like a blanket apology for the entire thing to me, idk how you could read it any other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwGM9x2Gxs&feature=

That FCC news is not fake news.

I look fwd to there being only 2 media companies inside five years.

here's what Tweeden had to say re: his apology

Tweeden said she accepted Franken’s apology.

“Yes, people make mistakes and, of course, he knew he made a mistake,” she said at a news conference in Los Angeles, where she works as a radio news anchor for KABC. She said she would leave any disciplinary action up to Senate leaders and was not calling for Franken to step down. “That’s up to them. I’m not demanding that.”

Shakes man he specifically denies her account!

xp I look fwd to there being five years.

FCC votes to eliminate media ownership rules, paving way for one company to own multiple TV stations or both TV station/newspaper in one market

Egad! Does that mean that large media conglomerates might soon disproportionately control local media market shares?

Hmmm. Does this mean that our current local TV news coverage - especially the hard-hitting investigative stuff - might become bland and inane and biased? What a calamity that would be.

if u wanna read it differently and be more outraged than Tweeden I guess that's up to you

xp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwGM9x2Gxs&feature=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwGM9x2Gxs&feature=

idk why i cant ever do this right lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwGM9x2Gxs&feature=

5th time's the charm!

STFU

to embed a youtube video you just need to paste the url, no formatting is needed.

so the tax plan passed in the House, do we think the Senate's gonna go for it er nah?

Senate's down 2 votes at the moment (Johnson and probably Collins), one more (Flake, Corker, McCain, Murkowski?) and it's over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwGM9x2Gxs&feature=

i copied the url and just pasted it here and it doesn't work. fuck i done screwing up this thread for today xxp

You need to paste the url but change it from https:// to http://

ugh

Also, take out the “&feature=“ just to be safe

“/watch?v=“ then the 10-12 characters for the video title

Does this mean that our current local TV news coverage - especially the hard-hitting investigative stuff - might become bland and inane and biased? What a calamity that would be.

I think it's more like, imagine if this group owned the largest station AND the only newspaper in your city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#Political_views

Who needs papers and TV? What is this, the 20th century? I get my fake news from the internet.

I get my fake news from a guy on canal st

I just sit at home and imagine scenarios, figuring a few of them must be happening, somewhere.

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2017/11/sen-al-franken-accused-sexual-assault-harassment-radio-host

huh even jason lewis is slow-walking

if i had a dollar for every time i find myself thinking: hypocrisy knows no bounds.

— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) October 19, 2017

why hasn't monica gone full right wing talk show host yet? that would be amusing (and then I would kill myself)

yes bcz why wdn't she

why would she want to join up with the people that used her as a political football

why not, it is the 21st century and nothing makes sense anymore

all of this makes perfect sense, it's just horrifying

also I'm not entirely sure what her twitter statement means

Perpetual War politics: as with the Cong in Vietnam, if the US kills you, you're obviously ISIS:

"Between April 2016 and June 2017, we visited the sites of nearly 150 airstrikes across northern Iraq, not long after ISIS was evicted from them. We toured the wreckage; we interviewed hundreds of witnesses, survivors, family members, intelligence informants and local officials; we photographed bomb fragments, scoured local news sources, identified ISIS targets in the vicinity and mapped the destruction through satellite imagery. We also visited the American air base in Qatar where the coalition directs the air campaign. There, we were given access to the main operations floor and interviewed senior commanders, intelligence officials, legal advisers and civilian-casualty assessment experts. We provided their analysts with the coordinates and date ranges of every airstrike — 103 in all — in three ISIS-controlled areas and examined their responses. The result is the first systematic, ground-based sample of airstrikes in Iraq since this latest military action began in 2014.

"We found that one in five of the coalition strikes we identified resulted in civilian death, a rate more than 31 times that acknowledged by the coalition. It is at such a distance from official claims that, in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent American history. Our reporting, moreover, revealed a consistent failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly or to keep records that make it possible to investigate the claims at all. While some of the civilian deaths we documented were a result of proximity to a legitimate ISIS target, many others appear to be the result simply of flawed or outdated intelligence that conflated civilians with combatants. In this system, Iraqis are considered guilty until proved innocent. Those who survive the strikes, people like Basim Razzo, remain marked as possible ISIS sympathizers, with no discernible path to clear their names."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/uncounted-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes.html

"if i had a dollar for ever time i find myself thinking"

^ too easy, we can't think ourselves rich, lady.

Otoh: what a terrible shitshow to see her twitter mentions. What she became "famous" for was 20 (TWENTY) years ago. And there wasn't the amplification of social media back then. Boy is there right now. She's experiencing dozens of ppl shouting at her every single day because of something twenty years ago. I applaud her for staying so cool and level headed. I wouldn't be able to cope.

also I'm not entirely sure what her twitter statement means

― akm, Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:41 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she’s saying bill and hillary have gotten off easy, and she’s right

Hillary got off easy

?

Why senators shouldn't be so quick to expel Roy Moore should he win.,

that just seems like a weird thing to say re: Lewinsky

xp