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MAGA: "Well, shit. The video evidence shows they executed an unarmed man who hadn't done much of anything. But maybe he did something slightly naughty some other day?!? Yeah, that's the ticket.

I don't even think that's a quibble. Progressives provide the directional pull. Liberals perform the practical work of transformation. Conservatives are dragged kicking and screaming until they eventually arrive at the destination and then forget what they were so scared of in the first place. Well, at least that's how it's worked historically. At some point, Rush Limbaugh killed conservatism by convincing a LOT of dumb people that "conservative" actually just means the "opposite of Democrat." Which is silly. The groundwork was laid for the politics of spite. Now we have MAGA and it's more radical than the progressives have ever been.

Lol. No, you're calling dictionaries and encyclopedias wrong. Jeebus, you know people can see what you post right? Like everyone sees what's happened here?

During his January 2017 confirmation hearing for Attorney General, Sessions was asked about communications between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials and stated he was "not aware of any of those activities" and "did not have communications with the Russians". It later emerged that he had met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on at least two occasions during the campign.

Yes I typically ignore most of your copy+paste Gish gallop ADD bullshit and focus on one of your lies at a time. If you had a paper trail of your wife having secret meetings and elaborately concealed communications with another man, you'd damn sure consider that "evidence" even if you couldn't definitively prove what was happening in the cheap motel room. No problem? And there's far more evidence than that in the Manafort case. No You keep trying to pretend like it was just an innocent, casual marketing meeting. But have you ever known anyone to deploy extensive spycraft techniques to conceal casual, innocent conversations? That sounds reasonable to you? You really think Manafort didn't know what Kilimnik was going to do with that information? Really? And if Manafort had taken and shared Trump's sensitive campaign intel to serve his own interests, shouldn't Trump have been angry at that betrayal? So angry he pardoned him. Lol If you truly believe any of that, you're a bigger cuck than the sad sack in the motel hypothetical. Sessions didn't catch heat for the meetings, he caught heat for lying about having been at the meetings.

WTF? You're like a pre-AI bot. Paul Manafort has never been a senator and Kilimnik is not a diplomat.

No, you calling radical progressives "conservative" is an oxymoron delivered by a regularmoron.

Ah, one of your signature "witty" retorts. Jeebus, you're as dumb as they come. Open a book sometime. Also, read it. The Progressive Era

This entire premise is unbelievably dumb, but beyond that, it's cruel. "The left" is not happy for dead Gazan children, you farking gargoyle. That's the grotesque, cynical filter through which you view the world, but don't project it onto others. Fark right off. There is, no doubt, some intelligent way to ask that more attention be paid to politics in Iran, but it's clearly far beyond you.

^^This is asinine. You have no knowledge of history. Conservatives did NOT free the slaves. Abolitionists were radically progressive. The entire notion of racial equality--or that Black people were human beings was radical at the time. Conservatives did NOT give women the right to vote. That too was radically progressive. People out on the street protesting for suffrage, were derided by conservatives. The same way you turds deride civil rights protestors today. Jeannette Rankin, a vocal suffragist was in no way a conservative. She was a street-protesting radical and pro-labor advocate. You did get one right though! I think what you really meant to say is "Republican." - Republican's didn't used to be conservative. They were the progressive party. They were literally the party driving reform in the Progressive Era. The parties effectively flipped orientation between the Great Depression and the Civil Rights movement.

Why are you weirdly hung up on this. It's entirely irrelevant. It doesn't figure into the chain of events in any way shape or form. He didn't pull it out. He didn't use it. Nobody had any knowledge of it until they took him down, beat him and removed it. You know, just before they executed him. What if he had a condom in his wallet? What would that mean? Why????? You can be curious all you like, but it's just idle speculation.

That is patently false. That investigation uncovered a metric shit ton of evidence of collusion. To the point that it's factually indisputable. It just doesn't stop you from disputing it. What Mueller lacked was the "intent and agreement" piece of the puzzle to effectively charge criminal conspiracy. Perhaps you don't know what the word "evidence" means?

Well, sure. If you thought that progressives were getting things right you'd identify as one. The historical track record for liberalism is pretty spectacular (that's how society has evolved, after all) but as a subset, progressives have a much bigger challenge. It's always more risky to reinvent systems than to incrementally improve them. For this reason, progressives don't "get it right." Though I'd argue that no portion of the political spectrum "gets it right" because we never, ever, ever, get to implement solutions in a vacuum. For good and ill, all of it is a product of compromise. So while progressives might arrive early to an issue and offer unpalatable or impractical solutions, they are usually directionally correct in identifying major challenges early, and eventually the slower parts of the political spectrum move that direction. Some major directional issues on which they are surely right: 1. Healthcare. The current system is fundamentally broken, filled with cost opacity, redundancy, waste and inefficiency. It's a dysfunction that needs to be reimagined rather than incrementally improved. And the fragility of employer-based systems is going to be further complicated by a partial-labor or post-labor society. See point 2. 2. Corporate power, wealth concentration, and ultimately corporatocracy. There used to be a tension between labor and capital, but labor has clearly lost in America. Our current system does not appear to be sustainable. It has prioritized unfettered "growth" without any consideration for the nature and direction of growth. I actually think there's huge overlap here with working class conservatives, whether they can articulate the cause or not. The single-income family is nearly extinct, and it's not by choice. The affordability crisis is real and politically potent across the spectrum. Things are looking very bleak for gen A already, and AI is a tipping point. And the power and influence, particularly in media and tech, should terrify everyone. 3. Climate and energy. The science on climate is clear, but referring back to point 2, powerful corporate interests have managed to significantly muddy those waters for laypeople--to the point that portions of the population won't acknowledge the fact that there's a problem, let alone coalesce around how to mitigate an existential threat. This is another system that needs a reset, where we account for externalities and stop measuring costs as simple production dollars. Shifting our energy investments and priorities isn't even anti-growth, it just means looking ahead to determine which direction we want to grow. As for the religious intrusion on public life, I don't like it one bit, but I don't see much difference between the Islam and Christianity in this regard. One can quibble about which is "worse" on specific points of view, but in any case they are interesting in using government to coerce behavior according to their own beliefs--to force others. And we'd be far better off bolstering the bulwark between church and state than unwisely tearing it down, as conservative America seems intent on doing.

I appreciate the tolerant attitude, but this is a completely fake story meant to stoke xenophobic fears and sow hate. Mosques in NYC are allowed to broadcast a call to prayer... Friday afternoons, and at sunset during Ramadan. And even those must be in compliance with city noise codes. All established by the previous mayor and rather like the church bells that are allowed on Sunday and special occasions.

That's what Trump's pet, Barr, said dummy. It's not what Mueller said--so much so that Mueller issued a statement in response correcting the facts. And Mueller was not the last investigation. You know that. You've been told dozens of times. You just won't stop lying about it though. It's dogma for your kind, and no amount of facts can interfere with your deeply held religious belief.

Ruh roh. The administration lied their asses off, and now that they've been caught red handed by video evidence they have to change their tune. Boy, that's gonna be awkward for all the cultists who bought into the original administration B.S. and have continue to defend them in spite of clear, contradictory video evidence. White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash Widely circulated video of Pretti’s killing by federal agents undercut earlier assertions of him being a gunman ...Over the weekend, senior administration officials including Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff, called the victim “a domestic terrorist who tried to assassinate law enforcement”, while Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, accused him of perpetrating “the definition of domestic terrorism”... ...The characterizations were undercut by video footage that showed Pretti was shot in the back roughly 10 times after being tackled to the ground by a group of US border patrol agents whom he had been filming, and disarmed of his gun...

The Trump administration continues to lie about it? Shocker! But you buy it hook line and sinker. The Steele dossier was NOT the foundation of the FBI investigation. They didn't get the Steele dossier until months later. The FBI was already to investigating because Papadopoulos was boasting about his Russia connections having dirt on Hillary. And yes, the collusion is documented and undeniable. Trump's campaign chair was feeding a known Russian agent sensitive internal campaign polling and strategy. Over and over again through elaborately contrived secret channels. Information which Kilimnik passed to Russian intelligence. The same agency actively (again, well documented) engaged in an influence campaign against American voters. All of that is known. The collusion above is entirely documented in congressional reports. What they were unable to establish was chargeable criminal conspiracy. The communication tracks were so thoroughly covered they couldn't verify that Manafort knew how his information would be used. But let's get real, Manafort is corrupt and traitorous, but he's not stupid. And he certainly wasn't going to take a deal when Trump was advertising a pardon.

ICE has never needed masks before because they were a legitimate law enforcement agency rather than a paramilitary goon squad. Nobody was interested in doxxing agents because the agents weren't engaged in this abhorrent behavior. The conversation probably went approximately like this: Trumpco: We want to create a pervasive terror among the immigrant community so they GTFO. To make that happen, we're going to ask you to do some truly awful shit. ICE: Okay, but won't people hate us? Trumpco: Probably, but we're going to give you masks so nobody can see who you are. ICE: Like criminals? Trumpco: Yeah, same rationale. So you don't have to be accountable to the public for perpetrating the aforementioned awful shit. It's not that doxxing wasn't a possibility before. They simply knew that they were going to start crossing lines--both legally and in terms of human decency. They prepared accordingly.

They arrested them like we always have. Not with masked goon squads roaming the streets like the JV version of Kristallnacht.

Shameless liar. He did not use anything except his legal right to film the thugs from ICE--an agency with an explicit mission to sew terror under Trump.

That's complete bullshit. He could have attacked ICE. Instead he just tried to shield the woman they assaulted. Then they sprayed him, took him down, beat him, removed his holstered weapon and shot him in the back. That's all on video, no imagination required.

Again, wildly creative imagination you've got. You post video of ICE violently shoving a woman who was filming, and then pretend that she assaulted them. Jeebus.

You are a shameless liar regarding Russian collusion, which was definitively established. It's recorded history. Undeniable. Lemon is a journalist with a first amendment right to cover those events. He will not be convicted of anything. Some of the others may be, depending on what they actually did. It's an embarrassing projection for you, of all people, to try to call anyone else a cultist. 🤣

Unequal behavior--particularly bad behavior--begets unequal coverage. That's normal. And you know full well that hardly anyone is fussy about deportations. If Trump were doing it in a normal fashion like past presidents, he'd get the same reaction. But instead he's got masked thugs deployed en masse abducting people, beating people, killing people, harassing and arresting brown citizens simply for being brown in the wrong place and time, and engaging in other senseless actually of cruelty. Why? For th stated purpose of terrorizing those populations. It's explicit and deliberate. And it's completely disingenuous for you to pretend this is an apples-to-apples comparison, let alone unfair coverage. Unbelievable.

I guess to fascists anyone filming then must be a terrorist, because he didn't attack them in any way, shape or form. You guys are just full fascist at this point. Anyone who resists the state, even non-violently, is a "terrorist." GTFO