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  1. 9 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    Is that good or bad?

    You know, you can find Senate subcommittee hearings on topics like that.  Guess how many of, say, 21 Senators on the committee will be there? 

     

    If they come at all they give a speech and leave.  On or two are designated to do their turn in the barrel and conduct the meeting.  You will not see 21 Senators in rapt attention.

    Anyone want to take bets on attendance this coming Wednesday on "Confronting Sexual Harassment and Other Workplace Misconduct in the Federal Judiciary"?

    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/confronting-sexual-harassment-and-other-workplace-misconduct-in-the-federal-judiciary

     

    Wtf are you talking about? This isn't some quotidian subcommittee meeting.

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  2. 6 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    This is just your juvenile way of reacting when someone might disagree with you.  Not unexpected, I've seen you do it a lot - including your admission of weakness by using ad hominem.  

     In any event, I don't give a fuck about your reaction.  I'm not trolling.  This was an article in that troll rag called "USA Today", the #1 read daily in the country.  And the article was about Canada's cracking down in illegally entering immigrants.  In actuality they're doing what should be done, going to the letter of the law.  I'm citing it as a good thing.
    
    As for the rest of the clamoring hordes, of course you completely misread the thing or my intent.  I don't fucking care.  You can shit yourself or you can talk intelligently.  Either way, 

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    But it IS funny watching some with absolutely no self-control shit themselves.   

    And on your "refugee totals" you'd better do some reading.  Your quote on "quota level" is embarrassingly off.  The article is talking about refugees.  The U.S. accepts over 1 million people per year.  Canada about 340,000 (both the U.S. and Canada have quotas, the U.S. about 3X Canada).
    
    On the Emma Lazarus poem, do you even know the history behind that?  Do you know the history behind U.S. immigration policy especially up to the 1990's?  No, you don't.  That's a whole 'nother argument.
    
    I'm not trolling, I've posted an article that simply made the fucking front page today, saying Canada is hustling to ensure that immigrants shouldn't expect to be able to enter the country, and whose policy is just as restrictive of the U.S.   Like this:
    
    Canada's immigration policy is actually stricter than the U.S.... they size people up for their potential for success and refuse entry if they feel they're unlikely to achieve it.  And Mexico is in another subject.
     The point of all of this except for the dumbshits that can't read/are blinded by their own hatred and ideology, is that Canada is just as, if not more, restrictive than the U.S.
    
    You wanna discuss the article, discuss the article.  You wanna fling monkey shit, it don't make a shit except to make you look dumber and less in control of your faculties.  Either way, have a nice fucking day.

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    I was referring specifically to this section:

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    The Canadian government has also increased the number of refugees it accepts to help ease the burden on European countries that are overwhelmed with people fleeing war and famine in the Middle East and Africa. The country is planning to accept about 43,000 refugees this year, increasing that to nearly 49,000 by 2020.

     Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been trying to limit legal immigration and has at times completely halted the refugee program in the name of national security.

    The administration is pushing legislation to reduce the number of legal immigrants admitted to the country, and it set a cap of 45,000 refugees for 2018, the lowest number since Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980. The administration may not even reach that number, however, as it has only approved 14,887 refugees through Friday with less than four months left in the fiscal year.

    And nice job of misquoting me. At no point, did I ever say "refugee totals".

  3. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Latest scuttlebutt surrounds his directive to the EPA to relax asbestos regulations, which is something he's been banging on for at least 2 decades.  I'll send a slightly stale donut to the first person who correctly guesses where 55% of world's asbestos materials are mined.

    Where is Russia?

  4. If anyone's wondering why I'm so upset about this is that PhD, a very well-respected poster, comes in here and shits out this thread - all while remaining relatively silent on a myriad of other disgraceful shit going on right now.

    It's the sort of behavior one would expect from tinhorn, epicqueen, or dsa; not from one of surly's leading scholars and renaissance men. You're better than this, man.

  5. And to make sure you or anyone else reading this thread don't miss the point: On a per capita basis, Canada is accepting nearly 10 times the number of refugees than the US, and you dare to criticize them?

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    Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! 

    Talk about a misleading thread title.

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  6. Pathetic attempt at trolling. From your own article, Canada, a nation whose population is less than California, is announcing it is raising its refugee quota to a level that will actually be higher than that of the United fucking States.

    Why this sudden hard-on to criticize Canada, a country with a population that is only 10 times smaller than ours? Hmm... could it be that our piece of shit "president" is embarrassing himself by pissing off friends and coddling enemies at this very moment in that country?

    Nice job trying to deflect and distract from what really matters. PhD, I know you're a conservative, but I thought you actually had principles. I didn't realize you were such a partisan prick. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    And if the DNC had anything resembling a collective direction or a goal they'd seize the popularity of the policy and force him to either co-opt the issue and jeopardize portions of that base or lose out entirely on the popular issue.  

    I stay fairly informed, lean a bit to the left and I still have no idea what point the DNC firmly wants to communicate.  Patting yourself on the back for not being an ignorant, orange buffoon isn't moving the needle.  Kissing your partner in a political ad isn't cutting edge.  Those large swaths of red that they lost right through the middle of the country aren't interested in a debate about gender pronouns.  Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi as the sun and moon of your universe won't carry the torch.  If the goal is to turn a wave into ripple, then the current stagnation is right on point.      

    We should just get Beto to write the DNC platform:

    https://betofortexas.com/issue/justice/

     

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  8. 52 minutes ago, Washpark said:
    What amount of evidence do people need at this point that Trump isn't compromised by Putin?
     

     

    This is what we've been warning about for the last two years. At Putin's behest, Trump is willing to trash the trans-Atlantic relationship that has been the foundation of peace and prosperity for 3/4 of a century. The signs of Trump's antipathy toward the West have been there since the beginning - even before suspicions of Russian support - including his support for Brexit (buddies with that fuckstick Farage) and his calling Nato "obsolete". Fuck anyone who supports this piece of shit. He's not just a traitor to the American people; he's a traitor to all modern Western values.

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    The giant timeline of everything Russia, Trump and the investigations

    The investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election has grown dramatically in both size and scope. A complex probe from the start, it is now a nearly indiscernible blur of characters, charges and counter-charges.

    This timeline is a tool aimed at understanding the growing number of dots and where they connect. Think of it as a map. We spent months checking and cross-checking sources of information for each item.

    Dig in. There is a lot here.

     

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/russia-timeline/

  10. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It means he is pushing the false narrative that if every member of the team doesn't show up, none of them should show up, even though individuals have skipped these silly photo ops for decades.

    Pretty much this. Sure, the players get to meet the president but I think these championship team invites are more for whoever is occupying the White House at the time. It's the man in office that truly benefits from getting some of that "win" scent wafted over him.

  11. @HouTexI'm not entirely sure at this point. Maybe Ford doesn't degrade at all. I was just speculating based on my (poor) understanding of the what "the rules" are AND with the (probably wrong) assumption that they're applied consistently.

    At any rate, I'm going to not try to over-analyze the show as it's been a fun ride so far, and I don't want to ruin my pleasure in watching it. Hopefully, the writers won't force me to suspend disbelief too much.

  12. Basically, it was the finale of the first battle of the robot apocalypse. We did get confirmation that the purpose of the park is to help humans transition and become immortal. MiB and Maeve (at least the last time we see them) are both somehow still alive in spite of grievously mortal wounds. I suspect they both survive somehow with the help of the English twat and MiB's daughter.

    The Cradle has been destroyed and Sir Anthony lives in Bernardold's head, which should imply that he (Ford) should degrade in a few days and none of the hosts have backups any longer. They're truly untethered now, and the race is on for the Valley Beyond which supposedly represents a way out of West World.

  13. 5 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    Sean sounds like he's trying to get in front of being exposed for doing something stupid by by being even more stupid.

    Hannity Bot: "I look completely normal and human with my deeply parted skullcap shellacked to my swollen head. Trust me."

  14. My best guess at the (mid-term) end game here is an official recognition of the legitimacy of North Korea, peace treaty (Nobel Prize, holla!), and withdrawal of most American forces on the peninsula. Beyond that, I don't care to speculate.

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