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"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.
The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.
Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."
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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to
make it complex and wonderful.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 02 2019, @03:39AM (13 children)
I suggest, put arguing with GP on hold. Take another serious look around at various events over the past three years. People being denied service at restaurants and such because of their political views and affiliations? That shit can turn very deadly, without warning. To date, the R's have been the victims, and the R's have handled the situation(s) rather gracefully. It would only take ONE instance for bodies to start hitting the ground, and we'll have what amounts to a civil war spreading across the nation.
Would you be outraged, and incensed, if it were gays being denied service? Blacks? Asians?
The talking heads mean exactly what they say, when they call for "resistance" and "fighting in the streets". They are instigating all the worst, intentionally.
I gave GP an additional "insightful" mod, because he is insightful.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @05:42PM (1 child)
"Be nice to us or we'll murder you!!"
Mmmhhmmmm, nice freedom values you're promoting.
Runaway is the true fascist as we long suspected. And lawl at handled gracefully, wtf bizarro world you living in Mr. Thinskin?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @07:05PM
Well, if you're too stupid to understand what is written, there is no point in arguing with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @04:41AM (10 children)
"Be nice to me and my brown shirt buddies, or things could quickly turn ugly"? Wow. This is low, even by your standards.
Actually, that has already happened, more than once. (No, I'm not going to google it for you. You can still operate your keyboard with your thumbs, even while you jerk off here on SN.)
Again, this has already happened. Yes, it even continues to this day. (Again, you can do your own damn google search just as much as anybody else.)
Haven't heard of it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is going on. Considering all of that, the screams howls of outrage from the alt-right come across as rather hollow, frankly.
I always post as AC, so I have no mod points to give out. But if I did, I would be more than happy to downmod you as a gibbering idiot.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @05:01AM (9 children)
To summaraize your lengthy post:
You don't give a damn about justice, you want vengeance for things that have happened over the past ten years, hundred years, even thousand years.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @07:02AM (8 children)
Oh, dear me! People don't approve of my political views! Help! I'm being oppressed!</sarcasm>
You are shitty at reading comprehension. First, we are not just talking about injustices that happened "tens, hundreds, or even thousands" of years ago. We are talking about discrimination that gays, blacks, etc. are facing even to this very day! When you start caring about that, I might start giving a damn about MAGA hat wearers facing the disapproval of their neighbors. And just to make this crystal clear for you, MAGA hat wearers can easily take off their hats to conceal their identity; blacks and asians can't quite so easily change their skin color. It looks to me like what you really object to is that your alt-right buddies are being called out on their odious views and the policies they support.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @07:31AM (7 children)
My advice? Get the Dems out of their identity politics mode, and things will improve almost immediately. I'm perfectly happy to "reach down" and help another man up, out of abject poverty. I'm not willing to join him in poverty. I'm happy to "give a guy a break" if he needs it, and wants it. I'm not willing to join him in misery.
All of this identity politics bullshit is designed to take something from the white hetero male - Christian or not - and none of it is designed to actually improve people's lives.
A famous black guy said it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ [youtube.com]
Seriously, just stop talking about it all the time. I can (and have) walked out on a job site, met a bunch of strangers, and worked with them all day long. They are identified as Superintendant, Foreman, Carpenter 1 through whatever, Carpenter's Helpers 1 through whatever, Equipment Operator 1 through whatever, Laborers 1 through whatever. Hard hats help - you meet these guys in their work "uniforms". Meeting any or all of them in street clothes, you often times fail to recognize them. As time passes, you learn their names, you realize that the Super is Mexican, the Foreman is Cajun, etc etc. We don't talk about race. We talk about THE JOB. If the word "black" is used, it is descriptive, as in, "One of the carpenters sent me to get his level from the tool trailer, the short black guy." The guy in the tool trailer responds with, "You mean Anthony?" "Yeah, Anthony needs his 8 foot level."
Help a fellow man up, stop trying to pull other men down. It is the Social Justice Warriors and their ilk who are holding people down. You intentionally IDENTIFY every one who is "different", and try to punish white people for that difference.
Gay violence? Maybe you should consider changing your search terms, and you'll find articles like this one - https://americansfortruth.com/issues/homosexual-hate/victims-of-homosexual-murderers/ [americansfortruth.com] Gays aren't always the innocent victims, after all. Sometimes, they are the monsters. You won't find any demographic that has no monsters in it's midst. Gay monsters are rare, you say? Statistically speaking, gays are relatively rare, so, yes, gay monsters are going to be rare. But gays aren't special - statistically, they harbor as many lowlife scum as hetero white males.
Get over it, and stop defining people based on their color, gender, orientation, or whatever.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 03 2019, @05:27PM (1 child)
Idiot, projection is a bad tactic when you are being called out for supporting bigotry.
You're just another delicate snowflake melting under the light of truth.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @06:35PM
Let me show you some projection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs [youtube.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @12:53AM (2 children)
As a white hetero Christian male, I object to you trying to co-opt me as the poster boy for your misbegotten cause. YOU ARE FAR LESS OPPRESSED THAN YOU SUPPOSE, DIMWIT!!!
And what the hell is this non sequitur doing here?!? Who is punishing white males for the sole reason of being "different"? We were talking about various minority groups facing discrimination. It is the action of some alt-right types which is getting most of the loud disapproval. And, it pains me to admit this, but a lot of this BS is coming from white hetero "Christian" males. Just stop looking for new and inventive ways of being mean to minorities. And at the very least, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT USE ME AS THE (supposedly oppressed) POSTER BOY FOR YOUR CRUSADE!!!! I object to being shoe-horned into that role.
For the record, I have no interest in "defining people based on their color, gender, orientation, or whatever". Rather, I am calling out deplorable policies and political tactics that seem to have discrimination against and silencing of various minority groups as their main intent. When that stops I will likely quickly "get over it".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 04 2019, @05:29AM (1 child)
You object to being shoehorned into a role? Alright then, stop all your liberal friends from shoehorning me into some kind of role. I'm not the oppressor.
Uh-huh. And, not once on SN have I ever voiced an opinion against such tactics? I've never once suggested that Prison for Profit is evil? I've never suggested that Stop and Frisk in NYC is evil? I've never once mentioned Driving While Black? And, remember, I've often pointed out that most of this oppression takes place in liberal cities and states.
I really don't care what you object to. It is YOUR PARTY, and YOUR AGENDA that oppresses most minorities, and especially blacks. Liberals simply freak out when they think of a black man legally owning a weapon. Their first reaction to a black man and a gun, is to shoot. THOSE COPS WHO ACTUALLY DO THE SHOOTING ARE ENFORCING LIBERAL LAW! Conservatives, rednecks, hillbillies, threepers, oathkeepers, preppers, and a whole lot more insist that ALL AMERICANS have the right to keep and bear arms. But, your do-gooders in Washington, D.C. want to take all of our guns. Every presidential hopeful on your side has made outrageous statements about taking away our guns. They have already succeeded in taking the black man's guns, and now they want to take ours so they can oppress all the rest of us.
I've got things I'd like to do with a shoehorn, since you've mentioned it. All of them painful to liberals and progessives.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @05:18PM
Don't make so many assumptions. I am not what you think I am. You seem to think I am a liberal progressive. I'm not. I currently have no political party affiliation. In fact, about ten years ago I was registered Republican while living in Arizona. I'm also a Christian (somewhat) conservative. I used to attach the evangelical label to that but these days I am shying away from it because some loud mouths have co-opted that label to turn it into new and inventive ways to take away rights from various other non-hetero, non-white, non-Christian folks. And your brandishing of a shoe horn doesn't scare me; if anything, it just convinces me even more that wild-eyed gun-nutters like you really do need to be disarmed for the safety of everyone (including you). Next time, try to be less of a shitty person.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @11:13PM (1 child)
Your sin number 1: You think you are REACHING DOWN to PICK THEM UP. Not your job or your judgment call, dude. Best thing you can do is make them equal to you. And it ain't done by looking down on minorities.
Your sin number 2: You think that because you have a Cajun or Black friend this qualifies you to know what your Black friend actually has experienced in life. And just because you don't care - and you probably don't and you're not trying to be a bad guy, still doesn't mean that you might not be understanding the racist attitudes you exude because you don't know differently. Nor does it mean that they're seeing you as Mr. Nice White Man, or maybe they are. Point is you don't know what you think you do.
Your sin number 3: Yes, gay people are people. They are a minority to begin with. So aberrant behavior occurs. (so long as you do not regard being homosexual as an aberance, a delusion very many people still hold to today and it has only been since 1974 that being gay has not been directly codable as deviant psychologic behavior).
Stop fucking thinking you know jack shit about any of these things because you have read a fucking polemic web site, OK?
Oh, and rape is about violence and getting sexual release through violence. Whether heterosexual or homosexually done... actually same drives go on there as far as anyone can tell. So it ain't about the sex, even. It's about violence. And fuck off for thinking anyone else thinks different.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 05 2019, @12:23AM
If your sin number 1 is really a sin, I'll be happy to answer for it, rather than the liberal sin of thinking "dem niggas is stupid!"
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.