US Politics Thread 2016-2020

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I use an adblocker as well, uBlock Origin. I used some other big and famous one until 2 or 3 years ago, but then learned that they allow to get paid for unblocking blocked componies. That was the reason why uBlock became very popular. It also does less slowing down of the browser even when using several lists.

I'm currently using Adaware Ad Blocker.

[skidman]

oops, wrong thread...

[Skybird]

The Donaldinarium spins in overtime:

"'These are the people, the best, the smartest … And they've come up with the AIDS vaccine' "

Finally! I demand the Nobel Prize for Donald showing them the way!

[August]

[Mr Quatro]

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Politics in a nutshell. Apparently there are some communists who think that I’m a Nazi for being libertarian-left, because common ground can’t exist anymore

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

[...] "'These are the people, the best, the smartest … And they've come up with the AIDS vaccine' " [...]

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by August

Robert Byrd left the KKK in 1952.

However, when running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Ku_Klux_Klan

The second photo is of Trump in 1986 having received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor award. Otto Coca, spokesperson for the Ellis Island Honors Society had this to say:

In the first year, "people were honored with the award for what they stood for more than what they did," Coca had said. Parks, for example, was honored for standing up to adversity. Trump’s recognition came from "doing well for the city of New York" through his business endeavors.
[..]
"It had nothing to do with race," Coca said about the photograph. "They were all honored for different reasons and they were just all standing together, that’s the only reason that picture exists."

https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ot-brotherhoo/

[Cybermat47]

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Robert Byrd left the KKK in 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Ku_Klux_Klan

The second photo is of Trump in 1986 having received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor award. Otto Coca, spokesperson for the Ellis Island Honors Society had this to say:
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ot-brotherhoo/

Another reason to keep Dowly around ... I was just judging the photo's till Dowly told the truth

[August]

Dowly is the king of the selective quote. Here's the part from Wiki link that he didn't want to include:

n the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia.[10][12] As a young boy, Byrd had witnessed his adoptive father walk in a Klan parade in Matoaka, West Virginia. While growing up, Byrd had heard that "the Klan defended the American way of life against racemixers and communists". He then wrote to Joel L. Baskin, Grand Dragon of the Realm of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, who responded that he would come and organize a chapter when Byrd had recruited 150 people. Byrd’s house couldn't fit 150 people, so he arranged to hold the ceremony at the home of C.M. “Clyde” Goodwin, a former law enforcement officer who lived in Crab Orchard, West Virginia. When Baskin called for nominations for Exalted Cyclops, the highest-ranking official in the Klavern, Byrd was nominated and quickly elected by unanimous vote.[18]
It was Baskin who told Byrd, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[19] Byrd became a recruiter and leader of his chapter.[12] When it came time to elect the top officer (Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[12]
In December 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo:

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[12][20]

In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."

But yeah I guess no transgression can not be forgiven if it's a Democrat because you know, Trump...

[Mr Quatro]

Count on August to get to the bottom of selective quoting

[August]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Count on August to get to the bottom of selective quoting

Thank you. Byrd did quit the klan but that was no youthful mistake. He was a klan officer for over a decade. But to Dowly thats ok i guess. Go figure foreigners!

[Dowly]

Ah yes, I tried to hide something by *drum roll* providing a link to it!

Quote him all you want, he left the KKK in 1952. Want to criticize him? Find something from after that.

Here, have some straws, you're running low

[mapuc]

It's US-Politics related.

This was scary to read.

While followers all want a second civil war to reset American society, their desired new society varies from embracing racism to one focused on armed libertarianism, the experts said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ederal-officer

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