Donald is here to stay, now what? Cursing and swearing OK

[Animavore]

Pure, parasitic, scum.

[L'Emmerdeur]

A report from the trial of some of the protesters rounded up on Inauguration Day--a mockery of justice in the age of Bogus "law and order."

'Dystopian Sketches from Inside the Inauguration Protesters' Trial'

The #J20 trials are thus called because the defendants were arrested on January 20 during protests against Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC, after police kettled 240 people on 12th and L streets. An astounding 194 people now face a litany of charges related to property damage and rioting that could result in 60-year sentences being handed down to the defendants (others have pleaded guilty to lesser offenses). The first batch of defendants—Jennifer Armento, Oliver Harris, Brittne Lawson, Michelle “Miel” Macchio, Christina Simmons, and independent journalist Alexei Wood—began their trial on November 15.

During the #J20 protests, a small group of demonstrators smashed the windows of Starbucks and Bank of America, spray-painted cars, and overturned several newspaper boxes. Importantly, the prosecution has made no attempt to claim that the defendants were among them. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff has instead argued that the defendants were “playing a role” in the violence. That’s right: The government is trying to set the precedent that if you’re at a protest and someone else smashes a window, it’s your fault.

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[B]ody cam footage taken on the day of the arrests shows Officer Michael Howden saying that police had been “extremely wild” with the tear gas.

On the stand, Howden denied saying that before the video was shown to him. At one point, he vehemently denied that he had “herded” protesters, only to have the defense confront him with footage of him bragging about “herding” those same protesters and saying that he had gotten “plenty of practice herding people” in Barry Farm, a predominantly black housing project in DC. He also claimed protesters hit him with a pole and a spiked hammer, though he admitted he didn’t receive any medical treatment for injuries or file any forms reporting it. No footage of these alleged attacks exists, and Officer Howden’s body camera was conveniently off so it didn't record them.

The prosecution’s last witness of the day offered a glimpse at the resources the government has invested in hopes of imprisoning #J20 defendants. Detective Gregg Pemberton (a DC Police Union treasurer who has tweeted about the “false narrative” of Black Lives Matter) has been working exclusively on the #J20 case since January, reviewing 50-60 hours of footage a week culled from defendants’ phones, social media, and other sources. One of those sources was the alt-right activist Lauren Southern, who was livestreaming the protest before being caught in the Inauguration Day kettle, but allowed to leave. Independent journalist Alexei Wood, however, was charged, and the judge has criticized his lifestream as being “real time advertisement and recruitment measure.”

[Animavore]

Net neutrality repealed.

Heh! Remember when Trump told his lambs he was going to "drain the swamp"?

I remember.

Another success for Trump. Thanks, Trump, for hitting back against the bogus net neutrality scam.

Says the guy who thinks killing elephants makes more elephants.

I never said anything about killing elephants making more elephants.

But, net neutrality is just a gift to google, amazon, netflix, etc. --- boosts the cost of doing business on others and creates barrier to entry.

Where do you find this shit? Every video you post has some sort of theatrics about it (other than Uncle Milty, of course). How are we supposed to take a video seriously that promotes itself with a picture of a weirdo pulling faces??

Who the fuck is that? Libertarian Ped Wee Herman?

[pErvinalia]

Man, the conservatives are all over the net pumping out dumb shit about net neutrality. On the other social media site I'm on, some guy claimed the government was forcing youtube to charge for access to certain content, and that the government was forcing ISPs to charge the same amount to customers regardless of how much data they use. It's clear the "net neutrality" is a concept that most of these conservative clowns have only just heard about in the last year or two. It's been a BIG issue in civil libertarian and IT circles for decades. It's like the dumb cunts equating ANTIFA and BlackBloc. Most of them are probably unaware that BlackBloc have been around for decades and ANTIFA is only a very recent group. The propaganda coming out of the right these days is staggering. It's utterly shameless lying, knowing they will get away with it as the right on average are uneducated hicks.

[Brian Peacock]

The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.

The longtime CDC analyst, whose job includes writing descriptions of the CDC’s work for the administration’s annual spending blueprint, could not recall a previous time when words were banned from budget documents because they were considered controversial.


The reaction of people in the meeting was “incredulous,” the analyst said. “It was very much, ‘Are you serious? Are you kidding?’ ”

“In my experience, we’ve never had any pushback from an ideological standpoint,” the analyst said.

Now, if you want to know what real, traditional, bonafide political correctness is then this is it.

[JimC]

How about "pussy" or "grabbing"?

[Tero]

I see a pattern. Trump sides with ISPs because they are more important than fake facts Google and Netflix with all that sex that Bible Belt people do not officially want on TV. (They still buy porn on the DVD market at those stores by the Interstate highway)
If there are sides to take, Trump always takes the side of the bigger player. Corporations, Turkey, etc. Only for the elections did he use a coalition of dimwits. Who believed in ”coal mine jobs” etc.

[pErvinalia]

Yep. Just another crony corporate politician.

[Animavore]

Yep. Just another crony corporate politician.

Not even "just another". He's full pasty unable to strike compromises. He's a pure weakling. A tool in every sense of the word.

[Tero]

Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre
By Eric Boehlert |
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Trump thumbs his nose at the victims of the Connecticut school killing spree and enjoys quiet time at the White House with NRA gun boss.

[Tero]

Trump:
“It's going to be one of the great Christmas gifts to middle income people,” the president told reporters outside the White House before boarding Marine One for a weekend getaway at Camp David.
“The Democrats have their soundbite, the standard soundbite before they even know what the bill is all about,” Trump added. “They talk about 'for the wealthy.' But this is going to be one of the greatest gifts for the middle-income people of this country that they've ever gotten for Christmas."

Kari: http://karireport.blogspot.com/2017/11/ ... esent.html

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre
By Eric Boehlert |
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Trump thumbs his nose at the victims of the Connecticut school killing spree and enjoys quiet time at the White House with NRA gun boss.

Link

The story is more accurate than the headline, as is often the case. Snopes judged it a mixture of accuracy/inaccuracy. The story is on stronger ground when it points out that Obama didn't invite gun lobbyists to White House Christmas parties.

[Animavore]

That judge who doesn't seem to know shit about anything you saw? They only went and confirmed him.

Another weak-willed pasty for the corporations.

[Animavore]

A breakdown of how much members of congress have been receiving from telecoms.

http://verifiedpolitics.com/heres-much- ... eutrality/

Heh. Remember Trump said he was going to drain the swamp and his unthinking followers lapped it up?

I remember.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yeahbut freed from the horrendous burden of regulation, the service providers will step forward and invest in new infrastructure. Or not. Meanwhile, a Koch-backed advocacy group is working to thwart initiatives by municipalities to install public fiber-optic networks. Of course for-profit service providers are doing the same.