American Politics

[Rico1304]

3 hours ago, cloggypop said:

More weddings then

 

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/7483203/secret-hasidic-jewish-wedding-new-york-video/

Global news reports on a secret wedding.  Something wrong there.  

[Ne Moe Imya]

Jeff Spross

 

@jeffspross

 

This is just a remarkable sentence. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/522416-bidens-tax-plan-count-many-in-with-50-cent…

 

 

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This one made me laugh. Do ... do the Republicans think that Robin Hood is the baddie?

[TheHowieLama]

Democrats.

 

Please shut the fuck up. Biden was cruising until he started flappin his hole. The House was locked up until this latest clusterfuck on the infrastructure.

 

Shit like this everyday - Buttigieg - Transportation Secretary:

 

" If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, [...] in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices."

 

 

WTF are you talking about? 

[Strontium]

Looks like a pretty clear case of indirect discrimination to me. What part are you not understanding?

[TheHowieLama]

What??

There is no underpass - it is an example he decided to use to answer a question about racism in 2021 in the Transportation sector.

It's ridiculous realistically and politically and that is the point.

Answer - We are doing everything we can to provide safe, affordable transportation to all our citizens.

 

He might as well have thrown out some 1950's movie quotes about the wrong side of the tracks.

[Rico1304]

I thought that was a real case, or was it in a film? I’ve deffo heard it before. 

 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained

[TheHowieLama]

The only specific example he cited was Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, where state and local officials already plan to demolish a decades-old elevated stretch of the highway that was built through a historically Black neighborhood on the city’s south side. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

On 26/11/2020 at 19:55, Rico1304 said:

Global news reports on a secret wedding.  Something wrong there.  

Yeah, they shouldn’t have had the wedding.

[CapeRed]

Fucking double standards in the USA is wonderful . The comments after the recent Virginia election being a prime example. People voted for a rich white supremacist FFS. Joy Reid on cnbc rolling out political commentators who would have people screaming racist if spoken by a republican. The democrats failed to engage the local population and paid the price.

[Section_31]

America is utterly fucked. Biden is only a brief interlude in the Trump madness, I don't think Trump will be back but his politics - and a culture which embraces buffoonery and general gobshitery - is here to stay. 

[CapeRed]

7 hours ago, Section_31 said:

America is utterly fucked. Biden is only a brief interlude in the Trump madness, I don't think Trump will be back but his politics - and a culture which embraces buffoonery and general gobshitery - is here to stay. 

Think you are right but the bufoonery and general gobshitery is coming from both sides and is being helped along by the media. I wouldnt call Bidens presidency an interlude.

[TheHowieLama]

7 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 I don't think Trump will be back but his politics - and a culture which embraces buffoonery and general gobshitery - is here to stay. 

This fella was elected when Trump wasn't even a Republican yet:

 

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar posted a photoshopped anime video to his Twitter and Instagram accounts showing him appearing to kill Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response Monday saying a "creepy member" of the House had "shared a fantasy video of him killing me."

"And he'll face no consequences bc @GOPLeader cheers him on with excuses," the New York Democrat added.

[TheHowieLama]

19 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

I thought that was a real case, or was it in a film? I’ve deffo heard it before. 

 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-moses-and-his-racist-parkway-explained

If he is referring to something from the 1920's it makes the point even moreso.

 

 

[Rico1304]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

If he is referring to something from the 1920's it makes the point even moreso.

 

 

Well he would if it wasn’t still around 100 years later.  It was blatantly racist but no one has seen fit to resolve it until now.  

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

 no one has seen fit to resolve it until now.  

There are today, of course, many routes to Jones Beach. The Southern State Parkway is still the swiftest and most scenic, for all its crazed drivers and constant commuter traffic.

[Rico1304]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

There are today, of course, many routes to Jones Beach. The Southern State Parkway is still the swiftest and most scenic, for all its crazed drivers and constant commuter traffic.

The fact there are other ways doesn’t mean it’s ok this one hasn’t ever been resolved. 

[Strontium]

The US is full of convoluted ways of instilling racism into the system. For instance, they can't stop black people voting any more, so what they do is bring in laws banning felons from voting, then send all the black folk to prison, and disenfranchise them that way.

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

The US is full of convoluted ways of instilling racism into the system. For instance, they can't stop black people voting any more, so what they do is bring in laws banning felons from voting, then send all the black folk to prison, and disenfranchise them that way.

Great documentary on that fella - if you have not seen 13th it is well worth a watch.

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

The fact there are other ways doesn’t mean it’s ok this one hasn’t ever been resolved. 

Have you ever been in Harlem - there has never been any money for fixing stuff - even stuff that has collapsed.

 

The problem was very obviously resolved decades ago and if he wanted to make a political point - he has.

By interjecting pre-depression era society. A dog whistle designed to enrage both extremes. Pretty crap tbh.

Worse case scenario would be that they (Biden administration) didn't anticipate how this would play.

 

[Rico1304]

23 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Have you ever been in Harlem - there has never been any money for fixing stuff - even stuff that has collapsed.

 

The problem was very obviously resolved decades ago and if he wanted to make a political point - he has.

By interjecting pre-depression era society. A dog whistle designed to enrage both extremes. Pretty crap tbh.

Worse case scenario would be that they (Biden administration) didn't anticipate how this would play.

 

Are there any ‘white only’ water fountains? 
 

And I’ve never been to Harlem, but as a

nearly 50 yr old white bloke in Stockport I’d heard of this bridge at some point so if I have maybe it resonates with the audience.  

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Are there any ‘white only’ water fountains? 

In the 1920's - surprisingly - yes.

 

Now, no.

[Bjornebye]

 

[Section_31]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit 

 

 

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes.

[Jose Jones]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit 

 

 

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes.

Apparently the weird Christian lady judge said that women don’t need abortions since they no longer get prosecuted for giving children up for adoption.

[Em City]

Chris Hedges has been predicting this for years. Their aim is a far right, plutocratic Christian theocracy and they're getting closer and closer to it.

 

Scary times.