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Its down to Harris or Susan Rice. Maybe some wildcard, but I doubt it. To pick Abrams would be a move at the level of Trumpian stupidity. Pick Harris.
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Abrams would be as bad as McCain picking Sarah Palin.Originally posted by Ghengis Jon View PostI feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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Just exquisite timing for the DOJ to file with the Supreme Court demanding they demolish Obamacare and eliminate insurance for 20M people.
And to also include a lengthy section arguing that the preexisting conditions protections must, by necessity, go away also? Oh Attorney General Barr, you have outdone yourself
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A scorching editorial from the conservative-leaning WSJ today
Says President Trump may need a new nickname for "Sleepy Joe" soon. How about "President-Elect Joe"?
They're also pointing out that Trump can't even explain why he wants a second term beyond fighting his same petty grievances. If you watch any part of the Hannity interview from last night, watch his response to Hannity asking him what's on his second-term agenda. He gives a long rambling answer that, in the end, doesn't name a single thing he wants to accomplish.
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It's not really Biden making the VP pick. He's basically an empty suit at this point. They will definitely pick a woman who checks off as many identity politics boxes as possible.Comment
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Hillary Lite?Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Jason Whitlock is killing it.
https://outkick.com/fakenoose-story-...-new-religion/
The #FakeNoose story makes everyone look bad.
NASCAR. The media. Bubba Wallace. LeBron James. Social media. The NFL.
The alleged hate crime that catapulted NASCAR and Bubba Wallace to Page 1 of the news cycle was debunked by internet sleuths in less than 24 hours and the FBI in 36.
Two days after issuing a statement that a hanging noose had been discovered inside the garage of half black/half white driver Bubba Wallace, NASCAR released a follow-up statement:
“The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The FBI report concluded, and the photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment.”
The website theconservativetreehouse.com figured this all out Monday night, posting video footage and pictures documenting that the garage at Talladega had a hanging pull rope with a small noose big enough for a hand in 2019.
It’s mind blowing that NASCAR couldn’t deduce this Saturday night when a Bubba Wallace team member spotted the rope and labeled it proof of racial intimidation.
“Mind blowing” isn’t the right description. It’s impossible to believe it took the FBI to solve this mystery. There’s a level of willful ignorance that can only be reasonably explained by NASCAR’s desperation for relevance and traction at a time when all sports leagues and their television partners are hemorrhaging money. NASCAR leaned into the noose story because it was good for business, good TV.
Anti-black racism is the preferred plotline of Netflix, CNN, Twitter, Hollywood, ESPN, FOX Sports, MSNBC, professional athletes, The New York Times, The Washington Post and now every sports league looking for favorable coverage.
Go ahead, demonize NASCAR. Its history makes it an easy, worthy target. But willful ignorance is driving the decision-making of every sports league, including the NFL and the NBA.
The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked nationwide chaos, violence and rioting across this country. The movement’s founders have publicly admitted the ideology driving BLM is Marxist. Marxism is the political theory of Karl Marx, the father of communism. Karl Marx preached against religion. He argued that religion is a tool used for the exploitation and stupefaction of the working class. Communist countries traditionally impose atheism as the religion of the state.
The ideology driving BLM directly contradicts traditional American values, the values long celebrated in sports.
Tuesday the San Francisco 49ers unveiled a Black Lives Matter flag at Levi Stadium next to the American flag. From Roger Goodell on down, the NFL has accepted Black Lives Matter as its lord and financial savior. BLM sent its only begotten son, Colin Kaepernick, to save us all from sin. This week Brett Favre spoke in tongues, analogizing Kaepernick’s sacrifice to NFLer-turned-soldier Pat Tillman’s.
This is willful ignorance. It’s being embraced across sports, across America. The American media have imposed race and politics as our new religion. Many people who claim Christianity and other religions as their faith have in reality prioritized race and politics well ahead of God. They talk and worship race and politics daily, hourly. From their Twitter pulpits, they use race to evangelize for their political beliefs while rarely ever evangelizing for God.
That’s why any alleged sighting of racism is treated as a miracle that cannot be questioned. If you question it, you run the risk of being castigated as a non-believer at the Secular Church of Social Media.
The Bubba Wallace noose story required questioning, a healthy skepticism. Access to the garage area is so restricted and surveillance so prevalent that it made little sense for someone with credentials to plant a noose inside Wallace’s garage.
Wallace should’ve been skeptical, too. His explanation that he never saw the noose or sought to see it makes no sense. After his 14th-place finish at Talladega, he seemed to revel in his newfound fame and attention. Tuesday morning he appeared on The View and rebuked the people questioning the authenticity of the hate crime.
Tuesday morning Wallace had no idea the alleged “noose” was there a year before car 43 arrived? That’s difficult to believe, especially after watching Wallace’s Tuesday night, CNN interview with Race-bait Pastor Don Lemon.
Wallace sounded defiant and angry, like a man who’d spent 48 hours immersed in his Twitter mentions. Pastor Lemon counseled Wallace to get off social media. Wallace claimed critics were trying to dethrone him from his pedestal.
Rather than express feelings of relief that he was not the target of a hate crime, Wallace cast himself as a victim of unfair social-media criticism. I get it. No one wants to be analogized to Jussie Smollett.
But the handling of this affair is a bad look for Bubba. He seemingly assumed this would play out the way LeBron James’ alleged hate crime played. So did LeBron, a newly ordained pastor of racial politics at the More Than A Vote Church of BLM. Pastor James rushed to social media this weekend to make sure his 46 million Twitter disciples knew Wallace was a victim of a hate crime.
In late May of 2017, an alleged vandal spray-painted the N-word on the gate leading to LeBron’s Brentwood mansion. Pastor James never provided proof of the vandalism. His deacons repainted the gate before police arrived. No security cameras captured the alleged crime. The mainstream media never questioned LeBron’s story. The media treated it like the story of the Virgin Mary.
Anti-black racism is the new religion. It can’t be questioned or studied. It’s accepted on faith. We ascribe a power to it that is greater than God’s. If anti-black racism is against you, how can you succeed? Racism is in control of black people’s destiny. Racism explains everything.
If you believe 100 shootings and a dozen murders in a weekend are a bigger problem than police brutality, you’re a racist. If you think Kaepernick sabotaged his NFL career, you’re a racist. If you argue anti-black racism is a real problem and the best way to combat it is through promoting black self-sufficiency, you’re a racist.
If you write that NASCAR, Bubba Wallace and the mainstream media all hung themselves with a #FakeNoose, you’re an insensitive racist who should be targeted by a social-media lynch mob.Comment
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NASCAR and Talladega officials had to call the FBI. They had no real choice. Any kind of self investigation and rule-out of a targeted hate crime would have been labeled a cover-up. It’s the world we live in."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Texas Governor shuts down any business that does 51% of its revenue or more in selling alcohol. So basically bars and any breweries, wineries, distilleries, etc. that don't also serve food. Can still do takeout and delivery (which is what was always allowed here in Ohio). Restaurants being ordered to go back to only 50% capacity.
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Close, he is going to pick the identity politics person that Wall Street loves while doubling down on what he is----an establishment, corporate Dem that thinks that Trump is the entire problem with Republicans. That VP is also going to be Wall Street approved. Biden has said he thinks the future of the Dem party is with people like Mayor Pete.Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
It will not be someone that upstages Biden with undisguised ambition (bye SA) and it will certainly will not be someone that Wall Street does not like (bye Warren). It very well could be a POC though he has said he will be committed to putting an AA woman in the next SCOTUS vacancy, so it might not be. I think it will be someone safe.
Rice makes sense, because she fits the theme of getting the Obama admin back together again and it doubles down on Biden FP (which is not a strength for him). Competent enough too.
Whitmer could make some sense (rising star in establishment Dem circles) but the pandemic might work against her this cycle.
Harris checks off a lot of boxes but I think her time (from what I hear from her time as AG of California and DA in SF are problematic).
2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WRComment
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Not to disagree, but even in a pre George Floyd world why would you not call the FBI in to investigate a potential hate crime?Originally posted by AlabamAlum View Post2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WRComment
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Because (a) you knew the garage assignments were randomly generated and (b) you had definitive and multiple video evidence that the “noose” was tied a year ago. This was open and shut, but calling the FBI was a PR move and it kept people who allege a cover-up from screaming.Originally posted by Whitley View Post
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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Florida reports almost 9,000 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day total they've had thus far. Not even a week ago 4,000 was the record.
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Fake news. We prevailed, remember?“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.” - Groucho MarxComment
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One day, Jon, it will just fade away.Comment
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