US Politics: The American Messias, Greenland and attacks on Jews voting Democrats. Or as we call it Wednesday.

[Raja]

Big fan of Bret Stephen's meltdown recently, I wonder what if anything the times will do to his position. 

[Martell Spy]

A Palestinian Freshman Arrived in the U.S. to Study at Harvard. Immigration Officials Revoked His Visa and Deported Him.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/palestine-freshman-study-visa-harvard-immigration-revoked-deported.html

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With classes scheduled to start next week, incoming Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, like many of his fellow students, was set to arrive on campus for the first time this week. But the 17-year-old Palestinian’s hard-won education at perhaps the world’s preeminent university is now in doubt. American immigration officials stopped Ajjawi, a Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, the Crimson reports, where he was held in custody for eight hours and subjected to invasive questioning by a female immigration officer, who then abruptly told him his study visa was being canceled and that he was being deported.

“Upon arrival, Ajjawi faced questioning from immigration officials along with several other international students. While the other students were allowed to leave, Ajjawi alleges an immigration officer continued to question him about his religion and religious practices in Lebanon,” according to the Crimson. “The same officer then asked him to unlock his phone and laptop, and left to search them for roughly five hours, Ajjawi alleges. After the search, the officer questioned him about his friends’ social media activity.”

When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell [someone] about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all,” Ajjawi wrote in a statement. “After the 5 hours ended, she called me into a room , and she started screaming at me. She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend list.”

 

 

[Raja]

Jesus - and now MSNBC gave that air time. Stephens is such a waste of space.

[DanteGabriel]

17 minutes ago, Raja said:

Jesus - and now MSNBC gave that air time. Stephens is such a waste of space.

Did they actually have Stephens on to whine and cry about how totalitarian it was that some professor compared him to a bedbug?

I saw the initial Stephens story this morning and got a hearty laugh out of reading the social media reactions. It makes me wonder what @Heartofice thinks about this. He is, after all, so concerned with people losing their jobs over social media posts and thinks liberals have gone too far with outrage culture, and yet a conservative writer who calls himself a "free speech absolutist" and wrote about the need for discomfort in discussions threw a hissy-fit over a gentle insult and tried to get the guy in trouble with his boss.

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

3 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

I just got back from Ireland and Worldcon. Saw Vice on the plane. OMG what a movie! Go see it if you haven’t, it explains so damn much!

Eh, it didn't do anything for me which was a huge disappointment, I'd recommend The World According to Dick Cheney. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

31 minutes ago, DanteGabriel said:

Did they actually have Stephens on to whine and cry about how totalitarian it was that some professor compared him to a bedbug?

I saw the initial Stephens story this morning and got a hearty laugh out of reading the social media reactions. It makes me wonder what @Heartofice thinks about this. He is, after all, so concerned with people losing their jobs over social media posts and thinks liberals have gone too far with outrage culture, and yet a conservative writer who calls himself a "free speech absolutist" and wrote about the need for discomfort in discussions threw a hissy-fit over a gentle insult and tried to get the guy in trouble with his boss.

I think this article from The Root really nailed it with its headline:

White-on-White Violence: How a Bedbug Diss Teaches Us Everything We Need to Know About White Male Fragility [Updated]

[DMC]

2 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

I think this article from The Root really nailed it with its headline:

White-on-White Violence: How a Bedbug Diss Teaches Us Everything We Need to Know About White Male Fragility [Updated]

Huh, that's a pretty fun article, and also I learned that Forrest Maltzman is the provost at GW - although google says he's stepping down soon.  While I'm only vaguely familiar with David Karpf's work, Maltzman is one of the most preeminent courts scholars we've got, and did some important early work on executive orders.

[Bonnot OG]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5d7y/joe-biden-medicare-for-all-would-be-an-insult-to-my-dead-son

 

Biden really is a fucking scumbag. 

Hes barely better than Trump, which isn’t saying much. 

What a scum fuck. Using his dead son to protect the insurance companies.

[ThinkerX]

The 'Wall' is back.  Going ahead full tilt, regardless of legal,  political, financial, and engineering hurdles.  To be built by election day.  Pardons promised if needed.  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/ar-AAGq7eS?ocid=msnclassic

 

President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars’ worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to current and former officials involved with the project.

 

He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.

Trump has repeatedly promised to complete 500 miles of fencing by the time voters go to the polls in November 2020, stirring chants of “Finish the Wall!” at his political rallies as he pushes for tighter border controls. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed just about 60 miles of “replacement” barrier during the first 2½ years of Trump’s presidency, all of it in areas that previously had border infrastructure.

The president has told senior aides that a failure to deliver on the signature promise of his 2016 campaign would be a letdown to his supporters and an embarrassing defeat. With the election 14 months away and hundreds of miles of fencing plans still in blueprint form, Trump has held regular meetings at the White House to receive progress updates and hasten the pace, according to several people involved in the discussions.

[Bonnot OG]

40 minutes ago, ThinkerX said:

The 'Wall' is back.  Going ahead full tilt, regardless of legal,  political, financial, and engineering hurdles.  To be built by election day.  Pardons promised if needed.  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/ar-AAGq7eS?ocid=msnclassic

 

 

 

What a lovely dictatorship we live in.

[DireWolfSpirit]

Promising a pardon for a future crime is like the very definition of obstruction of justice.

[Bonnot OG]

3 hours ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

Promising a pardon for a future crime is like the very definition of obstruction of justice.

Impeachable as well but Pelosi will just wag her finger & say unity we cant do it.

[Paladin of Ice]

13 hours ago, DanteGabriel said:

a conservative writer who calls himself a "free speech absolutist" and wrote about the need for discomfort in discussions threw a hissy-fit over a gentle insult and tried to get the guy in trouble with his boss.

No, no, no. This is a common misconception. See, when people who want to ask the Hard Questions^TM say they need to be able to ask uncomfortable questions, they mean something that is uncomfortable for people that aren't them. Questions like "Why are all non-Christian religions wrong?", "Why are all Muslim men vicious misogynists?" "Why are black people less intelligent?" "Why do immigrants always make the land they immigrate to worse than it was before?"

Hard Questions^TM are not supposed to be directed at the person asking them, or any group that they are part of or identify with. Such questions are not to be answered, but to be reacted to with anger and derision, because they would be of course not be true Hard Questions^TM, but liberal propaganda and such. These False Questions must not be entertained, acknowledged, (beyond strawmanning and possibly ridiculing them) or treated in any way as though they are veritable or legitimate Hard Questions^TM.

Astute readers may have noted that the actual Hard Questions^TM listed above were decidedly not open ended questions. This is because true Hard Questions^TM are not really about questions, but merely a means of expressing what the questioner already knows. There is (of course) no chance that the questioner is wrong about any of his knowledge, (and it's always a he, women are incapable of asking Hard Questions^TM due to biological differences) the Questions are merely a tool to get other, less intelligent or enlightened people to be made aware of the knowledge that the questioner has and to be brought around to the proper way of thinking.

[Maithanet]

Senator Isakson (R-GA) will step down at the end of the year due to ill health.  He was elected in 2016, so it looks like both Georgia Senate seats will be up in 2020.  That (marginally) improves the Democrats chances of taking the chamber. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

12 hours ago, Triskele said:

*thinks about a post about "Sure, Stephens looks beyond pathetic here which is glorious but how come this fragility has to be ascribed to all white people?" but can't find way to do it without inviting charges of white fragility.*  The Root has won.

Perhaps “white men” is too broad, but it certainly applies to a self-described RINO who is only starting to become aware that he spent his formative years proliferating the cuckservative movement.

[DanteGabriel]

17 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Perhaps “white men” is too broad, but it certainly applies to a self-described RINO who is only starting to become aware that he spent his formative years proliferating the cuckservative movement.

Are we still talking about Bretbug here? What's the evidence that he's actually aware of anything beyond his own punctured pride?

[Zorral]

So far still labeled a 'tropical storm,' Dorian's aimed as a direct hit upon little Puerto Rico. It's a rather small storm in size, but its vastly larger than PR. 

Of course tvillain, 'nuke the hurricane!', is being a total bedbugeff and criminal and traitor. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-feuds-with-san-juan-mayor-as-tropical-storm-takes-direct-aim-at-puerto-rico/2019/08/28/6b5170e2-c990-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

While bedbug in chief howls about the mayor of San Juan's incompetence, Puerto Ricans themselves are taking care of business. They know better than to expect oe depend anything from bedbug admin. Bedbug in chief is diverting right this minute! FEMA funds to that non-existent wall, a/k/a his political donors' pockets. 

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In the meantime Biden's gone bedbuggery too. This line of his, when questioned about the size of attendance to his campaign rallies in Iowa as being smaller than those of Sanders and Warren, was taken directly from the bedbug in chief's playbook, "That's a lie. Mine are bigger!" 

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Of course the bedbuggery infestation is not confined to North America. The UK's parliament has been prorogued. I think ... this is the first time since ... Charlie I? Other than authentic crises such as WWII and that recess after? before? the Queen's Speech?  Am I right on that? Remember how Charlie's proroguing turned out? Civil War and terrible cruelty for the Irish, horrible destruction throughout England -- and, finally restoration of monarchy that getting rid of was the pretext for it all.

Some of They Sayers suggest that Elizabeth II may well be the last monarch of the United Kingdom. Her son, grandson, whomever, if still wearing crowns, will only be king of England, not of Great Britain, the United Kingdom. 

But Heigh Ho! Johnson and his buddies, made a shyte load of fula just from the announcement today. Just imagine how much they and bedbug in chief's buddies are going to make from shorting the former Great Britain, a/k/a BREXIT, and then stripping and selling it for parts. 

For that matter, in our own way that pump and dump's happening here too: 

https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1166100046183636992

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Somebody is making money from @realDonaldTrump tweeting the markets into panic. We should find out.

Gillum, in case memories need refreshing, is the former Dem candidate for Florida's governor who got beat out, maybe not fair and squarely, by the bedbug candidate.

[maarsen]

10 minutes ago, Zorral said:

So far still labeled a 'tropical storm,' Dorian's aimed as a direct hit upon little Puerto Rico. It's a rather small storm in size, but its vastly larger than PR. 

Of course tvillain, 'nuke the hurricane!', is being a total bedbugeff and criminal and traitor. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-feuds-with-san-juan-mayor-as-tropical-storm-takes-direct-aim-at-puerto-rico/2019/08/28/6b5170e2-c990-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

While bedbug in chief howls about the mayor of San Juan's incompetence, Puerto Ricans themselves are taking care of business. They know better than to expect oe depend anything from bedbug admin. Bedbug in chief is diverting right this minute! FEMA funds to that non-existent wall, a/k/a his political donors' pockets. 

~~~~~~~~~~~ 

In the meantime Biden's gone bedbuggery too. This line of his, when questioned about the size of attendance to his campaign rallies in Iowa as being smaller than those of Sanders and Warren, was taken directly from the bedbug in chief's playbook, "That's a lie. Mine are bigger!" 

~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Of course the bedbuggery infestation is not confined to North America. The UK's parliament has been prorogued. I think ... this is the first time since ... Charlie I? Other than authentic crises such as WWII and that recess after? before? the Queen's Speech?  Am I right on that? Remember how Charlie's proroguing turned out? Civil War and terrible cruelty for the Irish, horrible destruction throughout England -- and, finally restoration of monarchy that getting rid of was the pretext for it all.

Some of They Sayers suggest that Elizabeth II may well be the last monarch of the United Kingdom. Her son, grandson, whomever, if still wearing crowns, will only be king of England, not of Great Britain, the United Kingdom. 

But Heigh Ho! Johnson and his buddies, made a shyte load of fula just from the announcement today. Just imagine how much they and bedbug in chief's buddies are going to make from shorting the former Great Britain, a/k/a BREXIT, and then stripping and selling it for parts. 

For that matter, in our own way that pump and dump's happening here too: 

https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1166100046183636992

Gillum, in case memories need refreshing, is the former Dem candidate for Florida's governor who got beat out, maybe not fair and squarely, by the bedbug candidate.

Am I the only one who thinks that all those around Trump are benefiting from his twits except for him. I mean he does have a record for having the reverse Midas touch. All he touches goes to shit. 

[Zorral]

41 minutes ago, maarsen said:

Am I the only one who thinks that all those around Trump are benefiting from his twits except for him. I mean he does have a record for having the reverse Midas touch. All he touches goes to shit. 

He's benefiting; see turning mar-a-lago into the next G7 meeting house.  He's doing that shyte all the time.

He gets his cuts, all right.

Bedbugs infesting and sucking up everything.

Why isn't he being impeached???????????  Just for telling people to commit crimes and saying he'll pardon them for the crimes.  He admitted to it, for pete's sake, on the frackin' record.

And Dorian is now a hurricane.

ETA: Just hear on a program interviewing farmers about the trade war etc. that even their farm support and subsidy checks ARE NOT GOING OUT FROM THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT AND THEY CAN'T GET ANY RESPONSE FROM THE BEDBUG WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SEC  OF AGRICULTURE!

 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

Thankfully, it looks like the worst of Dorian is passing between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.  We just get to have fun early next week.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/174436.shtml?cone#contents