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I thought we already figured out that they were fake and people paid off to say stuff?

 

"Spurn hard-core progressives again and you’ll lose them for good, Klein warned.

“The Democratic Party needs to either be decisively wrestled from pro-corporate neoliberals or it needs to be abandoned,” she said, drawing sustained cheers and applause."


http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5883f22ce4b070d8cad31155

 

Do we blame Corey booker now or...?

 

Prez gives speech lying to face of CIA

CIA knows he was full of shit and were disgusted


Crazy times.

 

stoked about that NY Times article just because we got this:

 

Sounds like someone needs a safe space!!

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...CB4wAQ&usg=AFQjCNFmMJl6que1yyJgv4b7zzaE89h6RQ

“'It’s just a bunch of young buttercups out here that don’t have any jobs,” said Cox about the protesters.

He added: “We’re certainly not vigilantes, we’re just patriots. We’re here to celebrate Donald Trump’s inauguration. We’ve already won. We’re not gonna waste any of our breath, our resources to argue with these people out here… I’ve talked to my guys and we’ve all agreed we’re just gonna kinda chuckle and laugh at them because it is kinda comical to be honest with you,” he said."

So yeah...they were all talk. I guess they had to look tough and masculine on TV.

Edit: I'm terrible at posting links on my phone

 

Women's March Is The Biggest Protest In US History As An Estimated 2.9 Million March

A couple weeks ago I posted in here that I would like to see the US organize some "Brazil levels" of protesting. I'm so happy to see this turnout from yesterday. Like everyone else here, I also hope we continue to organize and protest and don't let this day be forgotten in six months.

 

I lol'd:

 

oh my god hahahahahaha

 

I was real afraid she was going to talk but she didn't thankfully lol

 

Saw Bernie fanpage post it was 3-4.5m but it's really hard to estimate idk how they do it TBH

 

Idk what's funnier, the guy pissing off the reporter or the guy baiting the reporter into saying something negative about Russia lol

 

Saying people who lost an election shouldn't keep fighting is a special kind of stupid.

 

Conway just asked chuck Todd to give Trump credit for not leaking info from his intelligence meeting in January 6th.

 

Hungary's sharp rightward-turn is a warning to America | Susan Faludi

"Four months before Orban’s re-election, the Hungarian supreme court issued a ruling in support of the identity prerogatives of the political right. The court found that a TV news channel had violated the media law’s ban on opinionated press commentary by describing the far-right Jobbik party as ... far-right. Jobbik’s lawyers had argued that “far-right” didn’t fit the party’s chosen identity, which was “Christian nationalist”. The judges concurred: “Jobbik doesn’t consider itself an extreme-right party, thus referring to it with the adjective ‘far right’ constitutes an act of expressing an opinion, making it possible for the viewer to associate it with a radical movement and induce a negative impression ... Even a single word, a single epithet, may exert influence on the viewer.”

Last week, Breitbart News, formerly run by Trump’s new chief strategist, Stephen K Bannon, announced that it “is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a ‘white nationalist website’”. This, despite its hosting articles such as “Hoist It High and Proud: the Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage”. Breitbart’s threatened litigation is especially ominous coming after a bevy of suits won by billionaire conservatives against news organizations, as Emily Bazelon chronicled in New York Times Magazine."

 

McCain saying he's going to vote for Tillerson....not good. He was one of the ones I was hoping would swing against

 

Nah, they're all going in. It's a shock if one doesn't.