Posts tagged with “politics”

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Posted 6 months ago

“The Three Speeches”

Three presidents, each with their different philosophies, address the nation in the aftermath of school shooting incidents.

(Source: youtube.com)

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Posted 7 months ago
Go vote. Because you are the minority with that privilege.
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Posted 9 months ago

coketalk:

nedhepburn:

This video of Mitt Romney, from December 12th 2011, might change the entire election.

Watch all of this.

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Posted 9 months ago
When the briefing was over, I went over to the President-elect and said: You know, that’s got to be the worst briefing that a President-elect has had, at least since 1932, and maybe since Abraham Lincoln in 1860. And the President says: Goolsby, that’s not even my worst briefing this week.
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Posted 9 months ago
Americans no longer expect or care about candidates making honest assertions in the public sphere. They no longer expect consistency and honesty from politicians, and the savvy political campaigner recognizes that there is no cost to making statements that contradict even their most well-known beliefs…

…Claims in the public domain are now routinely treated as intentional distortions of facts to promote ideologies; distortions or misrepresentations justified by the need to “counterbalance” false claims from the other side.

Jason Stanley, New York Times. Speech, Lies and Apathy

Put another way, and as part of a Times news analysis/convention factcheck effort:

The growing number of misrepresentations appear to reflect a calculation in both parties that shame is overrated, and that no independent arbiters command the stature or the platform to hold the campaigns to account in the increasingly polarized and balkanized media firmament. Any unmasking of the lies or distortions, the thinking goes, rarely seeps into the public consciousness.

Good times.

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Posted 11 months ago

Email Your Congressmen

The problem doesn’t lie with the fact that the Aurora shooting this morning is being politicized. The problem lies with the fact that a man like James Holmes can get a hold of tear gas canisters, an AR-15, a shotgun, and two .40-caliber handguns with more 6,000 rounds of ammunition without a single person batting an eye until the first round left the chamber of his armament. The problem lies with the fact that one of the victims of the Aurora shooting endured another public gun incident in Toronto over a month ago.

I’m mad as hell and I’m not sure I care about what has to change in order for this not to happen again, but something needs to.

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Posted 11 months ago

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World”- Clare and the Reasons (Tears for Fears cover)

Apropos for a time when people seem to want the best option, but somehow we all disagree on how to do it.

“I can’t stand this indecision, 
married with a lack of vision,
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Say that you’ll never, never, never, need it,
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world”

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Posted 1 year ago
A little food for thought: the AK-47 was specifically banned from the United States in 1994 under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. That ban expired on September 13, 2004.

A little food for thought: the AK-47 was specifically banned from the United States in 1994 under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. That ban expired on September 13, 2004.

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Posted 1 year ago

So Much Fun. So Irrelevant.

“What if the 2012 campaign were actually about the world in which we’re living and how we adapt to it? What would the candidates be talking about?”

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Posted 1 year ago
motherjones: Was Kim Jong Il’s hearse a souped-up ‘75 Lincoln Town Car? We’re going with yes. Capitalism FTW. It really was a Lincoln. I was wondering when someone would catch on to the fact that he was being carried out in an American-made car. Zoom

motherjones:

Was Kim Jong Il’s hearse a souped-up ‘75 Lincoln Town Car? We’re going with yes.

Capitalism FTW.

It really was a Lincoln. I was wondering when someone would catch on to the fact that he was being carried out in an American-made car.

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Posted 1 year ago

Keeping Students From the Polls

“To limit Democratic turnout on Election Day, Republican lawmakers are making it harder for students and other liberal-leaning groups to vote.”

I don’t have to explain why you should read this editorial; its a must read.

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Posted 1 year ago
motherjones: politicalprof: ACLU … CIA … I mean, they’re both acronyms … mohandasgandhi: cognitivedissonance: Hey Michele! The ACLU heard your claim that they’re running the CIA. American Civil Liberties Union, 1; Michele Bachmann, 0. Why am I laughing this hard? (Full context here) Today, in hilarious accusations. Zoom

motherjones:

politicalprof:

ACLU … CIA … I mean, they’re both acronyms …

mohandasgandhi:

cognitivedissonance:

Hey Michele! The ACLU heard your claim that they’re running the CIA.

American Civil Liberties Union, 1; Michele Bachmann, 0.

Why am I laughing this hard?

(Full context here)

Today, in hilarious accusations.

(Source: twitter.com)

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