September 23, 20205 yr Author 6 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Fascists gonna fascist... saw that. cheeto isn't even trying to hide it anymore.
September 23, 20205 yr 12 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Fascists gonna fascist... He said this line in Ohio as well. It's becoming one of the standards on his set list along with build the wall, corona is harmless, and lock her up.
September 23, 20205 yr Author On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping that will prohibit federal contractors and grantees from engaging in many forms of diversity, inclusion, and implicit bias training that have gained popularity in recent months. The new Executive Order announces a federal policy "not to promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating” and not to permit contractors to "inculcate such views in their employees.”
September 23, 20205 yr Author An executive order signed Tuesday by President Donald Trump essentially bans the military and federal contractors from conducting diversity training. The executive order, which Trump said was meant to "to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating,” bars contractors from conducting training that "teaches, advocates, or promotes divisive concepts” such as unconscious bias and systemic racism. Companies who do conduct these trainings risk losing grants and contracts from the federal government. Trump issued a similar memo to federal agencies earlier this month. "Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!” Trump tweeted Tuesday, announcing the executive order.
September 23, 20205 yr 24 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: An executive order signed Tuesday by President Donald Trump essentially bans the military and federal contractors from conducting diversity training. The executive order, which Trump said was meant to "to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating,” bars contractors from conducting training that "teaches, advocates, or promotes divisive concepts” such as unconscious bias and systemic racism. Companies who do conduct these trainings risk losing grants and contracts from the federal government. Trump issued a similar memo to federal agencies earlier this month. "Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!” Trump tweeted Tuesday, announcing the executive order. The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
September 23, 20205 yr Fascists gonna fascist... Quote Justice Department asks Congress to weaken social media companies’ liability protection At issue is Section 230, which gives Facebook, Twitter and other social media legal protection for items their users post to the companies’ websites The Justice Department asked Congress on Wednesday to adopt a new law that would hold Facebook, Google and Twitter legally accountable for the way they moderate content on the Web, as the Trump administration ratchets up its attacks on social media sites as the 2020 election approaches. The new request from the Justice Department came in the form of a rare, legislative proposal that specifically seeks to whittle down Section 230, a decades-old provision of federal law that spares websites from being held liable for content posted by their users — and immunizes some of their own decisions about what posts, photos and videos to leave up or take down. "For too long Section 230 has provided a shield for online platforms to operate with impunity,” said Attorney General William P. Barr in a statement. "Ensuring that the internet is a safe, but also vibrant, open and competitive environment is vitally important to America.” The proposal also seeks to ensure social media companies moderate their sites and services in a clear and consistent way. For years, President Trump and other top Republicans have accused tech giants, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, of censoring conservatives online, something the U.S. government now may have the ability to police if the Justice Department’s proposal were to become law. But the Trump administration’s focus on political bias threatens to complicate any congressional action on Section 230, even though Democrats and Republicans generally agree that social media sites should be held to greater account for failing to police the Web properly. The White House has offered little proof for its claims, and tech companies strongly deny them — while Democratic lawmakers contend the administration should focus instead on hate speech, extremism and election disinformation that spreads virally on the Internet. Adding to the political stakes, Trump is expected to huddle Wednesday with Republican state attorneys general in a meeting where he is expected to call on state officials to use state laws to potentially penalize social media sites over allegations they censor conservatives online. "Online censorship goes far beyond the issue of free speech, it’s also one of protecting consumers and ensuring they are informed of their rights and resources to fight back under the law,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement earlier this week. "State attorneys general are on the front lines of this issue and President Trump wants to hear their perspectives.” The Trump administration’s moves are likely to inflame tensions between Trump and the tech industry in a heated election year. Trump has continued to ratchet up his attacks, particularly as social media sites have grown more aggressive in responding to — and in some cases removing — his most controversial comments from their sites and services. Last week, for example, Twitter took action against a pair of tweets from Trump that had sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The company "labeled” the comments, directing users to more accurate information that shows how "voting by mail is safe and secure.” Roughly 30 minutes after Trump sent the initial tweet — and another predicting election "mayhem” on the horizon — Trump called out Twitter itself, claiming the company deliberately surfaces and promotes "anything bad, Fake or not, about President Donald Trump.” "So obvious what they are doing,” he continued. "Being studied now!” After Twitter first took action against Trump — labeling his tweet about racial justice demonstrations in Minneapolis for glorifying violence — the president responded days later by signing a sweeping, controversial executive order targeting social media sites broadly. The directive tasked the Federal Communications Commission to rethink the scope of Section 230 and the instances in which its legal shield applies to tech giants, an idea the agency, which is independent from the White House, is studying. It also called on the Federal Trade Commission to probe whether the companies’ efforts to police the Web are in line with their public promises of political neutrality. That order also directed Barr to convene his state counterparts and work together "regarding the potential enforcement of State statutes that prohibit online platforms from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” Trump further ordered the working group to develop "model legislation” to beef up state consumer protection laws so that they can be used to penalize perceived instances of political bias. States such as Texas in the past have suggested they could tap laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts and practices to hold companies accountable for the way they police content online. Aides to Ken Paxton, Texas’s Republican attorney general, have publicly and privately signaled they have explored using such authorities to probe Google. The search and advertising giant, which owns YouTube, also faces an antitrust probe by state and federal competition watchdogs. A federal case could be filed in the coming days, The Washington Post has reported. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/23/trump-doj-censorship-section-230/
September 23, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, Gannan said: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ Quote "Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly," The Atlantic reports. "The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires." A Trump campaign legal adviser who spoke to The Atlantic said that in this scenario, "the state legislatures will say, 'All right, we've been given this constitutional power. We don't think the results of our own state are accurate, so here's our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state." Lawrence Tabas, chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, also told The Atlantic he has discussed the direct appointment of electors with the Trump campaign, saying, "I've mentioned it to them, and I hope they're thinking about it too." The Trump campaign said it is "fighting for a free and fair election." As humorous as your reference is, it is scary seeing something like this today. We are getting closer and closer to a complete coup and end of the republic.
September 23, 20205 yr 5 minutes ago, Ride the Walrus said: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ As humorous as your reference is, it is scary seeing something like this today. We are getting closer and closer to a complete coup and end of the republic. It's completely depressing. I've never been so disheartened about the future of our country. My daughter is just getting old enough to understand basic civics and is interested in the election. I don't even know what to tell her.
September 23, 20205 yr 4 minutes ago, Gannan said: It's completely depressing. I've never been so disheartened about the future of our country. My daughter is just getting old enough to understand basic civics and is interested in the election. I don't even know what to tell her. Tell her 62,984,828 people ruined the country.
September 23, 20205 yr 1 minute ago, Gannan said: It's completely depressing. I've never been so disheartened about the future of our country. My daughter is just getting old enough to understand basic civics and is interested in the election. I don't even know what to tell her. I was talking to someone yesterday who was a former Republican, never voted for a Democrat and will be voting Biden in PA. He didn't even entertain how the GOP, Trump, and whatever other stooges would attempt to usurp the election results and that things can get really ugly. The system has worked because of things that the GOP has spend the last decade killing. Peaceful transition of power, open free elections, Senate and Congress actually passing legislation, SC not just being another political arm. This stuff is ugly right now. All that relies on people acting in good faith and when one side won't anymore in order to retain power it is not going to end well. I'm somewhat worried, but trying not to get too crazy. You see his rallies and those loonies though. It is 100% scary these Trumpbots look at Diehard, Kz, and such these dopes lap up Trump droppings as though it was filet minion. If Dear Leader says it is rigged, fake, etc. OAN and FOX will push it and they'll believe it. Look at the nuts in Louisville dressed in paramilitary gear attacking protestors.
September 23, 20205 yr 3 minutes ago, Ride the Walrus said: I was talking to someone yesterday who was a former Republican, never voted for a Democrat and will be voting Biden in PA. He didn't even entertain how the GOP, Trump, and whatever other stooges would attempt to usurp the election results and that things can get really ugly. The system has worked because of things that the GOP has spend the last decade killing. Peaceful transition of power, open free elections, Senate and Congress actually passing legislation, SC not just being another political arm. This stuff is ugly right now. All that relies on people acting in good faith and when one side won't anymore in order to retain power it is not going to end well. I'm somewhat worried, but trying not to get too crazy. You see his rallies and those loonies though. It is 100% scary these Trumpbots look at Diehard, Kz, and such these dopes lap up Trump droppings as though it was filet minion. If Dear Leader says it is rigged, fake, etc. OAN and FOX will push it and they'll believe it. Look at the nuts in Louisville dressed in paramilitary gear attacking protestors. Right. I have been more of an economic conservative for a while now. The democratic platform is too far left for my liking. But my choices are spend more on social programs, or watch the end of representative democracy as we know it. Not a hard choice for most of us to make. Once countries go down the path of autocracy, it's very very hard to go back. I had thought if Trump lost (huge IF for me now) we'd see the last of him, now I'm not so sure. If Biden were somehow to become President, I think he'd be back again in 2024 or his kids will be. The really depressing part is he's able to do all of this with only the support of about 40% of the country. This is the problem when huge areas of deserted land have more of a say in our elections than actual people do.
September 23, 20205 yr 7 minutes ago, Gannan said: Right. I have been more of an economic conservative for a while now. The democratic platform is too far left for my liking. But my choices are spend more on social programs, or watch the end of representative democracy as we know it. Not a hard choice for most of us to make. Once countries go down the path of autocracy, it's very very hard to go back. I had thought if Trump lost (huge IF for me now) we'd see the last of him, now I'm not so sure. If Biden were somehow to become President, I think he'd be back again in 2024 or his kids will be. The really depressing part is he's able to do all of this with only the support of about 40% of the country. This is the problem when huge areas of deserted land have more of a say in our elections than actual people do. He'll probably be gone by then and his kids won't get the same type of following. No way.
September 23, 20205 yr 18 minutes ago, Paul852 said: Tell her 62,984,828 people ruined the country. Yeah, no. Sadly it isn't that simple.
September 23, 20205 yr 1 minute ago, DrPhilly said: Yeah, no. Sadly it isn't that simple. I like my opinion better than yours.
September 23, 20205 yr 34 minutes ago, Ride the Walrus said: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ As humorous as your reference is, it is scary seeing something like this today. We are getting closer and closer to a complete coup and end of the republic. yeah, and the right is the one constantly complaining that the left is trying to steal it. projection. it's disgusting.
September 23, 20205 yr Just now, Paul852 said: I like my opinion better than yours. You always do. Maybe some day you'll take a larger step back and see that this divide has two sides. One may be pushing uglier or harder or whatever but there are most definitely two and both bear responsibility for where we are today. I'm not to get into a debate as to which deserves more blame because at the very highest level it just doesn't matter. We only reached this level of tragedy because we allowed the division to reach this far. We can blame Trump, Russia, China, Antifa, BLM, Repukes, TheLibs, Globalization, or whatever but in the end of the day the truth is that all of us are to blame. Trump was just the one to take the ball and run it all the way across the line.
September 23, 20205 yr 39 minutes ago, Ride the Walrus said: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/ This article nails it.
September 23, 20205 yr 1 minute ago, DrPhilly said: You always do. Maybe some day you'll take a larger step back and see that this divide has two sides. One may be pushing uglier or harder or whatever but there are most definitely two and both bear responsibility for where we are today. I'm not to get into a debate as to which deserves more blame because at the very highest level it just doesn't matter. We only reached this level of tragedy because we allowed the division to reach this far. We can blame Trump, Russia, China, Antifa, BLM, Repukes, TheLibs, Globalization, or whatever but in the end of the day the truth is that all of us are to blame. Trump was just the one to take the ball and run it all the way across the line. I think you take me too seriously sometimes. Of course the state this country finds itself in is a culmination.
September 23, 20205 yr 2 minutes ago, Paul852 said: I think you take me too seriously sometimes. Of course the state this country finds itself in is a culmination. At this point I don't find this topic funny, sorry
September 23, 20205 yr 5 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: You always do. Maybe some day you'll take a larger step back and see that this divide has two sides. One may be pushing uglier or harder or whatever but there are most definitely two and both bear responsibility for where we are today. I'm not to get into a debate as to which deserves more blame because at the very highest level it just doesn't matter. We only reached this level of tragedy because we allowed the division to reach this far. We can blame Trump, Russia, China, Antifa, BLM, Repukes, TheLibs, Globalization, or whatever but in the end of the day the truth is that all of us are to blame. Trump was just the one to take the ball and run it all the way across the line. I think that's a bit lazy. Both sides are always going to push. That's the nature of a free society. But one side is escalating to historic proportions though. One side has routinely engaged in brinksmanship and obstructionism at levels not seen in generations.
September 23, 20205 yr 21 minutes ago, Gannan said: Right. I have been more of an economic conservative for a while now. The democratic platform is too far left for my liking. But my choices are spend more on social programs, or watch the end of representative democracy as we know it. Not a hard choice for most of us to make. Once countries go down the path of autocracy, it's very very hard to go back. I had thought if Trump lost (huge IF for me now) we'd see the last of him, now I'm not so sure. If Biden were somehow to become President, I think he'd be back again in 2024 or his kids will be. The really depressing part is he's able to do all of this with only the support of about 40% of the country. This is the problem when huge areas of deserted land have more of a say in our elections than actual people do. Either way this has shown how fragile and broken our system has become. It isn't even 40% of the country. It could be somewhere in the mid to low 20s that actually support him or want him. Having empty land though be more valuable than anything else in this country in terms of governing has caused this entire mess to begin with. W was the only Repug to win with the popular vote. His dad is the last to win their initial election with it. Biden for me is kind of meh and fairly middle of the road. I'd prefer something more left, but at this point as I've seen the Lincoln Project say it really is Trump or America. It is highly likely Trump runs a shadow presidency even if he is out where he is tweeting BS and being his normal dope.
September 23, 20205 yr 14 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: yeah, and the right is the one constantly complaining that the left is trying to steal it. projection. it's disgusting. Funniest part in this is the right is a significant minority in this country, but has been using the system to rig it for them to continue in power even when most Americans don't want them or their awful policies. They stole a SC seat, trying to with the election, likely stole the election in GA back when Kemp was elected.
September 23, 20205 yr 15 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I think that's a bit lazy. Both sides are always going to push. That's the nature of a free society. But one side is escalating to historic proportions though. One side has routinely engaged in brinksmanship and obstructionism at levels not seen in generations. I'm going to use the same line you used with another poster here. If you can't see the escalation that occurred here over many years on both sides of the aisle that got us to this point then there is nothing I or anyway else can say that will help you see objectively.
September 23, 20205 yr 45 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Yeah, no. Sadly it isn't that simple. His math was a little off. Approximately 117 million didn't vote, and 7, 804, 213 voted third party. So, 187, 789, 041 destroyed the country.
September 23, 20205 yr 25 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: His math was a little off. Approximately 117 million didn't vote, and 7, 804, 213 voted third party. So, 187, 789, 041 destroyed the country. You mean they delivered a crucial blow. I agree.
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