Republican style gerrymandering is cheating and unconstitutional and the only way an idiot like Trump could win.
The republican's days are numbered and soon the people will take this country back.
Republican rule over the last decade has made our country rife with corrupt policies.
We will vote through referendum to correct the crooked gerrymandering lines and restore one person one vote and elect people who represent our needs and not the needs of the few with greedy money power.
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The proposal faces a legal challenge from conservative groups that say such a change may not be decided via ballot initiative because it would amount to a general revision of the state constitution and revisions may be done only through a constitutional convention.
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Their gerrymandering denies one person one vote that is a pillar of any democracy...
The republicans preach about the constitution while they violate its greatest tenets!
Expect the republicans to rob Michigan and leave it broke and destitute like other states they "occupy" before they are driven out of the state by pitchfork and rake.
We will vote through referendum to correct the crooked gerrymandering lines and restore one person one vote and elect people who represent our needs and not the needs of the few with greedy money power.
Do you vote in Michigan elections?
I do.
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firefly
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Wed 20 Jun, 2018 07:55 pm
Trump is certainly doing a good job of sowing chaos and difficulty for the Republican party in Congress.
Just when you think Fox News can’t go any lower, they find a sinkhole. Monday, while people nationwide were grappling with images of children being held in cages and were listening to the stomach-churning cries of a young girl repeatedly crying, “Noooo, Papa! Nooo, Papa!” as border agents tore her from her father in an audio recording snuck out of a Texas detention facility, the folks over at Fox News were clearly sticking to their marching orders: blame Democrats and downplay the cruelty that is clearly on display for the world to see. Here’s a round-up of the more callous, hateful, embarrassing and downright jaw-dropping moments their entire line-up shoved to viewers throughout the day. Buckle up and ride this embarrassing wave until the end.
The morning began with the bubbly Fox & Friends crew helpfully Foxsplaining to viewers that the children aren’t really being kept in cages. You see, they are “merely chain-link walls” to create rooms. Small rooms, but hey! Definitely not cages! Nothing to worry about Fox viewers, toooooootally not cages.
But, it was the evening and night time line-up that provided the best of the worst for Fox News. Let’s work our way through the crazy by starting with Tucker Carlson’s White Supremacy Power Hour. Carlson has really unleashed his racism since Donald Trump was elected and last night it was on full display as he went back and forth between dismissing critics of this border cruelty because many of the people publicly decrying this policy probably “don’t even have kids” (what?) and complaining “their goal is to change your country forever.” It doesn’t take a genius to decipher Tucker’s message to his white audience.
.@TuckerCarlson comes close to saying the 14 words: "No matter what they tell you, this isn't about helping children. A lot of people yelling at you on TV don't even have kids, so don't for a second let them take moral high ground. Their goal is to change your country forever."
And with no irony detected whatsoever, Carlson’s guest, acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said the comparison to Nazis is unfair because “they are simply following orders.”
Acting ICE director Thomas Homan, without any sense of irony, tells @TuckerCarlson that he objects to people comparing ICE to Nazis because they "are simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress."
Next up, Sean Hannity spent his show trying to create news by once again bashing Hillary Clinton and the now-closed email investigation, the same investigation that Republicans have gone back over and over and over again. The same investigation that didn’t result in any charges and won’t in the future, no matter how much Republicans wish it were so. But, here’s Sean kicking that horse for the delight of his #1 viewer and best pal, Donald Trump.
@kimmasters
Go home, @seanhannity. You’re drunk.
Perhaps Sean and Donald were angry with Hillary Clinton after she grabbed headlines and wild applause yesterday when she called out Donald Trump's blatant immigration lies and said it's time for women to lead.
But, nothing, and I mean NOTHING could top The Ingraham Angle with host Laura Ingraham and special guest, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. First up, Laura Ingraham laughed off the suggestion that tearing kids, including babies, from their parents and sticking them in cages inside a former Walmart amounted to child abuse. Ingraham wanted her audience to know, these child prisons are “essentially summer camps!”
Laura Ingraham calls child detention centers "essentially summer camps"
What the hell kind of summer camp does Laura Ingraham send her kids to? We have one working as a summer camp counselor right now and you know what they are doing? Zip lining, learning how to care for animals, doing craft projects, creating variety show skits and making s’mores over a campfire.
But, my God, nothing could prepare us for what came next on Ingraham’s show. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined Ingraham to beat back the growing, legitimate comparisons between the concentration camps of Germany and these border facilities and the indefinite lock-up of migrants. Hitler whipped up nationalism using many of these same techniques, scapegoating Jewish people and immigrants. So, how did Sessions bat down these comparisons? By claiming they are nothing like the Nazis because Hitler wouldn’t let the Jews leave Germany. See? Tooooootally different.
Jeff Sessions says that Trump's family separation policies are not like Nazi Germany because Nazis "were keeping the Jews from leaving."
Serious question, what is wrong with these people? Where were they radicalized to be so cruel and inhumane? Every action they take is more un-American and deplorable than the last. It is past time for Congress start acting as the check and balance they were intended to be. The only way this stops is if they find their spines and/or the American people send them to the unemployment lines in November. In the meantime, pick up the phone and call your elected representatives today to demand this policy end and these children are reunited with their parents.
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Yet another republican with a few screws loose.
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Blickers
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Thu 21 Jun, 2018 03:37 am
@TheCobbler,
What's wrong with them? From the beginning right wing media has been telling people that ONLY right wing media can be trusted, everyone else is lying. After a couple of decades of this, you get people like this in Arizona:
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firefly
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Thu 21 Jun, 2018 06:04 am
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Airlines to Trump: we won’t help you separate migrant kids from parents
United, American, and Frontier say they won’t fly migrant kids separated from their parents at the border.
By Emily Stewart Jun 20, 2018
American, United, and Frontier airlines have told the Trump administration they won’t fly immigrant children who have been separated from their parents at the border.
American Airlines in a statement on Wednesday said the “family separation process” implemented by the government is “not at all aligned” with its values. “We bring families together, not apart,” the statement reads. The company said it provides travel to the federal government but has “no knowledge” of whether its flights have transported children separated from their parents due to the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
“We have therefore requested the federal government to immediately refrain from using American for the purpose of transporting children who have been separated from their families due to the current immigration policy,” the statement said. “We have no desire to be associated with separating families, or worse, to profit from it. We have every expectation the government will comply with our request and we thank them for doing so.”
United Airlines subsequently released a similar statement from CEO Oscar Munoz, who said the airline had contacted federal officials “to inform them that they should not transport immigrant children on United aircraft who have been separated from their parents.”
Frontier Airlines tweeted a similar statement as well. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17485544/family-separation-united-american-airlines
American Airlines in a statement on Wednesday said the “family separation process” implemented by the government is “not at all aligned” with its values. “We bring families together, not apart,” the statement reads.
Values? What values? They are an airline, a business. You pay, you fly. People do not care if they wish to posture as Gods gift to open borders, it will accomplish nothing.
Yes, American Airlines is a "business." Beyond that, they also have the temerity to challenge president Trump's immigration policy. HOORAH for them! We need more businesses like them, not less. Trump is a moron who fails to understand the consequences of his actions. His stupid wall is not going to be paid by Mexico, and his tariffs only ended up starting a trade war that will result in higher prices for everybody. We haven't had such a fool and ignorant individual occupying the white house in all my 82 years on this planet. It makes me burst out in laughter when he claims he went to Wharton. He has no idea about Economics. He doesn't seem to have learned anything about macro and microeconomics, nor about free trade. It's called "comparative advantage." http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-trade-war-tariff-list-announced-threatens-more-2018-6
We're talking about Donald Trump, not any other president. Trump's approval rating based on a poll taken by Gallup shows Trump at the lower end at around 40%. It's been as low as 35%. All other past presidents rating is over 50%. http://time.com/5010653/donald-trump-approval-ratings-low-poll/
In case you missed it, the topic of this thread is, "Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans" and I was on the subject of Donald Trump, the current republican president.
I have zero objectivity because I don't want to talk about a democrat on a republican thread? You call it "critical thought?" I studied Philosophy in college. Where did you learn about logic? ROFLMAO
