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If liberal progressive democrats didn't have something to cry & complain about, they would have NOTHING to contribute

It sounds like some Obama rats are still employed - Trump should fire them.

I always thought Steve Miller a hell of a good rocker

STEVE BANNON AND REINCE PRIEBUS’S WAR FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office have produced what seems like a year’s worth of drama, but he has made essentially two consequential decisions. He issued a ban on immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries and he nominated Neil Gorsuch, a federal appeals-court judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant after Antonin Scalia’s death, last year.

The immigration ban, a dubious policy that no serious counterterrorism expert believes is necessary, threw the Trump Administration into chaos, alienated large swaths of the federal government, offended international allies, and divided the Republican Party. The announcement of Gorsuch, who, whatever one thinks of his legal views, is clearly qualified to serve on the Court, was executed professionally and united the G.O.P. behind Trump.

The two decisions reflect the two strands of Trumpism vying for control of the new Administration—and the Republican Party—and may be harbingers of coming fights inside the White House.

The immigration ban was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s “Muslim ban”
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that aired on Thursday night, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway managed to get two huge things wrong in a short, 19-second answer. First, she said that the Obama administration banned Iraqi refugees from entering in the United States for six months in 2011 — which is flatly untrue.

Second, and more significantly, she made up a terrorist attack committed by Iraqi refugees that never happened — the “Bowling Green Massacre”:

Even CNN had to cover the story, even if they did try to marginalize it, but not a single cheese-eater here that I've seen has even acknowledged that it occurred, eh?

Quote:

Berkeley protests of Yiannopoulos caused $100,000 in damage

More than 1,500 protesters had gathered at Sproul Plaza, chanting and holding signs that read: "No safe space for racists" and "This is war."

The violent protesters tore down metal barriers, set fires near the campus bookstore and damaged the construction site of a new dorm. One woman wearing a red Trump hat was pepper sprayed in the face while being interviewed by CNN affiliate KGO. She was able to respond that she was OK after the attack.

"While Yiannopoulos' views, tactics and rhetoric are profoundly contrary to our own, we are bound by the Constitution, the law, our values and the campus's Principles of Community to enable free expression across the full spectrum of opinion and perspective," UC Berkeley said in a statement.

Black-clad protesters wearing masks threw commercial-grade fireworks and rocks at police. Some even hurled Molotov cocktails that ignited fires. They also smashed windows of the student union center on the Berkeley campus where the Yiannopoulos event was to be held. At least six people were injured. Some were attacked by the agitators. One student told CNN that he didn't agree with what happened.

As police dispersed the crowd from campus, a remaining group of protesters moved into downtown Berkeley and smashed windows at several local banks.

No arrests were made throughout the night.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/

The cops just stood and watched. As students were being beaten, people in the mob were just screaming "Kick his ass!" while taking cell phone videos of the brutal beatings with poles. No one was seen trying to restrain the attackers or otherwise come to the aid of the victims. Many were interviewed and were gleefully celebrating their "victory."

The whole thing went down like a mob beating of a black man in Alabama around 1930. After it's over, all the crackers would high-five each other and eventually the police would tell them they best head on home now because it was getting late.

Frugal1 wrote:

It sounds like some Obama rats are still employed - Trump should fire them.

I suggest rat poison.

giujohn wrote:

Frugal1 wrote:

It sounds like some Obama rats are still employed - Trump should fire them.

I suggest rat poison.

In Germany and other European countries, we've laws against death threads on the internet.
However, since this is posted by a former policeman (he at least said so), I fully understand some protests in the USA.