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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

Welcome to Trump’s America:
Felony riot charges against inauguration protesters signal alarming wave of repression

More than 200 people who were mass-arrested at the Washington, D.C. protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump have been hit with felony riot charges that are punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Those picked up in the sweep — including legal observers and journalists — had their phones, cameras and other personal belongings confiscated as evidence, a lawyer confirmed to AlterNet.

“These charges are absolutely horrifying. They are just trying to stop any resistance to the Trump administration,” Samantha Miller, an organizer with the Disrupt J20 Collective, told AlterNet. “Many of these demonstrators were showing rage and fear of what’s coming."

Poll: Voters Trust Trump More Than Media
Americans say administration is more honest than press by 10-point margin in new survey

The same survey finds that the news media is less trusted than the administration, with 53 percent of voters calling it untruthful and just 39 percent finding the press to be honest.

As the most recent example of media bias and inflammatory reporting failing to change public opinion, a Politico poll conducted earlier this week shows that 55 percent of Americans support Trump's executive order on immigration — despite nearly universal negative coverage in the press.

Looks like a lot of your "democratic" leaders are gunna be doin some hard time under Trump, eh, Walt?

Matthew Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 9m9 minutes ago
It's worth noting that the US citizens who live in the places where there are a lot of immigrants don't seem too worried about immigration.

You can argue that, but that's not been established as a legal precedent.

Thats really not a compelling argument ya know?. "Your demagoguery is just as bed as ours"

WOuld you buy a car with those features
"Were really Not as bad as you'd think"

...I want to start with Trump’s lies.

Following the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, a series of mass arrests of politicians connected to a Washington D.C. pedophile ring is expected to begin in a matter of days.

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama was confirmed as the next attorney general following a 52-47 vote on Wednesday.

His swearing in on Thursday is expected to precede the mass arrests of high profile senior politicians connected to the ‘Pizzagate‘ scandal in Washington D.C.

This news confirms claims made by an FBI insider last week who said that at least 30 politicians and 40 others connected to a pedo ring in Washington D.C. would be arrested in a series of surprise raids in the very near future.....

I think you're missing the point. Yes, it's true that you can find irrational, foam-at-the-mouth crazies on either end of the political spectrum. But look:

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

They are direct refutations of reality — and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum.

The loony left doesn't have power. They're out on the streets wearing black masks and protesting. The hand-wringing Democrats in Washington are moderates in comparison to the real extremists on the left. But when we look at the right, the extremists have actually taken power. We're not talking about some bunch of rag tag survivalists out west somewhere — the radical right has people at the top levels of the Trump administration. We're not talking about "egregious lies" being spouted by some bitter SJW at a demonstration or intoned by some self-styled Marxist professor at a liberal arts college — we're talking about "egregious lies" coming directly from Mr. Trump and the people he has placed in positions of power. The rightist "crazies" have displaced the moderate Republicans; the leftist "crazies" only wish they had such influence in the Democratic Party.

Martin Indyk
‏@Martin_Indyk
Sheldon Adelson and Niki Haley dined with Trump on Thursday night. My guess: Sheldon might have vetoed Salam Fayad for the UN job.

"Our legal system is broken! "77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries." (WT) SO DANGEROUS!" the president tweeted.

Mr. Trump’s tie symbolizes one of the central questions of his candidacy, and now his presidency. Is his seeming ineptness genuine? Or is it part of a contrived performance, designed to deploy the symbols of power while rejecting the conventions of civility that have traditionally defined and constrained them?

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

I'm not sure there is much room for interpretation there.

Bills have been introduced from time to time in Congress which have sought to declare American-born children of foreign nationals not to be "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States", and thus not entitled to citizenship via the 14th Amendment, unless at least one parent was an American citizen or a lawful permanent resident.