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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Acting AG Whittaker says he won't show up to testify before Congress without assurances that he won't be subpoenaed.
    If he agrees to show up, there is no need to subpoena him.
    If he won't show up, then he gets subpoenaed.

    Basic logic is lost on these people.
     
    Driftwood, Feb 7, 2019
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Will he be under oath or not ?
     
    heyabbott, Feb 7, 2019
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  3. BadgerBeer

    BadgerBeer Well-Known Member


    Damn. We all misspeak now and then but really? Do you think he even would know what he did wrong?
     
    BadgerBeer, Feb 7, 2019
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Of course.

    Just another illustration of the 'blackface' problem.

    Did the black friend in the story don 'whiteface?'
     
    Azrael, Feb 7, 2019
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I remember when that movie came out. The premise of the movie wasn't quite what you are saying now. C. Thomas Howell's dad wouldn't pay for his law school, so he makes himself black to get a scholarship. At the time, there may have been people who were like, "Hey, the blackface thing is racist," but that wasn't most people. For most people, it was a "ha ha." And in the movie, the big deal wasn't that he was being racist, it is that he was committing fraud.

    The whole thing in the movie was, "He look, he thought it would be easy to be black. Get a scholarship." Then he learns about what it's like to be black. Then he gets caught, and everyone is pissed off. And the feel good line was something like, "What did you learn? .... I learned that I can go back to being white at any time, so I don't really know what it's like to be black."

    BTW. ... Rae Dawn Chong wasn't pissed off at him for the blackface. Well, she was at first. Then she forgives him, and they live happily ever after.

    Attitudes have totally changed on this one. Then, context mattered. Minstrel Show? Not cool. Dressing as a rapper, or trying to get a scholarship. Oh, yeah.

    Now, for a lot of people, there is no context that could make someone in blackface during those years OK.
     
    The Big Ragu, Feb 7, 2019
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  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Posted a number of qualifiers on this yesterday.

     
    Azrael, Feb 7, 2019
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  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    HanSenSE, Feb 7, 2019
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  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Once a birther, always a birther.
     
    HanSenSE, Feb 7, 2019
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Azrael, Feb 7, 2019
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  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    She won't be opening a bank account in that get up.
     
    CD Boogie, Feb 7, 2019
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  11. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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  12. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Former New Britain mayor under fire for Facebook post

    You can’t choose your parents.

    A sexist vulgarity by the former mayor of New Britain is haunting the current Mayor Erin Stewart, who happens to be his daughter.

    But it’s threatening the career of her father, Timothy Stewart, who tweeted the description “Bitches in heat!” under a Facebook photo of a dozen white-clad members of Congress in attendance at Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
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    Stay hot, buddy.
     
    CD Boogie, Feb 7, 2019
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