Politics And Current Events

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 6:49 pm

Swiss cops use anti-drone guns at the World Economic Forum
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/19/swi ... mic-forum/

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 6:53 pm

https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/822223315439943680

Um.......

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:10 pm

lolololol... wat?

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:11 pm

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/822225638698483712

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:13 pm

https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/822227190175698945

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:13 pm

And you have Left-Leaning journalists hoping for a coup.

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/822230257054777344

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZdeg_fL-I

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:15 pm

Well, they do have 2nd Amendment remedies....

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:28 pm

TIL

https://twitter.com/ChuckLane1/status/8 ... 6625712128

Postby **Willie Kool** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:33 pm

And you have Left-Leaning journalists hoping for a coup.

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/822230257054777344

Loyalty to the Constitution trumps loyalty to a superior officer, even the Commander In Chief.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:40 pm

And you have Left-Leaning journalists hoping for a coup.

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/822230257054777344

I don't know that such action necessarily rises to the level of a coup. It could be things as simple as refusing to carry out illegal orders.

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:44 pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtr ... 0820507648

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:47 pm

http://twitter.com/thehill/status/822227912367738880

There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your 'friends' will disappoint you. But, you will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me. No matter what comes, you will be inspired by the character and compassion of the people you now lead.

Cannot wait to read Trump's letter to whoever follows him.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:47 pm

So we are switching roles and saying "Trump did it too!"

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 7:49 pm

So we are switching roles and saying "Trump did it too!"

Not sure if that's directed at me, but everyone should welcome political protest.

Postby **eddy** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:13 pm

https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/stat ... 0737335299

LET'S DO THIS!

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:13 pm

Well, so it begins. I hope Trump does well.

Postby **eddy** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:14 pm

Well, so it begins. I hope Trump does well.

Same here pal

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:18 pm

I certainly do too...we shall see.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:35 pm

I mean, I genuinely don't know what to expect. Now that the day has actually arrived, it is pretty surreal.

I'm pretty disappointed in the 60 or so Democrats in Congress that are boycotting the inauguration. I respect John Lewis' civil rights bona fides, but skipping it just sends a poor message to me. Eh, we'll see what happens. I am very interested to hear the content of Trump's inauguration speech.

Postby **Reveutopique** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:37 pm

I hope he gets impeached. ...or I hope congress goes Staten Island on him...if ya know what I mean. And before you whine about how you kept your mouth shut during Obama's 8 years.

I don't care.

Obama isn't an incestuous, probable lover of roofies, oligarchical, military-family-bashing, working-man-cheating creep.

This is a man whose wife testified against him bc he raped her.

May he burn in hell.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:41 pm

Hey, if you want to take your chances with Mike Pence, a man that has the actual desire and werewithal to turn back the clock on social policies I'm assuming you support, that's your call. Social liberals really don't have much to fear at all from a Trump presidency.

Postby **Reveutopique** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:41 pm

Oh man you got me. I definitely would prefer the Staten Island way.

http://twitter.com/thehill/status/822227912367738880
There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your 'friends' will disappoint you. But, you will have an Almighty God to comfort you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you, including me. No matter what comes, you will be inspired by the character and compassion of the people you now lead.
Cannot wait to read Trump's letter to whoever follows him.

I started reading Bush's memoir. Can't say I had dry eyes by the second page.

Weird to have voted for Bush and Obama before calling it quits since working and realizing this whole thing is a farce.

But Bush is an interesting guy. Like all of us he's been through a crap load.

Within the system I don't regret my vote. But overall I regret participating in the system.
I keep thinking my vote helped send Kaiser and his friends to war when they should have been in college or working. But whatever. Woulda coulda shoulda.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:47 pm

I was a huge critic of GWB by the time he left office, but I've become more of a fan of his since he left. He's basically done nothing but charity work since his departure, and he seems like someone that genuinely wants what's best for the nation. I think Obama is going to have a tough time making that transition to private life, TBH. He's leaving office at a much younger age (relatively), and his rise happened so quickly that his political career was quite short.

I'd like to see him get involved in the philanthropy stuff like his two predecessors did. GWB still does stuff like this on the reg, which is nice:

INB4 Guinness "Bush murdered thousands of civilians, happy I thought he's a 'good guy'", or a similar Godric post

Postby **shmenguin** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:51 pm

I mean, I genuinely don't know what to expect. Now that the day has actually arrived, it is pretty surreal.

I'm pretty disappointed in the 60 or so Democrats in Congress that are boycotting the inauguration. I respect John Lewis' civil rights bona fides, but skipping it just sends a poor message to me. Eh, we'll see what happens. I am very interested to hear the content of Trump's inauguration speech.

He deserves to speak to an empty venue. He doesn't deserve to be normalized. Boycott away. What are you interested in hearing, exactly? Do you want his generic disingenuous shtick or his piss baby schtik?

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:54 pm

The Bolivian guides were convinced it was the blonde. It had to be the blonde. American Embassy officials in November had told three brothers who led guided hikes across Bolivia’s majestic Cordillera Real mountain range that they would soon be hosting an important American dignitary. When a group of teenagers and a small band of American bodyguards showed up on Nov. 24, it wasn’t apparent to the guides that it was the president’s elder daughter, Malia Obama, and not a blond companion, who warranted the extraordinary security measures.

“There was a blond girl and we assumed she was the important one,” Gregorio Mamani, one of the guides, said in a phone interview on Wednesday.

Only in recent days, after Bolivian journalists broke the story of Ms. Obama’s trip to Bolivia and Peru late last year, did the guides realize who had been in their care during a five-day trek. “She was very humble, chatty, spoke Spanish very well,” Mr. Mamani said. “She was mesmerized by the Bolivian landscape.”

Ms. Obama was afforded no special treatment during the arduous trek, and performed chores, including cooking, along with her fellow travelers, Mr. Mamani said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opin ... .html?_r=0