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[Ben Kenobi]

Senator Warren released her DNA test, proving that the average white American has twice as much Native American DNA as she does. She demanded that Trump pay her the $1M that he said he would if she took a DNA test. This is not a good deal for Pocahontas

It's even worse than you think. The one ancestor is as likely to be Mexican as native American. Nor could they identify the specific ancestor in her family tree either.

[Ben Kenobi]

Largest humanitarian disaster ever... You've got to be ****ing kidding. Where did you read that? Faux News?

You were the one attacking capitalism. Just for fun, give me the list of migrations > 4 million people over the entire world. I actually did that list, and there's fewer than five such occurrences, so yeah, it's one of the largest humanitarian disasters ever.

Also an interesting question, what is the largest displacement of people by overall population numbers, ever?

[Proteus_MST]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zm95ka/republicans-are-outraged-about-the-deficit-they-caused

It's all the Democrats fault! To fix the deficits they need to eliminate medicare and medicaid and all other welfare and social spending for poor people and bring in more tax cuts for the rich!

Another proof that the era Trump is written by a comedy writer

[Broken_Erika]

Republicans Are Outraged About the Deficit They Caused
To pay for their tax breaks for the rich, they want to take healthcare from the poor.

(Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the U.S. budget deficit is "disturbing" and spending on entitlement programs must be addressed by both Republicans and Democrats.+

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zm95ka/republicans-are-outraged-about-the-deficit-they-caused

It's all the Democrats fault! To fix the deficits they need to eliminate medicare and medicaid and all other welfare and social spending for poor people and bring in more tax cuts for the rich!

[Giancarlo]

Stupid dumbass so called president. I'm so sick of this man. He needs to be removed from office after the midterms. He should get off twitter too. They need to ban him off there.

[Broken_Erika]

Trump threatens to cut aid to Honduras over migrants

President Donald Trump has threatened to cut financial aid to Honduras over a large group of migrants heading towards the US border.

In a Tweet posted on Tuesday, Mr Trump said the country's president was told funds would be cut "immediately" if the group was not stopped and returned.

Honduras has a long history of poverty and corruption. It also has one of the highest murder rates in the world.

The group of at least 1,500 migrants grew rapidly in size over the weekend.

About 160 people originally set off on Friday from San Pedro Sula, a notorious Honduran crime hotspot.

They pushed across the border into Guatemala on Monday, despite a heavy police presence and government order attempting to block their route.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45880621

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1052183647552491521

[Broken_Erika]

Newt Gingrich is proud to have turned politics into a crap-throwing bloodsport.

The Man Who Broke Politics
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements.
....
On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College.

But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before him—he had come to foment revolution.

“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.”



For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.

The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta.

The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”

But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”
... Effective as these tactics were in the short term, they had a corrosive effect on the way Congress operated. “Gradually, it went from legislating, to the weaponization of legislating, to the permanent campaign, to the permanent war,” Mann says. “It’s like he took a wrecking ball to the most powerful and influential legislature in the world.”

But Gingrich looks back with pride on the transformations he set in motion. “Noise became a proxy for status,” he tells me. And no one was noisier than Newt.
...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

[Broken_Erika]

New step for voter suppression by the GOP:

https://rewire.news/ablc/2018/10/11/supreme-court-native-americans-november/

Thousands of native americans (which are likely democrats voters) will be blocked from voting because the voting now requires not only an ID card but also a valid postal address, whereas many native americans live in reservations (another "nice" invention by the white man ) get their mail only delivered to a PO box (because the US mail system in many parts of the country doesn't provide mailing services to residential addresses in reservations)

That's a feature. Not a bug.

[Giancarlo]

Elizabeth Warren had a complete public meltdown on Twitter last night, even falsely accusing the President of making physical threats against her. Just what we need for President, a crazy ex-gf that doesn't know what race she is even after taking a DNA test.

You really have no clue what you are talking about.

[rah]

Get your own umbrella!

I like the comment at the other site.
It''s the only way he can get her wet..

[rah]

I thought meltdowns on twitter was a Trump thing.

[Kidlicious]

Elizabeth Warren had a complete public meltdown on Twitter last night, even falsely accusing the President of making physical threats against her. Just what we need for President, a crazy ex-gf that doesn't know what race she is even after taking a DNA test.

[Giancarlo]

They did similar things in Georgia targeting African Americans. They know they are in deep **** demograpigcally, so they will try to rig everything.

[Proteus_MST]

New step for voter suppression by the GOP:

https://rewire.news/ablc/2018/10/11/supreme-court-native-americans-november/

Thousands of native americans (which are likely democrats voters) will be blocked from voting because the voting now requires not only an ID card but also a valid postal address, whereas many native americans live in reservations (another "nice" invention by the white man ) get their mail only delivered to a PO box (because the US mail system in many parts of the country doesn't provide mailing services to residential addresses in reservations)

[Broken_Erika]

Get your own umbrella!