Yeah, Pelosi and Shumer are apparently under the impression that a vital part of their job involves telling their supporters that they are being unrealistic, and why it is impossible to get what they want. Tamping down the expectations of their supporters seems to be ingrained behavior in a certain generation of…

Yep, the GOP/Tea Party broke our country. They pulled us so far in one direction that our extreme left would have been in the center 10 years ago. Shit, I bet their favorite president Reagan would been run out of the party if he were alive today.

Let’s not forget that the people are a big factor here.  In Canada at least, there is a limit to how far to the right you can go before you become unelectable.   What are deal breakers here are seen as selling points down south.

That’s what’s truly mind boggling (one of the many things) to me as a non-American... Conservatives in Canada and the UK are about equivalent to centrist Democrats (and are often further left as most Cons here wouldn’t dream of challenging single payer healthcare or abortion rights), mainstream political power in…

America doesn’t have a far left movement.

Why is it, exactly, that your nation decided to imprison so many of its population? Are you a particularly crime-prone people? The statistics don’t support what you did. Isn’t it odd that most other nations found less harmful ways to deal with people who harm others?

You’re a bad person.

The craziest part of immigration enforcement is that immigration enforcement officers are little more than meter-maids. Illegally crossing the border is a federal misdemeanor of lower consequence than “improperly using Smokey the Bear’s likeness”

I think it’s a frog in a pot scenario. People want to hope for the best.

I always find it astonishing that so many people continue to believe that we live in a free country.

Shit can always be worse.

Gore was the legitimate president in 2000. If the Dems actually fight, Gore wins. 9/11 never happens, Afghanistan and Iraq never happen, the Patriot Act never happens. Roberts and Alito never happen. ‘Citizens United’ never happens. The Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy never happen. Maybe the 2008 financial crisis never…

Or at the Hague when they are tried for crimes against humanity.

Bush v. Gore is the US Supreme Court decision that has been credited with—or blamed for—ending the 2000 presidential election with its interrupted recount still unfinished. Bush and Gore, of course, were the two candidates: George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and son of the forty-first president, challenging the…

I love how the pussy-ass Dem establishment won’t fight tooth and nail when they are in a tight race with the G.O.P. (Gore campaign in Florida in 2000, anyone?). But if they are in a close race against a progressive, then it’s “Fuck, this is terrible! We have do anything and everything to make sure we win!”

I hate to be the one to break it to you...

I hope any of this can be used against them in some lawsuits.

Arm yourselves. I’m not trolling or trying to be a dick. These are the people you trust to protect you. They are not looking out for you. No one is. They are trying to stay in power and law enforcement is one of their tools.  They are not here to protect and serve.  Arm yourselves. Get training.

“Nobody in government can watch everything that’s being said about an entity in social media,” the former DHS official told Politico. “What gets posted at 5 p.m. today will be buried under thousands of messages tomorrow.”

I am not really sure what having DHS “investigate” this Facebook propaganda group is going to accomplish. How about Facebook sends their info. to Propublica, or to the Congress instead?