Politics Princess' Sweet Sixteen

[Pidesco]

Puppy mills.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/02/11/1186236/-Toi-Hutchison-s-NRA-questionnaire-and-support-for-puppy-mills

[Malcador]

Related, Remington filed for bankruptcy - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/03/26/gun-maker-remington-americas-oldest-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy/457709002/

[Guard Dog]

Related, Remington filed for bankruptcy - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/03/26/gun-maker-remington-americas-oldest-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy/457709002/

That has been a long time coming.

[Guard Dog]

Puppy mills.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/02/11/1186236/-Toi-Hutchison-s-NRA-questionnaire-and-support-for-puppy-mills

OK, first of all this is the Daily Kos. Not exactly a bastion of unbiased journalism. Second of all they are attacking a strawman here a little bit. That question is less about puppy mills and more about probing a candidate's stance on enforcing an existing law rather than piling new law atop old law. The favored tactic of anti-freedom legislators and executives is to not enforce existing law through executive order or funding cuts. Then claim the moral high ground when lack of enforcement results in a crime and tout new and stricter laws (which will also go unenforced because the end game is prohibition). Third of all the puppy mill situation is one I know well having worked in dog rescue in the past. It's a nasty business that absolutely is and should be illegal in most states. But anti-puppy mill laws are often (as most laws are these days) not evenly enforced and construed to shut down legitimate private breeders who actually do a good job managing their animals. The wording of the law is key when defining what is or is not a criminal enterprise. It's often vague and left to the interpretation of law enforcement. If our history has taught us anything it's that when things are left to the cops to interpret they are going to do so in an abusive and heavy handed way 99.9% of the time.

 

Short answer, the Daily Kos is oversimplifying a complicated issue to create a strawman to attack a political foe.  

 

Of course the questions and example itself is just weapons grade stupid on the NRA's part. But they do stupid better than most other groups I'm sorry to say. If there were another nationwide group for 2nd Amendment advocacy that was better managed I'd join it. Unfortunately that clown college is all there is.

[Guard Dog]

Oh my God! Someone on the internet doctored a photo! Someone on the internet LIED! Our democracy has failed! The internet must be banned! https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/emma-gonzalez-photo-doctored-trnd/index.html

 

Here is some smelling salts for the hysterical types who think Russia stole the election of think Emma Gonzalez really wants to destroy the Republic: No one with half a brain believes what they read on the internet!

 

Hell I looked for a recipe for zucchini corn bread and still felt I should cross check it with other sources.

[smjjames]

The NRA isn't evil. I'm a member. A lifetime member. It serves a purpose that no other national group is doing. Even those that claim they are dedicated to defending rights. The problem with the NRA is a guy named Wayne LaPierre. He takes great joy in diving into the political pig pen and wallowing with the worst of them. And he has made the NRA a fundraising arm of the Republican Party. That is something it never was in the past. The cause would be better served by being more apolitical and more "colorblind" in support of candidates on both sides of the aisle.Rather than antagonizing opponents it's better to focus on electing allies. The cause would also be much better served by focus on one simple message, stay on that message, don't say ANYTHING that varies from that, and for God's sake don't publicly attack teenagers. Nothing good comes from that.

 

Perhaps you should run for NRA president?

[smjjames]

Trump has expelled 60 Russian diplomats and closed the Russian consulate in Seattle in a move that he personally made.

In response, the Russian embassy in D.C. is asking the twitterverse what US consulate in Russia they'd choose to close.. I can only assume that they're trying to make the Russian move look as non-political as possible.

[Zoraptor]

Expulsions are always political and they're always reciprocated, asking where to close is just trolling and nothing else. Russian embassies troll very frequently, admittedly it's extremely easy for them to do so considering how eminently triggerable and credulous the average westerner is. Only question is whether the reciprocation will be absolute equivalence or proportionate- and proportionate would be worse. The UK expelling 23 Russians was 40% of their staff, Russia expelling 23 Brits was considerably less than 40% of theirs. Most countries (including the US) have way more diplomats in Russia than the reverse, hence Russia expelling 755 (!) US diplomats last time to bring the numbers back to even.

 

One would not want to speculate on why there are so many more diplomats in Russia than the reverse, but I'm sure it's 100% innocent and none of them carry out activities outside their station.

 

The only surprising thing is the attempt to do expulsions from the UN by the US, which is on extremely dodgy footing. Time to move the UN to Switzerland or make its territory fully non national.

[majestic]

We're currently having a lively debate about tax-funded esotericism after it became public that a certain hospital currently under construction that already has to deal with major cost and time overruns has been "energetically cleaned" by a quack claiming to be able to "permanently protect a building from negative energy" by creating an "energy ring" around the estate.

 

For the small change of only 95k €. 's pratically a steal, right? Can't have that negative energy seeping into already sick patients and all.

 

Perhaps that'll raise public awareness a bit, because so far there's been no outcry that hospitals wasted good money on Grander water which is very much on the same level of quackery.

[injurai]

Just another charlatan interest group feigning new-age ignorance to gouge the system. I find it hard to believe that people don't know better.

[Sarex]

For anyone who cares.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

On Twitter, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister Enver Hoxhaj

I thought he was Albanian and dead.

[HoonDing]

Everytime I read there are 300-400 million guns in America I can't help but think of that ancient Chinese practice to create the ultimate poison.

 

[Zoraptor]

 

On Twitter, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister Enver Hoxhaj

I thought he was Albanian and dead.

 

 

And a dirty commie.

 

At least Djuric will likely be returned with all his organs intact, that's pretty rare for when Serbs are kidnapped in Kosovo.

[smjjames]

Expulsions are always political and they're always reciprocated, asking where to close is just trolling and nothing else. Russian embassies troll very frequently, admittedly it's extremely easy for them to do so considering how eminently triggerable and credulous the average westerner is. Only question is whether the reciprocation will be absolute equivalence or proportionate- and proportionate would be worse. The UK expelling 23 Russians was 40% of their staff, Russia expelling 23 Brits was considerably less than 40% of theirs. Most countries (including the US) have way more diplomats in Russia than the reverse, hence Russia expelling 755 (!) US diplomats last time to bring the numbers back to even.

 

One would not want to speculate on why there are so many more diplomats in Russia than the reverse, but I'm sure it's 100% innocent and none of them carry out activities outside their station.

 

The only surprising thing is the attempt to do expulsions from the UN by the US, which is on extremely dodgy footing. Time to move the UN to Switzerland or make its territory fully non national.

 

The only place where it'd truly be non-national would be Antarctica or in international waters. Sure, Switzerland is good with the neutrality, but even they have their own geopolitical dealings.

[Sarex]

Patriot missile tries to go home

[Guard Dog]

Quote of the day: "Stormy Daniels didn't vote for Trump and only had sex with him once. If you vote for him he screws you multiple times"

 

-Ann Coulter

 

[Guard Dog]

Now here is a round peg for a round hole! https://www.yahoo.com/news/clown-congress-aims-unseat-gop-rep-south-carolina-110807964--election.html

[smjjames]

Now here is a round peg for a round hole! https://www.yahoo.com/news/clown-congress-aims-unseat-gop-rep-south-carolina-110807964--election.html

 

Right up there with Vermin Supreme. Though Vermin is more of a serious parodyer.

[ShadySands]

"Lough is a native of Camden, South Carolina, and a graduate of both Dartmouth and the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Clown College"

 

That's quite impressive though not as impressive as Yale and Bartending school or Harvard and Auctioneering school or Princeton and an internship at the Doll Hospital

[HoonDing]

David Hogg 2040!

 

[Gfted1]

Lol, he looks like Malcolm in the Middle.

[Volourn]

The kid is racist. And, delusional.

[smjjames]

The kid is racist. And, delusional.

 

Proof?

[Volourn]

He is a white male.