Quote from: Ian on January 26, 2017, 01:56:11 PM

;_;

Quote from: rc on January 26, 2017, 01:55:23 PM

I'm about to change it to a new one with 5% more saturation, so enjoy it while it lasts

What do you think?

Bout as ugly as your face

I'm quite moderate, thank you very much

This bill won't make it through the Senate, if Democrats have any moral backbone to their base.

It's mine

I pray California gets caught with massive fraud.

You know, I used to find you to be someone with moderate views and a mild semblance of sanity.

Quote from: Icy on January 25, 2017, 04:37:31 PM

Ever get the feeling you're watching someone talk to themselves?

The idiot still thinks I'm Cheat

We're all Cheat.

But I like Jeb.

Quote from: Ushan on January 25, 2017, 02:03:31 PM

Quote from: Deci on January 25, 2017, 01:27:42 PM

If the reason to ban me is because I voted for Trump, then you're going to have to ban everyone else that voted for Trump.

Its only fair.

Sounds good.

I'm too lazy

I've got a free hour and a half.

From the looks of the EO, Trump plans to get Mexico to "pay for the wall" by cutting back aid to the country - including economic and humanitarian aid.

Promote people that voted for Gary Johnson.

Supports of Gary "What is Aleppo?" Johnson should be demoted.

The New York Times

Keep in mind they did mention Trump receiving the report of the allegations, but they did cover what was in the "report" and and went into detail. It wasn't just briefing Trump on the memo. They also mention that the intelligence agencies find the leaker highly credible, even if they can't verify the claims; CNN does this as well.

Interesting, I stand corrected that the NYTimes reported on the contents. I'll give it a bit more of a read once my class lets out. 

Oddly enough, I can't get anything out of the WaPo at all. The only mention of the event comes from a blog post on urine jokes trending after it occurred. Either WaPo removed their articles on the subject or they have odd search specifics to get to their important articles because keywords such as "Trump Russia Memo" doesn't bring up anything on their site other than recent post-inauguration events and the blog post mentioned earlier.

WaPo search has always been bad. I'll see if I can find it.

The media said that there was high credibility to those claims though.

High credibility to the claim that "POTUS and PEOTUS were briefed on the dossier." None of the media organizations with actual credibility (Sorry Buzzfeed) ran with the story of "TRUMP LIKES TO BE PISSED ON", and most of them even went out of the way to say that they've investigates said claims for months and were unable to verify them. A handful of them did link to the Buzzfeed article when saying that it was published, but none outright claimed that the dossier was accurate or credible.

Everyone from CNN, to the NYT, to WaPo, to even MotherJones outright said they did not condone what Buzzfeed did, that it violated every journalistic ethic out there, and that the story they were running was congruent from the original CNN story.

Basically they wanted to run the story but wanted to be absolved of responsibility so we heard nonstop "The sources from Buzzfeed are very much credible!" without actually telling us what makes it credible.

Again, wrong. They weren't claiming that the Buzzfeed sources were credible (At least from my recollection. If you have stories saying otherwise, go ahead and post).

They were saying that the intelligence sources that stated "Trump and Obama were briefed on this" were credible, because you had people like Kellyanne Conway and other Trump advisors vehemently denying any intel briefing had these claims and tying CNN and Buzzfeed together.

Of course, ironically, Conway and other Trump advisors couldn't definitely know whether the briefing contained the dossier summary because they weren't there either.

Go back and read the claims of credibility, or better yet, watch the Anderson Cooper segment on the topic - it wasn't Buzzfeed credibility they defended, but their intelligence sources that said "Trump was briefed on this with two pages attached to the briefing."

All the while no one would report all the debunking that was going on.

Again, go back and read the reports. The actual media organizations reporting was not about the contents of the dossier - but that Trump had been briefed on it. The actual story was never about the contents of the 35 pages.

And people think I'm reactionary... Turkey is absolutely right and this is just Metropolitan Police freaking out and arresting anyone near the scenes of disturbance.

For once I agree with Das.

I'm hungry. I want some food.

Brilliant.

Jeb is hilarious.