Adolf Trump's Transition Team Confirms Pick of Racist Senator Jeff Sessions for AG Nomination...

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  • Fosheezy
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  • rapmusic
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    Lmao Trump and clinton are the same though, right?? Lol "they're one and the same". This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks. Again, survive the drought. Shout out to Jill Stein and Gary Johnson though
    I'm really enjoying this ? man. If they're both the same why are people protesting? Why people so scared? Why people acting like the world will end? People on that ?
  • manofmorehouse
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    rapmusic wrote: »
    Lmao Trump and clinton are the same though, right?? Lol "they're one and the same". This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks. Again, survive the drought. Shout out to Jill Stein and Gary Johnson though
    I'm really enjoying this ? man. If they're both the same why are people protesting? Why people so scared? Why people acting like the world will end? People on that ?

    Just to be clear, I was being facetious. I think it's hilarious too. Alot of these ? out here protesting trump didn't vote. It's too late now. He's here. The next 4 years are what we all deserve as a nation
  • Undefeatable
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    smp4life wrote: »
    People that didn't vote (or voted 3rd party) doing mental gymnastics to convince themselves Trump and Clinton are the same.

    That's exactly what's happening and what will continue to happen.
  • Undefeatable
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    Swiffness! wrote: »
    Copper wrote: »
    According to these IC ? ? we shouldn't care and should stop crying

    "What's good for black people is actually bad for them"

    This that same circular logic that make these smartdumb ? act like segregation was a good thing

    Way they tell it, we was better off as slaves because "at least then white people were honest about their racism"

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  • leftcoastkev
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    rapmusic wrote: »
    Lmao Trump and clinton are the same though, right?? Lol "they're one and the same". This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks. Again, survive the drought. Shout out to Jill Stein and Gary Johnson though
    I'm really enjoying this ? man. If they're both the same why are people protesting? Why people so scared? Why people acting like the world will end? People on that ?

    Because most ppl would rather close their eyes and die comfortably than face their killer head on.




  • blackrain
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    ghostdog56 wrote: »
    Where are all you ? that were screaming Obama is the president of all america for the last eight years? Trump is pushing a white agenda with zero ? given but Obama couldn't push a black one? Y'all are getting your ? wake up call, it seems like only black people push this we all in this together ? .

    So don't cry now you had eight years to get him to pass bills that would benefit black people but as usual you went right to the back of the bus and let "all of America" (which apparently doesn't include black people) get the good seats

    Umm you do realize these nominations have to be approved...as in they have to be agreed upon...as in if they are agreed upon its actually further proof of the ? Obama was up against with how often he face opposition for stuff he wanted to do
  • Maximus Rex
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    texas409 wrote: »
    Amerikkka is getting what she deserves. And yet us negroes are still doing what we do best infighting and blaming. We did our part it was a smaller part than last time but we did our part. The reason Trump and his goons are in office is because the others that did or did not vote. Stop blaming our people

    So who in the ? were suppose to vote for. ? , take yo' ass back to sleep, I'll wake you when the revolution is over.
  • Neophyte Wolfgang
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    Trump elected to office is the wake up call. If Hilliary got elected it would be more of the same ? -hum ? footing ? , nothing would get done people would generally be complacent. Trump was needed, its a catch 22. People need to wake up and get too work. The mainstream media has been caught red handed lying, conspiracy theorist are looking like the most sane logical people now
  • the dukester
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    I blame crooked Hillary for this ? .

    If she wouldn't have cheated to win the primary, Bernie Sanders would be the President right now.
  • Huey_C
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    ? ? still bringing up Hillary is a Trump thread smh.
  • Max.
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    Demorcrats motto was "hey were not as bad republicans"


    Lmaooo think about that ?
  • Go figure
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    This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks.

    In that case he apparently will continue doing the same as whoever currently holds that position, which is absolutely nothing.
  • Copper
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    Lmao Trump and clinton are the same though, right?? Lol "they're one and the same". This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks. Again, survive the drought. Shout out to Jill Stein and Gary Johnson though

    I tried to explain this to ? arguing that.
    It's more about the ripple effects he will have on policies affecting blacks...but ? think going against the grain is cool
  • manofmorehouse
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    Go figure wrote: »
    This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks.

    In that case he apparently will continue doing the same as whoever currently holds that position, which is absolutely nothing.

    You're right bruh. Everything will be fine.
  • Undefeatable
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    Hillary supported criminal justice reform, as did many other democrats and even some Republicans. But now if Sessions is confirmed, it will be dead for at least four years.


    Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

    By Ed Kilgore

    For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the enforcement of civil rights and voting rights. As my colleague Eric Levitz explains, Sessions’s entrenched position in the very last ditch of support for the 1980s-style “war on drugs” will create some serious conflicts with states that are rapidly moving toward legalization of marijuana.

    There’s one issue, however, where Sessions’s evident lack of sympathy for minority Americans and his passion for the war on drugs comes together in an especially destructive way: criminal-justice reform. As a result, a painfully constructed bipartisan and cross-ideological movement to “de-incarcerate” many people (disproportionately African-American and Latinos, of course) tossed into prisons as a result of the mandatory minimum sentences, which spread like wildfire in the 1980s and 1990s, could soon completely fall apart.

    The “criminal-justice reform” effort is a rare and perhaps (in this polarized age, at least) unique example of thinkers and policy makers from very different perspectives coming together over a long period of time and gradually coming near legislative success. Among conservatives, a combination of self-conscious Christian activists promoting the possibility of rehabilitation, fiscal hawks concerned by the vast cost of American prisons, and quasi-libertarians who dislike incarcerating people for their private drug use, made criminal-justice reform not only acceptable but respectable on the right. When arch-conservative Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, and traditional liberal Senator ? Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, came together to sponsor legislation reforming federal sentencing policies in 2013, it looked like a breakthrough could be possible. After another couple of years absorbed with bringing old-line conservative Judiciary Committee chairmen Republicans Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, pay dirt looked near. Figures as wildly diverse as the President of the United States and the Koch Brothers were on record arguing that criminal-justice reform was an urgent national priority.

    Then, with the 2016 elections pending, the junior U.S. senator from Alabama began raining on the criminal-justice-reform parade, attacking pending Senate legislation on both traditional war-on-drugs grounds, and the new claim that America was being subsumed in a new “crime wave.” Jeff Sessions’s close friend Donald Trump was soon echoing the claim that violent crime was sweeping the nation (untrue, but also hard to refute in the wake of homicide spikes in many cities), while his Senate wing man Tom Cotton of Arkansas argued the real problem with the criminal-justice system was “under-incarceration.” Revisions to the main Senate bill on sentencing reform to ensure violent offenders did not benefit kept some jittery conservatives onboard — but not Sessions. Partly due to Sessions’s and Cotton’s demagoguing on the issue, Mitch McConnell shelved action on the bill for the year.

    And now Jeff Sessions is going to become attorney general, unless his colleagues prevent his confirmation (very unlikely, though the confirmation hearings could be interesting).

    You cannot blame the apparent failure of federal-sentencing reform entirely on the reactionary stylings of Sessions and Cotton. There was a simmering dispute just under the surface all along — of particular concern to House Judiciary chair Goodlatte — as to whether sentencing reform should encompass not just nonviolent drug offenders but white-collar defendants convicted without proof of criminal intent (of great interest to business magnates at risk of criminal prosecution for violating federal regulations). Maybe the dream of bipartisan legislation unraveling the mistakes of the 1980s was a fantasy after all.

    But with Jeff Sessions — a man who in almost every respect is still living in the 1980s, if not some earlier decades of U.S. and Alabama history — at the top of the law-enforcement machinery of the federal government, criminal-justice reform in Washington (though perhaps not in the states) is probably dead for the foreseeable future. It is unclear if Trump understands appointing Sessions is going to be a real obstacle to his proclaimed goal of winning 95 percent of the African-American vote in 2020. But we all need to understand that Trump’s decision to make Sessions the beneficiary of one of his very first cabinet appointments should be the death knell for any naïve hopes the new administration would create mind-bending bipartisan coalitions. Trump is turning back the clock in a big hurry.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/sessions-as-ag-means-criminal-justice-reform-is-dead.html
  • Undefeatable
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    Go figure wrote: »
    This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks.

    In that case he apparently will continue doing the same as whoever currently holds that position, which is absolutely nothing.

    Under Obama, Department of Justice officials have wanted to lay more charges, but their hands are tied by laws that require them to prove that officers acted willfully to deprive persons of their constitutional rights. That's a high standard that they have to meet. When the evidence has been clear, in some cases they have brought federal charges (e.g. the Walter Scott case). Efforts should definitely be made to untie the hands of Justice Department officials, cause it is clear that more often than not local officials are not doing their jobs. But now there is no chance that such efforts will be made by Trump and a Republican Congress. Hell, even if Obama had somehow managed to get the laws changed, there is every reason to believe that, even with their hands untied, Justice Department officials in a Trump administration wouldn't do ? .

    That's more reason why this idea that Trump and Hillary are same is just complete and utter ? .
  • manofmorehouse
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    Go figure wrote: »
    This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks.

    In that case he apparently will continue doing the same as whoever currently holds that position, which is absolutely nothing.

    Under Obama, Department of Justice officials have wanted to lay more charges, but their hands are tied by laws that require them to prove that officers acted willfully to deprive persons of their constitutional rights. That's a high standard that they have to meet. When the evidence has been clear, in some cases they have brought federal charges (e.g. the Walter Scott case). Efforts should definitely be made to untie the hands of Justice Department officials, cause it is clear that more often than not local officials are not doing their jobs. But now there is no chance that such efforts will be made by Trump and a Republican Congress. Hell, even if Obama had somehow managed to get the laws changed, there is every reason to believe that, even with their hands untied, Justice Department officials in a Trump administration wouldn't do ? .

    That's more reason why this idea that Trump and Hillary are same is just complete and utter ? .

    It's hard for alot of people to comprehend what's obvious. Even with this, a ? will come in here talking about emails that don't mean ? to a ? day to day or a 20 year old quote lol
  • mc317
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    But but mannequin challenge, ? is doomed, the black chick didn't even get a year in.
  • the dukester
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    Copper wrote: »
    Lmao Trump and clinton are the same though, right?? Lol "they're one and the same". This is going to be the guy that decides whether or not to prosecute cops killing unarmed blacks. Again, survive the drought. Shout out to Jill Stein and Gary Johnson though

    I tried to explain this to ? arguing that.
    It's more about the ripple effects he will have on policies affecting blacks...but ? think going against the grain is cool

    So the alternative is to reward a crooked politician by rewarding her with the presidency.

    Makes perfect sense *sarcasm.*

    Obama resided over 8 years of a 40% black male prison incarceration rate. Crooked Hillary would have continued this "legacy."

    I'll take a empty suit in Donald Trump, rather than a corporatist, corrupt, war-hawk any day of the week.
  • marc123
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    "This is Trump's America now boy!"
  • blackamerica
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    ghostdog56 wrote: »
    Where are all you ? that were screaming Obama is the president of all america for the last eight years? Trump is pushing a white agenda with zero ? given but Obama couldn't push a black one? Y'all are getting your ? wake up call, it seems like only black people push this we all in this together ? .

    So don't cry now you had eight years to get him to pass bills that would benefit black people but as usual you went right to the back of the bus and let "all of America" (which apparently doesn't include black people) get the good seats
    Yep. Good point
  • Arya Tsaddiq
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    This must be what the Jews in Germany felt like when ? was first elected.....