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• On the post: Our Humanity

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 10:39am

  Re: Isn't this the same executive order....

  No, it isn't.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/29/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee-policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011/?utm_term=.85672de56163

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2017 @ 11:55am

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  Until we pissed them off to the point the would put a Trump in office.

  What you are describing is the behavior of a child. But since you have to be 18 to vote for president in this country, we can safely assume that Trump voters are adults, and are therefore responsible for their actions.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2017 @ 06:46am

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  Someone I don't know wrote:

  My whole point in doing so was to see what kind of person he was...

  *she. (Since you're talking about what kind of person I am, you might as well get that right)

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 06:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  We called them bigots, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, islamaphobes,

  "I'm tired of being called a racist so I'll become a racist just to show them" is ridiculous. And, translated, it means, "I was a racist all along, I'm just used to people being too afraid to mention it." Stop making excuses for Trump voters. They're adults, they're capable of reason, they knew he was, and they voted for him anyway. They put us in this mess.

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 04:15pm

  Re: Re:

  Says who? You do know that it's a old Android phone!!! Do you really think Trump wouldn't own a much newer phone?

  Says the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html?_r=1 Says Android Central http://m.androidcentral.com/which-android-phone-does-donald-trump-use Says Nicholas Weaver https://www.lawfareblog.com/president-trumps-insecure-android

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 03:44pm

  Re: Re:

  Anonymous Coward wrote:

  If you gauge things by the rapid fire OMG TRUMP stories on this site, and the pile on commenters rapidly nodding in agreement in unison, we won't make it to a month

  If you gauge things by what Trump has said and done in the week since he became president (and his entire adult life prior to that) and the utter spinelessness shown by Congress in response, the stories and commenters are right.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 03:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  [putting my reply in the correct place]
  Not without doxing myself, no.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 03:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  oops, wrong reply

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 03:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Not without doxing myself, no.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 10:37am

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  Since I didn't dare take out my phone to take a photo, I can offer no pictures of said SWAT guy with his rifle aimed at us.
  
  Here's what I will tell you. I work at UCLA and seven months ago there was a shooting on campus. That much you can Google. There was also a false report of a shooting in my building, which brought the SWAT team in, some members of which apparently forget the old rule "Never point a gun at something you're not prepared to destroy." (Or they just didn't care.)

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 10:12am

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  And for the record: I actually have had a gun pointed at me at work, but it wasn't a handgun. It was a rather amped-up SWAT guy with a rifle (who, I'll note, still pointed the rifle at my coworkers and me even after establishing that we weren't a threat, because his flashlight was attached to his rifle).

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 10:12am

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  Anonymous Coward wrote:

  When you do your job, how often are you targeted by a hand gun?

  Police being shot at is in fact rare. And last I checked, police aren't conscripts. If cops don't think they're capable of doing a job without violating people's rights, then they shouldn't be in the job.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 09:58am

  Re:

  Hans wrote:

  Borders, Lauguage and Culture!

  No one will miss you if you leave, Nazi.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 09:57am

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  D1 officers refusing the do routine patrols of OTR

  If I don't do my job, I get fired.

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 09:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Badlands

  Anonymous Coward wrote:

  Hillary: only president with a bodycount...unrelated to war or duels

  Bullshit.

• On the post: Lock Them Up! Trump Staff Still Using Private Republican National Committee Email Accounts

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 11:11am

  On top of the email thing, we know that Trump is still tweeting from his unsecured Android phone.
  
  Is he using that same phone for calls?

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 04:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The well established fact that he is president
  
  Yes, that's why we're having this discussion. Do try to keep up.

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 01:28pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yep, that's what I meant (with one minor clarification: "her point").

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2017 @ 12:15pm

  Re: Re: Presidential Authority

  Manabi wrote:

  They're part of the executive branch, so he does have the authority to do so. However, he will have trouble if he tries to fire people. In general, civil service employees at or below the pay level of GS-15 cannot be fired on a presidential whim.

  Except... "House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker — down to $1 — a move that threatens to upend the 130-year-old civil service." From: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/house-republicans-revive-obscure-rule-that-could-allow-them-to-slash-the-pay-of-individual-federal-workers-to-1/2017/01/04/4e80c990-d2b2-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?utm_term=.943d63c2323d

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 08:39pm

  Re: Re:

  No sane person would leak anything about the Trump administration to Wikileaks.

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