The News Thread

[UltimateApathy]

"My decision to resign is in response to your attacks on the core values of the United States. Your failure to condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis has domestic and international ramifications," Kammen wrote.

But within the one page letter was a less obvious message -- an acrostic, with the first letter of each paragraph spelling "IMPEACH."'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hit-fresh-resignation-165949929.html

 

[CiG]

Fuck America and its 13 Nazis.

 

[CiG]

Holy shit, what the holy fuck is happening in your country?

On Tuesday night, the network confirmed that its management moved an Asian-American announcer, Robert Lee, off the University of Virginia's home opener football game "simply because of the coincidence of his name."

Earlier Tuesday, a source had told CNN that Lee was abruptly switched to the Youngstown versus Pitt game. He had recently been promoted by ESPN, so the switch was a sensitive matter.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/med...CNNp082317espn-robert-lee-uva-game0840AMStory

 

[Baroque]

Holy shit, what the holy fuck is happening in your country?


http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/med...CNNp082317espn-robert-lee-uva-game0840AMStory

Yeah that's pretty much bullshit. All this anti discrimination makes sense, but we're supposed to be ok with discrimination based on a name?

 

[Nate Skalman]

Why not "Bob" Lee, or something? They couldn't get creative with his name? Instead, they actually send him somewhere else...really?

 

[Nate Skalman]

"Reporter Robert E Lee here, reporting live from Phoenix... ...back to you, Brenda..."

 

[Mort Divine]

Holy shit, what the holy fuck is happening in your country?


http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/med...CNNp082317espn-robert-lee-uva-game0840AMStory

I believe I read that he was asked if he would like a different assignment and chose to take another one. Not as bad as it seemed, but him needing to be asked even is dumb tbh.

 

[CiG]

I feel sorry for any South Americans named Adolfo!

America should just collectively cyanide itself at this point.

 

[UltimateApathy]

Meanwhile, Orange Clown threatened to shut down the U.S. government to build a wall. You guys need to get your priorities straight in here:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tr...wall-funding-predicts-end-of-nafta-2017-08-22

 

[CiG]

Can you fuck off already?

 

[The Ozzman]

Keeping to his campaign promises? What a novel concept!

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Keeping to his campaign promises? What a novel concept!

Is he fulfilling the campaign promise if Mexico isn't paying for it?

 

[Einherjar86]

Sure, but when corporations or individuals confer political significance it has both a leveraging function and a function of further government empowerment. Both of which attempt to wield government like a personal outsized cudgel and to simultaneously, ultimately, weaken the wielder.

The excesses of governance are another conversation. I'm just saying that government isn't the only politicized (or politicizing) social system. The politicization of everyday life is not a good thing, but I wouldn't call it a horrible thing either. It's an unavoidable effect of complex society.

I do think that politicization leads to corruptibility, groupthink, cognitive dissonance, and other symptoms that I'm no doubt guilty of (for what it's worth, all of these things are symptoms of any closed community). My self-awareness isn't an impetus to depoliticize, but to not lose sight of conflicting positions. I follow F. Scott Fitzgerald's comment in "The Crack Up": "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

Finally, "Weaken the Wielder" sounds like the name of a doom metal band/album.

Holy shit, what the holy fuck is happening in your country?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/med...CNNp082317espn-robert-lee-uva-game0840AMStory

Yeah, this is really unfortunate.

 

[rms]

I believe I read that he was asked if he would like a different assignment and chose to take another one. Not as bad as it seemed, but him needing to be asked even is dumb tbh.

a lot of double speak on this. PR statement came out with higher up saying they "mutually came to a decision" and I can't imagine the play by play cared enough to even ask. trying to get people to admit ESPN is fearful of the leftist twitter mob is a tough one though

America should just collectively cyanide itself at this point.

mother fucker, we're still the least ridiculous of all the "democratic nations"

#backTobackTobackChamps

 

[CiG]

Lets talk again after Mort's mental midget militia blows up Mount Rushmore and replaces it with a monument to the great warriors of justice; Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro.

 

[The Ozzman]

Is he fulfilling the campaign promise if Mexico isn't paying for it?

He still has 7.5 more years. Just wait.

Trump retweeted his own version of an Obama/Eclipse meme. Shitposter extraordinaire:

 

[UltimateApathy]

Just look at this ranting lunatic:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-un...edia-typo-riddled-twitter-rant-135304947.html

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

.... dude, don't you have your own thread for this shit?

 

[Nate Skalman]

He did- everyone got tired of being called "son" and bailed...It ended with low brow insults on my end. lol...I didn't want to go there, but...

 

[Nate Skalman]

Not all Americans are losing their shit...just city dwellers inside the 'mooching radius' of social programs and media coverage. Outside the cities, its business as usual. Whining pussies on the news are making Americans look like a South Park episode.