Deplorable

They probably don't tell the President about the aliens.

The Pilgrims were dissenters but literally thought they were going to a new land to build God's kingdom on Earth. If you think about the start, it all kind of makes sense. No state church but heavy religious symbolism in government.

No official or state church. Different.

George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. Teddy Roosevelt. Etc.

I'm for letting supermodels in.

Weird to watch him talk without chants and fights and screaming hippies in the background.

Virtue signaling.

Trigger Warning

What? He's constitutionally the chief executive. One of his main jobs listed in the US Constitution is to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." He controls the Justice Department. Hmmm. Looked it up. Appears you're right. Like I said, I don't know much about the role Irish politics play in places like NYC other than that I know it's been a big deal for a long, long time. I remember learning in high school about Irish people from New York attempting various invasions of Canada in the late 1800s. Edit: Actually, now that I think about it I'd wager it had to do with getting in good with Irish union officials.

So what you're saying is that Obama didn't prosecute his cronies that committed crimes? We all already knew this. IRS targeting of Tea Party groups and coverups. Illegal record keeping at State Department. Illegal arms sales to Mexican cartels. Falsified records at Veterans Hospitals which covered up preventable deaths.

You'd have to talk to Irish-Americans who take the Irish part seriously. I've never met such a person, but I've never spent much time in the big east coast cities that were overrun by Catholic/Jewish/Orthodox immigrants to such an extent that the various groups held on to more of their identity. I do have a friend from DC who's dad was super into being Irish and got his citizenship. My friend said his dad went to Ireland and they pretty much told him he wasn't Irish and to get his Yankee ass back to America. I doubt Trump had much good to say about the IRA. I'm against that stuff. Yep. Within the margin of error. The issue was all the polls from big, big media organizations a week or two before the election that showed Clinton up by high single to low double digits. The sampling was clearly manipulated.

Not so popular in Edmonton.

Here's a semi-hostile LA Times story on the guy who's writing most of Trump's speech, Stephen Miller. I'd forgotten about him until he resurfaced during this campaign, but he first came to national prominence as a student writer at the Duke University newspaper during the lacrosse rape controversy. He was the only guy connected with the University who was willing to defend the accused, while almost the whole facility and administration was busy trying to railroad them in an extreme act of virtue signaling. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-speechwriter-santamonica-20170117-story.html

Political terrorism resulting in death when democratic means are available is the worst crime a person can commit. In addition to the deaths it is aimed at each and every citizen and seeks to undermine our very democratic way of life. Anybody who engages in it should spend the rest of their life in prison as a specific deterrent. That's my belief. People are of course free to disagree. Beyond that this dude doesn't seem very sorry for what happened and plotted an escape while in prison that would have resulted in the deaths of prison guards. A few further thoughts: The Hamilton musical dude, Lin-Manuel Miranda, is celebrating the release. These are the dudes who lectured Mike Pence about protecting the rights of people? Like the right to peacefully vote for the political arrangements we desire. The right to walk around a city in the US without someone who didn't like the way a vote went blowing you up? Chicago Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who was actively involved with the violent shutdown of Trump's Chicago and the attacks on Trump supporters, is celebrating the release and decrying US imperialism in the Caribbean. It makes me wonder why I have to be ruled by Mr. Gutierrez.

It seems like the UK is the odd man out in not having some sort of executive who routinely confers pardons. Looks like this is mostly due to the Monarchy declining to use the power as they accepted a reduced role in modern times. Wiki says they still use it occasionally in consultation with the government and only in cases of clear miscarriage of justice rather than the political acts that occur in the US and other countries.

The real outrage was freeing Oscar Lopez Rivera. Obama letting out his love for anti-Western terrorists. I'll wager he's been waiting his whole term for this moment. The Nelson Mandela of Puerto Rico! Lol.

Why shouldn't she have been locked up? I never looked into the details of the case and I generally like when the government gets embarrassed, but I'm not sure we can have every Private in the Army deciding to muck up war policy if they don't like something.

Foreigners in large numbers bring their culture. Do you not agree? A few here or there sprinkled through a neighborhood is not a big deal. When they move in by the dozens people start to have issues where their culture rubs wrongly up against the host culture. This can be small things all the way up to big things. One absolutely true stereotype about Latin immigrants to the US is how they carry on at all hours without respect to their neighbors. In their country this isn't rude. In our country it is. It just has to do with how we were raised. When I was a kid all the boys in the neighborhood would stay up late in the summers playing various war games. We knew which houses and yards we were allowed near. If we went into the yard of a kid not involved or my parents could here us from inside the house I would get pulled inside an spanked. A Latin person grows up with neighborhood bashes that carried on to all hours of the night. That might seem small to most people, but it demonstrates cultural differences. Then you have big things like gender roles or sexual habits that can really look horrifying to white Americans or white British, but may not cause people from the 3rd world to think twice. For instance, in large parts of Latin America it's normal for girls at the age of 12-14 to start having sex with young adult men. One of my best friends had a drug addict mom and grew up in public housing in Houston, TX. They were the only white family. Here older sister started openly dating an adult Mexican at 13. They would hold hands and walk around the neighborhood. Nobody thought twice. She talked about how when she was 12 people regularly started making sexual advances to the point that she was scared to ever go outside. She got her mom to let her go live with her grandparents because of this. It doesn't really matter if you know your neighbors. If they share your culture you can largely expect them to abide by your own cultural norms. If you have a few foreigners they will mostly respect your norms to get along. If they become the majority or a large enough minority they will impose their norms on your home. That's just the way it is.

Don't forget Robert E. Lee Day for our friends in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Virginia.

No. If MLK were alive today he'd follow every wacky white led progressive fantasy, just like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton because that's where the money is. No chance MLK would side with the "woke" black nationalists who consider feminism a white plot to destroy the black man and black culture.

You are questioning the intellect of Trump while having Justin fuckin Trudeau in your avatar? The dude with a literature and education bachelors degrees. That screams trust fund kid who wanted easy degrees to keep the money coming until he was old enough for full access outside of being a student. Then he dropped out of graduate school for engineering and again for something called environmental geography. The guy who just named a social worker Somali immigrant as Immigration Minister rather than somebody who is looking out for Canadians? The One Direction Prime Minister? Vs the guy with an economics degree from an Ivy League school who then went on to become a billionaire?

I'm sorry if I'm not being clear, but it appears you are arguing right past what I am saying. I don't have much training in writing and was not the best at that subject in school.