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I'm amazed that you made that first statement, and then concluded with that question for me.

I'm putting tesla on ignore. Even posting on the same thread as him makes me wonder if the police will come to my house and arrest me.

Skuj - I quoted ildulco first and my response was directed at him saying the email story was over.

The matter of “substance” directed toward you was about you constantly using Fox News—Trump Tweets as a response to anything I have to say???

I have no clue as to what tesla is referring to???


The Democratic Dance Party

Melania's jacket while visiting the border:



Yes, it actually says "I Really Don't Care, Do U?"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...-children.html

Never Mind the Children. In Duluth, Trump Celebrates Himself


Actually, no you don't, no you aren't, no you're not. Sad.

Well, like I said before we can do this all day.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/im...milies-n884856

The Trumpists keep saying "Obama did exactly the same" and in my readings I see that it was very different indeed.

apparently the torture of children is something that requires a 'balanced debate'

I'll take the don't-torture-children side if you don't mind. Metropolitan liberal elitist that I am.

Flaming Tesla with Shunk in the trunk

Those things self-combust you know. :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...combusted.html

NPR is making out like the children are being processed into some vague and unknown foster system by HHS and DHS - which is just another way for the kids to get trafficked - this is the worst situation possible, or as bad as the gangs in Honduras that now have free reign forcing your kid into prostitution, thanks to the criminal enterprise that took over the country through a US approved coup, under Obama and while H. Clinton was SecState. We're basically having to pick up their shit now, if this wasn't the plan all along. if these kids even exist!

Crisis actor spotted at Texas child migrant detention center ;) :D

The Roseanne Barred Show

Oh well! Before their homes are foreclosed by Trump's banking buddies, Trump supporters can forget their entirely preventable troubles with the president's favorite TV show "Roseanne," which is returning to ABC minus Roseanne, her likeness, or creative and financial participation. (Now maybe NBC will return those phone calls regarding my proposed "The Non-Cosby Show.")

Look, I don't want the world the blow the fuck up, but this is just hughlaurieous:

Trump officially declares N. Korea still a threat, despite his claim after historic summit

Trump tried to honor victims of crimes by unauthorized immigrants... by signing their portraits
The images were displayed at a "permanent separation" event held by the administration.

At one point during the event, Trump pointed to a photo of someone who had been killed and joked: "Tom Selleck, except better looking."

That Time cover actually manages to look.....nice.

Does anybody even blink when Trump holds an event during this crisis to basically paint immigrants as bad/evil/wrong? He couldn't have picked a worse time for a political stunt like this.

When will he meet with families of victims of Nationalist White Supremacy groups?

Yeah, no, dude, there were good people on both sides. On both sides...!

We haven’t seen anything this punk rock in a long time!

I always knew Tesla was a cunt but I didn't suspect you are one too until I decided to open this thread and read your posts. I wish your kids are taken away from you and you never get to see them again. You are unfunny, insensitive and a piece of shit.

Oh please.

Get off your high horse.

Trump tweeted: ''I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO YOU?' written on the back of Melania's jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares.'

Meanwhile, England opens up their prisons and releases a bunch of thugs 'because they don't have room in the jail'. We're all being set up for failure.

Here's your typical "resistance" leader now encouraging attacks against a democratically elected government.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) openly called for people to form a mob and physically confront members of Donald Trump's administration if they see them out in public.

Waters.. doesn't live in the district she represents and paid her daughter $750,000 for Democratic fundraising activities

she lives..in a 6,000-square foot, $4.3 million mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Now how’d she afford a place like that? After having spent the last 40 years working in government? “How does she keep getting re-elected despite not living in her own congressional district?”

I must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Genteel Death again.

So, how's that whole North Korea denuclearization thing proceeding? Dems, do you have any concerns, having seen the very detailed (sarcasm) agreement? The Iran deal was so terrible, and this one is so great, right? Why the fuck aren't the Dems demanding some kind of (completely justified) emergency session about all this? This is fucking worse than "peace in our time". Fuck me.

A slight aside: How the fuck, on a Sonic Youth forum of all places, can people like tesla be present? I'm all for differing political opinions, but absolute blindness and koolaid consumption at this place of all places really baffles me. Sonic Youth is the antithesis of a "Republican Band", aren't they?

But this is the same guy who believes Putin did not interfere in the election, because Putin said so, and he has ignored what his own intelligence agencies told him. What is FBI doing about all this? Fuck all, most likely. Putin laughs himself to sleep every night.

In a very sinister way I'm glad the Supreme Court upheld Trump's travel ban. More ammunition against Trump when the history books are written.

DO NOT CONGRATUL— oh shit too late.

Trump calls Erdoğan to congratulate him on election win

FUCK it's been a shitty day if you hate Trump as much as I do.

Top-ranking democrat Joe Crowley, who many thought was poised to become the next speaker of the house, has just been defeated by progressive challenger and democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in an enormous upset:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...imary-new-york


Her platform:

- Medicare for all
- Housing as a human right
- A federal jobs guarantee
- Gun control/assault weapons ban
- End private prisons
- Immigration justice/abolish ICE
- Public financing of elections
- Restore Glass Steagall
- Mobilizing against climate change

I feel SOMEWHAT optimistic for the first time since the 2016 Sanders campaign... Thanks to the people of New York's 14th district. Now please vote for Cynthia Nixon in September :cool:

In a Guardian interview, David Lynch said this about Trump (and I'm quoting the complete part that talks about politics):


Then Trump tweeted:
with a link to the Breitbart article



So Lynch wrote this open letter:

Should/Would/Could Jim Carrey run for President?

The Deep State is ecstatic! For the first time, a Republican will win Queens in decades. You see, Cortez isn't an Israel Firster, you can see the Israeli news making this point

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pre...mary-1.6218292

And there is Cynthia Nixon trying to mooch some of her success. No way will the establishment allow an antiIsraeli to win in Queens.

I loathe Cuomo - I have a list of his tyrannical acts on my front door - but Nixon would be worse than useless

tesla.....you're remarkably simple for someone who thinks himself so elevated in thought.

^^^


frankly I'm really disheartened and disappointed by the attitudes harboured by some people on here, tesla aside because obviously he's just a stupid piece of shit lol. I came onto this forum as a kid pretty much, still in high school, and I would read the words of people, think they were really cool and they had interesting opinions/cool taste/seemed like nice, genuine, heartfelt people. in some weird way it was nice to look on here and see people who I could imagine myself bonding with over shared interests in a way that's difficult when you're a kid. so to see people expressing adoration for/being emboldened by the actions of a truly despicable person really recasts stuff for me, it's really quite tragic. regarding certain individuals in particular, reading this thread is just really, really disappointing, to see that they've devolved into (or perhaps have finally been given the platform to exhibit the views of) pig-headed people.


we're truly in dire straits as a species.

/bytor your predilection for industrial in retrospect looks a bit fucked up now.....you right mate? ironed your garb recently?

Gee I don't even try for attention, all I have to do is not think in the "Approved Way", whatever that is these days. I forget most of you don't come here from a hardcore punk free thinking backgound. most of you are here from Carrrie Underwood and Katy Perry and the DNC.

I'm sorry I don't believe in open borders.

Sometimes you just keep it simple. You have this strange idea not only that the USA and Europe can absorb the 7 billion poor people in the world, but I'm supposed to give up my life for that.

Sorry if I'm a little skeptical

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ignorecover-it

why is this site always double spacing everything now

Somebody obviously gave Lynch a talking to. He really is a great artist, but clearly, he has no clue what is going on outside his work.

Pretty much every day I walk to work west on East 6th Street, across Cooper Square, past the dipshit twins playing badminton in the middle of the sidewalk next to Cooper Union, past the cube in Astor Place, to the uptown at Broadway at 8th St, and I see at least a dozen caucasian dopers sleeping under the building scaffoldings all over the neighborhood, and in the restaurant stairwells, they migrate to Starbucks to use their bathroom and sleep in the front rooms, there are usually a half dozen or so spread out around astor place; they are the campers with their sad dogs, a new code for dope user, dressing like a camper with their template camo colored rags pieced together and sad dog. And when I say dope, I mean heroin or other hard opiates, not weed, but they're probably also polyabusing meth and coke and alcohol and dope and then they od and the taxpayer gets to pick up after them. I generally only see white people sleeping on the street and networked young white junkies with their smart phones begging at curbside with their precious emotionally gripping signs - the campers get up to work during the day - there is a circuit among campers that knows they can come to Manhattan and Brooklyn and make enough from panhandling and stealing amazon packages from lobbies to pay for their dope and smart phone - I think the only reason the East Village won't be flooded with campers this summer is because the rest of the country is so heavily flooded with dope from China and Afghanistan and Latin America that the dopers don't need to join the campers here with the relatively easy and consistent supply historically of hayron in NYC. I'm without respect for the campers - I could give a fuck if they shoot dope through their eyeball, just don't make everyone else involved - because they always, everytime, without exception, leave their cardboard and other garbage behind. that someone else will clean up. Its kind of interesting because I've read most of the useful heroin books: WS Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, Iceburg Slim, Donald Goines, Jim Carroll, Herbert Huncke, etc.. Maybe these campers are messing with meth too. But any of you are welcome to come to East 6th Street and help the junkies. They are there right now with their sad dogs as you read this, I guarantee it. You could help the junkies under the scaffolding on 2nd Ave and East 6th and then pop into Mighty Quinns for some roasted meats! The junkies are still there now suffering. Won't you help. The immigrants are going to do fine, they aren't lying around the streets of New York begging and stealing and doing dope like the white people are. thank you and coffee.

I’m never better!

"someone" is pumping this meme - it ran on the elevator ad screen at my work today, all day long. Nothing runs on that unless it is carefully placed by Captivate corporation. Why are they so eager to plant this meme in people's minds. Civil War always turns out like Scene one of Outlaw Josey Wales, not Scene one of The Undefeated. But that's what 'they' want.

The tension here in NYC is palpable. If we make it through the summer without some event it will be a a miracle.