Quote (harumi @ Jul 27 2018 02:34am)

We need a couple different camera angles before making a call, suspect might have tried to draw a gun with his left foot that wasn't visible in this camera angle.
you weren't there so you can't know
we can't judge before we get a frame by frame molecular disassembly of the scene

Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Jul 27 2018 03:23am)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMuk6amXt7M

Ghot, thoughts?

Quote (Beowulf @ 28 Jul 2018 13:49)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEjChWtClbE

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"Sean Spicer Is Honored Because — As Bush Officials Have Shown — D.C. Elites Always Thrive"

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The Bush administration was filled with high-level officials who did not just lie from podiums, but did so in service of actual war crimes. They invaded and destroyed a country of 26 million people based on blatant falsehoods and relentless propaganda. They instituted a worldwide torture regime by issuing decrees that purported to redefine what that term meant. They spied on the communications of American citizens without the warrants required by law. They kidnapped innocent people from foreign soil and sent them to be tortured in the dungeons of the world’s worst regimes, and rounded up Muslims on domestic soil with no charges. They imprisoned Muslim journalists for years without a whiff of due process. And they generally embraced and implemented the fundamental tenets of authoritarianism by explicitly positioning the president and his White House above the law.

We’re supposed to all forget about that, or at least agree to minimize it, in service of this revisionist conceit that the United States has long been governed by noble, honorable, and decent people until Donald Trump defaced the sanctity of the Oval Office with his band of gauche miscreants and evil clowns. Many of the same people who, just a decade ago, were depicting Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Paul Wolfowitz — remember them? — as monsters of historic proportions are today propagating the mythology that Trump is desecrating what had always been sacred and benevolent American civic space.


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Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 28 2018 02:20pm)

Glenn Greenwald wrote a good piece on Spicer after he stepped down and received applause at the Emmy's:



https://theintercept.com/2017/09/18/sean-spicer-is-honored-because-as-bush-officials-showed-dc-elites-always-thrive/

Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Jul 27 2018 02:51am)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMuk6amXt7M

Ghot, thoughts?

Quote (IceMage @ 28 Jul 2018 15:43)

Glenn Greenwald is a whiny douche.

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jul 28 2018 04:00pm)

He's sanctimonious and verbose, but he makes interesting points. He's a good writer, but I wish he'd stay off of Twitter.

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...yeah, he's a whiny douche.

Quote (IceMage @ 28 Jul 2018 16:16)

He's in constant whataboutism mode.