bobzy Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 America keeps on rollin' back to the dark ages. Donald Trump's government has issued a ruling that allows employers to opt out of providing free birth control to millions of Americans. The rule allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions". (Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41528526) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) There really isn't a bigger race to the bottom country in the Western world than the United States of America. Edited October 6, 2017 by Dr_Pangloss 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) On 04/10/2017 at 20:37, mjmooney said: That's the US Navy football team praying before a game as is always customary. Edit: http://www.snopes.com/army-football-team-kneel-protest-national-anthem/ Edited October 7, 2017 by Morley_crosses_to_Withe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: That's the US Navy football team praying before a game as is always customary. ... Bit weird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 The US is looking increasingly like a backward theocracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 30 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: The US is looking increasingly like a backward theocracy. What do you mean increasingly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2017 5 hours ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: That's the US Navy football team praying before a game as is always customary. Edit: http://www.snopes.com/army-football-team-kneel-protest-national-anthem/ Aw shit. Disappointed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 The US Navy team has to pray before every game. They're absolute pony. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Is this bloke desperate for war? BBC "Only one thing will work" in dealing with North Korea after years of talks with Pyongyang brought no results, US President Donald Trump has warned. "Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years," he tweeted, adding that this "hasn't worked". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 8, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2017 30 minutes ago, av1 said: Is this bloke desperate for war? BBC War tends to be good for ratings. Which he needs. Also, Trump is all about the look of thing, and conflict is the ultimate prestige moment for many politicians in history. He's also stupid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 1 minute ago, Chindie said: War tends to be good for ratings. Which he needs. Also, Trump is all about the look of thing, and conflict is the ultimate prestige moment for many politicians in history. He's also stupid. He's a classic narcissist. On his comment about previous administrations accomplishing nothing over the last 25yrs, I'd say the avoidance of world war 3 is at least one thing their "talking" may have accomplished. I worry that Trumps idea of success may be slightly different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 1 hour ago, av1 said: Is this bloke desperate for war? BBC I think he's an ardent fan of the 'madman theory' of international relations, first espoused by Richard Nixon, and which he (Trump) complimented several times on the campaign trail. It's a shit model, and very high-risk, low-reward, but then again he's a game show host and an idiot who is not in any way prepared or mentally qualified for the job, so what else should we expect, really. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Unbelievably petty and pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Given how quickly Pence got a statement out on his twitter feed, it was probably planned, knowing full well some players would be kneeling. Also, Richard Spencer and his band of Nazi scum turned up again in Charlottesville last night, but Trump and Pence have been quiet on that one... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said: Unbelievably petty and pathetic. The plot thickens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted October 8, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2017 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: The plot thickens Hate to point it out Stefan but at todays game he was wearing a suit so that tweet from alt_uscic is a fake pic. Plenty of speculation and things pointing to a staged event however. e.g. Pence last went to a Colts game 3 years ago. Yesterday Pence was in Las Vegas, flew to Indiana seemingly for this game, and is now on his way back to the West Coast for a fundraiser. (The tax payer picking up the tab for all of his travel.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) 7 minutes ago, TheAuthority said: Hate to point it out Stefan but at todays game he was wearing a suit so that tweet from alt_uscic is a fake pic. Plenty of speculation and things pointing to a staged event however. e.g. Pence last went to a Colts game 3 years ago. Yesterday Pence was in Las Vegas, flew to Indiana seemingly for this game, and is now on his way back to the West Coast for a fundraiser. (The tax payer picking up the tab for all of his travel.) Erm well... PENCE HIMSELF tweeted that 2nd tweet. So Pence is tweeting out fake info. In fact, the exact point being made by alt_uscic is that Pence tweeted out the same picture 3 years apart. Edited October 8, 2017 by StefanAVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted October 8, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2017 3 minutes ago, TheAuthority said: Hate to point it out Stefan but at todays game he was wearing a suit so that tweet from alt_uscic is a fake pic. Plenty of speculation and things pointing to a staged event however. e.g. Pence last went to a Colts game 3 years ago. Yesterday Pence was in Las Vegas, flew to Indiana seemingly for this game, and is now on his way back to the West Coast for a fundraiser. (The tax payer picking up the tab for all of his travel.) Yep, quarter of a million dollars 'they' reckon, to go somewhere specifically to be offended, leave, and go back to where you intended to be all along. Absolute bunch of turds. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted October 8, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2017 8 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Erm well... PENCE HIMSELF tweeted that 2nd tweet. So Pence is tweeting out fake info. In fact, the exact point being made by alt_uscic is that Pence tweeted out the same picture 3 years apart. Oh wow - well that's truly bizarre - On the news segments he's wearing a suit. He definitely colluded with Trump before - Trump tweeted that he told him to leave if anyone kneeled (which of course they knew was going to happen.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted October 8, 2017 Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2017 On the tweet thing, it's a man looking forward to going to an event and showing a picture of himself the last time he went to the event as a way of saying how much he's looking forward to it - I don't think there's anything untoward in it. Leaving after the anthem makes him a bit of a dick. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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