President Obama has a bad attitude toward the news media. The news media neither incited nor participated in the riots. Some people chose to be thieves and thugs. Hunt them down, lock them up, but don’t break their backs in police custody. Robbing and burning down drug stores, vandalizing police cars, and injuring police officers only makes the situation worse.
Give it two-three weeks and everyone will go back to ignoring it.
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You wouldn’t if there was a Military Draft.
Then, the next time Grumpy said that we need troops in
Somalia
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Iraq
Mexico
Switzerland (the navy, in this case)
There would be a shitload of 20-somethings doing things a lot worse than these Baltimore kids. And a lot of those 20-somethings would be white.
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How about ending all those Fair Trade (what a joke to call them that) agreements so more middle class standard living jobs would be available to Americans minorities…as well as whites?
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Speaking as someone who just got back from the doctor and only has health insurance because of the law that is the subject of your dogma-blinded pig-ignorant rant, please let me respectfully suggest you take your leftist purity trolling twaddle, roll it into a tube and shove it.
The ACA, funded by a tax on investment income and platinum plated insurance plans given to senior corporate executives as tax free compensation, represents the most significant downward redistribution of wealth, and the first major reversal of the trend toward upward redistribution, since 1980. Meanwhile, insurance companies have been forced to comply with the 85% medical loss ratio rule while simultaneously limiting the constant actuarial gaming and “preexisting condition” assfucking that they used to use to amp up revenue.
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You are right, America would have never become this great Nation of ours if the government didn’t build the roads Pioneers took to travel West…darn DOT could really look into the future back then.
Delightfully jarring to hear the POTUS speaking truth like this. As he said in his ‘Luther’ routine, he’s got something that rhymes with “bucket list.”
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That routine is in my vault of comedy. The funny thing is that “Luther” looks like a fellow Chicano buddy of mine.
I shouldn’t respond, Trolly McTrollerson. But you’re such a big, fat, easy target.
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That plan saved my brother’s eyesight (Medicaid).
The place where this happened:
Baltimore, Maryland.
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I would like to be educated on the term troll (as English is my second language)
Is a troll
a troller?
a trollist?
a trollican?
How does the IRS list a paid troll (troller/trollist/trollican)?
Look, I’m not interested in a flame war with anyone, much less with someone with a very “artistic” grasp on reality, so I’ll stop responding to you after reminding you that the Homestead Act was signed into law by Lincoln, a very long time after the first Pioneers moved West on roads they built themselves without waiting for the DOT.
Good bye, Sir.
Apparently you do not see how closely aligned those two comments actually are.
You seem to see a discrepancy, which says more about you than anyone or anything else.
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I think most of the terms I’d use to describe a troll would be violations of the terms of service—musn’t be abusive, you know. As far as IRS listings, it would probably be classified as some sort of disability. 
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I look forward to learning more from you and your Committee on un-American Activities.
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Gracias. My next question is, “what makes them tick”, but there are libraries for that.
You mean the transcontinental railroad? Yeah, financed by massive land grants to the railroads from the federal government. Conquest of said land from Mexico or indigenous populations, destruction or deportation of inconvenient native populations with superseding claims who took great exception to the heroic migration, elimination of the gigantic multi-state herd of inconveniently large and dangerous fauna, and even more dangerous predators who preyed upon them, also courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Government also charted the routes, found the passes, made the maps, granted the titles, and gave away land to people you’d call moochers today for doing nothing more than showing up, building a hovel and putting in some crops–stuff they were going to do anyway even if they hadn’t moved west.
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Well, Puppies, we’ll always have Paris. If you don’t want to respond to me any more I guess that’s just my cross to bear. I’ll have to work it out for myself how the lack of decent schools or access to living-wage jobs in the grimmer parts of Baltimore has something to do with the early pioneers moving West (sic) on roads they something something something. A bit of advice though—I wouldn’t go around insulting people’s grasp of reality if I were you. Just sayin’.
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Eustace, I think a lot of republicans believe any education is bad and a waste of money. Here in AZ my state gov’t is actively trying to close public schools and close down school districts by a variety of ways. Our state Constitution specifically say the state must support public education yet the current members and the new governor are very much opposed to following the state’s founding document. The repubs have zeroed out community colleges ad gutted education on all levels. Most of my career was at the University of Arizona. In 1968 the state funded 45% of our operating budget. Today it stands at UNDER 7%. Every year we hear “but it’s only a small cut.” After 45+ years of this it becomes a trend. The state owes K-12 $350 million in funding (court ordered btw) and they’re refusing to pony up the cash. They have it in a “rainy day fund” of $400 million but they are actively refusing to pay up. The only dept. that got adequate funding this year was the dept. of prisons. I wish that was a joke. Even their precious charter schools were savagely cut.
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Puppies take a gander at this:
Roads…sheesh
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