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Nine Republican Oklahoma state representatives who voted against tax hikes to fund teacher pay raises were either vanquished in primaries on Tuesday or forced into runoff elections against GOP challengers.

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While she's too far left for me personally, and I'm always worried about the possibility of a Democratic tea party, but if she openly acknowledges and supports the Democratic party as a big tent party it makes me less concerned about that possibility.


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That she is a close friend of Thomas Lopez-Pierre says a lot.

You can't get much more antisemitic than he.

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Thomas Lopez-Pierre says he’s not an anti-Semite.

He just believes a cabal of “greedy Jewish landlords” is conspiring, funded by money from Israel, to conduct “ethnic cleansing” of black and Latino residents from Harlem. He believes the Jewish media are covering it up.
And if his rhetoric makes Jews upset?

“Too bad,” he says. “I don’t care.

“Only now am I realizing that Jewish people can’t seem to separate themselves from each other,” he told JTA in an interview Friday. “An attack on greedy Jewish landlords is perceived to be an attack on all Jews. And you know what? Too bad. If that’s the way the Jewish community wants to take it, too bad.”

Lopez-Pierre is running a primary campaign against Democratic City Council member Mark Levine, who since 2014 represents a district covering much of West Harlem in Upper Manhattan. Lopez-Pierre previously ran for the seat in 2013, unsuccessfully.

His screed against Jewish landlords is at the center of his campaign. His Twitter bio reads “Jewish landlords OWN 80% of private rental buildings in Upper Manhattan; GUILTY of GREED for pushing Black/Hispanic tenants out.”

The Anti-Defamation League released a statement calling Lopez-Pierre’s statement a “deeply offensive anti-Semitic stereotype.”

During a 20-minute conversation, I tried to extract why Lopez-Pierre thought the landlords’ religion was important. He repeated the 80 percent figure — but wouldn’t provide any evidence for it — and launched into a lecture on what he called “group economics,” or how members of a certain ethnicity or religion work together for their mutual benefit.

“If they were Italian, I would say Italian,” he said. “We live in neighborhoods based on race, class and religion. It’s a fantasy to believe otherwise. There are Jewish neighborhoods, there are Puerto Rican neighborhoods, there are Jamaican neighborhoods, there are Indian neighborhoods.”

Lopez-Pierre alleged that there was a scheme among Jewish landlords in Harlem to take investment money from Israel, buy apartment buildings in the historically black neighborhood and push tenants out.

“These Jewish landlords are using their ownership to engage in ethnic cleansing of black and Latino tenants,” he said. And he added that Jewish journalists choose not to report on it.
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Rip wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:18 pm That she is a close friend of Thomas Lopez-Pierre says a lot.
We're judging people entirely by their social circle now, are we?

Sure you want to go down that road?
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Skinypupy wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:20 pm
Rip wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:18 pm That she is a close friend of Thomas Lopez-Pierre says a lot.
We're judging people entirely by their social circle now, are we?

Sure you want to go down that road?

I will give her credit for trying to distance herself from him, we shall see.
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Rip wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:18 pm That she is a close friend of Thomas Lopez-Pierre says a lot.
What makes her a close friend of his?
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Skinypupy wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:20 pm
Rip wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:18 pm That she is a close friend of Thomas Lopez-Pierre says a lot.
We're judging people entirely by their social circle now, are we?

Sure you want to go down that road?
Especially after he’s thrown his support behind a president who has a well documented history of racism.

You can’t join the Klan and then bitch about the Aryan Brotherhood and expect to be taken seriously.

(Metaphorically speaking)
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If he was part of her social circle, it probably would bother me, but...





(Which is a far better response than how some of the Women's March Leaders responded to the media discovering ties between them and Farrakhan.)
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Defiant wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 11:33 pm If he was part of her social circle, it probably would bother me, but...





(Which is a far better response than how some of the Women's March Leaders responded to the media discovering ties between them and Farrakhan.)
I'm guessing that not a single Deplorable will ever see or hear of her swift and immediate denouncement, and will continue to run with the "she's anti-semitic" angle ad nauseum.
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More Fake News from Rip?

:o :o :o

Say it isn't so! Get my fainting couch and the smelling salts....

Seriously, this is why no one has any patience with Rip's bullshit anymore.
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I don't know why they wouldn't see it, I did well before it was posted here. I hope she stays true to that statement but her UN like criticism of Israel has me hedging on whether to fully believe it. Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
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It's the Republican Party who is running an Illinois Holocaust denier and North Carolina white supremacist.
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Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 am Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
No you won't. You're already condemning her for something that was a bullshit story and you were knowingly dishonest with us.
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Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 am I don't know why they wouldn't see it, I did well before it was posted here. I hope she stays true to that statement but her UN like criticism of Israel has me hedging on whether to fully believe it. Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
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P.S. you’ve been told this before but it never seems to sink in: Israel is a country, Judaism is a religion. While Israel is overwhelmingly Jewish, one can criticize the policies of the nation of Israel without being anti Semitic. Otherwise your criticism of our country’s actions under Obama would be considered anti Christian.
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hepcat wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:23 am
Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 am I don't know why they wouldn't see it, I did well before it was posted here. I hope she stays true to that statement but her UN like criticism of Israel has me hedging on whether to fully believe it. Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
Goalpost...moved.

P.S. you’ve been told this before but it never seems to sink in: Israel is a country, Judaism is a religion. While Israel is overwhelmingly Jewish, one can criticize the policies of the nation of Israel without being anti Semitic. Otherwise your criticism of our country’s actions under Obama would be considered anti ChristianMuslim.
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She accused Israel of committing a massacre for defending their borders.

The fact that the The Jewish Democratic Council of America should be an indication that she is no friend of jewish people, even the leftist Democrat ones. Either way the Democratic party can run/elect whomever they want. I'm good with that. In fact I applaud it. Tom Cotton has put it best.

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You just can't seem to grasp what should be a very simple concept, can you? :doh:

Fine. Your complaints against Obama's deal with Iran shows you're clearly anti Christian. Why do you hate Christianity, Rip?
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Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:29 am She accused Israel of committing a massacre for defending their borders.

The fact that the The Jewish Democratic Council of America should be an indication that she is no friend of jewish people, even the leftist Democrat ones. Either way the Democratic party can run/elect whomever they want. I'm good with that. In fact I applaud it. Tom Cotton has put it best.

Would Tom Cotton ever lie to us?

Those are obvious, gross generalizations. Not one Democrat wants "open borders," and "mass migration" is nothing but a racist dog whistle.

And there is no way a sane person can look at what is happening at the border (or everywhere, since ICE can apparently seize you at will) and not see the need for reform of police practices.
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If you turn your party's core values to hate driven by religious extremism and racism, sanity is no longer an option.
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hepcat wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:49 am If you turn your party's core values to hate driven by religious extremism and racism, sanity is no longer an option.
Well, as Rip himself said, it's better this way now that it's out in the open for all to see. No longer trying to hide their religious extremism and racism. Own your despicable world views, you pieces of shit.
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Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 am I don't know why they wouldn't see it, I did well before it was posted here. I hope she stays true to that statement but her UN like criticism of Israel has me hedging on whether to fully believe it. Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
Nice. So you saw her denouncement of the thing you accused her of well before it was posted here and now that it was posted here you use that as a defense of misinformation.
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I think rip is talking about his original post, not the reply proving it was fake.
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hepcat wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:10 am I think rip is talking about his original post, not the reply proving it was fake.
Contextually, I am even more confused than normal then. What is is they saw if not:
I'm guessing that not a single Deplorable will ever see or hear of her swift and immediate denouncement
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Nate Silver's analysis of the SCOTUS pick impact on the mid-terms.

Short version is that there are a couple plausible arguments for how this could help Republicans, but it's pretty unclear, and depends in large part on how the nomination / confirmation process goes. My guess is that Trump nominates someone Gorsuch-like who gets quickly confirmed by like a 52-48ish vote (with at least one Red State democrat voting yes along with all Republicans), and that it winds up being a mild but not too significant positive for Republicans in the midterms. Will probably wind up getting overshadowed by whatever the hell happens with Mueller in the fall.

Also, like, one more time: fuck Kennedy. The timing of this just means that he's clearly willfully indifferent (or ignorant) at best about what Trump is doing to the republic.
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He could also be sick and we just don't know it yet. Still it certainly feels like a fuck Kennedy moment but I'll reserve judgement. Har har.
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malchior wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:13 am He could also be sick and we just don't know it yet. Still it certainly feels like a fuck Kennedy moment but I'll reserve judgement. Har har.
Unless he's dying next month that's not a good enough reason.
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I'm fairly disturbed by Ocasio-Cortez's statements on Israel, but she's one voice among many in the House, and it doesn't seem like she ran on foreign policy. Anyway, it's not the only issue I disagree with her on, but at the moment, there are more important things to worry about.
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El Guapo wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:18 am
malchior wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:13 am He could also be sick and we just don't know it yet. Still it certainly feels like a fuck Kennedy moment but I'll reserve judgement. Har har.
Unless he's dying next month that's not a good enough reason.
Even if he is, it's not a good enough reason. :wink:
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Defiant wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am I'm fairly disturbed by Ocasio-Cortez's statements on Israel, but she's one voice among many in the House, and it doesn't seem like she ran on foreign policy. Anyway, it's not the only issue I disagree with her on, but at the moment, there are more important things to worry about.
What are they?

In general the progressive left tends to be pretty hostile towards Israel, so I suspect there's a band within her views must almost necessarily lie.
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El Guapo wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:27 am
Defiant wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am I'm fairly disturbed by Ocasio-Cortez's statements on Israel, but she's one voice among many in the House, and it doesn't seem like she ran on foreign policy. Anyway, it's not the only issue I disagree with her on, but at the moment, there are more important things to worry about.
What are they?
She called the shooting of 60 Palestinian, 53 of which had been identified as Hamas or Islamic Jihad members, a "massacre", and compared the Palestinian attempts to breach the border to Ferguson or the West Virginia teacher strike.
"I think I was primarily compelled on moral grounds, because I could only imagine if 60 people were shot and killed in Ferguson or if 60 people were shot and killed in the West Virginia teacher strikes," Ocasio-Cortez said. "The idea that we're not supposed to talk about people dying when they are engaging in political expression just really moved me, and running for office, seeing like the silence around this issue, has been a little interesting to me."
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Edit: Unless you were asking me about what the "more important things to worry about" are, which I think I could start by pointing out the Trump Presidency thread...
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I can't imagine that Israel's armed forces were able to execute with such precision. I know they've said Hamas was whipping people into a frenzy, and got the impression that they felt the entire movement near their borders was a Hamas incursion - justifying it in their minds. While I believe that Hamas is doing that, I don't think everyone that gets killed is an agent - more likely a person caught up in mob mentality paying the price for it.

As long as she's wearing a blue shirt and doesn't have swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of her head, I don't mind having a differing opinion.
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That the wounded numbered over 5,500 (most by live ammunition) also changes the narrative somewhat.
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Careful you guys. You're dangerously close to being called anti Semitic by Rip.
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Holman wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:45 am
Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:29 am She accused Israel of committing a massacre for defending their borders.

The fact that the The Jewish Democratic Council of America should be an indication that she is no friend of jewish people, even the leftist Democrat ones. Either way the Democratic party can run/elect whomever they want. I'm good with that. In fact I applaud it. Tom Cotton has put it best.

Would Tom Cotton ever lie to us?

Those are obvious, gross generalizations. Not one Democrat wants "open borders," and "mass migration" is nothing but a racist dog whistle.

And there is no way a sane person can look at what is happening at the border (or everywhere, since ICE can apparently seize you at will) and not see the need for reform of police practices.
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LordMortis wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:53 am
Rip wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:37 am I don't know why they wouldn't see it, I did well before it was posted here. I hope she stays true to that statement but her UN like criticism of Israel has me hedging on whether to fully believe it. Like I said I will wait and see how she votes and what she says once in office.
Nice. So you saw her denouncement of the thing you accused her of well before it was posted here and now that it was posted here you use that as a defense of misinformation.
Actually I saw it a couple hours after I posted calling him a close friend. I applaud her for denouncing his statements.
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El Guapo wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:27 am
Defiant wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:20 am I'm fairly disturbed by Ocasio-Cortez's statements on Israel, but she's one voice among many in the House, and it doesn't seem like she ran on foreign policy. Anyway, it's not the only issue I disagree with her on, but at the moment, there are more important things to worry about.
What are they?

In general the progressive left tends to be pretty hostile towards Israel, so I suspect there's a band within her views must almost necessarily lie.
After 60 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in May while attempting to breach the fence along the Israel-Gaza border, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter: “This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protestors. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore.”
The Jewish Democratic Council of America issued a statement saying Ocasio-Cortez “deserves credit for running a strong and impressive campaign. Her victory was achieved largely by her hard work and clear message advocating for economic, social and racial justice for the people of the Bronx and Queens.”

“While Jewish Democrats support much of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s domestic policy agenda, we disagree with her past statement regarding Israel, as well as her affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America, which supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel,” it added. “In the coming days and months, we hope to learn more about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s views, but at the moment, her position on Israel is not in line with our values.”
That said, she hasn't dove into her foreign relations positions feet first so I would strongly agree with this.
“The Jewish community should not be wringing its hands but beginning a conversation with her in earnest,” Fuchs added. “She is a bright woman who is very caring and will figure it out.”
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Paingod wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:09 pm I can't imagine that Israel's armed forces were able to execute with such precision. I know they've said Hamas was whipping people into a frenzy, and got the impression that they felt the entire movement near their borders was a Hamas incursion - justifying it in their minds. While I believe that Hamas is doing that, I don't think everyone that gets killed is an agent - more likely a person caught up in mob mentality paying the price for it.

As long as she's wearing a blue shirt and doesn't have swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of her head, I don't mind having a differing opinion.
Not near, they shot at people actually encroaching the border fence. A massacre would be shooting them just for protesting. Had they protested a safe distance from the border fence no shots would have been fired. Israel has very good reasons for not allowing mobs of people to reach the fence. Try storming up to the border fence in Turkey and see how that works out, just ask the Kurds.
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All a goddamn dishonest distraction from Trump and domestic issues!

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As long as she's wearing a blue shirt and doesn't have swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of her head, I don't mind having a differing opinion.
Not every extremist wears a swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of their head - that's usually how they get in in the first place.

I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt for now, but I'll be keeping an eye out, in case this does herald the start of a far left tea party.
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Defiant wrote: Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:28 pm

As long as she's wearing a blue shirt and doesn't have swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of her head, I don't mind having a differing opinion.
Not every extremist wears a swastika-wearing fruit bats exploding out of their head - that's usually how they get in in the first place.

I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt for now, but I'll be keeping an eye out, in case this does herald the start of a far left tea party.
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