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Sen. Barack Obama promises not to use signing statements on the campaign trail in 2008. Then uses signing statements as president . This Is The United States.

"VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today." Hey Saddam— you like Huey Lewis and the News?

I. Nine people shouldn't have the final say over disputes among 300 million people. I don't care if they're the oldest lawyers in America. I also don't care that they work in a Greek temple replica in a swamp in Virginia, dressed in black wizard's robes like Hogwarts students. None of that impresses me. In the end they're just nine people like you and me. What gives them the right to order anyone around? Because they were picked by the winner of a nationwide popularity contest? Because they were confirmed by 51 winners of statewide popularity contests? Because the people who decide those winners are so informed and rational about politics? II. What are you saying, Wes? You don't believe in the Constitution? I thought you were a libertarian for God's sake! No I believe in the Constitution. Of course I believe in it. I've read the whole thing. And after I got to the end of the document, I realized something that seems like it might be releva...

Via PoliticsMaven: "Asked what he thinks of people comparing ICE to Nazis, acting director Thomas Homan replied with the Nuremberg defense. The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that comparing ICE agents to Nazis is unfair, because 'they’re simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress.' Thomas Homan employed the 'Nuremberg defense' – used by German Nazi officials in an attempt to escape accountability with the claim they were merely following orders." Watch: Acting ICE director Thomas Homan, without any sense of irony, tells @TuckerCarlson that he objects to people comparing ICE to Nazis because they "are simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress." pic.twitter.com/Jwqnnd3C0C — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2018 This Is The United States.

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” Read ProPublica's report here .

Only the most credulously partisan Republican wingnut would choose to believe that the Democrats are making the Trump Administration do this. As for the Bible, in the book of I Samuel, the children of Israel sin by clamoring to Samuel for God to appoint a government headed by a king to rule over them. God is disappointed in them and tells them of all the misfortunes a king will bring to their nation. One of the things He warns will happen is that the king will separate children from their parents.

Tim Kennedy is a Ranger, sniper, Special Forces Operator, and recently retired UFC Fighter. This podcast is fascinating to watch unfold. This is the United States Vol. #016 .

Gina Haspel was confirmed by the Senate Thursday as the new CIA Director. This is the United States.

You Didn't Build That - Ray Stevens

Dude I'm seeing libertarians everywhere with at best a very superficial understanding of what's happening in Korea falling all over themselves to give Donald Trump props for what appears to be the imminent end of the Korean War. Are you kidding me? This is like typical political partisans who watch cable news media and read TIME magazine and interpret all of history in terms of who's POTUS. Economy up– "POTUS is doing a great job!" Economy down– "it's the POTUS's fault!" Democrat beats a Republican in a special election in a small Republican state after multiple women accuse him of molesting them? "Americans are already tired of the new Republican POTUS!" Insanity. This is the most idiotic possible way to try to understand any political or historical event. It is for the sheep. For the unquestioning masses who believe that the Matrix of televised electoral and political drama is reality. It is not. The POTUS is a television ch...

"Are you getting alot of that, Mr. Vice President?"

The former First Lady made the following remark on national television shortly before the commencement of the invasion of Iraq: "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" Here I fact-checked it for you . It's real: "The comment came about during a Good Morning America interview with the couple who were formerly President and First Lady, George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. The interview was conducted by Diane Sawyer in Houston scant hours before the couple’s son, President George W. Bush, delivered a televised ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to step down from power and leave Iraq or face U.S.-led military action. The chat with the senior Bushes aired the following morning, 18 March 2003." The fact that she's mortal like every single other one of us who's ever lived doesn't change the fact that those words could have only come from a very ugly mind. This Is Th...

Liberals Want The U.S. to Regulate Civilian Firepower. Here's What The U.S. Is Packing... That robot salesman makes this unbearably creepy. This is what power looks like. Watch it shoot: "The M1 Abrams is an American third-generation main battle tank named for General Creighton Abrams. Highly mobile, designed for modern armored ground warfare, the M1 is well armed and heavily armored. Notable features include the use of a powerful multifuel turbine engine, the adoption of sophisticated composite armor, and separate ammunition storage in a blow-out compartment for crew safety. Weighing nearly 68 short tons (almost 62 metric tons), it is one of the heaviest main battle tanks in service. The M1 Abrams entered U.S. service in 1980, ultimately replacing the M60 tank. The M1 is the main battle tank of the United States Army and Marine Corps, along with the armies of Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Iraq." [ Source ] If the United States supposedly e...

In a series of 18 tweets from 2013 - 2014 , Donald Trump warned Obama: 1) Not to strike Syria. 2) To get Congressional approval if he does. 3) And not to broadcast his intentions before striking if he does. We should stay the hell out of Syria, the "rebels" are just as bad as the current regime. WHAT WILL WE GET FOR OUR LIVES AND $ BILLIONS?ZERO — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2013 Remember, all these ‘freedom fighters’ in Syria want to fly planes into our buildings. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2013 Why do we keep broadcasting when we are going to attack Syria. Why can't we just be quiet and, if we attack at all, catch them by surprise? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013 If we are going to continue to be stupid and go into Syria (watch Russia), as they say in the movies, SHOOT FIRST AND TALK LATER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2013 What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and ...

From CNN : The Trump administration will no longer seek to automatically release pregnant immigrants from detention -- a move in line with the overall efforts by the administration to hold far more immigrants in custody than its predecessors. The change in policy could pave the way for more pregnant women to be held in detention facilities while they await lengthy court proceedings about whether they can stay in the US, facilities that are already decried by critics for tough conditions. The decision comes as immigration advocates have assailed the administration's efforts to hold more immigrants in detention writ large and its increased arrest of noncriminal immigrants. This is evil. And conservatives since the weekend have been drawing comparisons between March for Our Lives and Nazi gun control laws... but what Trump's doing is a lot more like the Third Reich than anything these polite, gunless Democrats have accomplished. It's not good. My Channels...

From USA Today on August 7, 2014 - On Nov. 1, 2013, when TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez was shot by a lone gunmen at Los Angeles International Airport and lay bleeding on the ground for more than half an hour and later died, Biles says that "a team of FAMs [federal air marshals] was less than 100 yards from the shooter yet failed to respond or engage the threat." Despite the fact that air marshals typically carry a Sig Sauer P229 and have high shooting skills, trained as they are to fire in the close confines of an aircraft cabin, Biles claims their inaction was "mostly due to a mentality and unwritten policy that exists at the FAMS by upper management that tells air marshals not to get involved." Still think the United States exists to keep you safe? My Channels: Facebook Twitter Patreon

Did you know the United States' highest court has ruled that police have no obligation to protect anyone?

It was a larger force than he had ever commanded against the English or Hessians, and he deployed it against Americans for refusing to pay an unfair tax. Of course there's no such thing as a fair tax. Taxation is theft .

Deeply in touch with his electorate base. Probably not the best guiding philosophy for living a good life or building a good world.