Dear "Freedom of Speech" whiney bitches. I want to hear your bitching and moaning in defense of the uniformed police officer who wears his "Biden-Harris" facemask next week. Oh, wait, you'll be fucking silent, you fucking vapid, self-righteous, hypocrites, while your whiney bitch buddies scream bloody murder about the libtards trying to intimidate the voters!
Jesus fucking Christ, the police union reps even defend this. Oh, hey, let's even make unions look like shit to our biggest supporters: the libtards! (Yes, libtards are the biggest union supporters.) Fucking idiots.
https://www.theroot.com/miami-police-officer-facing-disciplinary-action-for-wea-1845441074
Jesus fucking Christ, the police union reps even defend this. Oh, hey, let's even make unions look like shit to our biggest supporters: the libtards! (Yes, libtards are the biggest union supporters.) Fucking idiots.
https://www.theroot.com/miami-police-officer-facing-disciplinary-action-for-wea-1845441074
Miami Police Officer Facing Disciplinary Action for Wearing Pro-Trump Face Mask Near Voting Area
On Tuesday, a Miami, Fla., police officer was photographed wearing a pro-Trump face mask while voting at the city’s Government Center.www.theroot.com
Just a reminder I used to write some good shit, back when I had enough fucks to give.
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So, those kids Trump and ICE put in cages? You know, the kids who got stripped from their parents, then sexually assaulted while in cages? How likely you think they'll grow up to be monsters?
Friend of mine yesterday said "What if that was the Republican plan? Use ICE monsters to turn immigrant kids into monsters, so 10, 20 years down the road, the Republicans can scream 'See ?! Immigrants are monsters!' "
American monsters making immigrant monsters, so American monsters can congratulate themselves for being "the good guys."
God, I hope my friend was wrong.
Friend of mine yesterday said "What if that was the Republican plan? Use ICE monsters to turn immigrant kids into monsters, so 10, 20 years down the road, the Republicans can scream 'See ?! Immigrants are monsters!' "
American monsters making immigrant monsters, so American monsters can congratulate themselves for being "the good guys."
God, I hope my friend was wrong.
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I want someone to run ads in Michigan saying "Be a grownup; leave your gun in the car when you go vote."
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.
https://www.theroot.com/michigan-issues-ban-on-open-carry-at-polling-location-1845416223
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.
https://www.theroot.com/michigan-issues-ban-on-open-carry-at-polling-location-1845416223
Michigan Issues Ban on Open Carry at Polling Location, Because Obviously
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations.www.theroot.com
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Twitter adds a step saying "Hey, you might to actually read this article before re-tweeting it" and - wait for it - Republicans lose their shit (again) about being "picked on." Ladies and gentlemen, the modern American "conservative": biggest fucking whiney snowflake since Kindergarten.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528413/twitter-congress-doug-collins-retweet-read-article-prompt-censorship-claim
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528413/twitter-congress-doug-collins-retweet-read-article-prompt-censorship-claim
republican lawmakers are furious after twitter asks users to read stories before retweeting
Twitter started testing the feature earlier this year.www.theverge.com
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"What does this say about your understanding of Jesus?"
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/02/23/why-do-you-stand-behind-cruelty/
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/02/23/why-do-you-stand-behind-cruelty/
Why Do You Stand Behind Cruelty?
You are a mystery to me. I watch you standing there with wide-eyed, breathless adoration, and I simply can’t fathom how you ended up there in that spot, what it is you’re feeling in that moment, how this has become a voice you feel affinity with.johnpavlovitz.com
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Voting by mail is safe and secure, despite the lies being told by propagandists
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/15/how-california-mail-in-ballot-avoids-fraud-evades-hackers-gets-counted-2020-election/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/15/how-california-mail-in-ballot-avoids-fraud-evades-hackers-gets-counted-2020-election/
california ballot: watch how your mail-in ballot avoids fraud, evades hackers and gets counted
Are mail-in ballots safe from Russian hackers? Will my ballot be counted if I forget to sign it? How do they make sure my dead uncle doesn’t get to vote? This is the journey of a California m…www.mercurynews.com
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It's 2020 and US citizens have to check and secure their mail-in vote, they can't rely on government and states for that
Anyway, mail-in ballot is safer than waiting hours and hours in the middle of a pandemy to access the only voting poll in the district, which is "secured" by far-left milicia using the second amendment to defend government against the people
This election wasn't supposed to be a prequel of Hunger Games
Anyway, mail-in ballot is safer than waiting hours and hours in the middle of a pandemy to access the only voting poll in the district, which is "secured" by far-left milicia using the second amendment to defend government against the people
This election wasn't supposed to be a prequel of Hunger Games
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@logger yes, it's quite screwed up people are showing up at the polling places with guns, at all, mostly because other assholes are showing up with guns. It's a really warped bit of circular stupidity.
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38 fucking times Trump fucking said COVID-19 would magically disappear. 220,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19. It only requires 10,000 people for a municipality to qualify as a City. That means 22 US CITIES have been wiped from the map, while President Donald Asshat Trump pooh-poohed the virus. That's 22 CITIES SO FAR - how many more thousands of human lives will be snuffed out - leaving grieving friends, parents, children, co-workers - before this pandemic ends? How many deaths is "too fucking many"??
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/index.html
all of the times president trump said covid-19 will disappear
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.www.cnn.com
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And, you know, "Let's re-open the economy," as if 220,000 dead people - lost consumers, lost jobs, lost lives - is somehow "good for" the economy? Fucking stop killing people for a month or two, and then those people that didn’t die can also go back to earning and spending money, and making the economy work. God, this isn’t rocket science, and it is also basic human decency.
You know the most fucked up part about the United States? Even if there is a "blue wave" in 2020, without Trump in 2022, the fucking House and Senate will flip back, because American conservatives have lost their fucking grip on reality.
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The worse because we'll still be in an economic and social meltdown because of conservative mismanagement, but then it'll be recast as a failure by Democrats to fix it quickly enough.
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I'm at this deranged place that I check my investments daily, just to remind myself we actually do have lots of money, and aren't at immediate risk of becoming homeless, even if Americans continue to lose their fucking minds and vote for the "Fuck America, First!" Republican Party.
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New rule: I refuse to allow people to say "we disagree" when they reject data and evidence.-- Tori Glass
We are not disagreeing. You are rejecting data. Those are not the same, and if you are communicating with me I will not allow you to conflate the two.
https://nitter.net/ToriGlass/status/1291872390931070981
Over 2,300 years ago, Aristotle (384--322 B.C.) wrote Sophistical Refutations, or as I prefer to call it, "Bullshit Arguments Which Must Die", highlighting thirteen specific methods commonly used to twist logic. Well worth studying even today. Or especially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistical_Refutations
Spoiler alert: they haven't died yet.
Tori's 'new rule' isn't among these, but has a name: denial.
(The conflation is listed, that is the first, equivocation.)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denial
#denial #rhetoric #sophistry #aristotle #SophisticalRefutations #BullshitArgumentWhichMustDie
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I think I will go to my grave not understanding why any sane woman, of decent conscience, would support the GOP after Reagan.
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It was a lot more fun back then. I got into computers in 1968 and the fun level has been pretty much a long slow decline, with some bright spots along the way. Oddly enough, I'm just now in a new bright spot, the first one in ages. I've discovered the Julia language and am having a blast with it. This may be the best designed language I've ever encountered in terms of high level languages, loaded with features, and designed for supercomputing. It's also a dream if you're a math head.
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Clickbait ad: "Should illegal aliens get $1200 stimulus checks: Y/N?"
Fucking propaganda assholes. The stimulus checks are based on IRS tax records. Illegal aliens don't file taxes, therefore don't get stimulus checks, therefore it's a bullshit, wind people up with a lie question.
Reality is hard enough without assholes lying about it, adding to the confusion.
Fucking propaganda assholes. The stimulus checks are based on IRS tax records. Illegal aliens don't file taxes, therefore don't get stimulus checks, therefore it's a bullshit, wind people up with a lie question.
Reality is hard enough without assholes lying about it, adding to the confusion.
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Oh, look. The GOP are - again - willing to bend, stretch and strain the law, fuck decency, propriety, fairness, consideration, and ethics, in order to promote GOP power, all under the guise of "helping people." Assholes.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/california-dropbox-controversy-explained/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/politics/california-dropbox-controversy-explained/index.html
'It's extremely problematic': Republicans inject new chaos into 2020 election with unauthorized ballot dropboxes in California
The latest election controversy cropped up this week in California, where Republicans installed dozens of unauthorized ballot dropboxes that state officials say are illegal.www.cnn.com
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Its like what they did in that oversease ballots in the trash scheme at one of the city's in PA near the primary, where it turned out a "Temp Worker" was responsible.... no one investigated the worker as far as I can tell. My bet is he was a Republican plant sent to do exactly what they did. Temps are not sufficiently examined for sensitive positions like this and puts them in a perfect location to do mischief.
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Loooooook, you can't just slap wings on any old outfit - biology and physics don't work that way! Even the Rule of Cool can't survive that. Ugh. Gorgeous artwork, though, kudos to Phil-Cho.
https://www.deviantart.com/phil-cho/art/Imogen-Earth-27-commission-853005755
https://www.deviantart.com/phil-cho/art/Imogen-Earth-27-commission-853005755
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Well, you can't really slap wings on anything with arms, right? All the bones and musculature is already used for something else.
It would be interesting if wings were implemented like flying squirrels, though.
It would be interesting if wings were implemented like flying squirrels, though.
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Yes, true. However, i have seen some decent models adding bones, and modding muscles to make a passable argument how a humanoid might also have functional wings attached to their backs. I mean, it still only works in "fantasy," but at least some effort went into it 😀
I'm watching the previews for BBC's "The Watch," and thinking I'll enjoy it, despite the fact the closest they come to the source material seems to be that someone read the books, wrote a journal about the funny bits, left the journal where a television producer found it and said "I do like Steamgirls," and went off and made a live-action series.
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Mhmm... well I can totally see the (later) Ankh Morpork in a Steampunk way, but The Watch was about the formative years of that setting and its inhabitants and mechanics.
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Further proof the law means nothing to the GOP or Trump, except when it can be used against their enemies. How very Communist/Dictatorship
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/10/william-perry-pendley-bureau-of-land-management-refuses-to-leave
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/10/william-perry-pendley-bureau-of-land-management-refuses-to-leave
Trump's public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge's order | Public lands | The Guardian
William Perry Pendley says ‘I have the support of the president’ despite court ruling he is serving illegally as head of the Bureau of Land Managementamp.theguardian.com
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The thing I actually hate most about right-wing memes is they make my brain hurt because they are so bloody childish, stupid, and even sometimes manage to also be sad, pathetic, or petty.
I mean, even if I don’t bother to slow my brain down to grade school speed to interpret the point the meme is trying to make, I can always identify a right-wing meme because I feel like my brain crashes into mud brick wall, then I try to think like a one-note bobble-head child to decrypt the non-sensical, conspiracy drizzled message of the meme.
They fucking make my brain hurt, for their sheer lame stupidity, and I despise them.
I mean, even if I don’t bother to slow my brain down to grade school speed to interpret the point the meme is trying to make, I can always identify a right-wing meme because I feel like my brain crashes into mud brick wall, then I try to think like a one-note bobble-head child to decrypt the non-sensical, conspiracy drizzled message of the meme.
They fucking make my brain hurt, for their sheer lame stupidity, and I despise them.
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It kills my soul a bit to realize there are a large chuck of adults that never matured beyond jr high.
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@Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ hey homie!
Why do you show up twice when I @ you? And whom can I trust?
Fucking computers.
Why do you show up twice when I @ you? And whom can I trust?
Fucking computers.
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Again, on Mastodon, you want this account, at toot.cat: @dredmorbius
I have two other deprecated Mastodon profiles.
Your social.isurf.ca profile also seems to peer with Ddiaspora. You'll find me there as dredmorbius joindiaspora.com (https://joindiaspora.com/u/dredmorbius)
My Mastodon & Diaspora presences are separate (I won't see what's shared w/ Diaspora here on Mastodon, or Mastodon interactions there on Diaspora), but it's the same real-life individual behind each.
Clear?
I have two other deprecated Mastodon profiles.
Your social.isurf.ca profile also seems to peer with Ddiaspora. You'll find me there as dredmorbius joindiaspora.com (https://joindiaspora.com/u/dredmorbius)
My Mastodon & Diaspora presences are separate (I won't see what's shared w/ Diaspora here on Mastodon, or Mastodon interactions there on Diaspora), but it's the same real-life individual behind each.
Clear?
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@Icarus Anne Riley Answering your question, no, a given account invocation creates a notification only on its respective system.
You pinged my mastodon profile
I'm active on both Mastodon aand Diaspora, though I treat them as independent systems. "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."'
You pinged my mastodon profile
@dredmorbius@toot.cat earlier (I think on this post or one ssimilar). I'm replying here from Diaspora now (@dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com). I don't see any Mastodon interactions on this thread, in the event you do. I didn't get a Diaspora notification for this threaad, but saw it visiting your account via Diaspora directly.I'm active on both Mastodon aand Diaspora, though I treat them as independent systems. "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."'
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"The [COVID-19] death toll has surpassed the number of American combat deaths in the country's five most recent wars combined."
As Fox News Chris Wallace said "Just wear the damn mask."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/us/kentucky-doctor-coronavirus-death/
As Fox News Chris Wallace said "Just wear the damn mask."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/us/kentucky-doctor-coronavirus-death/
Kentucky doctor who urged mask-wearing early on dies after 4-month battle with Covid-19
A Kentucky doctor who urged people to wear masks early on in the coronavirus pandemic died after battling the disease for four months.www.cnn.com
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Dear White People: Republicans don't actually want you to be allowed to vote, either. This isn’t rocket science.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/10/2/21498587/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-amy-coney-barrett
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/10/2/21498587/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-amy-coney-barrett
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SCOTUS is about to be stacked 6:3, improperly, unethically, and hypocritically (but, of course it's all fucking legal as special conservative snowflakes will point out), so voting rights are fucked for a generation.
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Unless we win big in November -- president and both houses -- and then are able to force our elected reps to do what needs to be done.
* impeach Kavanaugh
* impeach Thomas
* expand the court and pack it
* make DC and Puerto Rico states
* abolish the Electoral College
* find a way to outlaw Gerrymandering
It's time to stop playing with this minority party called the GOP. End it.
* impeach Kavanaugh
* impeach Thomas
* expand the court and pack it
* make DC and Puerto Rico states
* abolish the Electoral College
* find a way to outlaw Gerrymandering
It's time to stop playing with this minority party called the GOP. End it.
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agree it needs to be ended. The harder part is dismantling the multi-billion dollar corporate propaganda network that dictates GOP policy. The GOP used to think they controlled Fox and the RWNJ media mob. Now the GOP "old guard" realize they've completely lost control, and Hell, even Fox is losing control of the mindless mob they created, since rhe Interwebs allows *anyone* (e.g. "Q") to usurp the mob.
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The President of the United States has contracted a virus that apparently kills 18% of the people in his age group. Being a fat man makes him at greater risk of complications. The President of the United States could die before the election. FUCK.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still a barking piece of shit human being.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is still a barking piece of shit human being.
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if he survives, he's t greater risk to have serious after-effects
Impaired but still enough healthy to go to jail is good enough for me but if he dies... You reap what you saw
Impaired but still enough healthy to go to jail is good enough for me but if he dies... You reap what you saw
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That about covers it. White people gotta wake up and accept there's shit on our carpet, and ain't no one going to clean it up and throw it away for us - it's our responsibility to clean the racist shit out of our damn house.
Found on Reddit
#nazis
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Kimberley Strassel, a pro-Trump columnist for The Wall Street Journal, said the performance was a hit with the president’s supporters and listed the many issues that would resonate with them that he mentioned. “On this, Trump wins,” she said.
This speaks volumes about the ethical failings of Trump supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/who-won-debate.html
This speaks volumes about the ethical failings of Trump supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/who-won-debate.html
Who Won the Presidential Debate? Political Observers Weigh In
There was broad agreement on one thing, at least: Whoever won, America lost.www.nytimes.com
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Cognitive dissonance. Yeah, i said it. But the fucking shoe fits. I know women who "support Trump" entirely by ignoring reality. It's a lot of conspiracy theory and nonsense about evil Democrats and Libtard Media, and Trump shares their values, and mention any real facts about Trump, like sexual predation and racism, and suddenly it's all "whataboutism" that magically makes his transgressions "okay," because some Libtard did it first. That makes "Trump" their magical holy savior, and I use the quotes to make it clear they're not talking about the real human being, but their bent fantasy of a magical "Trump" that doesn't exist in the real world.
Ask them "So, is sexual assault wrong, or not? Because it was wrong when Clinton did it, and it's wrong that Trump brags about doing it, while bragging about cheating on his first two wives, and having been accused of sexual predation by at least 20 more women than Clinton was! Either it's wrong for a man to grab a woman by the pussy, or it isn't. There is NO 'whataboutism' here."
Ask them "So, is sexual assault wrong, or not? Because it was wrong when Clinton did it, and it's wrong that Trump brags about doing it, while bragging about cheating on his first two wives, and having been accused of sexual predation by at least 20 more women than Clinton was! Either it's wrong for a man to grab a woman by the pussy, or it isn't. There is NO 'whataboutism' here."
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@Icarus Anne Riley - I wholeheartedly agree with you. And, yes, sexual assault is wrong no matter who does it.
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Ben Shapiro, the conservative podcast host and author, objected to the idea that Mr. Trump was more morally compromised than some Democratic presidents, saying: “Woodrow Wilson screened ‘Birth of a Nation’ at the White House. FDR interned hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans. Bill Clinton used the Oval Office as a harem. Try again.”
Dear #BenShapiro - It's NOT 1945 anymore, it's 2020! "Try again"? Okay, let's try this: that shit was morally wrong in 1945, or even 1998, and it's STILL wrong today. Try again, yourself, asshole.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/who-won-debate.html
Dear #BenShapiro - It's NOT 1945 anymore, it's 2020! "Try again"? Okay, let's try this: that shit was morally wrong in 1945, or even 1998, and it's STILL wrong today. Try again, yourself, asshole.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/politics/who-won-debate.html
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CNN's Van Jones slammed President Trump for not condemning white supremacists during the debate.
"Only three things happened for me tonight:
* Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy.
* The President of the United States refused to condemn white supremacy.
* The commander-in-chief refused to condemn white supremacy on the global stage, in front of my children, in front of everybody's families and was given the opportunity multiple times."
(emphasis mine)
#CNN #VanJones
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/presidential-debate-coverage-fact-check-09-29-20/h_30d0f2814c71fe09b1f8390f48b03973
"Only three things happened for me tonight:
* Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy.
* The President of the United States refused to condemn white supremacy.
* The commander-in-chief refused to condemn white supremacy on the global stage, in front of my children, in front of everybody's families and was given the opportunity multiple times."
(emphasis mine)
#CNN #VanJones
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/presidential-debate-coverage-fact-check-09-29-20/h_30d0f2814c71fe09b1f8390f48b03973
van jones: trump failed to condemn white supremacists on the global stage, in front of my children
CNN's Van Jones slammed President Trump for not condemning white supremacists during the debate.www.cnn.com
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