authoritarianism, not authoritarionism.  the first is a word, the second is a misspelling, or maybe Bernie is going for some nuance, that escapes me.

Bernie Sanders has a rant about Trumps lies-says they're the road to authoritarionism. (Is that even a word?)

Sessions didn't lie about the meetings , just to be clear. It was directly addressed in the question to Sessions  whether he met with Russian operatives about the campaign or the election.

The Obama administration had 22 visits to the white house from this same ambassador, at the link are tweets from Claire McCaskill who denied ever meeting with the Ambassador proven false. This is fake news, fake book.

The Red Connection indeed. Is the unbiased Australian press talking about the visits by Russian ambassador to the Obama White House? 

Zimmerman was not a cop. Democrats have run Ferguson forever promising a better future, never delivering.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/16/black-voters-rejecting-democratic-party-in-ferguso/

Many black voters in the St. Louis area say they will be taking out their aggression at the ballot box this November over the handling of the Michael Brown shooting — by voting against the Democratic Party that they have long supported.

“Just because they’ve got the D next to their name, that don’t mean nothing,” Darren Seals, 27, of Ferguson, told The Washington Post.

He vowed to vote for a white Republican even though he’s never before participated in a local election. He said he’s angry things haven’t improved for the black community since President Obama took office.

“The world is watching us right now. It’s time to send a message of our power,” he told The Post.

His comments are part of a growing sentiment in the St. Louis suburb that has been rocked by unrest following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

erguson, Missouri, is a majority-black city governed mostly by whites. The mayor is white. The police chief is white. The police force is 94 percent white. Only one of its six city council members is black. These facts, as much as anything, have shaped the protests over the police shooting of Michael Brown. Ferguson, with a 67 percent black population, is a place where the largest community has little political voice.://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/08/14/ferguson_missouri_government_why_is_it_so_white.html  

Yes, I didn't talk about "many shootings," I talked about two particular ones which everybody 'knows' about without ever looking at the facts, as they are determined by the following investigation.  There was also the shooting of the black man in Chicago who had a knife and was walking down the street.  He had passed the police, who had ordered him to drop it.  He was manic or high or something, and did not.  The police weren't threatened but there were other people around.  They were concerned about others getting hurt, and if they engaged with him, they would have had to worry about themselves getting hurt.  So they shot him, and it was also filmed on a cel phone camera.  And it looks bad, but there is a whole backstory that is important for understanding what happened.  You don't get that from the cell phone and you don't get that from the protesters.  You have to look at the judgment down the road, in order to get the facts.  and,

Edited by franciscosan - 25 Feb 2017 at 11:25

?What do you mean, "Are colored people even considered human in the US?

franciscosan wrote

Shootings have been happening forever,  but there is less tolerance for them now, more of an assumption  that the police are the cause, and that they were unwarranted, so to speak.  Some things are better, some are, perhaps momentarily??, worse.  I think that is how progress really works, two steps forward, one step back.

Edited by toyomotor - 24 Feb 2017 at 11:05

toyomotor, with respect-you had no business believing Obama to be a stabilizing influence. Now that we know your gift for wishful thinking, maybe you should unburden yourself and let Trump be your new hero.

Edited by toyomotor - 24 Feb 2017 at 10:56

franciscosan wrote: Does Trump own that bridge in Brooklyn?  Are you selling it on his behalf? Vanuatu it seems like you are saying that Obama was really bad, and the media liked him, and the media dislikes Trump, therefore Trump must be really, really good.  I mean the argument has a nice symmetry to it, but that doesn't mean it is accurate.

Does Trump own that bridge in Brooklyn?  Are you selling it on his behalf?

Vanuatu wrote (in part)

I submit that after listening to media you have no accurate assessment of China and Trump or Putin and Trump. I admit that I don't either bc nothing has really happened yet just talk. And yes human rights violations are bigger and more threatening to the world at large than anything this President has said.

franciscosan: I tend to agree with you, except for his stability. From what we read and see in the media in Australia, he's the very epitome of instability.

Edited by toyomotor - 22 Feb 2017 at 11:53

One thing is for sure, Donald is certainly helping to sell newspapers.

Edited by toyomotor - 21 Feb 2017 at 14:09