Mark Sanford defeats Colbert-Busch in the special election for the empty House seat in South Carolina. After the SC Dem Chairman hoped that Nikki Haley gets sent back to where ever the hell she came from, Harpootlian tried to clarify his comments on MSNBC, claiming that he didn’t mean it that way. Sen Jeff Flake back pedaled and claimed that he has always been in favor of background checks, and that he’d vote for a bill containing one
if it had one change for internet sales between friends. The Armed Forces continue the push to eliminate the rampant sexual assaults in their ranks. In a pamphlet on the issue from the Air Force,
they suggest that the victim not fight, but submit to their attacker.
Chris Christie had lap band surgery back in February and he denies that he did it to help out his presidential aspirations. Saxby Chambliss scored a hole in one while golfing with Obama and talking about legislation. He jokingly said that due to his feat, Obama should let them do what they want on entitlement reform. A pro-gun group proposed a march on Washington with loaded guns and talk of embracing violence with the government. After some light was shone on their foolish plan, the tone of their anger was significantly lessened.
Benghazi testimony. Twitter Storm.
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The pamphlet is completely correct though. In a scenario where resisting can lead to you being killed or seriously injured submitting and waiting for it to be over is the safest and smartest option. How dare they try and help women survive their ordeal instead of being a politically correct girl power cheerleader? This is important advice that all women at risk of sexual assault need to hear.
Cenk, you forget about the male on male sexual assault that also occurs in the military on a daily basis. You said “woman” over and over as if they are the only victims, when they are not. That’s a huge and massively ignored issue in this whole debate.
I hate these assholes who start whining about tyranny and Obama being a dictator whenever there’s even a little talk about gun control. They throw these words around but they don’t know what they really mean. They’ve never lived under an actual oppressive government and it pisses me off that they take it so lightly.
It pisses me off because my mom’s side of the family lived under REAL tyranny. Several of my relatives died in the Spanish Civil War, including a great-aunt who starved to death when she was 3. My great-grandpa was taken as a political prisoner because he was opposed to the fascist Francisco Franco; he was tortured, released years later as a broken man and died of tuberculosis he presumably got while in prison. After Franco won, you couldn’t speak your mind, you couldn’t criticize the government or its actions, you just weren’t FREE.
My Spanish grandma lived under that for the first 40 (or so) years of her life, and my own mom lived under it until Franco died 4 days before her 11th birthday. She still remembers how the country changed, how it went from being a fascist dictatorship with no freedom to a first-world democracy.
Also, some of my grandma’s family lived under Mussolini, another tyrannical dictator, until HIS death. My Nonna was born and raised in an Italian neighborhood in Tripoli, back when Libya was actually democratic. But she had to leave I think two years after Gaddafi came into power. She’d been planning on moving beforehand because she’d married my American grandpa a few years earlier (they met when he was stationed in Libya), but the fact that a dictator was in power finalized her decision to leave.
Oh, and by the way, both Italy and Spain have stricter gun control than the US and they haven’t collapsed into dictatorships again. I 100% disagree with a ban on EVERY firearm, because of my family’s history and I believe guns would be necessary as an absolute last resort when all other options are gone. But these people saying that background checks, assault rifle bans etc. will lead to tyranny and that Obama’s a dictator for trying to push these laws is a gaping asshole. You don’t know what real tyranny was, you wouldn’t be able to even SAY those things if you were living under real tyranny, you wouldn’t know what a ”tyranny” was if it slapped you in your face and crawled down your throat. So shut your mouth and find an argument that makes sense instead of making light of the struggle of people who live – and have lived – under dictatorships.
What was the bee segment?
This is the second time I’ve seen a TYT segment start with a bee-related sidebar (the other hinted it was about Montsanto purchasing Beelogics) and then switch away. I research bees for a living…this feels like such a cruel tease for my favorite show to indicate they’re about to talk about my favorite subject…and then…
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