If I was Hispanic in a country without tacos I'd want out too tbh.

Fair play to Barcelona. I'd imagine they have some pretty heavy hitting Spanish backers, and supporting Catalanian independence may hurt them, but they've voted with their hearts. I wonder will all the players support the club position though, given that so few of them are even Spanish?

The interesting thing is where they would play if Catalonia did gain independence. I'm not 100% on it but I'm sure La Liga said they would make them play in the Catalan league (bad for them, they would be much weaker). The French league was mentioned also.

Catalan identity & nationalism is very much in the club's DNA, 'mes que un club' etc, it's the only reason I'm even sort of aware of the whole thing. Any game they play you will see loads of Catalan flags and stuff like that in the crowd.

It's hard to believe the Spanish govt would "banish" them, as they must bring in huge revenue, through sponsorship, merchandising and player transfers, to say nothing of gate receipts and television rights - the Spanish government must take their cut of all this in tax/VAT, and if they "kicked them out of Spain" they would lose all that surely? I reckon they'd come to some sort of arrangement which will be beneficial to both. Barcelona have to be huge for the tourism industry too, not just the club but the city: isn't La Sagrada Familia there?

do your part to get kid rock in the senate! http://oi63.tinypic.com/142y8uc.jpg

Nelson Mandela is officially a paranoid old man reading too many blogs.

this is the newest A Closer Look video

i believe the email talk in the media was what the clinton campaign wanted and they thought that would out weight trumps personal character flaws https://boxden.com/smilies/Qh2Vxfi.gif

Let's change the name to the RIPublican Party. I wonder which nail will secure the Democratic party's coffin, but they're not as predictable and that adds a lot of challenge to the game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.d9541ad08853

A couple years ago I started seeing predictions about the fracture of the Republican Party, and it's exciting to see it unfold for real now.

Alabama senate runoff race.....

Bannon 1. Trump 0.

:rofl:

Spain to deploy police to prevent Catalan independence vote

If I was a Catalan, this would just make me want independence more.

Yep. **** Spain.

Of course it would. Expect blood in the streets. :( Idiots. You can't stop a country or region getting its independence by exerting force upon them. They who do not learn from history etc.

Who's Alan?

That's such a stretch that it causes industrial-grade elastic to snap.

GOP proposes deep tax cuts, provides few details on how to pay for them

Wait, I'm no Goofle, but since when is the left concerned about crafting tax reform or government functions without a means to pay for them?

Over two hours to post it as well :D

Not one of your best, TH.

You try listening to and reviewing almost 70 albums inside a month, then come to me. ;)

The article you posted didn't really touch on what you said under it.

The left usually wants to pay for it through taxing corporations more. Nothing new was mentioned in that article. It's the same ole same ole with the GOP. They want to reduce the corporate tax so the rich and upper middle class benefits. Along with giving them other tax cuts.

Sorry, I should have specified that I meant Democrats.

Yeah true, Democrats are too busy trying to be moderate to do anything daring enough like go after corporations. They will talk about it maybe but in practice. Nope.

Quit posting Washington Post articles. I ain't subscribing lids.

Trevor Noah the other night asking Trump what is the correct way for a black person to protest:

It’s wrong to do it in the streets;
It’s wrong to do it in the tweets;
You cannot do it on the field;
You cannot do it if you’ve kneeled;
And don’t do it if you’re rich,
you ungrateful son of a bitch.
Because there’s one thing that’s a fact:
You cannot protest if you’re black.

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Who is expected to be the presidential candidate for the Dems in 2020? Surely can't be any of the current faces (Warren, Bernie, Biden etc.) if they want to have a chance of winning?

I think they're grooming Kamala Harris.

I'd like to see Chris Murphy throw his hat in right around the mid-terms so he'd have a solid two years to campaign. He's got the right mix of progressive with just enough classic liberal to appeal to a lot of people on the left and in the middle.

https://www.murphy.senate.gov/issues

@ Frown - She's good on drugs.

I'm just hoping my man Tom Woods decides to pull his finger out and run for the Libertarian candidacy.

Jesus, are there any politicians who can honestly say that they're don't support the military industrial complex?

https://www.murphy.senate.gov/issues...foreign-policy

My man Tom Woods wouldn't. He's actually a very good introduction to Libertarian/Anarchist views if you're interested.

I often wonder how those types of figures would hold up if their opinions have an accountability tied to them through their position. That's not a knock on his philosophy or anything, I haven't read up on him at all except to see if he had experience.

F. Ex there are many Democrats who decry our bloated military while they're giving an under-the-table handy to the industry that perpetuates the complex because willfully cutting factory jobs is risky political move.

Heard the Dread Lord Chthulu was thinking of running...

And here I thought I was the only one who ever thought of that, because that's how you define a risky move in the political sense: obscurity.

@Chula Vista,Trevor Noah is awesome. Chris Murphy For President 2020?
@Goofle,Never heard of Tom Woods. I think Zuckerburg 2020?
@Frownland, damn you going after Chris Murphy hard. Deep thoughts to ponder.

It's a criticism of Murphy, yes, but it's more of a criticism of our political system on the whole because feeding the war machine is ubiquitous among American politicians on both sides.

Murphy seems about as terrible as I would expect.