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"Why are you yelling?” the reporter asked as Trump's senior adviser refused to clarify the source of information he was spreading about Venezuela’s crime rate.

Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller had an on-camera meltdown after being asked by a journalist to back up questionable claims he was making about Venezuela’s crime rate, video of the episode posted to social media shows.

The four-minute video shows an emotional Miller yelling at NTN24 reporter José María del Pino on Tuesday after del Pino questioned Miller over his claims that Venezuela has become safer than the United States because its convicts are now all in the U.S.

Miller also repeated a since-debunked story that a Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Hopefully the embarrassment will encourage him to follow his hero

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Would rather watch him have a stroke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cannot see this guy and not think of Riffraff from Rocky Horror. What an absolute ghoul.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The difference is that Richard O'Brien is a decent guy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Buster really went off the deep end after arrested development ended

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you mean after it ended?

Did you watch the last episode (Netflix, not the original) ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's been a long time, can you give me a hand

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sure, Maybe you'll get hooked again:

In case you actually needed a refresher:

(spoilers fot the ending of Arrested Developement, obv.)I turns out that Buster killed Lucile (2).

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Venezuelan gang has taken over Colorado apartment complexes

This doesn't work like that.

In one of my home-towns, a small one, apartment complexes are 'managed' (owned and operated) by known-criminal organizations, and have been for a while. The oft-repeated rumours are this:

  • one building is owned by an organization of Italian origin -- maybe 20 unit.
  • two buildings across the street are run by triads -- 4 storeys, perhaps 80 units total
  • no mob wants cops snooping around, so one keeps the cops at bay with a very firm, paternal hand on the residents and the building -- noise complaints, lights out, the occasional ruckus, and either this old man with an accent or his underling takes two very large 'witnesses' for quick investigation. The offender need not fear anything but abrupt eviction with no recourse at most as, again, the building doesn't want to be the target of investigations or similar unwanted attention.

Mob apartments are very well-run units, and ridiculously safe, in my limited experience.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Had a drug dealer as neighbor, for about a decade. He wasn't a low level dealer, dude was moving weight. Must have been distributor level.

While I wouldn't want him as a friend, he was a good neighbor.

He kept his business to himself. Kept an eye on anything suspicious.

Visitors only would have their stereo up once. After that, you'd hear them turn it down when they got to the corner about a block away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Every time Stephen Miller yells, another hair falls out of his scalp.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What a little pissbaby

By the way, the "dictators will empty their prisons and send them to our borders" is projection. He's telling us exactly what he wants to (and very well might) do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't want to deport criminals. They want more prisoners because prisoners are profitable little slaves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Arbeit macht frei" is one of the eternal slogans of those who want to run concentration camps.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

haha - what a dumb insecure little pathetic fuck of a nazi dipshit....

I love the reporter not letting it go so the little manchild is losing it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Lol fuck that guy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He should have ended it with "So you have nothing but fearmongering and hyperbole to go off of. Got it."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It is amazing to me that these assholes will say "thoughts and prayers" or completely deny that things happened when it comes to schoolchildren being murdered in their classrooms, but expect people to be filled with righteous anger when it comes to brown people entering the country. If school shootings are a "fact of life" in America, assuredly immigration is a "fact of life" here...and it is one that has the advantage of being beneficial to the country.

Another thing that irritates me is that these babbling gobs (and particularly this caricaturistic, flanderized bobble head) prevent actual debate around how immigration should function in this country...ensuring that we will continue to be told by the media that there are only two positions on immigration: become a country that nobody new can enter even as we dwindle in population and inventiveness, or have "open borders" that allow absolutely anyone into the country.

I know the reality is that the Democratic party has nuanced positions on asylum and immigration, but the straw man position the Republicans keep insisting Democrats have completely chokes the public discourse to death leaving us continually discussing the two "options", and thanks I fucking hate it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It’s disappointing to see a bipartisan bill (this rarely happens) that could have made a difference get killed without making it to the house floor. That seemed like the middle ground solution.

Sadly, Trump is getting exactly what he wanted out of this election. His cornerstone argument is the border and he is literally nothing without it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree. There's always some middle ground. But these things have a way of being seen as black or white, like we can't have a gray area in the middle.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Miller is literally a Nazie. Dude will say anything to kill, enslave, deport, or incarcerate anyone who does not fit his perfect all white Christian America. Anything he says by default is to be scrutinized and shouted down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It makes me sick that these fuckers have forced me to hate other humans with such vitriol.

I don't want this...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They hate people for existing, you hate people for their actions and harm done to others... These forms of hate are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but I don't want to hate anybody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That just means you're normal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Eh... Hard disagree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"bOtH siDeS"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"THE CHILDREN WILL BE SAVED!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That part got me upset considering school shootings.

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