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34. The US is never going to vote for a UN resolution that calls for the abolition of the death penalty

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 05:44 PM

Oct 2017

It doesn't matter what else the resolution says. It could've included language saying that the UN salutes Donald Trump as a great humanitarian and the US would still vote against it.

Why: Because it includes language in which those signing it agree to call upon nations that haven't yet adopted a 1989 UN resolution urging the abolition of the death penalty to consider doing so. And one of those nations that hasn't signed onto that 1989 resolution: the good old USA, which has refused to adopt that resolution for nearly 30 years, in both Democratic administrations and Republican administrations.

It sucks. But it has little to do with anything else in the resolution and everything to do with the language about the 1989 resolution calling for abolition of the death penalty.

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We are run the the talibornagain. muntrv Oct 2017 #1

Hold on! It's bad, but not as bad as it sounds. Towlie Oct 2017 #30

Yeah, I was going to post something similar. Lokilooney Oct 2017 #33

This is incredible. As in, hard to believe, even for Trumpistan. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #2

President Pence issued his orders to Haley and she obeyed like a loyal lap dog. LonePirate Oct 2017 #3

Trump, Pence, Ryan.... Plucketeer Oct 2017 #15

This cant be true, tell me it isnt true. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #4

Good grief shenmue Oct 2017 #5

That's my reaction exactly. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #26

there is no end, it seems, to the despicable crap coming out of this maladministration niyad Oct 2017 #6

Besides the usual suspects, Mendocino Oct 2017 #7

Say what now? mountain grammy Oct 2017 #8

I simply can't believe the US vote. When do we institute public stoning for adultery? George II Oct 2017 #9

When Pence gets in? LiberalLovinLug Oct 2017 #13

If we do that, they would be hardly any adults left to stone the guilty parties in T raccoon Oct 2017 #29

donnie would be first in line, EXCEPT...... George II Oct 2017 #31

True. Nt raccoon Oct 2017 #32

Imbeciles run this country now.. nt vkkv Oct 2017 #10

Was this a mistake? IronLionZion Oct 2017 #11

Idiocracy. sarcasmo Oct 2017 #12

ASSHOLES Angry Dragon Oct 2017 #14

Here is a link to the resolution angrychair Oct 2017 #16

why? RussBLib Oct 2017 #17

When I read this headline, I thought ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #18

With a government like Trumps ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #19

Still sweating - Dubya and Jeff Gannon keithbvadu2 Oct 2017 #20

We did what Saudi Arabia told us to do. Wolf Frankula Oct 2017 #21

The headline is very confusing, i had to read it a couple times to understand what it was saying Calista241 Oct 2017 #22

I had to read it 2x NJCher Oct 2017 #24

GOD DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!! Initech Oct 2017 #23

Nimrodda Haley is garbage. RhodeIslandOne Oct 2017 #25

What the fuck? whopis01 Oct 2017 #27

OMFG! At first I read this incorrectly and thought this country have done the right thing. raccoon Oct 2017 #28

The US is never going to vote for a UN resolution that calls for the abolition of the death penalty onenote Oct 2017 #34