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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Thus speaks yoneld:
Just sent in my absentee ballot (voting in California). Voted for Hillary.
In Israel, almost everyone agrees Trump is awful, but some still prefer him because he's supposedly better for Israel. (Whenever someone says that, I point out Hillary's pro-Israel record and Trump's lying record.)
edited 26th Oct '16 1:26:36 PM by yoneld
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
The law in the night
For all tit for tat, even the Obama administration was good for Israel. Weapon deals, not much pressure over the settlements, expressing mild annoyance on the Operation weed cutter, I mean, Pillar of Defense and the continuation of the US Israeli weapon purchase and research programs.
Trump on the other hand actively caters people who'd rather see Israel burn to the ground and send Jews to the gas chamber again.
Inter arma enim silent leges
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
There are too many things in your avatar and my eyes are crying trying to understand them all.
Is that really a Deathly Mockingjay pin?
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
Thus speaks yoneld:
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Overall, yes, but that doesn't make good headlines, unlike the bad personal relationship between Obama and Netanyahu, which the media spins to no end.
Indeed.
Did Trump just say that his campaign was about optimism?
I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency
Trump is such a bizarre candidate that if he announced tomorrow that he supported Black Lives Matter that I would't even be fazed.
....
...Okay maybe a little.
New Survey coming this weekend!
Yes. He campaign slogan is literally "Make America Great Again". Well, it sounds optimistic at least.
edited 26th Oct '16 2:07:11 PM by nervmeister
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
It's so....
backhanded.
It's downright insidious tbh
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
The only way I'd be convinced Trump turned over a new leaf is if he admitted that he was a miserable sack of crap, turned himself in for all of his crimes and scandals on account of being a sack of crap, and then gave all of his money to the poor to make up for being a sack of crap. Anything short of that is nothing less than the usual Trump bandwagon.
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
You want Trump to turn in to Jesus?
talk about an Impossible Task
edited 26th Oct '16 2:11:36 PM by blkwhtrbbt
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
I'd settle for admitting that he's behind in the polls, with everything that implies.
Oh, dear God no. If I wanted him to turn into Jesus, I'd want him to get backstabbed by one of his best friends, persecuted as an heretic, forced to carry a large heavy object and wear a crown of thorns, get nailed to another heavy object, and then die for everyone's sins only to be resurrected three days later. No, I'm looking at more of a St.Paul conversion here than an outright turnover to Messiah-hood.
edited 26th Oct '16 2:16:41 PM by kkhohoho
THAT'S what Trump means when he says he wants to "make America great again". He wants to get it high and fuck it in so many new and depraved ways, that after all is said and done, it can't look at itself in the mirror anymore without feeling filthy.
Or maybe I'm coming down too hard on Trump. Maybe he does have one or two good ideas for the country. However, his idea of a great America most likely doesn't line up with yours in totality.
edited 26th Oct '16 2:30:56 PM by nervmeister
Would that it were so simple.
God, I'm glad Warren didn't run. Charlie Baker's governor and we're only four years out of kicking Scott Brown to the curb; I'd rather not have another Republican get their filthy hands on Ted Kennedy's old seat.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
The law in the night
For Trump to become Jesus he needs to drop the fake tan and get a real one first.![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
I have a question: Which candidate has addressed the issue of miserable private prison conditions more?
I don't recall anything hearing anything really substantial from either there, but I'm pretty sure I remember Hillary at least saying the words 'private prison' at some point, so It'd be her.
Don't take my word for it, though- maybe check if either of them says anything about privates prisons on their websites.
Lost in Space
Hillary is definitely for the abolition of private prisons, but I'm not familiar with the details.
Edit: Never mind. Here we go.
- Ending the privatization of prisons. Hillary believes we should move away from contracting out this core responsibility of the federal government to private corporations. We must not create private industry incentives that may contribute—or have the appearance of contributing—to over-incarceration. The campaign does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies and will donate any such direct contributions to charity.
edited 26th Oct '16 2:51:32 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Ugh. Just reading that infuriates me.
Reagan did far more long term damage to the country than W. couldn't even dream of.
New Survey coming this weekend!
Re: Trump and Israel - Even with the (mostly implied) anti-semetic overtones I think his hardline anti-Muslim stance might appeal to similarly hardline Israelis,
"More Republicans expect Clinton to win U.S. election than Trump: Poll" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN12Q2WK
Granted, it's 41% saying she'll win to 40% saying Trump will, but if still a sharp decline from 58% being confident of a Trump victory last month.
Anything about how many think he'll lose honestly over how many think because the election is rigged?
Not specifically no. Trump's crying "rigged" is just there as a bit of background info about how he's alarmed establishment Republicans.
538 on the supposed tightening of the race: yes, Trump's numbers are improving. But so are Clinton's.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-is-the-presidential-race-tightening/
So it looks like Clinton's lead is shrinking in New Hampshire. Probably just the typical tightening of the polls in the final weeks of the election, and not much to worry about unless it goes further/spreads to other states.
Early voting numbers show that Clinton is doing well in NC and Florida (if she wins either, and carries all her safe/likely states, its over), while Trump is outperforming Romney in Iowa and Ohio.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/politics/early-voting-statistics-2016-election/index.html?sr=fbCNN102616early-voting-statistics-2016-election0800PMVODtopLink&linkId=30378139
edited 26th Oct '16 1:05:16 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.