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Right-wing demagogues always need someone to portray as a threat. And it's really hard to mistake anti-semitism for anything else anymore, even the dog whistle flavor
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And both major races who happen to have brown skin or have reasons to migrate to the US are both people Trump's base is deathly afraid of to begin with.
edited 7th Nov '16 12:22:14 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot![]()
See, when you say things like that, I worry that's there's something out there that we've gotten horrifyingly wrong.
edited 7th Nov '16 12:22:18 AM by KarkatTheDalek
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The thing is, those people are not journalists. John Oliver's segment on Journalism pointed out that most of those people, including himself, gets their information from actual journalists who work at local newspapers.
edited 7th Nov '16 12:24:04 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
I'm reminded of It Can't Happen Here. Heck, even the YMMV trope page for it brings up the eerie similarities with Trump.
Orange Is The New Brown...is that a reference to Brown Shirts? Or that Donald Trump is a giant sack of shit?
edited 7th Nov '16 12:31:29 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedAh, that. I still haven't gotten around to engineering a creative accident for that former EA forum moderator I know who basically declared himself a fellow traveler of fascismExplanation .
Defeating both Trump and Trumpism
And even if she wins, Hillary Clinton will still be feeling the effects of the multiyear campaign waged by Republicans in Congress to destroy her. The evidence suggests that her GOP foes will try to end her presidency prematurely by colluding with an implacably hostile conservative media and, it now seems, right-wing agents inside the FBI.
Clinton got good news on Sunday when FBI Director James B. Comey announced that his decision not to charge her would remain unchanged after the agency’s review of newly discovered emails.
But Comey’s announcement only underscored his own recklessness in issuing his Oct. 28 letter announcing the existence of the emails before the FBI even knew what was in them. His letter poisoned the political atmosphere against Clinton without any justification — to the great advantage of Trump and the glee of her congressional critics.
So while I celebrate the conclusion of the most abysmal campaign of my lifetime, I fear that this will not end the division, aggression and rancid prejudice Trump has nurtured.
A Trump victory would unleash the furies. But even a Trump loss will not advance the cause of social peace and mutual tolerance unless the majority of Americans who still believe in making our experiment in self-government work insist on the need for Congress to govern, not obstruct. Abraham Lincoln had little use for political grudges: “I am in favor of short statutes of limitations in politics.” His successors in the Republican Party would no doubt declare him a sellout for harboring such sentiments.
After all we have learned about Trump’s selfishness, indiscipline, mendacity, greed, misogyny, vindictiveness and intellectual laziness, it should not be necessary to continue to make a case against him. The man who opened his campaign by declaring that many immigrants to our country from Mexico are “rapists” has legitimized far-right politics and the open expression of bigotry. White nationalism has flourished in the garden of Trumpism.
Voters know about his treatment of women, his shortchanging those who worked for him, his warm statements about authoritarian leaders, his readiness to be assisted by Vladimir Putin’s minions, his denigration of a Gold Star family and a heroic POW, and his open promises to use the instruments of government to punish his enemies. Long ago, all this should have reduced his share of the vote to single digits.
The fact that Trump, on the contrary, still has a chance of victory speaks to a profound distemper in the country. Our deep divides along lines of party, race, class, gender and region guarantee even a man as deeply flawed as Trump a firm foundation of support. And many of our fellow citizens, shaken by economic and social changes, are hurting so much that they have embraced the opportunity to use Trump as a way of expressing their rage.
Trump’s rise challenges both sides of politics. The massive support for Trump among white working-class voters suggests that they do not find the economic promises of progressive politicians sufficiently persuasive or believable to entice them away from the riskiest vote they will ever cast in their lives. Liberals have much work to do.
But the true disgrace is the timidity and opportunism of Republican leaders. By supporting Trump, legions of Republican officeholders, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell (Ky.), have signaled that this preposterous candidate’s endorsement of their ideological agenda of tax cuts and deregulation matters far more to them than his authoritarian tendencies or his intolerance. History has not been kind to pro-business conservatives who in the past tried to use far-right demagogues to crush enemies to their left.
And the end of the campaign has found Trump in close alliance with Clinton’s Republican tormentors in Congress. Reps. Jason Chaffetz (Utah), Darrell Issa (Calif.), Trey Gowdy (S.C.) and their allies have spent years hurling charges and driving up Clinton’s unpopularity.
They gave Trump his talking points in the final days, with a major and outrageously misleading assist from the FBI. Comey’s second letter could not undo the gratuitous damage he caused Clinton or her party by abruptly altering the trajectory of the campaign.
One does not have to overlook her mistakes or her failings to insist that nothing Clinton has done justifies the hatred that has come her way. She is one of the most prepared and disciplined Americans ever to seek the presidency. She has devoted her life to public service, and her record as a senator and secretary of state won her high favorable ratings — which Congress’s taxpayer-financed investigation machine systematically set about to bring down.
If Clinton does prevail, the country will need to back up its rejection of Trump with a rebuke to those who would use Trumpian tactics to deny her legitimacy and stymie the government’s ability to function. Unending investigations that manufacture accusations based on preconceived conclusions is not Congress’s mission. The vile spirit of this campaign cannot be allowed to contaminate the next four years.
edited 7th Nov '16 12:32:18 AM by Deadbeatloser22
"Yup. That tasted purple."
Trump based his whole idiotic argument on the idea that the FBI couldn't possibly get through 650,000 emails in eight days. Once again proving that Trump has no clue how computers work. It would not be that difficult to go through that many emails in one week. It's not like Comey is personally reading through each and every email. Heck, I'm surprised it took this long.
Funny how the FBI are "rigged" again since they aren't giving the Trump campaign the answers they want again.
edited 7th Nov '16 12:36:44 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedSome breaking news, Bill Clinton's attorney general Janet Reno has died at 78 due to complications of Parkinson's disease.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/janet-reno-us-attorney-general-died-43353469
edited 7th Nov '16 1:24:00 AM by sgamer82
In other news, I just noticed that Youtube had launched #voteIRL campaign in September
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edited 7th Nov '16 2:51:27 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.John Weaver, a Republican strategist (who mostly works for relative moderates like Mc Cain and Kasich), says outright that Clinton will win tomorrow and probably in an electoral landslide. However she will be so unpopular that the GOP will refuse to work with her, and ignore its own issues with demographics, which Weaver says is killing the party.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/politics/john-weaver-axe-files/index.html
edited 7th Nov '16 5:43:49 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.So with the election day tomorrow, what part of the day does the next POTUS get announced?
The meme is love, the meme is life. Go check out my youtube channel. :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XjInl2Il9SGEQbyyU0djAThe election call will come tomorrow night, most likely, after polling stations begin to close on the east coast. Unless it's very close, or there are major shenanigans, there should be a result before midnight EST. Whether both candidates will accept that result is a different question.
edited 7th Nov '16 6:27:27 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The 2012 election was called for Obama between 11 and 11:30 EST.
http://www.ew.com/article/2012/11/06/president-barack-obama-election-2012-called-times
Clinton could be called the winner if she takes a few important eastern states (like NC, or Florida). If Trump underperforms in Ohio that's another cause for an early call.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I swear that some of the people that post in this thread are better journalists than people on the news shows and networks.
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