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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Time for one of the best songs I ever heard:
At least one metal band around here has opinions on Trump:
Anyway, I needed to ask, how much power do the different secretaries exercise over their particular fields? Is, say, the Secretary of State completely in control of the State Departments activities? Or just the head of the bureaucracy?
edited 21st Dec '16 2:16:26 PM by TerminusEst
Si Vis Pacem, Para PerkeleMy dad is a brain-washed Republican loyalist but he thinks very little of politicians, thinks Trump would be better than Hillary and that most of Trump's promises are BS.
Honestly even though he's Hispanic, he doesn't really care about the welfare of his group or anyone else because he identifies as rich before Hispanic so he thinks that Hispanic problems are for poor Hispanic problems. He thinks money has bleached his skin.
So he goes with the party that'll give him more tax breaks.
On the upside though, he wouldn't have voted for Trump if the court could've proven that he had raped a 13 year old girl.
So HB 2 is staying in NC now after a special vote.
The state delayed the vote by a day on it, so Charlotte held their vote to repeal their nondiscrimination ordinance on schedule (they agreed to repeal it the day after HB 2 was put to a vote). After it was repealed the state voted to keep HB 2.
The republicans are claiming "Charlotte lied" because they kept provisions to maintain the city's stance on not hiring contractors confirmed to have carried out sexual/gender discrimination.
edited 21st Dec '16 4:26:26 PM by carbon-mantis
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That song was pretty good. Glad to see that Celldweller wasn't the only muscian that hated Trump
Given that Slayer was originally made by 2 American Atheists, a Chilean and a Cuban Latinos and the latest album had a an anti-racist message, it doesn't surprise me the least that Slayer and King don't like Trump.
Inter arma enim silent legesTrump Names Billionaire Carl Icahn as Special Advisor on Regulation, Vows to Shred Obama Rules
Did you just figure that out now, genius?
Next time do us all a favor and learn a few fundamental facts about said tyrant before you vote him into office. You're a day late and a dollar short here.
No, I'm the slightest bit bitter, whyever do you ask.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Seeing them put it so plainly is rather jarring. It's not really that surprising in retrospect though because most people rarely do in-depth research about politicians and their proposals. My only hope is that it makes enough of a difference to collapse Trump's turnout in 2020.
2017: I told you soTM, but you didn't listen.
edited 21st Dec '16 5:47:22 PM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesOh now their astounded. Funny how it's all A-okay until politicians start taking everyone's rights instead of just minorities.
Formerly known as Bleddyn And I am feeling like a ghost Resident Perky GothWith all this buyer's remorse the Dems should have their campaign 4 years from now be:
Dem Nominee Hindsight is 2020
Obviously stylized somehow lol
New Survey coming this weekend!The impression I've gotten is that many of them either genuinely didn't think he was serious about a lot of the things he was saying (or thought they were exaggerations of things that were much less ridiculous although still reactionary), or didn't want to believe it.
The thing is even if he wasn't serious is that really a chance you want to take?
Really, I feel like that's going to far. A lot of them probably just didn't much attention to the campaign in general- maybe they're vaguely aware of what the media's doing, but dismissed it because it sounded really exaggerated, which isn't unreasonable because it's objectively hard to talk about what's bad about Trump without sounding like you're really exaggerating it- and just voted R because that's what they always do.
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Mhm. I'd argue that he's even worse interpreted symbolically than he is literally, because a) some of really scary stuff is stuff he didn't come right out and say, like 'hey, you 2nd amendment crusaders, why don't you go out and teach Hillary a lesson? By which I'll later claim I mean organize a protest', and b) he contradicts himself so much that if you take him literally, you can focus on the less terrifying bits.
Oh, no question. He's even more terrifying when he's taken as a symbol rather than an individual - because he's a symbol of bigotry, corruption, autocracy, and lies so stubborn and omnipresent they become thought of as truth.
Also, late reply, but - I forsee "Hindsight is 2020" getting a lot of play in four years time. Assuming we're not all radioactive dust by then.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."So, remember how the Fascist party of North Carolina said they'd repeal the bathroom law local governments stopped passing human rights ordinances?
They lied.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/north-carolina-bathroom-bill-hb2/index.html
Does the Republican party do anything other than inflict ideologically driven suffering?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
