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#175526: Feb 23rd 2017 at 9:46:09 AM

I wouldn't blame her either, but I don't think she's going to. This seems hopeful.

Don't know what the other millennials are talking about with her not being inspiring. I was just inspired by four f*cking words.

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#175527: Feb 23rd 2017 at 9:52:32 AM

[up] Well, it's always easy to be inspired by someone who you agree with politically. I admit that I felt inspired by almost anything Bernie said.

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175528: Feb 23rd 2017 at 10:13:16 AM

@Perian

Your claims would all be far more convincing if you ever showed up in this thread in response to anything other than somebody criticizing Sanders or his fanboys.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#175529: Feb 23rd 2017 at 10:22:12 AM

I almost want Hillary to run for Mayor of NYC out of spite and do such an amazing job as one last fuck you to all of her haters on the left.

Or she can say fuck it, and be a grandma.

Whatever works.

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#175530: Feb 23rd 2017 at 10:38:21 AM

I almost want HRC to redo the presidential run. There's no one (that I know of) in US history that's ever had her qualifications for the post.
Alas, I don't think we can afford to take the chance with Trump on the ballot. note 

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175531: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:01:38 AM

I can't help feeling a loss to Donald Trump is a loss that can't truly be recovered from. I'm an earlier post I equated it Mike Tyson being one-shotted by Little Mac. A loss of such that proportion is a career ender.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#175532: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:05:33 AM

She's also a bit old to become president in 2021.

And the Democrats are in dire need of new blood, at every level. Hopefully focusing on downticket races and grassroots efforts does the trick.

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CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#175533: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:09:52 AM

I agree with you two actually.
Yet, I regret the waste. Doubly so, because I'm not sure it wouldn't be politically radioactive for a future President to have HRC as an advisor. So, in essence, instead of serving the country at the highest levels, decades of institutional experience and long established connections are just going fade away.
That would be a tragedy on its own before even getting to what the alternative was.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#175534: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:10:23 AM

Bannon is on CNN, and probably other networks, giving a speech that amounts to saying that Trump will govern according to his campaign rhetoric. Confirming what we all feared, the GOP has no leash on him and the nutjobs are in control.

If there are more leaks to come, Bannon needs to be the primary target. Pence, Conway, and even Trump himself don't come close to how dangerous this man is.

[up]Maybe not, HRC was almost certainly an informal mentor to a lot of up and comers in the party over the years. And she's an inspiration, particularly to young women, especially after she lost.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:11:49 AM by Rationalinsanity

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#175535: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:11:15 AM

But her emails!

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#175536: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:17:29 AM

[up][up] Perhaps this is just another side effect of the decades long smear campaign against her, but wasn't it discussed how Hillary played an either active or inadvertent role in the stagnation of the Democratic Party's younger politicians and their abilities to rise through the party ranks?

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#175538: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:25:43 AM

After calling the alt-right a "left wing fascist group."

Oh really when?
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#175539: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:26:13 AM

[up][up]So the right begin to turn on each other, and the GOP hilariously label the alt-right as extremist left. Man, this is rich.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:26:21 AM by danime91

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#175540: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:35:11 AM

[up] It's because they don't want Conservatism to be associated with White Nationalism and Neo-Nazism, even though that is exactly what the White Nationalists and Neo-Nazi's associate with. I think it's good that Neo and Trad. Conservatives want to distance themselves from the Alt-Right; it'd be more worrying if they wanted to keep condoning them. Labeling them as "Leftists" is just a desperate way to do so.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:35:33 AM by DingoWalley1

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#175541: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:36:54 AM

It's funny that they're being called extreme leftists, because this isn't even a new thing. The GOP's go-to answer for accusations of white nationalism, dog-whistling, tacitly supporting hate groups, etc. has been "No, YOU are! You're the racists! YOOOOOOUUUUUUUU are the racists! Not me! Party of Lincoln! I'm rubber, you're glue!" for years.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:37:40 AM by TobiasDrake

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#175542: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:38:34 AM

[up]Exactly. Rather than saying something like "these people are off their rocker and have nothing to do with our party" they instead go "they aren't really part of our party, they're part of their party!" It's like all that exists in the world is right and left, and you're either one or the other.

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#175543: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:44:48 AM

I just shat on a friend for calling the Guardian "fascist liberals", in reference to the fact that they've endorsed questionable assholes in their columns before. That's Commie-Nazis level oxymoron. This shit is something every group indulges in.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:45:01 AM by TheHandle

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#175544: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:45:16 AM

There's always a middle ground. Except when it comes to what party to choose in an election. Being only(at this time) that Dems or Republicans stand a ghost of a chance, well...

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#175545: Feb 23rd 2017 at 11:50:57 AM

Accusing the alt-right of being leftists in any way just makes them sound like they don't even know what political terms mean anymore.

It's not surprising though. People like Ted Cruz love to accuse their political opponents of being the real racists, the real mysogynists, the real fascists, the real oppressors, as they proceed to trample over people's rights without any self-awareness.

edited 23rd Feb '17 11:55:33 AM by Draghinazzo

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#175546: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:13:31 PM

Even a moron is going to think there's something weird about calling the "alt-right" an "extreme left" group.

Granted, here in Canada for a while our right wing party was called the "Progressive Conservatives" which is about on the same level of being an oxymoron.

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#175547: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:19:01 PM

I mean, c'mon. Extreme left is communism, and extreme right is fascism. Both are commonly demonized in American Politics. The alt-right are definitely not communists.

As glad as I am to see Spencer get kick to the curb with a message that reads 'the alt-right doesn't deserve a place within standard political discourse', I'd be a lot gladder about it if it wasn't also the Right suddenly being unwilling to acknowledge that their shit stinks.

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#175548: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:26:52 PM

They've definitely taken No True Scotsman to a totally different level, haven't they?

Arizona has passed a bill that allows the state to charge people who organize and participate in protests with ''racketeering'' charges. It also allows them to seize the assets of people charged in protests that turn destructive. I... don't know what to say.

Twitter thread with an overview of this and other newer legislation targeting protesters.

edited 23rd Feb '17 12:43:04 PM by Pseudopartition

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#175549: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:36:44 PM

It's not surprising though. People like Ted Cruz love to accuse their political opponents of being the real racists, the real mysogynists, the real fascists, the real oppressors, as they proceed to trample over people's rights without any self-awareness.

A lifetime of parental abuse has taught me that projection is one Hell of a tool.

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#175550: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:45:40 PM

RCP on likely redistricting

[up]My condolences.

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