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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#175626: Feb 23rd 2017 at 10:35:46 PM

As I've said, Collective Consciousness fits Trump, Bannon and others to a T.

He doesn't want intellectualism, culture or anything but easily controlled pawns and a media that knows when to bow down.

DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#175627: Feb 24th 2017 at 12:40:52 AM

[up] Yeah, Trump is a cheap knock-off of what Armstrong pretends to be.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#175628: Feb 24th 2017 at 12:47:14 AM

Trump is the a fusion of Bush's, JFK's, Nixon's and Reagan's worst tendencies.

Trump has a 30 percent approval rating in California. This one was from a couple weeks ago so it's likely dropped.

He has an approval rating of 46 % in Texas

And an approval rating of 51 % in Tennessee

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175629: Feb 24th 2017 at 12:50:31 AM

[up] With none of their redeeming qualities.

And geez, 46% in Texas? Guess they're not too thrilled about that wall and their property being seized to build oil pipelines.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#175630: Feb 24th 2017 at 12:50:35 AM

[up][up] Of all states, Texas's approval to him is not that high either?

edited 24th Feb '17 12:50:49 AM by Luigisan98

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175631: Feb 24th 2017 at 1:08:06 AM

Huh - Obama now has an approval rating of 53% in TN? Colour me very surprised.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175632: Feb 24th 2017 at 1:10:03 AM

[up] Is that higher or lower than it was before he left office?

Disgusted, but not surprised
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#175633: Feb 24th 2017 at 1:13:15 AM

Texas has been getting more and more purple. They're particularly unhappy about the anti-Mexico rhetoric.

But I'm more focused on the fact that he's down to 51% in Tennessee. That's one of the Reddest states, and Trump won by a landslide there.

Which means the list of states where he's over 50% is probably pretty short.

[up]Neither- the poll that gave Obama 53% there was taken in February 2009, and it was the highest result he ever got there. But it still puts it in perspective- at equivalent points in their Presidencies, Trump's approval in one of his best states is worse than Obama's approval in one of his worst states.

edited 24th Feb '17 1:16:37 AM by Gilphon

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175634: Feb 24th 2017 at 1:13:24 AM

Dunno but without question far more than his share of votes there.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#175635: Feb 24th 2017 at 2:39:13 AM

Need to see polls on how well the GOP is liked in the same states: a lot of the time, they vote for the party, not the man. He would have lost the South otherwise.

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#175637: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:21:32 AM

[up] First we must wait and see how much confidence can be regained on them.

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#175638: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:25:41 AM

That is an inherently loaded question. As the minority party, the Democrats have very limited ability to "stop Trump". Better for those voters to ask themselves why Trump was elected to begin with.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#175639: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:28:27 AM

Well, they should use it. Every bit.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175640: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:29:29 AM

[up][up][up][up] <facepalm>

Those voters really don't get that the Democratic Party can't do much to oppose Trump, do they?

It's not politics. It's math.

edited 24th Feb '17 6:31:12 AM by M84

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#175641: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:30:37 AM

So, the infamous Trump push poll about "biased media" doesn't actually send the results, only donations.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175642: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:34:43 AM

[up] According to the updates in that article, the data is being transmitted, but there's a good chance it's not actually being processed or recorded for future consideration.

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#175644: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:37:20 AM

Three words: "nuking the filibuster".

Also, I suspect that the issues with "coherent Democrat" leadership may have been averted had Sander's cult of personality's (note: separate from the man himself who at least knew when to fold) well poisoning resulted in this somehow becoming a valid platform for running for DNC chair, much less the other ideological slapfighting.

The intelligence community is discovering more and more Steele dossier details that check out. Not the porno quality ones, though.

Two weeks before the Inauguration, intelligence officers briefed both Obama and Trump about a dossier of unverified allegations compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer. The thirty-five-page dossier, which included claims about Trump’s behavior during a 2013 trip to Moscow, had been shopped around to various media outlets by researchers opposed to Trump’s candidacy. The dossier concluded that Russia had personal and financial material on Trump that could be used as blackmail. It said that the Russians had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Trump for years. According to current and former government officials, prurient details in the dossier generated skepticism among some members of the intelligence community, who, as one put it, regarded it as a “nutty” product to present to a President. But, in the weeks that followed, they confirmed some of its less explosive claims, relating to conversations with foreign nationals. “They are continuing to chase down stuff from the dossier, and, at its core, a lot of it is bearing out,” an intelligence official said. Some officials believe that one reason the Russians compiled information on Trump during his 2013 trip was that he was meeting with Russian oligarchs who might be stashing money abroad––a sign of disloyalty, in Putin’s eyes.

[up][up][up][up]You underestimate the willingness of some folks to feel superior for allegedly planting the seeds of a future revolution.

[up]If anything it's a push poll or a "donation drive" slightly less blatant than that of a outlaw motorcycle club.

edited 24th Feb '17 6:38:07 AM by Krieger22

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#175645: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:37:57 AM

I can see an argument for forcing the math. Let Trump win his votes across party lines without Dem support. Him getting his votes though isn't the issue, Dems helping is.

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Lost in Space
#175646: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:40:29 AM

Unfortunately, the push poll as veiled donation drive isn't exclusive to Republicans. I had to block a Facebook ad from the Democratic Governors' Association that purported to be about gerrymandering, but instead wanted me to donate to them. I can't stand that from either party.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175647: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:49:19 AM

[up][up][up]

Also, fuck Sam Ronan. "Rein women in"...What. The. Fuck.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#175648: Feb 24th 2017 at 6:51:51 AM

Well, here's something....Georgia governor slams door on ‘religious liberty’ revival
Pretty much self-explanatory..though the comments are split b/w well sanity and the type that says things like: "I believe your soul has been sold out to hom-osexuality and God is not in you. I pray that the one true God curse and break you"
And that one is sane compared to the comment accusing him of being in cahoots with Hollywood and the corporations in a homosexual conspiracy of something, I couldn't risk actually trying to understand it.

In other news, some public officials go back to town halls after being shot...others run screaming after twitter backlashes...Embattled Gwinnett commissioner walks out of meeting as protests start

Embattled Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter left a Tuesday afternoon board meeting just as protesters were lining up to speak against him.

A spokesman for Hunter claimed the timing was coincidental, that the commissioner “had a business meeting he had to get to” — but then added that the commissioner doesn’t plan to stick around for public comment periods at future meetings, either.

Hunter has been the target of protests since The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first published screenshots of a Jan. 14 Facebook post in which he referred to civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis as a “racist pig.” The commissioner has apologized for his “choice of words” in the post — which also referred to Democrats as “Demonrats” — but has repeatedly said he won’t step down.

An ethics complaint has been filed against Hunter and several groups have called for his resignation. Including Tuesday, protesters have had a large presence at each of the four Board of Commissioners meetings since Hunter’s social media activity was first reported.

There was an uproar in the auditorium when Nash confirmed Hunter was gone, but the protesters continued on without Hunter present. For about 90 minutes, they called him a “coward” and a “chicken” and asked for him to resign — and also set their sites on his colleagues.
“I believe in free speech,” another protester, Susan Clymer, said, “but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic or hateful.”


I'm not a trained staffer or anything, but I suspect things would've gone better if Hunter's staffer had just said "F*ck the haters. Peace out." rather than that lame excuse. Hell, I could've thought of better bulls*it to end that meeting."

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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#175650: Feb 24th 2017 at 7:06:54 AM

[up] To think, people actually voted for this.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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