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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
John McAfee reportedly running for president in a to be announced unnamed third party.
I've never liked the DMV, especially the one I went to in Maryland. The people working there were very unpleasant, more so if you were white.
Though this might be an isolated incident.
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Good luck with that. Third Parties are ultimately meaningless in a two party system.
edited 8th Sep '15 11:25:25 PM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.Eh, I've been to the DMV a couple times here in Texas, and aside from the hellishly long wait the employees there were polite and helpful. It's one of those things where it varies, really.
The thing is that they really ought to NOT close down DM Vs or cut back their hours because they offer vital services. And frankly I'd say keep them open after the regular business hours, perhaps by cutting down on morning hours or just plain hiring more people. Also, making it so you can get ID at colleges. Because if gun licenses can count as valid ID then sure as fuck an college ID ought to be able to as well.
"Why did the chicken cross the road? Because FREEDOM!"
edited 9th Sep '15 3:24:23 AM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from history![]()
More or less. It's a form of ad hominem — you don't support [conservative talking point]? You are against Freedom.
edited 9th Sep '15 6:29:41 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"National mood getting worse
due to Trump the election campaigning.
Last September, 50% of people responding to a CNN/ORC International poll said they believed that "things are going" either "very well" or "fairly well" in the country. It was the first time that at least half of the poll respondents felt that good about the state of the nation since April, 2013, and only the sixth time that measure, which is asked every few months, cracked the 50% mark since August, 2006. It was not a fluke. Two months later, 52% of people said things were going "very well" or "fairly well" in the country. And in March of this year, 53% of people polled said they felt that way.
But then, this summer the presidential campaign heated up, and the country's mood went south. In May, the percentage of people who felt things were going relatively well dropped six points to 47%, and last month that number came in at 48%. Keep in mind, this more pessimistic turn occurred at a time of an improving economy, falling unemployment, tumbling gas prices, low inflation, rising housing prices and no terrorist attack that caused mass casualties.
What turned our blue skies gray? There are probably a number of reasons. Or maybe just one: a presidential campaign. More specifically a presidential campaign dominated by Donald Trump and others who are pounding out a message that things are just terrible.
Take, for example, what Trump said at a recent press conference on Thursday. "Our country could be doing much better," he told reporters and supporters in a typical riff. "We have deficits that are enormous. We have all bad trade agreements. We have an army that the head says is not prepared. We have a military that needs help, especially in these times. We have nuclear weapons that — you look at '60 Minutes' — that don't even work; if anybody saw that report. The phones don't work. They're 40-years-old. They have wires that don't work. "Nothing works. Our country doesn't work. Everybody wins except us."
"When so much of the attention is going to a candidate or candidates whose sole role is to say that the country is going to hell in a handbasket and only I can make it better, that can have an impact on the public mood," says Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. To be sure, the country still faces major problems. Wages remain stagnant. ISIS continues its brutality in the Middle East and threatens attacks on the homeland. College and health care costs remain obscenely high.
But with the possible exception of violent crime — an important exception indeed — it is hard to argue that any of these problem have gotten significantly worse in the year since Americans began to express relative happiness in the country's state of affairs. The images of undocumented children swarming across the border have faded. The Ebola scare has come and gone. No American has been beheaded by ISIS in nearly a year.
It is, of course, not surprising for candidates in the party out of the White House to paint a picture using the colors of impending doom. "It is certainly the case that one of the effects of a presidential campaign is that one side will be raising criticism of the incumbent administration and the job it is doing," says Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll. "So it is not unreasonable to think that when voters hear messages from their candidate we would expect them to become more negative about the state of the country."
And as Republican candidates, especially Trump, keep up a constant drumbeat on how terrible things are, their loyalists' moods followed suit. Indeed the biggest slump in the country's mood occurred in Republicans. In March, 33% of Republicans told CNN that things were going "very" or "pretty well" in the country. By August that figure had dropped to 21%. Notably, the biggest falloff is seen in men, people making less than $50,000 a year and those who have not attended college — the core of Trump's support.
Could it be that candidates like Trump are not just tapping into the voters' anger, but also fomenting it? "There is this subset that is unhappy culturally, economically, internationally," says Christine Matthews, president of Bellwether Research, a Republican polling firm. "He is sort of exacerbating this alienation and anger and bringing it out."
Democrats also have to take some blame for the country's increasingly dour mood. Without an incumbent running for re-election, or a vice president running to replace his boss — at least not yet — there is no one giving a full-throated defense of the status quo. Hillary Clinton comes the closest, but she has been careful not to suggest things are just fine. And the most energy on the Democratic side is being generated by Bernie Sanders, who doesn't let a day go by without reminding everyone how the middle class is being screwed.
Well, they aren't wrong. Trump isn't even wrong on many of those talking points. Is it bad juju to tell the truth in politics?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So I have a question about an earlier discussion. When the chat was about white working voters and stuff. What...how...how did you people get this info? I assume it is post-election surveys? The U.S does not keep track of who votes for whom to the level of being able to tell what race and socioeconomic class of people voted for whom, right?
...
Right? Those were all after surveys?
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesAlmost all demographic information used in the current political environment is based on surveys of one sort or another, including the parties' internal registration data.
edited 9th Sep '15 7:41:33 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Correct. The government is forbidden by law from associating votes with personally identifiable information.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Political parties will often also do it themselves, so that they've got some idea of if the number of people saying "yeah I'm gonna go vote for you just after I've had lunch" is the same as the number actually turning up and voting for them.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAnd now there is a concerted effort by the government to de-fund his (and all) sheltered workplaces — with no alternatives other than "enhanced placement services" to "mainstream" him and many others in the "community at large". It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to rid the government of providing needed care and services for the developmentally and physically disabled. These individuals will never find employment capable of providing a living wage — if they can find employment at all.
The same "enhanced services" were promised for the mentally disabled when the government chose to close sponsored facilities for their care. We know how that turned out. Now the mentally disabled roam the streets, homeless and uncared for except when jailed for acting out. Our society (and out politicians in particular) are turning their backs on the disabled.
From the comments of this article
. While there's a lot of talk of racial minorities, there are other minorities who are ignored and neglected, who can end up costing a lot of money to warehouse (keep in jail) or take care of. This is something I don't see politicians talking about at all.
"The same "enhanced services" were promised for the mentally disabled when the government chose to close sponsored facilities for their care. We know how that turned out."
There's a reason we got rid of Insane Assylums. The conditions were apalling and patients were often mistreated.
edited 9th Sep '15 9:37:27 AM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.

Isn't motorvoter the federal law that makes the DMV required to offer voting registration? Or am I mistaken?