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#123426: May 24th 2016 at 11:07:42 AM

[up][up] The most recent polling shows Johnson taking about 10% of the popular vote, plus or minus the margin of error. More importantly, he seems to be drawing support from both left and right, which contradicts the argument that he's a potential spoiler in favor of either major party candidate.

[up] It gets you more federal scrutiny.

edited 24th May '16 11:07:57 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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#123427: May 24th 2016 at 11:09:36 AM

Are they chocolate covered raisins?

Those are the kind they should put in the cookies.

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#123428: May 24th 2016 at 11:13:28 AM

the religious freedom laws that just discriminate against the LGBT community.
Except they don't just discriminate against the LGBT; there was an article posted here on the forum about an interracial family kicked out of their home because of the owners sincerely held religious beliefs that white and black people shouldn't get married. Said laws also are attached to nifty things like preventing cities from raising their own minimum wages.
does this Gary Johnson fella have a chance at all of being a major third-party candidate?
I'd give him better odds than Ralph Nader but I'm not sure if he'd surpass Ross Perot.note 

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
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#123429: May 24th 2016 at 11:20:15 AM

Religious freedom prevents higher wages? How?

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#123430: May 24th 2016 at 11:20:51 AM

I doubt the Obama or Clinton administration are going to be giving extra scrutiny to crimes by a Blue Lives Matter cause...

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#123431: May 24th 2016 at 11:29:51 AM

The Trump administration, of course, will, which is another reason why things will be wrong if it comes to pass.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#123432: May 24th 2016 at 11:41:42 AM

Blue Lives Matters sounds like the same stunt the by people opposing the Occupy Movement. What did they call themselves, "We are the 55%" or something?

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#123433: May 24th 2016 at 11:50:39 AM

Religious freedom prevents higher wages? How?
No, they don't, but the law in North Carolina was packaged with a law that prevented any city or municipality from raising the minimum wage inside their own border. Designed specifically to block one of their cities that had already voted on it.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#123434: May 24th 2016 at 11:57:56 AM

The police are not a discriminated against minority group. This is all kinds of revolting.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#123435: May 24th 2016 at 12:45:48 PM

"Occupation" isn't a protected class under federal law, either.

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#123436: May 24th 2016 at 12:46:09 PM

Never mind that people are already being charged with assaulting officers for things like bleeding on their uniforms after being beaten. It's also bad news for the mentally ill who are another frequent target of police brutality. Or even just the ill. There was a man a while back who was beaten and arrested and charged with assault for having a seizure.

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#123437: May 24th 2016 at 12:46:48 PM

What is funny is that Louisiana is pushing this. Don't they have better things to do? Like, their state budget? The Democrats did win the last gubernatorial election there not just because of luck, after all.

GOP super-PAC ‘endorses’ Wasserman Schultz - they are saying that DWS has helped the Republicans in Congressional and local elections.

Reid: 'Lay off' Sanders criticism - I'd argue that Sanders needs to cool down his outrages a bit, though. Otherwise I mostly agree.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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#123438: May 24th 2016 at 1:08:30 PM

question: where is the religious right this election? they managed to raise quite a fuzz during Obama's presidency and 2012 elections, but i haven't heard a peep from them this election.

edited 24th May '16 1:08:51 PM by MABfan11

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optimusjamie Since: Jun, 2010
#123439: May 24th 2016 at 1:10:49 PM

I imagine Drumpf has taken away their airtime.

Direct all enquiries to Jamie B Good
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#123440: May 24th 2016 at 1:11:41 PM

Didn't Ted Cruz and Ben Carson ostensibly represent the Religious Right?

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#123441: May 24th 2016 at 1:13:13 PM

The Religious Right appears to no longer be a relevant force, if their wholesale abandonment of Ted Cruz in the primaries is any indication.

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#123442: May 24th 2016 at 1:13:23 PM

[up][up] Yes, and then all their supporters promptly went to Trump because he out-racist-ed them.

edited 24th May '16 1:13:38 PM by BlueNinja0

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
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#123443: May 24th 2016 at 1:15:38 PM

A lot of religious conservatives are part of what I call the suckers demographic that perceive themselves as "losers" and went to Trump. Same as the Dixiecrats and blue collar Trump voters.

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#123444: May 24th 2016 at 1:52:50 PM

The religious right are also busy at a state level passing anti-LGBT laws, either because they're assholes or because they need a distraction rom the bloody mess they've made of several states economically.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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#123446: May 24th 2016 at 7:59:06 PM

And Dem leadership is now confirmed to read this forum. tongue

edited 24th May '16 7:59:17 PM by Silasw

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#123447: May 24th 2016 at 9:24:39 PM

[up][up]Reading that article the complaints the Sanders supporters have seem pretty silly. Somehow scheduling debates at times of lower viewership is supposed to have hurt Sanders? And the joint fundraising charge is just silly. Clinton has been raising money for other candidates. Sanders has not.

If there's other charges against the woman I'm open to hearing them but both those accusations sound pretty ridiculous. And that it's coming from Jeff Weaver who is easily my least favourite person in the Sanders campaign doesn't help.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#123448: May 24th 2016 at 9:28:35 PM

[up]It's supposed to be a part of the media "freezing him out". I'm sure you've heard that before, though I only heard the debate thing as "proof" of rigging things against Sanders yesterday.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#123449: May 24th 2016 at 9:45:14 PM

[up]Quite frankly I think the media has been overly generous to Sanders. He's never come under the kind of fire that Clinton has, though it would be easy enough to do so. Republican news sources have pretty much ignored him (which is what you want as a Democrat), the You Tube left have been obsessively pulling for him, and the MSNBC crowd have been very accommodating (I like Rachel Maddow a lot but if she told me one more time about the size of the crowds he was drawing I think I was gonna scream).

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#123450: May 24th 2016 at 9:49:49 PM

Blue Lives Matters sounds like the same stunt the by people opposing the Occupy Movement. What did they call themselves, "We are the 55%" or something?
Yes, with a 2% margin of error. They were the 53%, because that's the number that pays federal income tax and is thus not a filthy moocher.


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