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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
DNC delisted two elected delegates (male) and added two elected delegates (female) for "gender parity". I'm trying to copy+paste shortcut, but my html-fu is weak.
EDITED TO WIN.
edited 21st Jul '16 4:48:09 PM by OblongReality
Meanwhile, the Republicans fired two female delegates and added two male ones, to make up for the Democrats' actions.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Just because the RNC is a cloud of crazy in action, we should not excuse the DNC for making idiot decisions. This isn't a finger-wag contest, the DNC has opened themselves up to a lawsuit now for the most silly of reasons, considering these folks were selected to perform the job.
Between this and Lena Dunham, I'm extremely worried that the DNC party is going to choke this away.
Sorry, but that just infuriates me.
edited 21st Jul '16 4:55:38 PM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyIf the Democrats lose to Trump of all people for some dumb reason...
edited 21st Jul '16 5:30:51 PM by Lennik
That's right, boys. Mondo cool.edited 21st Jul '16 6:55:13 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Lennik, I very much doubt that this will cause Clinton to lose the election. Also, the idea of "tumblr stereotypes" is not a reason to not invite any particular person and that was a very poor criticism of the choice. If you can't come up with something better than that utter weaksauce stuff then maybe there's not a good reason invite Dunham. (Personally I don't care and I find it kind of odd that either political party invites media celebrities to speak at these things.)
Seriously. Why invite celebrities? It's not like they're enacting policy unless they're like Takei or that old comedian guy who's name I can't remember and going into office themselves.
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I watched that live, literally the second I tuned in just to check on what they were talking about.
As much as I respect Cenk for not putting up with their bullshit, he still gave them what they wanted. By confronting them directly, they get to go all "look at these violent liberals getting triggered," and so on. Of course, by not confronting them, they'd just say they're all a bunch of liberal pussies who can't stand up for themselves. It's a lose-lose situation that demands more finesse to get out of, and Cenk is obviously not that kind of guy.
Nonetheless, Alex Jones and Roger Stone can go fuck themselves.
edited 21st Jul '16 7:17:47 PM by Eschaton
http://nypost.com/2016/07/21/male-escorts-are-making-crazy-money-at-the-rnc/
Male escorts are apparently making bank at the RNC. Ah, irony and hypocrisy how do I love thee.
On one hand, the Post is very tabloid-y, on the other though there was a cooberating statistic from some porn site or another posted a few pages back.
On the other other hand, there are also lots of out of town protesters in the city, including a sizable number of people representing LGBTQ groups.
Which is not to say it would surprise me if the irony was accurate.
Edit to add: The Economist ranks a Trump Presidency as the third worst thing that could happen to the world economy
. (Image via Clinton's Twitter). (The Economist is a UK pro-business mag but they don't always back Republicans in their opinion columns; they backed Obama, IIRC.)
edited 21st Jul '16 7:46:02 PM by Elle
Just heard over Twitter that Trump waved away calls to put Hillary in Prison, saying "Let's beat her in November" or something to that effect.
edited 21st Jul '16 7:42:53 PM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."So, the NBC commentators basically said outright that the Republican Party as they knew it was dead because of how much of the speech centered around isolationism and protectionism. Besides being all blustery promises with no plan it could be summed up as "America first, fuck everyone else, and every foreign distaste of the last 8 years was either Hillary or Obama's Fault".

So let's call the DNC celebrity speaker list a mixed bag.
Great. Lena Dunham. Just what we need to convince voters we're not the party of tumblr stereotypes.
That's right, boys. Mondo cool.