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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133226: Jul 28th 2016 at 3:46:18 PM

[up][awesome]

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#133227: Jul 28th 2016 at 3:59:44 PM

...centrists (which is not a pejorative)
Politics is about what we do about all of the above. Politics is not about your feelings. Feelings can motivate you to act, but feelings have no place in politics. None. Zero. Thinking that your “feelings” should determine how politics works is much like a surgeon thinking that his motivation to be a surgeon should be sufficient to fixing someone’s heart. Sorry, but I’d be more comfortable if he went to medical school and had practiced for years before cutting me open. That is the politics, folks. It’s how you come up with practical solutions to societal problems. If you think your feelings should be sufficient as “activism” is akin to thinking that praying away cancer is the same as actual cancer treatment. Why the hell do we have doctors, if all we have to do is plead to an invisible being in the sky to repair our hernia, or take a bullet out of our spine, or cure our cancer?
At some point, you have to make laws that actually put the changes into effect. That was what has been so amazing about President Obama. Remember when this branch of “progressives” was demanding that he just ignore “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? They gave him loads of shit because he refused to simply ignore the law and instruct military officers to not kick anyone out. But he stuck to his guns, and look what happened; DADT is history, Because he knew we had to change the law. If he had just ignored the law, as they asked, the next Republican president could have actually not only reversed that, but they could have pointed out that, since Obama had ignored it, the law had essentially been rendered moot and he could have instituted the old rules again.
Petulance is not progressive. If you “feel” that way, you have more in common with the toddler in the Walmart parking lot having a hissy fit because mom didn’t buy him an ice cream than with a savvy political progressive mind.

[up][up]My favorite parts of that.

edited 28th Jul '16 4:01:01 PM by AlleyOop

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133228: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:01:28 PM

Clinton has widened her projected electoral college advantage.

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/uspolltracker/

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#133229: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:20:09 PM

Why the increase?

I'm guessing Clinton's picking up supporters in swing states and Trump's increasing his support among already Republican-heavy states.

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#133230: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:31:57 PM

Mario Cuomo's son is currently addressing the DNC. God he sounds like his father.

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#133231: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:51:22 PM

In a good way, in a bad way, or in a literal "his voice sounds exactly the same" way?

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#133232: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:52:17 PM

In a literal way, which is also, at least in my book, a good way.

edited 28th Jul '16 4:52:42 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#133233: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:53:14 PM

I'm assuming it's NY governor Andrew Cuomo, as opposed to award-winning newscaster Chris Cuomo? (I remember a Daily Show segment a year or so ago involving how much shit the former gives the latter whenever he's interviewed. It was hilarious.)

edited 28th Jul '16 4:55:59 PM by Blueeyedrat

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#133235: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:56:21 PM

Are the speeches looking to be more or less variations on the last few days themes? Probably going to sit out watching till 10pm if so.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#133236: Jul 28th 2016 at 4:57:23 PM

[up][up]It's Rule #2 in the Sibling Code: "Love each other, but troll each other every chance you get."

Rule #1 is: "It's cheating to tell Mum or Dad." wink

edited 28th Jul '16 4:57:50 PM by Euodiachloris

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#133237: Jul 28th 2016 at 5:08:53 PM

[up][up][up]At this point NK's said something like "state of war" so many times it's acquiring a "cry wolf" effect.

Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#133238: Jul 28th 2016 at 5:45:45 PM

Look, I don't care what your message is. When a speaker politely asks for a moment of silence, be silent.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133239: Jul 28th 2016 at 5:51:18 PM

Wow, that former Reagan advisor kicked ass out there.

And the Donald has responded to the criticism at the DNC in a respectful manner, saying that he wants to hit the speakers.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/politics/donald-trump-dnc-response/index.html

edited 28th Jul '16 5:52:05 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#133241: Jul 28th 2016 at 5:58:55 PM

[up][up] For a moment, I thought that by "hit the speakers", you meant "take up of the mic for a counterargument" - kind of liking "hitting the debate floor".

How silly of me.

Oh God! Natural light!
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#133242: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:09:51 PM

Kareem Abdul-Jabar comes onstage and introduces himself as Michael Jordan. "I did that because I know Donald Trump can't tell the difference."

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#133243: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:21:03 PM

Muslim father of son who received a posthumous Bronze Star for military service: Asks if Donald Trump has even read the constitution. Pulls copy out of his pocket. "I will gladly let you borrow my copy."

edited 28th Jul '16 6:23:59 PM by Elle

Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#133244: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:26:21 PM

The Dems are really driving up the Hot-Blooded patriotism in this convention. I think the next time the GOP accuses the Dems of being unpatriotic, it will lift more than a few eyebrows.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
Antiteilchen In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good. Since: Sep, 2013
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
#133245: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:34:15 PM

This really looks like an election between type 1 and type 2 Eagleland.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#133246: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:37:28 PM

In case you had trouble finding it.

edited 28th Jul '16 6:38:29 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 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#133247: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:37:55 PM

This is the Gurren Lagann of conventions.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#133248: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:40:37 PM

The PBS/NPR floor reporter just interviewed a mostly reasonable Bernie supporter after the back-and-forth during the general's speech: Basically "Yeah, we're going to vote for Hillary but we're not going to let up on our platform" an emphasized the especial need to vote in swing states.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#133249: Jul 28th 2016 at 6:55:54 PM

If anyone is wondering why so many people are wearing Neon Green, it's a Bernie supporter thing.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#133250: Jul 28th 2016 at 7:07:15 PM

Muslim father of son who received a posthumous Bronze Star for military service: Asks if Donald Trump has even read the constitution. Pulls copy out of his pocket. "I will gladly let you borrow my copy."

Who else expects Trump to respond with, "Well that's nice and all, really nice, but it was just a Bronze Star! Only a Bronze Star! Not a Medal of Honor, a mere Bronze Star!"

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."

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