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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'm not helping my case, am I?
edited 31st Jul '16 5:44:50 PM by kkhohoho
An Idaho town up in arms about a sexual assault by refugee children.
In hindsight maybe selling these people in small town Idaho was not a good idea, though I'd imagine New York wouldn't take this particularly well ether.
Indeed.
New signs of cultural and political divide in clash between Trump and the Khans.
God I just hope these people don't get destroyed by being thrown into the ring with an animal like Trump. Quite frankly I can't help but feel their too good for this country. Hopefully Hillary gets elected and I'm proved wrong in November. God I hate Trump.
Trump's strategy has always been: when attacked, counterattack with overwhelming force. Maybe that works in the world of business (I wouldn't know). But in politics, particularly on a global scale, lashing out blindly at any threat — whether real or imagined — tends to have serious repercussions. It certainly doesn't make people view you favorably, trust you, or want to associate with you. I wouldn't want to be walking on eggshells all the time, wondering when the vial of nitro is going to blow up in my face.
edited 31st Jul '16 7:21:18 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.If Mother Jones or huffpo is feeling cheeky they could essentially reprint those articles with the name switched and the content would be the exact same.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Open Letter to the Media
from one of Clinton's supporters.
edited 31st Jul '16 9:31:45 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Clinton offends them both on a political and personal level. She didn't act like First Ladies before and defer to her husband, she took an ACTIVE role in the government setting a precedent for the FLOTUS to be a defacto government position. And because of that they've tried to smear her into the ground and she and her husband have always escaped, relatively mind you, unscathed.
It goes something like this: The Republicans hate the Clintons on a personal level, but their base hates them merely on ideological grounds. The Republicans hate Obama merely on ideological grounds (with some racism thrown in here and there), but their base hates Obama on a personal AND ideological level.
New Survey coming this weekend!It's mostly because after becoming a Senator, Hillary Clinton was the logical Democratic choice for President. Bill Clinton had to leave office in 2000 and his vice-president, Al Gore ran against George W. Bush and lost. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton ran for Senator of New York and won. During the 2004 election John Kerry ran, but he was more in the later mold of Mitt Romney as being the token candidate to compete with a then-popular President. Once Dubya had to leave in 2008 and after Hillary Clinton stopped being a Senator, that was when Hillary Clinton decided to run, but Barack Obama surprised everyone and was a once-in-a-lifetime choice. So eight years of Obama, and finally, finally, Hillary Clinton was finally able to be the Democratic nominee. Once she had become a Senator, it was pretty obvious to everyone in the room that Hillary Clinton was going to try to run for President after being a Senator.
edited 31st Jul '16 10:04:15 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyThings like that don't annoy me. I honestly never got why people go on about "political dynasties" if something like them happens to form, it's only because the people wanted it to, or at the very least wasn't opposed to it.
You should be more focused on what people actually want to do over whether or not they have the same last name as someone else who had the position.
edited 31st Jul '16 10:44:41 PM by LSBK
But the Obama presidency (which I will defend to the death as having done far more good than bad) might also give the GOP the chance to pull Taking You with Me on America or even humanity. Granted, that's not Obama's fault but Clinton probably wouldn't have unleashed the Tea Party/Trumpist wackjobs quite as much.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.What's problematic about this is that the left wing is showing its stupidity and disqualifying itself as thoroughly as possible at the exact same time that Democrats become the party of big business.
I don't mean the latter in a perjorative sense, I mean that the rich are seeing the Republican Party as a sinking ship and moving to the Democrats, confident that someone like Clinton won't do anything particularly heavy to them or resurrect the ghost of Eisenhower.
Funny thing is...when the middle class is doing well...the rich would get even RICHER. Like, I never saw their actions out of greed, but mainly stupidity.
Like if your main goal is increasing your net wealth, then why the fuck wouldn't you advocate policies that over the long term would increase your wealth AND not have the undying hatred of the 99%?
New Survey coming this weekend!It's the same kind of error that makes people think a household is a good analogy for a country. If you are a CEO and you manage to pay your workers a bunch less than your competitors, your company prospers, and your profits rise, because the earnings of your workforce are not any meaningful percentage of your customer base no matter how large your corporation.
If all companies keep wages down, that torpedoes sales, and heads directly into economic death-spiral country, but realizing that is very difficult for a manager, because "low wages hurt the economy" run directly against their lived experience, and realizing something which is good for you in isolation is bad for the country is difficult and unpleasant
edited 1st Aug '16 12:30:05 AM by Izeinsummer

What on earth did we do to deserve Trump?
Oh God! Natural light!