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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
This part of the article jumped out at me:
Favours only have to be repaid if the favours happen, that's not a must, ambassadorships are generally given in exchange for campaign donations, so if the money was gotten out of politics one woulda no longer need such favours and thus no longer need to repay such favours with ambassadorships.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe Alt-Right isn't going to riot... Instead, they will just gum up the workings of government so long as they have a political party that will capitulate to their whims with governmental power. The difference with the Alt-Right compared to other forms of bigotry is that they are willing to go through the same sort of processes other groups do to get their voices heard and nothing beyond that. I mean, if we are going to link Trump to the Tea Party, we should also remember that the Tea Party began as a protest against the government.
Wizard Needs Food BadlyThe Alt-Right is just going to bitch and moan about it on facebook and other forums, they are the least likely to riot or rebel because they need either to get out of their comfy houses and computers or use their mother's credit card and permission to go out.
No really, the Alt-right is almost entirely built by Internet Tough Guys, the prospect of actually having to do something besides whining is discouraging for them.
Maybe you'll see something like the Y'all Qaeda trying to do some stupid shit but they will prove to be more embarrassing and idiotic than a threat.
Inter arma enim silent legesIt's amazing how the right is scrambling to find scandals that prove Hillary has some ties to corporate donors which, I mean, we knew that. Meanwhile, the left keeps finding scandals that prove that Trump is a f*cking sexual predator.
It's funny that Trump threatened Clinton with a "special prosecutor" when he's guilty of so many actual crimes. I'm half expecting him, on elections day, to be told he won the election and is going to be President of the United States, only to show up to be sworn in and find this
waiting for him.
edited 12th Oct '16 10:16:46 AM by TobiasDrake
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: The way it's presented, it sounds like this is a problem whose solution is akin to just walking two blocks to the convenience store to pick up milk. I don't particularly think "getting money out of politics" is that straightforward.
Paul Ryan might be facing a potential revolt from Trump supporters in the House.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-gop-threats/index.html
Beautiful
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Also, let's be real: his supporters are tilted way towards the older generations. For every alt-right shitposter on reddit, there are ten decrepit white old men longing for Trump to bring back the halcyon days of their youth, with a house, a white picket fence, and the corpse of a black man hanging from a tree in the backyard.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Does anybody remember that clip from The Apprentice that was on the The Daily Show the other day, where Trump fires a woman for crude language, saying that his boardroom wasn't a locker room?
Well, that woman, Maria Kanellis, had this to say
.
Well Trump obviously meant a girl's locker room, not a boy's locker room.
edited 12th Oct '16 11:13:32 AM by nervmeister
So, anyone heard of that LA times tracking poll that consistently put Trump ahead?
Apparently, it was all because of one 19yo African-american man from Illinois who was assigned very heavy weight in the poll to represent the 18-21 African-american demographic.
edited 12th Oct '16 11:24:43 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVThe 18-21 African-American male demographic, represented by one person who was weighted super heavily to compensate, and that person happens to be a 1-percenter in his demographic who is an ardent conservative. Amazing. Of such tiny things are major errors made.
edited 12th Oct '16 11:29:56 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"the alt right coalition reminds me a lot of the-hashtag-that-shalt-not-be-named in that they're very loud and very annoying but I don't think they're actually capable of much. For all their bluster Trump is losing badly. Historically badly if he doesn't catch a rebound soon.
The gender politics present in this election is some next level shit. Nothing encapsulates that better then trump having a hissy fit that he didn't get to talk as much as clinton despite having her by a minute in the final tally. I'm really interested to see what the % of women voting trump will land on. I'm guessing no more then 30% when all is said and done.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
They are that confederation of dunces. Stormfront and other Internet neo-Nazis figured them out and started pushing them towards reactionary ideology.
They're fascists in all but name, and are only called (by themselves, even) the alt-right due to the political correctness they claim to despise.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotA friend of mine said it reminded them of how their abusive ex used to act when irritated.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.US-Russia relations at their lowest point since the Cold War
I find this rather worrying
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison

edited 12th Oct '16 9:50:28 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised