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Izeinsummer Since: Jun, 2013
#248251: Jul 3rd 2018 at 2:12:24 AM

I dont disagree sexism was a factor, but I believe a bigger factor was the twenty year disinformation campaign. That is how she got the nomination, really. Washington insiders knew her personally, so knew down in their bones everything bad they heard about her was another republican lie, so were perfectly happy to nominate her. For a lot of voters, however, the issue was that they had heard so many bad things about her that they were convinced there had to be a fire under all that smoke.

In our day to day lives, we do not have to deal with people who are walking around under a smoke cloud because an entire political party is following them around tossing smoke grenades at them, so we lack the social reflexes to discount the lies hard enough.

However, given that she has retired from politics, this is only relevant in as far as we can assume they will try the same stunt on the next candidate with a D after their name. They wont have as long to run the smear campaign, but they are going to try.

Edited by Izeinsummer on Jul 3rd 2018 at 2:14:49 AM

Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#248252: Jul 3rd 2018 at 4:25:19 AM

Pruitt had another encounter with a concerned citizen in a restaurant who asked him to step down after she introduced herself due to concerns about climate change...

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#248253: Jul 3rd 2018 at 5:04:35 AM

Yep I read about that. He also ended his lunch early after the encounter and he didn't even say anything to the woman.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#248254: Jul 3rd 2018 at 6:03:51 AM

He'll probably want another $500,000 for guards so he doesn't have to deal with people being in the same restaurant as him anymore.

It's been fun.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#248255: Jul 3rd 2018 at 6:07:31 AM

So, Trump is considering tariffs on vehicles and their parts, if they come from outside the US. Ignoring the ill-will and retaliation this is going to trigger; its also incredibly stupid even by Orange House standards. Every vehicle produced in the US contains foreign labour and/or parts, so all this will do is reduce production (costing jobs), and drive up prices on the consumer's end. It does nothing but cause harm to every involved party.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/02/news/companies/auto-tariffs/index.html

Furthermore, the retaliation would be far more severe than the first counter-punch; with the EU alone considering 300 billion USD worth of tariffs.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/07/02/news/economy/car-tariffs-europe-warning/index.html

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:09:34 AM

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#248256: Jul 3rd 2018 at 6:11:58 AM

Guess I won't be buying a new car any time soon.

Thank goodness Taiwan has reliable cab service and public transportation.

Edited by M84 on Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:12:10 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
SteamKnight Since: Jun, 2018
#248257: Jul 3rd 2018 at 6:28:05 AM

If there is one thing that I don't expect when 2018 arrived is how brazen and direct corruption has become not just in America, but all around the world. I also want to say dumb, but it's hard to call them dumb when they have been so successful and able to get away with all that so far.

I'm not as witty as I think I am. It's a scientifically-proven fact.
TheWildWestPyro from Seattle, WA Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
Wariolander Since: Nov, 2017
#248260: Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:23:59 AM

[up] Isn't this like the third or fourth time he's threatened them over defense spending and done jack shit when they ignored him?

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#248261: Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:24:16 AM

[up][up][up]

And for additional irony, Trump only today ordered flags flown at half-staff in memoriam, and only after Annapolis' mayor stated that his request that this be done was denied.

So yeah, Trump made that Tweet attack the exact same day as honoring the victims.

Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:23:55 AM

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#248262: Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:29:54 AM

Trump is right, NATO needs to start increasing their spending.

Because right now it doesn't look like the US is going to actually help them if push comes to shove.

Oh really when?
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#248263: Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:46:33 AM

In some incredibly bizarre news, the Rhode Island Democrat Party has thrown it's support against District 3's Democratic Rep, Moira Jayne Walsh, for Michael Earnheart, who is literally a Trumpeteer. Of course, Moira and a lot of Democrats are pissed off. Since this is only the official parties support, he could lose on September 12th to Miss Walsh.

It's baffling to me that Rhode Island's Democratic Party decided they needed to support a Trumpeteer instead of Walsh, who seems to be the standard Democratic Politician.

Grafite Since: Apr, 2016 Relationship Status: Less than three
#248264: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:02:42 AM

[up] I've seen that on Reddit. Apparently, the story behind the decision is that she called out the fact that there was drinking involved in many meetings and wouldn't vote for the NRA-backed house leader, so they got revenge on her by endorsing the racist.

Life is unfair...
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#248265: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:03:13 AM

The alt-right is The Corruption. They infiltrate the Democrats just as easily as the Republicans. Largely because being part of the Party is literally as easy as showing up.

So that's probably what happened to the RI Democrats: They got infiltrated.

EDIT: Orrr it's just a regular internal spat.

Edited by Ramidel on Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:03:19 AM

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.
#248266: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:19:36 AM

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has been accused of groping four women.

I actually just did a quick write-up of this for an internship I have at a local radio station. My only regret is that I couldn’t go into more detail due to time constraints - the piece was pretty long already.

Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Jul 3rd 2018 at 12:20:52 PM

Oh God! Natural light!
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#248267: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:26:22 AM

I really damn hope this wasn't posted already but here it goes.

When you are so fucking rotten, the only lawyers willing to defend you are the ones who are buddies with fucking Nazis.

     Lawyers for Neo-Nazi to Defend Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Case 

Lawyers for Neo-Nazi to Defend Alex Jones in Sandy Hook Case

Alex Jones, an online conspiracy theorist who claims the Sandy Hook massacre that killed 20 children and six adults was a hoax, has hired lawyers representing a founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website to defend him against defamation claims brought in Connecticut by families of seven Sandy Hook victims.

Since days after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Mr. Jones has spread bogus theories that the families were “crisis actors” in a government plot to confiscate Americans’ firearms. The families have endured online abuse, physical confrontations and death threats from Mr. Jones’s devotees.

Marc Randazza and Jay Wolman of the Las Vegas-based Randazza Legal Group are defending Mr. Jones in Connecticut. The lawyers also represent Andrew Anglin, the co-founder of the Daily Stormer, who is being sued for harassment by a Montana woman after Daily Stormer followers subjected her to a torrent of anti-Semitic slurs and threats. Mr. Anglin has cited Mr. Jones as an early influence.

Mr. Jones is also facing lawsuits filed in Texas by the families of two other Sandy Hook victims, but he has different lawyers there. Together, the lawsuits pose a significant legal threat to his Info Wars empire, First Amendment lawyers say.

Mr. Jones, who has been using his Info Wars radio show and You Tube channels to broadcast the false claim, is seeking to have all of the lawsuits dismissed.

Mr. Randazza has appeared on Mr. Jones’s radio show and in Info Wars videos. In a brief telephone interview, he acknowledged opinions by First Amendment lawyers not involved in the cases that the Sandy Hook families have a strong claim against Mr. Jones. “I think if you look at the allegations in the complaint, that’s an easy conclusion to make,” Mr. Randazza said. “But as these cases progress sometimes things turn in the other direction.”

“We are going to be mounting a strong First Amendment defense and look forward to this being resolved in a civil and collegial manner,” he said, asserting that Mr. Jones has “a great deal of compassion for these parents.”

On his website, Mr. Jones has suggested that the victims’ parents took part in an elaborate hoax, saying, “I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before.”

Since founding Info Wars in 1999, Mr. Jones has drawn a vast audience with bizarre theories, including that American terrorist attacks and mass shootings are “inside jobs,” and that the government lines juice boxes with hormones that make children gay.

“Alex Jones has built an opportunistic empire on the backs of families trying to pick up the pieces from shattering loss,” Joshua Koskoff, a partner at Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder of Bridgeport, Conn., the firm representing Sandy Hook families in the Connecticut lawsuits, said in a statement.

Mr. Jones did not respond to requests for comment.

Last week a District Court judge in Travis County, Tex., set Aug. 1 as a hearing date for the first of the Texas lawsuits. That one was filed in April by the parents of Noah Pozner, who was 6 when he was killed at Sandy Hook.

Mark Bankston of Farrar & Ball, the Houston-based firm representing the Sandy Hook parents in the Texas lawsuits, said in an email that the firm was eager to “finally hold Mr. Jones accountable for his malicious lies,” adding, “There are no more excuses for Mr. Jones to hide behind. Now he must answer to the law.”

Edited by AngelusNox on Jul 3rd 2018 at 1:26:22 PM

Inter arma enim silent leges
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#248268: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:58:35 AM

Frankly, there is no excuse for having cast a vote for Trump. NONE. There is barely an excuse for not doing whatever necessary to keep him from office, even if that meant voting for Hillary. It was obvious what Trump was, it was obvious what he would do as soon as he was in office and it was obvious that whatever problem one might have with Hillary (and frankly, I do think that for a lot of people her gender was one of them, weather they admit it or not), she would still be a better president than Trump is.

I thought he'd be a buffoon, he's actually been a monster.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#248269: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:59:11 AM

So Walmart are in hot water right now and people are saying to boycott them because they're selling clothes with "Impeach 45" on it. What a bunch of whiny ninnies, it's not like it's saying to hurt or maim him. Were there any such "impeach Obama" shirts around back in the day? Because I certainly don't remember any major lid-flipping in response if there was.

Edited by AlleyOop on Jul 3rd 2018 at 12:59:46 PM

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#248270: Jul 3rd 2018 at 9:59:45 AM

There were lots of nasty things about Obama back in the day, but Walmart wouldn't dare carry them.

Edited by Fighteer on Jul 3rd 2018 at 1:01:15 PM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#248271: Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:05:26 AM

Walmart, despite their store's seedy reputation, seems pretty liberal politically, from what I've seen.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#248272: Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:07:27 AM

Walmart, like most big corporations, are realizing that being inclusive and liberal is more profitable than pandering to racists.

That doesn't stop them from being predatory union busters though.

Oh really when?
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#248273: Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:08:39 AM

[up][up][up][up]Free speech only matters when you're saying things they like.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#248274: Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:10:18 AM

Sure, the disinformation campaign played a role too, but I think her gender ensured that certain people were more ready to belief it.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#248275: Jul 3rd 2018 at 10:11:38 AM

On my daily commute to work, I would pass by a house which, during Obama's presidency, displayed a huge hand-painted sign that said: "Stop the Traitor in the White House!"

Of course he took it down after Obama's term ended, and he's probably delighted with Trump. But I wonder if he still has that sign stashed away somewhere? It's actually more relevant now than ever.

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