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Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps:
At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower.
Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes:
Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."
Hillary lost. Get over it.
I bet you're a hoot at parties.
... on the constant mockery, this will be Dubya all over again, won't it?
Check that definition.
You need a refresher course on defamation. Political figures and other celebrities are fair game, IIRC from my torts class. And even if he were neither of the aforementioned, he'd have to show damages. Other than his yuge ego that is.
I bet they can't even vote.
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Today they write supposedly comedic Amazon reviews.
And they wonder why the word "pussy" is the first one that comes to mind. I guess Trump grabbed you really good.
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I'm guessing you didn't do that well in your torts class. We aren't talking defamation, we're at least potentially talking about trademark tarnishment.
There of course has never been any case like this one would be -- a trademark so intimately tied to a personality who is also a public political figure. My guess is what *should* happen is First Amendment should beat trademark law, in that the intent was political rather than commercial.
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He is going to be our next president for the next ten years. You're not going to fight this, you're going to shut up, and like it. Get over it already. You're redefining what it means to be a sore loser. No matter what you do you're only getting more people to support God-Emperor Trump, and hate liberalism in all its forms. Congratulations, this is exactly why you lost, and why you will keep on losing.
He can only be elected to two 4 year terms (total of 8 years). I can't see him running as some one else's vice President running mate on the hope that the President would leave office and let him take over for a partial term to exceed the 2 term limit.
Seems to me that the owner of said trademark is doing a fine job of applying tarnish to it, every time he tweets.
Can we kick her, along with anyone who committed voter fraud on her behalf, out of the country if the recount comes up with her still loosing?
The only actual case of voter fraud I remember reading about in this election was a white woman who voted for Trump twice, presumably because she was hoping he would grab her pussy at least once.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Ah, the sweet display of irrational fear. Civics question: Which branch of government passes laws?
A brand that cannot trust its own own staff .... or a brand that cant secure its own tools ...
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Oh, please. Don't pretend that mocking Obama and mocking Trump are anywhere near the same thing. That's stupid. But then again, voting for Trump is about as stupid as you can get, so I'm not all that surprised that you don't get it.
I don't respond to AC's.
She won by 2 million votes.
AMERICAN votes too, not Russian ones.
The Judicial Branch?
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Are you trying to be oxymoronic? You simply cannot quote the parts of the constitution and ignore the specific parts pertaining to the election of the president to claim someone who failed those parts is the legit elected. Furthermore, you are basing this stupidity on the preamble to the constitution which describes the purpose for which is laid out within the constitution that you are actively ignoring.
Do they not teach simple civics and government in high school any more?
The electoral college was specifically set in place to allow "states" to elect the president of the united "states" instead of the people. The federal government has a president of the United States not the United "People". The congress and senate is the people's house and originally the senate represented the states (which is still does to a certain extent even after the constitution was amended to allow direct elections of the senators). The house of representatives was supposed to represent the people which is why all laws implementing taxes are supposed to originate there. The senate represented the states and the president is and was a figurehead to enact the sovereignty given up by the states. You have to remember, after the revolution, the thirteen colonies became 13 countries which eventually joined a confederation which ended up forming a constitutional republic that ceded only portions of their sovereignty. This is the entire purpose of the 9th and 10th amendments and article 1 section 8 that defines the original powers of the federal government.
I don't know if you actually understand this and are simply trying to convince the ignorant to be useful idiots or if you seriously never bothered reading past the preamble and skipped school during your civics classes or something. Either way, this isn't hard to find out which you probably should have already done if you actually care about the issue as much as your post pretends to. It is not like this isn't the first time that a president has won the electoral college but not the popular vote in your life time if you are actually old enough to vote. God help us if you actually claim to be educated higher than a high school level too.
Ok explain to me why this is okay, but this isn't?
Why is this okay but this isn't?
If you say because one is black and the other is white then you are the textbook definition of a racist.
Hillary lost. Get over it.
If you're confident of that (as I am, actually), then you have nothing to fear from a recount, right? There's nothing wrong with double-checking tight races.
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First you have to prove that his trademark wasn't already tarnished. Settling a fraud lawsuit for $25,000,000.00 sort of puts a little patina on it. How do you prove that having "Dump Towers" on Google maps for a few minutes is what did the damage and not him talking about grabbing women's pussies?
Before this Google maps prank, you already had bookings at Trump hotels way down.
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One of the reviews was very insightful in that it pointed out that this $149 ornament was MADE IN CHINA. Trump supporters are suckers. He doesn't give a flying fuck about you. Neither does Hillary, but she isn't selling $149 ornaments. What a joke.
I guess they don't teach US civics in Russia.
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They love Trump in the UK:
http://janeygodley.com/wp-cont...
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It's cause Obama isn't shit his pants stupid
Let's ask Donald Trump what he thinks of the electoral college:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
And let's ask him about how people should just suck it up and accept the results of the election:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
So let's apply what you said to Donald Trump, first and foremost, huh?
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We never elected biff tannor before
Voting for a racist was a great way to make your point.
talking about trademark tarnishment.
How much will daddy have to pay Ivanka for the damage that he did to her brand?
Clearly, I must be one of those self-hating, heterosexual white males.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
It's hilarious how Tolerant Liberals take the word of Donald Trump as gospel whenever it suits their pathetic desperate attempts at overturning an election.
He'll be treated with respect once he earns it.
After eight years of it being racist, mocking the President as well as other dissent is patriotic once again. That alone made voting for Trump worth it...
And to think, it almost became sexist instead!..
Mocking Obama was always fine.
Mocking Obama in a transparently racist manner was racist. Just like mocking Hillary with obviously sexist insults was sexist.
Just because it's possible to mock Obama or Hillary without being racist or sexist doesn't mean that any offensive thing you say magically becomes not racist or sexist.
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That's the sentiment you're expressing. It is not, not matter how you feel right this moment, a positive thing. Letting base feelings govern our country instead of reason and humanity is a bad thing all around. Somewhere in you you've got to know this.
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Dude, this is the internet age. It doesn't take much of a google search to know you're either drinking the kool aid or full of shit.
One search. That's all you need to do to educate yourself. But its too much to ask. Typical Trumpy. You want everything handed to you. You can't compete on your merits, so you cry "Its Racism. Its all the blacks and mexicans getting an unfair advantage and taking all our jobs."
Here's your search: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=racist+shit+trump+has+said
But since that's probably too much for you to click here's a summary
- He tweets racist quotes.
- He operated apartment building that didn't rent to blacks.
- His closest advisers are white supremacists.
- Blacks were not allowed to work the floor in his casinos when he was at the casino.
- He wants a ban on immigration, for Muslims.
- He thinks Mexicans are rapists and thieves.
- He thinks blacks are lazy.
- He hates it that there are blacks in his accounting department. He rather they were jews.
I could go on, but you already made up your mind weeks ago. This is wasted on you.
You are as dumb as a bag of dicks. Do you know what semiotics are? The closest president to Obama in terms of policy and action is Ronald Reagan. Don't believe me well then look it up you illiterate mongoloid. What's racist is when the house does sweet fuck all while the country is burning to make a black man look bad. If you can explain the difference between the federalist papers and the pocket appointments without google I'd eat my hat.
Because of the long history of black people being likened to apes, originally out of ignorance but now out of malice (which is still often combined with ignorance) but you knew that.
she's a progressive. Not necessarily a great one, but she is at least trying. You're massively underestimating the height of the bar she was trying to leap, the amount of effort needed and the compromises required to get even close to what she was trying to do. For one thing, she was poised to put single payer back on the table (Mr Clinton was going around talking about it).
Well, America just pissed that all away for good 'ole fashion apathy. Trump got the Republican base out just like Rhomey did. Clinton couldn't get the Blacks and Latinos out. She couldn't get them excited with vague promises... Meanwhile Trump promised them the world. Lies, all lies of course. But it _felt_ good.
Sad thing is those Blacks and Latinos are really going to regret staying home. Trump's cabinet isn't going to do them any favors, and somebody's got to fill all those private prisons...
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Because of the long history of black people being likened to apes, originally out of ignorance but now out of malice (which is still often combined with ignorance) but you knew that.
Your racist argument boils down to Obama is black and Bush is white.
Fair enough. So you're the right person to ask: Was he bullshitting then or is he bullshitting now? Or was the electoral college really an abomination in 2012, but is a beautiful thing now? Was resistance the right thing to do in 2012, but is a Very Bad Thing now?
Or are the very concepts of logic and consistency rigged? How far will you debase your ability to reason in order to support this corrupt urinal cake?
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I recall the most unworthy candidate in history specifically disrespecting millions of individuals by calling them a basket of deplorables. No wonder she lost.
It's called historical context, you stupid anonymous fuck. Pick up a history textbook that's not from Texas and learn something.
I don't respond to AC's.
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How do you prove that having "Dump Towers" on Google maps for a few minutes is what did the damage and not him talking about grabbing women's pussies?
You have a point, but so far I haven't heard about Trump suing whoever released that recording of a private conversation. It certainly makes sense that he could, if he thought it was important enough to do so.
But it's not.
Suck on it, losers.
It was this nutty when Reagan was elected. So I've seen it before.
We'll survive it.
Except some of those sucking-chest-wound Hillary supporters.
It doesn't matter if he was bullshitting then, or bullshitting now.
President Trump
(this could get to be like the Burma Shave signs. Except we couldn't put them on the highway, there would be too many pileups of Liberals, and they lease expensive cars)
You'd probably find that many educated non-Americans know as much or more about US civics than most Americans.
You're the one who is supposed to say smug stuff like that about the stupid Americans, dintcha know?
He threatens lawsuits, but as expected, he doesn't follow through. Trump will never sue anyone for libel or releasing or reporting on a private conversation, because he worries about what would be learned in the discovery phase. This is a guy who was comfortable with his teenaged daughter being called a "piece of ass". He's a urinal cake.
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Dear me. It's not wrong to liken anyone to a monkey but if you liken a white person to a monkey, it will be taken to mean that you are racist, insensitive or ignorant, because why else would you do that? To further racial equality?
Fixed that for you.
Neither. Like Obama & Hillary on the subject of same-sex marriage... he 'evolved' on the issue ;)
Ask that once we have a final answer as to why 'dissent is patriotic' 2001-2008, racist from 2009-11/8/16, then back to patriotic come 11/9/16?
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I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation. The positives will just keep coming. The media is supposed to exist in eternal opposition to the government, but during Obama they twisted their purpose and became pro-government mouthpieces. They were caught red-handed supporting Hillary's campaign. California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Who is this Hillary person you speak of and why should I care about her?
Anyhow, if you think the Birther thing wasn't about race I have a wonderful bridge to sell you. It's a great deal, you really don't want to miss it.
Once Trump gained the candidacy it was never about Hillary. A turnip would make for a more qualified president.
Too bad you don't want that bridge ... Funny though, Trump actually displayed more insight when he observed that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and his base wouldn't mind. There is nothing that would convince you that the man has a racist bone in his body.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Well I do care. I don't care for Trump, but I do care that apparently it is okay to be racist against white people, but everything a white person says can be considered racism.
It's not OK to be racist against white people.
Thankfully it's also relatively rare (at least compared to racism against non-whites).
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I only use grammatically incorrect periods. To annoy you.
Investigative journalism will also make a big comeback, after an 8 year hibernation.
Even if that were true (and IMHO is not) that would do no more than speak volumes about the poor quality of the right wing press. However, the right wing has always proven to be every bit as adept as their left wing colleagues at digging up dirt on people which belies your statement.
Why is it not racist to mock Trump on his hair, his skin color, his small hands?
Because "bad spray tan" and "ridiculous hair extensions" is not a race.
And the "small hands" thing is generally just needling him since he's bizarrely insecure about the size of his hands.
Trump, much like many other public figures with an elevated sense of self worth, tends to keep these jokes alive with his reaction to them. I bet Bill Maher never dreamt he would get the mileage he got out of that ridiculous orangutan joke. Trump's attorney even sent Maher Trump's short form birth certificate which allowed Maher to demand, oh irony of ironies, that Trump present his long form birth certificate. That joke would have flown off into the ether and been forgotten 10 seconds after it was made if Trump had not raised a stink about it.
I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist. With Trump in office, it will become OK to criticize the President again, which is a huge improvement.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
They love Trump in the UK:
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Perhaps she misspelled "cute"... then again, I didn't see a white cane leaning up against her ;-)
I wish Obama WAS the guy Republicans kept saying he was... that guy would use his constitutional right to appoint Garland in the recess period and give the senate a last major fuck you.
The actual Obama is too damn nice to you idiots.
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>There is nothing that would convince you that the man has a racist bone in his body.
If a picture surfaced tomorrow of Trump slobbering David Duke's knob under his old grand wizard robes - they STILL wouldn't believe he's had a racist's bone in his mouth !
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No. You know what was called racist ?
When you people attacked the president for the EXACT SAME SHIT that you PRAISED when Bush did them - and got your panties in a bunch in wild-assed conspiracy theories.
Republicans praised the military for doing exercises in Texas in 2003. The then-governor Rick Perry held a party to welcome them.
When they held the EXACT SAME excercises in 2012 - half of Texas were trying to get them kicked out, the governor sent the state guard to monitor them and everybody was declaring that they were really being deployed as the first stage for Obama to declare martial law and become dictator.
Notice how the events were IDENTICAL but the REACTION was completely different - THAT was the racism. When the exact same thing looks evil JUST because it's the black guy doing it.
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I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
I disagree. I shared that image on social media, sadly it failed to take, probably because I didn't add any snappy text caption. I thought the bottles did the job, but I guess not. I got zero accusations of racism. Absolutely zero, and I have some pretty PC types in my feed. I come from Santa Cruz, see? Only the racism was necessarily called racism.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Have you considered that he may not KNOW who did it ?
It's generally very difficult to sue somebody you can't identify - serving process requires an address.
If's entirely possible that after he takes office, and command of America's surveilance state, that lawsuit will come.
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>He's a urinal cake.
Hey now, that's not fair. Urinal cakes are actually worth pissing on.
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While Trump is only worth pissing off.
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I don't know if you were alive these last 8 years, but anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist.
What utter bullshit. Know how I know you're a Trump voter? It's because you invent your own version of reality then get outraged about it.
There was plenty of criticism aimed at Obama with no racial overtones and not shouted down as racist. I had some pretty strong words to say about TTIP, for example, but no one called me racist for criticising Obama about that. If you were getting shouted down as racist, then it's probably because you were being racist.
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Clearly, it doesn't matter to you.
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anyone who mocked or belittled the President was immediately shouted down as racist
That's demonstrably untrue. Just search YouTube for SNL sketches about Obama, for example.
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I'm sure we can get the Republicans to purge the people who say mean things right after the Democrats purge their cop killers, their terrorists and sympathizers, and the KKK.
The KKK voted for Trump, so it's the reps who are going to have to purge them. The vast majority of terrorist attacks on American soil have been by white conservatives, so that's the republicans again. And the democrats will purge the cop killers just as soon as the republicans purge the killer cops. It's the safest time in history to be a cop in America, but they're killing more and more citizens every year. It's not a war on cops. It's a war by cops.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Wow, your shitty OC that no-one ever saw and thus was never called racist didn't get called racist, therefore no-one else who wasn't racist didn't get called racist.
Well, I shared it here on Slashdot, and got a couple hundred hits immediately, then almost nobody else ever saw it. But I also shared it on Fb into a group which I know contains people who like to make accusations of privilege and plenty of 'em saw it. And I posted it on G+, where (in spite of its massive unpopularity) I have at least around a hundred active subscribers. So, several hundred people saw it, lots of them are mouthy, and nobody called me racist.
As I said, it didn't exactly take off like a rocket. But more than enough people saw it to accuse me of racism if that was going to happen.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
True, but not nearly as BIG a threat to democracy as giving the white house to a known fascist demagogue.
The electoral college was invented for one reason and one reason only: to over-rule the voters and deny Trump the presidency.
The fact that they won't is all the proof you need that the thing is obsolete.
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Easily sorted so we can cull the subhuman Left without remorse.
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It's Biff Tannen, you moron. Now make like a tree, and get out of here!
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One side of the political fence has decided that it's allowed to be obnoxious, arrogant, sanctimonious, and sophomoric while complaining that that's how the other side behaves.
Somebody needs to go back and grab up that damn Sports Almanac, or at least burn it before Trump finds it. Or, maybe we shot/sabotaged the time traveler meant to protect us from this future. Unless we ARE the fucked up alternate universe doomed to WW3, and our future is the one to fix the past.
Hillary Clinton isn't a progressive in any way at all. She pushed the actual progressives, especially Sanders, out of the way during the primaries because it was her turn. She's a neocon and her time in office would have been filled with more middle eastern wars (or maybe an exciting war with Russia!) and corporate hegemony-building. Nothing about her political past suggests that she's every even tried to be a progressive. Where are you getting this from?
Progressives didn't fail to vote for her out of apathy, but because she had nothing of substance to offer them. The only votes she got were from party loyalists who looked no farther than the "D" and from lesser-of-two-evils votes against Trump. Very very few people voted for her.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
I know that is you Mrs Delarco (my 7th grade English teacher). I told you to leave me alone. Stop following me around on the interwebs pointing out my spelling and grammatical errors.
I was going to say "Gonzalo Curiel!!!"
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Why sunglasses?
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He's not a demon at all. Actually enjoyed him as an entertainer. The man is just dangerously unstable and mentally unfit to be president.
Switch him out for Pence and I am all good. I don't subscribe to any of Pence's political beliefs, but clearly the guy has some governing experience and is mentally stable.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
Yeah, the racist bastard!. And since the NYT is completely unbiased, everything is clear now!
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Glad to hear that this helped. And I agree, the NYT was very biased against Hillary.
any right wing source mocking Obama. Hell, I had multiple Lefty friends call me racist for being pissed about the whole Fast and Furious debacle, because it involved Holder and I mentioned Obama should have handled it better. Because I was criticizing two black men.
That's not racist, that's hypocritical.
Hypocritical: I hate Obama for doing what Bush did.
Racist: I hate Obama for being black.
Perhaps it was just partisan based hypocrites, and not race based? Don't be so quick to jump on that nonsense. There's a good chance had Gore been in office, it would have been the same thing.
It's not often you see someone so proud to have elected a mealy-mouthed high-frequency flip-flopper.
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The amount of constant panicking conspiracy theories can only be explained by people being truly scared to their bones of Obama. Since his center right policies contained nothing to fear, not once, the fear (never seen of past democrats - not even FDR, JFK or carter who were far more socialist than Obama) that does not fit your explanation.
The fear and hatred Obama evoked was unique. Trump may match it but his actual policies inspire that fear. People are right to be scared they may lose the insurance paying for their lifesaving meds if he repeals the ACA. People are right to worry he could lead to their marriages losing legal status and their families torn appart. He promised to do those things
But for Obama there was no reason to be afraid - the fear had no connection to his ideas or words or actions. The only explanation left is his identity. When you have eliminated all other possibilities whatever is left, however improbable, must be true.
And this was a panicked response. It was not a sudden reversal of opinion on a policy (that would be mere hypocrisy) it was a panicked belief that he was trying to become a tyrant. That kind of irrational fear is not explicable by run if the mill politics.
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He is going to be our next president for the next ten years.
He'll only be our next president until January 20th.
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Don't worry, you're not a looser.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
Yeah, I remember conservative cartoonist publishing a cartoon with Obama's kids as dancing monkeys and conservative were not only okay with this obvious racism but even defended it! Only people on the right seem to think its okay to attack children and to portray minority as monkeys. Oh wait...
Sorry, you need to blame the cunts that were stealing land, raping women, and relocating people to siberia.
While the holocost was horrific , there were preceding events that led up to it - any of which may have completely avoided ww2.
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Last I checked there was no debate about where McCain was born. Apples and oranges, and the Hillary projection has been debunked so many times ...
Trump kept the thing alive even after Obama's birth certificate was released. It was a dog whistle and you heard it as clearly as all the other birthers.
Let's just say the whole Birther thing is a bit of a tell, then the not renting to black folks in NYC is kind of a give-away as well.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all? Despite evidence that this attitude is alienating huge swathes of swing voters and young independents?
How about this: when it comes to politicians, "proposing policies that would discriminate based on race" is racism. Nothing more, nothing less.
The really, really sad part of this election is Trump's policies (such as they were) re: police brutality and Mexican immigration had a ton of holes. The left could have easily torn them to pieces; instead, they choose to howl and howl not just "Trump is racist" but also "Why aren't you leaping up and down and frothing at the mouth like we are?? We said TRUMP IS RACIST!!!!!" and now "It's not ok. It's not normal. A RACIST is soon going to be in the White House!!!!"
Replace racist with Communist if you cannot see how dumb this strategy appears from the outside. It makes you look weak and unable to engage in actual policy debate.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all?
Nope.
It's not overturning an election. The electors have always had the right to vote for whomever they wished. They retain this right at the federal level even though 29 states so far have tried to unilaterally remove that right with state law.
If you want to support the reformation of the electoral college then you should do so, but you should stop pretending that only the quirks of the system that work in your favor (resulting in a technical Trump victory even though he lost the election) should be respected, while the quirks that might give Hillary the victory (faithless electors exercising their right to vote for whomever they choose) are invalid. It makes you look weak and self-serving.
And this McCarthyist definition of "racism" doesn't bother you at all?
Nope.
Fair enough. But it's people like you who are responsible for the waning left and the rise of the alt-right. Just so you know.
Fortunately this is one of those problems that will eventually take care of itself, one case of untreated influenza at a time. The new generation, though they are (fortunately) left-leaning, has by and large lost patience for hysteria-based and witch-hunt politics.
Fair enough. But it's people like you who are responsible for the waning left and the rise of the alt-right. Just so you know.
Nope to that, too. Because I live in Canada and hardly ever interact with heartland Americans outside the series of tubes.
Oh, we have people like you down here. (I didn't say you personally.) And despite popular reports, enough right wingers (in addition to a few left wingers like myself) down here are aware enough of Europe's existence to view it as a cautionary tale as to what happens when the left is allowed to get too smugly self-absorbed in imagined grievances that they forget the real ones.
How is your Human Rights Commission doing these days? And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah, or is it still considered kosher (a word I use advisedly) to imply that only West- and women-haters are permitted to be the official voice for the Islamic community?
It wasn't this bad when Reagan was elected, and of course, Reagan increased the debt by more than any president in history (outside of war), at least by percent. And Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and raised them on the poor. So the complaints at the time seemed quite valid, and were substantiated by Reagan's performance.
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Oh, we have people like you down here.
Not enough.
And did minister Mitchell ever lose his job over the way he treated Tarek Fatah?
About as much as Joe 'You Lie' Wilson.
BTW Mitchell is not a cabinet member but a senator. Senators are appointed for life. There's no easy way to get rid of them. Probably easier to abolish the senate all together, which has been under discussion on and off over the years that I lived here.
BTW I am very thankful we have outspoken, progressive Muslims like Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah up here. They provide a much needed reality check.
Nope, it doesn't. You shouldn't comment on legal matters. You obviously have no knowledge of the subject.
John Doe lawsuits are common. You sue John Doe for the damage, then use the court's powers of subpoena to identify the human that John Doe represents, and replace John Doe with the culprit. That's quite common. And you should know about that, being on Slashdot, as it's essentially what media companies suing uploaders do. Sue the IP, then attach a person to it later.
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Have you never heard him talk about Mexicans and the need for the wall? Have you never heard him talk about Muslims?
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California does not require any proof of citizenship to vote.
A picture of a form with no context is proof of nothing. Most states require proof of citizenship to get a state ID. Some places will allow a person to "vote" without an ID, but require proof of citizenship to get on the voter rolls. So your photo of nothing shows nothing and proves nothing.
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Not walking back anything, as an entertainer his racism wasn't of much consequence. You know I enjoy Wagner operas, too. Despite Wagner's well documented antisemitism.
Can't help it, if you have a reading comprehension problem.
Yeah, that's because you were already a leftist.
Don't tell anyone this. There's actually a secret cabal of leftists. Not only do we have a secret handshake in real life, but there's also a database of known leftists and rightists. We have a browser plugin that highlights usernames with a known party affiliation on many common forums.
That's why no one ever called me racist for criticising Obama, you see. Instead of reading what I wrote and deciding if my criticisms had racial overtones, they simply saw the little "leftist" flag next to my name. For you of course they saw the bright red flashing warning sign of a rightist.
Or you know people actually read what I wrote.
How can you be simultaneously pro-Obama and anti-globalism?
Because I'm capable of realising that I like some things Obama does/did while disliking others. Overall, I think he was a decent president despite some bad missteps.
Thing is you're viewing the world through your ludicrously partisan lens (rah rah left bad rah rah right good) and don't seem to realise that not everyone blindly cheers on "their team" in the same way that you do. In fact, some people don't feel an affiliation to any political party especially strongly.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Let's ask Donald Trump what he thinks of the electoral college:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
Well, I'm not going to argue with him. Now that he is President, he can try and do something about it.
Yeah he's such a dood he has put more whistle-blowers in prison and killed more IS citizens without trial than any other President. Rock on Bro!
About time to leave your echo chamber and enter another one, where the MSM gave tons of free air time to Trump and the NYT is down on Hillary:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...
I never said he is perfect, he just isn't who republicans claimed he was. The things you complained about - liberals also disliked, that's why we wanted an actual leftist this time. Why Sanders had so much support.
But republicans acted like he was Fidel Castro, when in fact, he was the most Reagan-like president since Reagan himself ! And frankly - those scandals, bad as they are, pale in comparison to Reagan's scandals. At least Obama didn't actually commit high treason against the USA while he was president and then get a 4-star general to be his fall-guy.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
GOP politicians go on massive hunts looking for voter fraud after every election, and never comes up with anything but a small handful of people who were just confused.
Here's a list of ~400 people who were not just charged, but convicted of voter fraud: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws....
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
it's the job of the Senate to ratify such a treaty
You are correct; and grandparent's point was that the Administration, knowing that the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA) with Iran -- which is a treaty by any reasonable definition* -- would not receive enough votes in the Senate, simply chose to implement the deal via executive action and not call it a treaty.
The Senate could have simply ignored this semantic maneuver and held an up or down vote on the treaty, but it did not. Instead, it allowed a treaty to go into effect without performing its Constitutional duty to ratify.
* A Wikipedia editor wrote, "The 159-page JCPOA document and its five appendices, is the most spacious text of a multinational treaty since World War II." This statement is sourced to a Persian-language BBC article.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
I read what you typed 3 times.
Then I realized your IQ converted to watts wouldn't light a led christmas ornament.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
To be fair, undocumented citizens did receive assurances that they would not be deported if they voted: http://www.bizpacreview.com/20...
Cavuto is being an idiot or a liar. Re-watch the clip and listen closely.
The questioner is asking a poorly phrased question about I don't know what.
Obama is answering a question about US citizens who are co-residing with illegal immigrants, and those US citizens are concerned their names and addresses will be taken from the voter roles and used to deport the non-citizens they're living with.
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GOP politicians go on massive hunts looking for voter fraud after every election, and never comes up with anything but a small handful of people who were just confused.
Here's a list of ~400 people who were not just charged, but convicted of voter fraud: http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws....
400 people over at least 8 elections.
About half are registering ineligible voters (no reason to think they actually voted, more likely someone trying to scam a turnout organization like happened to ACORN), or voting when ineligible (non-citizen? felon?).
There were only 7 cases of impersonation at a poll, and it's unclear how many voter ID laws (the major push for the GOP) would have stopped.
And I did see 32 cases of absentee ballot fraud.
Are there more than listed there? Of course.
But nothing that would sway an election, and certainly not "millions".
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Yes, the policy was started by his dad (who was also once arrested at a Klan's rally) but Jr. was aware of the policy and happily went along with it.
As to the birther Hillary origination story, that has been debunked so many times it's not even funny that you still believe it.