You claim to be disturbed by this video but you'll probably vote for concentration camp loving, brown shirt goading Trump.
Any liberal who's tuned into foreign policy is not happy with Hillary "Bush Lite" Clinton, but the Republicans haven't put up any credible alternative.
You're probably old enough to remember the '90s. Whitewater, travelgate, filegate, these kind of investigations can generate a whole bunch of smoke with out even a flicker of frame.
A) If you threw everyone in jail who ever sent or received classified info through unofficial channels, half of Washington would be in jail. People slip up. Things get into emails. Sometimes not everyone is clued in on what's classified and what's not.
B) Hillary is not a sys-admin. Unless you can show that she ordered some nefarious activity, you aren't going to get an indictment based on the contents or security level of her servers.
Exactly. She's no crook, except in the money for favors sense that most politicians are, but she's just not smart enough. OTOH, the alternatives are Trump, who is even dumber, or Cruz, who is very smart but everyone who knows him thinks he's a horrible person.
Meanwhile, Trump is supportive of violence at his rallies, pumps up anti-hispanic racism, alludes positively to Japanese internment when talking about Muslims, and would bring back torture. That's your choice.
A good idea, but it really shows the contradiction in Republican healthcare thinking. Without any good healthcare coverage, the emergency room becomes the walk in clinic for the uninsured, who must then pretend that they can't pay.
It was Clinton's tax increase in '93 that lead to the huge decrease in deficit. Democrats ran congress at that time, and basically lost control because of that increase.
Each year that reagan proposed a budget, his proposed deficit was higher than the budgets that were eventually passed by the Democratic congress.
"Before Obamacare it was becoming common for even fast food jobs to offer healthcare benefit."
Pure fantasy land. Under Obamacare, the only way a fast food worker can't afford insurance is if they have the bad luck to live in a state that's run by a Republican governor who is refusing federal medicaid money.
Bush didn't rack up huge debt numbers right away because he inherited a tiny deficit. He had to build up speed. It's funny you so intent on the debt numbers, but you're trying to shift the blame for it to the guy that seen lower deficits and away from the guy who blew up the deficit.
There's nothing disingenuous about totaling government taxes and expenses to find the deficit. The legal construction of social security is political game playing. Lumping it in with everything else is not.
This kind of cherry picking of numbers is dishonest. If Bush runs up a huge debt (he did) , then Obama would have had to run an enormous *surplus* in order to achieve the same debt average. Slashdot users have all had algebra, so this shouldn't fool them.
"we accumulated debt every single year since Ike,"
That depends on whether you consider intra-government debt a real part of the debt. If you consider social security to be another government program with its own taxes and expenditures, then the government ran a surplus.
Comparison of Islamist attacks to far right wing attacks in US since 9/11. The numbers are pretty close. It doesn't include left wing attacks, but there have been a lot. It also doesn't include foiled attacks. There have been many foiled attacks by both Islamists and right wingers.
Pre-9/11 there were a huge number of right wing terror attacks. And of course, going back to the '70s and '80s, you can find a lot of left wing terror attacks.
Yes, they remember. German censorship is aimed at suppressing Nazi-like hate groups and has been around since the end of the war. At least those laws should be useful in breaking up Islamic hate groups, too.
This is not history repeating. There was no glorious period of free speech in Germany that's now coming to an end.
What's the moral question on gay sex? In all the years of debate, I've never seen anything other than "God said not to." Also some specious arguments that it leads to child rape and animal rape.
To consent to the nominee. Not to declare opposition before they even know who it is. That is beyond their powers in the Constitution, but Cruz has already taken that position.
That yell didn't sound so bad in context. The destruction of Dean was just amazing to watch. It was High School level stupidity, and it worked beautifully.
"It was wrong for the IRS to be misused in this way under Obama."
Has Obama been tied to any problems at the IRS? Is there anything close to Nixon ordering the IRS to go after his opponents?
You're missing another big one, which is Bush trying to push US attorneys to prosecute fake voter fraud cases in order to gin up support for voter ID laws.
"It was wrong, when S&P downgraded the US's bond rating... "
It was wrong for the S&P to downgrade the bonds. Is there any evidence that Obama ordered a retaliation because of this?
What are you talking about? The anti-SJW troglodytes who frequent Slashdot and other places are at least as touchy as those chicks they are so afraid of.
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People have a strong ability to hear what the like from Trump and ignore the rest.
> So President Obama telling people to bring guns to knife fights, to get in their faces, that's not violent and fascist?
Was he actually encouraging people to bring real guns to a real knife fight? No? You mean it was a metaphor?
> Telling the opposition party to get to the back of the bus, the sit and be quiet is not fascist?
Ooh, scary. Bad Obama tells the opposing party that when he wins and they lose, he'll be in charge. Nasty!
> Using the power of the State (the IRS) to penalize political opponents isn't fascist?
Obama never did this, so what's your point?
You claim to be disturbed by this video but you'll probably vote for concentration camp loving, brown shirt goading Trump.
Any liberal who's tuned into foreign policy is not happy with Hillary "Bush Lite" Clinton, but the Republicans haven't put up any credible alternative.
You're probably old enough to remember the '90s. Whitewater, travelgate, filegate, these kind of investigations can generate a whole bunch of smoke with out even a flicker of frame.
A) If you threw everyone in jail who ever sent or received classified info through unofficial channels, half of Washington would be in jail. People slip up. Things get into emails. Sometimes not everyone is clued in on what's classified and what's not.
B) Hillary is not a sys-admin. Unless you can show that she ordered some nefarious activity, you aren't going to get an indictment based on the contents or security level of her servers.
Exactly. She's no crook, except in the money for favors sense that most politicians are, but she's just not smart enough. OTOH, the alternatives are Trump, who is even dumber, or Cruz, who is very smart but everyone who knows him thinks he's a horrible person.
Meanwhile, Trump is supportive of violence at his rallies, pumps up anti-hispanic racism, alludes positively to Japanese internment when talking about Muslims, and would bring back torture. That's your choice.
A good idea, but it really shows the contradiction in Republican healthcare thinking. Without any good healthcare coverage, the emergency room becomes the walk in clinic for the uninsured, who must then pretend that they can't pay.
And how many were pardoned by Bush?
It was Clinton's tax increase in '93 that lead to the huge decrease in deficit. Democrats ran congress at that time, and basically lost control because of that increase.
Each year that reagan proposed a budget, his proposed deficit was higher than the budgets that were eventually passed by the Democratic congress.
"Before Obamacare it was becoming common for even fast food jobs to offer healthcare benefit."
Pure fantasy land. Under Obamacare, the only way a fast food worker can't afford insurance is if they have the bad luck to live in a state that's run by a Republican governor who is refusing federal medicaid money.
Bush didn't rack up huge debt numbers right away because he inherited a tiny deficit. He had to build up speed. It's funny you so intent on the debt numbers, but you're trying to shift the blame for it to the guy that seen lower deficits and away from the guy who blew up the deficit.
There's nothing disingenuous about totaling government taxes and expenses to find the deficit. The legal construction of social security is political game playing. Lumping it in with everything else is not.
"averaging 2.4 times that of President Bush"
This kind of cherry picking of numbers is dishonest. If Bush runs up a huge debt (he did) , then Obama would have had to run an enormous *surplus* in order to achieve the same debt average. Slashdot users have all had algebra, so this shouldn't fool them.
"we accumulated debt every single year since Ike,"
That depends on whether you consider intra-government debt a real part of the debt. If you consider social security to be another government program with its own taxes and expenditures, then the government ran a surplus.
Comparison of Islamist attacks to far right wing attacks in US since 9/11. The numbers are pretty close. It doesn't include left wing attacks, but there have been a lot. It also doesn't include foiled attacks. There have been many foiled attacks by both Islamists and right wingers.
http://securitydata.newamerica...
Pre-9/11 there were a huge number of right wing terror attacks. And of course, going back to the '70s and '80s, you can find a lot of left wing terror attacks.
Remember Buchenwald? Auschwitz? Maybe the refugees should expel the Germans. Or ... maybe a whole group isn't to blame for the actions of a few.
Yes, they remember. German censorship is aimed at suppressing Nazi-like hate groups and has been around since the end of the war. At least those laws should be useful in breaking up Islamic hate groups, too.
This is not history repeating. There was no glorious period of free speech in Germany that's now coming to an end.
"A lot of times, the members of these groups are net ragers"
Pull your head out of your ass. The real-life Nazis love the internet. They've been using it to reach out to sympathizers for a long time.
What's the moral question on gay sex? In all the years of debate, I've never seen anything other than "God said not to." Also some specious arguments that it leads to child rape and animal rape.
The majority of terrorist attacks in the United States are carried out by right wing fanatics.
Nevada was the GOP's show.
It's likely to fall locally in some places while rising globally, so they just have to cherry pick the location.
To consent to the nominee. Not to declare opposition before they even know who it is. That is beyond their powers in the Constitution, but Cruz has already taken that position.
Agreed! although I've seen that from both sides.
That yell didn't sound so bad in context. The destruction of Dean was just amazing to watch. It was High School level stupidity, and it worked beautifully.
"It was wrong for the IRS to be misused in this way under Obama."
Has Obama been tied to any problems at the IRS? Is there anything close to Nixon ordering the IRS to go after his opponents?
You're missing another big one, which is Bush trying to push US attorneys to prosecute fake voter fraud cases in order to gin up support for voter ID laws.
"It was wrong, when S&P downgraded the US's bond rating ... "
It was wrong for the S&P to downgrade the bonds. Is there any evidence that Obama ordered a retaliation because of this?
What are you talking about? The anti-SJW troglodytes who frequent Slashdot and other places are at least as touchy as those chicks they are so afraid of.