She "performed terribly"? Do you have any basic understanding of international politics?
Yes, I do. Its not simply the ultimate outcomes. Its her misreading of people and situations and the formulation of poor plans to deal with things. Being dealt a bad hand is one thing, playing a bad hand poorly is something else. Hillary has a track record of playing hands poorly, all the way back to First Lady days. Hint: Her attempt at health care reform.
Gary Johnson isn't aware of the world outside of the US's borders. He has repeatedly flubbed names of leaders and nations. And I'm skeptical if he could find the Middle East on a map.
The President is not a quiz show contestant. A President consumes facts and information from the roomful of expert advisers. A President mostly needs honesty and integrity, those traits allow for better processing of the information.
Hillary knew lots of names, met many leaders as First Lady and visited many places. Look how terribly she performed as Secretary of State; relations with Russia, state of Iraq, Libya, Syria; Iranian nuclear deal; TPP; etc.
His endorsement seems to be mainly based on that there is no one else left. He should have endorsed Jill_Stein, at least she might know someone that is not from her state...
You can learn the names of other people pretty quickly, as needed. Honesty and integrity are pretty much set by the time one reaches a Presidential age. Some consider the later more important. The President is not a source of facts, he/she is a consumer of facts from the roomful of expert advisors surround him/her.
Why would one make up their mind during the silly season of the primaries where both major candidates lie to their extreme base to get the nomination?
Why would one make up their mind prior to the debates where the candidates are not in scripted choreographed settings for the first time?
You sound like someone who is loyal to political party, meaning you not Adams are part of the problem if that is the case. People who are loyal to a party are irrelevant, their party can ignore them since they already have their vote, the other party can ignore them since they can not obtain their vote. Party loyalty enable crap candidates like Clinton and Trump.
Secondarily a for vote Hillary validates all the BS the DNC pulled on Bernie. The DNC and Hillary don't care if the revelations of their actions embarrass them, they only care if they win. If Hillary wins everything she and the DNC did to Bernie and his supporters become validated, successful, a good tactic. They are counting on Bernie supporters to be good little Democrats, to bitch and moan and then vote for the Democratic party. The ends justify the means to Hillary, her former DNC chair VP, the recently "fired" DNC chair working for the campaign and on a path to a White House position, etc.
Just because Bernie sold out to protect his Senate seat doesn't mean the revolution has to die. Vote for anyone other than Hillary or you are green lighting a repeat of her tactics.
And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote.
Not in influencing sitting Congressional representatives. Far fewer people write than vote, and their letters are taken to be indicative of how people are likely to vote, and they can address a particular issue.
Only in extremely rare circumstances, such as when the person is an NRA member. In nearly all circumstances letters are a transient unscientific poll that gives a politician a heads up about a topic they might need to manage around election time, but usually the issue is irrelevant by that time. Keep in mind that most people are loyal party voters so their opinions are irrelevant, their party already has their vote and the other party can not obtain their vote; as for the remaining they are overwhelmingly swayed one way or the other by something that occurs or is said very close to the election.
Actually the Republican party and the Republican establishment do not want Trump.
>So?
The point is that effective Presidents, Presidents that get what they want, need to have many allies and supporters in Congress. Trump will not even have many such supporters from his own party. This will be the most obstructionist do nothing Congress ever iff Trump wins.
Electronic media including emails is considered greatly inferior.
I think you need to join the 21st century.
You confuse the user's perspective with the politician's perspective. From the politician's perspective the easier the communication medium the less value it has. 100 handwritten letters is viewed as far more valuable that 100 emails. Plus emails often tend to be not-so-original, and/or more a momentary and passing emotion, not much more that a tweet.
And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote
No, no it isn't. For exactly the reason I mentioned: One vote gives you 1/350millionth of a say in government, applied to a broad range of issues, once every 4 years. Letters can be written whenever you want and can be specific to an issue that's important to you
Sharing your opinion in a letter/email/etc removes no politician from office, so they are largely irrelevant to politicians. The only thing that matters to a politician is votes. People can share their opinions all they want and politicians know it is meaningly, most will loyally vote for their party, so their party already had their vote or the other party could not obtain their vote; the majority of the remaining will be convinced to vote one way or the other by something that is said or done close to the election.
Letters/emails/etc are just a survey mechanism, an unscientific one at that. All they do, if anything, is give a politician heads up on an issue they need to manage opinion on, or distract from, when the election season comes around. They really are nothing more than a transient unscientific sort of poll.
the Democrats are a political party, and the DNC wants to get Democrats elected wherever it can.
Hillary being the party insider's choice proves otherwise. She is a terrible candidate. so bad she is running neck and neck with Trump. When there is a significant chance that Trump can defeat you then you are a weak failure of a candidate. The only reason Hillary is the candidate is because of the political machine that Bill built.
This includes discouraging candidates who are less likely to be elected sometimes.
If true then Hillary would have been discouraged. And more viable Democrats not discouraged from running this year. She was virtually unopposed by mainstream Democrats, one token candidate that was deferential to her. In a year with no incumbent there should have been more mainstream candidates. But the machine discouraged them.
The DNC is nothing like the Praetorian Guard either
Other than picking the next leader behind the scenes.
They directed the sleazy tactics at Democratic voters, their own people.
Sanders is a lot less electable than Clinton.
That is quite debatable. And if they really cared about electability then Hillary would not have been the choice. She may not even be able to beat Trump, that is how terrible a candidate she is. Hillary was selected because of the power and influence of Bill and his friends and their money.
Refusing to vote Democrat because you don't like the DNC will do absolutely nothing to reform the DNC.
That is a historically ignorant statement. Losing elections is a prime reason for a shakeup in party leadership, and a change in party direction.
... more dangerous than a man with the nuclear codes and a really really short but spiteful temper?
Red herring. His codes allow him to authenticate communications with a chain of command. The chain of command still has to accept the orders as lawful and constitutional. Crazy orders will be disobeyed. They will also likely cause the Cabinet to invoke the 25 amendment and declare him sick and unable to carried out his duties. Trump is alone. He's an outsider, railing against the establishment, the people who will form his cabinet and the Republican component of Congress. He can easily be removed if he starts the sort of crazy talk you suggest.
I am often guilty of (1) and (2) myself. Plus I have another problem: (3) Thinking one word but the fingers type something else. Combined with terrible proofreading (hey, its just an online post not a thesis submission) I've had more than my share of silliness.
And voting for Republicans rewards the tactics of the Republicans.
Actually the Republican party and the Republican establishment do not want Trump. Trump will have no loyal base of support, not in Congress, probably not even in his own Cabinet. We might get see a Cabinet invoke the 25th amendment and declare the President disabled. Then again Trump's twitter account will be taken from him so it might be more difficult to recognize when he is having an "episode".
But the fact that you sat down and wrote an email means you're more involved in the political process than 80-90% of the country and that doesn't go unnoticed.
Actually no, letters are so evaluated. Electronic media including emails is considered greatly inferior. And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote. The letter is just a sort of polling that gives them a heads up.
If you really want to make change though, petitions are the way to go right now. I know it seems silly but the internet has taken something that used to help convince a small town mayor and scaled it up so that it has at least the potentially to be effective on a national scale.
Again, digital, largely considered to be of little value. Actually going out and collecting paper and ink signatures is far more meaningful. Yet, still inferior to votes, just a sort of polling.
Look at the White House's online petition system. Perhaps action when some cause matches what they want to do anyway. Otherwise a cause is blown off and ignored if its not something they want to do anyway. Their online petition system is just a PR gimmick. Actually its likely just a scam to collect email addresses for political purposes. They require an email to create an account and your petition signing strongly indicates your political leanings.
By all means, make Trump the first into our Emperor by refusing to do what is necessary
Pretty much your choice is Do for Hillary, or do TO America
Your knowledge of our government's organization and the power of one specific person in government seems to be even more deficient than Trump's.
The DNC is more dangerous than Trump to our Democracy. The DNC is directly involved in getting their chosen people into two of the three branches of government. Since you seem interested in Emperors go read up on the Praetorian Guard, that may help you better understand the point.
The party won't reform....because post-Trump there won't BE an America to vote IN!!!
Later when you get to high school you will have to take a US Government class. When you take that class you will learn that our government is organized into three separate branches that can stalemate each other. That no one branch, and more importantly no one person - even the President, can get much done without the cooperation of the other branches.
I think the class will also mention that the military and law enforcement also swears their loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, not the temporary occupant of the White House and are taught to disobey illegal and unconstitutional orders. I'm not 100% sure this is covered in class, my familiarity with this may be due to having sworn such an oath.
Your only power is your vote, not a letter nor an email nor a text nor a post nor a tweet.
You really live up to your username ("dumb"), don't you!
Perhaps the person who confuses "RN" for "UM" is not qualified to make assessments as to who is dumb?
Do you think that any politician cares about people who don't vote?
Your confusion seems to extend from letters to concepts. I was speaking specifically about voters, not non-voters. Did "A vote for Hillary... They only care if people vote Democrat" confuse you? Assess even more seriously your qualification to label people dumb.
A vote for Hillary, well any Democrats on the ballot, is rewarding the tactics of the DNC. They don't care if people bitch and moan. They only care if people vote Democrat. Bitching and moaning and then voting Dem makes all your complaints irrelevant. Things will not change, a party will not reform, until they lose the votes of otherwise loyal voters. Your only power is your vote, not a letter nor an email nor a text nor a post nor a tweet.
A voip line from a cable company isn't a land line. A land line is a hunk of copper that doesn't go dead when the power goes out. I am 40 years old, and I have NEVER had a landline outage.
My cable provider's modem has an optional battery so that e911 functionality is still available during power outages.
If I did replace my current copper connection I might just plug the modem into a UPS I have layout around.
FWIW I used to work in telecommunications and spent some time in phone company central offices. They battery room was impressive and scary.
If I were to purchase a Maytag dryer from Sears and know the warranty is good for one year.
New phones are shipping with older versions of Android. "New" as in unused, not as in a recent design.
I can get a new prepaid Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 4.4 KitKat at Walmart for $150. It will not receive any updates to a newer version of Android. Some Android phones are vulnerable and have no upgrade path when they are new in the box, its not merely a problem of old used phones no longer being supported.
I have never had a headphone jack fail. Nor do I know anyone who has.
I have. I am not claiming the following failure is common. I'm merely debunking the notion that the headphone jack is immune from problems. My personal experience is that it is the one and only thing that has failed for me in seven years.
I've occasionally dropped my phone, maybe once or twice a year over the last seven years. I only suffered damage once about five years ago. The headphone jack would no longer correctly detect when the earbuds were plugged in. Occasionally there would be a false positive where the phone erroneously thought the earbuds were plugged in and the phone would disable the speaker. I had to power down the phone to correct this. It was necessary to take this corrective action about once or twice a day. A day where this did not occur was rare. The problem was mechanical. If I shook the phone and listened very carefully I could hear something loose rattling. Fortunately this happened about three months before I became eligible for an upgrade.
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She "performed terribly"? Do you have any basic understanding of international politics?
Yes, I do. Its not simply the ultimate outcomes. Its her misreading of people and situations and the formulation of poor plans to deal with things. Being dealt a bad hand is one thing, playing a bad hand poorly is something else. Hillary has a track record of playing hands poorly, all the way back to First Lady days. Hint: Her attempt at health care reform.
Gary Johnson isn't aware of the world outside of the US's borders. He has repeatedly flubbed names of leaders and nations. And I'm skeptical if he could find the Middle East on a map.
The President is not a quiz show contestant. A President consumes facts and information from the roomful of expert advisers. A President mostly needs honesty and integrity, those traits allow for better processing of the information.
Hillary knew lots of names, met many leaders as First Lady and visited many places. Look how terribly she performed as Secretary of State; relations with Russia, state of Iraq, Libya, Syria; Iranian nuclear deal; TPP; etc.
His endorsement seems to be mainly based on that there is no one else left. He should have endorsed Jill_Stein, at least she might know someone that is not from her state ...
You can learn the names of other people pretty quickly, as needed. Honesty and integrity are pretty much set by the time one reaches a Presidential age. Some consider the later more important. The President is not a source of facts, he/she is a consumer of facts from the roomful of expert advisors surround him/her.
He doesn't seem to be able to make up his mind.
Why would one make up their mind during the silly season of the primaries where both major candidates lie to their extreme base to get the nomination?
Why would one make up their mind prior to the debates where the candidates are not in scripted choreographed settings for the first time?
You sound like someone who is loyal to political party, meaning you not Adams are part of the problem if that is the case. People who are loyal to a party are irrelevant, their party can ignore them since they already have their vote, the other party can ignore them since they can not obtain their vote. Party loyalty enable crap candidates like Clinton and Trump.
Secondarily a for vote Hillary validates all the BS the DNC pulled on Bernie. The DNC and Hillary don't care if the revelations of their actions embarrass them, they only care if they win. If Hillary wins everything she and the DNC did to Bernie and his supporters become validated, successful, a good tactic. They are counting on Bernie supporters to be good little Democrats, to bitch and moan and then vote for the Democratic party. The ends justify the means to Hillary, her former DNC chair VP, the recently "fired" DNC chair working for the campaign and on a path to a White House position, etc.
Just because Bernie sold out to protect his Senate seat doesn't mean the revolution has to die. Vote for anyone other than Hillary or you are green lighting a repeat of her tactics.
What if I have a self driving bike and I want to catch a nap?
You can ride on an unlit bike path, the self driving bike can use IR.
And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote.
Not in influencing sitting Congressional representatives. Far fewer people write than vote, and their letters are taken to be indicative of how people are likely to vote, and they can address a particular issue.
Only in extremely rare circumstances, such as when the person is an NRA member. In nearly all circumstances letters are a transient unscientific poll that gives a politician a heads up about a topic they might need to manage around election time, but usually the issue is irrelevant by that time. Keep in mind that most people are loyal party voters so their opinions are irrelevant, their party already has their vote and the other party can not obtain their vote; as for the remaining they are overwhelmingly swayed one way or the other by something that occurs or is said very close to the election.
Actually the Republican party and the Republican establishment do not want Trump.
>So?
The point is that effective Presidents, Presidents that get what they want, need to have many allies and supporters in Congress. Trump will not even have many such supporters from his own party. This will be the most obstructionist do nothing Congress ever iff Trump wins.
Electronic media including emails is considered greatly inferior.
I think you need to join the 21st century.
You confuse the user's perspective with the politician's perspective. From the politician's perspective the easier the communication medium the less value it has. 100 handwritten letters is viewed as far more valuable that 100 emails. Plus emails often tend to be not-so-original, and/or more a momentary and passing emotion, not much more that a tweet.
And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote
No, no it isn't. For exactly the reason I mentioned: One vote gives you 1/350millionth of a say in government, applied to a broad range of issues, once every 4 years. Letters can be written whenever you want and can be specific to an issue that's important to you
Sharing your opinion in a letter/email/etc removes no politician from office, so they are largely irrelevant to politicians. The only thing that matters to a politician is votes. People can share their opinions all they want and politicians know it is meaningly, most will loyally vote for their party, so their party already had their vote or the other party could not obtain their vote; the majority of the remaining will be convinced to vote one way or the other by something that is said or done close to the election.
Letters/emails/etc are just a survey mechanism, an unscientific one at that. All they do, if anything, is give a politician heads up on an issue they need to manage opinion on, or distract from, when the election season comes around. They really are nothing more than a transient unscientific sort of poll.
the Democrats are a political party, and the DNC wants to get Democrats elected wherever it can.
Hillary being the party insider's choice proves otherwise. She is a terrible candidate. so bad she is running neck and neck with Trump. When there is a significant chance that Trump can defeat you then you are a weak failure of a candidate. The only reason Hillary is the candidate is because of the political machine that Bill built.
This includes discouraging candidates who are less likely to be elected sometimes.
If true then Hillary would have been discouraged. And more viable Democrats not discouraged from running this year. She was virtually unopposed by mainstream Democrats, one token candidate that was deferential to her. In a year with no incumbent there should have been more mainstream candidates. But the machine discouraged them.
The DNC is nothing like the Praetorian Guard either
Other than picking the next leader behind the scenes.
What's your problem with DNC tactics
They directed the sleazy tactics at Democratic voters, their own people.
Sanders is a lot less electable than Clinton.
That is quite debatable. And if they really cared about electability then Hillary would not have been the choice. She may not even be able to beat Trump, that is how terrible a candidate she is. Hillary was selected because of the power and influence of Bill and his friends and their money.
Refusing to vote Democrat because you don't like the DNC will do absolutely nothing to reform the DNC.
That is a historically ignorant statement. Losing elections is a prime reason for a shakeup in party leadership, and a change in party direction.
Aren't we worried about LED streetlights that emit too much blue light? Now we're making the bike pathways glow blue?
They want the cyclists to be awake for safety reasons.
... more dangerous than a man with the nuclear codes and a really really short but spiteful temper?
Red herring. His codes allow him to authenticate communications with a chain of command. The chain of command still has to accept the orders as lawful and constitutional. Crazy orders will be disobeyed. They will also likely cause the Cabinet to invoke the 25 amendment and declare him sick and unable to carried out his duties. Trump is alone. He's an outsider, railing against the establishment, the people who will form his cabinet and the Republican component of Congress. He can easily be removed if he starts the sort of crazy talk you suggest.
I am often guilty of (1) and (2) myself. Plus I have another problem: (3) Thinking one word but the fingers type something else. Combined with terrible proofreading (hey, its just an online post not a thesis submission) I've had more than my share of silliness.
And voting for Republicans rewards the tactics of the Republicans.
Actually the Republican party and the Republican establishment do not want Trump. Trump will have no loyal base of support, not in Congress, probably not even in his own Cabinet. We might get see a Cabinet invoke the 25th amendment and declare the President disabled. Then again Trump's twitter account will be taken from him so it might be more difficult to recognize when he is having an "episode".
But the fact that you sat down and wrote an email means you're more involved in the political process than 80-90% of the country and that doesn't go unnoticed.
Actually no, letters are so evaluated. Electronic media including emails is considered greatly inferior. And still even a letter is vastly inferior to a vote. The letter is just a sort of polling that gives them a heads up.
If you really want to make change though, petitions are the way to go right now. I know it seems silly but the internet has taken something that used to help convince a small town mayor and scaled it up so that it has at least the potentially to be effective on a national scale.
Again, digital, largely considered to be of little value. Actually going out and collecting paper and ink signatures is far more meaningful. Yet, still inferior to votes, just a sort of polling.
Look at the White House's online petition system. Perhaps action when some cause matches what they want to do anyway. Otherwise a cause is blown off and ignored if its not something they want to do anyway. Their online petition system is just a PR gimmick. Actually its likely just a scam to collect email addresses for political purposes. They require an email to create an account and your petition signing strongly indicates your political leanings.
By all means, make Trump the first into our Emperor by refusing to do what is necessary Pretty much your choice is Do for Hillary, or do TO America
Your knowledge of our government's organization and the power of one specific person in government seems to be even more deficient than Trump's.
The DNC is more dangerous than Trump to our Democracy. The DNC is directly involved in getting their chosen people into two of the three branches of government. Since you seem interested in Emperors go read up on the Praetorian Guard, that may help you better understand the point.
Because if you don't have power for an entire week, like after a hurricane, the battery is pretty much useless...
So is the phone company's.
The party won't reform....because post-Trump there won't BE an America to vote IN!!!
Later when you get to high school you will have to take a US Government class. When you take that class you will learn that our government is organized into three separate branches that can stalemate each other. That no one branch, and more importantly no one person - even the President, can get much done without the cooperation of the other branches.
I think the class will also mention that the military and law enforcement also swears their loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, not the temporary occupant of the White House and are taught to disobey illegal and unconstitutional orders. I'm not 100% sure this is covered in class, my familiarity with this may be due to having sworn such an oath.
You really live up to your username ("dumb"), don't you!
Perhaps the person who confuses "RN" for "UM" is not qualified to make assessments as to who is dumb?
Do you think that any politician cares about people who don't vote?
Your confusion seems to extend from letters to concepts. I was speaking specifically about voters, not non-voters. Did "A vote for Hillary ... They only care if people vote Democrat" confuse you? Assess even more seriously your qualification to label people dumb.
Vote Cthulhu for President, why vote for the lesser of two evils?
The problem is it is hard to tell which mainstream candidate is being inhabited by Cthulhu. :-)
A vote for Hillary, well any Democrats on the ballot, is rewarding the tactics of the DNC. They don't care if people bitch and moan. They only care if people vote Democrat. Bitching and moaning and then voting Dem makes all your complaints irrelevant. Things will not change, a party will not reform, until they lose the votes of otherwise loyal voters. Your only power is your vote, not a letter nor an email nor a text nor a post nor a tweet.
A voip line from a cable company isn't a land line. A land line is a hunk of copper that doesn't go dead when the power goes out. I am 40 years old, and I have NEVER had a landline outage.
My cable provider's modem has an optional battery so that e911 functionality is still available during power outages.
If I did replace my current copper connection I might just plug the modem into a UPS I have layout around.
FWIW I used to work in telecommunications and spent some time in phone company central offices. They battery room was impressive and scary.
I'm sure your cable TV provider could provide you with a land line. Hmm ... maybe you need to become more tolerant of douche bags? ;-)
My bad, that was a Galaxy S4 at $150, 4.2 Jellybean and not upgradable. Their S5 was $300, 4.4 KitKat and not upgradable.
I apologize for the confusion.
If I were to purchase a Maytag dryer from Sears and know the warranty is good for one year.
New phones are shipping with older versions of Android. "New" as in unused, not as in a recent design.
I can get a new prepaid Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 4.4 KitKat at Walmart for $150. It will not receive any updates to a newer version of Android. Some Android phones are vulnerable and have no upgrade path when they are new in the box, its not merely a problem of old used phones no longer being supported.
I have never had a headphone jack fail. Nor do I know anyone who has.
I have. I am not claiming the following failure is common. I'm merely debunking the notion that the headphone jack is immune from problems. My personal experience is that it is the one and only thing that has failed for me in seven years.
I've occasionally dropped my phone, maybe once or twice a year over the last seven years. I only suffered damage once about five years ago. The headphone jack would no longer correctly detect when the earbuds were plugged in. Occasionally there would be a false positive where the phone erroneously thought the earbuds were plugged in and the phone would disable the speaker. I had to power down the phone to correct this. It was necessary to take this corrective action about once or twice a day. A day where this did not occur was rare. The problem was mechanical. If I shook the phone and listened very carefully I could hear something loose rattling. Fortunately this happened about three months before I became eligible for an upgrade.
Fake zombie alerts, its all fun and games until someone staggering drunk gets shot in the head. Stay indoors for both real and fake zombie alerts.