and I'm wondering what caused it. Maybe anti-immigration? The H1-Bs have got me running scared too. I flirted with Trump because he seemed more willing to reign in the abuses (even when somewhere in the back of my head I know we'll need immigrants if we don't want to share Japan's fate as our birth rate drops, queue/. joke here).
But then I read he took $900k from one of the biggest H1-B reliant outsourcing firms out there and basically gave up on that. I haven't heard him say much more than "Crooked Hilary" and something/something about emails in weeks. Meanwhile I've got friends that rely on Obamacare (one of which is a Type-1 diabetic who until the medicaid expansion was making frequent trips to the ER to get insulin because his insurance had been cut off).
I'm not expecting either candidate to to much to help me, but I've got concrete places where Trump will _hurt_ me. Yeah, I could vote 3rd party, but that could still drop the presidency in his pocket. And besides, Johnson is definitely not my friend and Jill Stein is an anti-vaxer...
and I'm not trolling here. Ever read Bruce Sterling's Distraction"? This is why the left kinda lost their shit when the right started putting target signs over Hilary. If you're going to encourage a climate of violence you shouldn't be surprised when the violent pick up on what you're saying and run with it...
Harping on very minor scandals month after month and year after year while ignoring her opponents much, much worse scandals is what I'd call character assassination. John Oliver does a much, much better job explaining it than I can over here.
5 times no less? I'm not saying she couldn't have made better decisions, but I _am_ saying that your dislike for her has nothing to do with *gazi and more to do with how she makes you feel. She's been the target of a non-stop 20 year long character assignation program the scope of which is breathtaking. The fact that she's made it this far in spite of that is no mean feat.
It was a lovely October surprise and might still throw the election to Trump. After 20 years of nonstop character assassination folks don't like Hilary. It doesn't help that she's kind of impersonal (too much time working, not enough socializing). If this news was a week ago it's be a moot point, but then again that's pretty obviously why dropped when it did...
and the UK. And Australia. And any one of a number of first world countries. Hell, they're having trouble competing with _me_ because my pay and benefits suck.
I can't compete with the second world. I can't compete with a country like India with a massive and largely abandoned underclass and lax environmental laws (and we're not talkin' the feel good "save the whales" kind, we're talking the "no cancer villages" kind).
Competition is only beneficial when there's an even playing field and the rewards are something better than enough food and shelter to survive. Otherwise it's the same bullshit race to the bottom humanity as suffered for thousands of years.
because those same baby boomers that are being laid off also voted to gut the government's regulatory powers in the name of freedom, small government and low taxes. That plus regulatory capture and a health dose of wedge issues to divide the working class means any attempt to address age discrimination will go precisely nowhere. BAU/Functioning as Designed.
Trump's been encouraging a climate of violence and fear at his rallies for months' now. I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner. The real thing to come out of this that'll hurt him is how he sorta hobbled away. Sure, he's 70, and to any sane person that's to be expected. But he's been cultivating an image of virility for months now and having it undermined in the press 3 days before game day is gonna be a problem.
I forget who said it but somebody said whoever can keep the spotlight off is gonna win since neither candidate is well liked. Trump just put the spotlight on 100%.
a "2 year investigation" could easily just be somebody at the FBI keeping tabs on them to make sure it really is just harmless trolling. That's sorta what an investigation is. And befor you ask yes, I do want my law enforcement to keeping tabs of folks who go around advocating violence. It's not too hard to do it without violating anybody's rights and if we'd done a bit more of that perhaps that whole Sept 11 fracas coulda been avoided.
with guns just askin' questions like "Who's voting for Crooked Hillary?". And you wonder why the Dems have higher rates of early & by mail voting. I'm a Dem and I won't be within 500 yards of a polling place on Tuesday if my life depended on it. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite...
They don't pay the crazy sums for health care that we do (single payer's a _lot_ less costly). Their gov't doesn't allow their drug companies to gouge their population. He's probably paying about $2800/yr in taxes if he's a pack a day guy and health care costs (per citizen) about $1800 (pounds, not dollars, but I'm a yank so I don't have a pound key:P).
Now, there's the little matter of ignoring all the incidental costs to smoking. The big one that I see is that tobacco _destroys_ land. It's a very water, labor and resource intensive crop and the nicotine poisons the soil. Not sure about the UK but in the states we heavily subsidize it, basically negating the taxes. Basically, food costs more (because land and water goes to tobacco) and subsidies negate the value of the taxes. None of this might be true in the UK though.
they weren't created to prevent voter intimidation. There's plenty of other laws for that. They were created to prevent young activists from sharing their voting preferences in a meaningful way and thereby swinging the election to the left (which is what the sorts of young people who take ballot selfies are likely to be since they're too young to have enough property yet to fear losing it).
free speech vs safe elections. It's easy to get that balance. My boss forces me to vote Trump. So what, it's 1 vote. My boss forces 20,000 employees to vote Trump. Now we're talking. But now there's 20,000 people who can give witness to his crime. I'm not legal expert, but I think it'd be really, really hard to commit a crime with 20,000 witnesses.
From there just run up the penalties and throw a few folks behind bars. Problem solved.
Nate Silver over at the 538 blog has a good (and depressing if you're a Democrat) article on why early voting doesn't translate into election victories. As for posting your vote it's basically activism. It's not illegal (nor should it be) to say who you voted for (for the record I voted Hilary already). Displaying the ballot is no different, it just makes the point in a more salient fashion.
and just make it a felony to compel someone to reveal their vote. If anyone tries to do it enough times to swing an election it'll be pretty damn obvious when they do and we lock 'em up for 5-10 years for interfering with an election.
the judge just didn't want to strike it down in the middle of an election. He already knew the law was bullshit. I'm a little miffed at his reasoning though. It seems to me enforcing it would make things worse on election day.
This is yet another voter suppression law pushed by the right wing. This is why we need mandatory voting. You can't suppress the vote when it's required.
India has a massive and largely abandoned underclass combined with lax environmental laws (and we're not talking the 'save the whales' kind we're talking the cancer villages kind). I don't expect our want American businesses to compete with that. You'll notice we're not blocking German rocket launches..
No, but I'll be happy on Nov 8th if Trump loses. Not that I expect sunshine and kitty cats with a Clinton victory. But if there's two things life has taught me is that a) it can always be worse and b) I don't want it to be.
Call me a troll all you want, but my God, if this is the worst we can dig up on Hillary after 20 years of non-stop character assassination then she's practically Christ (Obama gets to be God, since we haven't found jack on him).
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and I'm wondering what caused it. Maybe anti-immigration? The H1-Bs have got me running scared too. I flirted with Trump because he seemed more willing to reign in the abuses (even when somewhere in the back of my head I know we'll need immigrants if we don't want to share Japan's fate as our birth rate drops, queue /. joke here).
But then I read he took $900k from one of the biggest H1-B reliant outsourcing firms out there and basically gave up on that. I haven't heard him say much more than "Crooked Hilary" and something/something about emails in weeks. Meanwhile I've got friends that rely on Obamacare (one of which is a Type-1 diabetic who until the medicaid expansion was making frequent trips to the ER to get insulin because his insurance had been cut off).
I'm not expecting either candidate to to much to help me, but I've got concrete places where Trump will _hurt_ me. Yeah, I could vote 3rd party, but that could still drop the presidency in his pocket. And besides, Johnson is definitely not my friend and Jill Stein is an anti-vaxer...
and I'm not trolling here. Ever read Bruce Sterling's Distraction"? This is why the left kinda lost their shit when the right started putting target signs over Hilary. If you're going to encourage a climate of violence you shouldn't be surprised when the violent pick up on what you're saying and run with it...
Harping on very minor scandals month after month and year after year while ignoring her opponents much, much worse scandals is what I'd call character assassination. John Oliver does a much, much better job explaining it than I can over here.
5 times no less? I'm not saying she couldn't have made better decisions, but I _am_ saying that your dislike for her has nothing to do with *gazi and more to do with how she makes you feel. She's been the target of a non-stop 20 year long character assignation program the scope of which is breathtaking. The fact that she's made it this far in spite of that is no mean feat.
I'll take Gridlock over whatever the hell Mike Pence has planned any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
I don't really expect Hilary to do much good, but there's a _lot_ of bad that can be done.
That was awfully well prepared.
It was a lovely October surprise and might still throw the election to Trump. After 20 years of nonstop character assassination folks don't like Hilary. It doesn't help that she's kind of impersonal (too much time working, not enough socializing). If this news was a week ago it's be a moot point, but then again that's pretty obviously why dropped when it did...
and the UK. And Australia. And any one of a number of first world countries. Hell, they're having trouble competing with _me_ because my pay and benefits suck.
I can't compete with the second world. I can't compete with a country like India with a massive and largely abandoned underclass and lax environmental laws (and we're not talkin' the feel good "save the whales" kind, we're talking the "no cancer villages" kind).
Competition is only beneficial when there's an even playing field and the rewards are something better than enough food and shelter to survive. Otherwise it's the same bullshit race to the bottom humanity as suffered for thousands of years.
because those same baby boomers that are being laid off also voted to gut the government's regulatory powers in the name of freedom, small government and low taxes. That plus regulatory capture and a health dose of wedge issues to divide the working class means any attempt to address age discrimination will go precisely nowhere. BAU/Functioning as Designed.
Trump's been encouraging a climate of violence and fear at his rallies for months' now. I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner. The real thing to come out of this that'll hurt him is how he sorta hobbled away. Sure, he's 70, and to any sane person that's to be expected. But he's been cultivating an image of virility for months now and having it undermined in the press 3 days before game day is gonna be a problem.
I forget who said it but somebody said whoever can keep the spotlight off is gonna win since neither candidate is well liked. Trump just put the spotlight on 100%.
that he's just concerned for my safety.
a "2 year investigation" could easily just be somebody at the FBI keeping tabs on them to make sure it really is just harmless trolling. That's sorta what an investigation is. And befor you ask yes, I do want my law enforcement to keeping tabs of folks who go around advocating violence. It's not too hard to do it without violating anybody's rights and if we'd done a bit more of that perhaps that whole Sept 11 fracas coulda been avoided.
with guns just askin' questions like "Who's voting for Crooked Hillary?". And you wonder why the Dems have higher rates of early & by mail voting. I'm a Dem and I won't be within 500 yards of a polling place on Tuesday if my life depended on it. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite...
right here.
shiat just got real.
They don't pay the crazy sums for health care that we do (single payer's a _lot_ less costly). Their gov't doesn't allow their drug companies to gouge their population. He's probably paying about $2800/yr in taxes if he's a pack a day guy and health care costs (per citizen) about $1800 (pounds, not dollars, but I'm a yank so I don't have a pound key :P).
Now, there's the little matter of ignoring all the incidental costs to smoking. The big one that I see is that tobacco _destroys_ land. It's a very water, labor and resource intensive crop and the nicotine poisons the soil. Not sure about the UK but in the states we heavily subsidize it, basically negating the taxes. Basically, food costs more (because land and water goes to tobacco) and subsidies negate the value of the taxes. None of this might be true in the UK though.
they weren't created to prevent voter intimidation. There's plenty of other laws for that. They were created to prevent young activists from sharing their voting preferences in a meaningful way and thereby swinging the election to the left (which is what the sorts of young people who take ballot selfies are likely to be since they're too young to have enough property yet to fear losing it).
free speech vs safe elections. It's easy to get that balance. My boss forces me to vote Trump. So what, it's 1 vote. My boss forces 20,000 employees to vote Trump. Now we're talking. But now there's 20,000 people who can give witness to his crime. I'm not legal expert, but I think it'd be really, really hard to commit a crime with 20,000 witnesses.
From there just run up the penalties and throw a few folks behind bars. Problem solved.
and the death of brick and mortar. That's what these sorts of cheap, short range electric cars are for.
Nate Silver over at the 538 blog has a good (and depressing if you're a Democrat) article on why early voting doesn't translate into election victories. As for posting your vote it's basically activism. It's not illegal (nor should it be) to say who you voted for (for the record I voted Hilary already). Displaying the ballot is no different, it just makes the point in a more salient fashion.
and just make it a felony to compel someone to reveal their vote. If anyone tries to do it enough times to swing an election it'll be pretty damn obvious when they do and we lock 'em up for 5-10 years for interfering with an election.
the judge just didn't want to strike it down in the middle of an election. He already knew the law was bullshit. I'm a little miffed at his reasoning though. It seems to me enforcing it would make things worse on election day.
This is yet another voter suppression law pushed by the right wing. This is why we need mandatory voting. You can't suppress the vote when it's required.
India has a massive and largely abandoned underclass combined with lax environmental laws (and we're not talking the 'save the whales' kind we're talking the cancer villages kind). I don't expect our want American businesses to compete with that. You'll notice we're not blocking German rocket launches..
No, but I'll be happy on Nov 8th if Trump loses. Not that I expect sunshine and kitty cats with a Clinton victory. But if there's two things life has taught me is that a) it can always be worse and b) I don't want it to be.
right here.
Call me a troll all you want, but my God, if this is the worst we can dig up on Hillary after 20 years of non-stop character assassination then she's practically Christ (Obama gets to be God, since we haven't found jack on him).