Something I'm sure some members of the "alt-right" are looking forward to. Once protections against discrimination against LGBTQ Americans is shredded, business run by oh-so-earnest religious conservatives will be denying them business, employers will be able to fire them, all in the name of religious freedom! At long last, revenge by all the Evangelicals and Conservative Catholics on all those nasty gay people for daring to be publicly gay!
And you don't think Trump's more middling scandals won't haunt him? You think Trump U isn't going to cause him grief? What's more, he really does not have a lot of friends in Congress, so I don't imagine a Trump presidency is going to be much more than four years of unproductive stalemate, except of course they'll tear up all environmental regulation, ignore the Paris agreement, and DRILL BABY DRILL. No doubt NOAA will be heavily defunded, just to make sure there are no scientists around to tell Americans just how bad these new energy and climate policies are fucking things up.
Biden wouldn't have been able to beat Clinton. The Dems through everything behind her, and, while I don't think she was nearly as bad as the Sanders supporters and Republicans claim she was, she was in general a fairly piss poor candidate. Certainly her campaigning was disastrous, and there's rumors that Bill Clinton believed pretty strongly that she wasn't campaigning nearly enough.
I'm not clear here. Are you suggesting that President Trump is going to start shutting down media outlets? I thought he was elected President, not Emperor.
Morons like you will be responsible for monitoring Climate under the Trump administration. Instead of science, you'll have moronic memes.
I'll give you hint, you simpering halfwit, humans have been a MAJOR contributor to climate change for about 300 years. CO2's properties have been known for over a century, so you're literally no brighter than an anti-vaxxer or a Creationist. You are a retard
He's likely going defund chunks of NOAA, redirect NASA more towards moon shots and the like, and that's likely to mean fewer government-employed climatologist. Without those advisers to instruct Trump on the realities of CO2 emissions, how is it that he'll get the message?
He's committed to Evangelical and other Social Conservative voters that he'll move against abortion. That means nominating Supreme Court justices who have decidedly anti-abortion views. Now while the history of Presidents actually ending up with justices that acted they way they thought they'd act is a pretty mixed bag, the fact remains that he very much coddled up to the ultra-conservatives. Now you can float the theory that he was just lying to them to get their vote, and maybe that's true, but if it is true, what do you think it's going to look like in four years when he's made no movement?
The Evangelicals who helped put him in power will expect him to nominate Supreme Court justices that will repeal abortion rights, and maybe even take a swipe at gay rights. There are a lot of groups out there like that who voted for Trump because he made commitments of this nature.
He's going to reopen coal mines... to do what? He's going to reopen mothballed factories... to do what? Even if he could do these things, what would the coal be used for, what would the factories be used for?
Trump basically said whatever he thought the crowd he was standing in front of wanted. Not all the commitments were bad, I do think it's time to start holding China's feet to the fire over steel dumping, but in other areas, like his rejection of AGW, it's like listening to an animated alt-right puppet. What's he going to do? Fire all the scientists?
They'll do what all political partisans do, refuse to admit to themselves that they were chumps, and simply alter their positions to whatever Trump's becomes, to preserve their egos.
Oh for fuck's sake. The MSM had absolutely no problem covering the damp squib which was the latest FBI email announcements, to the point where it probably did cost Hillary some votes.
You're just upset because your candidate isn't going to make it, and rather than be an adult and admit said candidate never had a chance, you behave like a delicate snowflake and declare someone must have cheated said candidate.
Sanders never had a chance, and Trump is possibly the worst candidate in modern US history, probably even eclipsing Goldwater and McGovern.
In general journalists over the last couple of hundred years of held to at least a modicum of ethics. Yes, there have been exceptions, and in some cases some rather enormous breaches of that faith, but for the most part journalists are not wanton liars. The idea that there is this vast cabal of journalists and news organizations out to delude the people really is a conspiracy theory built by people whose own interest is to devalue journalism in favor of their own content. This "alt-media" (left or right) is the journalistic equivalent of anti-vaxxers.
That's not to say that one shouldn't turn a critical eye to any piece of news, regardless of source, and that one shouldn't be concerned where media concentration and overlap with other commercial interests could lead to intentional or unintentional warping of news. It is one thing to be critical, it's another thing to turn into a complete paranoid, and it's even worse to find even less reliable sources of information and trumpet them as superior.
The MSM has reported both candidates' foibles fairly well. What made the latest FBI email story float better than the one before it was that, for once (and way too late) Trump finally learned how not to try to dominate an entire news cycle even when his opponent was floundering.
The whole MSM conspiracy theory line is really just nonsense, a fabrication by the extremes at both ends of the political spectrum who are unwilling to explain their general unrepresentativeness by asserting that most people are simpering morons who are lead by NBC, CNN, and even now Fox. Rather than admit that they hold unpopular or fringe views, they assert that everyone else is evil or stupid.
That's because people basically base their view of reality on their preconceived notions. Most people, even those here who seem to regard themselves as highly intelligent, really are dominated by their emotions and are slaves to their prejudices.
Exactly. And those bullshitters have been so successful because they've managed to sell their legions on the notion that the MSM is some vast conspiracy to keep their candidate down. Both the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left in America have bought into an ever increasing series of shrill conspiracy theories, to the point where they don't even bother to question claims like "the Clintons had some people killed."
I doubt there's been a primary in modern US history that hasn't had its share of backstabbing and collusion, but parties are ultimately private organizations, and if that's the way they want to conduct their affairs, that's between them and their members.
So far as I can tell, Trump won the nomination despite every attempt to kill his bid, right down to last ditch attempts on the Convention floor, so I see little evidence of collusion, and a good deal of evidence that about a third of Republicans are living in a self-constructed la la land. That's why the GOP is in so much trouble at this point, it can either continue acting as a circle jerk for a fading and angry demographic, or shake them off and try to go after demographics that have long-term potential to deliver power.
As to Clinton, sure she played dirty, but does anyone really believe Sanders had a shot? The Democratic Party has functioned since the McGovern catastrophe in such a way as to prevent someone like Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. It sure isn't fair, but that is the way the Dems play the game when it comes to picking the ticket.
If Americans truly are tired of the arrangements, if they truly do feel the Dems and Republicans are no longer sufficiently representative of the public will, then they should be voting for third parties. But American voters don't, and they won't, and since they will continue to support the two major parties, and will continue to relegate third parties to little more than bit parts, this is how the game will continue to be played.
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
I think that if Senate Republicans become deliberately obstructionist bexauae Americans rejected a candidate even most Senate Republicans view as being one of the worst candkdates since Barry Goldwater, they'll get what they deserve.
Leading Republicans have stated they will block confirmation of Clinton nominees. McCain in particular has made that commitment. Are you saying the Democrats should assume he's lying and take their chances that Republicans won't filibuster confirmations should the Democrats gain control of the Senate?
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Something I'm sure some members of the "alt-right" are looking forward to. Once protections against discrimination against LGBTQ Americans is shredded, business run by oh-so-earnest religious conservatives will be denying them business, employers will be able to fire them, all in the name of religious freedom! At long last, revenge by all the Evangelicals and Conservative Catholics on all those nasty gay people for daring to be publicly gay!
And you don't think Trump's more middling scandals won't haunt him? You think Trump U isn't going to cause him grief? What's more, he really does not have a lot of friends in Congress, so I don't imagine a Trump presidency is going to be much more than four years of unproductive stalemate, except of course they'll tear up all environmental regulation, ignore the Paris agreement, and DRILL BABY DRILL. No doubt NOAA will be heavily defunded, just to make sure there are no scientists around to tell Americans just how bad these new energy and climate policies are fucking things up.
Biden wouldn't have been able to beat Clinton. The Dems through everything behind her, and, while I don't think she was nearly as bad as the Sanders supporters and Republicans claim she was, she was in general a fairly piss poor candidate. Certainly her campaigning was disastrous, and there's rumors that Bill Clinton believed pretty strongly that she wasn't campaigning nearly enough.
I'm not clear here. Are you suggesting that President Trump is going to start shutting down media outlets? I thought he was elected President, not Emperor.
It isn't a literal wall, it's a figurative wall. It could refer to the building of any large fence or shrubbery along the border.
Morons like you will be responsible for monitoring Climate under the Trump administration. Instead of science, you'll have moronic memes.
I'll give you hint, you simpering halfwit, humans have been a MAJOR contributor to climate change for about 300 years. CO2's properties have been known for over a century, so you're literally no brighter than an anti-vaxxer or a Creationist. You are a retard
He's likely going defund chunks of NOAA, redirect NASA more towards moon shots and the like, and that's likely to mean fewer government-employed climatologist. Without those advisers to instruct Trump on the realities of CO2 emissions, how is it that he'll get the message?
Why does Trump need a translator? For fuck's sake even Reagan could communicate in a fashion that normal human beings could understand.
He's committed to Evangelical and other Social Conservative voters that he'll move against abortion. That means nominating Supreme Court justices who have decidedly anti-abortion views. Now while the history of Presidents actually ending up with justices that acted they way they thought they'd act is a pretty mixed bag, the fact remains that he very much coddled up to the ultra-conservatives. Now you can float the theory that he was just lying to them to get their vote, and maybe that's true, but if it is true, what do you think it's going to look like in four years when he's made no movement?
The Evangelicals who helped put him in power will expect him to nominate Supreme Court justices that will repeal abortion rights, and maybe even take a swipe at gay rights. There are a lot of groups out there like that who voted for Trump because he made commitments of this nature.
He's going to reopen coal mines... to do what? He's going to reopen mothballed factories... to do what? Even if he could do these things, what would the coal be used for, what would the factories be used for?
Trump basically said whatever he thought the crowd he was standing in front of wanted. Not all the commitments were bad, I do think it's time to start holding China's feet to the fire over steel dumping, but in other areas, like his rejection of AGW, it's like listening to an animated alt-right puppet. What's he going to do? Fire all the scientists?
As others have pointed out, where do you think Trump keeps his money, in a sock? He's just as much a creature of Wall Street as any other "big wig".
They'll do what all political partisans do, refuse to admit to themselves that they were chumps, and simply alter their positions to whatever Trump's becomes, to preserve their egos.
Not to worry, King Trump Cnut will hold back the tide. After all, global warming was invented in China!
Oh for fuck's sake. The MSM had absolutely no problem covering the damp squib which was the latest FBI email announcements, to the point where it probably did cost Hillary some votes.
You're just upset because your candidate isn't going to make it, and rather than be an adult and admit said candidate never had a chance, you behave like a delicate snowflake and declare someone must have cheated said candidate.
Sanders never had a chance, and Trump is possibly the worst candidate in modern US history, probably even eclipsing Goldwater and McGovern.
In general journalists over the last couple of hundred years of held to at least a modicum of ethics. Yes, there have been exceptions, and in some cases some rather enormous breaches of that faith, but for the most part journalists are not wanton liars. The idea that there is this vast cabal of journalists and news organizations out to delude the people really is a conspiracy theory built by people whose own interest is to devalue journalism in favor of their own content. This "alt-media" (left or right) is the journalistic equivalent of anti-vaxxers.
That's not to say that one shouldn't turn a critical eye to any piece of news, regardless of source, and that one shouldn't be concerned where media concentration and overlap with other commercial interests could lead to intentional or unintentional warping of news. It is one thing to be critical, it's another thing to turn into a complete paranoid, and it's even worse to find even less reliable sources of information and trumpet them as superior.
The MSM has reported both candidates' foibles fairly well. What made the latest FBI email story float better than the one before it was that, for once (and way too late) Trump finally learned how not to try to dominate an entire news cycle even when his opponent was floundering.
The whole MSM conspiracy theory line is really just nonsense, a fabrication by the extremes at both ends of the political spectrum who are unwilling to explain their general unrepresentativeness by asserting that most people are simpering morons who are lead by NBC, CNN, and even now Fox. Rather than admit that they hold unpopular or fringe views, they assert that everyone else is evil or stupid.
That's because people basically base their view of reality on their preconceived notions. Most people, even those here who seem to regard themselves as highly intelligent, really are dominated by their emotions and are slaves to their prejudices.
These are just fucking clips edited together in an ominous way.
You're not a liar, you're just a fucking idiot.
Exactly. And those bullshitters have been so successful because they've managed to sell their legions on the notion that the MSM is some vast conspiracy to keep their candidate down. Both the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left in America have bought into an ever increasing series of shrill conspiracy theories, to the point where they don't even bother to question claims like "the Clintons had some people killed."
I doubt there's been a primary in modern US history that hasn't had its share of backstabbing and collusion, but parties are ultimately private organizations, and if that's the way they want to conduct their affairs, that's between them and their members.
So far as I can tell, Trump won the nomination despite every attempt to kill his bid, right down to last ditch attempts on the Convention floor, so I see little evidence of collusion, and a good deal of evidence that about a third of Republicans are living in a self-constructed la la land. That's why the GOP is in so much trouble at this point, it can either continue acting as a circle jerk for a fading and angry demographic, or shake them off and try to go after demographics that have long-term potential to deliver power.
As to Clinton, sure she played dirty, but does anyone really believe Sanders had a shot? The Democratic Party has functioned since the McGovern catastrophe in such a way as to prevent someone like Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. It sure isn't fair, but that is the way the Dems play the game when it comes to picking the ticket.
If Americans truly are tired of the arrangements, if they truly do feel the Dems and Republicans are no longer sufficiently representative of the public will, then they should be voting for third parties. But American voters don't, and they won't, and since they will continue to support the two major parties, and will continue to relegate third parties to little more than bit parts, this is how the game will continue to be played.
Because, in the vastness of the Universe, with the probably tens of millions of intelligent species, the one thing an omnipotent infinite being cares about is whether Stan and Gary get hitched.
Ah the delicate alt right snowflakes
I think that if Senate Republicans become deliberately obstructionist bexauae Americans rejected a candidate even most Senate Republicans view as being one of the worst candkdates since Barry Goldwater, they'll get what they deserve.
Leading Republicans have stated they will block confirmation of Clinton nominees. McCain in particular has made that commitment. Are you saying the Democrats should assume he's lying and take their chances that Republicans won't filibuster confirmations should the Democrats gain control of the Senate?
His proposed amendment was term limits on Congress. It is hard to see how that would be popular with the States.