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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016
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Originally posted by Lord Blackout
I see our resident gangster wannabe ATRLer is still posting to get a rise out of members while claiming to be for  open dialogue |
Is that a racial slur?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by NE.
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No, we don't use identity politics here. 
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Originally posted by Lord Blackout
No, we don't use identity politics here. |
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Dessy Fenix
The nerve tbh. I had 3 aunts that couldn't buy a car and they always needed a ride to the grocery store and relied on us middle class drivers to take them to use their food stamp cards. They were "able-bodied" but like many, the economic recession hit hard and they couldn't really find jobs. Speak for yourself that the middle class "in general" is tired of having tax going to the poor. I'm tired of the upper class sucking up all the damn wealth that is eroding the middle class.
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Do you think they had the potential to find a job just anywhere? With no selectivity involved? Literally anything that would pay?
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Originally posted by Sunshine.
Do you think they had the potential to find a job just anywhere? With no selectivity involved? Literally anything that would pay?
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Well when you have a college degree you can't just easily start farming or flipping burgers for a living.
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Trump taps 30 yr. old, right wing extremist Stephen Miller as senior policy adviser
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“Stephen played a central and wide-ranging role in our primary and general election campaign,” Trump said in a statement. “He is deeply committed to the America First agenda, and understands the policies and actions necessary to put that agenda into effect.”
Miller has served as Trump’s top policy adviser since January 2016. Miller previously worked for Sen. Jeff Sessions, another early Trump supporter and Trump’s pick for Attorney General
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Miller also cuts a deeply unsettling figure, even to many in his own party. His nine-year career working for some of the most politically fringe figures on the Hill—he also worked for Michele Bachmann and helped David Brat in his primary defeat of Eric Cantor—was preceded by a trail of writings and provocations that go all the way back to high school, one that has raised the eyebrows of even conservative Republicans.
There is something eerily vintage about Miller’s stump speeches. The combination of their substance—vilifying immigrants as killers, the promise of nativist glory days ahead—and their delivery with a calm face around a loud, droning mouth, slicked-back hair and sharp suit, floridly invoking powerful cabals against the people: All of it harks back to an earlier time. It’s as if the video should be in black and white, and the microphone in front of Miller an antique, metallic affair. This is an image Miller assiduously cultivates, smoking like a chimney and dressing in suits that earned him the nickname “Mad Men” on the Hill. “You almost want to put him in a previous era,” says Marcus Peacock, who worked with Miller on the Senate Budget Committee.
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He recently accused Neera Tanden, an outside adviser for the Clinton campaign, of being a fake feminist for not opposing Muslim immigration into the U.S. even though Muslims, according to Miller, bring with them female genital mutilation. “You want to talk about women’s issues?” he hectored. “Here’s something we should be talking about!”....
How did Stephen Miller come to occupy such an extreme position on immigration? Strangely, it was his experience coming of age in a liberal Jewish family in liberal Santa Monica, the Berkeley of Southern California. “I think it was growing up in California, he saw the role that mass migration played turning a red state blue,” says one former Senate colleague. “He was fearful that that would happen to the rest of the country.”
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In a column called “Political Correctness Out of Control,” he laid out a litany of complaints against his high school’s “liberal indoctrination.” “I noticed a number of students lacked basic English skills,” he wrote, and complained that the school making announcements in Spanish and English holds the Hispanic students back. He took issue with the school making condoms available—“Legally speaking, sex between minors is statutory rape. Not to mention 14-year-olds are a little young to be having sex regardless of the law.” Worse, the school encouraged students to embrace their homosexuality. “And just in case your son or daughter decides at their tender age that they are gay, we have a club on campus that will gladly help foster their homosexuality,” he wrote. “Do they notify parents if their teenagers have chosen an alternate lifestyle? Of course not.” The way the school taught American history, focusing too much on the bad and not enough on the heroic, also insulted Miller’s patriotism. Should American soldiers have not killed Indians or anyone else? Miller asked, rhetorically. “Or, better yet, we could have lived with the Indians, learning how to finger paint and make tepees, excusing their scalping of frontiersmen as part of their culture,” Miller griped.
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http://redirect.viglink.com/?format=...t%20ideologue.
I just have no faith in America with this coming next year.
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Elizabeth Warren planning her 2020 run with her Senate Armed Services post. 
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Originally posted by Lord Blackout
Well when you have a college degree you can't just easily start farming or flipping burgers for a living.
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But if it brings in money?
idk, I just find it an interesting phenomenon.
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Originally posted by Sunshine.
But if it brings in money?
idk, I just find it an interesting phenomenon.
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Yeah I'm just saying it takes a while for the reality of the job market to settle in.
Frankly, I blame the Russians
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Originally posted by Mike91
Elizabeth Warren planning her 2020 run with her Senate Armed Services post. |
Hillary ha impact. Ha blueprint. 
Does this mean Elizabeth will lose the primary and serve as SOS? 
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I just googled Obama's county map and the primary county map and I realized the electoral college is truly still racist. Like, if you win the white vote, then it doesn't matter by how much you lose, you'll still get the vast majority of the county map.
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I see Grand Wizard Blakkkout is at it again.
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Originally posted by NE.
And lol @ the sudden interest in politics on this site when a woman announced she was running for president. This thread will be a graveyard a month after inauguration.  |
I got interested in politics this year because it's the first one that I have been able to partake in.
In fact, the pure ****ery in how Trump won has since caused me to become fully invested in politics, take political science courses, and maybe even major in it because it's so interesting to me.
When my rights and the rights of others I care about are hanging in the balance, of course I'm going to become involved. 
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Member Since: 4/17/2011
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Originally posted by Sunshine.
Do you think they had the potential to find a job just anywhere? With no selectivity involved? Literally anything that would pay?
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Even during the great depression there were jobs were jobs available, but people still didn't work just any old job. If you are $50k in debt with a college degree, do you want to flip burger at minimum wage or wait for something better? Underemployment explains a lot of the anxiety that people are feeling about the economy.
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The Republican favorability ratings of Putin... The world is doomed 
Also I actually don't think Putin will do much to Trump in these 4 years. I might be wrong, but if I were him I'd be secretly building up a massive plan right now to execute in the hope that when he wins again he can then pounce.
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I don't see Trump running in 2020 tbh. He's going to be 74. He'll be sick of the job by then, and he won't cope with the criticism from the previous 4 years should he make it that far.
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Originally posted by D_Man3379
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Obama was sitting on this info for weeks because he didn't want it to look partisan and sway the election ala Comey. He tried to get congress to disclose it but Mitch McConnell blocked it. There you go clown, explained in 2 sentences.
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