Yeah, I think you need to do another lap on your rollerblades and come back to this.
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Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on April 13, 2016, 08:19:48 PMThis is a rabidly anti-incumbent election seasonIncumbents gonna lose more than usual? Lots of credible primary challenges? This actually a thing or just shit people are saying?
This is a rabidly anti-incumbent election season
Quote from: Samson Manhug on April 13, 2016, 01:43:47 AMQuote from: Am_I_Anonymous on April 12, 2016, 01:43:35 PMThis may be okay to you but it isn't okay to anyone who serves or served.(Image removed from quote.)Yeah, is it frequent that the Republican party speaks of you servicemen as a monolith opinion-wise? Purely anecdotal but I feel like i've met almost as many libertarian servicemen as I have neocons as well as a smattering of people on the other side of the spectrum (please no jokes).
Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on April 12, 2016, 01:43:35 PMThis may be okay to you but it isn't okay to anyone who serves or served.(Image removed from quote.)
This may be okay to you but it isn't okay to anyone who serves or served.
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Quote from: Am_I_Anonymous on April 13, 2016, 11:32:33 PMYeah that's how easy it was to find, fucktard. Nice retortBut it wasn't relevant to the point you were trying to make, chief.
Yeah that's how easy it was to find, fucktard. Nice retort
cringe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3538882/Tulane-University-fraternity-causes-uproar-campus-erecting-Trump-wall.html
Quote from: Steve Contra on April 14, 2016, 11:11:34 AMhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3538882/Tulane-University-fraternity-causes-uproar-campus-erecting-Trump-wall.htmlhttps://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/720361990422573056?ref_src=twsrc^tfw#BlackExcellence
Quote from: benjipwns on April 14, 2016, 02:41:53 AM(Image removed from quote.)I really don't like these people.
Not so tough now eh frat boys?
There's a billboard now in Oakland that says something to the effect of "politics won't give you free college, but Bernie will!" and it summed up all my problems with Bernie and his supporters in one simple advertisement.
Quote from: Steve Contra on April 14, 2016, 02:34:18 PMThere's a billboard now in Oakland that says something to the effect of "politics won't give you free college, but Bernie will!" and it summed up all my problems with Bernie and his supporters in one simple advertisement.I wonder if that actually approved by him or his campaign because if so.... Jeeeeeeeeez
You know, it is going to kill her if Hillary has to follow Obama. No chance she can be half as influential or well put together as he is. She's 1 term if she does squeak out a victory, that's for sure.
Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution(Image removed from quote.)
A week after her husband had a tense encounter with black protesters, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday received a lukewarm response from a gathering of black leaders and voters in New York.
The gathering was somber this year, as Mr. Sharpton and other keynote speakers bemoaned that in January a white president will be inaugurated to replace the nation’s first black president. “It’s going to be a real hard day for us,” said Angela Rye, chief executive of the consulting firm Impact Strategies, who spoke before Mrs. Clinton.Addressing the crowd, John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman and a former aide to President Obama, said, “I don’t just want it to be the first time a white president replaces a black president, but the first time a woman replaces a man president.”The crowd was silent.
But Akua Harris, 71, a retired city employee, was not moved by Mrs. Clinton’s remarks and doubted she would feel any differently about Mr. Sanders’s speech on Thursday. “Talk is cheap,” she said. “These politicians come in and tell you what you want to hear. They all promise things to black people and don’t deliver.”Asked whether Mr. Obama was a typical politician, Ms. Harris said he was not. “That’s different,” she said. “He wanted to get things done, and the Congress blocked him.”
The reason he keeps beating Hillary Clinton is because a huge portion of the electorate—particularly young voters—is yearning for the kind of explicit social justice he’s prescribing. To put it bluntly: he’s articulating a moral vision, not an electoral path to the White House.And that, frankly, is what the Democratic Party used to do, back in the era of the New Deal and the Great Society. It offered as its essential pitch to voters a compassionate and responsive government that sought to combat — or at least mitigate — the corrosive values of a capitalist theocracy.What does the modern Democratic Party offer? The strategy put forward by Bill Clinton was called “triangulation.” And while it may have worked in an electoral sense, the de facto result was a strategy of appeasement that left Democrats pushing conservative policies: welfare reform, tax cuts, financial deregulation.Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is essentially the program Bob Dole proposed back in 1993. His solution to our suicidal dependence on fossil fuels—cap-and-trade—is yet another recycled Republican idea.The modern Democratic Party, in other words, has chosen to enable — and in many cases sponsor—policies that have allowed capitalism to act like a giant centrifuge, concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the few to the detriment of the many.This is why a majority of Democratic primary voters not only identify as liberal but believe that socialism has a (gasp!) positive impact on society.The underlying message of the Sanders campaign is that rank and file democrats no longer believe in capitalism as a guiding force in our economy or, especially, in our politics. And they are identifying mainstream Democrats — from Hillary Clinton to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz—as defenders of a status quo that amounts to crony capitalism.
In squaring off against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton never had to face such stark questions about her own integrity, because both of them were willing to exploit the corruptions of the campaign finance system. They passed for liberal, because they were the only options.For the first time since the Great Society, a candidate has staked out authentically progressive positions: bleeding private money from politics, reforming our criminal justice system, insuring education and health care as rights. And paying for these programs by rolling back the massive tax breaks of the past few decades, and closing the corporate loopholes.
Hillary Clinton will probably be the Democratic nominee for president, and will in all likelihood beat Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, if either one is her opponent. But beating an unpopular right-wing lunatic will not mend the rift among Democrats. It will only forestall a broader and more divisive fight for the soul of the party.The center cannot hold. A growing plurality of democratic voters wants a true progressive agenda. If Clinton and party insiders ignore this reality, such voters will begin to look elsewhere. They will not view themselves as having left the Party. The Party will have left them.
The gathering was somber this year, as Mr. Sharpton and other keynote speakers bemoaned that in January a white president will be inaugurated to replace the nation’s first black president.
Or the nation's first Kenyan President
QuoteThe gathering was somber this year, as Mr. Sharpton and other keynote speakers bemoaned that in January a white president will be inaugurated to replace the nation’s first black president. “It’s going to be a real hard day for us,” said Angela Rye, chief executive of the consulting firm Impact Strategies, who spoke before Mrs. Clinton.Addressing the crowd, John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman and a former aide to President Obama, said, “I don’t just want it to be the first time a white president replaces a black president, but the first time a woman replaces a man president.”The crowd was silent. Identity politics, man. Daps to Obama. I shouldn't have been surprised that some were upset and "disappointed" that he dare nominate a white man to the Supreme Court.
Prediction: Hillary will win the nomination with a majority of the popular vote, elected delegates, and contests won but we'll still hear how superdelegates threw the nomination to her. I'll probably be #wellactually-ing people about that in 2025.
Shouldn't Sanders be courting the Archbishop of Canterbury instead of the establishment/Vatican?
Uh, they are pretty clearly making it look like the pope is endorsing Bernie.
ratings guesses on tonight's debate?
Another bernie billboard popped up that says "politics as usual won't end student debt and make college tuition free, Bernie will"
Fuck. Bernie man, come on. Student debt is a serious issue. The cost of higher ed is a serious issue. How can you around treating it like it's gonna be a free handout? No one is going to take those issues seriously now. You've made it so much more difficult for the next person that tries to actually solve this.
