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6 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:
This is insane.
Not being all that familiar with American politics I have to ask, what will happen if this turns out to be true?
Nothing all. Congress would have to investigate and there is no way that the Republican leadership will take that action.
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5 hours ago, GregNYC said:
If you look at the numbers, liberal white women, blacks, latinos, muslims and other minorities is not enough to bring you over 50%. You will lose all the time. You need the white working class males from the rust belt to win.
Not at all. White working class men are becoming less and less of the electorate every cycle, because they are aging and dying off. Minorities are about to take over and white working class men are about to be in the minority.
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Bernie Sanders is saying that he will listen to Jeff Sessions and isn't confirming that he will vote against him. That says a whole lot about his character.
The biggest mistake that the Clinton campaign made was not focusing enough on Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which are the cornerstone of Democratic electoral wins. Had more black voters shown up in all three of these states, Hillary Clinton would be President on January 20th. There's was not a whole lot that could be done to win over voters who bought into Trump pushing racial resentment. He brought out a lot of racist folks who generally do not vote. As long as the platform is economically fair, that's all that Democrats need to do. Once some of these Trump voters get their fill of him, they'll change their tune come 2020. The people that Democrats need to win back are the soft voters who bought into Trump being an outsider, yet voted Democratic further down ballot. It's a matter of microtargeting.
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Putin seemingly wants control of the Baltic States, which are all part of NATO. Trump pulling the US out of NATO or at least reducing it's involvement is what Putin is after.
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He's clearly already suffering from high blood pressure and he might have diabetes. Add in his mental problems and you have the most sickly President since JFK.
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It's probably wrong to say this, but I wouldn't mind seeing Julian Assange get dragged off kicking and screaming in black car with tinted windows never to be seen or heard from again.
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2 minutes ago, marceline said:
Exactly but Khan's right. Whenever there's a discussion of raising the minimum wage conservatives say that you aren't supposed to be living on those jobs but that ignores that fact that some people have to. Republicans always approach problem solving by talking about how they think things should be instead of how they really are.
That's because they are more concerned about corporate profits. They constantly push the idea that increasing minimum wage will cause job losses, but that is a lie.
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13 minutes ago, Khan said:
Oh, I agree. I'm sorry if I came across as someone who didn't.
I understood where you were coming from.
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13 minutes ago, Khan said:
Again, many see them as mere "stepping stones." You're not supposed to make a career out of working at the Gap. It's only there to give teenagers spending money and teach them the values of hard work and self-discipline.
When it comes to people think, this is true. But, it couldn't be further from the truth, because when I worked in retail I worked with several older people. I was trained by a 67 year old woman who could barely make ends meet. The stores here are full of 40+ people and I see very few teens. Retail is no longer the industry of teens wanting pocket change.
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The ACA will not be repealed, because it's too beneficial to people and there are Republicans in Congress who won't ruin their careers over repeal.
3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:Yes, this I already know. He didn't get those jobs from Softbank for Sprint either but that didn't stop him from talking about it and then taking credit when those jobs were announced.
My point is, why isn't Trump talking about it when his beloved Ivanka still has merchandise in those Macys stores? Exactly because he cannot do anything and he doesn't want to call attention to this.
Retailers nationwide is closing stores (GNC, Aeropostale, etc) and jobs will be lost- probably more jobs than the coal industry- yet no one is talking about what will happen to those people.
No one ever seems to really care about retail jobs, even though they are important and employ millions.
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If I'm not mistaken, they don't sell his merchandise anymore, but they still sell Ivanka's things. When I worked there, his ties and shirts never had to be replenished because they never moved. All that aside, he can't save any Macy's stores from closing because their issues cannot be fixed with tax breaks.
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Omarosa is yet another untrustworthy person in the White House. This whole mess is so corrupt that you can just visualize the future headlines.
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The last time Republicans lost Congress, it was due to ethics issues and shutting down the ethics office makes it easier to cover up any impropriety that might cause problems in 2018.
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Oh, my. Bubba ain't don't got no shirt on.
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3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:
Other than Iola and then Bubba's ass, I had a hard time with a lot of the syndicated episodes...
(I did like the episode where Mama was alone at the house)
I preferred the syndicated episodes, the reduced cast seemed to work better.
2 minutes ago, Khan said:Y'all, we're politicizing sitcom characters. We need to stop.
Perhaps we should stop, but considering the bad reality rapidly approaching on the 20th, it's not hard to understand why we are being a little silly. It beats facing the reality, lol.
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4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:
It depends on which versions of Vint and Naomi you're talking about. The syndicated version were too stupid to do anything beyond dress themselves.
The syndicated versions. The episode where they were conned by the psychic made me think about how gullible they were.
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Speaking of Mama's Family, I think that Vint, Naomi and Bubba would have been conned into voting for Trump, whereas Mama would have been skeptical and voted for Hillary based on being an old woman who might be getting her only chance to vote for a woman. Then again, Naomi might have not voted for Trump since she was sexually harassed at Food Circus and being blamed for receiving obscene phone calls based on how she dressed. I better stop, because I'm about to write a reboot of Mama's Family and this is not the place.
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It's worth pondering the notion that Pence might actually be the one to pull the strings in the White House and Trump would only be President in appearance only. Of course, Ivanka and her husband seem to be the ones that are taking on the presidential role, but Pence would be the best option to deal with Congress since he was there for a number of year. The title is what matters most to Trump, that and the potential for financial gain.
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http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article122936064.html
The Republican National Committee is denying claims that its annual Christmas message compared President-elect Donald Trump to Jesus. Social media, however, has its doubts.
The message from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Co-chairwoman Sharon Day referenced the birth of Jesus, then said, “Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King.”
The RNC is denying that they intended to compare Trump to Jesus, but the word "new" before "king" seems odd. The quote seems to imply a reference to Trump.
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2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
James Dolan, a troll without Twitter, and no doubt a buddy of Trump, tried to strong-arm the Rockettes into performing but was forced to walkback (via the sham letter sent by the union that the Rockettes are members of, while the rest of Radio City, apparently has a different union with less stringent demands) the demands.
Though the Rockettes are no longer obligated to perform, of course, they will be pressured as dance jobs are difficult to come by and no one wants to be saddled with a reputation of being "difficult" to work with, especially if they are a woman.
They have good reason not to perform. Who wants to kick up in front of a pervert? That loser can get Smirnoff drinking water out a jelly jar, so you know that he'd be eyeing them on stage like a pervert no matter what sort of routine they were doing.
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17 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:
Then maybe they shouldn't have voted for him.
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13 minutes ago, GregNYC said:
There is a thread at another forum (dl) that says he's bisexual, dated women and men of color, and the alt-right is just an act to get rich and famous.
Mmmhmm, that's real comforting.
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2 hours ago, GregNYC said:
Richard Spencer is really handsome, though. He looks like a young Hugh Grant.
Ted Bundy was called attractive and non-threatening, but we all know that made no difference when he clubbed women over the head. Are you really this damn shallow?
(and honestly, the man in the picture isn't even all that. I've seen better doing the homeless count on the street)
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Leave Hillary Clinton out of the crap, OK? You people keep running your mouths about Hillary even though she lost.