Everything posted by ReddFoxx
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The Politics Thread
Who wore it better, Rep. Joyce Beatty or Melania Trump?
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The Politics Thread
Everything that convention needed to do, it did and Clinton's speech was exactly what it needed to be. Her style of being nuanced and technical is an advantage against Trump, because he is quite unstable. Someone had on a sane and qualified t-shirt at the convention, which was called boring, but that really is going to the path to winning against Trump. In addition, Hillary really cares about people and that comes through in her speaking and will be another advantage for her.
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The Politics Thread
Last night I said on Twitter that Meryl Streep trumps Kimberlin Brown and some crazy fan with a picture of Sheila attacking Stephanie sent me an angry tweet. Lol.
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The Politics Thread
Kaine was nominated for VP by acclimation earlier and there wasn't any fuss, so I don't think anything will happen later on.
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The Politics Thread
When they said the name I was assuming it was someone else, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was Maxine Shaw. She was much more articulate than Scott Baio, Antonio Sabato Jr. or Kimberlin Brown at the RNC. If an actor speaks, they should sound like Erika Alexander, which was intelligent.
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The Politics Thread
The thing to remember is that he is performing poorly with college educated white voters, which is the demographic that he can't afford to lose. To win without them he'd need more than 70% of the non-college educated white vote, plus a better amount of Black and Hispanics than Romney got.
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The Politics Thread
After the platform was worked out and Sanders endorsed in New Hampshire, there was no doubt he would endorse. The dynamics with Cruz and Trump would quite different. Clinton never attacked Sanders' family like Trump attacked Cruz's, so it was always likely that they would eventually pull together by the time the convention rolled around. With that said, the median Sanders supporter is not as hardcore as the hecklers. Most of them are concerned about defeating Trump now.
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The Politics Thread
Trump's unstable ranting worked in the Republican debates, but it won't work against Hillary Clinton. One thing that cannot be denied is that Clinton is a strong debater and got stronger from 2008. Trump will get destroyed.
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The Politics Thread
Agreed. The media needs a close race in order to keep ratings up, which are already not great to begin with. Meanwhile, male escorts cleaned up during the convention. Lots of closeted Republicans were patronizing them. http://nypost.com/2016/07/21/male-escorts-are-making-crazy-money-at-the-rnc/
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The Politics Thread
There were people on television who said that they actually saw emails of Clinton responding to Nigerian scammers and emails of her asking Putin for shirtless pictures, even though no such emails exist. She actually has the cleanest record when it comes to being fact checked, but she has still received more negative coverage than Trump.
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The Politics Thread
Trump has polled only 12-15% of Hispanics in the latest poll done by pollsters who poll the Hispanic vote. If he gets only that much Nevada and Colorado are off the table, with Florida probably also being out of contention. He also has issues with college educated white voters, particularly women. I think Clinton wins the same as Obama did, while adding North Carolina.
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The Politics Thread
It won't be close. Not even remotely.
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The Politics Thread
Trump personally attacked Cruz's family, so Cruz pretty much paid him back for it. Cruz is already disliked within party circles, which made his future prospects for the presidency dim anyway, so he had zero to lose by doing this. Trump was visibly angry afterwards, he was even angry through most of his own son's speech.
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The Politics Thread
Newt Gingrich is nothing but a big ho and everyone knows it. Yet he stands on that stage with no shame.
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The Politics Thread
The thing about Kimberlin Brown is that she is one of those people who will overlook anything as long as they can get tax cuts and be allowed to pay lower wages. I don't think she's a racist like a lot of Trump supporters, but she's willing to overlook bigotry for reasons of dollars and cents. When it boils down, that really is no better than actually being a bigot.
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Tyler Perry's 'Haves and Have Nots' on OWN
Hanna for once did the right thing. She already judged Katheryn enough, so the least she could do was help her through a hard time. As judgemental as Hanna is, she is the only person Katheryn has. Benny telling Veronica look at his manhood and let her mouth water was so over the top. The writers may have well had him say Mandingo, because that was just one black manhood waving line as it was.
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The Politics Thread
There is talk that Clinton and Sanders are working out details for a joint appearance next week. Plus, Clinton's campaign shared a post from Sanders' campaign on Facebook shortly after that talk surfaced, so I'm guessing that an endorsement is imminent.
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The Politics Thread
Wasting taxpayer dollars on baseless witch hunts needs to stop. Hillary Clinton was not indicted because she didn't break the law. It's time to move forward Donald Trump is being accused of a raping a minor, yet no one is complaining about that. Shows how biased a lot of folks are.
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The Politics Thread
FBI Director announces no charges against Clinton.
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Tyler Perry's 'Haves and Have Nots' on OWN
"Your bitch is dead!" Veronica gets more vicious all the time. The DA is probably finished because Katheryn already threatened to have her murdered in the streets. Wyatt being dead just seals her fate.
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The Politics Thread
His campaign could go on even if he was charged with violating the law.
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The Politics Thread
Bizarre as well as completely illegal. Whether it's a case of his campaign not knowing it's illegal to take foreign donations or if they are deliberately trying to solicit them, either explanation is bad.
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The Politics Thread
I forgot to factor in white immigrants, because there is definitely animosity toward them in the UK. What is so ridiculous about said animosity is that the jobs that people cry are being stolen from them are jobs that they would never really take in a million years. In reality, Brexit will do far more damage to the economy of the UK than immigrants from other European countries. The far-right can wreck any economy with xenophobia and hatred.
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The Politics Thread
At 87% White, I cannot see how many of UK's problems are caused by immigrants. The bulk of the immigrants are from areas that were formerly territories of the British monarchy, which happen to be the places where the UK managed to obtain natural resources that bolstered it's economy over time. The real issue is the cutbacks from austerity, which is a terrible economic policy.
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The Politics Thread
Sanders had as much chance as anybody, but he failed to win the Democratic coalition, which is heavily made up of suburban women and minorities. He opted to run a campaign that appealed to only one block of voters and that never is a winning strategy.