ShadySands Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) I'm pretty sure all (6 of) these places (in the link) did vote blue even if turnout may have been down I didn't vote Clinton either even though I assumed she'd win. Now if my vote was the deciding one a la Swing Vote would I have voted for her? Edited January 22, 2017 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21
Gromnir Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 have seen estimates o' upwards o' 2.2 to 2.5 million for protests today. protests in philly and pittsburgh and ann arbor and madison. *shrug* can't help but wonder if a bit more activism a few months ago mighta' made a difference. that being said, it is very american to complain after the fact. we complain in spite o' the fact it were our own initial indifference causing the problem. 'course is not actual an american thing so much as a human failing. HA! Good Fun! 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Keyrock Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Malcador Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Meh. Find a woman that's not a scumbag. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Keyrock Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Meh. Find a woman that's not a scumbag. Given those parameters, I certainly wouldn't be posting any pictures of Hillary. RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Gromnir Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Meh. Find a woman that's not a scumbag. am thinking the scumbag % for women is same as men. even so what do we win? HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Wrath of Dagon Posted January 22, 2017 Author Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Trump should just be happy that he won when no one expected him to. Worrying about the size of the crowds is silly, neither does a tiny percentage of the population protesting affect the validity of the election in any way. Edit: Although what Trump is apparently complaining about is that the media made his crowds look smaller than they actually were. Edited January 22, 2017 by Wrath of Dagon 1 "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Malcador Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Meh. Find a woman that's not a scumbag. am thinking the scumbag % for women is same as men. even so what do we win? HA! Good Fun! Well, the comment was about Trump, nothing to do with women in general Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Wrath of Dagon Posted January 22, 2017 Author Posted January 22, 2017 This is actually both funny and sad: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/scenes-from-a-****-riot/article/2612595 "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Gromnir Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 trump's popularity is significant. am repeating self, but Presidential power as granted by the Constitution is limited, particularly when referencing domestic policy. appointment power is both under and overvalued. in reality, a President's greatest powers is not granted by the Constitution. shape the national agenda. influence Congressional action. as the President's popularity waxes and wanes, so too does his power to alter the national agenda and to sway the legislature. widespread protests and underwhelming inauguration turnouts is reinforcing the fact o' trumps historical low popularity for an incoming President. http://www.npr.org/2017/01/17/510256862/trump-polls-tweet-favorability-popular trump needs to be popular, which is why he is trying so hard to convince folks that he is popular in spite o' polls and photographs o' small inauguration crowds and widespread protests in cities 'cross america. trump, possible more than any other President, is aware o' the importance o' perception o' popularity and power. the protests and polls won't change the election results. the protests and polls is being watched close by Congress, and that matters much. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Wrath of Dagon Posted January 22, 2017 Author Posted January 22, 2017 Republicans in Congress better realize they either go with Trump's agenda or there won't be any Republicans. It's the last chance they got. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Gromnir Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 a good number o' republicans got elected in 2016 in spite o' the fact they public distanced themselves from trump. almost unheard of to have so many republicans up for election who were public rejecting or ambivalent regarding the party candidate for President. republicans don't need trump now more than they did in november when he lost the popular vote but republicans managed to win Congress. unlike the President, there were no electoral college for Congressman. now, as always, Congress will be fickle. whichever way the wind is blowing is how Congress will lean. and truth to tell, if the past decade is any indicator, Congress will do as little as necessary regardless. trump needs Congress and Congress will only back trump just so long as doing so improves their individual chances for reelection. trump needs to be popular and he needs to be popular fast, 'cause first 100 days is invariably the most important... baring a war or national catastrophe or somesuch. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Gromnir Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 (image) am doubting trump improved his relationship with the intelligence community by using the memorial wall as a backdrop for his dog and pony show. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Blarghagh Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 I'm so happy. Between this and the press secretary saying it was the biggest crowd at an inaugaration ever... this is going to be a hilarious partial term. :D Although credit where credit is due - he didn't repeal ACA, just removed punishment for not having insurance, and he withdrew from the TTP as promised. I guess Sturgeon's Law applies to stuff Trump does too.
Raithe Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 And for the semi-politics related.. Ian McKellen and his placard on the Women's March in London. 4 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
pmp10 Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 I'm so happy. Between this and the press secretary saying it was the biggest crowd at an inaugaration ever... this is going to be a hilarious partial term. :D Although credit where credit is due - he didn't repeal ACA, just removed punishment for not having insurance, and he withdrew from the TTP as promised. I guess Sturgeon's Law applies to stuff Trump does too. I was all the with you when you complained about Brietbart. But then you had to bring up the echo-chambers of reddit as a reliable news source...
Blarghagh Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) When did I say that? I just said it was hilarious. (Fun fact, it was just a pic I snatched off twitter. Wouldn't have noticed it was from Reddit if you hadn't pointed it out.) Edited January 22, 2017 by TrueNeutral
Keyrock Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks
Azdeus Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Meh. Find a woman that's not a scumbag. am thinking the scumbag % for women is same as men. even so what do we win? HA! Good Fun! She's a good person? Since when? Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Volourn Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) "(and some of them I thought were even valid) of Obama throughout his two terms and I hardly think he let that get to him." Kidding right? The guy attacked Fox News non stop and repeatedly. Trashed them BIGLY because they were the ONLY network who dared to criticize him in any meaningful way. He has a lot in common with Trump in that way. ," just removed punishment for not having insurance" Which is good. Edited January 22, 2017 by Volourn DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Meshugger Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 I'm so happy. Between this and the press secretary saying it was the biggest crowd at an inaugaration ever... this is going to be a hilarious partial term. :D Although credit where credit is due - he didn't repeal ACA, just removed punishment for not having insurance, and he withdrew from the TTP as promised. I guess Sturgeon's Law applies to stuff Trump does too. Interesting how stuff that have a much greater impact is brushed to the side (ACA and TPP). "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Meshugger Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Also, we should all be happy that, once again, the media and the political power are being at odds with each other, as it should be. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Zoraptor Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 I'm so happy. Between this and the press secretary saying it was the biggest crowd at an inaugaration ever... this is going to be a hilarious partial term. :D Although credit where credit is due - he didn't repeal ACA, just removed punishment for not having insurance, and he withdrew from the TTP as promised. I guess Sturgeon's Law applies to stuff Trump does too. 3rd one is Fake News. Only the politically appointed ambassadors were fired- which isn't unprecedented indeed it's usual to replace them- their temporary replacements are the career diplomat deputy ambassadors who do most of the actual work anyway. Where the ambassador was already a career diplomat they weren't fired, eg the Ambassador to Khazakstan is the US representative at the Syrian peace conference at Astana. In terms of actual diplomacy it's probably better to have the career diplomats rather than political appointees whose main asset and reason for their appointment tends to be being donors to the winner. And if there's one place you shouldn't get political news it's reddit's r/politics as it has been taken over by Correct The Record. And for the semi-politics related.. Ian McKellen and his placard on the Women's March in London. I actually thought that was Ron Paul for a second. 1
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