US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3283

On March 12 2016 10:33 ticklishmusic wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mq5hrUDoYo

the police are earning their pay tonight

On March 12 2016 10:55 Nyxisto wrote:
people are also saying "this will help trump" about literally everything. Can someone give me an example of something that isn't supposed to help Trump?

On March 12 2016 10:55 Nyxisto wrote:
people are also saying "this will help trump" about literally everything. Can someone give me an example of something that isn't supposed to help Trump?

On March 12 2016 11:00 trulojucreathrma.com wrote:
So far everything has helped Trump. Why? Because the 1/3rd of the Republican base he needs to get to vote for him to win the primaries respond very strongly very positively to everything what has happened so far. Mainstream pundits still fail to accept that those people hate mainstream politicians and love bullies that are racist and blow everyone else out of the water verbally.

On March 12 2016 11:05 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


"We should expand renewables. And push through a Universal Healthcare bill."

Would sink him overnight.

On March 12 2016 10:32 Slaughter wrote:


Can we move past the parasitism thing? There will always be people who try to game the system and be lazy but those people are a tiny percentage.

Most people will try to move themselves up to get to that "american dream" state that has been sold to us for like a 100 years. Problem has always been that the starting conditions for each person vary greatly and you end up with a skewed distribution of wealth.

On March 12 2016 10:55 Nyxisto wrote:
Can someone give me an example of something that isn't supposed to help Trump?

On March 12 2016 11:14 Jibba wrote:

Voters with a high school education and above.

In his wide-ranging keynote interview at South by Southwest, the music, film and tech festival in Austin, Texas, President Obama focused on technology's role in civic life.

Obama, who was interviewed by Evan Smith, editor of the Texas Tribune, cited low voter turnout as an area in which technology could improve citizens' participation in government. He said it was "easier to order a pizza than to vote" and said we need to think about how to "redesign our systems so that we don't have 50 percent or 55 percent voter participation in presidential elections."

Calling on government and private companies to work together, Obama said it's vital to "create systems that make government more responsive and make it work better."

When asked about people who are ideologically anti-government, the president pointed to the collective good, saying someone checking the weather on a smart phone is benefiting from government services.

"When government does great things, we take it for granted and it's not a story," he said, citing roads, geosatellite systems, armed forces and other public benefits as evidence.

Smith also asked Obama about the "massive digital divide" in the U.S., pointing to the fact that minorities have significantly less access to the Internet, which makes it more difficult for them to be engaged citizens or even do their homework.

Obama responded by describing a program called the Opportunity Network, which installs Wi-Fi in low-income housing and rural areas. He acknowledged that this was only part of the answer, saying "I'm trying to solve every problem."

But, Obama said, solving problems requires cooperation. He said the country needs to re-imagine the relationship between government and the private sector "so that we use technology data, social media in order to join forces around problems."

If the U.S. does that, he said, "there's no problem that we face in this country that's not solvable."

At the end of the interview, when asked about the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI over accessing data on the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooters, Obama declined to comment specifically, but urged against "absolutist" views on either side of the issue.

On March 12 2016 11:15 oneofthem wrote:
o i didn't have sound on when i saw that clip the first time

On March 12 2016 10:23 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Who actually cares about them stepping on the flag? I understand that some people will inevitably find anything offensive, and I understand that this is a bad way of attempting to get sympathy from the american public, but I don't understand how anyone can rationally be offended by this?