US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3501

On March 31 2016 04:37 Plansix wrote:
The trend with Trump is showing that that man is incapable of saying he was wrong or mistaken. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence direct in front of his face, he simply refuses. He begs Cooper to read the reporters statement, claiming she lied about falling. Cooper reads the statement, where she specifically says she did not fall and Trump declares victory.

Its sad to watch and the general election is going to be an embarrassment.

On March 31 2016 04:55 TheTenthDoc wrote:


Hey, when life gives you a base that lives in an entirely different reality from the one everyone else lives in, you double down on living in their reality and they will warp their reality around yours to reward you. It's sound strategy. Pretty spineless and unprincipled (at least in my opinion), but sound.



I'd commend Trump for forthrightness and honesty if he wasn't just saying something extreme to get on the air again, which is most likely what he was doing given his past record on abortion.

On March 31 2016 04:55 TheTenthDoc wrote:


Hey, when life gives you a base that lives in an entirely different reality from the one everyone else lives in, you double down on living in their reality and they will warp their reality around yours to reward you. It's sound strategy. Pretty spineless and unprincipled (at least in my opinion), but sound.

On March 31 2016 04:55 TheTenthDoc wrote:


Hey, when life gives you a base that lives in an entirely different reality from the one everyone else lives in, you double down on living in their reality and they will warp their reality around yours to reward you. It's sound strategy. Pretty spineless and unprincipled (at least in my opinion), but sound.



I'd commend Trump for forthrightness and honesty if he wasn't just saying something extreme to get on the air again, which is most likely what he was doing given his past record on abortion.

On March 31 2016 04:31 Falling wrote:
@Mohodo and clutz

I never worked while going to university, except in the four months off, but even then my Parks job was pretty irrelevant to my eventual teaching job except to say I was a loyal employee. It would be pretty hard to find paid work in the teaching profession. You could volunteer, but there's not a lot of employment that directly helps except in the most generic sense. (Most student teachers I knew, tended to work in retail during the semester.)

On March 31 2016 05:05 LemOn wrote:

This. He'd be a lot more moderate if elected when he doesn't need to say shit like this just to get elected

On March 31 2016 05:18 cLutZ wrote:


Do you realize how important that is? Sure, there are better things, but half the employers out there just want to know you will be there on time and not watch porn to such extremes on the work computer that nothing gets done. Most college students aren't getting jobs in their "field" anyways, so work EXP is work regardless.

On March 31 2016 05:41 Mohdoo wrote:


I work as a chemical engineer in semiconductor device manufacturing. People we hire just need to show that they have dealt with highly technical problems and solved them. Strong background in a physical science with research and maybe some publications to show you can get shit done? Welcome aboard, I don't mind that you aren't super clear on what a semiconductor is. We have astrophysicists solving problems related to heat transfer, but their entire PhD was almost meaningless except for teaching them how to acquire new information and how to solve new problems, to be the one actually creating information.

On March 31 2016 05:54 Acrofales wrote:

Welcome to the 0.01% of the population. Your job is not the one we're talking about (nor is mine, btw). Hanging out in a thread on politics on a gaming forum skews this population quite significantly. But most people with a college degree are going to end up in middle management somewhere, and then knowing that they will actually be working and not browsing porn (or dicking around on a game forum like I am currently doing during work time), is important information.

On March 31 2016 06:01 Falling wrote:
TA... like in the school or university? Because by definition, the Education Assistants in the school system are employed during the 9-3 school hours, which more or less corresponds to university hours. And going to a small university there really was not a lot of TA's, like at all at the university I was attending... of course that also meant tuition was pretty low, given its size, but I can't actually recall a single class I was enrolled in that employed a university student. Tutoring could have worked for some, but wasn't necessary for me. The point is not every job has a lot of related entry level jobs prior to getting the certification, certainly not in the numbers that people are going through the program.

Certainly teaching part time is not an option, given that except in very special circumstance you need your teaching certificate, the very thing you are training to get.

According to Maricopa County, just over 50 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the presidential preference election.

There were 621,976 total ballots cast; the county has 1.2 million registered voters.

About 53 percent of registered Republicans turned out to vote; about 47 percent of registered Democrats and nearly 17 percent of Green Party members cast ballots.

The overwhelming majority of voters, 533,772, cast their votes early, while 88,1187 voted on election day. There were 24,630 provisional ballots cast. Of those, 4,631 were verified and counted by elections officials and another 19,999 were verified but not counted because people were not properly registered.

The provisional ballots have been at the center of the controversy over the voting debacle.

Last week, county officials said voters across Arizona could have lost their party affiliation and thus been forced to cast provisional ballots because of errors at the state Motor Vehicle Division.

Indeed, a widespread complaint on election day was that voters were not registered with a party and ineligible to vote in the closed primary. Many of these voters, from both the Democratic and Republican parties, claimed decades of party participation.

But on Tuesday, state transportation officials said they found just one error among eight potentially problematic voter registration documents sent to them by county officials.

State officials went through each of the eight forms to determine the accuracy of data keyed in by MVD clerks from the original paper forms. When voters visit MVD to renew or apply for driver’s licenses, the form gives them an opportunity to register or re-register to vote and update their party affiliation.

The MVD clerk then reviews that information and keys it into a state system, an opportunity for human error. That information contained on the form, as well as images of the forms, are transmitted to the secretary of state, who then transmits the information to county recorders.

In reviewing the eight forms, state officials determined just one had been entered inaccurately. The voter intended to be registered as a Democrat, but the clerk wrote the word “BED” in the electronic state system.

Our European friends better watch their tone. Trump wouldn't rule out using a nuclear weapon in Europe.