US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3919

On June 01 2016 10:41 Plansix wrote:

Holy shit:

Collect personalized information that you can utilize during closing time. (For example: are they a single parent of three children that may need money for food? Or are they a middle-aged commuter that is tired of traveling for 2 hours to work each day?)

And then tell them to put the classes on a credit card. I knew it was bad, but this predatory.

Hillary Clinton is 0-for-2016, having failed to hold any full press conferences this year — fueling the perception that she is the most guarded major candidate in recent political history, in stark contrast with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump has held at least four full, formal press conferences this year, including one Tuesday, and has fielded questions at length from the flock of reporters covering his campaign on numerous occasions.

Mrs. Clinton took questions from the press traveling with her campaign once, in Minnesota in March, but hasn’t held an organized press conference in six months.
On Tuesday, his question-and-answer session focused on media reports questioning whether he had donated as much money to veterans organizations as he claimed.

Asked by reporters whether they could expect similar tongue-lashings if Mr. Trump wins the presidency in November, the billionaire businessman was quick to answer.

“Yes, it is going to be like this,” he said. “And then we have to read probably libelous stories, or certainly close, in the newspapers and the people know the stories are false, I’m going to continue to attack the press. Look, I find the press to be extremely dishonest. I find the political press to be unbelievably dishonest. I will say that.”

Mrs. Clinton is at the opposite end of the spectrum, and analysts say voters can learn a lot about both candidates from their handling of the media.

“She engages in self-monitoring; he does not. Both play into a broader narrative. She is smart and knowledgeable but is an establishment figure, parses words, is hiding something, is inauthentic, untrustworthy,” Ms. Hall Jamieson said. “He says whatever comes to mind, doesn’t do his homework, is often inconsistent, is factually inaccurate, but what you see is what you get — authentic and someone who will shake up the politics of the status quo.”

Mrs. Clinton held a pseudo press conference in August to discuss the controversy around her private email server, but the event went poorly.

The former secretary of state made a crack about wiping her email server clean “with a cloth or something,” boosting the notion that she wasn’t taking the scandal seriously.

She has apologized repeatedly for using her own email account, though she insists she broke no laws and did not endanger national security.

She held a formal press conference in New Hampshire in September and answered questions from reporters in Iowa in December. The Iowa event generally is considered to be her last press conference, though that, too, can be called into question because it was more of an unannounced question-and-answer session with a handful of reporters rather than a full press conference.

On June 01 2016 12:35 KwarK wrote:

What gets me is that I'm certain Trump, or his team, not only had the means to find out that the guy wasn't in any way Mexican but also that they almost certainly did. However he's aware at this point that if he says the guy is a Mexican who is out to get him then his audience won't fact check that and will actually respond to the truth with hostility because being corrected doesn't make people happy that they know more, it just makes them angry. The cynical contempt with which he views his own electorate is amazing. He just gives them more and more of what they want on the assumption that they're too stupid to know any better.

This election cycle is insane. It's gotten to the point where the two camps are so divided that Trump can openly make shit up about the other side and invent stories about good he is (like his Trump branded stuff when he was accused of only having failed businesses which was literally just stuff from the grocery store that he'd stuck Trump labels on) and have his fan base lap it up.

SiriusXM satellite radio said Tuesday that it has suspended Glenn Beck's morning show for at least a week and may not bring it back after Beck agreed with a guest who made comments widely interpreted as supporting the assassination of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs," the company said in a statement.

"However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone," it said.

Brad Thor, author of numerous best-selling thrillers — including one titled "Path of the Assassin" — likened Trump to a South American dictator on Beck's show May 25 and said that if Trump were to become president and turn out to be a tyrant, illegal means might be required to remove him from office.

"With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as president?" Thor asked in the 15-minute interview, the full audio of which was obtained by NBC News.

"If Congress won't remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as president. If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office?" Thor continued, adding:

"And I don't think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office, because you won't be able to do it through Congress."

On June 01 2016 18:35 LemOn wrote:
So..can Bernie realistically win the 65% of remaining delegates from primaries to overtake Hillary?

On June 01 2016 20:57 Gorsameth wrote:

No, he lost a long time a ago (After NY)

Doesn't stop the fanboys from dreaming up impossible scenario's tho.

On June 01 2016 13:32 xDaunt wrote:
Looks like the FBI may have an email chain showing that Clinton stripped confidential markings from classified information. Of course, she has already denied doing this.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/737806568201330688

On June 01 2016 23:34 Mohdoo wrote:


I'd say he lost when he lost the black vote. If black people liked him, he'd be on his way to presidency right now.

On June 01 2016 23:34 Vin{MBL} wrote:


This email has been public for a few months. I think the better evidence they have is when the server was under attack from hackers multiple times and they failed to report it to the dept. Can be considered "gross negligence" by any resonable person.

On June 01 2016 23:54 xDaunt wrote:

I generally agree with that. Still, the problem for Hillary is that she's been caught in yet another lie.

On June 02 2016 00:15 xDaunt wrote:

Presuming that the Bush administration did something wrong, it's a moot point when you're not caught. Hillary's problem is that she's been caught.

On June 02 2016 00:38 Plansix wrote:

And we have come to what really matters. It doesn’t matter if Clinton acted the same as the GOP SoS, it is that the GOP caught her. It’s not about fixing a problem, it’s about winning at all costs.