US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4013

On June 10 2016 07:29 oneofthem wrote:
she should pick obama as vp

On June 10 2016 07:32 kwizach wrote:

She can't, he's not eligible to become president since he has already served two terms

On June 10 2016 07:32 kwizach wrote:

She can't, he's not eligible to become president since he has already served two terms

On June 10 2016 07:45 cLutZ wrote:
Lets go with real-real talk. All video, picture, and twitter links should be spoilered. Not doing so is simply rude.

On June 10 2016 03:04 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


I agree White people don't know what it's like to be black.

Most black people today haven't experienced 'real raycism' either. That has long since been eradicated and named taboo in our mainstream culture, and rightly so.

You show me a KKK 'raycist' you're showing me a terrible person. I agree with you.

I do not think that type of person exists anymore. I grew up knowing people who I would say are 'racist' because they make 'black jokes' when no black people were around, but would never disrespect a black person or treat them like they weren't a human. I do not think that type of mindset exists in America anymore, it's considered a taboo of our culture to even think like that let alone share it with others.

. Of course, we do have fun. Why should we not have fun? You can have fun doing things you believe in – these things are not somehow mutually exclusive.

On June 10 2016 07:47 Falling wrote:

They certainly do exist, and you do not have to look very far to find them. Milo tried to apologize for the racist elements in the alt right, saying they're just trolls trying to get a rise out of the older generation. To which Daily Stormer, said nope. We're actually are racist and we don't like you because you are a Jew Article titled: "You Can't Kike the Alt-Right." The earlier article titled: "Breitbart’s Alt-Right Analysis is the Product of a Degenerate Homosexual and an Ethnic Mongrel." Their views on other ethnic groups shouldn't be too hard to suss out from those titles. They're not exactly hiding their views.

On June 10 2016 07:51 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Everyone keeps forgetting the other major player in the camp that will decide her VP pick. Her ego. The last thing she would need is a VP that is more popular than her which is why I won't hold my breath for a Sanders or Warren pick.

On June 10 2016 07:37 Mohdoo wrote:
I am assuming no one posted this since I don't see it in any recent pages. My apologies if already posted:
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About as close to an endorsement as you can get. He's still campaigning in DC, so obviously no endorsement. But he did make it clear he would be working with her.

GH, what do you think?

On June 10 2016 07:51 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Everyone keeps forgetting the other major player in the camp that will decide her VP pick. Her ego. The last thing she would need is a VP that is more popular than her which is why I won't hold my breath for a Sanders or Warren pick.

On June 10 2016 07:57 SK.Testie wrote:
One of the attacks against her I've seen (mostly from liberals actually) is her ego. It's documented in books and by people like Christopher Hitchens, but is there a particular instance that seems to make her stand out as more egotistical than any other politician in particular? The most recent reminder was Sanders people were calling her egotistical for that one dismissive interview where she asserted, "I will be the nominee". But ... it really was just a no brainer.

On June 10 2016 08:02 ticklishmusic wrote:


The "more popular" candidate is 4m votes behind

On June 10 2016 08:03 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:



Check the opinion polls,

Lord of the Lies

Earlier this month, the world’s most battle-scarred cable news network did something extraordinary in this year of vaporous political contrails. While Donald Trump was delivering one of his easily debunked lies, CNN fact-checked him — in near real time at the bottom of the screen.

“Trump: I never said Japan should have nukes (he did).” Thus read the chyron that shook the television world — maybe.

I no more expect CNN to set Wolf Blitzer’s beard on fire than to instantly call out the Mount Everest of liars. Trump lies about big things (there is no drought in California) and small things (his hair spray could not affect the ozone layer because it’s sealed within Trump Tower). He lies about himself, and the fake self he invented to talk about himself. He’s been shown to lie more than 70 times in a single event.

Given the scale of Trump’s mendacity and the stakes for the free world, it’s time that we go into the fall debates with a new rule — an instant fact-check on statements made by the candidates onstage. The Presidential Debate Commission should do what any first-grader with Google access can do, and call out lies before the words hit the floor.

Setting up a truth referee is not difficult. And while doing such a thing is unlikely to ensure that the debates would be substantive, it could at least guarantee a reality foundation at a time when fact-free speech is the language of the political class.

How can we discuss the economy when Trump suggests that the unemployment rate, just under 5 percent, is actually 42 percent? Or debate the Paris climate accord, when Trump falsely claims it “gives foreign bureaucrats control over how much energy we use on our land”? Or deal with terrorism, after Trump said he knows “more about ISIS than the generals.” The debates are meaningless without a neutral party screening the garbage.

Professional truth-seekers have never seen anything like Trump, surely the most compulsive liar to seek high office. [...]

On June 10 2016 07:29 KwarK wrote:
Two days late on this but now for your latest dose of police brutality
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Kid gets intimated by police into an illegal search. His retired police officer father and mother teach him about his rights and then his mother calls the officer who did the illegal search and bitches him out because, you know, white people. A few days later the kid's car is specifically targeted. Kid demands to know if he is under arrest and if so, what for, exactly as his retired police officer father told him to do because, you know, rights.

Police officer tasers him in the chest for 23 seconds, stopping his heart and leaving him dead. The he cuffs the 17 year old, looks at the dashcam, drags the 17 year old to the very edge of the dashcam view, looks at it again, decides it's probably out of frame and drops the dead body of the 17 year old, hands cuffed behind his back, face first onto the concrete. A few minutes later more officers show up and the dashcam shows them gloating about it how this is what you get if you don't respect their authority until one of them notices that the kid is blue. Because, you know, his heart hasn't been beating for the last few minutes, what with the whole dead thing.

The kid was subsequently resuscitated but was in a coma and his parents were told it was a 50/50 if he would ever wake up. He eventually did but has permanent brain damage from the prolonged loss of oxygen to his brain. Despite it actually being the child of one of their own the police investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing, even though they possessed a dashcam video showing literally nothing but wrongdoing. The video was kept from the public and the parents but the FBI got hold of it and pressed charges against the officer. It leaked two days ago.
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To paraphrase GreenHorizons, we ought to do something about police brutality before it starts impacting more white people. For a long time it's been fine to blame the victims and tell them that they deserved the treatment they got because, you know, niggers, right? But if the police don't learn that it's not okay to treat whites the same way that they've gotten away with treating blacks forever then maybe they shouldn't brutalize anyone. It's like when you're kids at school, if you can't learn when it is appropriate to kill kids then nobody will be allowed to kill any kids at all. At least the officer in question wasn't racist though, quite the opposite, his crime was thinking it's okay to do that to people who look and sound like us.