US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4510

On July 27 2016 15:01 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


I try to look on the bright side.

I'm rewarding the GOP for electing a socially liberal candidate, dropping the anti-gay bullshit, and toning down the christian rhetoric from the frontrunner, while punishing the DNC for rigging the election and media.

In 2020 if Trump is doing a bad job, we can see a healthy DNC primary competition for a viable competitor - from the speakers at the DNC there should be no shortage of these.

If Trump does a mediocre or great job, then all the better.

On July 27 2016 15:00 NukeD wrote:

What does it have you endorse? Do people still consider him racist? Thats so shortsighted.

On July 27 2016 15:19 IgnE wrote:


It's kind of silly, isn't it, to complain that private corporations aren't public institutions?

On July 27 2016 15:11 xDaunt wrote:
.... and you people on the left wonder why we on the right ceaselessly complain about media bias.

On July 27 2016 15:37 Velr wrote:



Well, the entire Republican Convention was just endless fearmongering. "Dark" is a pretty accurate description for the picture it painted of the US.
Trumps speech seemed to be include Mad Max style gangs (of immigrants/mexicans) roaming america...

But well, that all went with "dark" and not even worse adjectives is kinda astonishing.

Clinton Uses “Dark” Magic

Posted July 24th, 2016 @ 7:16pm in #Trump #Clinton #Inluence

If you are following the media coverage after the GOP convention, you know that Democrats and their surrogates are describing Trump’s speech as “dark.” The first ten times I heard the word, I thought it might be a situation in which someone clever used the term once and others copied it.

That is not the case.

“Dark” is a linguistic kill shot from the left. I assume all the TV pundits on Clinton’s team got the message to use the word “dark” right out of the gate. I confess that at first I didn’t recognize how good it is. It’s designed, Trump-style, and it didn’t come from an amateur. The Clinton team is playing some serious 3D chess now.

Do you remember all of those policy details Clinton talked about this week? Me neither. She’s done with that uselessness now. She went full-Voldemort on Trump this week and unleashed a “dark” spell. It’s a good one.

Let me tell you why “dark” is so good.

1. It’s unique. That’s a Trump trick. You haven’t heard “dark” used before in a political context. That makes it memorable and sticky. And it brings no baggage with it to this domain because no other politician has been so labelled.

2. Dark makes you think of black, and black makes you think of racism (in the political season anyway), and that makes you reflexively pair Trump with racism even though it makes no sense.

3. Dark can describe anything scary. It invites the listener to fill in the nightmare with whatever scares them the most about Trump. That’s a hypnosis trick. Leave out the details and let people fill in the story that persuades them the most.

4. Repetition. Dark is the kind of word that pundits can work into almost any answer when talking about Trump. That means you’ll hear it a lot.

I don’t think this one word will change the election by much. But it’s a sign that Clinton has at least one world-class persuader/advisor on the team. I have a feeling I know who. This linguistic kill shot has a partial fingerprint. If I’m right, Godzilla just got into the game.

On July 27 2016 15:41 CorsairHero wrote:

If you're wondering why they didn't use other adjectives

Source

On July 27 2016 15:33 Nebuchad wrote:


Off the top of my head, even less corporate taxes, killing the families of terrorists, banning muslims, possibly leaving WTO, worsening the situation on climate change since he (pretends to) believes it's a chinese conspiracy... It is a problem that the basic defense of Trump's policies is generally "he has said so little coherent stuff that you don't really know what he's going to do."

But hey sure, we're really worried about "racism", we're very shallow like that.

On July 27 2016 15:55 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


My primary issue is if they decide to not vote at all, vote third-party, or vote for Trump, because that completely undermines all the work that Bernie has been fighting for and his endorsement of Hillary to get a decent amount of progressive reforms done. None of those voting choices help Hillary or Bernie win, helping the Republicans win guarantees the unraveling of the ideal policies that Bernie supporters want, and there's nothing wrong with voting for the Democratic party today and then shaking things up again 4 years from now.

On July 27 2016 17:25 GreenHorizons wrote:
Good lord the propaganda team is strong, and you guys are worried about an idiotic Trump administration.

https://twitter.com/NomikiKonst/status/758137430180524032