US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4835

On August 27 2016 04:59 xDaunt wrote:

Where's their public platform? Why are they all hidden? What happens when they get outted? The George Wallaces of the country are long gone.

On August 27 2016 04:48 OtherWorld wrote:

Well, surely it's better to have bland candidates than megalomaniac crazy individuals, no?
Though approval voting doesn't necessarily gives the blandest candidate the win. Interestingly enough, it takes away from the bland candidates their much overused argument, the "lesser evil".

On August 27 2016 04:59 xDaunt wrote:

Where's their public platform? Why are they all hidden? What happens when they get outted? The George Wallaces of the country are long gone.

On August 27 2016 04:25 Plansix wrote:

He also said he would support a cure to being gay and believes it’s a sin. He opposes them having basic human rights that other people have and thinks they are a crime against god. But other than that, he isn’t homophobic.

On August 27 2016 04:25 Plansix wrote:

It has become very clear that you only believe people are homophobic or racist is if they murder someone while yelling “I’m doing this because they are black and gay” at the top of their lungs. At that moment, you have sufficient proof they could be a bigot. Before then, you cannot be sure.

On August 27 2016 05:02 PassiveAce wrote:
how can you say the george wallaces are gone rofl
you know some percentage of his supporters and the children of his supporters that absorbed the message are still around right?

On August 27 2016 05:06 oBlade wrote:

I believe he would have been repeating the dogma of Catholicism, which he's also an adherent of, which says that homosexuality is a sin.

No, I think the political culture in the US needs a hobby besides complaining how everyone is bigoted against everything in probably the freest country ever to exist.

If Milo said you had a child who was gay and you had a chance to wave a magic wand to give them a happier life, it's an interesting question and you should be able to disagree without epithets. More thinking and less sanctimony. When people name-call it's to poison the speaker. You may call him "homophobic" for pointing out that, for example, gay marriage means society losing a lot of the offspring of closeted people who used to reproduce. But don't expect me to react as though the use of that word makes Milo not caring about wedding cakes equivalent to something as poisonous as wanting to imprison people with gay predilections, which is the kind of "homophobic" talk I'd be worried about.

On August 27 2016 05:58 Doodsmack wrote:
Let's just all agree that Milo is a turd pile of a person and move on.

Also, admitting that Trump is associated with the alt right is admitting that he's going to lose a national election, if anyone was in doubt.

Unless we want to fall behind the emerging superpowers in the east, and the Muslim world, we should follow their example and encourage gay men to keep having children and raising them in traditional nuclear family structures, whatever their private proclivities. I hate to exaggerate, but you might say that the future of the West sort of depends on us faggots leaping back in the closet and churning out a few kids.

On August 27 2016 06:19 Doodsmack wrote:
Remember Judge Garland everyone? Senate Republicans decided to decline him and bank on a Trump win...

On August 27 2016 06:11 Dan HH wrote:

The guy that wrote this steaming pile of shit was described as 'incredibly thoughtful with well developed ideas' in this thread.

Donald Trump’s campaign chief has moved his voter registration to the home of one his website’s writers, after the Guardian disclosed that he was previously registered at an empty house in Florida where he did not live.

Stephen Bannon is now registered to vote at the Florida house of Andy Badolato, who reports for Breitbart News and has worked with Bannon in the past on the production of political films.

According to public records, Badolato, 52, and two of his adult sons are also registered to vote at the property, which he co-owns with his ex-wife.

A spokeswoman for Bannon, a spokesman for Trump, and Badolato did not respond to emailed questions about whether Bannon lives at the single-family house, which is listed as his residence on his new voter registration record in Sarasota County.

Alexandra Preate, a spokeswoman for Bannon, said earlier in an email that “Mr Bannon moved to a different residence in Florida”, repeating a statement about the issue that was previously released by Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller.

The Sarasota County supervisor of elections advises new registrants that they must use the address of their legal residence, and notes prominently that applying with untrue information can result in a felony charge punishable by five years in prison or a fine of up to $5,000.

On August 27 2016 07:06 Mohdoo wrote:
It'll be truly bizarre if Trump tries to distance himself from the alt-right. I think democrats and the media will do a good enough job at demonizing the alt-right that Trump will have to do something.

Former Bush administration official Paul Wolfowitz said he is considering voting for Hillary Clinton in an interview in which he lambasted Donald Trump as dangerous.

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"The only way you can be comfortable about Trump's foreign policy is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says. That's a pretty uncomfortable place to be in," Wolfowitz said. "Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Trump mainly shows contempt for them. And he seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are doing. That is dangerous."