US Politics Mega-thread - Page 5494

On October 11 2016 10:35 Sent. wrote:


It's a bad argument because "If someone killed you in your sleep you wouldn't know it, so why would you care if that person murdered you?".

On October 11 2016 10:38 Plansix wrote:

Yes, but the main argument "Your luck your mother didn't abort you" is equally shit. Fruit of the poisonous tree and so on. Shitposts beget more shitposts.

On October 11 2016 10:26 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


This is not a good argument

On October 11 2016 10:33 Plansix wrote:

There are no good arguments for banning abortion, only religious ones.

On October 11 2016 11:25 LegalLord wrote:

I looked at his Twitter page, and I count about 30 times in the past two hours that he decided to link this story. WTF?

TALLAHASSEE — Dismissing Gov. Rick Scott’s claims as "poppycock," a federal judge Monday extended Florida's voter-registration deadline by at least 24 hours so as not to disenfranchise Hurricane Matthew survivors who wanted to sign up to vote in the nation’s largest swing state.

Florida Democrats sued Scott — the chairman of Donald Trump’s super PAC — and his top elections official on Sunday because they had refused to extend the deadline. Scott said people had enough time to register by Tuesday’s deadline.

“Look, this is, this is politics,” Scott said when asked about the political ramifications of his decision, the Democrats' lawsuit points out.

Bristling at Scott’s claim, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ordered a temporary extension of a day — which he could extend further after a Wednesday hearing he set. The judge also indicated that some of Florida’s voter registration laws might be unconstitutional.

“It has been suggested that the issue of extending the voter registration deadline is about politics. Poppycock,” Walker, an appointee of President Obama to the Northern District of Florida, wrote. “This case is about the right of aspiring eligible voters to register and to have their votes counted. Nothing could be more fundamental to our democracy.”

“We are thrilled with today’s ruling and we look forward to making our case on Wednesday for extending the voter registration deadline to October 18th,” said Florida Democratic Party chair Allison Tant in a statement. "This is a win for the people of Florida.”

The ruling could have a profound effect on the national race for the White House as well.

On October 11 2016 11:32 LegalLord wrote:

The weird thing is he doesn't do that with any other story - only this one.

On October 11 2016 11:35 Plansix wrote:

Yeah, this story is some crazy shit. Trump was clearly fed that fabricated story by someone and Trump is aware. He denies that Russia was involve with the hacks, even though he was briefed otherwise.

Edit: Fucking rekt Rick Scott, you Death Eater reject. People get to vote in America and you can extend registration for a single day.

On October 11 2016 11:42 TheTenthDoc wrote:
Somebody needs to train Trump in how to properly spread disinfo while maintaining your image as a non-agent because he's not very good at it

I can only imagine how his conversations about that go.

On October 11 2016 11:44 Nevuk wrote:

By all accounts extending voter registration deadlines could only help Trump, lol. Considering he's relying on first time voters and getting them to turn out, while Hillary is relying more on just... normal people.

On October 11 2016 11:44 Plansix wrote:

We are 30 days from the election and people are just starting to figure this shit out. Other folks have been pointing this out for months, but now that we are facing the double barrel of the pussy grabber, everyone is like "Man this Russia stuff is weird, right? Its weird."



Nah, I think the same rule holds true that minorities use early voting and late voter registration more. And those are going to go for Dems because Trump exists in this race.

Dear Donald Trump,

Last Friday, audio leaked of you making incredibly demeaning comments about women and bragging about sexual assault. When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was "locker room talk," and it's just how guys speak about women.

You're wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish, plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy.

How do I know this? Simple. I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility. Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys I wouldn't want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.

Now, Donald, I'm sure you're wondering just what it is we talk about in a professional locker room, if we don't spend all our time regarding 50 percent of the population as mobile fuck receptacles eagerly awaiting our tiny-handed grasp on their love lapels. I shall educate you!

We talk about our families. We talk about our significant others, our children, and our parents. We talk about our fears that if a Hitler wannabe who can't even string together a coherent statement on domestic policy becomes president, what that might mean for those of us who are married to a member of a minority community, or are a member of a minority community, or have children going to schools where hopefully nobody screams racial epithets at them or tells them to go back to [insert foreign country they couldn't identify on a map here].

We talk about travel. We talk about the cities we've seen, the stadiums we've played in, what vacations we might take in the offseason. We talk about what country might make a good safe haven if a Russian-backed presidential candidate whose foreign policy agenda can best be described as "gross negligence mixed with a spicy dash of treason" were to have control of our nation's nuclear arsenal, and whether his stubby little baby fingers are strong enough to push in the launch codes on sturdy military-grade hardware.

We talk about money. We talk about what other guys at our position are making, what our next contract might look like, and how much paying taxes each year sucks, since we're in the highest tax bracket and play in multiple states, requiring multiple filings. We talk about how all of us pay taxes, every year, and wonder what a presidential candidate might have to hide if he so stubbornly refuses to release his returns, what possible foreign debts might be lurking in that finance closet he so desperately holds shut with every ounce of his contemptible mental faculties.

We talk about women (and sex!). We talk about wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, fans, and groupies. Most guys respect women, some guys don't, but never have I heard anyone use your particularly disgusting brand of sadism that refers to women as objects and not people. Even the most debauched club-hopping party animal talks about women more civilly than you. We don't let each other talk like that about women, because it lessens our humanity, and even though we're modern-day gladiators, we still hold ourselves accountable to the idea of basic human decency.

We talk about jokes. Clean jokes, dirty jokes, jokes that are in between. Hell, I made a joke about Penn State that got me in trouble years later, because someone thought I was attacking the victims instead of the institution that allowed such depravity to happen. You know what I did? I apologized. I said I was sorry. I didn't apologize with "if your feelings were hurt by it"; I didn't try to deflect it by attacking someone else, or their spouse; I didn't lie to an entire nation on live TV and say, "Nope, that never happened." I simply said, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I'm accountable, I'll do better next time."

See, that's another big thing we talk about in the locker room. Accountability. In a professional sports environment, all of us are accountable to each other. We're a team. If one of us messes up on the field, it affects everyone. Just like if a president makes a bad decision, it affects everyone. And do you know, Donald, the only way the team wins games? The only way we win is if, in the locker room, we're willing to accept that accountability, address our mistakes, and work as hard as we possibly can to make sure those mistakes don't happen again.

We don't double down on a shitty play simply because a small portion of the fan base got excited by it. We don't try to carve the team apart from the inside to appease a certain position group. We don't blame our mistakes on something someone else did, because if we do any of those things, we lose, something you've become intimately familiar with on a personal, financial, and political level, and I'm not having too many difficulties reviewing how that happened to you on the game film.

So let me conclude with some advice for you, Donald. The next time you want to claim that something is "locker room talk," take a moment to recognize the fact that were you in an actual locker room, you would be universally reviled as a cancerous, egotistical train wreck of a disgrace that no team could possibly find the time to employ and, honestly, would never even have on their draft board to begin with.

I've been in locker rooms, Donald, and you're the type of narcissistic, pants-soiling fecal eruption that just doesn't belong. Even football players are smart enough to know that.

Sincerely,

Chris Kluwe

Former NFL player, proud father of two daughters I’m afraid you would eagerly deport and/or molest, American citizen