Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Thanks. That still seems utterly ridiculous. Their own website points to annotated version.
I'm regretting the boing boing link. Based on the TechDirt their statement on incentives is about creating the annotations, not the laws themselves.
The only good thing I can say about Trump is that he's the type of person - and has the kind of money - to actually make a semi-viable third party bid. He (luckily) wouldn't win, and he'd probably hand the election to Hillary, but that aside, I could see him actually getting some traction and get like 15 or 20% of the vote - depending on who the Republican candidate is, he could actually make it hard on him or finish off the party as it stands now with its weird spread from religious conservatism to economic hyperliberalism. Having an actual honest-to-goodness three-way race seems unlikely but it would be a nice change of pace.
In EUropean terms Nader was a much more viable candidate, in '90s America, he was more of a joke than Trump's hairdo
So I don't really know how he "lost" then.
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A drudge report poll isn't exactly scientific, nor is it necessarily polling people who will actually vote.
You have to take into account that the kind of people who still read drudge report are the guys who think Fox News is too liberal to stomach.
I'm more likely to believe what The Economist says, as a little bit closer to believable.
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Judge sentences man to get married or face jail time.
http://www.kltv.com/story/29721876/judge-sentences-east-texas-man-to-get-married-or-face-jail-time
I've said it before a hundred times, and I'll say it again a hundred more... there ain't no bureaucrat like a TEXAS bureaucrat.
Judge sentences man to get married or face jail time.
http://www.kltv.com/story/29721876/judge-sentences-east-texas-man-to-get-married-or-face-jail-time
I've said it before a hundred times, and I'll say it again a hundred more... there ain't no bureaucrat like a TEXAS bureaucrat.
"In July, a Smith County judge sentenced Josten Bundy to get married to his 19-year-old girlfriend as part of his probation, which also included writing Bible verses and getting counseling."
Oh Texas...
On the other hand, I'd say the night was a net win for Kasich. He was FINALLY able to get his face in front of a major national audience and present his case, which is something he's needed for awhile. I don't know if he did WELL in the debate (I'm not right wing and couldn't get past all the jingoism, racism, and sexism) but ultimately what he needed was face time and he got it.
GasBandit
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They had a "junior table" debate ahead of the main event, from what I hear, the media had the most kudos to give to Fiorina.
Which is funny in and of itself. Her one leadership qualification is her experience as CEO of Hewlett Packard; she rated by several experts to be among one of the worst CEOs of the decade due to the abysmal job she did in that capacity.
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This is true.
It is also true that the current apparent frontrunner, Donald Trump, has declared bankruptcy 4 times.
So we have people running on their business qualifications, who absolutely suck at business.
Not to mention that he's run as a Democrat before and he's got a lot of liberal beliefs anyway. I'd never vote for him, but I especially wouldn't if I was a conservative because he's made it clear that he'll switch views on the fly, simply to benefit him politically.
And yes... the only great feat that Donald Trump has managed in his meager existence it to squander his slum lord father's money on things to satiate his ego.
So he's not all bad.
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He's a charming one, that Don.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...yn-kelly-had-blood-coming-out-of-her-wherever
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...yn-kelly-had-blood-coming-out-of-her-wherever
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Three Aussies commentate the debate.
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"Black lives matter" activists storm the stage at Bernie Sanders' seattle event and prevent him from speaking.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...er-protesters-shut-down-bernie-sanders-rally/
I don't agree with much of what Bernie Sanders supports, but this is pretty crappy, and will only generate antipathy for your cause, not sympathy. Also they did it "for Michael Brown," who, if you guys remember, charged at the officer who shot him.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...er-protesters-shut-down-bernie-sanders-rally/
I don't agree with much of what Bernie Sanders supports, but this is pretty crappy, and will only generate antipathy for your cause, not sympathy. Also they did it "for Michael Brown," who, if you guys remember, charged at the officer who shot him.
Is there a reason they would target Sanders?"Black lives matter" activists storm the stage at Bernie Sanders' seattle event and prevent him from speaking.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...er-protesters-shut-down-bernie-sanders-rally/
I don't agree with much of what Bernie Sanders supports, but this is pretty crappy, and will only generate antipathy for your cause, not sympathy. Also they did it "for Michael Brown," who, if you guys remember, charged at the officer who shot him.
GasBandit
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He was handy, is my guess. Afterwards, they issued some kind of statement that it was because white progressives didn't do "enough" to support their movement.
Which of course comes off as petulant and entitled, but hey, that's par for the course.
I had to unfollow a couple people on Tumblr this morning over this shit because it's just so nonsensical. The gist of what I was seeing is
"Black Lives Matter felt they needed to protest the Bernie Sanders rally. It isn't my place to question why, those reasons are their own, but to truly support them, we have to stand by their actions."
This, in many more paragraphs form, and my fucking brain had a glitch over it. Supporting someone and their cause does not mean blindly agreeing with their every action, and feeling that asking "why?" is somehow a betrayal. That's fucking idiotic and sounds like the logic of an abused spouse.
Hey, if you're not on our side, that means you must support the Terrorists.
--Patrick
I go on Facebook where my conservative relatives piss me off.
I go on Tumblr where liberal strangers piss me off.
And then I come here to bitch about it.
And this is why identity politics needs to die. We have people saying they wouldn't vote for Bernie because of a semi-racist paper he wrote 40 years ago (that he's apologized for many times since) and because, being an old white man, he didn't need to swallow any amount of his pride to speak at the Southern Law Center (a bible thumping law school that literally has a Civil War Mourning Room). That's not even getting into the people who vote against him just to see a woman in the White House.
Bernie has made his stance very clear: he wants to improve education, put out a living wage, and all kinds of other important stuff that benefits everyone, regardless of race, sex, and sexual identity. The people would refuse to support him because of perceived slights don't deserve the benefits he's trying to bring them. They need to skew their priorities and remember exactly who it is that wants to keep them down.