The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!
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What's sad is that people believe this liberal deep state conspiracy bulls***.
If the liberals ran everything, wouldn't Hillary be in the White House right now and the Dems have a majority in congress?
If the liberals ran everything, wouldn't Hillary be in the White House right now and the Dems have a majority in congress?
I do believe that CNN and MSNBC helped get Trump elected, but I think that was inadvertent on their part.
They've never understood how to cover Trump from before the election and it just makes him stronger.
I also do think they've pushed the Russian thing way, way too hard. If nothing happens to Trump or someone very close to him, it is going to backfire terribly.
If I owned a news media outlet and wanted to take down Trump, I'd be hitting his policies and how they hurt the lower and middle class who voted for him.
Media outlets are biased towards ratings first and foremost. Whatever gets them clicks and ratings is what becomes news.
I watch a lot of the news stations, even Fox, and they cover his policies a good deal.
And I agree that the media are partly responsible for the buffoon getting elected. They were getting great ratings and ran with it.
I think we need a more sane election system such as Ranked Voting or Instant Runoff Voting where you vote by ranking every candidate by preference, not just picking a single candidate that you might even dislike. The idea is to have a system without the need to vote for the lesser of two evils or the Spoiler effect. I think it has a better chance of electing people on real merit.
It makes me think of Olympians who's performance receives an overall score from judges.
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#how_rcv_works
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used
I think if we had this type of voting, people like John Kasich could do much better or even win. I think this voting system would also send clearer message about what Americans really care about so that both politicians and the media pander less to demogogues.
It makes me think of Olympians who's performance receives an overall score from judges.
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#how_rcv_works
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used
I think if we had this type of voting, people like John Kasich could do much better or even win. I think this voting system would also send clearer message about what Americans really care about so that both politicians and the media pander less to demogogues.
There was plenty to work with regarding exploitation of immigrant construction workers, eminent domain, refusing to pay for services, or perhaps even ties to the mob.
Strangely, Romney in his own way was kind of dragged down as being a 'Vulture Capitalist', but in a different way. Somehow, this didn't happen as much with Trump or it didn't seem that way to me.
Gary Johnson was the most sane person in the Libertarian debates, he got booed when he said people should have to have a drivers license to operate a vehicle, that's the kind of crowd that shows up to their debates lol. Johnson just comes across as uninformed about anything internationally and while he seems like a good guy he doesn't project the image that he can lead. He would likely be a much better person than Trump to be President though, then again so would Stein, Bernie and hell even Hillary.
I think part of the problem is the media tried to explain his policies and how they hurt the lower and middle class. They did a lot of this in 2016. Let's just be honest, many people are too dumb to understand the impact of policies. Simps like emotional messages that tell them there's nothing wrong with them, it's the other people who are wrong. Facts don't matter to these people.
I think the media failed more with the false equivalency between candidates. Every time Trump said something downright stupid or evil, which was a lot, the media would harp on Clinton for something right after. As if the two candidates needed to equally be bashed when one did wrong to seem fair.
The media fails because they don't focus on news and facts but personalities and what will get ratings. That and we have outlets like Fox and to a lesser extent MSNBC who take sides and actually push agendas for politicians and their donors.
Yeah that's kind of the problem - some libertarians are almost anarchists who want zero government. That's obviously not practical in a western society. That's why it is so easy to marginalize them.
Still, most are coming from a pretty common sense position
-fiscally conservative - actually cut gov't spending drastically
-morally wanting gov't out of regulating our lives
-militarily isolationist - stop being the world's police force (that's how you cut spending so greatly)
That last thing is what keeps them down. Going against all the money from military contractors is not the way to win elections.
He's going off the rails even more now. Getting funny. Yeah Trump, Obama conspired with Russia to put you in the White House... ok. lol
That's exactly why congress pushed forward sanctions on Russia that you never followed through with.
That's exactly why congress pushed forward sanctions on Russia that you never followed through with.
A lot of right wingers are real upset that they lost a lot bot followers. Bunch of snowflakes.
That Gizmodo post on their site has been updated. Also someone posted a link to Newt Gingrich's Twitter. The amount of accounts with just a bunch of random letters/numbers in hilarious. Also the amount of follows from accounts created this month with no activity.
https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/followers
Also one of the accounts temporarily banned. Hard to see why that might have been:
https://twitter.com/DonOfJustice
Among other things: "One possible red flag in her account, which may have been cause for suspension, is the fact that she retweeted a video implying that the school shooting victims in Parkland, Florida may have been actors."
https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/followers
Also one of the accounts temporarily banned. Hard to see why that might have been:
https://twitter.com/DonOfJustice
Among other things: "One possible red flag in her account, which may have been cause for suspension, is the fact that she retweeted a video implying that the school shooting victims in Parkland, Florida may have been actors."
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Priorities ?
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...lare-porn-a-public-health-risk-within-an-hour
Florida lawmakers on Tuesday passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health risk, less than an hour after they rejected a motion to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles.
The Florida House of Representatives opened its Tuesday session with a motion to debate a bill banning assault rifles, which it rejected by a 36-71 vote within three minutes, according to The Washington Post.
In the same session, less than an hour later, according to the newspaper, the legislature considered a GOP-backed bill to declare porn a public health risk, which it passed by a voice vote.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...lare-porn-a-public-health-risk-within-an-hour
Florida lawmakers on Tuesday passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health risk, less than an hour after they rejected a motion to consider a bill that would ban assault rifles.
The Florida House of Representatives opened its Tuesday session with a motion to debate a bill banning assault rifles, which it rejected by a 36-71 vote within three minutes, according to The Washington Post.
In the same session, less than an hour later, according to the newspaper, the legislature considered a GOP-backed bill to declare porn a public health risk, which it passed by a voice vote.
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