Re: Posters in New York
... i know it's over
... i know it's over
"no work of art puts forward views. views belong to people who are not artists'.
AH!,o.k. I hear him now. But really, do you have divine contact?,some angelic go-between? I usually use my Ouija board,but sometimes the glass won't budge! he can be really stubborn at times. Though I expect that from him.
Not if the 'fixed stance' stands strong like a beacon of light showing the way while saying 'f*** off!' to those that have neither the heart,mind,or soul to ever understand.
Seriously? Are you new here? Please f*** right off.
20th century / Germany / economic crisis / jews / Hitler
21th century / USA / economic crisis / immigrants / Trump
History teaches, people don't learn
did you even read the newsweek article because it doesnt sound like you did because it addresses that very question, about the private servers. an effing aol account. powell also talked about deleting emails like everyone, every secretary of state has including rice, has done. there was no rule about servers and its not a valid issue. do you think the administration and congress didnt know about servers or didnt ask. no one cared until they wanted to, when it was beneficial to make an issue out of it. all there fishing for in the email search is something embarrassingly personal which is all theyve printed in the news. hillary had this to say about a certain member of congress, the gossip oh my. how about sanders saying that super delegates should respect the popular vote and now that he has to win every contest left by a landslide and needs them to even have a shot in hell hes reversing and saying they should all come over to him. he cant even stand by what hes said in his own primary campaign and we should trust him to somehow magically make his outlandish plans, that even he cant explain ( in the other article interview that you seem to have not read or are just ignoring ), materialize. ive addressed your questions raised points. will you address mine and tell me how you can vote or support, or even contemplating supporting (i dont even know if you are american), the person who gave those answers
elaborating on the so called scandals
The email scandal is like many of the past Clinton/Dem scandals. It wasn't a major scandal unless a democrat does it. Reagan and Bush Sr. used to let donors stay in the Lincoln bedroom in the White House. It became a scandal under Clinton. The Clintons replaced 7 employees in the travel office and it became travelgate. Bush Jr. fired 7 federal prosecutors and dismissed two others to replace them with people to help kill investigations of Republicans and start investigations of democrats. Then you have prankgate, pranks as the administration leaves the White House. Bush Sr staffers did it to Clinton staffers when they left. Clinton staffers did it to Bush Jr like signs that said "department of strategery" and taking some W keys off of keyboards. Bush Jr.s staffers made a big show of it and the media followed. Spending money to investigate, they found a few W keys missing and something like two phone cords severed. Again... a prank when Republicans do it...a scandal when dems do it. They had two special prosecutors who both found no wrong doing in Whitewater...so they went out and got a third...who found out Clinton was having an affair....but again no wrong doing in Whitewater....so they set him up and impeached him for lying about the affair. (Nevermind Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald, or Bush and his favorite reporter/male prostitute James Guckert/Jeff Gannon) Four Supreme Court members had personal connections to the Bush campaign and none of them recused themselves in Gore vs Bush. Now the Republicans don't want to vote for a Supreme Court nominee because the court will become too biased for Obama to appoint one in his last year of office.
The list goes on...and there are examples that of course sway the other way. But again, the Republicans are treating emailgate like the scandal to surpass all scandals.....when it is really just an excuse to drag her through the mud and investigate endlessly and hope they find a stained dress somewhere in the closet that is completely unrelated to the investigation. The problem for them now is that they have a candidate that lives for the soundbyte, negative or positive,... and the media finds more interesting than Hillary. Yes you will still have your conspiracies about how Bill Ran the CIA when he was Governor of Arkansas and controlled the drug trade in this country....but the new "Squirrel!" is in town, and people will click on a story about how Trump just said women should be punished for having an abortion....and then change his position 6 times over two days. Now that is a news cycle they like.
elaborating on the so called scandals
The email scandal is like many of the past Clinton/Dem scandals. It wasn't a major scandal unless a democrat does it. Reagan and Bush Sr. used to let donors stay in the Lincoln bedroom in the White House. It became a scandal under Clinton. The Clintons replaced 7 employees in the travel office and it became travelgate. Bush Jr. fired 7 federal prosecutors and dismissed two others to replace them with people to help kill investigations of Republicans and start investigations of democrats. Then you have prankgate, pranks as the administration leaves the White House. Bush Sr staffers did it to Clinton staffers when they left. Clinton staffers did it to Bush Jr like signs that said "department of strategery" and taking some W keys off of keyboards. Bush Jr.s staffers made a big show of it and the media followed. Spending money to investigate, they found a few W keys missing and something like two phone cords severed. Again... a prank when Republicans do it...a scandal when dems do it. They had two special prosecutors who both found no wrong doing in Whitewater...so they went out and got a third...who found out Clinton was having an affair....but again no wrong doing in Whitewater....so they set him up and impeached him for lying about the affair. (Nevermind Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald, or Bush and his favorite reporter/male prostitute James Guckert/Jeff Gannon) Four Supreme Court members had personal connections to the Bush campaign and none of them recused themselves in Gore vs Bush. Now the Republicans don't want to vote for a Supreme Court nominee because the court will become too biased for Obama to appoint one in his last year of office.
The list goes on...and there are examples that of course sway the other way. But again, the Republicans are treating emailgate like the scandal to surpass all scandals.....when it is really just an excuse to drag her through the mud and investigate endlessly and hope they find a stained dress somewhere in the closet that is completely unrelated to the investigation. The problem for them now is that they have a candidate that lives for the soundbyte, negative or positive,... and the media finds more interesting than Hillary. Yes you will still have your conspiracies about how Bill Ran the CIA when he was Governor of Arkansas and controlled the drug trade in this country....but the new "Squirrel!" is in town, and people will click on a story about how Trump just said women should be punished for having an abortion....and then change his position 6 times over two days. Now that is a news cycle they like.
Hahaha typical lefty response...... shouldn't you be on a march smashing things up because you're angry
your benefits are being taken from you and you might have to work......
Yes that would. That is a great first step. It does take strength to be gentle and kind, for all of us.
yes, it's about context, and context is, in my opinion, precisely what made the attack on the man so indicative of a deplorable personality. trump, let's get real, is not a comedian. when someone does comedy there are all sorts of nuances about their personality that you as a viewer are in on. their personality becomes part of the joke. sometimes it's understood that the comedians schtick is to be a bit of a jerk. and so when he makes fun of someone part of the focus, part of what comes across as amusing, is the personality that would think that making fun of someone is okay. trumps mockery wasnt done as part of some "look at me, im an odious troglodyte" self-deprecating routine. it was done in the capacity of someone on their pedestal surrounded by people supporting him. i can, admittedly, be a bit of a jerk at times; i will admit i enjoy calling a certain meathead at work a meathead and that i think it's funny how much the fact that he is a gigantic meathead offends him (because surely logic dictates that if it offends him he could simply stop being a meathead? either that or stop being offended). but we have an understanding; we each make fun of each other. i also have an understanding with the people at work that im okay with them thinking im a jerk for it, and that by all means they should. and they do. it wouldnt be funny to me if they didnt. unlike trump, i dont do it to appear big or clever or to win anyone over or to try to make a point. the moment some other person gets in on it and the understanding is lost, is the moment i would stop doing it. to be okay with making fun of someone to a whole crowd of people supporting you in making fun of someone is a pretty clear indication that there is something profoundly wrong in a persons nature, and does strike me as being extremely malicious.
hahaha my god, do you really believe this shiiiiiite.
How about this one
20th century / Germany / economic crisis / jews / Hitler - National Socialists
21st century / Britain / Labour party / jews / Corbyn, Livingstone etc etc - Communists & Socialists
or how about
20th century / Germany / economic crisis / jews / Hitler - National Socialists
21st century / Syria/Iraq / ISIS / Christians / cnuts - Islamists
see what i did there?
History teaches you're probably a lefty, you interpret things in your twisted PC liberal ways
Maybe, I don't know. Honestly, I only care about USA because they have the power and will to invade other countries. When they need something that other countries have they look around, they spot it and they take it with the help of the usual international bootlickers. I'm not saying all US americans agree with this, but that's the behaviour of the government. Can you imagine a bully like Trump as the commander in chief of the army of bullies?
PS: "left and right" is an old classification. It's not used in modern political theory.
trump is for sure playing on this fear we have of organized crime coming over the boarder form mexico along with lots and lots of drugs creating more violence here. if we cant secure a boarder then how can we say that were not letting this happen as lots of crime statistics say it for sure is. the left, and i stand among them, have by and large treated everyone like theyre someone fleeing violence and this is also for sure not the case (economics issues such as jobs dont help but the real fear is the organized crime). many would like to see some sort of secure boarder, what country wouldnt, but if we dont get that then people will vote to deport out of fear which is in the some part real. its another reason i support clinton in the hopes that both can be achieved in with a process and path to citizenship. the hope that a screening process would occur as its not really feasible to just send everyone back both morally and fiscally. the needs to be a realistic center position or trump will win the point based on fear not wholly his own creation
Clinton wanted a wall in 2006, now she claims not to. Clinton is just saying whatever the establishment tells her to. She is shamelessly pandering to the political hysterics who demand that the establishment left adopts their irrational and emotional beliefs that have no bearing in fact and cannot withstand objective scrutiny. But Clinton goes along with the requirements of these special interests because she will get a few more superficial votes regardless of what she actually believes.
Neither Clinton nor any other Democrat wishes to stop illegal immigration anymore as a basic Democratic policy because continued illegal immigration ensures the expansion of their base such that they will be guaranteed perpetual electability. It is in their best interests to grant amnesty to as many illegals as possible as readily as possible.
Illegal immigration from Mexico has been practically net 0 for the last 6 years or whatever it has been.
Illegal immigrants contribute more to the economy than they take.
Illegal immigrants (apart from being here illegally) are less likely to commit crimes than citizens.
Basically it's racism that is pulling the strings behind the movements of protecting American jobs and people.
Now about pandering...
They all do it...but we seem to be ganging up on Hillary.
Trump will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. When Mexico made comments about this. "That wall just got 10 feet taller!" Now that is saying what your constituents want to hear.
I will pay off the debt in 8 years.
I will bargain with our debt holders and force them to take less interest.
Bernie wants free college and other liberal/European socialism policies here...but no way will a Congress protected by gerrymandering and propelled by bigotry, greed, and racism give him anything of what he wants.
Just look at Medicare D....passed during Bush...The US government is forbidden to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices even though they are the largest consumer. No bulk buys here to save the Government money at the cost of Big Pharm bottom line.
Lets take a closer look at the wall
The wall won't do much to stop people coming in. Tunnels, ladders, ropes, holes made in wall, gaps in areas where they can't build. And will they wall off access to the Rio?
The better the wall...the more likely they will stay here illegally once they come for work. The more difficult to go back and forth...the more likely they will stay where the work is. (they did studies comparing the 60's and 70's and how laws changed)
The wall can never be completed without violating individual land rights as the Government does not own the entire border. This is a principle many staunch Republicans stand by.
Mexico will not be paying for the wall.
Better "walls" would include....
1) Legalize pot ( to help lessen the cartel violence)
2) Put the burden of proof of employing legal workers on the employer again.
I'm not necessarily directing all of this at you but let me just jump in and expand on the point you made.
First let me ask what terms are used in modern political theory rather than "left" and "right" since I also tend to favour those bipolar terms. I am genuinely curious as to that as well as what use you think the distinctions of left and right have in modern politics if any.
Good leaders have to be "bullies" sometimes. Tough love might make one appear to be a "bully" by the way but that doesn't mean that the tough love wasn't necessary. We should also be careful about making dispositional claims and ignoring the situational factors.
I think there is far, far too much focus on Trump's character and public persona and in particular what are deemed to be his character flaws rather than focusing on the positive aspects of his character that make him a good leader especially during these difficult times and looking at policy and practicality.
It's so easy to pick apart someone's persona and ignore everything else like it doesn't matter and debunking the person is the key to the issue. Bill Maher might be giving himself a pat on the back for making fun of Trump for acting like a little bitch while, to be quite honest, acting like a little bitch himself. But all of this tangential media clickbait is irrelevant even though it seems to be what drives the narrative among the superficial cluster of the public who are not that bothered to look deeper or just don't ultimately give a f*** about politics.
Well I can tell you right now that dismissing Trump by making fun of his hair does not make ISIS disappear. Complaining that a joke Trump made is distasteful does not bring jobs back. Try again!
I don' find Trump funny. On the contrary. Did you know German intellectuality used to mock Hitler before he reached the power? There's nothing funny about psycopaths. They tell you what you want to hear until they have power over your life, they make you believe they can ignore rules by a superior good, that you can justify bully or discrimination in some "serious" situations, etc. Then you find yourself in the middle of a nightmare asking what happened I didn't see it coming. Please, are you so blind that you can't see a notorious sociopath? Do you believe he is a magician that will solve all your problems? No, he will crush some people to favour another people, but mainly he will benefit himself at any cost. Will you be the crushed or the crusher?
Good leaders do the right thing.