Trump

[cashead]

The c*nt

Using such a misogynistic term to describe a woman is probably not a good look, dude.

I don't want to derail this, but seriously? If the word c*nt, in it's modern usage, was used to describe a certain type of person, then Hillary Clinton falls perfectly within that type. The fact she's a woman has no bearing on it. She's a c*nt, Osbourne's a c*nt, John Key is a c*nt, etc.

It comes down to institutionalised sexism, and the etymology of the word. And quite frankly, if you can't see why using the word "cunt" to verbally attack a woman can be seen as problematic, then I don't know what to say to you.

[jared_7]

The c*nt

Using such a misogynistic term to describe a woman is probably not a good look, dude.

She is a c*nt, just like Donald Trump is a c*nt. I'm sure the last thing Hillary Clinton wants, as a champion of women's rights, is for me to call her something different because she is a woman...

I can call her a d*ck head if you like, but would that be disrespectful to men?

[cashead]

The c*nt

Using such a misogynistic term to describe a woman is probably not a good look, dude.

She is a c*nt, just like Donald Trump is a c*nt. I'm sure the last thing Hillary Clinton wants, as a champion of women's rights, is for me to call her something different because she is a woman...

I can call her a d*ck head if you like, but would that be disrespectful to men?

Would you like me to explain privilege to you?

[jared_7]

Using such a misogynistic term to describe a woman is probably not a good look, dude.

She is a c*nt, just like Donald Trump is a c*nt. I'm sure the last thing Hillary Clinton wants, as a champion of women's rights, is for me to call her something different because she is a woman...

I can call her a d*ck head if you like, but would that be disrespectful to men?

Would you like me to explain privilege to you?

No thank you, I have no time for a lecture, from you.

I apologise and from here on in will call her a lying-f*ck-face.

[Stooo]

Sometimes you've got to call a cunt a cunt because that cunt is a fucking cunt.

[Which Tyler]

The c*nt

Using such a misogynistic term to describe a woman is probably not a good look, dude.

I don't want to derail this, but seriously? If the word c*nt, in it's modern usage, was used to describe a certain type of person, then Hillary Clinton falls perfectly within that type. The fact she's a woman has no bearing on it. She's a c*nt, Osbourne's a c*nt, John Key is a c*nt, etc.

I've had this discussion as a moderator elsewhere on the internets - it also comes down to location. Apparently it's far more offensive, and gender-specific Stateside than it appears to be elsewhere; whilst being (typically) less so in Aus than it is elsewhere.

[zer0]

Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses on Saturday, continuing a winning streak against front-runner Hillary Clinton as the two head for a key showdown next week in New York.

The senator from Vermont has now defeated Clinton in the past seven of eight states that have held nominating contests.

However, Sanders's margin of victory, which stood at 55.7 percent to 44.3 percent with all precincts reporting, provided no help in his larger quest to catch Clinton in the race for the nomination.

Only 14 delegates were at stake Saturday, and under the party's complicated caucus rules, Sanders was awarded seven delegates, and Clinton was awarded seven.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ?tid=a_inl

LOL wut?

[jared_7]

Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses on Saturday, continuing a winning streak against front-runner Hillary Clinton as the two head for a key showdown next week in New York.

The senator from Vermont has now defeated Clinton in the past seven of eight states that have held nominating contests.

However, Sanders's margin of victory, which stood at 55.7 percent to 44.3 percent with all precincts reporting, provided no help in his larger quest to catch Clinton in the race for the nomination.

Only 14 delegates were at stake Saturday, and under the party's complicated caucus rules, Sanders was awarded seven delegates, and Clinton was awarded seven.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ?tid=a_inl

LOL wut?

Actually, Hillary ended up with 11 delegates, Bernie 7, once Super Delegates factored in. Here's a rare moment when Republicans call something correctly...

[UGagain]

Bet the Donald can't do this....

[Lizard]

There's a little part of me that wants Trump to win the whole thing, just to see how bad it gets (or if he somehow finds a way to be at least not truly incompetent). It could mean living in interesting times.

[Zhivago]

There's a little part of me that wants Trump to win the whole thing, just to see how bad it gets (or if he somehow finds a way to be at least not truly incompetent). It could mean living in interesting times.

Alright for you in NZ. Relatively out of the firing line.

[Lizard]

There's a little part of me that wants Trump to win the whole thing, just to see how bad it gets (or if he somehow finds a way to be at least not truly incompetent). It could mean living in interesting times.

Alright for you in NZ. Relatively out of the firing line.

Some truth in that. Mind you NZ is pretty much entirely dependent on overseas trade so if the freedom of the seas (currently basically guaranteed by USA) ends we are fucked, too.

[Stom]

Could Sanders run as an independent? That may be the best shot...

Otherwise, I'm afraid I will be an honorary Trump supporter, as less bad than Hillary...which says something.

[jared_7]

Could Sanders run as an independent? That may be the best shot...

Otherwise, I'm afraid I will be an honorary Trump supporter, as less bad than Hillary...which says something.

He could do, but its never worked in the past because the senate is made up of Democrats and Republicans who obviously support their candidate.

Sanders will get support but people will know anything he says won't be able to get done. Its foreseeable he could start his Presidency how Obama has ended it, unable to get anything done except through executive orders in a narrow set of circumstance.

[Stom]

Could Sanders run as an independent? That may be the best shot...

Otherwise, I'm afraid I will be an honorary Trump supporter, as less bad than Hillary...which says something.

He could do, but its never worked in the past because the senate is made up of Democrats and Republicans who obviously support their candidate.

Sanders will get support but people will know anything he says won't be able to get done. Its foreseeable he could start his Presidency how Obama has ended it, unable to get anything done except through executive orders in a narrow set of circumstance.

However, if the aim is to convince Americans that the system is broken...what better way to do it. How they'd go about trying to fix the problem, I don't know, but it would be a start.

[morepork]

The wall st. whore will get it and will go about re-invigorating the cold war to mask ongoing financial deregulation.

Fuck me, Americans deserve better than this pack of cunts.

[UGagain]

It's far from over.

[UGagain]

There's a little part of me that wants Trump to win the whole thing, just to see how bad it gets (or if he somehow finds a way to be at least not truly incompetent). It could mean living in interesting times.

Alright for you in NZ. Relatively out of the firing line.

Some truth in that. Mind you NZ is pretty much entirely dependent on overseas trade so if the freedom of the seas (currently basically guaranteed by USA) ends we are fucked, too.

Absurd.

[UGagain]

Looks like the DLC has engaged in some Republican style voter caging in New York to get the war criminal abomination Clinton over the line.

[UGagain]

The Kings County Board of Elections purged 126,000 registered Democrats from the voting rolls in Brooklyn, prompting an outcry from Mayor Bill de Blasio and an audit from Comptroller Scott Stringer. “It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” de Blasio said. “The perception that numerous voters may have been disenfranchised undermines the integrity of the entire electoral process and must be fixed.”

Polling places didn’t open on time, voting machines malfunctioned, and voters showed up to find their names weren’t on the rolls. Some voters had their party affiliations mysteriously switched from Democratic or Republican to independent or non-affiliated and couldn’t vote in the closed primaries. And 3 million New Yorkers, 27 percent of the electorate, didn’t get to vote because they weren’t registered with the Democratic or Republican parties, and the deadline to change party affiliation was an absurd 193 days before the April 19 primary, as I reported on Monday.

As a result, only 19.7 percent of eligible New Yorkers cast a ballot, the second-lowest voter turnout in the primaries after Louisiana, according to elections expert Michael McDonald. There were over 900 calls from frustrated voters to the Election Protection Coalition, more than in any other primary state.

The Nation


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Tuesday’s Syrian election was a vote of confidence by the Syrian people in their government. 5,085,444 voters cast their ballots out of a possible 8,834,994 eligible voters.

The overall participation rate of 58% (virtually identical to Canada’s last federal election) exceeded the government’s expectations in most places but was low in others.



Global Research

[jared_7]

Well Shillary is going to walk it now it seems.

Great article here on how the Democratic Party is actually the party of inequality:

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19084/l ... inequality

Here's a bit, there's also another interesting opinion on how Trunp is getting a lot of former democrats votes because he is seen as more for the people than the Shillary.

To go back to your point about education: At one point you quote Arne Duncan, who was Obama’s secretary of education, saying that the only way to end poverty is through education. Why can’t that work?

The big overarching problem of our time is inequality. If you look at historical charts of productivity and wage growth, these two things went hand in hand for decades after World War II, which we think of as a prosperous, middle-class time when even people with a high school degree, blue-collar workers, could lead a middle class life. And then everything went wrong in the 1970s. Productivity continued to go up and wage growth stopped. Wage growth has basically been flat ever since then. But productivity goes up by leaps and bounds all the time. We have all of these wonderful technological advances. Workers are more productive than ever but they haven’t benefited from it. That’s the core problem of inequality.

Now, if the problem was that workers weren’t educated enough, weren’t smart enough, productivity would not be going up. But that productivity line is still going up. So we can see that education is not the issue.

It’s important that people get an education, of course. I spent 25 years of my life getting an education. It’s basic to me. It’s a fundamental human right that people should have the right to pursue whatever they want to the maximum extent of their individual potential. But the idea that this is what is holding them back is simply incorrect as a matter of fact. What’s holding them back is that they don’t have the power to demand higher wages.

If we talk about the problem as one of education rather than power, then the blame goes back to these workers. They just didn’t go out and work hard and do their homework and get a gold star from their teacher. If you take the education explanation for inequality, ultimately you’re blaming the victims themselves.

Unfortunately, that is the Democratic view. That’s why Democrats have essentially become the party of mass inequality. They don’t really have a problem with it.

So really, the solution would have to be solidarity and organized power.

That was an essential point that I try to make in Listen Liberal: that there is no solidarity in a meritocracy. A meritocracy really is every man for himself.

Don’t get me wrong. People at the top of the meritocracy, professionals, obviously have enormous respect for one another. That is the nature of professional meritocracy. They have enormous respect for the people at the top, but they feel very little solidarity for people beneath them who don’t rise in the meritocracy.

Look at the white-collar workplace. If some professional gets fired, the other professionals don’t rally around and go on strike or protest or something like that. They just don’t do that. They feel no solidarity because everything goes back to you and whether or not you’ve made the grade. If somebody gets fired, they must’ve deserved it somehow.

I have my own personal experience. Look at academia over the last 20 years. They’re cranking out these Ph.D.s in the humanities who can’t get jobs on tenure track and instead have to work as adjuncts for very low pay, no benefits. One of the fascinating parts about this is that, with a few exceptions, the people who do have tenure-track jobs and are at the top of their fields, do very little about what’s happened to their colleagues who work as adjuncts. Essentially this is the Uberizing of higher education. The professionals who are in a position of authority have done almost nothing about it. There are academics here and there who feel bad about what’s happened to adjuncts and do say things about it, but by and large, overall, there is no solidarity in that meritocracy. They just don’t care.

[zer0]

Well Shillary is going to walk it now it seems.

I recall reading an opinion piece few weeks ago (though forget the source, unfortunately) where the author was pretty confident that Clinton's Super Delegates will desert her at the convention on the basis that the FBI investigation will either: A) bring charges against her; or B) do enough damage to her reputation/image (and give plenty of ammunition to Trump/Republicans) that the party higher up's will lose faith in her and jump ship.

Will try to find the piece.

[WaspInWales]

Cruz punching his old lady was the most telling blow he made during the campaign.

[UGagain]

Cruz punching his old lady was the most telling blow he made during the campaign.

And Bernie won Indiana comfortably (like all the non-South open primaries) and the Grauniad is shocked!

[UGagain]