joshuatxuk Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I bet Trump supporters will come to terms with Hilary winning in a similarly delusional fashion as Benjamin Horne: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I actually just last night had a conversation about the Twin Peaks-y vibe of this year’s election media circus. Like, on the surface it’s just a numbing, sensational wash of loudmouthed name-brand pundits & politicos running their show biz as usual, but below the hyperbolic, over-emoted “journalistic” melodrama lurks a very real, if shapeless, inescapable evil. The result being that same TP sleep paralysis effect, where you’re hypnotized by the alien words & glowing eyes of the approaching predator, & your own inaction soon becomes the scariest part of the whole spidery mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 I just walked by a tv in the airport with cnn on it and saw something about someone in the Trump camp who posted a drawing of Hillary with a black face. I have no idea what's going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted August 30, 2016 Author Share Posted August 30, 2016 ^^ that's part of your daily "trump related news that would never fly if anyone else said it but will soon come to pass thanks to people not giving a shit". of course, the guy that posted it regrets it and already, we've moved on. can't wait for tomorrow's soon-to-be forgotten outrage though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 lol at the choice of ebonics there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 (edited) Republicans can't actually think they've done (or even said) a single thing that should earn them the back vote though. Edited August 30, 2016 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 (edited) here's a recent maddow piece on polling related to trump and black people that's pretty funny Edited August 30, 2016 by very honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 When I was in Raleigh, NC I actually spoke to a few individuals that voted for Trump in the primary. These were coworkers that I got along with and went out drinking with. It was like discovering your friend has been bitten by a zombie and has no hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) The values that Trump panders to are not fringe values, unfortunately. These 'traditional' (read: white) ideas are not held merely by the odd redneck here or there. It runs all through this country, although slightly under the surface. I took a cab a few days ago and the dude was listening to Rush Limbaugh. It's the Bud Light and Patriots and spend-the-weekend-working-on-your-car types, and they are fucking everywhere. Edited August 31, 2016 by LimpyLoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chartnok Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election yeah they're planing to outbreed the white race and it's working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreOceans Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 wew lad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election yeah they're planing to outbreed the white race and it's working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Some of my fellow Michiganders at the Trump flash mobs across the state. [youtubehd]Va6yFgBHbZM[/youtubehd] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 that's what you get when you live in a place called Tittabawassee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Republicans can't actually think they've done (or even said) a single thing that should earn them the back vote though. There's a really good article about that, and why the party should implode. Their misstep was the Goldwater run in 1964. He wasn't racist or right wing John Birch Society nut (which made him a viable candidate to the more moderate Rockefeller Republicans) but he was very libertarian and opposed the Civil Rights Act on constitutionalism grounds. So when he went against LBJ, who was a liberal Democrat, the GOP bet on this stance to woo the pro-segregationist South, who in 1964 were still card carrying Democrats. It didn't work, LBJ won every state except Arizona and the Deep South, and in the process they essentially shifted every segregationist to either the GOP or 3rd parties. The GOP has never embraced this silent core of closet racist white voters being a block of theirs but they've creeped out with Trump running. The GOP was the party of Lincoln but lost their hold on black voters after the Depression and FDR's presidency. It went from 30% to 6% after 1964. I actually don't disagree that the Dems take advantage of blacks in some ways, corruption and pandering is heavy in urban areas and it plagues many Democratic strongholds BUT the GOP in it's economic anti-government policies, especially with the Tea Party ethos of late, doesn't even try to reach out to minorities and African-Americans. It's also turned off a lot of moderate and conservative Hispanics who used to vote GOP. Catholics are even favoring Clinton 26 points more because Trump has disparaged the Pope and been so anti-empathetic...very unlike Bush who was self-described as a "compassionate conservative" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDobalina Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 ^ @ 1:32! The entire clip is refreshing honest take on the country's broken politics today, too bad its a movie from 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 That is a great movie, although it looks (at first glance) like a terrible movie...like, if someone said "hey, you should watch that flick about Warren Beaty as a rapping politician" I would probably not watch it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 i saw that movie so many times as a kid. whole family loved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election yeah they're planing to outbreed the white race and it's working this actually just an effect of economic status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election yeah they're planing to outbreed the white race and it's working Flol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 black people already do not trust white leaders. they are not going to vote for a jackass like trump. It's amusing that he even thinks he has a chance. We can thank minorities for being intelligent enough to save the country world this election yeah they're planing to outbreed the white race and it's working lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 nwagrlbcmsprdntomg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) there should be prolonged protests for climate legislation. waiting for the corrupt to not be corrupt is really not an option on this. we need legislation. cenk hits the right points there, the trends are alarming, corrupt politicians paid by oil interests are the obstacle, and the real danger is the martial-socio-political fallout of destabilized climates, which right now looks likely to undo modern civilization as we know it. 50 years from now if this is still an issue, that's beyond fucked. we can't even act like they have 50 years to get this together, that's way too long. Edited August 31, 2016 by very honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) waiting for the corrupt to not be corrupt is really not an option + clinton and trump r both corrupt fakers. lesser of th2 evils? how long are we to hold on to tht empty void, lie? brainwashing does nt mk clean brains.. Edited August 31, 2016 by Redruth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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