Politics And Current Events

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:36 pm

I want trump to win so badly.

It'd be a giant **** you to everyone

America deserves him

Did Germany "Deserve" Hitler?

I get what you're saying, but please, dear god, no

Postby **columbia** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:37 pm

You deserve Trump? What did you do?

Puked on a girl.

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:40 pm

No one deserves him. I'm starting to feel he will win, and that gives me the chills.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:41 pm

I find Trump intriguing. Not the person...he's a terrible person and would make for a terrible president. But the idea of him being voted into office, or at least winning the Republican nomination, is oddly comforting.

People are so fed up with the current state of American politics that they're willing to someone as dumb as Trump in office? if that isn't a middle finger to politicians, I don't know what is

Postby **Factorial** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:42 pm

No one deserves him. I'm starting to feel he will win, and that gives me the chills.

More so than Hillary?

Postby **Algernon** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:46 pm

I find Trump intriguing. Not the person...he's a terrible person and would make for a terrible president. But the idea of him being voted into office, or at least winning the Republican nomination, is oddly comforting.

People are so fed up with the current state of American politics that they're willing to someone as dumb as Trump in office? if that isn't a middle finger to politicians, I don't know what is

I know exactly how you feel because it's how I feel.

Now I'm gonna go take a shower....

Postby **grunthy** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:47 pm

No one deserves him. I'm starting to feel he will win, and that gives me the chills.
More so than Hillary?

I can't vote for either. Trump(egomaniac, lunatic, blow-hard) vs Clinton(egomaniac, corrupt, blow-hard). It's a lose lose to me.

Postby **Troy Loney** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:48 pm

I just saw a story that had Hillary crushing Trump in the general, but losing to Carson and Rubio.

I'm pretty sure the Republicans will figure out a way to give someone else the nomination. The statement above indicates to me that that the independent vote favors the right in this election, but would never go for Trump.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:58 pm

That Monmouth polls internals are silly. Only 25% of those polled voted in a primary before.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 3:59 pm

That Monmouth polls internals are silly. Only 25% of those polled voted in a primary before.

I've never voted in a Republican primary, will be doing so in March.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:00 pm

This Administration is hideous.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/26 ... nts-social

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson decided against ending a secret U.S. policy that prohibits immigration officials from reviewing social media posts of foreigners applying for U.S. visas, according to a report by ABC News.

Johnson decided to keep the prohibition in place in early 2014 because he feared a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations,” according to ABC.

“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security for intelligence and analysis, told ABC News.

How can the Department of "Homeland Security" follow a policy that doesn't use every reasonable means at their disposal to screen immigrants? Yeesh.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:06 pm

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/676508249303203840

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:12 pm

This Administration is hideous.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/26 ... nts-social

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson decided against ending a secret U.S. policy that prohibits immigration officials from reviewing social media posts of foreigners applying for U.S. visas, according to a report by ABC News.

Johnson decided to keep the prohibition in place in early 2014 because he feared a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations,” according to ABC.

“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security for intelligence and analysis, told ABC News.
How can the Department of "Homeland Security" follow a policy that doesn't use every reasonable means at their disposal to screen immigrants? Yeesh.

Because we must extend our inalienable rights to non-citizens <sarcasm>

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:13 pm

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/676508249303203840

I love that a nearly inaccessible island is our most liberal city

Postby **Factorial** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:15 pm

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/676508249303203840
I love that a nearly inaccessible island is our most liberal city

How many people live there?

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:17 pm

10K it's a fairly big island 37sq miles no bridges

The racial makeup of the CDP was 93.61% White, 0.45% Black or African American, 0.70% Native American, 1.56% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.87% from other races, and 2.75% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.56% of the population.

Postby **Factorial** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:21 pm

I was picturing a population of 10 or so.

It's only 93% white so I won't be going there.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:22 pm

I was picturing a population of 10 or so.

It's only 93% white so I won't be going there.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:26 pm

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/676508249303203840
I love that a nearly inaccessible island is our most liberal city
How many people live there?

I just Googled it and learned that Dan Savage and his partner moved from there because he didn't know if the local school district would accept the adopted child of two gay men.

Some liberal outpost, pft.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:28 pm

Source of the post Dan Savage

For a moment I thought you meant Michael Savage and I couldn't fathom things have changed that much since I last listened.

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 4:36 pm

The people's republic of vashon Island.

When I worked for Microsoft in the late 80's, we had a number of people who had second homes there

Postby **columbia** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:04 pm

South Carolina may legalize sex between unmarried people, pinball machines for teens
http://m.savannahnow.com/latest-news/20 ... l-machines#

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:21 pm

South Carolina may legalize sex between unmarried people, pinball machines for teens
http://m.savannahnow.com/latest-news/20 ... l-machines#

Repealing stupid outdated laws.
That sure doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
I've always thought laws should come with an expiration date anyway. If it's a good law, it'd get renewed. Otherwise, it's gone.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:27 pm

Outdated? That implies they were once acceptable. Like how SC had a law against interracial (whatever that means) marriage until 1998.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:17 am

https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/6 ... 9769484289

They are making a movie about Ted Kennedy's effort to get over Chappaquiddick.