Thing is, this election is a referendum between those who think the world is extremely simple and those who think the world is extremely complicated. And for the former, your answer just isn't good enough.

LOL. There you go!

Trump is a bad man...a very very baaaad maaan.

Probably a Galaxy Note 7.

I didn't even post in this subforum during the last election. So, no, I didn't go around saying Rmoney is a threat to democracy... because, he wasn't. If the GOP nominated ~anyone else, I'd have like 25 posts itt. But, they nominated Trump. He's a clear and present danger.

Back n the 2000s the AEI attacked the Clinton foundation for going too fast and cheap in purchasing cheap drugs for African patients, possibly ending up with generics that weren't very effective. I'm shocked to learn that they made it all up and that the CF never purchased any drugs at all.

Much better

So Trump calls it a bombing moments after it happens before anyone has any information, before it's been investigated. Hillary won't speculate, gives a calm and measured response. Alt right on Twitter praises him for guessing right even though he spoke quickly, slams Hillary for dragging her feet on a response.

#JumpToConclusions2016

The Hate-Right has cast their lot with Trump and at this point they're going to support pretty much whatever he says or does. They're not really used to having mainstream political representation at all and they're just really happy to have a platform to spread their message to the youth.

FOX News says we should give up a "teeny bit" of our rights because the survival of America is at stake. They say we need more cameras on every corner, warrantless searches if there is a suspicion, no privacy on cell phones and no concern over constitutional/civil rights.

"Bombs on the streets of our cities!"

Of course most of the people eating this garbage up live in the middle of nowhere anyway. They're literally begging for a police/surveillance state.

It's like you're not even trying anymore.

Love me some BAIDS

oh lawd, that has got to feel below average

Lol Fox News. Warrantless searches for Browns obv. Goobers with pipe bombs=marshal law VOTE TRUMP! Man that Jersy thing sounded scary. Lucky the race got delayed. Hope they get the ****ers.

Alt-media is like candyland for taller children that don't want to eat their vegetables.

But they think that we're holding a secretive ball.
Won't someone invite them
They're just taller children, that's all, after all

Latest: JA may abort due to news cycle concerns

I was traveling this summer and I was in Colorado when those cops in Dallas were shot. I was staying at a RV park and the owner knocked on my door at like midnight asking if I wanted to stay in the bunker with me. I was like "Huh? Why?" He said "We are now at war. Cops in Dallas shot, blah, blah, blah."

Keep in mind, I am in the middle of f'ing nowhere in Colorado. I remember using Map Quest to see how close the nearest Wal-Mart was and it was like 60 miles away. Yet this guy was convinced a war was declared that night and that there was going to be civil unrest and basically the apocalypse was coming.

I had planned on staying there 2 weeks but left the next day. It really is scary how people are shaped and frightened by what they see on the news.

Nice of him to invite you in at least! But yeah it really is terrifying how some people are easily impacted by hype on TV. Having lived in NYC for a couple years, I guarantee you nightlife is carrying on as usual a block or two outside the cordoned off area. But that dude in Colorado is probably in the bunker again tonight.

Incredible how the people who evaluate charities have been fooled by the dastardly Clinton Foundation but not to worry, posters on Internet forums will comb through their tax returns and tell us what's REALLY going on. Same with the FBI and her emails and I guess the Benghazi committee that was instituted specifically to implicate her in wrongdoing. Either Hillary is the greatest ****ing criminal mastermind who ever lived and has been able to skillfully dodge every bullet shot her way through a combination of corruption and intimidation, or maybe, just maybe, she's not as guilty as she's made out to be. Seriously if you think she's as bad as Trump yet has managed to get away with basically everything, shouldn't you be voting for her? Trump loses all the time, Hillary undefeated outside of 08!

Already saw some great tweets to the tune of "heard the explosion a block away, went to the deli."

Don't forget to tip your server.

Can someone translate this to English?

Not a bad move, gotta get some food in case they make you shelter in place for hours!

New Yorkers are used to going about their business while there are major events of all sorts going on nearby... But while they're calmly doing their thing, Trump is riling up a crowd halfway across the country before we even know anything concrete.

I actually find the term offensive and would never use it, 5ive. I'm sure there are better ways of talking about situations where one thinks a person is "selling out" or what have you.

Also, I thought Patton's letter sounded sincere.

For the record, though, I wasn't endorsing Lynne Patton's view of Donald Trump at all!

I didn't think that I needed to write that, but the thought occurred to me later. I was merely suggesting that people can be more complex than we imagine them to be.

There can be good and evil present in a person at the same time. He might very well be a nurturing and caring boss, who treats African Americans and other minorities equally and with respect in his business/personal life (I wouldn't be in a position to know), but uses race as a dividing force in his political life. The latter is utterly despicable and absolutely warrants harsh criticism.

An example of a person, who might be the epitome of that contradiction is LBJ. He signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, yet disgustingly said:

"I'll have those n***ers voting Democratic for 200 years."

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-jo...-rights-racism

This article above talks about Johnson being a civil rights hero and a racist at the same time.

Hillary Clinton's controversial use of the term "super predator" in championing the 1994 crime bill, along with her support of the 1996 welfare reform act that dismantled the country's social safety net call into question whether she had used race as a political tool.

To be fair, I actually wasn't opposed to the use of the term super predator in theory if it just meant super violent people - be they black, white, Asian, Latino, Arabic, etc. I mean, if you're super violent, you ARE a super predator. But, in the political climate of the 1990's, it could have been seen as a reference to African Americans (in which case, it would have been wrong to make allusions to race if done intentionally). I honestly don't know her intentions and withhold personal judgment on that. But Michelle Alexander has said that Bill Clinton's election marked a change in the Democratic Party toward get tough policies designed to win over white swing voters. To get elected, he had to show he was even tougher than the Republicans on crime (and by extension, black people).

She explains it much better than I could here - in case I'm interpreting her wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFHNzlx24QM

Does that mean that Bill and Hillary were racist?

I mean, it's complicated. I don't know if there were intentionally racist. If they were doing it for political expediency, then is that different from Trump?

Still am.

My point (see post above) was that people are complex beings, who can show racist beliefs at times, while also championing equality.

Do I believe Trump is a lifelong civil rights advocate who just happened to make a few bad choices and/or say a few racist or poorly worded utterances here and there at moments in his life.

HECK NO!!! The way he speaks is so reckless and inflammatory as to be beyond mere accident in my opinion. Personally, I think unless he is so stupid (in which case, he has no business being President) as to not see the harmful connotations of his words, then he's obviously doing it on purpose and has no excuse.

My only point was that he might also show kindness, fairness, charity, etc. in areas of his personal/non-political life that we may not know of and are admirable (like being supportive of and standing by Lynne Patton, during her bout with substance abuse).

..........Or, I could be losing my mind and should stop doing drugs (...I don't actually, but just sayin' ), in which case, SOMEONE TELL ME SO!

Maybe my subconscious mind dislikes Hillary so much taht I'm looking for possible ways to like Trump. Who knows. There was a "disease" called Obama Derangement Syndrome, right? Maybe I have something similar with Hillz.

Why America, why????? Why do we have to choose between these two crappy candidates???

Hill called it a bombing too

Obviously there's a lot of complicated reasons we could get into, but I submit this as a general reason we don't get better results overall in our political system: only about 30% of eligible registered voters made the effort to vote in either primary. Now I'm sure some of them had legit reasons for not voting, but it gets back into the prisoner's dilemma I've been nagging on for a long time about why voting actually IS a rational act. If the outcome of our collective voting efforts didn't matter, the Koch brothers wouldn't be spending millions of dollars every year to get the best results possible through the political system, they would be spending it on more factories, more employees, etc. etc.