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i think the sentiment from the guy interviewed on whether Puerto Ricans should move to the main land, "i object, I object. they should stay and fix their own country up" is probably the anthem of those dumb voters.

10-22-2017 , 06:25 PM

#63877

LBloom

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I love lines like, to paraphrase "Many agree with Trump that PR's infrastructure was weak before the hurricane." I've heard this **** from people in my day to day life as well. How did these people get so knowledgeable about Puerto Rico's infrastructure?

10-22-2017 , 06:33 PM

#63878

OmgGlutten!

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Birth control issue is really amusing.

Problem: “Black and Hispanic women are having twice as many babies as white women and we are being replaced!”

Solution: “Stop giving them birth control”

10-22-2017 , 06:35 PM

#63879

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LBloom

people believe what they want to believe

10-22-2017 , 07:29 PM

#63880

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

"Them" in your solution includes white women, and trying to force white women to have more babies than they presently do is absolutely how they intend to deal with the looming demographic tide.

10-22-2017 , 07:35 PM

#63881

OmgGlutten!

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It’s not going to work that way, look at the chart. The white women birth rate declined less than the minority’s rate. They can more often afford to pay for it.

10-22-2017 , 08:32 PM

#63882

markksman

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Originally Posted by StimAbuser

Seen it a bunch. Basically, they blame puerto rico for bad infrastructure, and the trucker union or w/e not delivering supplies. Say Trump did a good job, but only so much you can do if they won't help themselves.

Yeah I have seen the Trump line on the Puerto Rican’s being lazy and not helping being repeated.

10-22-2017 , 08:39 PM

#63883

Huehuecoyotl

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Cutting off birth control is the religious right's thing not a white nationalist thing. I'm sure they'll find a way to fuse the two together.

10-22-2017 , 08:44 PM

#63884

Victor

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren’t sure Puerto Ricans should

Quote:

“I object. I object. They should stay where they are and fix their own country up,” Hogg responded

imagine how racist and mean this guy is when the cameras are off and he is not talking to newspaper.

you think this guy doesnt know that pr is part of usa? he absolutely knows, but he is making a point that he does not want those ppl to be a part of his country.

10-22-2017 , 08:48 PM

#63885

Money2Burn

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Originally Posted by LBloom

Not to mention that Houston is a poorly designed city that is the poster child for urban sprawl that almost certainly contributed to the damage from the flooding there.

10-22-2017 , 09:06 PM

#63886

zikzak

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"Poorly designed" implies effort and intent.

10-22-2017 , 09:47 PM

#63887

StimAbuser

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On C-SPAN McCain says, “One aspect of the (Vietnam) conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”

10-22-2017 , 09:52 PM

#63888

AllTheCheese

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Oh ****, "bone spurs," just a totally innocent example, first thing that came to mind.

10-22-2017 , 10:02 PM

#63889

ScreaminAsian

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affirmative draftion:

immediately draft all children of high income earners, send them to seoul and try threatening war again

10-22-2017 , 10:12 PM

#63890

master3004

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Originally Posted by LBloom

Not only that but "they need to fix their own land and problems" you know, their land, ****ing America.

10-22-2017 , 10:14 PM

#63891

Riverman

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He will still vote for the tax cut bill

10-23-2017 , 03:27 AM

#63892

RainierWolfcastle

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This is a bit results oriented but running up the popular vote to demonstrate the absolute ****ing stupidity of the electoral college is why you shouldn't vote third party in NY or CA.

10-23-2017 , 05:55 AM

#63893

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Cutting off birth control is the religious right's thing not a white nationalist thing. I'm sure they'll find a way to fuse the two together.

I figured that Steve King congressmen already did when he said (I'm paraphrasing) "we won't save our country with someone else's babies". The religious right and the white nationalist right are largely one in the same.

10-23-2017 , 06:58 AM

#63894

mosdef

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Originally Posted by stinkubus

I figured that Steve King congressmen already did when he said (I'm paraphrasing) "we won't save our country with someone else's babies". The religious right and the white nationalist right are largely one in the same.

There's certainly a very large overlap. The position of the white nationalist people isn't just that whites are better, full stop, they have a whole retrofitted fake history that credits everything good in the world to white European Christians and everything bad in the world is attributed to non-white non-Christians.

10-23-2017 , 07:37 AM

#63895

All-In Flynn

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Originally Posted by RainierWolfcastle

This is a bit results oriented but running up the popular vote to demonstrate the absolute ****ing stupidity of the electoral college is why you shouldn't vote third party in NY or CA.

The problem is that Clinton usually wins, and you end up validating the EC. Two of the last five POTUSbowls have had a minority-PV winner. Before that, it's generally accepted not to have happened for over a hundred years. The margins don't really matter that much for arguing that something's wrong there, imo.