http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/10/politi...dio/index.html

"race traders"

Go back and read what I wrote, I didn't say that.

This is actually typical of conservative media because like a billion random conservative sites reported this, yet I can't find the actual question that was asked anywhere. None of them could be bothered citing it because they don't care. The polling firm who conducted it are apparently too technically incompetent to manage things like permalinks, and archive.org is down.

Two bolded bits are very, very different.

Like seriously rara, before you post something like that, do you not think "hang on, I should find out what the actual question asked was"? Serious question.

Yes its different because while I would want a third term for Obama, I wouldn't actually support that if he tried to make it happen. To take it a step further, I would vehemently oppose such a proposition.

Least successful Civilization spinoff ever.

Yeah well in Gladiator 'hell' was just some horses and swords and ****. It wouldn't result in half the world being unable to eat potatoes for the next 40 years.

OK, I found the question. As a side note, it's journalistic malpractice to report these poll results without even including a link to the poll (as TheHill did).

The question asked was this:

The question asked of Republicans was this:

These are very different. The first question proposes a fantasy scenario in which the respondent just gets to choose what happens in the world. The second proposes a real-world scenario by actual powerbrokers and asks how respondent would react to it.

Well in the US in 1995 the amount of ppl that viewed democracy as bad way to run the country was 12% among 25-34 year olds, in 2011 it was 23% in the same age group. The amount of ppl with this opinion have since then (and possibly before then) been on the rise in every age group in the US and in almost every age group in europe.

Also an enormous shift in younger generations in US on how essential it is for them to live in a democratic society. Among people born in the 1930s the amount of ppl that viewed it as essential (like 10 on a 10 point scale) was 74% while the amount that said the same among people born in the 1980s is 31%. Thats a pretty drastic change, to me its nothing less than essential.

Probably because the people born in the 80s have had to watch the people born in the 30s-60s reap all the benefit of this "democratic society" to the detriment of those that followed

Well, it was nice having a new Chief of Staff while he lasted.

It's a bad excuse, but Trump's historic incompetence played a huge role in their failure.

Yes, it's very different you dumb f**k.

There are no heroes in this story

Passing those big legislations is not easy to do for mcconnell i think. From what i understand you need the person with the most political capital, the president, to do a massive effort to get it through, go to loads of conventions and interests groups and individual congresspeople and force the new idea into their heads basically. I think thats what obama did.

Why the name change? Just being mercurial?

Paul Manafort's bank records have been subpoenaed by Team Mueller

There was a Pakistani* nuclear scientist a while back who had apparently leaked their nuclear program information (*possibly through India through Israel); it was reportedly expected that the info went to Bush's "axis of evil".


Bush's solution to Iraq: regime change and occupation

Obama's solution to Iran: ease trade sanctions

Trump's solution to NK: nuclear war



drain the swamp

Next, se7en > 7even IMO.

AQ Khan. The world's most famous Pakistani nuclear physicist.

So, TheHill is ****ty, right? I only have two data points, so it could be a fluke I guess.

You know better than to cite Seth Abramson, bro.

They just regurgitate news from other places and come across as sensational/lazy. Their articles are usually really short on detail needed to support their headlines. I don't like them, but they aren't bottom of the barrel.