Hoya, it's been a while since this discussion, but if you get a moment, could you provide just a couple paragraphs of thoughts on affirmative action, especially as it relates to Asian Americans being limited and rejected even with superior qualifications, due to apparent (even if not explicit) quotas and limits? TIA.
I saw but did not read the NYTimes article about Trump "the dynamic independent" or something wretch-inducing, but really enjoyed this Slate comparison to historical "maybe Hitler will be OK" stories:
It is beyond doubt that, as the party is moving toward power, the sharp edges of many of its views are becoming blunt. Even though Adolf Hitler refused to submit to cross-examination the other day on the ground that the lawyer of his opponent was a Jew his speeches no longer bristle with pointed references to the anti-Semitic cause. He lately went so far in his repudiation of racial exclusiveness as to assert in a public statement that, “against honest Jews we have nothing to say.”
If anyone here actually read the Times' story...was it as bad as I assume?
Discussion topic: For the presidency, straight up popular vote should be implemented over electoral college. This would be better for 2 main reasons: 1. It lowers the threshold necessary for 3rd parties to be competitive and 2. It means that all votes count. In the current system, rando repubs in upstate New York or Dems in Alabama don't even bother to vote because their votes are meaningless.
For congressional districts, at least a portion of the total seats for given state should be up to popular vote across the whole state so that the effects of gerrymandering are suppressed.
Koch Bros must be getting a wee bit angry. What return have they actually received on the prodigious investments in politics that would not have been obtained anyway (i.e. there was a critical mass of Dem support)?
GOP: If you let our buddies in the oil/mining/forestry industry poison your water we will do everything we can to ensure you don't have to live with brown people.
Hickenlooper just now on Bernie's Medicare-4-All: Need to pursue "other avenues" that can get Republican support. IOW, meet 'em half way and that will pave the road to UHC. Just string 'em along with small bets they'll never see it coming.
I'm picturing George McFly folding every hand to Biff heads up. Is there a politics version of Play Poker Like the Pros all of these reach-across-the-aisle Dems are reading?
No. Their donors don't want to pay the taxes required, either. They have to come up with something plausible enough to keep people who want UHC voting for them.
I, for one, am truly enjoying the Hillary Clinton publicity tour. There's just something charming about a book people hate without reading. Thousands of Amazon reviews removed, Martin Shkreli imprisoned for requesting minions steal her hair, and I'm never even going to read the book! This must be what Woody feels like on a good day.
I saw the excerpt of her blaming Bernie promising everyone ponies for her seeming cold and distant when she said we can't afford that. That's enough for me to hate it.
She lost because she took all the work Obama did in key areas for granted, ignored those people, and then was surprised when they voted for someone that acted like he gave a **** about them. It doesn't matter that he doesn't. It matters that he at least pretended to.
I wish she would take all her money and go retire somewhere outside of the spotlight. I don't have time for the second worst candidate to ever have a real run at the Presidency to go on a tour blaming everyone except herself. You blew it for all of us. You ran against literally Trump and couldn't convince people to vote for you where it mattered. I will always despise you for that. I say that as someone that voted for her.
Didn't read it all but the excerpt that made me the saddest was that they watch a bunch of ****ty network dramas and that bill thinks NCIS:LA is his favorite