so a psychopathic, women-hating, racist, tax-dodging, russian affiliated candiate is less evil than hillary? do tell. is emailing on a seperate server really that important in the whole grand scheme of things? I am guessing you're not American anyways. You just want to see America fall.
> so a psychopathic, women-hating, racist, tax-dodging, russian affiliated candiate is less evil than hillary? do tell.
I don't believe Trump is any of those things. Quite the contrary I'm convinced he's an altogether good human being.
Sure his manner of speech isn't the most political correct, but I'd much rather have rough talk from an honest person then snakeoil from a proven liar.
> is emailing on a seperate server really that important in the whole grand scheme of things?
If the server was set up specifically to allow sidestepping of FOIA then yes it's important. If non-State business was conducted on it in tandem with State business then yes it's important. If it was used to conduct State business and any records were deleted then yes it's important.
> I am guessing you're not American anyways. You just want to see America fall.
I can't speak for the GP, but I'm American and I want nothing but the best for this country.
So a guy who tweets fake crime statistics to make it seem like most white murders are done by black people and a guy who publicly shames women for their body is not a racist or sexist? In what reality do you live?
The irony of this article is that the only person seriously talking about providing relief to people like this woman is Hillary Clinton. And while the author seems to want to debunk the notion that Trump supporters are racists, his subject's comments about "the blacks" would seem only to reinforce that impression.
I'm a black [person:)], and like many others I agree 100% with this Trump supporter's assessment of Bill Clinton's policies, and don't think that they make her seem racist in any way. It's unfortunate that she's going to vote for Trump, but this entire election is unfortunate.
The substance of her comment was a distaste for the establishment's views and treatment of African Americans. I wouldn't say makes her a racist.
Of course the term 'blacks' is, certainly to the college-educated and those living in California and New York, very un-politically correct. I can appreciate such an audience would be moved to call her out that point rather than engaging with what she's actually saying.
As someone who grew up in the Rust Belt, my feelings about Trump are very similar to those described by the interview subject. I'm sure there are many from my community who feel similarly.
There are many problems with Trump, but his anti-free-trade policies alone are enough to make me seriously consider voting for him, regardless of the obvious issues with both Trump as a person, and the rest of his platform. That should tell you a lot about the amount of economic pain free trade has caused to the place where I grew up -- basically my hometown's area's been in a depression for as long as I can remember, things still haven't recovered from waves of plant closings stretching back to the 1980's.
Both from comments from the woman portrayed in the piece as well as a comment from the author ("...we’re going to see another neck-and-neck election in 2020, and in 2024, and in 2028"), to me it almost seems like there could be more opportunities for independent candidates in the near future. I wonder of more people like the woman portrayed keep thinking "well X hasn't helped me, and Y isn't helping me, maybe i'll take a shot with Z; at this point what will it hurt?"
It's such a sad situation. Large segments of the population have been genuinely suffering and the problems being quite mathematical, makes it so that no one sees that the culprits are monetary hawks deliberately pushing people into poverty to maintain their precious sub 2% inflation. People turn to blaming each other or visible groups. They want retributive justice more than a solution because they can no longer trust promises that the situation will be improved. The situation is slowly getting better in the US but it took way too long, did serious damage to people's livelihood and in Europe and elsewhere around the world, things are still catastrophic.
Here is my attempt at explaining the macroeconomic situation:
> So to her, the idea of a border wall is a non-issue. I pressed her on the issue, and she said she thinks, “It’s a waste of money. If someone wants to cross the border, they’re gonna cross the border.”
It's actually worse than a waste of money. This was covered a couple of weeks ago on "Adam Ruins Everything", when they did a show on immigration.
It turns out that whenever we tighten border controls to make it harder to get across the border illegally, the number of illegal immigrants living here goes up. The reason for that rather counterintuitive result is that a good fraction of illegal immigrants are people who come here legally, such as on a tourist visa, and then simply do not leave when their visa expires.
Tighter border controls don't stop these people from coming in, but they do stop many of them from leaving. With the border as it is today, there is a steady flow of illegal immigrants in both directions. You can come in to work here illegally, save up some money, and go home to help your family there, and then come back for more work.
If the border is tight enough that you don't think you'll be able to cross it back into the US illegally if you go home to Mexico, you are more likely to take up permanent illegal residence in the US. You'll come in the first time legally, and just stay.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 52.9 ms ] threadWhat is implied is that Hillary is _not_ good. It's just less bad.
I just don't see how that is saying that is how Hillary will get into the White House.
Yes. It speaks volumes about her character and who she surrounds herself with. FYI --Not a Trump supporter--
I don't believe Trump is any of those things. Quite the contrary I'm convinced he's an altogether good human being.
Sure his manner of speech isn't the most political correct, but I'd much rather have rough talk from an honest person then snakeoil from a proven liar.
> is emailing on a seperate server really that important in the whole grand scheme of things?
If the server was set up specifically to allow sidestepping of FOIA then yes it's important. If non-State business was conducted on it in tandem with State business then yes it's important. If it was used to conduct State business and any records were deleted then yes it's important.
> I am guessing you're not American anyways. You just want to see America fall.
I can't speak for the GP, but I'm American and I want nothing but the best for this country.
But how is that relevant? With Trump you get rough talk from a proven liar.
> You just want to see America fall.
Nope. I'm not voting for Trump or Clinton.
Of course the term 'blacks' is, certainly to the college-educated and those living in California and New York, very un-politically correct. I can appreciate such an audience would be moved to call her out that point rather than engaging with what she's actually saying.
There are many problems with Trump, but his anti-free-trade policies alone are enough to make me seriously consider voting for him, regardless of the obvious issues with both Trump as a person, and the rest of his platform. That should tell you a lot about the amount of economic pain free trade has caused to the place where I grew up -- basically my hometown's area's been in a depression for as long as I can remember, things still haven't recovered from waves of plant closings stretching back to the 1980's.
Here is my attempt at explaining the macroeconomic situation:
https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
good lord. can we please stop crediting and blaming presidents for everything under the sun? if we didn't have a president, the economy would cycle.
It's actually worse than a waste of money. This was covered a couple of weeks ago on "Adam Ruins Everything", when they did a show on immigration.
It turns out that whenever we tighten border controls to make it harder to get across the border illegally, the number of illegal immigrants living here goes up. The reason for that rather counterintuitive result is that a good fraction of illegal immigrants are people who come here legally, such as on a tourist visa, and then simply do not leave when their visa expires.
Tighter border controls don't stop these people from coming in, but they do stop many of them from leaving. With the border as it is today, there is a steady flow of illegal immigrants in both directions. You can come in to work here illegally, save up some money, and go home to help your family there, and then come back for more work.
If the border is tight enough that you don't think you'll be able to cross it back into the US illegally if you go home to Mexico, you are more likely to take up permanent illegal residence in the US. You'll come in the first time legally, and just stay.
A photo from Trump DC hotel opening to show you how racist is Trump:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsKi8cbWYAAHoy8.jpg:large