Hey now, no need to explain. I mean, water is wet, right?
Once more: sheesh.
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You planning on actually posting an opinion on the Presidential race or are you planning on just telling me what I am/am not required to post in the interwebs?
A “casual comment” okay Chushin… You can’t be bothered to read the thread, but somehow I’ve implied Hillary would be such a better CIC because I omitted her from a comment I made specifically about Trump.
I’ve repeatedly said she is garbage, but that isn’t good enough. I’ve repeatedly said I would never vote for her, but that isn’t good enough.
Let me recap the thread for you. I’ve been called a buttboy. I’ve been called an ass kiss. I’ve been called a coward. I’ve been called stupid. I’ve been called some iteration of “son”. My service has been called into question. Basically, I’ve been talked down to repeatedly, but me asking you if you’re going to continue to post about how I should post as oppesed to talking about the actual topic in order to avoid yet another shit show makes me an ass?
This years election has been incredibly enlightening. The Republicans here are just as bad as the Democrats. Agree with them and you’re great and they’ll sing you praise, but disagree with them and all of a sidden your IQ gets questioned or your an ass for asking a simple non-condensing question.
Don’t chat with me or do, I don’t care, honestly. I’m about done with “groundhog day” of which your friend Zeb is a huge part of, as well.
Tell me this is just a casual comment:
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Now you get how I felt whenever Pushharder and I had a conversation here!
=D
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Sounds great.
Yes, that has become abundantly clear of late.
Back to the actual topic, Clinton out in front by 9:
What’s interesting is that Clinton’s favorability remains underwater, but she continues to add to and maintain her lead. Meaning, voters aren’t falling in love with her, they still don’t like her - they’ve just found Trump more and more loathesome and increasingly consider her to be the lesser of two evils.
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Ya, RealClear has her up by about 7:
They’re also projecting +2 in the Senate and +2 in the House for Dems.
Breitbart, Daily Caller & co. appear to have scooped them out of the sewer, as those circus acts do. TB wrote up a great post re: the shameless nonsense about Khan’s “Clinton/Saudi Arabia” connections above. As for what I believe the Daily Caller called Khan’s having written “extensively” on Sharia, their definition of the term “extensive” appears to be satisfied by a single paper in a law journal written three decades ago and containing nothing objectionable.
The illiterates and overt apparatchiks at Breitbart have, however, chosen to flatly misunderstand at least one line in it, in which Khan unambiguously addresses the question of hierarchical classification of the various sources of Islamic law (this being the subject of the paper) and proclaims that the tangential post-Quranic Islamic juridical works – not the fucking Constitution – must be subordinated to the Quran. One can easily imagine a Jewish legal scholar writing the same sort of thing, mutatis mutandis – and it would be exactly as troubling, which is to say not troubling at all.
Beyond that I skimmed the article and the only other thing that stuck out for me was Khan’s very Christian/Jewish-sounding conclusion that Sharia is less a system of law than ritual house rules designed to bring Muslims closer to god, or something to that affect, the same kind of thing we’ve been hearing from secularizing Christians for centuries.
Furthermore, I don’t think a guy’s having written even glowing things about Sharia thirty years ago would alter in any measurable way this particular Trump meltdown.
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I believe it was the Marist poll (very well-regarded with a good track record, btw) that has Clinton up 15 and still not breaking 50 percent.
It’s almost as if the GOP went with the only American incapable of beating HRC.
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If only some people would’ve said that during the primaries…
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I seem to remember a lot of people screaming it.
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I think its obvious that there are a large number of Republicans jumping ship as opposed to getting on the bandwagon…
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lol should’ve included /sarcasm
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Mostly the folks who played defense for them.
It is in no way elitist to recognize the fact that the intelligence and inquisitiveness of the general electorate is, well, very average. It’s also not elitist, but rather intellectually honest, to realize that only a portion of the electorate votes, especially in primaries and caucuses, and that anger is a great motivator.
Our ‘elitist’ forefathers clearly recognized this when they wrote the first article of the constitution and required state legislatures to elect US senators. Unfortunately a mere 100 years later we thought it wise to undo this requirement with the 17 amendment in our ever increasing shift towards democracy.
Similarly, article 2 grants the right of electing the president to the electoral college. The electors were also to be chosen by the state legislatures under the assumption that the people can much better choose local electors of integrity to make decisions on their behalf (kind of like a republic…) than they can be burdened with the requirement of any republic to properly vet national office holders.
Finally, as a political party the Republicans had the prerogative to name whomever they wanted to represent the party in any manner they wanted.
We haven’t been failed by the people. The people as a group were never responsible enough to protect a Republic. We were failed by the very elitists that we accuse to be power hungry. In an ironic attempt to protect themselves with populist agendas they have handed all power to the democratic people at the expense of the Constitutional Republic.
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Honestly, and this is coming from a guy who understands that the NYT/WSJ/Fox/MSNBC/NR/Atlantic balance each other out, who understands media bias in an intimate, internal way: Breitbart’s open disregard for accuracy, or even the appearance of accuracy, consistently and uniquely shocks me. If I read something there, my default is to assume it isn’t true and carry on my investigation from there.
Switching gears, I’ve been dying to ask you this: What are the Japanese saying about Trump?
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