Election 2016

[Farmer John]

I post this for bada's benefit, since he rightfully shamed me on the last page.

Is that real? I want to see the video. That can't be real

[BurtReynolds]

I liked this article written to the "i can't vote for either people."

It lists Hillary's accomplishments in public service.

-First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley College.
-Distinguished graduate of Yale Law School.
-Editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.
-Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
-Former civil litigation attorney.
-Staff attorney for Children’s Defense Fund.
-Faculty member in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
-Former Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic.
-First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation.
-First female partner at Rose Law Firm, the oldest and one of the largest law firms in Arkansas.
-Twice named by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.
-Former First Lady of Arkansas.
-Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.
-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession.
-Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth.
-Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
-First Lady of the United States.
-Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses.
-Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
-Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome).
-Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
-Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
-First FLOTUS in US History to hold a postgraduate degree.
-Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.
-Two-term New York Senator and the first ex-FLOTUS in US History to be elected to the United States Senate.
-Served on five Senate committees: Budget (2001–2002), Armed Services (2003–2009), Environment and Public Works (2001–2009), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001–2009) and the Special Committee on Aging.
-Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
-Leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders.
-Worked with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment.
-Former United States Secretary of State.
-Brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in 2012.

thats a pretty padded list. Being the first person with a vagina to do something post-1980 doesn't exactly make you Rosa Parks.

Married to the governor of Arkansas? Amazing accomplishment. Where is her Nobel Prize?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Lol @ "first lady of the united States" being an accomplishment

[E.H. Ruddock]

And like Burt said, that is a very padded list.

[Bi_3]

And like Burt said, that is a very padded list.

-Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth.

Maybe if South Carolina had one of those people could afford to go to more than one concert per year. Because they would all be rocket surgeons. Like in Arkansas.

[E.H. Ruddock]

And like Burt said, that is a very padded list.

-Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth.

Maybe if South Carolina had one of those people could afford to go to more than one concert per year. Because they would all be rocket surgeons. Like in Arkansas.

I've been to 17 concerts this year, with at least 6 more on my calendar, all across the country, jerk.

[Kaius]

I think he was being sarcastic.

[96583UP]

"Temple of the H-Dawg rose from the asses of Bill loves-to-bone, to become the first female democratic party presidential nominee to take money from the government of Oman in exchange for favors."
-Rolling Stone, 8/2016

[E.H. Ruddock]

I think he was being sarcastic.

I know. He knows jerk is a term of endearment from me when talking to him

[Bi_3]

I think he was being sarcastic.

I know. He knows jerk is a term of endearment from me when talking to him

Southern charm.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I think he was being sarcastic.

I know. He knows jerk is a term of endearment from me when talking to him

Southern charm.

Bless your heart

[4/5]

Lol @ "first lady of the united States" being an accomplishment

I mean maybe it isn't an "accomplishment" but it certainly belongs on her resume as she was a highly active first lady regardless of what title she held during his presidency. She was the point person on the failed healthcare reform of '93-'94. She has 8 years of very high level executive experience so I think that belongs on the list for sure. It is a padded list, but I don't think anyone's issue with Hillary is that she's inexperienced or doesn't have an impressive resume.

[B]

And like Burt said, that is a very padded list.

Fair enough. Accomplishments may not be the word. First Lady isn't an accomplishment, but it is public service. Especially, the way she first ladied.

Trump's public service list still includes one item.

- Raised money for veterans earlier this year and actually donated it to veterans after the press figured it out that he had been keeping the money for himself.

[Electromatic]

How good do you feel about a candidate that despite working or living in the public sector for their entire life, somehow managed to amass enough wealth to reside in the top .02% of the country?

Think that person is looking out for you?

Has a bit more of a plutocratic feel to me.

[bune]

Honestly, I feel way better about that than someone who's gone bankrupt three, four times and possibly is broke right now.

But then this isn't about money, it's about who's more qualified.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

The thing that blows my mind is how gaggles of rednecks and elderly religious people make the soft-spoken Obama out to be Satan Incarnate and the worst president we've ever had, but also think that the political equivalent of Andrew Dice Clay is the only answer to this "reign of terror".

The pillars of morality, the same people who complain non-stop about aborted fetuses, immigrants and gay people are the same people who think that a guy who mocks cripples, calls women fat pigs, curses freely and makes all of his "products" outside of the US is exactly what we need. I've even heard people say, "He says unacceptable and crazy things, but we need a president right now who is not a nice person".

Never has the inherent racism and complete stupidity of the American public been on such full display, and never has my mind been so full of fuck. I sincerely hope that this is the beginning of the end of that, but the only way these people will ever "learn" is if we actually elect him, so we are probably screwed either way.

[96583UP]

it won't be a lesson learned

there will always be many, many stupid people

potentially more and more of them as they are the ones procreating (see: Idiocracy)

they key here is to just accept that you can't make a difference and when the end is nigh ensure that you have a butcher knife and an ice cream scooper on hand so that you can properly decapitate your neighbor and feast on the sweet innards within

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

they key here is to just accept that you can't make a difference and when the end is nigh ensure that you have a butcher knife and an ice cream scooper on hand so that you can properly decapitate your neighbor and feast on the sweet innards within

I'll remember that.

[Bi_3]

I don't get why people project so much of their own prejudicial opinions about American voters onto Trump. His appeal is obvious. Every president in our lifetime has been a warmongering globalist, and yes plutocrat, who has stopped giving two shits about the voters the moment they won their election. First and foremost, Trump is not like them, and for a huge number of voters who are sick tired of being called stupid or racist for actually wanting their president to put their nation first, it makes his complete unfitness for the job irrelevant.

[malice]

I don't get why people project so much of their own prejudicial opinions about American voters onto Trump. His appeal is obvious. Every president in our lifetime has been a warmongering globalist, and yes plutocrat, who has stopped giving two shits about the voters the moment they won their election. First and foremost, Trump is not like them, and for a huge number of voters who are sick tired of being called stupid or racist for actually wanting their president to put their nation first, it makes his complete unfitness for the job irrelevant.

trump is not purporting himself as putting his nation first. his appeal is that he's a racist blowhard like 60% of this country.