Election 2016

[LoathedVermin72]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/

Classic B.

I do find the stories from Bune and McParadigm fascinating as it's part of the US I just never saw. Particularly the viewpoint of people who have moved away and have some distance before seeing what those areas are like today.

My only experience is the coastal cities (and a little bit of Texas and Vegas), but even from that perspective I find myself constantly disagreeing with Australians who try to make generalisations about America and really can't seem to understand that the whole "50 states = 50 different countries" statement has a lot of truth to it.

They're not really THAT different

[BurtReynolds]

I hear you. I grew up in South Dakota, and saw both the desperation and the reflexive pride of place (never understood it, but saw it).

But I went back a few years ago, and near-death towns like Madison and Mitchell, which were perennially contracting throughout my youth, were now swollen with new immigrants. Factories that used to be so desperate for workers that they would hold your job for your entire 3 year prison sentence (really) now had a reliable labor force, and many had new facilities. New restaurants and clothing stores were everywhere. So were anti-immigration signs and redneck intimidation efforts.

Not that I know South Dakota, but is the oil boom responsible for any economic recovery there? Outside of a few places in Texas and elsewhere, it's not the norm. I definitely haven't seen any recovery where I'm from, but it was mostly a ghost town before I was born. A lot of construction companies moved in after Katrina, all of course using cheap illegal labor, and took what few jobs there were. It's not like any of that money filtered back into the towns (talk about trickle down economics.)

[Citizen Dick]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/

Classic B.

I do find the stories from Bune and McParadigm fascinating as it's part of the US I just never saw. Particularly the viewpoint of people who have moved away and have some distance before seeing what those areas are like today.

My only experience is the coastal cities (and a little bit of Texas and Vegas), but even from that perspective I find myself constantly disagreeing with Australians who try to make generalisations about America and really can't seem to understand that the whole "50 states = 50 different countries" statement has a lot of truth to it.

They're not really THAT different

Obviously there's a level of hyperbole in the statement, but the differences are often to a similar degree as those that are separate countries in other parts of the world (touring through the countries in the UK has a similar degree of differentiation to an outsider as touring the Southwest US was for me).

[LoathedVermin72]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/

Classic B.

I do find the stories from Bune and McParadigm fascinating as it's part of the US I just never saw. Particularly the viewpoint of people who have moved away and have some distance before seeing what those areas are like today.

My only experience is the coastal cities (and a little bit of Texas and Vegas), but even from that perspective I find myself constantly disagreeing with Australians who try to make generalisations about America and really can't seem to understand that the whole "50 states = 50 different countries" statement has a lot of truth to it.

They're not really THAT different

Obviously there's a level of hyperbole in the statement, but the differences are often to a similar degree as those that are separate countries in other parts of the world (touring through the countries in the UK has a similar degree of differentiation to an outsider as touring the Southwest US was for me).

Ah, I see what you mean. I've never been to Europe but that makes sense.

[Citizen Dick]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/

Classic B.

I do find the stories from Bune and McParadigm fascinating as it's part of the US I just never saw. Particularly the viewpoint of people who have moved away and have some distance before seeing what those areas are like today.

My only experience is the coastal cities (and a little bit of Texas and Vegas), but even from that perspective I find myself constantly disagreeing with Australians who try to make generalisations about America and really can't seem to understand that the whole "50 states = 50 different countries" statement has a lot of truth to it.

They're not really THAT different

Obviously there's a level of hyperbole in the statement, but the differences are often to a similar degree as those that are separate countries in other parts of the world (touring through the countries in the UK has a similar degree of differentiation to an outsider as touring the Southwest US was for me).

Ah, I see what you mean. I've never been to Europe but that makes sense.

I guess it's true of any geographically broad area as there are certainly parts of Australia that are worlds apart, but the combination of geographic size, population size, population mix and diversity of influences historically (native, French, Spanish, English) seems to make the mental construct of a homogenous "American" or "American Experience" impossible to pin down. So for me it's just interesting to read some of those other American experiences that I didn't get first hand whilst living there.

I'm sure people could say something similar about other large countries like India (for instance) but I haven't personally been there.

[McParadigm]

Oh my god. Trump's dinner speech.

[BurtReynolds]

Clinton seems a lot less sickly lately.

[The Argonaut]

We had a great time at your dinner party, the wife wanted me to extend our thanks

[The Argonaut]

We had a great time at your dinner party, the wife wanted me to extend our thanks

[McParadigm]

Oh shit, I'm a little behind in the stream, but Donald is losing it right now. That Watergate Bullshit, now he's just being ugly and getting booed. Holy shit. Pretending not to hate Catholics! Holy shit holy shit holy shit. These aren't even jokes, they're just conspiracy theories, holy shit. This fucker

Yup. Fucking crazy.

[The Argonaut]

The Cardinal took off his yarmulke after the Watergate "joke" (which was actually just a Facebook meme lie with no punch line)

[Jorge]

Ah man I wanna see that.

[McParadigm]

The Cardinal took off his yarmulke after the Watergate "joke" (which was actually just a Facebook meme lie with no punch line)

I've never heard anybody get booed at this thing before, let alone loudly, at length, and right before they read the next scripted line: "We're having a lot of fun here tonight..."

[The Argonaut]

Of course he got booed! He stopped telling jokes and just started spouting cruel horseshit about Hillary.
There are streams on youtube, platy

[McParadigm]

somehow this charity dinner went worse for him than the debates

[BurtReynolds]

If you want to die a little inside...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ryocAv8Zw

[Citizen Dick]

So this charity dinner is a regular pre-election tradition?

Has there been any others that have come remotely close in terms of tension or response from the crowd?

[doug rr]

maria bartiromo...

[The Argonaut]

We had a great time at your dinner party, the wife wanted me to extend our thanks

[wease]

I didn't know this would be streaming tonight.