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QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 09:15 PM) "Our kids." No, this may impact poor kids who already go to s***ty public schools. Now they'll just go to s***ty for-profit charter schools. "Our kids" will stay in good school systems. Will they be as good when their funding starts getting transferred to private schools for the rich and religious? QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 09:15 PM) edit: I'm not saying i'm thrilled about the choice. I just don't see it as some colossal failure either. She's going to fail like every other education secretary when trying to fix poor school systems/districts. Even if you think the damage she can do is minimal; it's appalling that someone could so blatantly buy a cabinet position.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 06:51 PM) fyp don't forget she's not just a regular anti-public schools zealot, she specifically wants to subsidize religious education! Don't forget private online for-profit schools with no accountability

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 4, 2017 -> 01:56 PM) http://trib.in/2krGPir Oh man. Read to the part where the parents offer their recommendation for speakers. What is David Clarke's association to the Civil Rights Movement? HEY HE'S BLACK

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 03:21 PM) Heros? They got big bucks from the teachers unions. nothing 'heroic' about it. They're bucking their party, unlike everyone else who is falling in line to vote for a horrific and unqualified candidate who bribed her way into a nomination.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 06:01 PM) Trump made some noise about reactivating the (stupidly expensive to operate and not particularly useful in 1945, let alone 2017) battleships. We didn't know he meant he'd go back as far as the coal-fired ones. Didn't you guys see the blockbuster hit movie Battleship? All the fancy new Navy vessels can easily be disabled. We need the old ships to win the war against the (illegal) aliens.

I don't imagine things would have gone well if one of Obama's nominees had founded a "Communism Rules" club in college, no matter how obvious a joke it was.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 09:21 PM) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/opinion/...hopes.html?_r=1 brett were you really proud when Tom Cotton obstructed Cassandra Butts from getting her nominated position of ambassador to the Carribean to honor her as she battled leukemia, and Cotton put a hold on the nomination once he learned that Butts was friends with Obama and it would inflict personal pain on him? Butts died and was never appointed. Or did they not go far enough there? Cassandra Butts was too liberal. Also, no person with leukemia has ever been given an ambassadorship. Totally unprecedented and unacceptable. Also, her first nomination had to be held up because it was before the 2014 midterm elections and we needed to let the people decide. Also, since her first nomination expired and expired things, like milk, are bad, her nomination was bad. He should have picked someone else. Also, being nominated a second time is unfair, like double jeopardy. That's illegal. Also, her second nomination stretched into the 2016 election cycle, so we really needed to wait to let the people decide. Also, hurricane season had already started in the Caribbean so that's not an appropriate time to nominate someone anyway.

lol, what is this? Is Donald trying to force a handshake => bro-hug transition?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 03:43 PM) I stay out of these threads for the most part but holy f*** this s*** is annoying. It's troll bait. Ignore it.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 04:40 PM) If that is what you are confessing to, my hats off to you. You played the part of "hyper-partisan Republican" well for a while, but you pushed it a little too far, flew a little too close to the sun and outed yourself.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 04:34 PM) Republicans need to finally grow a spine and stop bending to whatever the Democrats want like they did thru the eight years of President Obama and make a stand. Troll confirmed

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 04:31 PM) It was done during the election cycle. It was almost an entire year out. "The election cycle" doesn't mean much of anything given that we have insanely long campaigns and election processes. QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 04:31 PM) The Republicans said they would let the people decide. The people decided who they wanted to nominate justices when they elected Obama in 2012. Republicans also said they would block Clinton's nominees if she won, which contradicts that argument entirely.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 01:47 PM) The court should be filled. If Scalia would have passed say mid-term, there would be no call to wait the two years as the people already voted for President Obama. In this case it was deemed by many that President Obama was not the same man elected in 2012 and in the middle of an election cycle, the decision was made to allow the people have a voice. Admirably really. EDIT: If there is an opening in the next election cycle for President, I'll be good with waiting for the election again. I literally can't believe people fall for these arguments. Scalia didn't die a week before the election, during the transition period afterwards. He died with nearly a full year remaining in Obama's term. Republicans said they were going to hold out through Clinton's term if she was elected too. It was 100% a power grab. The Constitution doesn't have a method of actually making the Senate do their job, so Republicans took advantage by not doing it. They successfully stole a SCOTUS seat.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 10:57 PM) In a week he has gotten the electorate more involved and impassioned than any President I can recall in my lifetime. Being a horrible candidate and being horrible in office is two different things, especially with 46% of the electorate still on the sidelines. A push of a percentage point or two off of the sideline and into the D column turns this election into a blow out. The Dems need a lot more than a percentage point or two if they want to take the House or the Senate. He doesn't need to simply be horrible. He needs to be SO horrible that it can't be lied about or spun around. I think you're underestimating his Teflon and overestimating the American peoples' intelligence.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 09:47 PM) All Trump has achieved so far is to ensure that the Republican party is going to get their asses kicked in 2018. Why? Trump being horrible didn't cost the GOP the Presidency, the House, or the Senate in 2016.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 09:42 PM) I would suggest that is making things worse, not better, in terms of removing gerrymandering. It's by nature a partisan effort. Not to say it's evil or anything, it's part of the current game. Just that it does nothing to get us to a better place overall. If that group makes efforts to unfairly gerrymander themselves, that would certainly make them part of the problem, but if they mainly focus on bringing things closer to neutral, that seems good to me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 09:38 PM) What is Obama doing to change how districting is done? Working with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee

QUOTE (Con te Giolito @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 08:48 PM) Its the traditional base of the Democrats. They've been winning those states for literally decades. Best case scenario they took those votes for granted, worst case scenario the coastal elites villanized them as part of the great virtue signalling fad of the last 4 or 5 years. Either way, they aren't part of the base anymore and will probably have to be won back. Not a hill the democrats should want to climb. Best case is that those voters wanted Trump because they thought he'd magically bring back the low-skill-but-good-pay jobs from 50 years ago. Those people will realize they were conned. Worst case is that those voters were just waiting for a candidate that openly s***s on the people they don't like: Mexicans, Muslims, blacks, immigrants, intellectuals, and "PC elites".

Uh oh, we might have a conflict between the anti-semite faction of Trump supporters and the Israel-is-always-right-about-everything faction of Trump supporters.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 30, 2017 -> 04:31 PM) What is this obsession by conservatives that people who protest don't have jobs. Like it's some how impossible to do both. It's less direct than calling them all lazy, welfare-scamming leeches.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 11:48 PM) He won in many places that were not supposed to be close, like Florida. Predictions were that Hillary had a 95% chance, 90% chance, 80% chance to win. Wasn't the lowest in the 70's? No one predicted Florida to not be close. RCP's polling averages had him favored to win. It was a tossup for sure. QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 11:48 PM) I'm just saying, a lot of the polling data was wrong. A lot of the models were wrong. Why rely on them to show the uptick after Comey's comments, or use worse data in exit polls to show that people decided the last week of the campaign. I think you're exaggerating the degree by which the polling was off. As I mentioned before, the national polls had Clinton +3 and she finished +2. Yes, some state polls (like the rust belt) were off, and there are multiple factors that explain that. If WI, MI, and PA go to Clinton (which they barely didn't), then she wins handily and the polling looks great. I think the bad response to polling is largely due to media and pundits that were making those "99% chance to win" stories.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 10:33 PM) Polling data that was proven to be inaccurate come election night. Significantly so. How so? The final national polls had Clinton +3 points. The result was +2. Some individual states were a bit off, but mainly those that didn't have a lot of polling right at end, after Comey's letter.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 06:55 PM) not sure you need to be a natural born citizen to be Gov of Illinois? Sorry, was thinking POTUS

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 08:25 PM) In a situation where someone else controlled his fate? He absolutely would quit sooner than let someone else beat him. For example if it ever did get to the point where he could be beaten in impeachment, he would quit first, or at least I think so. I don't think he'd quit even if he were impeached and facing expulsion from office. He'd claim the process was crooked. Look at all these establishment politicians ganging up on him! "If both sides of the aisle hate him, he must be doing something right"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2017 -> 07:09 PM) I think his ego could excuse him quitting sooner than it could excuse him losing at something. At least he could say he walked away on his own terms. He simply wouldn't admit to losing at anything.