StrangeSox

Trump's speech last night was one of his most disturbing and disgusting yet. It's really disheartening that he's still going to get ~40% of the vote. Heartening counterpoint: A Fox News poll found that a strong plurality of Trump supporters would actually be more likely to vote for him if he softens his immigration stances.

"Well actually the dictionary definition of discuss is..." is not a winning argument. Edit although I guess it was "not a discussion" in the same way a parent scolds a child trying to argue about bedtime

DEPORT HILLARY! MAKE MEXICO GREAT AGAIN ALSO! trump's latest pivot lasted all of a couple of hours despite the media being so obviously desperate for a horse race narrative. Just check out this tweet showing how heavily NYT had to edit their original "Trump pivot!" story they published after the Mexico trip and rally last night.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 31, 2016 -> 12:57 PM) This is kind of what I expect. But, considering Trump's propensity to echo whatever the last person told him, it's also possible he has another "softening" and claims he was wrong, goes back and then finds out that is bad, then tells us there was no softening again. BUt both are preferable to something worse. lol pretty much this. He shifted the blame to Central Americans, not Mexicans, and he "softened" on NAFTA and talked about how China was hurting the US and Mexico.

Mike pence was very upset in 1996 that aids activists were allowed to speak at the rnc.

Trump also used illegal alien labor via his modeling agency, having them come over and work on tourist visas. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/0...gal-immigration

Kellyanne Conway, last seen working for Todd "legitimate rape" Akin before becoming the co-campaign manager or campaign co-manager or whatever her title is for Trump, once said "rape would not exist" if women were stronger https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-camp...-strong-enough/ the best people, believe me.

Ken White, libertarian civil rights lawyer/blogger aka Popehat, has another pretty solid take here: How The University of Chicago Could Have Done A Better Job Defending Free Speech

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 26, 2016 -> 03:21 PM) I saw one of the polls had Trump's support among African Americans in North Carolina was at... 3%. It's very rare to see any number that close to one end or the other in any candidate survey item. The general rule is chocolate - about 92% of the population likes chocolate. If your result is above 92% or below 8%, it is effectively 100/0 because anything closer is just noise. His response in this poll is a whopping null%

The People's Glorious Rate of Guaranteed is the only true mortgage company for the masses

Guaranteed Rate ran over claufield's dog

greg it sounds like you want the national anthem to be a "safe space"

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 29, 2016 -> 06:59 PM) I did my first mortgage with these guys when they were a small shop with a handful of workers. Good guys all around and always treated me right. I've used them twice What is this thread doing in pht though Haha whoops missed the whole naming rights story

bankrate.com has some pretty good loan calculators: http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/auto/e...calculator.aspx In general, student loans are virtually impossible to get rid of even through bankruptcy, so it can be a good idea to get rid of that debt above almost anything else. I'm not sure how hard and fast that rule is with the relatively recent payment caps and eventual loan forgiveness stuff, though.

QUOTE (shipps @ Aug 22, 2016 -> 03:41 PM) Have you ever participated in yelling ENCORE...ENCORE....ENCORE...and have them come out after your repeated requests? Didnt think so, you havent f***ing lived, bmags. I didn't think he was gonna do Moon river, but then BAM!, second encore!

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 29, 2016 -> 11:56 AM) Well, to continue on, I think the last thread ended on everyone agreeing that my take on the salary cap was the best and then I was appointed by Kyyle as best poster. re: salary caps, this article has a pretty good summation of the research into salary caps and competitiveness that had been done to date. Salary caps don't end up helping competitiveness, but good revenue sharing models do. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/no-baseb...d-a-salary-cap/

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2016 -> 11:58 AM) At this point the final record isn't as important to me as how certain players finish the season. We have a decent amount of guys who are still proving themselves. If we get a good finish by guys like Avi, Tim Anderson, Saladino, Coats, etc, plus the guys coming out of the pen after Jones and Robertson, I will be happy. At this point the record is secondary.

Leagues with salary caps aren't any more competitive than MLB, right? And it sure as heck won't drive prices of anything but players' salaries down.

Trump having a pretty big meltdown on twitter this morning, not sure what set him off.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 26, 2016 -> 03:01 PM) Pretty normal take on this: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/...er-matters.html That's a pretty solid take. Delong thinks the letter is aimed not at students but at donors.

Paul "When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red. … You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin." LePage is a pretty good case study of why a third party that really only splits one of the existing two major parties in half is not exactly a good thing. LePage won with 37.6% of the vote because the two liberal candidates split the other 60%. Our electoral system just doesn't incentivize having multiple competitive parties.

New Department of Education rules from the Obama administration are cutting off federal funding to any new ITT Tech students. ITT is one of the largest for-profit college chains and has a pretty sketchy track record. http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government...tute-1472152253 I'm really glad they're turning off the firehose of free federal money for all of these for-profit colleges that typically leave their students with huge non-dischargable debts and poor job prospects.

There have been several state polls showing trump running at 0-1% support among African Americans. Hilary might actually outperform Obama's margins due to both her decades of outreach to black communities and how awful Trump is.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 26, 2016 -> 01:11 PM) This is probably true. What is the biggest indicator this election? I think they said college degree was a bigger signifier than gender, religion, anything. Some of that would of course be affected by the age swings, but one thing with the lack of a "third place" like church is the views of people being segregated not by race but by class. Specifically it's a divide between college and non college whites. Every other demographic isn't even close. Fwiw Republicans typically win white college demographic by a decent amount. If you break it down even more, I think non college white women are close to even but trump's main core of support is non college white men.

The rnc abandoned dole in 96 to focus on congressional races, but that was because everyone knew it was a quixotic campaign and not because dole was a horrible person they couldn't be tied to. They still supported and endorsed him, it was more of a funding shift. I think you need to go back to goldwater to find a similar example of am anti establishment fringe wing winning the nomination and getting rejected by at least some of the party leadership openly in the general election. The parties had more ideological overlap/mixing at the time, though, so I don't know if it was as stark and jarring. The Democrats had gone through the dixiecrat stuff a little before that for example. Re: religion the reason that there are so many regional protestant denominations in America is historically due to ideological splits over slavery.