StrangeSox

That speech subtlety and completely undermined trump. No endorsement, vote your conscience.

Lol Ted Cruz using the god damned moon landing as an anti government talking point

Oregon owns especially the bend area, may move there some day.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 20, 2016 -> 10:27 AM) I bet you if you look at their browser history it will be like "bbc cuckold humiliation" and other stuff like that What does the British broadcasting company have to do with oh wait

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 20, 2016 -> 10:19 AM) If a troll tweets cuck, but there is no twitter, does it make a scream? edit: still the best Lmbo

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 10:28 PM) wellp: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/20...-rnc-2016-trump Ole Donny Jr. may also not understand attribution. edit: LOL his ghostwriter copped his own line. classic. Dude's a professor and definitely knows what self plagiarizing is and why it's not okay. Trump only hires the best people!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 06:26 AM) And for the next time anyone wants to say that its only Donald Trump who doesn't respect "sub-groups" and that it's totally not something their party would tolerate for decades, folks I give you Steve King (R-IA). This text is from the Washington Post but they won't let me insert a link, here's one with a video clip. Reminder that king is also the cantaloupe calves guy and has a confederate flag displayed on his desk.

I always liked scalzi's analogy http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/stra...tting-there-is/

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 01:51 PM) I'm sorry for your loss in this senseless tragedy. This is awful.

The libertarian party platform is completely bonkers. It actually manages to make trumps platform look sane and reasonable.

Lol that rnc convention schedule.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 09:47 AM) One of my Facebook friends linked this executive order with a hysterical description of how the Obama administration has blanket authorized drone strikes on U.S. citizens. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office...strike-measures I bet you I could choose a random XO in the 13xxx series (hell, it doesn't even have to be one of Obama's, it's not like people will even notice) and say "This is terrifying! The Obama administration has ordered everyone's children to be transgender by 2019!" and people will share it on Facebook without reading it like they do everything else. FEMA death camps! Jade helm takeover! Bush did 9/11!

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 03:44 PM) Wow not even typing? That was mandatory for me in middle school. Nope. Handwriting/cursive is gone as well, but inexplicably it's not replaced by typing. 90%+ of her students are hunt-and-peck typers. This is in a pretty solid upper/mid middle-class exurb school district.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 02:57 PM) Not saying your opinion isn't a reality but my niece/nephews school teaches python in elementary school. Was not an option. We didn't get cool stuff like that until Junior year of high school. Big differences can definitely exist between school districts. My wife's district isn't exactly poorly funded, but they have little or no tech classes e.g. no basic typing or computer skills.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 11:14 AM) Especially with the push to teach kids coding now, which will be a massive boost to the science and technology industry. eh, from what my wife's seen teaching middle school for a little while now, these kids know how to "use" computers to go on facebook or play games or whatever, but they're not exactly tech-savvy. They can barely use word processors or even google, have a hard time negotiating basic computer functions, etc. It's not like in the 90's where you might have to spend a day or two messing around with buried config settings, physical hardware dip switches or jumpers etc. to get your favorite game to work right.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 10:23 AM) Indiana is cheering. There is also a movement to draft Mitch Daniels back, which would make me double happy. Pence needs to declare whether he's going to be listed on the Indiana ballot for Governor or for VP by tomorrow. Funniest scenario is he takes himself out of the Gov race and then Trump picks someone else anyway.

Generation Zod

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 08:52 AM) Apparently FOX NEWS and Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio do not exist. By the way, it's AG (Attorney General), not DA (District Attorney). Slight difference!!! Speaking of Fox News, on the one hand, I want to commend them for being a lot more ethical than CNN. Fox News ended their contract with Gingrich given all of the VP talk/general Trump surregacy. CNN's taken the opposite approach and is hiring former Trump staffers/campaign managers who are still being paid by the Trump campaign. On the other hand, a Cosby-like stream of women are coming forward in the wake of Gretchen Carlson's sexual harassment lawsuit, alleging that Fox News chief Rodger Ailes sexually harassed them as far back as the 60's.

Pence is looking increasingly likely to be Trump's VP Here's a reminder of how awful he is. http://www.vox.com/2016/3/26/11308890/indi...law-miscarriage Don't forget his two (failed) anti-LGBT RFRA bills, either!

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 03:46 PM) Name me something that liberals have "compromised" on when it comes to those very same issues. Any attempts at regulating abortions in anyway are met with fervent opposition. Guns should be banned altogether, not regulated reasonably. Don't inhibit voting rights in anyway shape or form, etc. etc. Whether its based on religious ideology or not is irrelevant. Abortions are more restricted in more states now than they've been since before Roe*. "Ban all guns" is not a Democratic party platform or something that any politician I'm aware of is campaigning on. Inhibiting voting rights is s*** so I'm glad they're uncompromising on that. I'm more in agreement with what bmags said, though, there's some ideological overlap in both parties. But it's much less than its ever been in the past, and it's been shifting more and more to parties split purely along ideological lines for a few decades now. He's currently at 22.5% in Silver's polls-only model, as I linked a little above. In his (garbage, imo) polls-plus model, trump's closer to 30%. Not likely, but not completely out of the realm of possibility. *actually that may no longer be true since the ruling a couple of weeks ago, but there's been a fairly steady erosion of abortion rights since at least Casey as Kennedy couldn't find an undue burden before that one. A non-trivial number of his holdout supporters will grudgingly vote for Clinton in November with his (and to a lesser extent, Warren's) endorsement. He'll likely get something out of the deal as well, whether it's some sort of Executive appointment or more important Senate committee appointments. That strengthens his power, which strengthens his message. This is the same thing that happened in 2008 that got Clinton the SoS position and helped to tamp down the PUMA holdouts.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 03:39 PM) There's a difference between trying to differentiate yourself when you're really just the same candidate pushing the same party ideology (Bush/McCain/Romney, Clinton and Obama) versus being far left socialist v. mildly left centrist. He wasn't just trying to be different, he was running on a different platform practically, which yes, she sort of molded towards as the primary went on, but it was still a different version of liberalism that he wanted. He's not a far left socialist, though. He's a social democrat at most, basically a modern New Deal Democrat. A pro-Hillary or an anti-Trump vote count just the same. How much of an impact would it have? Well, going back to a bunch of swing state polls a month or so ago, if just 50% of the Bernie holdouts at that point voted for Clinton, she'd be pushing double-digit margins in every single remotely contestable state. Generally I would say that that's true, but again, Trump represents something pretty uniquely awful.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 10:15 AM) Just feel the need to say that I think RBG was out of bounds making comments on the election. Scalia started it, she is adding on to it. I hope it stops. some additional comments today, agree that this isn't the greatest thing here http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/politics/jus...aker/index.html

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 03:24 PM) If you take an objective look I am not really sure that you can defend this. The problem is that when a political party aligns itself with religious ideology you do not leave much room for compromise. This is especially true for anyone who does not identify with the religious ideology that the party aligns itself with. I am pretty sure that Trump's odds are much better than 1%. Even with Bernie trying to get everyone of his supporters to vote for Clinton there is still a chance Trump wins. Ultimately Sanders had to ask himself what does he really believe. And sometimes you lose a battle to win a war. Based on polls as it stands today, his chances are 22.5%

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/752...src=twsrc%5Etfw Hmmmmmmm