I've never read the national review, fwiw.

1/25/2016 5:07:29 PM

^ you probably have, the links get posted here every now and then.

1/25/2016 5:21:28 PM

dtownral implied that it was something I do often. And on purpose. I do not read conservative publications. The closest I get would be Fox News, which is one of several news sites that I read on a regular basis.

1/25/2016 8:23:22 PM

wat

1/25/2016 8:36:24 PM

i never implied that, i said you speak the same language

honestly, it's like talking to a child

1/26/2016 10:36:02 AM

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"I do not read conservative publications."

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"Yes, I visit Drudge. "

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"Another video of a PP doctor haggling over the price of "donating tissue" http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/21/new-video-shows-another-planned-parenthood-doctor-haggling-price-of-baby-body-parts/ Explain away."

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"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/14/CIDRAP-Confirms-Ebola-Transmittable-by-Air"

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"Another set of parents that should be shot http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/07/12/Transgender-At-Age-6-Family-Embraces-Decision-To-Let-Daughter-Live-As-Boy"

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"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/14/CIDRAP-Confirms-Ebola-Transmittable-by-Air"

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"Headline on Drudge: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/14/gop-congressman-threatens-impeachment-if-obama-uses-executive-action-for-gun-control/ Let it happen."

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"I do not read conservative publications."

1/26/2016 10:51:25 AM

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"The closest I get would be Fox News, which is one of several news sites that I read on a regular basis."

1/26/2016 11:51:51 AM

i'd like to discuss the idea that Fox News is not a conservative news publication

1/26/2016 12:58:45 PM

Because it's not a publication?

1/26/2016 1:13:30 PM

how is it not?

1/26/2016 1:19:01 PM

I don't actively seek publications that I know to be written with a slant, unless you count fox news. Drudge is an aggregator, not a publication. While most of their links point to places like Breitbart and other right wing websites, I take what I read with a grain of salt.

What is my language btw? I mean you guys keep calling me a partisan hack. But all i can do is shake my head at who I have the potential to vote for this election. It's either going to be Cruz or Trump, either of which would destroy this country.

And I just can't, can't cast a vote for Hillary.

1/26/2016 8:41:20 PM

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" Drudge is an aggregator"

[Edited on January 26, 2016 at 10:09 PM. Reason : .]

1/26/2016 10:09:06 PM

I'm on board the Bernie train.

1/27/2016 8:46:55 PM

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"But all i can do is shake my head at who I have the potential to vote for this election. It's either going to be Cruz or Trump"

You realize those won't be the only two candidates in the GOP primary right?

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"While most of their links point to places like Breitbart and other right wing websites, I take what I read with a grain of salt."

Your "grain of salt" is posting "i know this link is from ___ but you can't argue with the content."

1/27/2016 9:41:02 PM

Bernie! Bernie!

1/30/2016 11:35:42 AM

Bernie will win the Democratic Nomination...can he outrock Donald or out maneuver Ted?

That's gonna be the battle.

Bernie will have a large surge now.

2/3/2016 10:05:34 PM

I think its the other way around. The nation is mostly democrat but democrats are mostly moderate.

2/3/2016 10:49:42 PM

^The nation is mostly democrat. Democrats are mostly moderates. VOTERS are mostly not.

2/4/2016 3:56:18 AM

Let's not start sucking each other dicks just yet. Bernie's got a loooong way to go.

He is going to get crushed in S.C. and Nevada, and the other primary's are not looking very promising either. He probably wont win another primary, but maybe he can get the VP nod from Hill.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-gets-harder-from-here-for-bernie-sanders/?ex_cid=538twitter

2/10/2016 11:52:13 AM

ha two weeks ago you said:

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"Guess it's going to be Sanders for the Democrats. Should be an easy win for Republicans, even if Trump is the nominee."

now he's not gonna win another primary.

solid prognosticating mane.

2/10/2016 11:55:42 AM

He currently has a pretty steep hill to climb, not saying he won't win another primary but until we have updated polls to see his post NH bump the current data shows Hildog with a big advantage. This all could flip rather easily with big performances in Nevada and SC but I haven't seen much to indicate that will happen.

2/10/2016 12:14:14 PM

^^It's true. 538 is much more reliable than I am. I haven't been able to figure out what American voters want since Obama's re-election.

I guess I should have said "If liberals had any integrity, Sanders would be the Democrat candidate. Should be an easy win for Republicans, even if Trump is the nominee."

[Edited on February 10, 2016 at 12:20 PM. Reason : 1]

2/10/2016 12:20:46 PM

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"New Hampshire has 24 “pledged” delegates, which are allotted based on the popular vote. Sanders has 13, and Clinton has 9, with 2 currently allotted to neither. But under Democratic National Committee rules, New Hampshire also has 8 “superdelegates,” party officials who are free to commit to whomever they like, regardless of how their state votes. Their votes count the same as delegates won through the primary. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/10/hillary-earns-more-new-hampshire-delegates-than-sanders-after-loss/#ixzz3zmtybI3m"

These super delegates have no shame. This is a pretty rigged system. I guess we can look forward to a Hillary vs Trump campaign, and I think Trump has the upper hand here.

2/10/2016 12:38:00 PM

It's almost as if the system is rigged to keep out outsiders with dangerous ideas.

2/10/2016 12:42:49 PM

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/after-sanders-big-win-in-new-hampshire-establishme.html

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"Democrats win when turnout is high, and if the DNC decides to go against the will of the people and force Clinton down the electorate’s throat, they’d be committing political suicide. The important thing to know here is that Superdelegates are merely pledged to a candidate. We know who they support because they’ve stated it publicly, or been asked by journalists. They are not committed, and can change at any time. If Bernie Sanders wins the popular vote, he will be the nomine"

[Edited on February 10, 2016 at 1:00 PM. Reason : .]

2/10/2016 12:59:50 PM

No, if he wins the popular vote by a wide margin he'll be the nominee. If it's close it will go to Clinton. The party leadership won't be able to make it totally obvious that they're not interested in what the primary voters have to say, but if it's close they'll push it in the direction they want.

2/10/2016 3:28:24 PM

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"After February 9 I'm sure diversity will be more prominent for Nevada (76% white) and South Carolina (68.3%)"

And right on schedule:

2/10/2016 4:18:58 PM

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"These super delegates have no shame. This is a pretty rigged system. I guess we can look forward to a Hillary vs Trump campaign, and I think Trump has the upper hand here."

I don't know about that. Our nation seems to be pretty liberal. I don't want Bernie though. He wants to spend way to much money and he is a part of the establishment. We need fresh blood in Washington. I want Trump to win. It would be nice to see someone in there who is a little bit moderate like him. He was friends with the Clinton's and sided with the democrats a while back, but now is running as a republican. Bernie is just too far left and some of the people who are running for the republican nominee come across as being too conservative and religious. The ones who are anti-homosexual rights aren't a good fit in today's society.

2/10/2016 7:21:36 PM

Bernie's plans actually save money and have been endorsed by several economists

[Edited on February 10, 2016 at 7:24 PM. Reason : create jobs and tax revenue.]

2/10/2016 7:24:13 PM

^Free college, childcare, etc doesn't save the tax payer money. It's just more programs that the tax dollar has to pay for.

2/10/2016 7:47:48 PM

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"We need fresh blood in Washington. I want Trump to win."

Totally understand the anti-establishment sentiment, but can't wrap my mind around why anyone would support Trump. I've decided it's one of those I'm just never going to understand.

2/10/2016 8:10:16 PM

^^ so your view is that we need fresh blood in washigton to keep doing what we've been doing that has allowed inequality to grow to record levels, but to also demonize hispanics and brown people.

You really are a trump supporter.

2/10/2016 8:41:53 PM

^I think the demonizing as you call it is just a tactic to gain votes in the primary. I think Trump will be a little more moderate, if he wins the election. More government programs and spending is not the answer. I like how Trump speaks the truth while everyone else is too worried about offending some minority, or other group. My dad has worked in construction for most of his career. Over time illegal Hispanics have taken over construction which has hurt the American worker. When my parents built their first house in NC the brick work was done by 4 black men. There was another crew of white men who also did brick work for the same builder. Today almost 100% of the brick work is done by Hispanics and plenty of them are illegal. Now the builders don't pay as much as they used to either because of Hispanics undercutting Americans. I have no problem with Trump wanting to close the borders. I also have no problem with Trump wanting to keep people from the middle east out of the US too. What race and religion were all of the terrorist on 9/11? They weren't white and black Americans.

[Edited on February 10, 2016 at 9:11 PM. Reason : .]

2/10/2016 9:10:08 PM

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"When my parents built their first house in NC the brick work was done by 4 black men. There was another crew of white men who also did brick work for the same builder."

Well at least they had the common fucking sense to keep the races separate.

[Edited on February 10, 2016 at 9:35 PM. Reason : Those were the days...]

2/10/2016 9:35:03 PM

^The builder had no say so in who the subcontractor hired as his helping hands.

2/10/2016 10:01:29 PM

Big4country is obviously posting sattire

2/10/2016 10:56:39 PM

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"I think the demonizing as you call it is just a tactic to gain votes in the primary. I think Trump will be a little more moderate, if he wins the election. "

So his years of hounding OBama for his birth certificate his lies that he had "secret evidence it wasn't real" was not genuine racism on his part, but ... what? He has never even admitted he was wrong or lied, when Colbert tried to call him out, he just said "i don't want to answer".

Trump is the least honest of all the presidential candidates. he knows he can't build a wall-- yet this is his biggest talking point, he can't stop muslims from coming here, yet he is okay with using these issues to rile people up. He's okay with his "passionate supporters" beating an immigrant in Boston.

It seems pretty naive and dangerous to think that trump is just joking with his racist rhetoric, when this rhetoric is already causing harm.

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"Over time illegal Hispanics have taken over construction which has hurt the American worker. When my parents built their first house in NC the brick work was done by 4 black men. There was another crew of white men who also did brick work for the same builder. Today almost 100% of the brick work is done by Hispanics and plenty of them are illegal. Now the builders don't pay as much as they used to either because of Hispanics undercutting Americans. I have no problem with Trump wanting to close the borders. I also have no problem with Trump wanting to keep people from the middle east out of the US too. What race and religion were all of the terrorist on 9/11? They weren't white and black Americans."

So because the builders and business owners and your dad are the ones hiring the hispanics, the hispanics are the bad guys? It's okay to call them murderers and rapists and stoke anger against hispanics, when the real problem is actually with the business owners?

If Trump had any real balls, and wasn't just trying to get the vote of dumb racists, he would call for any business owner caught hiring an illegal to be arrested. If any politician did this, the illegal problem would solve itself real quick, wouldn't it? (but this means trump would have to be arrested-- so he'll put the blame on other people. Typical politician, thinks he's above the law)

Outside of the immigration problem, Trump has no real answers. He's not going to go after big business that is pushing for inequality, because he IS big business. It would be a literal cause of hiring a fox to guard the hen house.

Bernie has a career of fighting for the middle class and equal rights. He's been doing it for decades. He was organizing civil rights protests in college, he was pro LGBT before I was even born (and I wasn't pro LGBT until 2006ish).

[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 1:03 AM. Reason : ]

2/11/2016 1:02:14 AM

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"I think the demonizing as you call it is just a tactic to gain votes in the primary."

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"I think Trump will be a little more moderate, if he wins the election"

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"Trump speaks the truth"

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You realize that using extreme rhetoric to infuse paranoia in the general populace and then switching to a more moderate standpoint once elected inherently means that he is not speaking the truth?

2/11/2016 7:41:52 AM

Big4Country is good for giving us insight into the uneducated, poor southern, blue collar worker

2/11/2016 8:13:06 AM

^^ careful with those big words buddy.

2/11/2016 8:57:54 AM

bernie's ideas of what he can do as president are just as unhinged as trump is...he's just not overtly racist and xenophobic on top of it. he uses the same language trump uses - empty platitudes and promises of shit that will never happen. and now he's shitting on obama? like this guy is going to magically get congress to work. he has some magic "leadership" to bring to the table? why the fuck couldn't he use that leadership when he was actually in congress? and he keeps talking about some massive revolution of new people in the process? like this guy is going to get more engagement in politics than the massive wave obama had in 2008.

fuck bernie


[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 2:30 PM. Reason : .]

2/11/2016 2:27:20 PM

^ magic is the right word. His campaign is filled with 'magical thinking' and not a whole lot of substance. America isn't ready for socialism yet. The countries in Europe that are socialist leaning didn't become that way overnight, and that's pretty much what he's suggesting- that Americans will somehow vote out all the members of congress and vote in people who will agree with his policies and everything will just 'happen'. In theory, I happen to agree with a lot of his ideas, but I can't stand the idea of having him as President. He'll be less effective than Jimmy Carter and ruin all the progress the Democrats have had over the past two terms.

2/11/2016 2:45:22 PM

^, ^^

It's not magical thinking to have medicare for all or college tuition covered for certain institutions for people who make the grade... other countries already do these things. Even the top marginal tax rate Bernie is calling for (actually higher than what Bernie wants) has been tried in America during the time when Microsoft, Apple, and many other great American corporations emerged.

It IS magical thinking to think building a wall along the entire border is going to do anything meaningful for jobs, or banning muslims will somehow stop isis (it will only embolden them), or that proudly proclaiming US is a country that uses torture "and more" will make people think we're great.


[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 3:00 PM. Reason : ]

2/11/2016 2:56:32 PM

it's magical thinking to think he can make it happen in a congress that is, thanks to criminal gerrymandering, set up to be republican for the forseeable future.

i don't give a shit what other countries can do. it's a question of what he can do in this goddamn country

and he doesn't have anything more than unicorn farts and rainbows when it comes to how it's going to happen

i mean for fucks sake, congress won't even have a goddamn hearing on the 2017 budget because of partisan bullshit. but sure, this guy is gonna change all of that.

[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 3:22 PM. Reason : .]

2/11/2016 3:03:11 PM

^ that's not magical, but you have to start somewhere. The guys been in congress for decades now, he knows how these things work.

But you don't change peoples minds by sticking to the status quo, people follow when they have a leader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?language=en

[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 3:23 PM. Reason : ]

2/11/2016 3:21:11 PM

thanks for the youtube link, berniebro. yeah, the GOP and congress is completely analogous to a fucking concert

[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 3:23 PM. Reason : /]

2/11/2016 3:23:00 PM

Put a new link since you are not familiar with your trendy scientists apparently...

2/11/2016 3:23:26 PM

duuuuuuude....like, we should totally show paul ryan and ted cruz and and all those other republicans this video of a guy dancing at a concert. then they'll understand and agree that socialism is the bestest

like i said. unicorn farts and rainbows.

[Edited on February 11, 2016 at 3:26 PM. Reason : .]

2/11/2016 3:24:23 PM

LOL, youre acting like a global warming denier or creationist now...

It's not "magical thinking" when someone is actually gaining a significant following, it's how the status quo changes.

If no one embraced the "magical thinkers" then nothing would ever change.

2/11/2016 3:31:06 PM

global warming deniers and creationists deny hard facts

kinda like denying the hard fact that a president can't enact socialized health care or free public education without having his party completely on board AND having the party be in control of congress

truth is, it's the berniebros who are the deniers. they get told that the democrats could win every tossup seat in the house and still not have a majority and say "but leadership and revolution will fix all that"

2/11/2016 3:38:07 PM