This was pure spin. Matthews posited a hypothetical premise followed by a question which was: “if abortion were illegal should women be punished for getting one?”. Which is an obvious yes if abortion were illegal (because they would be breaking the law). They chopped and screwed the interview to seem like Trump was saying women who get abortions should be punished point blank.
So I went to the Donald Rally in Winston Salem yesterday.
Never been called a nigger so many times in my life on the way out. But I cant say I brought most of that on myself by deciding to congregate and blow my cover with a group of Women for Hillary/Love Wins/Black Lives Matter/Social Justice Warriors lol.
Fortunately for me I went with some anti-trump group I met on facebook. Thank goodness for white allies.
I think I levled up my protest game. Its actually nice to be in physical company with people who share the same outlook as opposed to feeling so disconnected with people across the internet even though we have similar interests.
I do get annoyed when extreme liberals and Hispanics act like immigration laws shouldn’t be enforced period. Yes, there are flaws that have to be resolved and I personally believe emphasizing work visas for people with a clean record would please both sides. That doesn’t mean every person who wanders in from Mexico should be here, just that we aren’t doing a good job of making a legal immigration system that works for honest people.
this is why white people don’t like us. because of stupid shit like this, and this is why the democratic party is so powerful thanks to bullshit hispanic voters
We sympathize because so many of us are immigrants (yeah even PRs understand leaving your homeland to try and do something better) but there are a lot more people wanting laws to be respected than you think. A lot of the issue has to do wiht people on the other side of the discussion wanting to paint a broad brush out of people looking for shitty jobs. The secondary issue is that illegal immigration has a lot of positives that people ignore but also a lot of negatives people don’t want to fess up about.
I can tell you that the people doing things the right way hate illegal nonsense.
tbh, I was on the fence between Green and Libertarian until I watched both their debates. Stein is very idealistic, but not much else. Johnson is an actual leader, more so than the other 3 candidates by a large margin. Even if my ideals are closer to Stein’s, Johnson is the guy who can unify the country better than anyone else and deal with the regressives on both sides of the isle.
the part where hillary cool aid manned her way through the picture of all the presidents and then turned into an orwellian overgod on the super tv was my favorite
really highlights the humility and grace you expect for the “sane” candidate. Im so tired of that smirk and laugh of hers.
I consider voting for Trump Xanadu’s gambit. Either way I win, he will do a good job or the system will collapse and the purge will start. All are preferable to Hillary.
Oh, the system can collapse, but it takes more than a bad president for it to happen. Trump or Hillary, the system isn’t going anywhere on their failures alone.
People hate Obama. Hated Nixon, both Roosevelts, Jackson. Lincoln. Gov’t kept chugging along, with that one notable hiccup under Lincoln.
I’d argue that Dubya destroyed the Republican Party as we knew it.
Jeb never had a chance with his last name, and so the field was left wide open for the Republican Party to become the Tea Party (Cruz or Rubio) or the Populist Party (Trump). A coalition of disillusioned Republicans and disillusioned blue collar Dems chose Trump… and now you have the Republican Party remade (the entire neocon wing of the old Republican Party has already decried Trump and is now firmly supporting Hillary).
So yes, a bad President can lead to a party changing drastically.
If Clinton loses, you can be sure Sanders supporters will have a chance to remake the party.
I dont know, theres a few outcomes for this election season that will have major political consiquences for the parties. If Hillary wins the republican party will turn on itself and the neocons will have the run of the democrats. If Trump wins then the democrats will likely divide in on themselves, mostly on the sanders vs hillary camp lines and the republican party will be overrun with third partiers/Tea party candidates. If Gary Johnson wins, either through a miracle campaign or sheer public distaste for both Hillary and Trump, the republican party is going to start splintering hard and we may see the libertarians just replace them all together, and the democratic party will either go into a massive reformation phase or start some kind of leftist ideology war with the green party. As a supporter of the libertarians, I wish Jill Stein all the best out of third party kinship… but the current state of her campaign, the state of her listing on the ballots, and the math behind her support polls… I just don’t see how her or the green party have much of a dog in this fight.