Glindathegood
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Feel free anytime to try and dissuade me about Trump. I'm actively looking for a reason not to vote for him and enjoy talking to you all. I'll tell you right now it's gonna be an uphill battle because I respect the guy for tossing his hat in the ring. He didn't need all this crap and that speaks volumes. It's the only reason I cut him so much slack. Since the moment I could vote I wanted a candidate that spoke his mind, not his handlers. Love him or hate him, the guy is fearless and real.
I don't see why he should be praised just for running for President. Isn't he doing it to benefit himself to get more attention?
What is the good of speaking his mind, if a lot of it is ignorant. Sometimes you need to listen to people who have studied the issues and know more than you do.
He wants to be seen as fearless but he sticks with a lot of Republican orthodoxy. If he is so fearless, why doesn't he tell the Republicans they should support marriage equality when he supported in the past and went to gay marriages. Why doesn't he support a woman's right to choose, when he supported that in the past, but now he went along with the standard pro-life Republican opinion?
What is brave about attacking Mexican immigrants and Muslims, two of the most powerless groups in our society?
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I see the parallels between Hillary and Madonna. But at the same time, I do feel we need to hold Hillary to a higher standard than Madonna, because Hillary is ruining for the most powerful position in the world and is dealing with major economic and international issues of terrorism, war and peace etc. whereas Madonna is a pop star and an entertainer. If she messes up, it mostly just affects herself and her record sales. If Hillary messes up, it affects a lot more people.
I totally support Hillary, but I don't think she has always been truthful and ethical and she needs to do a better job going forward. To point that out, doesn't mean you are equating her with Trump, who I agree is offensive on every level.
I don't think you can compare some humorous silly things Madonna did on Instagram to things involving life and death like Benghazi or things involving national security like the email scandal.
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I don't think she is going to pick Elizabeth Warren. Her personality is so strident and obnoxious. It goes against Hillary's theme to show she is grown up, dignified and adult in comparison to Trump. Plus Warren is too old. Just because she is in Orlando doesn't mean she's part of Hillary's announcement as VP. Maybe she is there to honor the victims, not to be Hillary's VP choice. Is it confirmed she's announcing it today. I thought I read she was introducing her choice tomorrow in Miami.
If it's someone other than Kaine, she might pick Corey Booker, from NJ. She likes him, he's well spoken and younger and cool.
I don't think she needs to necessarily pick someone more liberal and progressive than she is. The people in the middle decide the election. She doesn't want to scare them off with someone too far to the left.
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I think she will choose Tim Kaine because Virginia is a swing state and he will help with the Hispanic vote because he is fluent in Spanish.
The left will complain about his banks stand but where else do they have to go besides Hillary. She needs the votes of moderates to win.
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It's official, everyone! Trump is the Republican nominee! His son Donald, Jr. put him over the top announcing the NY State delegate count!
No turning back now!
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Now it's official!
I really thought Trump would pick a woman or a latino or a young white guy as VP, to soften his image. But no, he picks the 57 year old white bigot
All the female, Latino, black and young white Republican politicians wanted nothing to do with him and refused to run with him. He was too extreme and bigoted even for them so he was left with no choice but an old white bigot.
A lot of the minority Republicans really were pissed off when he criticized the judge for being Mexican.
If he wanted to be inclusive and soften his image, he could have chosen Tim Scott, the black Republican Senator from South Carolina. That would have been a great choice. Scott was really impressive during the shooting in Charlestown of the church members. But again, Trump messed up!
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It's not about guns, or cops.
SOME people are afraid of others that do not look like them. SOME people think they're entitled to more freedoms than others. SOME people hold tight to generational prejudices to make themselves feel empowered.
These recent tragedies are just examples of a bigger underlying problem that has ALWAYS existed in this country from day one. At least now, SOME of us are able to talk about it openly.
It's not gonna change.
Yes, but in a way it is about guns. You can't change what is in people's minds and hearts, but you can stop them from acting on those prejudices if they don't have access to weapons.
A lot of people in Europe have racist thoughts and don't like people who don't look like them. Wasn't that behind the Brexit vote? So it's not purely an American problem, but a global problem.
But in a lot of other countries, guns aren't so easily available so even if you hate people who aren't like you, it's not as easy to act on it in a violent way.
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The shooter was in the military and served in Afghanistan. I've noticed quite a few of these people in these mass shootings and have served in the US military. I think that messes up their mind and they suffer from PTSD. I think we need to think about what involving people in these conflicts like Iraq or Afghanistan does to people's minds.
Other countries don't send as many of their soldiers to fight in these wars. I think that is another factor that contributes to our higher level of mass shootings.
There's a militarization of society in general and the idea the way to solve things is to send in the troops. Fighting and seeing people killed really can mess up your mind.
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Exactly.
As much as I think Brexit was the wrong decision, people should accept the voice of majority.
I agree mostly, but it seems like a lot of people didn't really understand what they were voting on. They didn't fully comprehend all the consequences of leaving the EU.
As I said, I don't think it was really an appropriate thing to be having a referendum on. It affects a lot of people who have EU passports who from what I understand couldn't vote because they weren't British citizens.
I don't think they should have had a referendum on this in the first place, but since they did I think they have to accept the result.
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Most developed countries could develop precisely because of immigrants. USA in the first place but it's the same for the rest. These sudden attack to immigrants in developed countries really makes me angry
Exactly! That's the hypocrisy of it all. It came out that Donald Trump hired a whole bunch of immigrants to work on this big project he is building here in Washington, DC. But in every speech he says how bad they are and how they are destroying the country!
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What's the point of having a referendum though if it's not binding and has no effect?
Why not just have Parliament vote in the first place?
Usually, referendums are binding in the US, unless they are in conflict with the US Constitution in some way.
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People always say they want to reduce and get rid of the immigrants, but it never happens, because these countries need the immigrants to perform certain jobs especially in the service industry that native born people refuse to do. The US economy would come to a halt if immigration was radically cut back and I'm sure the UK economy is the same.
People act like these immigrants sit around doing nothing, just using up social services, but most immigrants I've ever known are hard working people who add a lot to the economy. They work really hard to make money so that they can have a better life and send some back to their relatives that still live in their original country. So immigrants actually add a lot to the economy not take from it.
I don't think recent immigrants are buying the super expensive real estate in the center of London. So I really don't think they are to blame for the inflation of urban real estate.
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The Us electoral system is so different than the British voting system for the Brexit referendum where they added all the votes together no matter where the people lived.
We vote state by state, and each state has electoral votes based on the population. Trump has no chance to win most northeast states and California, so his only chance is to win the swing states like Ohio. Pennsylvania and Florida.
So Hillary just has to hold the line on a few states and she will win. You get the electoral votes of a state no matter how small a margin you win that state by.
I don't see Trump winning based on our system. The popular vote may be close, but Hillary will win the electoral vote by a big margin.
I think our Founding Fathers were a lot smarter than we give them credit for in setting up the voting system the way it is.
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Being an American, here's another thing I don't understand, why did they have a referendum on this to begin with?
We have referendums but they are on local relatively simple things like legalizing marijuana or raising the minimum wage, not really complex things like being part of the EU that affects other countries and the whole world economy.
It doesn't seem like the appropriate type of issue to be having a referendum on.
The US Constitution gives the president the exclusive right to negotiate agreements with other countries subject to the approval of Congress. In the US, we don't have referendums on whether to have an agreement or alliance with other countries, which makes a lot more sense to me.
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And can someone please explain to me why a simple majority was enough for that decision? Shouldn't there be an like a two/third majority for such wide ranging decisions? I mean a two/third majority is a safety measure, usually need when it comes to constitutional matters, to make sure that certain important rights cannot be changed or taken away easily. Let's face it, a simple majority is relatively easy to achieve since people can be so easily swayed. Yes, people are that dumb. And as a result you have a split country. The situation in the UK must be horrible considering that more or less the same amount of people voted for either side and half of the nation may face the consequences for the votes other people cast.
Yes, that's a very good point. You have to have a super majority of 2/3 of states to amend the US constitution. Why was this just a simple majority? The leave option only won by 4 points or something like that which isn't much. Who set up the procedure for the referendum, was it the current UK government or the EU?
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Got it! We don't have that type of cooperation between the US and Canada here. You can't just move to Canada from the US or vice versa. You have to go through a lot of red tape to get a work visa or permanent residency card.
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But right now if you are from another EU country, you could just move there and work there without any special card or residency?
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Someone said to me it's like if New York and California decided to leave the US. But I thought the EU was more of a looser economic cooperative thing so it's not really the same. The countries like the UK always still had their own government, so I don't see what it is they wanted to be free from or why they thought the EU was controlling them.
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Can someone explain how the Brexit affects people concretely? I've been reading online from people who are from other EU countries who are working and living permanently in the UK that this will have a bad effect on them and they may even be asked to leave the UK?
But if they want to live there permanently why don't they just become British citizens or apply for some kind of permanent residency? But I guess they want to have the freedom to move around to different countries without all the red tape?
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Also the Second Amendment applies only to the government restricting guns. So the Republican party or any private business/organization can prevent you from bringing guns onto their property or to their events and that has nothing to do with your rights under the Constitution.
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They would never say that. They want them allowed everywhere. Even in courthouses and federal buildings.
I guess, but there was a recently an Appeals Court case that said the Second Amendment only protects the right to have a gun in your home for personal protection, and that there is no constitutional right to have a concealed weapon in public places and states can restrict you from having a concealed weapon in public unless you have a valid reason to carry one which has to be more than just general self defense.
The extreme right crazies think that the Second Amendment protects your right to bear any type of guns, anywhere at any time, but courts have held time and time again that it allows certain restrictions on guns for public safety, and that the Second Amendment only prohibits an outright ban on guns. The big Supreme Court case finding a Second Amendment right to bear arms stemmed from when Washington, DC where I live attempted to ban all sales of handguns.
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I'm not a Republican and I'm not defending them, but they would say that they believe that people can have a gun in their house to defend themselves in case someone invades their home, but there is no reason to have a gun at a public event like the convention where there is tons of professional security guards and police who are armed.
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This was a very tragic event.
Some of the comments in here though.. between this and the complete avoidance of the entire news story about the Stanford rapist, I feel like many posters only have compassion when bad things happen to gay men. We should have empathy for everyone.
I don't think that's fair. I think the reaction to the Orlando massacre was because so many people were killed and injured, whereas these other events no matter how terrible involve only one person.
Quite a few straight women were killed and injured at Pulse, they were there with their gay male friends. There were even a couple of straight guys (now I know some people will say they were closeted, but that's not necessarily true) who were there partying with their gay male friends.
It's shocking to think three tragic events happened all in Orlando in the matter of a few days. The killing of the Voice singer, the Pulse massacre and now this!
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His wife was born in the US, in California. She is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. If they were so religious, how come in the pictures I've seen of her online, she's not wearing a head scarf?
Her parents said since she married the shooter they rarely saw her. That's typical of abusers, they isolate their wives or girlfriends from the families so they have no one to turn to.
2016 American Presidential Thread
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Lady Gaga is not going to be at the actual convention in Philadelphia. She is performing at a free concert for delegates that they are having across the river in Camden, New Jersey. Lenny Kravitz is also going to perform at the concert.