The Political Discussion Thread

[Falcon Horus]

problem is there's gonna be innocent american victims too; not to mention worldwide repercussions (giving some megalomaniac billionaire control of the world's first economic & military power - what could go wrong?)

I know.

LSoSette. Or LSoS, where the first S stands for sackette.

But I fully expect foot in mouth disease to strike again at some point.

Anticipating an interesting debate.

In the meantime, Donald Trump Jr is making a complete asshat of himself on twitter.

I even thought about what if the wall was dug down into the earth's mantle where it finally meets up with the lava flows? If that even happened, someone with enough money might dig a tunnel closer to the land surface with one of those huge mole-tunnel diggers. With technology available nowadays, that whole "wall" idea *seems* folly from my POV.

We can now add geology to things you have no clue about.

"“Crust” describes the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet. Our planet’s thin, 40-kilometer (25-mile) deep crust—just 1% of Earth’s mass."

Ummm... if this Selena Gomez and the others you refer to are living in the U.S., isn't that kinda the point? Why should people who live here have to learn the language of immigrants?

Because sometimes they still have family in the home land or they want to keep it as a second language. Clearly not all of them. Or they still speak it at home.

The vote is the free exercise of choice, and to give it up is baffling to me. I find people who don't vote more insulting to their nation than any not standing for the anthem, or burning the flag, at least those are conscious -choices-.

What he said.

America can build a wall if you want, you can do it with bricks, EM fields, barbed wire, machine gun nests, microwave zappers or sonic screwdrivers for all I care.

Doctor would have a thing or two to say about that.

At least none of his lies have lead to people dying (that we know of).

Benghazi still?
How much of that situation do you actually know? Not what the media told you, or was released in a report.
But the actual situation? Were you privvy to the decisions? The consequences of those choices?

GF has a point that Trump has destroyed more people economic wise, and probably some who died or killed themselves in the aftermath. But nope, you probably only see Benghazi.

And if hillary wins and runs us into the ground and WE say "told ya so", will you say "guess i was wrong"

That's the thing, I won't have to. Girl knows the game.

Isn't that proof then of what we have been saying, that 'they don't assimilate'??

Don't know who Selena Gomez is, do you?

She's an American actress and singer, who doesn't know Spanish.
I like her music -- though I like Demi Lovato's more.

[thekillman]

On the plus side, If Hillary wins, I can just keep right on referring to her as the LSoS. Or perhaps LSoS II.

I guess not much would change, in the other case you can use LSoS too.

[Annoyed]

It's not a question of me not accepting it, it's a question of facts Annoyed. Hillary won without the Super delegates, she won on votes alone, same as Trump. In 2008, Obama won on votes, not the Super delegates as well. I don't know what kind of deal she could have made from a losing position "I'll step aside, because I am loosing" is not exactly a strong bargaining place to be in. This isn't poker or Blackjack where the art of the bluff comes into it, if it were, I could quite easily see your theory having some merit, but it is not, so it does not. At best, you can argue that the DNC had a favourite in 2016 and did their best to have Hillary win, and I would totally agree with you there because the known facts support that view.

As for Bernie, the more Ivanka has to do with the campaign, the more you will see -his- idea's come out of her mouth.

Do you really believe that all of the accurate details of how are decided in this country happen above board and in public view?
I'm afraid that isn't the way it works.
A awful lot is decided behind closed doors, and the published facts are adjusted to support the desired narrative.

[Gatefan1976]

Do you really believe that all of the accurate details of how are decided in this country happen above board and in public view?
I'm afraid that isn't the way it works.
A awful lot is decided behind closed doors, and the published facts are adjusted to support the desired narrative.

Are you F'ing kidding me??
You trust more in conspiracy theories than actual known facts.

And yes, I think I know more than you, because unlike you, I will not write off sources just because they don't agree with me. I'll watch Fox, I'll read Breitbart, but -then- I will fact check them. You just say "it's lame stream media, and it's owned by the left" and give it no more thought.
Then again, education is a lefty conspiracy, isn't it.

[Gatefan1976]

People apparently aren't allowed to bring native food, ideas, religion etc with them.

So Americans, please stop talking your English, eating your cuisine and expressing your culture and belief. It's only fair you assimilate.

How quickly we forget.

Sanders wasn't as popular as you think he was. He's probably become more popular since he wasn't elected, but Hillary won fair and square. He was simply too much of a socialist for american tastes.

He was, and is popular, but as you say, he was "too left" for America. The people who bother to vote simply don't know what the hell he stands for, it's just "what we fought the ruskies over".

[Falcon Horus]

I guess not much would change, in the other case you can use LSoS too.

The other one isn't worthy of the term. We would need a new one, Voldemort would do nice but that would be an insult to Voldemort.

People apparently aren't allowed to bring native food, ideas, religion etc with them.

So Americans, please stop talking your English, eating your cuisine and expressing your culture and belief. It's only fair you assimilate.

Completely missed that post.

[thekillman]

The other one isn't worthy of the term. We would need a new one, Voldemort would do nice but that would be an insult to Voldemort.

BSOS, where the B stands for "blaming everything on everyone else". He loses? damn immigrants. Bad economy? damn immigrants.

[Gatefan1976]

BSOS, where the B stands for "blaming everything on everyone else". He loses? damn immigrants. Bad economy? damn immigrants.

Wouldn't that be BSOO??
Blaming Sh** On Others.

[Britta]

BRIC.

Blame Relocator in Chief.

[Gatefan1976]

We need a good acronym.......
Quick, to the Englishmobile!!

[thekillman]

TRUMP: Talks Really Useless Migrant Policies.
PENCE: Proposes Explicit New Christian Extremism.

[Britta]

TRUMP: Twelve Ridiculously Unruly Muskrats, Prattling.

[Gatefan1976]

Totally
Rancid
Underarm
Musk
Pathetic

[Gatefan1976]

TRUMP: Talks Really Useless Migrant Policies.
PENCE: Proposes Explicit New Christian Extremism.

Preposes Evangelical Nutjob Christian Extremism??

[Britta]

Promotes Extremism, Needs Cerebral Examination?