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How was Donald is in other town hall debates?
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I don't think the Republicans had any town hall debates this go around.
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Sounds like da Donald needs a safe space from all these nasty ads
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-to-sue-over-nasty-campaign-ads#disqus_thread
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-to-sue-over-nasty-campaign-ads#disqus_thread
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Over the years, when chubby aka male sarah palin mentions he's gonna sue someone he always sounds like a kid shouting, "I"m gonna tell my daddy on you".
Grow a set dude...
Also reminds me of the old jerky boys skit... "I'm going to sue everybody"...
Should've posted this when I posted the swing state data.
This senate forecast was updated 46 mins ago...
Grow a set dude...
Also reminds me of the old jerky boys skit... "I'm going to sue everybody"... Should've posted this when I posted the swing state data.
This senate forecast was updated 46 mins ago...
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[h1]Washington's governing elites think we're all morons, a new study says[/h1]
September 30, 2016 | 10:56 am
Voters are angry at the political establishment and the political establishment doesn't much care for the voters either. In fact, they think voters are pretty damn stupid.
That's the conclusion of a new survey of America's unelected governing elites by political scientists at Johns Hopkins University. While media outlets endlessly poll and probe the American people to understand why they feel so disenchanted with their government, Professor Benjamin Ginsberg and Senior Lecturer Jennifer Bachner instead looked at America's political ruling class for answers. The federal bureaucrats, think tank leaders, and congressional staff members they surveyed, Ginsberg said in an interview with VICE News, "have no idea what Americans think and they don't care. They think Americans are stupid and should do what they are told."
It seems that the disenchantment is mutual.
In their new book What Washington Gets Wrong, Ginsberg and Bachner report that the overwhelming majority of D.C.'s Beltway Insiders think the American public is pitifully uninformed on government policy. 72 percent of those governing officials think the public has little or no knowledge about policies to aid the poor. 71 percent believe that they have little or no knowledge about science and technology. And across eight different policy areas, never more than 6 percent of those surveyed thought the public possessed a "great deal" of knowledge on the topic.
With such a low opinion of the American public, perhaps it is not surprising that the vast majority of these political insiders believe they should ignore public opinion. At least 78 percent of those surveyed thought that actions in all eight policy areas should not always or even mostly heed popular sentiment.
If the public resists, Ginsberg told VICE News, then bureaucrats "nudge people into obedience." In fact, 'nudge' has been the PR-friendly word of choice for bureaucratic regulations in the Obama era. Cass Sunstein, Obama's Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, even co-wrote a book in 2008 called Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health Wealth, and Happiness that lays out how the government can use behavioral psychology to more efficiently achieve policy goals. They dubbed it libertarian paternalism.
While many voters have long suspected this condescension, evidence of it has occasionally risen to the internet's ever-choppy surface. In 2014, MIT Professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was caught on tape explaining that "the stupidity of the American voter or whatever ... was really, really critical for [Obamacare] to pass." Most lawmakers and voters, he suggested, did not really understand the law and that "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage."
This divide between the federal government and the public seems likely to split even wider as the Beltway technocracy has only grown in wealth and power in recent years. The three wealthiest counties by median income in the United States are in the D.C. suburbs. In 2015, the average salary for a full-time federal government employee was $79,437 and only $58,726 for an employee in private industry, according to the government's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Perhaps as a result, public trust in government is at historic lows. Only 19 percent of Americans trust the government to always or almost always do the right thing, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center study. In light of this new survey, that may not be surprising since most in government don't think the public knows what the right thing is.
The remedy for this disconnect between the Capital and the people it ostensibly serves is unclear. Whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton win this November, this Beltway class will remain largely in place. This election may only be a foreshadowing of more voter anger.
https://news.vice.com/article/washingtons-governing-elites-think-were-all-morons-a-new-study-says
September 30, 2016 | 10:56 am
Voters are angry at the political establishment and the political establishment doesn't much care for the voters either. In fact, they think voters are pretty damn stupid.
That's the conclusion of a new survey of America's unelected governing elites by political scientists at Johns Hopkins University. While media outlets endlessly poll and probe the American people to understand why they feel so disenchanted with their government, Professor Benjamin Ginsberg and Senior Lecturer Jennifer Bachner instead looked at America's political ruling class for answers. The federal bureaucrats, think tank leaders, and congressional staff members they surveyed, Ginsberg said in an interview with VICE News, "have no idea what Americans think and they don't care. They think Americans are stupid and should do what they are told."
It seems that the disenchantment is mutual.
In their new book What Washington Gets Wrong, Ginsberg and Bachner report that the overwhelming majority of D.C.'s Beltway Insiders think the American public is pitifully uninformed on government policy. 72 percent of those governing officials think the public has little or no knowledge about policies to aid the poor. 71 percent believe that they have little or no knowledge about science and technology. And across eight different policy areas, never more than 6 percent of those surveyed thought the public possessed a "great deal" of knowledge on the topic.
With such a low opinion of the American public, perhaps it is not surprising that the vast majority of these political insiders believe they should ignore public opinion. At least 78 percent of those surveyed thought that actions in all eight policy areas should not always or even mostly heed popular sentiment.
If the public resists, Ginsberg told VICE News, then bureaucrats "nudge people into obedience." In fact, 'nudge' has been the PR-friendly word of choice for bureaucratic regulations in the Obama era. Cass Sunstein, Obama's Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, even co-wrote a book in 2008 called Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health Wealth, and Happiness that lays out how the government can use behavioral psychology to more efficiently achieve policy goals. They dubbed it libertarian paternalism.
While many voters have long suspected this condescension, evidence of it has occasionally risen to the internet's ever-choppy surface. In 2014, MIT Professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was caught on tape explaining that "the stupidity of the American voter or whatever ... was really, really critical for [Obamacare] to pass." Most lawmakers and voters, he suggested, did not really understand the law and that "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage."
This divide between the federal government and the public seems likely to split even wider as the Beltway technocracy has only grown in wealth and power in recent years. The three wealthiest counties by median income in the United States are in the D.C. suburbs. In 2015, the average salary for a full-time federal government employee was $79,437 and only $58,726 for an employee in private industry, according to the government's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Perhaps as a result, public trust in government is at historic lows. Only 19 percent of Americans trust the government to always or almost always do the right thing, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center study. In light of this new survey, that may not be surprising since most in government don't think the public knows what the right thing is.
The remedy for this disconnect between the Capital and the people it ostensibly serves is unclear. Whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton win this November, this Beltway class will remain largely in place. This election may only be a foreshadowing of more voter anger.
https://news.vice.com/article/washingtons-governing-elites-think-were-all-morons-a-new-study-says
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-women-insults-entertainment-229225
What kind of pitiful excuse is this?
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Trump backpedaling hard
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What kind of pitiful excuse is this?
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It's similar to the "im not racist i was just joking" excuse.
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the bellicose beer belly orangutan with white around his eyes is quite the abomination. what a joke. as if 90% of his support doesn't come from deplorables who hope his outrageous statements are reality. sickening!
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in the next debate Hillary should paint him in a corner on his deportation force. either get him to say a) he will deport 16 million, or b) he was only exaggerating for effect. if it's the latter, then say that his supporters are going to be disappointed that he's turned into just another DC politician doing typical beltway politics.
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There needs to be a legit site that posts the information of who's running, when, where, and a link to their site to see their issues. It's literally a manhunt to find info out about state and local elections. All the seats in PA are up for reelection on Nov 4 and after that 9mo impasse we had, it's time to get them dudes out but the state site is a freakin maze to find the right info
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everysingletime
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Yea man I agree
Rusty was talking yesterday about how if it's not the presidential election, that ppl just skip voting
The reason is because it's like the local elections don't exist
With the presidential election, we're bombarded with media feeding us information. Even social media gets on the action.
In some social media posts they even have the link that registers you to vote. Even if you ain't been paying attention to anything a presidential candidate might still get a vote that way.
I dunno nothing about who is up for local elections, when they're getting elected, how to vote. Etc etc and I know I'm not alone.
Rusty makes me realize that I do want to get more involved but they need to make understanding the local process easier lol
Someone with time on their hands should make a website
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Oh apparently there is already a website lol
Rusty was talking yesterday about how if it's not the presidential election, that ppl just skip voting
The reason is because it's like the local elections don't exist
With the presidential election, we're bombarded with media feeding us information. Even social media gets on the action.
In some social media posts they even have the link that registers you to vote. Even if you ain't been paying attention to anything a presidential candidate might still get a vote that way.
I dunno nothing about who is up for local elections, when they're getting elected, how to vote. Etc etc and I know I'm not alone.
Rusty makes me realize that I do want to get more involved but they need to make understanding the local process easier lol
Someone with time on their hands should make a website
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Oh apparently there is already a website lol
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There needs to be a legit site that posts the information of who's running, when, where, and a link to their site to see their issues. It's literally a manhunt to find info out about state and local elections. All the seats in PA are up for reelection on Nov 4 and after that 9mo impasse we had, it's time to get them dudes out but the state site is a freakin maze to find the right info
Try Ballotpedia famb
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There needs to be a legit site that posts the information of who's running, when, where, and a link to their site to see their issues. It's literally a manhunt to find info out about state and local elections. All the seats in PA are up for reelection on Nov 4 and after that 9mo impasse we had, it's time to get them dudes out but the state site is a freakin maze to find the right info
This is what bothers me most about the process. Throw in a full time job + kids + the time weeding out the blatant lies or nonsense - it shouldn't be this hard. This matters. People should be making informed decisions.
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Donald is like a bigoted Daenerys Targaryen. You gotta call out dem titles when you introduce him.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa Rus... You gotta chill wit the Daenerys comparison, even if you add the bigoted or not... That dude is as stupid a person as I've ever encountered in the world of politics... Daenerys got skill, intelligence, powers, etc... That idiot don't got nothing like that... Giving waaaaaaay to much credit in that analogy.... 
Seth Meyers on the vp debate.
Dumb *** didn't even know who the governor of Jersey was...
Seth Meyers on the vp debate.
Dumb *** didn't even know who the governor of Jersey was...
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^^^^Try Ballotpedia fambThere needs to be a legit site that posts the information of who's running, when, where, and a link to their site to see their issues. It's literally a manhunt to find info out about state and local elections. All the seats in PA are up for reelection on Nov 4 and after that 9mo impasse we had, it's time to get them dudes out but the state site is a freakin maze to find the right info
this
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Whoa, whoa, whoa Rus... You gotta chill wit the Daenerys comparison, even if you add the bigoted or not... That dude is as stupid a person as I've ever encountered in the world of politics... Daenerys got skill, intelligence, powers, etc... That idiot don't got nothing like that... Giving waaaaaaay to much credit in that analogy....
Seth Meyers on the vp debate.
Sorry brah, I couldn't think of a stupid car, clothes, NYC streets, or rap music analogy.
But thankfully, come election day, it is looking like the minority vote gonna treat the fat man like dem hounds treated Ramsey.
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I prefer calling Trump a fat @#@$ instead.
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He's more like Stannis, the Lord of L's.
Donald is like a bigoted Daenerys Targaryen. You gotta call out dem titles when you introduce him.
Donald Dumpster of the House Drumpf, the Unlearnt, the Second in line for seconds (behind Christie), King of the Deplorables, Protector of the Bigots, Orangutan with an *** Face, Breaker of Oaths and Father of Creepy Children
Let's just keep adding to this and use the full title every time we refer to Donald Dumpster of House Drumpf.
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