***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[ninjahood]

Cubans uses socialist & communists interchangeably by their own admission.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Cuba is a dictatorship.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Cubans fled an incompetent dictator. That is what made them level.

The form of government, not the country's economic system.

 

[ninjahood]

Cuba is a dictatorship.

a far left derived one to boot.

 

[kingkoopa]

*Martial Law

Thank you lol

 

[getback]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

a far left derived one to boot.

Left right, dont matter. all that matters is maintaining power.

When USSR was footing the bills it was "communist."

once that dried up, they had to introduce limited free enterprise to pay the people who keep them in power.




it doesnt have oil or natural gas so natrually you have left policies to keep the people healthy and working.

 

[deuce king]

A vote for someone you believe in is not a vote for Trump. That's ridiculous and goes against the point of voting. Hillary didn't lose because of third party voters, she lost because inbreds came out in full force to vote while others stayed at home due to not trusting the Democratic Party anymore

A lot didn't believe in Stein or Johnson they just wanted to spite the DNC. They're lack of consolidation despite the turnout on Drumpf's side would have made the difference.

These stats are further proof that a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson was a wrong decision and a vote for Trump. Independents and some Democrats can't and shouldn't waste time voting for legitimate losers like Stein and Johnson when the Republican Party is continuously do the things necessary to win.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

This person is a moron.

 

[RustyShackleford]

The fact dude is criticizing Cuba for being a left wing/socialist dictatorship is funny, given Trump buddy-buddy relationship with Russia.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Trent needs to sit his *** down.

 

[ninjahood]

Dear Democrats, Read This If You Do Not Understand Why Trump Won
Trump Is What Happens When You Nominate A Cheater and Live In An Echo Chamber—Please Learn From This


Did you read Wikileaks?
Well, you should have.
The “conspiracies” were true, and the mainstream media lied to you to about everything.
Wikileaks was not Russian propaganda, it was the news.
Wikileaks has a 10-year record of never releasing a single falsified document, and is not connected to Russia. Everything they released were the actual e-mails of Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff. You had the opportunity to look through a window into the Hillary Clinton campaign, but you didn’t.
By ignoring the leaks, you ignored reality.
By not listening to your fellow Americans, and accusing them of being “conspiracy theorists” and trusting the corporate media, you ignored reality. By only following other liberals on social media, and only reading liberal or corporate news, once again ignoring reality. When Hillary Clinton was caught rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders, and Democrats nominated her anyway they ignored reality.
Everyone was simply insulating themselves within their own echo chamber ignoring anything outside their bubble.
The Media Lied To Us About EVERYTHING
If you’ve been following my Twitter or Facebook account during this 2016 election you probably would have thought I was a Trump supporter. However, I am a former registered Democrat, a Bernie supporter, and consider myself a progressive libertarian. This was the first election I ended up voting 3rd party, but my second choice was Trump. I simply could not vote for Hillary Clinton because of her mishandling of classified information, and stealing the nomination from the people’s choice Bernie Sanders.
Hillary never should have been nominated in the first place. The first clue was when she was under FBI investigation, and the second clue was when she rigged the primary elections.
In an attempt to inform my friends, family, and followers I posted dozens if not hundreds of Wikileaks e-mails, and tweeted alt-right news just as much as I did liberal news. I did this because most of my followers are liberals, and I realized they were all living in an echo chamber on social media where they were not being exposed to differing opinions or news. I was mostly rejected by liberals for doing this, they didn’t understand why I was sharing things that made them uncomfortable, but now they know why. Ironically, I got far more support from Trump supporters for trying to tell Democrats the truth. I wasn’t expecting that.
I took it upon myself to understand Trump, and his supporters. What I found was millions of great Americans who had been disenfranchised, normal people like you and I, who did not recover from the Great Recession. They’re pissed off about Obama Care, endless wars, trade deals that have killed jobs, higher taxes, a rigged economy–and, they are not wrong.
Had Democrats taken the concerns of average American seriously, especially the concerns of Millennials, they would have quickly realized Hillary Clinton was not the right nominee for the Democratic party in 2016.
Bernie Sanders Would Have Beat Trump
I 100% believe Bernie Sanders could have created a political revolution to beat Trump, but instead we’re getting Trump’s revolution.
The reason Hillary Clinton did not win this election is because she never should have been nominated in the first place. There was a better choice.
Democrats let Hillary hijack the DNC, and use her corporate money to push everyone around. Meanwhile, she used Correct The Record to poison the minds of people online into isolating themselves with paid Hillary trolls. Had Democrats paid attention to the leaks they would have seen the mountain of evidence that told the world that Hillary rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and was illegally coordinating with Super PACs like CTR. She should have been disqualified. The evidence is on Wikileaks.org.
Meanwhile, the media, and social media kept everyone ignorant and isolated from differing opinions. They lied to us, manipulated us, and made us think the rest of the country agreed with us, when they didn’t. They used their position of authority to mislead us into believing in a false reality—in propaganda.
This is the problem with America today, the technology that was supposed to bring us together actually isolated us into echo chambers and drove us further apart.
Getting the news from just your friends is a logical fallacy, you need to know your enemies, and realize they’re not much different from yourself.
There Is Good News
While you weren’t paying attention, Trump is actually a former Democrat. If you study his actual values he has far more in common with traditional moderate or liberal values than he does a traditional conservative. In fact, Trump may even be more liberal than Hillary Clinton on several issues.
The media prevented any kind of discussion on values, and instead focused on rhetoric and propaganda. So most Americans who immediately defaulted to what the media and Clinton campaign told them never took the time to actually get to know Donald Trump. They just watched the jokes on SNL, and corporate media blindly without considering other sources. While I’m still unsure about Trump myself, we at least know politically he’s actually a New York Democrat in Republican clothing (this is why the Republican establishment rejected him).
You also need to consider Donald Trump just overthrew a group of political elites who have been ruling this country for decades. He just beat the political establishment singlehandedly. No matter what you think about him personally, he just accomplished something historic to become our President.
At the end of the day, this is an opportunity to learn and grow and consider another world view. This is a wakeup call to get out of safe spaces, politically correct thinking, shatter echo chambers, and challenge yourself to consider the other side of the fence. This is an opportunity to reach out and truly learn to understand each other.
We all have to come together to solve any real problems with our country in the next 4-years. This election was a lesson to consider all ideas equally, regardless of established authority.
We need to come together and move forward together.

 

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[651akathepaul]

^ thanks for the info... i will vote next time for my locals then... no need for me to vote for presidency... im in NJ and it sucks that we got christie and he raised gas prices :x

Bruh, our governor in Washington State brought a 12 cent gas tax a couple years ago off Boeing's bs lies and he's still our governor :x

Inslee

 

[EddieDoyers]

If you guys need a little bit of laughter

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

Lol @ that why Dems didn't win article up there. Get that rubbish all the way tf up outta here Poor White people they've been disenfranchised & sick of health care legislation that actually helps Americans. Sitting back from the third party perspective watching all this is completely hilarious.

 

[bigsykedaddy]

 
Were the Simpsons close with the map?

Well he did run for President in 2000. I'm not sure if his sign was similar back then.

 

[Proposition Joe]

Oh look, another NT Millennial troll.

First, learn how to spell, genius. It's PRIVILEGE.

Second, I never denied "white privilege." I did say I've never experienced any so-called white privileges.

Third, where did I ever say being overweight was like being black? Go back and read EVERY one of my posts and tell me exactly where I said that, jack off.

I suggest you shut your pie hole next time you feel you want to put words in my mouth.

Ain't nobody trolling you chump, this is what you wrote

I'm still trying to figure out when exactly I'm going to benefit from all this white privilege that so many self-righteous entitled douchebags keep insisting I have? If I have it, I sure haven't found it yet, chief.

This is the same thing as white people saying I'm still waiting for my white privelage in the mail

 

[RustyShackleford]

 
Were the Simpsons close with the map?

Well he did run for President in 2000. I'm not sure if his sign was similar back then.

http://www.snopes.com/simpsons-trump-prediction/

Please stop with this Simpson's pic

 

[daddy style]

Maaaaaaan SCREW Arnold! lolololol Why is it that when white people gain the upper hand in any arena, they then want to talk about fairness and forgiveness?! Where were these clowns when they blocked President Obama's Supreme Court nominee?! Screw'em, we need to regroup, then come with another plan of attack.

 

[hand2handking]

these protests 

 

[bigsykedaddy]

Maaaaaaan SCREW Arnold! lolololol Why is it that when white people gain the upper hand in any arena, they then want to talk about fairness and forgiveness?! Where were these clowns when they blocked President Obama's Supreme Court nominee?! Screw'em, we need to regroup, then come with another plan of attack.

I genuinely want to know what we (white people) can do to help out.

 

[dat dude chris]

ninjahood on CNN?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Arnold was an unprepared incompetent failure of a governor, things got so bad,California was called ungovernable under him.

And then Cali swung left, and keep pushing in that direction. Today Cali is one of the best functioning states in the union, economically and socially. And best of all, all signs are they will keep marching in that direction.

This is my dream for America. Survive Trump, learn, and never look back.

 

[Gordonson]

http://www.snopes.com/simpsons-trump-prediction/

Please stop with this Simpson's pic

Why am I not surprised that something being spread around the internet like wildfire could've been debunked with just a modicum of research