OMG Politics, I'm over it already.
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LeftyTom
I am not just another pretty face.
A Trumpkin response, jumping to conclusions based on someone's appearance alone.
linthat22
Dear Sausage Bacon Legs
The buzz words about Trump supporters is the same nonsense the MSM spouts and is not true. While there are those like that regardless of party affiliation, you can't broadly cast such terms on people who don't support your candidate.
Trump's rise is his message resonates with people who are tired of corrupt D.C. and see him as an outsider who wants (so he says) to get America on the right track again.
I agree that there should be better candidates, but the sad thing is the media shuts out viable candidates that want to things that are better for America and not special interests. The last two candidates that I think that could've done some good was Ron Paul or Cynthia McKinney.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
linthat22
Dear Sausage Bacon Legs
Last I read (take with a grain of salt) is that the investigation lead by Preet Bharara into Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal is what brought this case back open. More emails and yadda yadda.
Also, the other part; related to Benghazi; is that emails were found about Operation Zero Footprint where there's a cover-up between Hillary and Obama on supplying ISIS with stinger missiles without Congressional approval.
LeftyTom
I am not just another pretty face.
That "right track" only goes so far as enriching Trump. It has nothing to do with effective leadership on the world stage, and certainly precludes an inclusive America.
linthat22
Dear Sausage Bacon Legs
If true, that's yet to be seen. But what is true is the majority of the employees and public servants in Federal Government have been enriching themselves for years.
Chicken Man
Kick Henry Jackassowski
THAT's why my mail carrier has been delivering by limousine! It all makes sense now.
Chad
Slender Hobbit
I do too. I have taken my kids to the polls for every election. I want them to know it is their duty to vote for every election, not just the presidential ones
Chad
Slender Hobbit
So Clinton and Obama sent missiles to bad people. I believe Reagan, HW Bush did the same thing but to Iran and Saddam.
The funny thing is, if they did do that, it isn't like Hilary and Barrack walked into a base, grabbed some missiles, loaded them on a plane and flew them to ISIS by themselves. There would be other email systems that haven't been under the control of Clinton they could look into. I bet the military also tracks missiles in some type of accounting system.
So I'm not saying they didn't authorize missiles to ISIS but they could easily investigate it by other and better means. The fact they are going to Clinton's email server is to drag her name out in the public and cast doubt on her and try to cost her votes.
VoidTerraFirma
Live to wine
All those high school teachers with their yachts and Lear jets...They're destroying America!
GDSmithTX
Corporate cog
You mind supplying some credible links to that? Because it sounds very much like conspiracy theory bullshit.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
In the 20 years I've been going to the polls, I've never seen anyone openly carry a weapon into the polling place nor do I know anyone who has seen it. Not to say it hasn't happened in some place or that concealed firearms haven't gone into the booth but it's really a non-issue as there haven't been any incidents that I can find or know of.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
True as I mentioned in my original comment...and as I mentioned many states prohibit police to enter the polling place on duty/in uniform/armed unless responding to a call because it can be considered voter intimidation.
The point being that jumping to the conclusion that there are guns all over the place when you go to vote is not correct in my experience or anyone I know.
Chad
Slender Hobbit
But in those 20 years there has never been a candidate like Trump stirring the pot. Add that to the nut jobs in Oregon taking over the wildlife preserve armed to the teeth with them found not guilty of anything and I think we are in a new age. That being said, with most polls in schools or libraries, it would shock me if something happened at the polls, but I wouldn't be shocked if there were armed folks at the entrance trying to intimidate folks.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
Like I said previously
I know that current events and this massively divisive political season have some people very tense & speculative but I believe that calmer heads will prevail on all sides.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
I disagree. Everything he stands for is deplorable and if you choose to affiliate yourself with, even if you try and couch it to being anti-establishment or only certain parts of his message. It is based on bigotry and hate. You choose to align yourself with that message you're going to get shit for it and it doesn't matter whether or not you like it or think it's fair.
And this isn't about "my" candidate. I don't think the candidates from the other parties are bad (nor were most of the other folks in the primaries), but Trump was pretty much tied with Cruz as the worst option among the Republicans. The corrupt angle is tired. The tea party movement proved equally "corrupt" in their unwillingness or inability to understand that governance is a compromise...a give and take. Corruption on the national level is far less frequent than the local and regional level, the main place voters should be focusing on.
So the constant "corruption" cries seem to be more of I don't understand how the system works and didn't get my way for the last two Presidential election cycles, so it must be corrupt and rigged. You didn't hear this bullshit battle cry from Democrats with Bush. Dubya's administration was called out on their bullshit of WMDs, outing CIA operatives, vested interests among the administration in the oil industry, and the connection between that and the Middle East. But the main focus was on voting for people that would change things. As such the Republicans had almost no chance in 2008, regardless of who was running for either party.
Yeah folks were rightful pissed off after the 2000 election, but that was a truly fucked up and suspicious situation...denying that is weak (especially with hindsight and regardless of your political affiliation).
deplorable:
deplorableplay adjective de·plor·able \di-ˈplȯr-ə-bəl\
Simple Definition of deplorable
: very bad in a way that causes shock, fear, or disgust
: deserving to be deplored
Full Definition of deplorable
1 : lamentable <a deplorable death>
2 : deserving censure or contempt : wretched <deplorable living conditions>
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deplorable)
Fits perfectly given the message and vehement support of said horrible message.
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Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
Looks like Podesta was hooked in a phishing scheme.
As a general rule even when I get legit emails that advise a password change due to questionable activity, I never follow links embedded in the email. I always open a new browser tab and go to the site in question directly, log in and update my password.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/29/heres-how-hackers-stole-50000-of-john-podestas-emails/
The hackers sent John Podesta an official-looking email on Saturday, March 19, that appeared to come from Google. It warned that someone in Ukraine had obtained Podesta’s personal Gmail password and tried unsuccessfully to log in, and it directed him to a website where he should “change your password immediately.”
Podesta’s chief of staff, Sara Latham, forwarded the email to the operations help desk of Clinton’s campaign, where staffer Charles Delavan in Brooklyn, New York, wrote back 25 minutes later, “This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately.”
But the email was not authentic.
The link to the website where Podesta was encouraged to change his Gmail password actually directed him instead to a computer in the Netherlands with a web address associated with Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand located in the South Pacific. The hackers carefully disguised the link using a service that shortens lengthy online addresses. But even for anyone checking more diligently, the address — “google.com-securitysettingpage” — was crafted to appear genuine.
As a general rule even when I get legit emails that advise a password change due to questionable activity, I never follow links embedded in the email. I always open a new browser tab and go to the site in question directly, log in and update my password.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/29/heres-how-hackers-stole-50000-of-john-podestas-emails/
The hackers sent John Podesta an official-looking email on Saturday, March 19, that appeared to come from Google. It warned that someone in Ukraine had obtained Podesta’s personal Gmail password and tried unsuccessfully to log in, and it directed him to a website where he should “change your password immediately.”
Podesta’s chief of staff, Sara Latham, forwarded the email to the operations help desk of Clinton’s campaign, where staffer Charles Delavan in Brooklyn, New York, wrote back 25 minutes later, “This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately.”
But the email was not authentic.
The link to the website where Podesta was encouraged to change his Gmail password actually directed him instead to a computer in the Netherlands with a web address associated with Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand located in the South Pacific. The hackers carefully disguised the link using a service that shortens lengthy online addresses. But even for anyone checking more diligently, the address — “google.com-securitysettingpage” — was crafted to appear genuine.
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