Politics The 2016 US Presidential Election

I'm very much liking the Clinton ad showing the clip from Late Show With David Letterman where Trump shrugs off the fact that some (all??) of his clothing products are made in Bangladesh and China.


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I don't know if it's just my computer, but I'm having problems with embedded YouTube vids, the above one and several posted by others.

Link:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8qUhXzr43o

 

Both your attempts are displaying properly embedded videos for me.

The Letterman zing against the Trump clothing line wasn't unprovoked. Earlier in the interview, Letterman asked him about his relationship with Mitt Romney, and Trump took the opportunity to rail against China for "ripping our heart out" because "we just do nothing to protect ourselves" (because Romney apparently holds a similar view).


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ACCHxF4Afc&t=4s


I think it's fair to say that most of his branded merchandise is not manufactured in the US: At DNC, Hillary Clinton slams Donald Trump for making products overseas | PolitiFact

 

I noticed that Trump hasn't been appealing to Olympic fever on Twitter as Clinton has. I figured it was simply because he's not interested in watching it, but this article provides an interesting perspective on what could be a bigger reason. Why Trump Isn’t Tweeting About the Olympics - POLITICO Magazine

 

While that ad is a decent negative ad against Trump, they are overplaying it. Put it in a rotation of 10 or 20 different ads talking about different subjects. I've only seen her Plan one and the Letterman one.

There is way too much international diplomacy going on at the Olympics. It is hard to bomb people who you just met at the Olympics.

 

After seeing clips of the Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage parts of this speech, I sought out the full video and unintentionally watched the whole 33 minutes. A few days ago in Reno NV, Clinton forwent a stump speech dedicated to promoting her policies only and instead delivered a powerful attack that struck at the heart of her Republican opponent's promotion of racial stereotypes, his retweeting of Neo-Nazi propaganda, and the invocation of his name for the bullying of minority students in American schools, the so-called Trump effect. Observe:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6Q-OEXm4k

 

But doncha know Hillary is being a bigot because she discriminates against racists.

Scottie Nell Hughes: Hillary Is A Bigot Because She Discriminates Against Racists | Crooks and Liars

 

I'd like to see a supercut of all the times Donald and his surrogates have reused poignant attacks against him to nonsensically attack his opponents. As one comment on that article notes, it's a juvenile "I know you are, but what am I?" mentality.

 

At the end of his immigration speech last night, the Republican presidential nominee brought to the stage ten close relatives of people killed in incidents involving undocumented immigrants and invited them to share the stories of these deaths.

I found this to be an extremely upsetting example of a majority group scapegoating a minority one, being that there's a strong consensus among American criminologists that homicide—as well as overall crime—rates are lower among immigrants, both legal and illegal, than among native-born Americans.

Imagine if the campaign had brought to the stage ten people who had relatives killed in incidents involving another minority class of people whose identity is not a cause of homicide.

Imagine if the Republican bid for the presidency presented the stories of ten people who had relatives killed by African-Americans or by American Jews or by trans women or by deaf men. Then would it be obvious that this manner of testimony presents dangerously misleading anecdotal evidence and not empirical fact?

Blinded by fear and hatred, the modern American nativists of this election are targeting already marginalized groups, imagining them to be responsible for major societal problems (as nativists always have: in previous centuries they have targeted Chinese, Irish, Italian, and German immigrants).

Meanwhile, they have ideologically rejected highly effective methods recommended by criminologists for preventing violent crime: gun control policies, increasing the funding of public education, providing universal healthcare including mental health services, and advancing other social welfare programs.

 

I was just reading about the history of religious freedom in the United States and I came across an arcane curiosity which suggests to me that, while a ban on all Muslims from entering the US might be unconstitutional, restricting immigration from even just certain nations on the basis of having a Muslim majority might be a casual violation of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, which states:

It wouldn't of course be a formal violation, because the Muslim nation with whom the US made this treaty, Ottoman Tripolitania, has been long since dissolved.

 

I posted this thought in one of the political threads here, maybe this one:

Many actions taken by the Obama administration which were and are heavily criticized by the GOP, would've been praised by the GOP if they were taken by a Republican administration. And of course the mistakes would've been downplayed.

To be fair, I'm certain the Democrats would've done the same thing if the situation were reversed.

I'm sick of the Us (We're always right!) verses Them (They're always wrong!) partisan politics. It's to be expected, to a certain degree, but it has gotten way out of hand. What's wrong with "That's a good idea/not a bad idea, we can work something out."?

 

And now everyone in the media is covering Hillary's health since the deplorable right wingers went after her coughing and such, so the media had to cover it.

When will they get to talking about:
-wars and military spending
-poverty
-population size
-air and water pollution
-education (should we strive for equality, or are we OK with letting poor and minority students not get the same level of education?)
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taxes and benefits
-welfare
-healthcare plan
-immigration
-jobs and automation
-national debt, the value of the dollar, the price of rent/houses, and wages
-rape in the military, high school, and on college campuses
-fiscal policy and what the big banks/federal reserve is doing
-health of the citizens
-rebuilding small towns and inner cities
-distractions by sports and pets
-legalizing marijuana and treating the out of control drug addictions
-guns and security
-wild animal populations
-international trade and relations


But we talk non-stop about Hillary should have taken a sick day or two, a few confidential e-mails that nobody would know about if it wasn’t for the media, and Trump’s wife buying a painting

 

a Trump presidency would probably be the last straw for me living in this country. I'd start immediately looking for work in Europe

 

I talked to a co-worker that just came back from Europe on Wednesday, and even though she is more conservative, I believe her when she says all is not well in Europe right now.