Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

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Quote from: Ken B on October 29, 2016, 02:08:49 PM
This is the vilest thing I can recall seeing in an American election since I was a child. I don't know if you will be able to watch it, it has been blocked in some places. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/video-beating-homeless-trump-supporter-now-blocked-can-viewed/
A homeless woman whose possessions fit in a small cart was physically attacked and then mocked as she lay on the sidewalk, for trying to protect Trump's star in the pavement from vandals. Some of her few belongings were destroyed. As she lay there, possibly hurt, not much moving, silent, she was taunted by the crowd, and all the taunts, every one, were about Trump. Trump who won't help her now, Trump this, Trump that, Trump the other. Those taunting her were all convinced they have the moral high ground. They were proud of what they were doing. She was just one of the deplorables.

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Michael Moore: "I hope Hillary DID kill Vince Foster. That would be badass!"


Bill Maher: "I don't care if they find Jon Benet ramsey in Hillary's closet, I'm not voting for Trump."


someone close to me: "I'm old. I don't care what she did. Yes, fine, so she's a criminal, I don't care."





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"Liberalism" is one of those things that gets redefined a hundred different ways.

In Australia, the "Liberals" are the more right-wing of our two main political parties.
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Quote from: ørfeo on October 29, 2016, 05:17:48 PM
"Liberalism" is one of those things that gets redefined a hundred different ways.

In Australia, the "Liberals" are the more right-wing of our two main political parties.

It's the same way in Japan, where the Liberal Democratic Party represent the status quo.
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Quote from: Ken B on October 29, 2016, 02:08:49 PM
This is the vilest thing I can recall seeing in an American election since I was a child. I don't know if you will be able to watch it, it has been blocked in some places. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/video-beating-homeless-trump-supporter-now-blocked-can-viewed/
A homeless woman whose possessions fit in a small cart was physically attacked and then mocked as she lay on the sidewalk, for trying to protect Trump's star in the pavement from vandals. Some of her few belongings were destroyed. As she lay there, possibly hurt, not much moving, silent, she was taunted by the crowd, and all the taunts, every one, were about Trump. Trump who won't help her now, Trump this, Trump that, Trump the other. Those taunting her were all convinced they have the moral high ground. They were proud of what they were doing. She was just one of the deplorables.

It is a despicable attack, but violent attacks on the homeless are a regular occurace in the U.S, where contempt for the poor can be openly displayed. The fact that this ugly mob seems to have mocked the victim for being a Trump supporter does not make the Clinton campaign responsible for it. Neither is Trump responsible for violence committed by people who describe themselves as his supporters, except to the extent that he seems to encourage or condone it at his rallies.

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Quote from: ørfeo on October 29, 2016, 01:44:38 PM
I am certainly not an American tax professional. The first of those links strongly suggests that the owners of the LLC have to report 50k of personal income, not 400k.

I looked at the relevant IRS forms (1040, which is the main form for U.S. federal income tax, and Schedule C, which is for business income and expenses) and you are correct. The terminology on 1040 is ambiguous, but Schedule C makes it very clear.

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Quote from: Scarpia on October 29, 2016, 07:54:26 PM
It is a despicable attack, but violent attacks on the homeless are a regular occurace in the U.S, where contempt for the poor can be openly displayed. The fact that this ugly mob seems to have mocked the victim for being a Trump supporter does not make the Clinton campaign responsible for it. Neither is Trump responsible for violence committed by people who describe themselves as his supporters, except to the extent that he seems to encourage or condone it at his rallies.

I don't think Ken was impugning the Clinton campaign or supporters.

If genuine, absolutely despicable.

Quote from: Rinaldo on October 30, 2016, 12:23:53 AM
I'd take anything The Gateway Pundit writes with a truckload of salt.

If staged, absolutely despicable in other ways.
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Quote from: 71 dB on October 29, 2016, 04:16:53 AM
Billionaires don't feel richer than millionaires. Just shows how meaningless money is for happiness.

Oh, you bet your bottom dollar they do feel richer. In the sense that a single digit millionaire is just a middle-class person with some money in the bank now; a double digit millionaire (like Baldwin or former protest singer Bob Dylan) is comfortable, nothing more.

The rise of the hedgefund billionaire and the mineral rich oligarchs has compeletely redrawn the map of plutocracy.

You can tell by the Trump circus. The really rich (such as Bloomberg in his brilliantly cool funny speech at the Dem Convention) are fully onto Trump's con. He's not really rich; he's just says he is one of them. But they wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole. Still, he's worth at least close to 1 billion. And on the other hand you notice Trump is talking about 'a small loan' he got from his dad, when he's really talking about millions of dollars. This champion of the common man only starts noticing amounts when they're over ten million dollar.

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Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 30, 2016, 03:32:12 AM
If genuine, absolutely despicable.

If staged, absolutely despicable in other ways.

This is why I stuck with "yuck".
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Quote from: ørfeo on October 30, 2016, 03:53:22 AM
This is why I stuck with "yuck".

I admired the elegant understatement.

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His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

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Quote from: Herman on October 30, 2016, 03:42:24 AM
Oh, you bet your bottom dollar they do feel richer.

Well they know they are richer, but how much happier is a person who is 1000 times richer than you? Definitely not 1000 times or even 10 times. Maybe log10 1000 = 3? Or maybe he is just as happy as you are? It's kind of crazy how all the money in the world wouldn't be enough for the billionaires.
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lol- my whole Post just vanished!! :laugh:

I'm sure you know I meant  "bleeding heart liberal"... yes, I understand th


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I feel like I'm on a coke high just waiting for Obama to be implicated.