Random Politics & Religion #02

"Any true conservative"?

Stop projecting your opinions on to the entire conservative spectrum. It's not a monolith. Cruz and Trump can't even agree with each other, so how can there possibly be one fixed set of principles?

Things are getting pretty hot and heavy on the democrat side


And of course Bernie thanked him for the wonderful introduction once he took the stage.

Hey the truth hurts...

DePaul University will no longer allow students to chalk political messages on the sidewalks of its campus because of the “offensive, hurtful, and divisive” nature of pro-Trump chalking found on campus last week.

The chalkening?
Chalk-nado?
Chalk proof safe space?

Only if you want it to, and fail to understand where I am coming from.

This wasn't improv, and it wasn't an accident. But based on de Blasio's explanation to CNN after the fact, it's not clear those involved realized it could face the blow back it has.

The problem is that neither Trump nor Cruz are conservatives. For that mater Trump is barely a republican.

In more college chalk news...


We need to coin a phrase for this chalk banning phenomenon.

The chalkening?
Chalk-nado?
Chalk proof safe space?

You're not wrong. I just think people are wrong for supporting him for these reasons. I really think the things we said go hand-in-hand, personally, but that's just my take on it. His "brashness" and his arrogance go hand-in-hand.

Things are getting pretty hot and heavy on the democrat side


And of course Bernie thanked him for the wonderful introduction once he took the stage.

Hey the truth hurts...

Bunch of stuff

I honestly wonder if people really fall for such cheeky tactics, or cheesy if you will, it is absurd to me. Not saying she's the only one who does this crap, but come on...

The abrasive and at times toxic rhetoric of the US election campaign is having a “profoundly negative impact” on children, a report has claimed.

It says the campaign is producing fear and anxiety among minority pupils, and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre said teachers also reported an increase in the bullying, harassment and intimidation of students whose races, religions or nationalities have been the verbal targets of candidates. Many students feared being deported.

“We’re deeply concerned about the level of fear among minority children who feel threatened by both the incendiary campaign rhetoric and the bullying they’re encountering in school,” said Richard Cohen, the group’s president.

“We’ve seen Donald Trump behave like a 12-year-old, and now we’re seeing 12-year-olds behave like Donald Trump.”

The survey - The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on Our Nation’s Schools - involved the questioning of around 2,000 teachers across the US. The group said the survey cannot be considered scientific, but said it provided an insight into the impact of the unusually heated election campaign.

The Republican primary campaign has been criticised for the anti-immigration rhetoric of many of the leading candidates, including Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Mr Trump has said he wants to build a wall along the US border with Mexico, deport Muslim immigrants to the US, and called Mexicans migrants “rapists and murderers”.

More than two-thirds of the teachers reported that students – mainly immigrants, children of immigrants and Muslims – have expressed concerns or fears about what might happen to them or their families after the election.

More than half have seen an increase in uncivil political discourse. More than third have observed an increase in anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant sentiment, the report said.

More than 40 per cent are hesitant to teach about the election.

While the survey did not identify candidates, more than 1,000 comments mentioned Donald Trump by name.

In contrast, a total of fewer than 200 contained the names Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. More than 500 comments contained the words “fear,” “scared,” “afraid,” “anxious,” or “terrified” to describe the campaign’s impact on minority students.

“My students are terrified of Donald Trump,” wrote a teacher from a middle school with a large population of African-American Muslims.

“They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa.”

An elementary teacher teacher in Oregon said her black students are “concerned for their safety because of what they see on TV at Trump rallies.” In Tennessee, a junior school teacher said a Latino child – told by classmates that he will be deported and blocked from returning home by a wall – asked every day, “Is the wall here yet?”

I don't know who this person is, but from context I would bet the meaning was not ***, but rather sell-out.
Of course he's going to get hell for that though nonetheless, he should have known better about wording. Poor guy will never hear the end of this lol.

Lool, started watching the dem debate, arrived at a point when Clinton was asked a question and she stopped midsentence going "oh it's so awesome to be here in Brooklyn, you guys are so great". I was like oh please *** off and shut it down.

I honestly wonder if people really fall for such cheeky tactics, or cheesy if you will, it is absurd to me. Not saying she's the only one who does this crap, but come on...

Lool, started watching the dem debate, arrived at a point when Clinton was asked a question and she stopped midsentence going "oh it's so awesome to be here in Brooklyn, you guys are so great". I was like oh please *** off and shut it down.

I honestly wonder if people really fall for such cheeky tactics, or cheesy if you will, it is absurd to me. Not saying she's the only one who does this crap, but come on...

I didn't watch it, debates seem antiquated and worthless these days to me

This is unimportant. It's like saying "I think candy should be free and there should be an end to world hunger".

And people wonder why I don't support any of the republicans and intend to vote blue regardless of who come November.

The whole lot of them are either racist bigots, religious zealots, or a mix of the two. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

You only see what you want to see.

Also what the media tells you to see....

Trump gets accusations of not respecting women, but at least Trump can bring female employees on stage to testify to the opposite.

And really, who doesn't think Megyn Kelly is kind of a ***

My impression of Trump is that he's definitely got a heavy dose of chauvinism in there, but he's got too much corporate mercenary attitude not to recognize talent when he sees it, and wouldn't discount a woman staffer/executive/etc because of sex or gender.

And really, who doesn't think Megyn Kelly is kind of a ***

Trump is borderline racist. Even if you say he's not actually a racist, it's easy to see how people can construe that he is, and you absolutely cannot deny that his rhetoric appeals to those who truly are

It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what's inside the magazine. I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

He doesn't care what you are, he cares what you can do for him.