Random Politics & Religion #14

I agree that blocking a road isn't a riot. We see roadblocks as a form of protest up here from time to time but that is far more political locally (like a local band being fed up with a company's lying or overcharging the reserve and blocks all their company's vehicles from entering their land)

(Newser) – With just 90 minutes to go before the deadline, Jill Stein officially filed for a recount in Wisconsin, NBC News reports. The state acknowledged it received the petition from the Green Party presidential nominee Friday afternoon. The recount is expected to cost $1.1 million. According to the AP, Wisconsin has never performed a presidential recount before, but state law allows for one if a candidate asks for it—and can pay for it. As of Friday, Stein had raised more than $5 million dollars for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The money will go toward attorneys, filing costs, and recount observers.

Momentum for the "long-shot" recounts in three states where the final vote was markedly different from polling is growing due to Hillary Clinton's massive lead in the popular vote and concerns about possible Russian hacking. The Clinton campaign hasn't commented on recount efforts. While Stein eventually made Friday's deadline in Wisconsin, her wait until the last minute prompted skepticism on social media. "Jill Stein at Nordstrom, telling the sales girl she'll get one in each color," reads one tweet. "A cackling Jill Stein floats off into the sunset in a massive golden blimp with 'RECOUNT' emblazoned on the side," reads another. The recount deadlines in Pennsylvania and Michigan are next week.

Looks like Trump is pretty pumped about Fidel Castro dying. Unless this is another cryptic message.

I think he just likes exclamation points.

What is the point of a recount exactly to prove Trump won again ?

To disprove the remote possibility that Russian hackers wanted trump to win so badly that they hacked the voting machines in Wisconsin and Liberal tinfoil hats look more fashionable then conservative ones.

To disprove the remote possibility that Russian hackers wanted trump to win so badly that they hacked the voting machines in Wisconsin and Liberal tinfoil hats look more fashionable then conservative ones.

I think he just likes exclamation points.

Not really, but he allowed soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba AFTER America deployed missiles in Turkey. Besides that, I guess it's the same old communism/socialism evil propaganda.

Fidel Castro died yesterday. I know when I grew up learning about him we learned that he was pretty much a bad guy, I'm curious now if that was really the case.

You also forget all of the human rights violations throughout the years he was dictator that would make Putin blush.

But I guess that's ok now.

He didn't start out that way. He led a resistance to a brutal dictator, Fulgencio Batista, and originally his ideas were more socialist than communist.

There is a fairly well explored theory that Raul led the swing to hardline communism and had many liberal and progressive members of the resistance killed.

Then there was the appropriation of American owned plantations, leading to the embargo and us labeling Cuba a communist state which they were well on the road to becoming anyway. This pretty left them nowhere to turn for exports and hard money (well, kinda mushy money) other than the communist block.

The Cuban missile crisis and the bay of pigs invasion pretty much killed any possible chance of dialog.

On the plus side Cuba achieved a staggering 99.8% literacy rate under Castro, and a major, world wide, export is trained physicians.