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This dude is next level terrifying.

 

I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE FUCK COMMON CORE IS JESUS CHRIST. COMMON CORE AND "LOCAL EDUCATION" ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE YOU TANGERINE CALIGULA MOTHER FUCKER.

Sorry. I really had to shout that. In my head.

For fucks sake though dude...ugh. All common core is is a set of standards. That's it. Unless you'd like the 2nd graders of Bumfuck Mississippi to not be able to do the same basic things in math as 2nd graders in Bumfuck Illinois.

 

Doesn't that dildo realize that three syllables are prime for chanting.

What the hell is with the numbers in that question? "You had 60 million in the primary, which is 4 million more than Romney in the primary. But Romney went from 10 million to 60 million in the general, so when do you plan to stop pandering to the 14 million?" I'm guessing the first number was a brain fart.

Also, I'm going to die laughing if Trump gets cornered and breaks rank and actually says he would back single payer. The GOP establishment would have a collective aneurysm and a huge percentage of holdouts on the issue would instantly go to "oh, single payer? yeah, I like that idea".

 

So, I just saw this shared. I wonder how invested into white denial one must be to be suggested obscure videos of black men peddling "you guys just don't work as hard as whites" Bill Cosbyan propaganda with only 5k views by YouTube.

 

I mean, Ben Carson exists so I guess anything is possible.

 

Can Israel swing the election Donald Trump's way? - CNNPolitics.com

Though Hillary will probably pander to Zionists just like bill did.

 

Trump got shit for saying he wanted to be "fair" to Palestine

 

nothing to be concerned about, its totally fine that thiel destroyed gawker, not a concerning precedent at all nope not even a little, especially not since its the same lawyer that represented hogan

 

Good news:

Board: Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA | NLRB

 

Grassley asks why, as though their insistent worship of market forces, and rejection of regulation, isn't the cause.


EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care

 

Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act are going ahead

But on the plus side, we're getting to the bottom of whether or not there were free seats on the specific train Corbyn sat on the floor on (in aid of a point which remains 100% valid anyway).

 

Fuck, that's sickening.

How can that be so out in the open and yet no one fucking cares.

 

Obama tours Louisiana amid criticism that he's late - CNNPolitics.com

 

WikiLeaks outs gay people in Saudi Arabia in ‘reckless’ mass data dump

 

I think for most people that don't care, they see the Clinton Foundation as a charity and it's probably a "so they donated to a charity that helps people and got to talk to one of the namesakes of the charity? Okay.."

 

The Latest: Governor Defends Obama's Response to Flooding

 

I just don't get it. As someone who has always given away and plans to keep giving away a large portion of my income, it's insane to me that persons of ultra-wealth can be so baldly greedy and nepotistic even in the name of charitable cause. I mean, I will always be able to comfortably live on $40k a year, at least until I have kids. So I have a hard time understanding why people like Trump and Clinton feel the need to expose themselves to ethical and moral criticisms just so that they can keep a few million more in income on top of their current billions/millions.

I'm actually surprised right-wing media (knowing damn well that corrupt Republican politicians cannot without exposing themselves to similar claims) hasn't harped on the utter lack of transparency in the Clinton Foundation. As someone who spent three years working in non-profit and therefore gives a little more slack on the issues of overhead, that foundation is still pretty fucked to me, and we need to regulate them more harshly. A fair, even generous, estimate of the money given to charitable cause, if accommodating for the paid administrative costs of those causes, would seem to be just under the 40% mark. That's too fucking low.

 

Strange they'd use the phrase "half" while analyzing a subset. To generate “more than half” they need to exclude all officials of the US and foreign governments from the denominator, and at the moment the biggest "smoking gun"? Clinton went out of her way to help, or talk to, a Peace Prize winner who was having trouble with a foreign government. Meh.

 

Setting up a foundation does far more than that. It allows an entity to 1) exist after your death and continue the charitable work you want in a mission, 2) be run by other people and take in money to progress that work on a larger scale (see the AIDS work the foundation does). It's probably the best way to actually give your money away. It's how almost any lawyer would recommend do it for any net worth over even a few hundred thousand dollars. It's how Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Jobs, Musk, and all those part of The Giving Pledge would set this up, so that it gives the legal authority to dispense funds to an entity outside of the individual.

 

Laura Seay about what the Clinton Foundation actually does (with image, tweets) · DemFromCT

I don't think enough is made of what good the foundation does.

 

I actually come pretty close to feeling this way about the email "scandal."

Likewise, a healthy portion of Huma Abedin’s job as Clinton’s closest aide seems to have consisted of fielding requests from people who wanted to get her boss’s time and attention. That’s the way it is with many powerful people, in politics or any other realm. If we were able to see all the emails from the office of any senator, Democrat or Republican, we’d see the same thing: a steady stream of people asking, on their own behalf or someone else’s, for the senator’s time. Donors, businesspeople, advocates, constituents, they all want to talk to the person whose picture is on all the walls.

If we find cases where someone actually received some favor or consideration they didn’t deserve, then depending on the details it might actually be scandalous. But an email discussion of Bono’s wacky idea to send U2 concerts to the International Space Station is not a scandal.

 

Yup, I never got this part of the email scandal at all (not that any of the others parts weren't a stretch either). I work for a City and one of my primary responsibilities is scheduling and fielding questions and requests for the Mayor and City Council members. Even as a mid-sized City (~55,000), the amount of meeting, event, and requests they get on a daily basis is pretty ridiculous.

 

Where Wikileaks has gone in the past 6+ months has been one of the weirder, and IMO unexpected, turns of this election.