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Pence is so dismissive of institutional racism you'd think he's talking about something really ludicrous, like Obama not being American.

 

Question at nobody: Lets say a 3rd party magically gets 20-25% of the vote in a US presidential election. In what way does that make us any closer to dismantling the 2 party system?

 

With a first past the post voting system ...? Close to zero.

Yay for Animal Kingdom.

(Perot got 19%.)

 

Loved this when you posted it the first time, love it even more this far into the game...

 

Q poll (LV) with good Virginia numbers, weak Colorado numbers for Clinton.

 

Heh.

 

jfc

 

But what if it's a good person with a gun?

 

Heh, they'd be white and never stopped. The 2nd amendment only applies to white people, duhhhhh.

 

Trump probably only thinks white people with guns are good

 

When they used the stop & frisk policy in NYC, the percentage of minorities that were stopped was over 80%.

 

They'd get matching federal funding, which allows them to have a broader push in the next election. I mean, it is hard work, but it is necessary, even in this election.

 

"If the crucial element in explaining the far right’s move into the mainstream is its tacit enabling by the preexisting conservative elite, what explains why that elite would change its strategy now? The modern conservative movement, after all, is best understood as a counterrevolution to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and Nixon was famously the master of political divide-and-conquer.

I would be the first to admit not to have a definitive interpretation of this shift in the behavior of the traditional right-wing elite. But my tentative thesis is that it is explained by the failure of what had been the Right’s ideology before: the ideology of capitalism. That ideology holds that the free market functions best when left to itself, and arising as it does in the market, incumbent wealth and power ought not to be challenged in the political realm.

This ideology was phenomenally successful in the nineteenth century, uniting the ancien regime with the new bourgeoisie in a political alliance to defend their mutual interests from the threat they believed was posed by mass enfranchisement, and in the second half of the twentieth century, it was again successful at resurrecting the fortunes of the transatlantic right in the era of Reagan and Thatcher.

But the expositors of that ideology in elite positions in formal politics fear that its success is short-lived, as they greet disaffection among the broad electorate with globalization and European integration that has not paid off as they promised. The political solution to that challenge to their power and prestige is to shift their claims to the exclusionary politics of the far right and of Trump as a means of shoring up their support. And we should not let them wash their hands of that stain by blaming xenophobia that long preexisted their sellout of pluralist democracy."

Brooks Brothers Riot

 

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Yup.

 

First degree manslaughter charges on the police officer involved in the Terence Crutcher shooting.

 

Full quote.

Someone tell the NRA Trump wants to take away their guns.

 

Image purported to be Michelle Obama's passport posted online

 

Oof.

 

Police Chief on refusal to release dash cam footage on Keith Scott killing:


"I never said 'full transparency.' I said 'transparency,' and transparency is in the eye of the beholder," said Police Chief Kerr Putney.




You can't make this shit up.