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Yet that is not going to lose any support from his base

 

Holy shit this is on national news right now.

 

every time it's the same. no matter what is said, even when it's called out by major news outlets on TV, it's just shrugged off as if it never happened. it's really baffling and disappointing.

 

Guess his "outreach" is going well.

 

Between this and Ryan Lochte joining, why are they rewarding idiots? Or is this suppose to be their punishment?

 

Barack Obama: Change our national anthem to Sonic Adventure 2's 'City Escape'

 

I'm still disillusioned since Obama ignored the Change.org petition to change the national anthem to Ignition (Remix).

 

Change it to Linoleum by NOFX!!!!!

 

Down-Ballot Democrats Should Go After Johnson And Stein Voters

Adding together the Johnson and Stein voters creates a group that is slightly more Democratic-leaning than the electorate as a whole. By an 11-point margin, these third-party voters prefer the Democratic candidate for Congress.2 Among Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton voters only, Democrats lead the aggregate House vote by 7 points. If Johnson and Stein supporters vote for a major-party candidate for the U.S. House, the Democrats’ overall margin would grow by about 1 percentage point relative to where it would be if they favored independent candidates in down-ballot races too. (And that makes sense: In July, I found that the Democratic presidential candidate’s margin over the Republican increases by about 1 point when third-party voters are forced to choose between one of the two major-party nominees.)

Now, I should note that the Democrats are unlikely to retake the House. While the national house ballot has historically had a strong correlation with the eventual popular vote in the House, it’s not perfect. A seat-by-seat analysis indicates that Democrats will probably not gain enough seats to take control of the chamber. What’s important to note here is that third-party voters are more inclined to vote Democratic than the nation as a whole.

 

honestly it should either be this or superman by goldfinger

 

Not to mention Trump's first wife Ivana's allegations of domestic violence against Trump himself.

 

Trump to minority voters: 'I will stop the slaughter'

It's like...I just...

 

This bothers me on so many levels that I'm not sure what to say at this moment other than I felt I had to say that it bothers me on so many levels.

 

How is he not on point regarding the emails as well?

I've respected Kaep for a long time because of how well he's handled the hate he's gotten, but I never knew him to be so bold. I'm really rooting for him to take the starting QB job-- his talent in a Chip Kelly spread offense could be magical.

 

EU To Apple: You Owe Ireland $14.5 Billion In Taxes, Plus Interest!
EU Antitrust Regulators Order Apple To Pay Ireland Up To $14.5 Billion In Taxes

 

Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years'

 

This is a very valuable article. Anyone interested in the labor movement and/or building a strong, more vibrant labor movement should read it:


'My own view is that the best way for unions to grow is to combine the strengths of these different strata of the working class. SEIU has tried this, in a way. From its base of hospital workers and janitors (middle-stratum jobs), the union has made incursions up and down, attempting to organize adjunct professors and fast-food workers. The challenge of these campaigns is that the workers are spread across an entire metropolitan labor market. These groups don’t necessarily feature in one another’s lives in any way other than as consumers; they are unlikely to live next to one another, or play sports together, or get drunk together, or share spaces of worship. Their kids aren’t friends or even classmates. The union’s ability to throw its existing weight into new workplaces is thus limited by the social distance separating the organization’s existing base from its areas of expansion....The most promising targets for campaigns are employers large and multifarious enough to implicate workers of many different kinds, as well as the broader community. Hospitals, school systems, and universities leap out as potential targets. These are the institutions where the RN, the custodian, and the fast-food worker are under the same roof. They might actually know one another. The meaning of their alliance might cut across lines of race, gender, and status...With enough political power at the local level, workers’ organizations may be able to develop forms of leverage that can counteract the growing hostility of the federal legal regime. Imagine if the Chicago Teachers Union won control of the city government (far from an impossible prospect) and used that power to rein in police violence; the union might also reopen schools and clinics closed by Emanuel and staff them, creating huge numbers of unionized jobs. Enough victories like these, and the public image of organized labor might finally change from racist white men to the dominant group across many sectors for decades now — progressive people of color. More significantly, the wide range of working-class people whose long-term interests can align would take a step toward unity.'

Who Works for the Workers?

 

Agreed:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/us/white-lives-matter-has-been-declared-a-hate-group.html

 

Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media

 

Stop Trying to Make Anthony Weiner’s Sexting a Political Issue