#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Argent Stonecutter]

2008 = 52.9% 2013 = 51.1%, so no.

I suspect Cindy meant "of registered voters" not "of votes cast".

 

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

Alas, this is what we were telling each other in the '80s when we couldn't believe Reagan was elected.

"This is it. This is so bad that people will realize they have to switch parties" That's what I was thinking. Then again and again with both of the Bushes. Now I'm realizing that democracy here could really be over soon. If the Democrats don't remember Eleanor Roosevelt and start going door to door explaining how they can make our lives better we could have a one party system before we know it.

Maybe people just get whiter and less well educated as they age.

The is no way I could get any whiter but I'm always looking for ways to know about the lives of other people. Now that I'm officially old my memory isn't as dependable as it used to be. But I think since I started living happily ever after I'm getting more curious all the time about everything. I know a lot of people my age did what they were supposed to do and made capitalism work for them. Then they lost sympathy with less successful folks.

 

[Brian]

Alas, this is what we were telling each other in the '80s when we couldn't believe Reagan was elected.

Maybe people just get whiter and less well educated as they age.

I can see the last sentence deserving a lolwut, but the first is true. I remember it being stated as fact in political statistics regularly, explaining the same things. In FL, when Democrats losing control of state government was considered impossible.

Young Republicans were born on college campuses and now they're raised at home and private schools religiously. Catholics and other Christians that held opposition to the death penalty and helping the poor as priorities switched to opposing loss of school prayer, public support of Nativity scenes, civil rights, etc.

We did not expect a GOP resurgence, and especially not a fascist one. I still see way too much of today's youth entertained by Trump. If you rely on generational change alone for politics, you will still fail.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Finally - the mystery has been solved: GOD wanted Trump to be president! Says Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House...

 

[Kara Spengler]

Finally - the mystery has been solved: GOD wanted Trump to be president! Says Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House...

Ah, that explains why he is such an idiot.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Finally - the mystery has been solved: GOD wanted Trump to be president! Says Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House...

Later in the video they go off on 'working mom' stuff.

You never hear the term 'working dad' because the presumption is that a man's productivity/effort/worth to an employer and society is the same whether they have children or not.

But 'working mom' implies that she's burdening her partner with more earning potential with trivial child/home duties, and or she's working two full time jobs for less pay than a man.

Even using the term 'working mom' in the most positive way seems to re-enforce the gender gap. I wish we could replace it with 'working parent' or something more suggestive that men should also be struggling to balance work and home life rather than dumping it all on 'the little miss at home'.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Finally - the mystery has been solved: GOD wanted Trump to be president! Says Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House...

By Sanders' logic (and Scott Jennings in that clip), God also wanted Hitler to lead Germany in the early 20th century. So much bullshit.

 

[Lianne Marten]

Yeah, God is an asshole. Just look at *waves arms in random directions*

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[danielravennest]

I suspect Cindy meant "of registered voters" not "of votes cast".

There were 153.1 million registered voters in 2008, and Obama got 69.5 million votes, thus 45.4%. So the number checks out, but that's not what the poll was asking.

Every poll selects a pool of people to ask questions from. Thus, there is no point asking people too young to vote who they would vote for. In this case, the poll's pool was "registered voters", as opposed to "likely voters" or "actual voters". They find out who is in the pool either by looking at election rolls, or asking them a question (are you registered? are you likely to vote?). Then if the person is in the pool they want, they ask a bunch of questions. In this case, one question was if they would vote for or against Trump if he's a candidate in 2020. 56% said against, something like 36% said for, and the remainder were undecided. Even if Trump picked up all the undecideds, he would not win, unless the actual voters vs registered voters skewed towards the Republicans.

 

[detrius]

By Sanders' logic (and Scott Jennings in that clip), God also wanted Hitler to lead Germany in the early 20th century. So much bullshit.

Yes, that's what they actually believe.

Her father is Mike Huckabee - they're both Christian fundamentalist death cultists who believe the Holocaust happened to make the Jews return to Israel, so Jesus can come back and the true believers (them, not the Jews) will get raptured.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Yes, that's what they actually believe.

Her father is Mike Huckabee - they're both Christian fundamentalist death cultists who believe the Holocaust happened to make the Jews return to Israel, so Jesus can come back and the true believers (them, not the Jews) will get raptured.

And after that, the Jews will have served their historical purpose, and when the antichrist returns and they resist him, two thirds of them will be killed. Eventually, after the end of the Tribulation, the surviving Jews will assemble in Israel, convert to Christianity and everyone will live happily ever after.

 

[Lianne Marten]

Yes we are being governed by people who belong to a death cult.

 

[detrius]

Yes we are being governed by people who belong to a death cult.

Nah, a lot of them are just genocidal fascists.

They just want to kill people who don't look like them, they don't actually believe that death is a good thing!


Oh, wait...

 

[Kara Spengler]

Yes, that's what they actually believe.

Her father is Mike Huckabee - they're both Christian fundamentalist death cultists who believe the Holocaust happened to make the Jews return to Israel, so Jesus can come back and the true believers (them, not the Jews) will get raptured.

At which point the fun parties can really begin because all of them will not be around.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Time for some propaganda:


Must be viewed in conjunction with this press release/article: The Historic Results of President Donald J. Trump’s First Two Years in Office | The White House

My favorite quote: "Januars 20th 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this country again."

Trump for sure still cannot resist copying Bane's speech...

 

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

Later in the video they go off on 'working mom' stuff.

You never hear the term 'working dad' because the presumption is that a man's productivity/effort/worth to an employer and society is the same whether they have children or not.

But 'working mom' implies that she's burdening her partner with more earning potential with trivial child/home duties, and or she's working two full time jobs for less pay than a man.

Even using the term 'working mom' in the most positive way seems to re-enforce the gender gap. I wish we could replace it with 'working parent' or something more suggestive that men should also be struggling to balance work and home life rather than dumping it all on 'the little miss at home'.

To a second wave feminist like me it's just another way to 1. imply that stay at home moms don't work and 2. imply working mom's aren't normal moms.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

My favorite quote: "Januars 20th 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this country again."

 

[Chin Rey]

Finally - the mystery has been solved: GOD wanted Trump to be president! Says Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House..

She thinks it's divine punishment?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Holy loaded questions, Batman!

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