Let me see if I understand this correctly, a guy in Belgium is upset because not enough people in Alabama voted for a Democrat?
I hate that people are comparing Bannon to homeless people. I don't think any of the homeless people I've come across were Nazis.
No, but 99.9% of the time this line of insults is indulged on the left. It's not a big deal. It's not like I'm offended on Bannon's behalf. I just think it's dumb and not funny. Even with Trump I roll my eyes now with the hair style remarks and fat jokes. There are ways to deliver that in subtle and funny ways, but most people don't pull it off. It's just shallow superficial dribble that feeds this appearance obsessed culture. There are always good people in the world that look identical to the bad person that's being insulted.
Most people couldn't cut it as comedians. You should never be surprised to find out that people are not all that clever.
Just like with Brummie--I agree with you in principle, but in Trump's case making fun of his appearance is actually very appropriate AND useful. The man is OBSESSED with appearance, and revels in playground taunts on such. Pointing out his ridiculous look is a great way to point that out. And, frankly, he's very thin-skinned--attacks on his appearance WORK. It gets to him.
I don't mock Chris Christie's weight because although he is a jerk, he (to my knowledge) is not a jerk who insults other people's looks. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is an Augustus Gloop lardass.
I think she is. If that black person was homophobic and had the "right" view on abortion, he'd get over 40% in many, many states.
She's definitely wrong. Republicans are happy to vote for black candidates who turn on their own. If Clarence Thomas had run for Alabama Senate instead of Roy Moore, he would have won.
A black person who is also an alleged pedophile would get 40% of the vote? I just can't see that, to be honest. Ta-Nehisi Coates has written about this to some extent, about what was expected of Obama (in terms of his behavior, background, rhetoric) to be acceptable as a black POTUS, compared to how low the bar was comparatively for Trump.
But her claim is not just a black candidate, but a black candidate accused of being a child molester.
Well lets hope that their stories are not forgotten after Moores loss. Hopefully they don't get the we have no more use for you so go away treatment.
The following is not an endorsement of Alabama conservatives’ positions. If you truly believe that abortion is murdering babies....your stuck between choosing a baby murderer, or voting for a pedophile. And while the pedophile charges were known by the time of this election, they weren’t “as” public during the primary. While I disagree with this thought process, I can certainly understand how this would be an extremely difficult decision for someone
Eh? I'm not upset. It's more a case of being surprised and somewhat shocked that even with the knowledge of Alabama being a deep red state, Roy Moore still almost won. A horrendously bad candidate by any metric. There is no context in which I could think of an equivalent over here in which a alleged child molester gets anywhere near a victory. Once the allegations stacked up against him, that would have been it. As it stands, he only just lost because black voters showed up in huge numbers whilst some white voters in deep red districts opted to stay away. I mean, I can understand standards being low for political candidates, but are they now at such an absurdly low level that even a child rapist is in with a chance?
If it were black teens? Not a problem. Clarence Thomas talking dirty to Anita Hill was just fine, and if he hit on 16-year girls, that would be fine, too. But they had better have been black.
There is a shit lot of white people. You can't win with just the minority vote. I would be ok policy wise with dems abandoning the working whites and just going for urban professionals but that would hurt minorities since they tend to be more working class proportionally (latinos and blacks).
The Democrats already have a coalition of urban professionals and minorities. That is not a problem. The challenge is to add from there.