2016 Election Thread (My God Kill Me Now)

[Freed Roger]

Why would any minority want to join a party openly hostile toward minorities?

The entire party is not, that is the thing. The only way to make changes to the Republican party is from the inside. Weed out the racists idiots, get rid of the homo-phobes and the bigots.

Yeah, they are idiots that should be fired.

[Freed Roger]

This working from within the party thing hasn't worked so well for the Log Cabin Republican.
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/18/486507568 ... p-platform

In a nutshell, the most anti-LGBT platform in the Republican Party's 162-year history.

- Gregory T. Angelo president of the Log Cabin Republicans, the big, gay group within the party on the republican platform

http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/ ... sa-n612401

outsider minorities joining a group such as the GOP doesn't change much in political process. They get to become their designated photo-op - as Nihilist as this sounds (Hungary Jack term). The more likely way for change is for the majority of that group to stop going along with harboring racist, homophobic, fear-based tactics.

[BW23]

I find it disheartening that there are no African Americans in that picture. But, if an African American wanted to be a Republican intern, just go apply and start trying to make changes and make a difference.

republican (or democrat FWIW) intern to make changes and a difference. that's a good one. ha ha.

Right, what was I thinking, getting involved is for losers, it is so much better to sit on front of a computer and complain.

Why would any minority want to join a party openly hostile toward minorities?

The entire party is not, that is the thing. The only way to make changes to the Republican party is from the inside. Weed out the racists idiots, get rid of the homo-phobes and the bigots.

Actually it is the entire party. 80% of primary voters voted for either Trump or Cruz. The official party platform that was passed in a landslide by the delegates has discrimination at its core. Quit putting the onus on other people to change the republican party. It is what it is at this point.

So voting for Trump or Cruz makes you a racist? Didn't know that.
Does voting for Hillary make you a criminal? A liar?

No. Just stupid.

[Myles]

I find it disheartening that there are no African Americans in that picture. But, if an African American wanted to be a Republican intern, just go apply and start trying to make changes and make a difference.

republican (or democrat FWIW) intern to make changes and a difference. that's a good one. ha ha.

Right, what was I thinking, getting involved is for losers, it is so much better to sit on front of a computer and complain.

Why would any minority want to join a party openly hostile toward minorities?

The entire party is not, that is the thing. The only way to make changes to the Republican party is from the inside. Weed out the racists idiots, get rid of the homo-phobes and the bigots.

Actually it is the entire party. 80% of primary voters voted for either Trump or Cruz. The official party platform that was passed in a landslide by the delegates has discrimination at its core. Quit putting the onus on other people to change the republican party. It is what it is at this point.

So voting for Trump or Cruz makes you a racist? Didn't know that.
Does voting for Hillary make you a criminal? A liar?

No. Just stupid.

I assume the "stupid" applies to those voting for Trump or Hillary?

[jim]

You are all changing the subject again.

[thrill]

She's [expletive] drop dead gorgeous. FCBG > FRBG.

Preposterous.

[wart57]

She's [expletive] drop dead gorgeous. FCBG > FRBG.

Preposterous.

I am quite happy to say FCBG = FRBG. They are both out of my league.

[pioneer98]

TRUMP: I'm debating whether I should dissolve NATO
REPORTER: I wonder what Deez Nuts is up to

http://qctimes.com/news/local/governmen ... e6249.html

Former presidential candidate Deez Nuts is like a lot of American voters.

He doesn’t like the Republican or Democratic nominee, and has no idea how the country wound up choosing between what some consider two of the most polarizing politicians in recent history.

“I don’t know what happened, because they are probably the two most disliked people they could have picked. Yet, the only two people that were favorable, John Kasich and Bernie Sanders ...” said Brady Olson, 16, trailing off as he shook his head slowly in disbelief.

“I don’t know what to say about that.”

Olson, of rural Wallingford, made international headlines last year while running for president under the moniker Deez Nuts.

The name, swiped from a popular Internet meme, was his 12-year-old brother’s idea.

[jim]

She's [expletive] drop dead gorgeous. FCBG > FRBG.

Preposterous.

I am quite happy to say FCBG = FRBG. They are both out of my league.

Can you imagine FCBG + FRBG? I can.

[jim]

Turns out the Ryan picture is NOT a picture of Republican interns:

Paul Ryan's photograph was actually taken at an event for the 2016 Congressional Summer Intern Lecture Series, which is open to interns from both parties. While some speakers and events likely drew a greater share of Republican (or Democratic) interns than others, it's not accurate to classify this photograph as an image specifically showing all (or only) Republican interns.

RJ Khalaf, an intern for Congressman André Carson (D-Ind.), said that the photograph is more indicative of the lack of diversity on Capitol Hill as a whole rather than among one party or the other:

But that's no fun so let's stick with the storyline of only white people allowed in the Republican party.