Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

Related to that North Carolina family:

http://www.stirjournal.com/2016/04/01/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/

A long (for the web) but good read. Grab a cup of coffee and take the 10 minutes or so.

https://youtu.be/jcjBvP-ioEY

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/07/clinton-campaign-uses-noise-machine-to-block-reporters-from-hearing-fundraiser-speech/#ixzz45CpOhToQ

Thought this was an interesting piece on the intercept on how the big money donors buy influence on the policies of presidential candidates

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/07/super-pac-backer-reveals-that-big-money-entitles-donors-to-campaign-oversight/

In short: they just buy themselves into the board of directors of these so-called super pacs. Which in turn decide about the political agendas, or rather the policies they support. In a way, super-pacs are some sort of political parties in the shadow. Only difference is you can vote for them with your wallet. Or, in other words, it's politics with a business model.

The painful thing is they don't even care whether 'their' candidate wins. These super-pacs have influence on the political agendas regardless of whether the politicians they back win.

  On 4/9/2016 at 4:14 AM, goDel said:

Thought this was an interesting piece on the intercept on how the big money donors buy influence on the policies of presidential candidates

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/07/super-pac-backer-reveals-that-big-money-entitles-donors-to-campaign-oversight/

 

In short: they just buy themselves into the board of directors of these so-called super pacs. Which in turn decide about the political agendas, or rather the policies they support. In a way, super-pacs are some sort of political parties in the shadow. Only difference is you can vote for them with your wallet. Or, in other words, it's politics with a business model.

 

The painful thing is they don't even care whether 'their' candidate wins. These super-pacs have influence on the political agendas regardless of whether the politicians they back win.

Frontline also did a good episode on this a before the 2012 election: Big Sky, Big Money

I need to catch that Frontline doc. I've been wanting to just tear through their full archives, they always do quality journalism from all I've ever seen, and I've only caught maybe a dozen or so episodes over the years.

Thx for the tip! Will watch!

  On 4/6/2016 at 2:43 AM, Nebraska said:

https://youtu.be/za_R_VYWVDM

jesus christ. so fucking clueless about everything under the sun

https://youtu.be/X0SgaIvZsU4

amazing

'many of them have tattoo's on their foreheads, i hate to generalise about it, but it's true' lol wtf

  On 3/30/2016 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Pepper spray the 15 year old girl who just got groped, and then call her a "fucking communist n*gger lover"

same report from fox news' hannity and other stories. no mention of the girl's age and the guy who instigated the attack is described as "elderly".

https://youtu.be/IGdUJjxW1r0

*vaccination intensifies*

Holy shit

https://youtu.be/ZTaus6FlC3w

whenever o'reilly is reporting anything about the presidential race that he ends up reminding me of that guy in napoleon dynamite who's girlfriend is a cheerleader and he just can't believe how stupid and lame everyone in his school is. in the above video though, he really cannot believe what's happening

https://youtu.be/gZviy-v8dDc

haha

http://gawker.com/after-his-honeymoon-ted-cruz-immediately-bought-100-ca-1770893594

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When I married Ted, we got back from our honeymoon, and he went off to the store and came home by himself. And I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup.

disgusted lol

Oh, god, the soup video. 100% psycho.

if only they'd been Fray Bentos

Lovin the ann telnaes drawings of the debates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/04/15/sketching-the-brooklyn-democratic-debate/?tid=ss_tw