2016 POTUS Election Thread

Personally, I think the man who presented "The Apprentice" doesn't want to be President. Too much scrutiny and too much pressure. Having said that, he remains amusing.

NoDak said:

Trump, Clinton, Sanders... Doesn't really matter which one they follow. The biggest retards of them all are the ones that think they're getting their point across with a constant barrage of memes.

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I think I've cut about 100 people out of my feed for posting constant BiPo quality memes since primary season started, and yeah they were in support of or against pretty much everybody in the primary, plus pro and anti Obama memes. My FB is a much quieter page these days.

L.T. Fan said:

You think protesters should block streets? That isn't safe. But lethal force is too much.

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Really L.T.?

How can you even equivocate the 2 things?

This country was built on protest and blocking the streets Boston Massacre, Civil Rights etc.

How can you act like he is not completely bonkers for advocating lethal force in these situations.

L.T. Fan said:

Roosevelt didn't decide this on his own. The nation was at war and a lot of fear gripped the country. It's easy to Monday morning quarterback these circumstances and call him disrespectful names several generations removed. And Trump is exactly correct about Mexico sending a lot of bad people. Not to be confused with people that chose for themselves. They are distinctly different. Trump made the distinction.

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You actually think Mexico is sending people here.

Wow that explains a lot.

Jiggyfly said:

You actually think Mexico is sending people here.

Wow that explains a lot.

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Yes, the Mexican Government will pay for the wall; Mexicans will build it, then they be escorted out of the country in a peaceful manner. Simple.

Now Ted Cruz wants to "empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods". And said once again he will carpet bomb Isis controlled territories. Yeah, because you know they all just hang out together in one big group with no civilians and innocents around.

I think I'd vote for Trump over this fucking lunatic. Well done, Texas, thanks for giving the world this imbecile.

BipolarFan said:

Now Ted Cruz wants to "empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods". And said once again he will carpet bomb Isis controlled territories. Yeah, because you know they all just hang out together in one big group with no civilians and innocents around.

I think I'd vote for Trump over this fucking lunatic. Well done, Texas, thanks for giving the world this imbecile.

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He is Canadian.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/npr-starts-trump-training-to-deal-with-threats/2016/03/23/eb13049c-f05b-11e5-85a6-2132cf446d0a_story.html?utm_source=API+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=89d96f4019-Need_to_Know_March_24_20163_24_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-89d96f4019-45822909
NPR offers its reporters ‘Trump Training’ to handle safety threats

Donald Trump’s campaign events have apparently become such a minefield for reporters that one major news organization has taken the extraordinary step of offering its correspondents a version of training for dealing with real minefields.

NPR has sent its political reporters to 90-minute hostile-environment awareness training, which in its typical form lasts a few days and prepares journalists for covering war zones or regions where terrorists are active.

News organizations, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations generally employ this type of training to help employees respond to hazards such as riots, mortar attacks, kidnappings or firefights.

In this case, NPR’s scaled-down sessions might be called Trump Training.

Although there have been no mortar attacks, Trump’s campaign rallies are generally rowdy affairs in which violence has occasionally flared. The candidate canceled one of his rallies in Chicago this month out of concerns that protests against him had become too volatile.

Violence at Trump campaign events has been increasing in intensity despite Trump's insistence that his rallies are peaceful. Here's a look at how the violence has escalated to the events in Tuscon on March 19.

Three journalists have been roughed up while covering Trump, including a reporter for Breitbart News who suffered bruises this month when she said she was grabbed by Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, as she was questioning the candidate. Lewandowski has denied involvement, and Trump has defended him.

But Trump arguably has inflamed violent behavior among his supporters by declining to disavow their behavior. He has said that he wanted to punch one protester “in the face” and that protesters in an earlier age would “be carried out on a stretcher, folks.”

He has also suggested that riots could ensue if he is denied the nomination at the Republican convention despite securing the leading share of delegates.

NPR wouldn’t discuss its training in detail, but Michael Oreskes, senior vice president of news, confirmed that the radio and digital news organization has made it available to its reporters. He described it as training for “dangerous or possibly hostile environments,” he told NPR.

A spokeswoman, Isabel Lara, said the sessions are designed to deal “with the stress of covering a very demanding story for a long period of time. We make the training widely available to newsroom staff whether they work internationally or domestically.”

She declined to say how many staffers had received the training.

NPR appears to be alone in providing such training to its Trump reporters. No other news organization, including The Washington Post, said it was undertaking similar training, a spot check found.

Frank Smyth, executive director of Global Journalist Security, a firm that provides hostile-environment awareness training (HEAT), said some news organizations sought his company’s services last year after a disgruntled former employee of a TV station shot and killed a reporter and her cameraman near Roanoke.

Although no one has asked about Trump rallies specifically, Smyth said, “This violence is a serious concern, and it has the potential to escalate and develop a momentum of its own that could lead to serious injuries of journalists. In other words, I am more concerned about the kind of climate this could help unleash than the level of violence against journalists we have seen to date.”

TLDR: Trump's rallies are so violent reporters have had to start treating them as a war zone.

This is a semi serious question. What is going on with the GOP? Now candidates are arguing about their wives.

Carl said:

This is a semi serious question. What is going on with the GOP? Now candidates are arguing about their wives.

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In my view they are posturing for a brokered convention. While Trump and Cruz are sniping t each other with petty 5th grade styled dialogue, Kasich is being brought into focus as the level headed candidate. His continuance in the primaries is for the purpose of keeping the front runners from achieving the majority number to win the convention outright. Meantime the machinery is laying the ground work to establish that Kaschick is the only viable candidate who can defeat Clinton which will be the calling card to try to convince the delegates to switch in a contested convention. The GOP has pegged Kasich as their choice to run for the presidency.

L.T. Fan said:

In my view they are posturing for a brokered convention. While Trump and Cruz are sniping t each other with petty 5th grade styled dialogue, Kasich is being brought into focus as the level headed candidate. His continuance in the primaries is for the purpose of keeping the front runners from achieving the majority number to win the convention outright. Meantime the machinery is laying the ground work to establish that Kaschick is the only viable candidate who can defeat Clinton which will be the calling card to try to convince the delegates to switch in a contested convention. The GOP has pegged Kasich as their choice to run for the presidency.

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I think I have said this before, I'd vote for him.

BipolarFan said:

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Think what would happen with our tax rates if we gave NO ONE free stuff...

BipolarFan said:

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First of all, NOTHING from the government is free. SOMEBODY is paying for it.

Second, if you are a lower income person and paying relatively little in taxes, and you are getting "valuable public services" that cost way more than the taxes you are paying, that means SOMEONE ELSE is paying for it.

I'm not sure what else you'd call that, you idiots.

By the way, what the fuck are " valuable public services" and who decides what they are and who gets them?
I'd far rather just let people keep more of their own money and they can decide for themselves what to do with it. Imagine that. I wonder if you can.

Genghis Khan said:

By the way, what the fuck are " valuable public services" and who decides what they are and who gets them?
I'd far rather just let people keep more of their own money and they can decide for themselves what to do with it. Imagine that. I wonder if you can.

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The actually valuable public services are things like a fire department and police department. Roads and bridges to drive on would be as well. A military strong enough for defense of the borders of the country. Beyond that sort of stuff, government is just a huge waste of money.

Cowboysrock55 said:

The actually valuable public services are things like a fire department and police department. Roads and bridges to drive on would be as well. A military strong enough for defense of the borders of the country. Beyond that sort of stuff, government is just a huge waste of money.

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Education is something that we've fucked up pretty badly in this country over the last 40 years. We shouldn't be having to import IT people from India and China, we should be able to train Americans for those jobs. We have third world countries doing a better job of training their citizens to get good paying jobs in the US job market than we are doing. That's pretty goddamn sad.

Clay_Allison said:

Education is something that we've fucked up pretty badly in this country over the last 40 years. We shouldn't be having to import IT people from India and China, we should be able to train Americans for those jobs.

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With IT is there a shortage of trained Americans? Or is it that people in India and China are willing to do it for a cheaper wage? Just curious, I don't deal much in the IT area. I know when it comes to other areas like Tool and Die workers for example there is a horrible shortage of workers because no one goes to trade schools anymore.