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Hillary Clinton 2016: Stronger Together

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by JeffB, Aug 27, 2016.

  1. Jugdish

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    "Karma"? Sounds like some kind of Muslim black magic.
     
  2. SamFisher

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    I wish there was an anonymous white male on the internet to tell me what I should really think about Hillary.
     
  3. mtbrays

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    Fixed that for you.
     
  4. Roc Paint

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    I am the egg man and you are the walrus.

    Btw, you really should wipe that off your face.
     
  5. Deji McGever

    Deji McGever יליד טקסני

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    This kind of reminds me of listening to the IDF press secretary that would say, "Why are we talking about Israeli human rights abuses when there are so many worse things happening in Syria. It's anti-semitism, I tell you!"
     
  6. TheresTheDagger

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">--&gt; Pagliano defies subpoena to avoid testifying on Clinton emails - <a href="https://t.co/OQ0FFRngJH">https://t.co/OQ0FFRngJH</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/WashTimes">@washtimes</a></p>&mdash; Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/775709005524168708">September 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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    From what I understand, Pagliano has immunity yet still refused to show for congressional subpoena.
     
  7. NewRoxFan

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    Tea party gonna teaparty

     
  8. Bobbythegreat

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    He knows what's up, potentially going to jail for not testifying is better than ending up dead due to testifying.
     
  9. Dankstronaut

    Dankstronaut Way, way out here.

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    you know, truthfully, i'm not interested in either candidate enough to vote but I think Hillary is the better option of two massively distasteful choices.

    i do not like her with a microphone in hand (this says nothing of anyone else btw, this is as straightforward as it gets) I think she's elitist, not engaging or inspirational and i believe she has wall street's best interests at heart.

    i really don't have any fears like, she may start a nuclear war like I would with trump. some crossed arms, feet stomping and snorts from the right wing is about it and I think the world can handle that. to that point, if they really want the office back they need to get freaking real and send up someone who doesn't inspire such lunacy.

    i just don't know man. i think we're in for 4 years of regret no matter what.
     
  10. Cohete Rojo

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    My Bernie supporting brother informs me that he will be writing in Bernie Sanders, and he claims that so too will several of his friends and other people that he knows. From what I can gather from Facebook, almost nobody who openly supported Sanders is openly supporting Clinton and definitely haven't said anything about voting for Clinton.

    Does this hurt Clinton that she can't win over the Bernie Bros?
     
  11. TheresTheDagger

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    You get a security clearance and YOU get a security clearance.

    EVERYBODY GETS A SECURITY CLEARANCE!!!!

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cooper: No, I didn't have a security clearance and never did while managing Clinton's email server and computers</p>&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/775706729627680768">September 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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  12. Jugdish

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    From what I can gather from Facebook

    From what I can gather from Facebook

    From what I can gather from Facebook
     
  13. Orange

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    I'm going to feel so dirty voting for crooked hillary. But I have no other option.
     
  14. Bandwagoner

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    20. Son tweeted a neo-Nazi meme

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    LEAVE PEPE ALONE!
     
  15. TheresTheDagger

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    Options other than voting for Hillary.

    1. Vote for Trump
    2. Vote for Stein
    3. Vote for Johnson
    4. Write in ballot
    5. Leave Presidential ballot blank.

    That seems like 5 other options to me.
     
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    http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-emails-server-214487


    Employee at Clinton's email hosting company feared a cover-up


     
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    I hear Clinton lures children into her gingerbread house. People are talking about it... Link to follow or whatever...
     
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    On a more positive note, from 538:

    SEP 13, 2016 AT 3:24 PM

    The Recovery Finally Reached Most Americans In 2015
    By Ben Casselman

    The Great Recession officially ended in 2009. But 2015 may go down as the year the recovery finally began for most Americans.

    The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the median U.S. household made $56,516 in 2015, up 5.2 percent from 2014 after adjusting for inflation. That’s the first increase since 2007, and the largest one-year increase on record. The number of Americans living in poverty fell by 3.5 million, and the poverty rate fell 1.2 percentage points, to 13.5 percent, the biggest drop since 1968.


    The income gains were remarkably widespread. Incomes rose for people in every age group, of every race and in every part of the country. And in a reversal of recent trends, incomes rose fastest for the lowest earners. By most measures, in fact, the U.S. became slightly more equal in 2015.

    One year of strong gains wasn’t enough to erase the scars of the recession, though, or the years of weak income growth that preceded it. Incomes remain lower, and poverty higher, than they were when the recession began in late 2007. Worse, incomes have been stagnant, at best, since 2000, even accounting for trends such as the aging of the U.S. population.

    Still, Tuesday’s report is the best evidence yet that years of steady job growth and falling unemployment are at last translating into income gains for American households. When the Census Bureau released its 2014 income data a year ago, I wrote that “more jobs haven’t meant less poverty.” That’s no longer true. Nearly 12 million more Americans worked full-time and year-round in 2015 than in 2009, and their earnings have nearly returned to pre-recession levels; in fact, women with full-time jobs earned slightly more in 2015 than they did in 2007. And with job growth holding steady in 2016, it is likely that income gains have continued as well.1

    It is hard not to view Tuesday’s report through the lens of the 2016 campaign. Donald Trump has often referred to stagnant incomes as a sign that President Obama’s economic policies have failed; the new data may not lead Trump to shift his rhetoric, but it does suggest that the recovery has become significantly stronger in the final years of Obama’s term. The White House wasted no time in publishing a blog post boasting about the strong numbers.

    But beneath the headline-making recent gains revealed in the report, there was still plenty of less-positive news for Trump and his supporters to point to. Despite the strong gains in 2015, incomes for the bottom 60 percent of U.S. households are still lower they were than in 2007. And rural America has been left out of the latest rebound: Households outside of metropolitan areas saw their incomes flatline or even decline in 2015.

    In other words, the job isn’t over. If 2015 marked the start of the recovery for household incomes, then it was a strong start — significantly stronger than expected by even optimistic economists. But the economic recovery is now more than seven years old, and economists are increasingly concerned about the possibility of another recession in the coming years. It will take several more years like 2015 to fill the gap left by the recession.

    Here are a few more observations from Tuesday’s report:

    Less poverty: Officially, 43 million Americans lived in poverty in 2015, including 14.5 million children under 18 and 4.2 million seniors ages 65 and up. But economists across the political spectrum consider those figures misleading because they are based on an outdated definition of poverty that ignores many necessary expenses (such as the cost of transportation and medical care) and fails to account for differences in the cost of living from one part of the country to another. The Census Bureau on Tuesday also released an alternative measure of poverty that does account for such factors; there were about 2 million more poor Americans under this so-called Supplemental Poverty Measure than under the official definition, but about 3 million fewer poor children.

    However you define it, poverty fell sharply in 2015. The official poverty rate, at 13.5 percent in 2015, is the lowest since 2008, although it is still a full percentage point higher than it was before the recession began. Government programs lifted millions of Americans out of poverty. Refundable tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit boosted income above the poverty level for more than 9 million Americans, including nearly 5 million children; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as food stamps, reduced the number of Americans experiencing poverty by another 4.6 million.

    Gender wage gap narrows: The median woman with a full-time job earned about $41,000 in 2015, about $10,000 less than the median man. Women earned 80 percent as much as men, a slight (statistically insignificant) narrowing of the gender wage gap from 79 percent in 2014.

    This measure of the gender wage gap is crude, ignoring differences in education, occupation, hours worked and other factors. For men and women working in comparable jobs, the gap is significantly smaller. Still, the measure helps reflect the overall status of men and women in the U.S. economy; the gender wage gap shrank significantly in the 1980s and 1990s, but more recently, progress has stalled.

    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-recovery-finally-reached-most-americans-in-2015/


    More at the link. Trump inanely babbling about our "terrible" economy doesn't make it true. The truth is that our economy is the envy of the developed world. It is strong and getting stronger. In other words, we are getting stronger together.
     
  20. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Interesting how much more Bush got away with than Clinton. Just goes to show, Republicans are ok with Republicans committing actual crimes but if Dems even sniff anything they are going to get it bad!

     

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