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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
6 of 10 believe Obama is a secret Muslim.

Michelle Obama makes me believe Obama is not a Muslim. But he does feel a kinship to it, as his paternal father is a Muslim.
Obama joked on Jimmy Kimmel that even after he finish being President, he will not go through a metal detector or be padded down!
I didn't find that funny. Infact, that made me think, WTF? Why not?

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Sheesh thick as two short planks,

Greta

Ex presidents have security details. so he wont have to..
But he WAS making a point that he will never again be profiled, pulled aside, questioned, patted down simply because he is brown/not white/?muslim.
Ex presidents dont become "normal" citizens.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Sheesh thick as two short planks,

Greta

Ex presidents have security details. so he wont have to..
But he WAS making a point that he will never again be profiled, pulled aside, questioned, patted down simply because he is brown/not white/?muslim.
Ex presidents dont become "normal" citizens.

I don't think that is what he is saying!
There is nothing wrong with being pulled aside to be questioned and patted down. I get that at Aussie airports all the time. Big deal. They are just doing their jobs.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
6 of 10 believe Obama is a secret Muslim.

Michelle Obama makes me believe Obama is not a Muslim. But he does feel a kinship to it, as his paternal father is a Muslim.
Obama joked on Jimmy Kimmel that even after he finish being President, he will not go through a metal detector or be padded down!
I didn't find that funny. Infact, that made me think, WTF? Why not?

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Sheesh thick as two short planks,

Greta

Ex presidents have security details. so he wont have to..
But he WAS making a point that he will never again be profiled, pulled aside, questioned, patted down simply because he is brown/not white/?muslim.
Ex presidents dont become "normal" citizens.

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In other words, Trump is not some black swan, whose unique cocktail of charisma, telegenicism and political fluidity landed him the nomination. His nomination is the product of years of race-baiting, conspiracy-theorizing, expert-delegitimizing right-wing media nonsense, which Republican politicians aided and abetted because it seemed politically expedient at the time. They helped the alt-right create the alternate reality that made a Trump nomination inevitable.

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

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ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny

Trump isn't a product of the right. He's the product of an overall failed government.

He's more a product of society than government.

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ORIGINAL: tj444
...Yeah, I get Fox Business vids on my Youtube and man, some of the BS crap they come up with is amazing.. and yeah, too many people believe this shite and drink the kool-aid.. how can they be so stupid? its like they have turned their brain off and have let someone else do the "thinking" for them..

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

He'll have sec. serv. escort.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

If the GOP wants to save the party and ever win the white house again it will have to:

.....go to war with right-wing media. That is, they need to dismantle the media machine persuading their base to believe completely bonkers, bigoted garbage. It is, after all, the right-wing radio, TV and Internet fever swamps that have gotten them into this mess, that have led to massive misinformation, disinformation and cynicism among Republican voters. And draining those fever swamps is the only way to get them out of it.

For example:

7 of 10 repubs still very seriously doubt or completely disbelieve that Obama was born in the US.

6 of 10 believe Obama is a secret Muslim.

5 of 10 believe that global warming is a hoax concocted by climate scientists.

7 of 10 believe government economic data are fabricated.

5 of 10 don’t trust that votes will be counted accurately in the November election.

Get this:

Some small fraction actually believe that presidential elections are determined by Instagram followers.
HERE

Data trutherism, claims that the economy is worse than the official numbers indicate, that polls are “skewed” to favor Democrats, that hurricane forecasts are exaggerated to scare the public into fearing climate change, riled the base, even as it sowed a deadly distrust in any impartial metric of the nation’s economic, political, social or climatological health.

Never-ending witch hunts against Planned Parenthood, climate scientists, Hillary Clinton similarly galvanized supporters in the near term but increased bloodlust for punishment of political enemies in the long run.

In other words, Trump is not some black swan, whose unique cocktail of charisma, telegenicism and political fluidity landed him the nomination. His nomination is the product of years of race-baiting, conspiracy-theorizing, expert-delegitimizing right-wing media nonsense, which Republican politicians aided and abetted because it seemed politically expedient at the time. They helped the alt-right create the alternate reality that made a Trump nomination inevitable.

And unless the party establishment grapples with its own complicity in misinforming, misleading and frightening the masses, it’s doomed to field more Donald Trumps in the future.

HERE

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

If the GOP wants to save the party and ever win the white house again it will have to:

.....go to war with right-wing media. That is, they need to dismantle the media machine persuading their base to believe completely bonkers, bigoted garbage. It is, after all, the right-wing radio, TV and Internet fever swamps that have gotten them into this mess, that have led to massive misinformation, disinformation and cynicism among Republican voters. And draining those fever swamps is the only way to get them out of it.

For example:

7 of 10 repubs still very seriously doubt or completely disbelieve that Obama was born in the US.

6 of 10 believe Obama is a secret Muslim.

5 of 10 believe that global warming is a hoax concocted by climate scientists.

7 of 10 believe government economic data are fabricated.

5 of 10 don’t trust that votes will be counted accurately in the November election.

Get this:

Some small fraction actually believe that presidential elections are determined by Instagram followers.
HERE

Data trutherism, claims that the economy is worse than the official numbers indicate, that polls are “skewed” to favor Democrats, that hurricane forecasts are exaggerated to scare the public into fearing climate change, riled the base, even as it sowed a deadly distrust in any impartial metric of the nation’s economic, political, social or climatological health.

Never-ending witch hunts against Planned Parenthood, climate scientists, Hillary Clinton similarly galvanized supporters in the near term but increased bloodlust for punishment of political enemies in the long run.

In other words, Trump is not some black swan, whose unique cocktail of charisma, telegenicism and political fluidity landed him the nomination. His nomination is the product of years of race-baiting, conspiracy-theorizing, expert-delegitimizing right-wing media nonsense, which Republican politicians aided and abetted because it seemed politically expedient at the time. They helped the alt-right create the alternate reality that made a Trump nomination inevitable.

And unless the party establishment grapples with its own complicity in misinforming, misleading and frightening the masses, it’s doomed to field more Donald Trumps in the future.

HERE

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
5 of 10 don’t trust that votes will be counted accurately in the November election.

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This quote sums up nicely why Diebold should not be trusted to secure election machines:

David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems in years ahead.

"For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."

If you can't get the threat model right, you can't hope to secure the system.