The eternal US elections - 2016 edition

[Mr. Perfect]

Unabashed conservatism. Loving it.

[Mr. Perfect]

Wow. GOP handled drugs very well.

[Mr. Perfect]

I feel uplifted. Perhaps a morning in America.

[Mr. Perfect]

Conservatism reborn.

[Parodite]

Just a thought.

Foreign policy has since WW2 not been easy for the U.S. Many wars and interventions have been lost, proven futile or created way more problems than they solved. After W Bush, now also Obama is grilled and accused over his foreign policies notably in the Meddle East and North Africa. Failures. How well informed is Obama's fp team?

Should the next POTUS therefor not hire many foreigners into its team from areas and conflict zones and be advised by them? Or journalists who lived many years in a country or zone of conflict to tell him/her the finer details and devils hiding in them?

There never has been a shortage of American fp think-tanks and I'm sure all POTUSes of the last decades took some very "qualified" people in their fp teams. But look at the results, US performance. It is humiliating.

[noddy]

Just a thought.

Foreign policy has since WW2 not been easy for the U.S. Many wars and interventions have been lost, proven futile or created way more problems than they solved. After W Bush, now also Obama is grilled and accused over his foreign policies notably in the Meddle East and North Africa. Failures. How well informed is Obama's fp team?

Should the next POTUS therefor not hire many foreigners into its team from areas and conflict zones and be advised by them? Or journalists who lived many years in a country or zone of conflict to tell him/her the finer details and devils hiding in them?

There never has been a shortage of American fp think-tanks and I'm sure all POTUSes of the last decades took some very "qualified" people in their fp teams. But look at the results, US performance. It is humiliating.

i think the old canard for this is that before you declare it a failure you first need to confirm on which metrics are being used.

if the metric is to keep the usa ahead of russia and europe and in control of the worlds money then perhaps the outcome has largely been successful, atleast in the past, maybe no so much the future.

[YMix]

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Ben Carson


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[Typhoon]

Scott Walker gets the runs.

[Typhoon]

[Typhoon]

Reason | Ben Carson Is Worried About Secret Muslims Running for President

Seventh Day Adventist's "Taqiya" paranoia shows a disturbing if familiar lack of faith in U.S. institutions.

[Parodite]

Reason | Ben Carson Is Worried About Secret Muslims Running for President

Seventh Day Adventist's "Taqiya" paranoia shows a disturbing if familiar lack of faith in U.S. institutions.

As long as Muslims are a small minority how can this even be a worry. The question should be: has anyone to be worried if Muslims become a majority, or big enough minority. I'd say: there definitely would be reason for concern. See the UK poll by the BBC about free speech/cartoons.

[manolo]

As long as Muslims are a small minority how can this even be a worry. The question should be: has anyone to be worried if Muslims become a majority, or big enough minority. I'd say: there definitely would be reason for concern. See the UK poll by the BBC about free speech/cartoons.

Parodite,

Attached is a link on worst towns in the UK. I have found nothing in there about muslims, the complaints are all about 'chavs'. No doubt the US is the same with 'rednecks' (the darlings of the GOP)

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/ramsgate-town-hope.html

My own belief is that I have more chance of being stuck by lightning than having a problem with any muslim.

Alex.

[Simple Minded]

As long as Muslims are a small minority how can this even be a worry. The question should be: has anyone to be worried if Muslims become a majority, or big enough minority. I'd say: there definitely would be reason for concern. See the UK poll by the BBC about free speech/cartoons.

Parodite,

Attached is a link on worst towns in the UK. I have found nothing in there about muslims, the complaints are all about 'chavs'. No doubt the US is the same with 'rednecks' (the darlings of the GOP)

http://www.ilivehere.co.uk/ramsgate-town-hope.html

My own belief is that I have more chance of being stuck by lightning than having a problem with any muslim.

Alex.

alex,

In the interests of being stereotypically accurate in broadbrushing:
1. White rednecks are the darlings of the republicans.
2. Black rednecks are the darling of the democrats.
3. All the remaining rednecks are being courted by both parties.

Politics is the art of inclusion....... other wise one is a racist, a Nazi, or a hater.

[noddy]

i agree manolo.

the chances of my life being stuffed up are almost 100% from white causes - be it drugged out trash bashing/robbing me or be it progressives voting themselves more of my resources and rights.

aslong as muslims are not in charge of the place im perfectly happy with them arriving in small doses, maybe 1 muslim for every 2 chinese or something like that.

preferably middle class iranian or turkish ones, they are great - rural arabs full of wahabi crap, not so much.

[Simple Minded]

i agree manolo.

the chances of my life being stuffed up are almost 100% from white causes - be it drugged out trash bashing/robbing me or be it progressives voting themselves more of my resources and rights.

aslong as muslims are not in charge of the place im perfectly happy with them arriving in small doses, maybe 1 muslim for every 2 chinese or something like that.

preferably middle class iranian or turkish ones, they are great - rural arabs full of wahabi crap, not so much.

Amen Brother! er, uh, I mean inshallah!

Oddly enough, the amount of problems people cause seem directly proportional to their numerical representation in the population.

everybody likes minorities in small doses. but when they become majorities, they get too full of themselves.

[noddy]

i agree manolo.

the chances of my life being stuffed up are almost 100% from white causes - be it drugged out trash bashing/robbing me or be it progressives voting themselves more of my resources and rights.

aslong as muslims are not in charge of the place im perfectly happy with them arriving in small doses, maybe 1 muslim for every 2 chinese or something like that.

preferably middle class iranian or turkish ones, they are great - rural arabs full of wahabi crap, not so much.

Amen Brother! er, uh, I mean inshallah!

Oddly enough, the amount of problems people cause seem directly proportional to their numerical representation in the population.

everybody likes minorities in small doses. but when they become majorities, they get too full of themselves.

one of the things i find most ironic is the people that think that because aus/usa are post colonial immigrant countries they should be open to mass immigration.

noone is more aware of just how mass imigration left the original culture an isolated stranger in its own land than australians or americans

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Fears over Muslims stirred by Republicans
shift from anti-Hispanic to anti-Islamic

Muslims have replaced Hispanics as the focus of verbal attacks on the US campaign trail with Donald Trump shifting his anti-immigrant focus to people of the Islamic faith.

Don't understand

If somebody says anything against Jews, he will be skinned alive .. can any candidate say Jews can not be president ?

Critics say such rhetoric moves the US away from its founding principle that all people are equal. It also hearkens back to the anti-Catholic sentiment that existed in America decades ago and that some people thought would prevent John F Kennedy, a Catholic, from winning the 1960 presidential election.

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Mr Trump on Sunday refused to row back his stance by insisting that while Muslims are “such fabulous people”, the US needed to abandon political correctness and tackle a “severe problem”, in an apparent but unclear reference to radical Islam.

come on

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Gallup released a poll in June which showed that 60 per cent of American adults would support a Muslim for president, but that number fell to 44 per cent when the people polled were protestants.

In contrast, 73 per cent of respondents said they would back an evangelical Christian and 74 per cent said they would support a gay candidate, an increase of almost 20 points from eight years ago.

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[Simple Minded]

i agree manolo.

the chances of my life being stuffed up are almost 100% from white causes - be it drugged out trash bashing/robbing me or be it progressives voting themselves more of my resources and rights.

aslong as muslims are not in charge of the place im perfectly happy with them arriving in small doses, maybe 1 muslim for every 2 chinese or something like that.

preferably middle class iranian or turkish ones, they are great - rural arabs full of wahabi crap, not so much.

Amen Brother! er, uh, I mean inshallah!

Oddly enough, the amount of problems people cause seem directly proportional to their numerical representation in the population.

everybody likes minorities in small doses. but when they become majorities, they get too full of themselves.

one of the things i find most ironic is the people that think that because aus/usa are post colonial immigrant countries they should be open to mass immigration.

noone is more aware of just how mass imigration left the original culture an isolated stranger in its own land than australians or americans

Until they formed a mob and started bullying those with whom they disgreed, I thought the 99% were just like everyone else

[noddy]

i agree manolo.

the chances of my life being stuffed up are almost 100% from white causes - be it drugged out trash bashing/robbing me or be it progressives voting themselves more of my resources and rights.

aslong as muslims are not in charge of the place im perfectly happy with them arriving in small doses, maybe 1 muslim for every 2 chinese or something like that.

preferably middle class iranian or turkish ones, they are great - rural arabs full of wahabi crap, not so much.

Amen Brother! er, uh, I mean inshallah!

Oddly enough, the amount of problems people cause seem directly proportional to their numerical representation in the population.

everybody likes minorities in small doses. but when they become majorities, they get too full of themselves.

one of the things i find most ironic is the people that think that because aus/usa are post colonial immigrant countries they should be open to mass immigration.

noone is more aware of just how mass imigration left the original culture an isolated stranger in its own land than australians or americans

Until they formed a mob and started bullying those with whom they disgreed, I thought the 99% were just like everyone else

i think the 1% + others + 99% and maths is suspicious... them 99 percenters are like that.

[manolo]

Folks,

This thread is going over my head.

Alex.

[Simple Minded]

i think the 1% + others + 99% and maths is suspicious... them 99 percenters are like that.

Yer makin this way to complexicated.. Any one who don't think like me is a probably a 1%er.

[Typhoon]

Reason | Is America Ready for a Scientologist President?

My guess is that Scientology will one day end up as a mainstream religion.

[Typhoon]

As the US campaigns head into a boring stretch, there is a need for some entertainment.

"Yes, I Drank the Goat's Blood," Says Florida's Pagan, Libertarian, "Genius-Level" Senate Candidate

[Heracleum Persicum]

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Reason | Is America Ready for a Scientologist President?

My guess is that Scientology will one day end up as a mainstream religion.

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You Scientologist


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