2346: Politically Correct

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with Jay Nog – Paid or Pain; the anniversary of Keith’s bully’s death; KATG polls and Super Tuesday results; an American college student sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea; Jared Fogle was beaten up in prison; the Fappening hacker arrested; a new Indiana Jones movie and Wishmaster explained; Game of Thrones promised dragons would visit NYC and LA

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[Enunciated Piffle]

He's been replaced by Trump. Different trust fund mouth; similar entitlement.

[Eric M]

Keith is dead right about rooting for trump on the republican side. He will never win a general election and the RNC is never going to allow him to be their candidate anyway. So when they take it away from him, their party is going to implode and if he actually earns the amount of delegates he's supposed to need it'll make it that much worse and all their voters that much more pissed.

By the way the loony sociopath Cruz's plan for the abolition of the IRS and move to a flat tax for everyone of 11% would be the biggest tax cut for the rich in history and would lead to the complete corporate takeover of America far more than we've already seen. So honestly, as crazy as he is, if it came down to it, trump would make a better president anyway.

[Los]

Chemda had a good point. You can't look at a white person from Albania and tell that they're Muslim, but people will assume it for someone who looks Arabic. People are afraid, and find it easy to support the ban of a minority group. Banning white people would be ridiculous though.

Hillary didn't win 100% on Tuesday. She won 7 states, Sanders won 4. The problem is that even if he won all of the remaining states, she started the race already having more delegates. The Democratic party has been trying to rig this so that she can win. They tried to do the same against Obama, but there was more enthusiasm and money behind his campaign.

It will be interesting if she runs into trouble from her IT guy's testimony about her private email server. If she wins, her presidency would be starting off with a scandal. Maybe Sanders will be her VP, and he'll become president.

[zappbrannigan]

Trump is a shill for Hillary (Shillary?). He gets everyone all riled up and people vote for Hillary to make sure he doesn't become President. There's pictures of Trump smiling and having a good yuck with the Clintons, plus Trump used to be a Democrat.

Ironically, it is Trump that is the professional disruptor.

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by Los

Hillary didn't win 100% on Tuesday. She won 7 states, Sanders won 4. The problem is that even if he won all of the remaining states, she started the race already having more delegates. The Democratic party has been trying to rig this so that she can win. They tried to do the same against Obama, but there was more enthusiasm and money behind his campaign.

Newsflash: there is more than one Tuesday per year ...

[DaveNJ]

Originally Posted by Los

Chemda had a good point. You can't look at a white person from Albania and tell that they're Muslim, but people will assume it for someone who looks Arabic. People are afraid, and find it easy to support the ban of a minority group. Banning white people would be ridiculous though.

Hillary didn't win 100% on Tuesday. She won 7 states, Sanders won 4. The problem is that even if he won all of the remaining states, she started the race already having more delegates. The Democratic party has been trying to rig this so that she can win. They tried to do the same against Obama, but there was more enthusiasm and money behind his campaign.

It will be interesting if she runs into trouble from her IT guy's testimony about her private email server. If she wins, her presidency would be starting off with a scandal. Maybe Sanders will be her VP, and he'll become president.

Even if you ignore superdelegates, Hillary is defeating Sanders handily. It actually seems closer than it is, because the nature of proportional allocation means that Bernie doesn't need to win the remaining states, he needs to win in landslides.

Call it rigging if you want, but she's winning more primaries and winning by wider margins. In fact, she took a lesson from Obama's campaign strategy in 08 r.e. building a lead in margin of victory. That forces your opponent to win big or lose entirely. Even if Bernie started winning states 53/47, Hillary would win mathematically.

[Los]

Originally Posted by Lanfear

Newsflash: there is more than one Tuesday per year ...

Which Tuesday were they talking about?

Super Tuesday Democratic election results: Clinton pushes Sanders to the brink - POLITICO

[Lanfear]

Originally Posted by Los

Which Tuesday were they talking about?

Super Tuesday Democratic election results: Clinton pushes Sanders to the brink - POLITICO

This weeks Tuesday where she won 5 out of 5 aka 100% of the states?
March 15 Primary Results 2016 - The New York Times

[Los]

Originally Posted by DaveNJ

Call it rigging if you want, but she's winning more primaries and winning by wider margins.

He's definitely behind, but the party has been under heavy criticism for its actions during both elections. The current head of the party initially refused to agree to more than 6 debates (supposedly because Clinton benefits from the public having less exposure to other candidates), and moved them to time slots with low viewership, but expanded the number and changed the schedule under pressure.

The whole issue of superdelegates, and their ability to basically override the popular vote just adds to it. Despite all of it, Clinton claims not to be part of the establishment.