US Politics/2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread

[churnbabychurn]

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gingrich-says-possible-top-trump-aide-worked-in-finance-not-anti-semitic/

[zale]

http://truthfeed.com/breaking-ceo-with-ties-to-the-cia-reveals-he-plans-to-kill-president-elect-trump-with-a-sniper-rifle/35538/

Are people really this dumb? Do people understand that with one tweet they can ruin their entire career and destroy their lives?

[Yehuda57]

Bannon himself called breitbart the platform for the alt right. They are blatantly anti Semitic, hateful, people. Whether his ex wife, who made the claim under oath, was lying or not doesn't take away from the fact that Bannon at the least provides a platform for the alt right.

[gozalim]

Only dogs hear dog whistles.

whether he intends to whistle or not, it's perceived as a green light, they feel empowered

[elit]

[David Smith]

Are people really this dumb?

Dumber

[aygart]

Bannon himself called breitbart the platform for the alt right. They are blatantly anti Semitic, hateful, people. Whether his ex wife, who made the claim under oath, was lying or not doesn't take away from the fact that Bannon at the least provides a platform for the alt right.

whether he intends to whistle or not, it's perceived as a green light, they feel empowered

Everyone needs to stop walking on eggshells. Just because the liberal media is telling you that Bannon empowers the bigots doesn't mean it is so. If you want to think it is an issue be my guest. Feel free to be afraid of your shadow. If you want to convince me and many others here you are going to have to show something real which you have not yet done.

[thaber]

http://truthfeed.com/breaking-ceo-with-ties-to-the-cia-reveals-he-plans-to-kill-president-elect-trump-with-a-sniper-rifle/35538/

Are people really this dumb? Do people understand that with one tweet they can ruin their entire career and destroy their lives?

Yes.  See Grubhub

[Yehuda57]

Everyone needs to stop walking on eggshells. Just because the liberal media is telling you that Bannon empowers the bigots doesn't mean it is so. If you want to think it is an issue be my guest. Feel free to be afraid of your shadow. If you want to convince me and many others here you are going to have to show something real which you have not yet done.

You want the quote where he says "breitbart is a platform for the alt right"?

[aygart]

You want the quote where he says "breitbart is a platform for the alt right"?

No I want you to show why he is a poor choice the entire thing. No dog whistles and vague allusions to things. Clear and concrete.

[elit]

Bottom line is I am becoming more and more impressed with trump. Everyone myself included keeps underestimating him and he keeps winning and out maneuvering everyone. Look at his first move after he wins- he hires 2 ppl. the most inside republican establishment guy to appease DC Republicans and the most outside right wing guy to keep his outsider image going. I also heard a lot of his 60 minutes interview he is so.much more measured and balanced now. I realized part of why ppl underestimate bc he sounds very unsophisticated when he talks (which also helps him connect with his  blue collar demographic) so ppl assume he's not smart or he doesn't really know what he's doing but then he keeps coming out ahead.  And I am no fan of his and did not vote for him but you gotta give him credit

[elit]

Major language warning
https://youtu.be/GLG9g7BcjKs

[Dan]

Major language warning
https://youtu.be/GLG9g7BcjKs

Exactly why I think anyone would have beat Clinton.

[shmoe joe]

Scrape that!

[aygart]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/09/clintons-data-driven-campaign-relied-heavily-on-an-algorithm-named-ada-what-didnt-she-see/

Sounds like she would have been better off just reading fivethirtyeight.com

[aygart]

Scrape that!

That would have been happening either way.

[elit]

Exactly why I think anyone would have beat Clinton.

So you're still lurking here

[Yehuda57]

No I want you to show why he is a poor choice the entire thing. No dog whistles and vague allusions to things. Clear and concrete.

The quote is in here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news

Just one example: Alt Right people singled out Jewish people (reporters, or anyone they find on social media) with  ((())) around their names. This was appropriated by Yair Rosenberg (Tablet magazine), which is why you may have seen it all over and mostly stopped the practice.

People who's twitter and social media accounts make it clear they are part of the alt right, have been sending Jewish reporters (or even people who merely sound Jewish) the most horrific nazi stuff, like pictures of them them in ovens. Some have been doxed, and the threats have arrived at their homes, on their private phones, and more.

I don't have the time to quote you sources on all this, but I've been seeing this since Trump started gaining momentum. Screen shots, tweets, etc. It has literally been everywhere because Hilary made a speech about it. Every news site has articles explaining it. Wikipedia has a well sourced piece. Even if most of it isn't true or exaggerated- it is still unbelievably naive and lazy of you to dismiss it out of hand. It is not just online harassment, read up on David French, and what he had to put up when he merely thought about running for president.

Steve Bannon has aligned himself with the most horrific of people. He hasn't even made one attempt to disassociate himself from these neo nazis. It is absolutely horrifying that he is is so highly ranked in the next president's cabinet, and sickening that Jews are not only cavalier about it, but celebrating it.

ETA - this is only anti semitic stuf off the top of my head - there is racism, misogyny and just sickening stuff like "Gaby Giffords is the human shild of the gun controlling left" or something like that. He's horrific.

[aygart]

From what you wrote the whole thing is that he has connections to the alt right and there some people who may identify as alt right who may be anti Semites. There probably are. I see e no reason they should be better than the radical left. How does that show that alt right is in itself an anti Semitic movement and that it would reflect on him? I am not saying it doesn't exist. I simply don't know one way or the other and what has been shown here is weak at best.

[good sam]

Hes got a better chance then Hillary... and If i cared about america I would give him my vote! (i care about Israel therefore Rubio has my vote)

Said no one ever. Seriously somethings I can argue with but that is just silly.

I'm loving reading these early posts.