Have you read Hillary Clinton's books, Living History and Hard Choices? I'm reading Living History and really enjoying it.
Who is going to win this election in November?
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Have you read Hillary Clinton's books, Living History and Hard Choices? I'm reading Living History and really enjoying it.
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From about 10:25 onwards but I really can't see what he said having now watched this video again that has gotten people upset about a leak. Unless there was some other video where he mentions a US base in Saudi Arabia, that was the allegation.
Six days left until the polls officially open. Right now this election is still Clinton's to lose. The race is tightening and FiveThirtyEight now has Hillary rated at about a 75% of winning (down from a high of about 88% just a week or two ago) but if the trends hold then America is about to elect her very first female President.
Fuck the establishment.
Anyone who can't deal with the idea of a female President in 2016 is not someone whose opinion needs to be validated, and that includes those who hide their sexism behind coded language like "She doesn't have a Presidential look" or "She doesn't have the stamina" or "There's just something about her, I can't put my finger on it, but I don't like her". And no, I'm not saying everyone who opposes Hillary Clinton is doing so for sexist reasons.
Despite their participation in government still being woefully underrepresented worldwide, we've had numerous examples of female heads of state, heads of government, military leaders, social leaders, labor leaders, and more for millennia, and they've more than demonstrated their capability to handle the task, in many cases better than their male counterparts. Any faults some of them may have had have been no more or less problematic then countless examples of men in the same position, so the anachronistic and sexist idea that women are uniquely unsuited for leadership physiologically, mentally, or in terms of temperament is nonsense.
Third world countries where women are second class citizens have had female leaders. Totalitarian countries have had female leaders. Countries balancing on the edge of religious theocracy have had female leaders. It looks pretty bad when the country that loves to prop itself up as the beacon of freedom and democracy is lagging decades behind Mongolia and Pakistan in the female head of government department. Or has drastically smaller participation of women in government than Rwanda, which, surprise surprise, has seen a corresponding improvement in the civil rights and treatment of women accompany their quota-based majority representation in government, which was established to match the proportion of women in the recently genocide-depleted population.
It's 2016. Women were granted the right to vote here nearly a century ago, which was itself too late. It's way past time to take the next step.
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I totally like this post.
My statement was general in nature. I just get the feeling a lot of people feel somewhat put out that Hillary is running for President and don't like that she's female so have invented other reasons not to like her.
A load of Crap. Just because you don't support this lying, abortion loving, Christian hating, criminal does not mean you do not support a woman for President. There are plenty of other qualified women that would be a better President.
Hillary is a Christian as far as I know, but having a certain religion is not a requirement to run for President and we're a better country because of that.
Kinda weird for someone with a BSG avatar to sound like a fundie. BSG is about as blasphemous as it gets, full of paganism, polytheism, extramarital sex, homosexuality, etc.
But that's none of my business.
But that's none of my business.
Donald Trump told me that Hillary supports doctors pulling babies out of their mothers in the ninth month of pregnancy (also known as birth)! The horror!
No one "loves" abortion as an act, women love the idea of having agency over their own bodies, health, family planning, and civil rights without other people (mostly men) sticking their noses into their personal business and making decisions for them. I'm sorry you can't respect that because Sky Captain and the World of Yesterday tells you what to think.
Hillary's a Methodist by the way, and has been since childhood and long before she was ever running for office, so I guess she's a self-loathing Christian.
And if your whining is about my post, I even included a disclaimer for all the drama llamas out there not to get so wounded:
"And no, I'm not saying everyone who opposes Hillary Clinton is doing so for sexist reasons."
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The irony is some pro lifers are anything but, what happens to the baby after the woman has given birth, they do not give a damn.
Yes...baffling. They seem to think women who want abortion do it for kicks or just because they had succumbed to Satan.
No. In too many cases, their quality of life would drop after having a baby thanks to lack of policies and services that republicans wouldn't allow...
No. In too many cases, their quality of life would drop after having a baby thanks to lack of policies and services that republicans wouldn't allow...
They just rip the baby out! I know because Trump said so.
Unsurprisingly, misogyny is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.
Nobody says that everybody who votes Trump and hates Hillary does so for sexist reasons. But pretending this isn't a thing, is just ridiculous.
Nobody says that everybody who votes Trump and hates Hillary does so for sexist reasons. But pretending this isn't a thing, is just ridiculous.
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It looks like Trump finally got that crucial newspaper endorsement that had eluded him all this time:
The KKK’s official newspaper is gushing about Donald Trump’s message
This should be more shocking than it is.
Sadly, Trump's most visible (thanks to the signs) black supporters are just as racist and terrible, for entirely different reasons.
I can't imagine why two such wildly different terrorism espousing racist hate groups were drawn to the same candidate? I hope it wasn't something he's said, or like the tenor and content of his entire campaign? Anyhoo, probably not a big deal that the guy who wants to run the country is a racist terror magnet who encourages and fails to reject such support outright.
Make sure you're not on the wrong side of history when you have to tell your kids who you voted for in 2016. Because it's going to be historic in this country for one reason or the other, and I'd rather have the reason be because we elected the first female President rather than we elected someone whose proudest support groups look back fondly on Reconstruction-era racism and domestic terrorism as "the good ole' days."
The KKK’s official newspaper is gushing about Donald Trump’s message
This should be more shocking than it is.
Sadly, Trump's most visible (thanks to the signs) black supporters are just as racist and terrible, for entirely different reasons.
I can't imagine why two such wildly different terrorism espousing racist hate groups were drawn to the same candidate? I hope it wasn't something he's said, or like the tenor and content of his entire campaign? Anyhoo, probably not a big deal that the guy who wants to run the country is a racist terror magnet who encourages and fails to reject such support outright.
Make sure you're not on the wrong side of history when you have to tell your kids who you voted for in 2016. Because it's going to be historic in this country for one reason or the other, and I'd rather have the reason be because we elected the first female President rather than we elected someone whose proudest support groups look back fondly on Reconstruction-era racism and domestic terrorism as "the good ole' days."
How dare you drag Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow through the dirt like that?! Sky Captain deserves better than to stand in for Donald Trump. For starters, Sky Captain is far more qualified to be president.
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