*2016 US Presidential Elections* - Candidates, Statistics, Campaign Timelines, Debates

[Supafly]

Of course, now our own nazi parties - like your nazi candidaes - feel a wind blowing their way. But they always failed to prove in the parliaments and senates they will do as they say now.They have, and always will fall apart, and just make thegood people despise them more.

I think that probably the candidates wish continue pushing each other into new heights of fascist demands and ideas, until at the voting days, they will prove to be unvotable.

But time will show if the USA are really going to hell.

 

[Johan]

Ben Carson’s campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place


Happy Geography Awareness Week! Recognizing that "too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens," National Geographic created this annual observance to "raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American education."

Ben Carson's presidential campaign inadvertently underscored this point Tuesday night, when it took to social media to share a map of the United States in which five New England states were placed in the wrong location. The campaign deleted the Twitter and Facebook posts Wednesday morning after media outlets and social media users pointed out the error.

Here's Carson's tweet from last night.

And here's a side-by-side comparison of the Carson campaign map with a map showing where the states actually belong.

As you can see, in Carson's map the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are moved northeast by about 150 miles or so. Vermont and New York now have hundreds of miles of new beachfront property. Massachusetts shares a border with Canada. Maine straddles what is now the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Also, if you look closely at the mid-Atlantic area, you'll see that Virginia's portion of the Delmarva Peninsula is colored red to match Maryland, rather than gray with the rest of Virginia.

This is probably little more than a simple mishap by a graphic designer who's having a Really Bad Day. (The campaign did not respond to a request for comment.) But Carson's campaign has plenty of company when it comes to geography troubles. A study last year found that a majority of Americans couldn't place Ukraine on a map, for instance. And many of them were way, way off. Then there was the time CNN placed Hong Kong in Brazil during a newscast. Vox recently collected "27 hilariously bad maps that explain nothing."

A 2006 survey commissioned by National Geographic found that six in 10 young Americans couldn't find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, and half couldn't place New York on a map of the United States. Geographic literacy matters for "navigating the international economy or understanding the relationships among people and places that provide critical context for world events," the survey concluded.

"The United States lags behind the rest of the world in both the quality and quantity of every aspect of geography education," National Geographic writes in its Geography Awareness Week materials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/


:rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:

 

[knowone]

I'm certainly willing to laugh and deride the Carson campaign but in this case I'm willing to give them a pass in what is obviously a drag-and-drop problem. I'm taking a "He who has never had Photoshop do something unintended and unrepairable cast the first stone" viewpoint.

On another subject: It's just been point out that if Bobby Jindal hadn't dropped out last Monday on Thursday CNN revised it's polling rules that would have kept him in the debates.... and with the new rules Rand Paul may get demoted to the kids table.

 

[knowone]

Just over two months to go to the first Primary.
Dec 15 next Republican Debate on CNN in Reno NV.
Dec 19 next Democratic Debate on ABC in NH.

 

[Johan]

Marco Rubio: 9/11 terror attacks were part of God’s plan for the universe


Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio thinks the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the recent massacre in Paris were part of God’s plan.

Speaking at a campaign rally last Monday in Iowa, the Florida senator said Christians should never be afraid because God was in control of the universe, the Christian Post reported.

“We are biblically ordered not to be afraid,” Rubio said. “You know why? Because God is telling us that no matter what happens, ‘It is part of my plan. I will give you the strength to endure it whether you like it or not.'”

Rubio noted that he had previously been asked why God would allow terrorist attacks to happen.

“Where was God on 9/11? Where was God in Paris?” he recalled being asked.

“I said, ‘where God always is — on the throne in Heaven,'” he explained. “The question was how could God allow these bad things to happen? It always challenges us to understand that God’s ways are not our ways. What we may interpret as bad, and most certainly is in the case of Paris or 9/11, even that is part of a broader plan for the universe and for our lives that we are just not going to know the answer to. God’s ways are not our ways.”

His comments were uploaded to his YouTube account.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/mar...acks-were-part-of-gods-plan-for-the-universe/

And I thought he was a moderate, he reasonable candidate...

But, if these attacks, perpetrated by musliums, were part of God's plan, shouldn't we try not to prevent other attacks ? Shouldn't we consider radical muslim terrorist as some kind of angels, some kind of special people that are on earth to do God's will ? Isn't trying to prevent further attacks equal to trying to oppose God's will ? Shouldn't we be thankfull towards jihadist who accomplished God's will ?

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Stop trying to influence my elections fuckwit. Worry about your own fucked up country.

 

[sean miguel]

Johan influenced me. I like Rubio even more now and am going to contribute to his campaign. Writing the check for $5.

Thanks man.

Rubio 2016

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Just found this and watching right now.

 

[Johan]

Donald Trump Breaks With the GOP on Israel

The Republican frontrunner was booed by a crowd and criticized by a rival after he questioned Israel’s commitment to peace.


To the eternal chagrin of the Republican establishment, Donald Trump’s flair for the vague, insensitive, or unorthodox remark has still not cost the candidate his frontrunner status. As my colleague David Graham noted in October, Trump has been well-served by his twinning of immigration tough-talk with a refrain about raising taxes on the wealthy, embodying a populism otherwise unheard in the Republican Party.

But in recent days, Trump appeared to stray across an inviolable line in the modern GOP platform: a robust, if not unflinching, support for the State of Israel. In an interview with the AP on Wednesday, Trump seemed to lay the onus for securing a long-elusive peace agreement at the feet of the Israelis, and not the Palestinians.

“I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to make it,” Trump said, before explaining that his concerns predominantly reside with “one side in particular.” He then added:

A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal — whether or not Israel's willing to sacrifice certain things. They may not be, and I understand that, and I'm OK with that. But then you're just not going to have a deal.

This is by no means a pro-Palestinian sentiment. If anything, it’s a rhetorical inversion of the frequent argument, especially among conservatives, that Israel has no viable negotiating partner on the Palestinian side and that it shouldn’t be pressured to agree to a peace deal that would compromise its security concerns.

What’s particularly notable here is the ominous coda. By (vaguely) interjecting the idea that without a peace deal Israel will continue its occupation of the West Bank and its growing Palestinian population, Trump is echoing the frequent admonishments of President Obama and John Kerry (as well as other Democrats, and a number of Israeli leaders), who continue to warn that without a comprehensive peace deal, Israel will cease to be a Jewish and democratic state.

Even Trump seemed to realize that this time, he might have gone further than voters were prepared to follow. On Thursday, Trump blustered to the Republican Jewish Coalition that President Obama “is the worst thing that’s ever happened to Israel.” He also promised to visit the country after Christmas.

Trump also clarified that, “Israel has given a lot, and a lot of people don’t know that,” he said. “I think the public relations for Israel hasn’t been so great … Israel’s given a lot, but hasn’t been given a lot of credit for what they’ve given.”

And yet, he also doubled down on his earlier remarks, casting doubt on Israel’s desire to make peace.

Later, Trump was actually booed by the crowd when he refused to clarify his position on Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which is Israel’s policy and another common talking point among Republicans.

“When it started, they were skeptical, and you could feel the room warming to him,” noted conservative Gary Bauer told The Washington Post. “I think he turned a lot of people. And then he lost them, because he couldn't just say, ‘of course, Jerusalem is the capital, we won't negotiate on that.’” (Trump was also accused of trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes in his remarks.)

There may be an underserved bloc among the Republican faithful for raising taxes on the wealthy, but if there’s a constituency within the GOP with ambivalent feelings toward Israel, the polls certainly don’t show. Republican support for Israel has steadily grown over the past 20 years and, according to a recent Gallup poll, 83 percent of Republicans expressed more sympathy for Israel than the Palestinians.

Senator Marco Rubio immediately seized on Trump’s comments on Thursday. “Some in our own party have actually called for more sacrifice from the Israeli people. They are dead wrong.” Less ambiguously, he added, “This is not a real estate deal where the two sides argue over money.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-gop-israel/418737/

The republican base is so fucked up that Trump can insult muslims and mexicans anytime, with the most outrageos comments, it will only improve his poll numbers. But the minute if he dare to criticize Israel het get into trouble...

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Fuckhead, when did he insult either of those groups? He insults women fairly regularly and that's enough of a turn off for me as a voter. Unless it's some pig like Rosie O'Donnell or if he goes after Hilldebeast. His views on Israel don't surprise me but he'd be a step up from Stompy Foot and Hilldebeast's disdain for Israel is well documented.

If he gets the nomination I'll vote for him but I won't like it much.

Stop trying to influence my fucking election and worry about your own fucked up country.

 

[Johan]

In my book, "rapist" "criminal" and "drug dealer" are insults. But maybe conservative don't think these words are insults..

 

[Johan]

Ted Cruz Tells Fabricated Story About A Girl Threatened With Jail For Saying ‘Jesus’


During a town hall event in South Carolina on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made the bold claim that he will defend religious liberty because “what kind of country are we living in where…we’re threatening teenage girls with going to jail if they say the name of Jesus?”

Cruz made the remark after telling the story of Angela Hildenbrand, a high school valedictorian who he claims was “threatened with jail if she exercised her right to pray during her graduation speech.” At the South Carolina event and at other campaign events in the past, Cruz has discussed her story as an example of the government’s war on Christianity. As he explained on Monday, Hildenbrand was initially barred from leading prayer, but attorneys from the Liberty Institute filed an emergency motion and won an appeal shortly before her graduation.

Cruz has named Hildenbrand one of his “religious liberty heroes”, and she appeared beside him on stage last month during his South Carolina Rally for Religious Liberty.

But Hildenbrand was not actually threatened with jail for praying. In fact, every part of Cruz’s statement in South Carolina is incorrect, Greg Lipper, an attorney for Americans United for Separation of Church & State, who worked on the case, told ThinkProgress.

The family of Corwyn Schultz, one of Hildenbrand’s high school classmates, filed a lawsuit against the Medina Valley Independent School District in 2011, challenging the fact that speakers at the high school graduation would often lead the audience in proselytizing prayers and invocations.

The district court judge sided with the Schultz family, ruling in a preliminary injunction that graduation prayers violate the Establishment Clause. “He said the students could still make religious references in their speeches,” Lipper said. “They just couldn’t deliver prayers.” Lipper noted that the injunction was in agreement with a ruling the U.S. Supreme Court has also made with respect to another school district in Texas.

Cruz’s claim that the judge threatened Hildenbrand with jail time is also completely false, Lipper said.

“There was a reference in the preliminary injunction to enforcement mechanisms, but that was aimed at the school district and not the students,” he said. “There was no threat of any student getting punished by the court, let alone getting sent to jail.”

As with any court order, a government official could be held in contempt of the court if they refuse to comply with the ruling. If they continue to refuse to comply — as Kim Davis did — it’s possible the official could be sent to jail, but the judge “certainly wasn’t like, ‘Don’t mention Jesus or you’re going to jail,” Lipper said

In fact, Hildenbrand was not even named in the lawsuit at the time of the injunction — she intervened and added her name as a defendant during the appeals process.

Attorneys with the Liberty Institute, a Christian legal defense organization, appealed the injunction on behalf of the school district and Hildenbrand. In a victory for the religious organization, the appeals court overturned the ruling, finding that the prayers were student-initiated and not school-sponsored. Hildenbrand ended up leading the crowd in prayer during the graduation ceremony — Schultz declined to attend — and Hildenbrand has since become a symbol for conservative politicians of what they call the government’s persecution of Christianity.

“This case has been cat nip for presidential candidates for some time,” Lipper said, adding that Newt Gingrich also frequently spoke about the case when he was campaigning for president in 2012.

“It makes a superficially appealing talking point if you’re willing to make up things,” he continued. “It’s understandable that they go out of their way to say we’re threatening to send students to jail if they say Jesus. That sounds better than what they actually want, which is government-sponsored Christian prayer.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/12/07/3729266/ted-cruz-jail-jesus/

Once again, conservatives like to play the victim while they fight against people who just want the Constitution to be respected.

 

[Supafly]

In my book, "rapist" "criminal" and "drug dealer" are insults. But maybe conservative don't think these words are insults..

Unless an individual is considered guilty of any of these deeds, they are insults. And the naming of any group of persons is HIGHLY problematic. We could discuss rapists, as an example, but that would really HAVE to always ionclude extensive scientific results, if that should be about the criminal act and the nationality.

But as the debates and the presidental race proceeds, one side of the competition is systematically pushing the boundaries, and others are systematically staying behind, in the shadows of the frontrunners, to gather their questionable merits once they dropped out of the race.

Ted Cruz is a master in what I just described. He keeps on subscribing to Trumps politics (and others, Kim Davis incident comes to mind), without clearly making statements as his opponents. I would say, if Trump is the big, proud lion of bullies, Cruz is something of a hyena that reaps what is left once the big guy is gone.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Donald Trump is a fascist

 

[Johan]

Donald Trump is a fascist

I said it from the very beginning : Donald Trump is the american Adolf Hitler

 

[knowone]

Donald Trump is a fascist

No, but he plays one on the campaign trail.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

No, but he plays one on the campaign trail.

He's a douche trying to win a bet.
I can say the stupidest shit and still win the GOP nomination because all the other candidates are tools.
No you can't.
$1??
$1.....

 

[larss]

Americans, don't allow dogs into your country, they are dangerous.

 

[Supafly]

He's a douche trying to win a bet.
I can say the stupidest shit and still win the GOP nomination because all the other candidates are tools.
No you can't.
$1??
$1.....

Recently, I thought about this myself, and I can absolutely see TTrump selling the story to a movie maker for a shitload of money, and of course winning that dollar.

 

[knowone]

Less than an hour to the "kids table" preliminary Republican debate on CNN. It being held in Las Vegas at The Venetian which is owned by Sheldon Adelson. (hmmmm

As with the earlier debates on other channels CNN put it's finger on the scale a bit, allowing Rand Paul to stay in the main debate, even though he had dropped a half percent below the line set to qualify.