Holding government to account is a good thing, thanks Sam.
I have to wonder though if we'd see the same level of scrutiny if HRC had won.
I have to wonder though if we'd see the same level of scrutiny if HRC had won.
If you want to talk about hypothetical double standards I want to get to the bottom of this one first.
Yes there absolutely is a double standard here. Trump is not judged the same as a career politician.
And you can't really point to HRC and say that she put out a shotgun blast of campaign promises. Trump has done the same.
I won't argue that in any case, increased monitoring and accountability of those in positions of power and / or influence should be something we strive for, regardless of affiliation.
She was running on a campaign of starting a war with Russia. If you see sending mostly poor folks from cities and the Bible Belt over to die in Syria or wherever as being 'nothing' then I have no problem stirring that up.
We certainly shouldn't condone Trump's comments about women. But if you think his comments magically erase, say, the Clinton's role in the HIV epidemic then I think you're drinking the Kool-Aid. So yeah, I protested Trump, and if Clinton had won I'd be protesting her also.
Never said anything like that. I have no love for hillary and did not vote for her but dude get over it. Anti-Hillary people are actually like stalkers and they can't seem to just let it go. She lost, she's not the problem right now. Please stop making every Trump thing into a Trump vs. Clinton thing
62% of the US population lives in cities. Trump got 46% of the popular vote. What you are saying is just barely mathematically possible and most likely untrue.
Anyway, pizzagate is a well known hoax. Does that somehow cancel out all the other conspiracies that surround the Clintons? Logically it does not but most people are only thinking at a 3rd grade level so it's a great distraction.
Where there's smoke, there's fire and there's plenty of evidence to support the Clintons selling nuclear secrets to China, smuggling drugs with the CIA at Mena Airport and of course the infamous "body count".
Is it? I haven't found any solid debunking of the really weird aspects (handkerchief email). The wikipedia article lists [1] and [2] as citations for the word "debunked", but both don't really offer any compelling argument except the general preposterousness of the crazy 4chan talk. But there are no alternative, plausible explanations for the weird, code-like language of some of the emails.
Please point me to better debunkings if you know or can find out.
[1] http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/ [2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/medi...
Yes, it is. Tons of media outlets have investigated it and found nothing. Even if they had found some tiny sliver of evidence—which they didn't—it wouldn't prove that there was a conspiracy, because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
There's infinitely more reason to believe the Steele dossier is true than Pizzagate, but at the moment we have to assume it is false too, because the evidence just hasn't shown up.
> But there are no alternative, plausible explanations for the weird, code-like language of some of the emails.
Maybe, just maybe, when John Podesta talked about pizza, he was actually talking about pizza.
"Meter" is a device used to measure things, or as in musical time. "Metre" is almost exclusively a unit of distance. It's not called a "speedometre" unless you're French.
The header on the English site says clearly "Trudeau Meter". If you're going to embrace the French spelling, go all in.
EDIT. being downvoted. I agreed on the thanks for sam for putting together the list together in an easy-t0-digest format, not the HRC part!