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I think it's hilarious how Barack Obama avoids using Trump's name ("Hillary's opponent," "the Republican nominee," "the other guy"), but Michelle Obama disregards using his name entirely. She hates him on a personal level, but she won't acknowledge him, she won't even use pronouns because he's a narcissist who loves hearing his own name and that's a type of reward for him. She's a master at throwing shade.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) And so far they've fallen flat on their faces, they had a prime opportunity to make a real statement but instead they either couldn't handle the attention (Johnson) or stayed completely crazy (Stein). I had a positive opinion of Jill Stein prior to this year, and now for the life of me I have no idea why I ever did. She's a clown. Although, she did make a really great point once - she tweeted about Harambe and the need to protect the defenseless, and she was widely mocked for it. She asked "why have you all been giving my Harambe tweets so much attention, and ignoring the times I tweeted about state-sanctioned violence?" Most people would have no answer for that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:59 AM) For me, it is absolutely 100% a protest vote. I know he has no chance of winning, but I don't care about that. I care about trying to legitimize an option better than a douche and a turd sandwich in the future. The candidate isn't important, in fact he is 100% immaterial. I'll say that having observed you for the past year or so that you are being completely consistent about this and you're not drawing a false equivalence.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:47 AM) Florida GOP's official twitter account sharing InfoWars conspiracy nonsense about Clinton. Inmates fully in control of the asylum. https://twitter.com/FloridaGOP/status/77393...src=twsrc%5Etfw This is pretty much what the Republican Party is about anymore. I legit wish the entire thing would just crash and burn, and the grown-ups form a new right-wing coalition top-down, in their usual manner. We would all be so much better off.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:45 AM) It is also worth nothing that Fox is no longer the leader of Mexico. Nieto has been the Presidente for about 4 years now. Johnson called him "the former president of Mexico" but couldn't remember his name.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 12:38 PM) Matt - You absolutely have a choice. Write in the candidate you wanted. At least then you have a clear conscious knowing that you voted for who you thought would be the best candidate and you never put your name next to the candidate that was the "least" bad. As long as we have a first-past-the-post election system, this is always how it will work, whether we like it or not. If we had a parliamentary-style system, the "conscience" thing would matter, but here, it's completely empty. As Obama said at the last WHCD, your choices for dinner are fish or chicken. You may not LIKE fish or chicken, but that's your choices. Fish. Or chicken.

Johnson seems like a cool dude, but he's way out of his depth here. Not as out of depth as Trump, but still. His knowledge is superficial at best.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) That quote is also taken out of context. She was speaking about all of the nonsense that was flying around about what was allegedly in the bill Luke death panels and that once the bill was passed, that ridiculousness would die down. She was completely wrong about that of course, but her statement was never that "I have no idea what this bill says" Ted Cruz did a fake filibuster and read Green Eggs and Ham from the Senate floor. Apparently unaware (as most 6 year olds are not) that the moral of that story is "be open minded and try unknown things and you might end up realizing it wasn't as bad as you've been led to believe." Really nothing else illustrated Pelosi's point better than that.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 09:32 PM) So the Saudi bill has backfired. Iraqi citizens plan to sue the US for war crimes WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING Obama tried to warn them but Congress didn't even read the bill.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 03:56 PM) My favorite part was when he went on that random stream about opening a country club in Palm Springs and actually allowed minorities to be there. What a guy! "I don't discriminate in my hiring practices!" It's illegal not to do this. Like when he tried to defend being called out for mocking the disabled NYT reporter saying his buildings are built with accommodations for the handicapped. Uh, yeah you did, because you are required to do so.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 03:47 PM) Trump had an opportunity to go where no republican has gone before with the racial question. He chickened out and kept repeating law and order and providing no hope to minority voters. You want to know why a majority of minorities don't vote f***ing republican? Look no further than that bulls*** ass answer. In fact, Hillary looked lethargic through most of the first hour I watched the debate. However, during that segment, her demeanor changed. She showed passion and fire about the police shenanigans that have been going on in this country. I'm not saying she won me over, but at least she gave a better answer on a topic that effects a lot of people. Trump was hitting her on trade, and even though almost everything he says about trade is gibberish (he doesn't actually know s*** about macroeconomics), it gets traction with people who really don't understand it that well either. So she is in this awkward position, she really can't explain why she did a 180 on the TPP, and Trump puts her in this position where she has to denounce NAFTA, but she really can't because her husband signed it and the hype against it is really overrated anyway.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 03:47 PM) Ha. This just keeps getting better. The Sox jumped onto social media and said "uh oh"

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 03:15 PM) Absolutely. Gase has no track record of success though. His offense was fine last year but it wasn't an all time great offense. Most of their best plays came from Cutler making something happen after the play broke down. Gase is perfectly qualified to be a HC. I'll never be upset that he's not the HC in Chicago though. The biggest difference between Gase and Loggains to my eyes is that Gase had a solid grasp of the basics of running a NFL offense. He didn't have much to work with due to all the injuries, so his offense was simplistic, but he at least tried to get some matchup advantages, use WR routes to spring other WRs open, etc. Loggains does none of that. He calls plays from the same playbook like he's playing Madden. "Ok time for a running play... wait I just did that, let's see if a crossing route will work... nope... damn, time to punt already?"

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 26, 2016 -> 02:40 PM) Again, this is John Fox and the NFL we are talking about. Processing available information to depart from traditional strategy is not an option. Look how long it has taken to finally get coaches to go for it on 4th and inches. Marc Trestman of all people actually had a pretty decent grasp of this. (except that one time he kicked a FG on 3rd down, the f*** was that)

I really did not like the John Fox hire although I kind of halfheartedly agreed he was the best option in that market (on paper). But I really thought he would be better at managing the team Monday-Saturday than he has been, even if he's exactly the disaster of an in-game coach as I thought he was. This team looks worse than last year's team did in September, not better. Going with Loggains after Gase was promoted out of his job is a total bust, and one of his strengths is supposed to be hiring assistants. Fangio's defense can probably get an "incomplete" due to the injuries.

This team doesn't need, want, or deserve support.

God this team really hates its fanbase doesn't it?

Things I don't know about Trump: what's in his tax documents Things I do know about Trump: what his wife's breasts look like and that he thinks he has a big dick

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 05:12 PM) The #trumpwon hashtag seems to be originating from St. Petersburg. No, not the one in Florida. Right where Putin's subsidized troll army has its field office.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 04:47 PM) Andrew Jackson started the Democrats, Lincoln the Republicans. Therefore, Republicans are better for minorities. Like... you're facetious here, but this is literally what someone could have tweeted me completely unironically.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 02:50 PM) I think the disconnect is the possibility that maybe black americans vote democrat because they prefer democratic policies, and not because some singular group called "democrats" offer them "Free stuff" in exchange for power. This reminds me of when Rand Paul went to Howard and asked "Were you all even aware that the NAACP was founded by Republicans?" and the crowd screamed "YES" and he winces "oh, okay, well, a lot of people don't know!" "Did you know the KKK was started by Democrats" is one that I hear pretty often. Yes, motherf***er, I knew that. I am glad you're all caught up on s*** I learned in public school when I was 13.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 01:10 PM) "Because they live in the City and are Democrats" is not an answer to "why do blacks continue to vote overwhelmingly democratic when the Democrats aren't helping them." And no i'm not thinking they're fans of Rahm. But 60% of them voted to re-elect him. And come time for the next election we all know another Democrat with the same promises he made about education and crime will get the vast majority of the votes. There are different groups of Democrats within Chicago who live in different parts of the city who want different things and vote for different Democratic candidates. They don't all come from some generic Democrat factory.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 01:05 PM) It seems like you're recusing Democrats while blaming whites who are also Democrats. I don't actually even know what you're asking me here. You want me to just give a blanket condemnation of Democrats? Why? I am not backing out and taking binary views of complicated things. I literally can't do it. This is gonna sound conceited, but I'm waaaaaaaay too educated to pretend 6 decades of nationwide historical events are part of a single trend so I can reduce everything I see down to things Democrats did vs. things Republicans did. My brain will not even process that.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 01:00 PM) 1) Which party did that? 2) Which party has been/is in power to address those issues? I guess i'm seeing a disconnect when you guys are arguing Republican policies aren't helping, but you're not acknowledging that at a state and local level, all the power has been, and continues to be, with Democrats. They either created the mess, continued the mess, or have the power to address the mess but don't/haven't. Ok so Republicans on a national level have pushed against increasing the minimum wage. What prevented Chicago, Cook County and Illinois legislative bodies from ok'ing minimum wage increases 10 years ago versus 2 years ago? You need public transit money? What's preventing those same bodies from getting it? Same with education. It'd be one thing if Democrats didn't control the government in Illinois at basically all levels, but they do. So what's the excuse? I ask again, why is it so wrong for Republicans to ask blacks to give them a chance given that what they've got over the last 40-50 years isn't working/hasn't worked. I swear to God I answered this like 3 different ways already. lol are you thinking black voters in Chicago are big fans of Rahm Emanuel? Because no no no no no NO.

People always ask what is being done about violence in Chicago? There's a bunch of organizations who were dedicated to reducing it. Ask someone what happened to their funding once Rahm and Rauner got elected.