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I don't know. Scarlett Johansson looks pretty perfect to me.
I'm with you on that!

I think she's a very competent crusader for important issues, but I'm not sure she has the ... how can I say this? I'm not sure she has the "animate the crowd" element that I think is required right now to energise voters.
Not many people do. She reminds me of some of teachers I had when I was younger. Smart, nice and yet for some reason, annoying. And I really believe it's that squeaky voice.

I have for a long time subscribed to the idea that presentation and relatability has more to do with winning elections than it should have.
 
Hilary’s voice it was a cadence issue with me. Just sounds a bit like a droning voice actor reading microwave instructions. I understand what she is trying to do but it has issues.

Still, both are preferable to Trump, who’s tone and voice are so annoying that he could be telling us truthfully that he is resigning and will admit his criminal activities and I’d still want to hit the mute button.
 
Does he want to keep out immigrants in general? or just illegal immigrants?

I think he is ok with legal immigrants as long as they are coming from countries who provide proper documentation.

Nah, plenty of people with all the correct documentation or following the proper process for refugees have been targeted. It’s pretty clear at this point that his main goal is to keep out immigrants with dark colored skin.
 
Katha Pollitt, writing in the leftist rag the Nation, reveals that perhaps Warren is significantly more damaged than it might appear:



Pollitt mounts a decent defense of Warren and points out that the other candidates have feet of clay as well (mostly stuff that the far left would hold against them).

Topical right wing MO. Attack potential Democratic candidates as early as possible regardless of whether there is any merit to the attacks. This creates the impression that they are “as bad as their opponent” running against them even of the charges are long debunked, because they scream the accusation then whisper the correction

It’s one of the main tools Republicans are using to undermine US democracy and position in the world. As long as people continue to fall for it the US is doomed to be a war torn collection of third world countries 100 years from now.
 
Hilary’s voice it was a cadence issue with me. Just sounds a bit like a droning voice actor reading microwave instructions. I understand what she is trying to do but it has issues.

Still, both are preferable to Trump, who’s tone and voice are so annoying that he could be telling us truthfully that he is resigning and will admit his criminal activities and I’d still want to hit the mute button.

I can't stand listening to Trump either, but it's because he's a liar and an idiot. He's either saying something blatantly false or moronically stupid. I have a big enough problem when Joe Schmoe says something dumb, but it's worse when I know the moron is the President.
 
I can't stand listening to Trump either, but it's because he's a liar and an idiot. He's either saying something blatantly false or moronically stupid. I have a big enough problem when Joe Schmoe says something dumb, but it's worse when I know the moron is the President.

For me it's all of it. It's the annoying tone and cadence, and also the lies, condescension and bigotry.
 
Unless the Democrats forget about Clinton, Warren, Biden for 2020 they have no chance.
 
Seriously, if the meaning of the word 'elopement' is merely someone who schlepps off to get married in private, Warren's parents doing that is hardly the PTSD moment she wants us to believe.

Here's me thinking it was teenage angst ('each night I ask the stars up above, why must I be a teenager in love?') and they had to run away in the dead of night with her climbing out of the window with a sash because of some West Side Story type situation (a modern-day Romeo and Juliet) with the neighbourhood divided by racial lines into gangs and the parents bodily shielding their son from a Natalie Wood Hispanic-look alike.

But no, we discover the twenty-one-year-olds - regular Americans of the same demographic - having a private wedding and still being in the bosom of their family and community.

And here we all were feeling desperately sorry for the two young lovers kept apart by bigoted folk.

So, you're sticking to your unique definition and disappointment that she used the word as defined by the vast majority of English speakers? That's a real good reason to hate a woman. Be proud.
 
You wrote this in response to Brainster's posting of a left-leaning columnist writing in a left-leaning magazine, quoting left-leaning voters' opinions about Elizabeth Warren.

Are you suggesting that somehow grants them immunity for falling for this tactic?
 
Nah, plenty of people with all the correct documentation or following the proper process for refugees have been targeted. It’s pretty clear at this point that his main goal is to keep out immigrants with dark colored skin.

That caravan is full of people who would like the opportunity to seek asylum. Trump is terrified. He is telling his people to be terrified. Not of mobs rushing the borders, but of asylum seekers.

That is like being afraid of Mormon's walking around your neighborhood. They aren't breaking down the door, they are just asking if they can come in. You can say no if you're not interested. Or you can meet them at the door with an AK-47.
 
That caravan is full of people who would like the opportunity to seek asylum. Trump is terrified. He is telling his people to be terrified. Not of mobs rushing the borders, but of asylum seekers.

That is like being afraid of Mormon's walking around your neighborhood. They aren't breaking down the door, they are just asking if they can come in. You can say no if you're not interested. Or you can meet them at the door with an AK-47.

I just turn the hose on them.
 
For me it's all of it. It's the annoying tone and cadence, and also the lies, condescension and bigotry.

I get what you're saying about the cadence, but I really think it's the highlited part. The tone and the cadence tells you that it is Trump speaking which informs you that you're about to hear something awful which in turn makes one cringe at the tone and cadence.

Does that make sense?
 
That caravan is full of people who would like the opportunity to seek asylum. Trump is terrified. He is telling his people to be terrified. Not of mobs rushing the borders, but of asylum seekers.

That is like being afraid of Mormon's walking around your neighborhood. They aren't breaking down the door, they are just asking if they can come in. You can say no if you're not interested. Or you can meet them at the door with an AK-47.

I just turn the hose on them.

I just politely tell Mormons I don't want to talk. I save the hose for Jehova's Witnesses. :D
 
That caravan is full of people who would like the opportunity to seek asylum. Trump is terrified. He is telling his people to be terrified. Not of mobs rushing the borders, but of asylum seekers.

That is like being afraid of Mormon's walking around your neighborhood. They aren't breaking down the door, they are just asking if they can come in. You can say no if you're not interested. Or you can meet them at the door with an AK-47.

They're coming to take out jobs! 3000 people (versus a nation over 100,000 times the side of the crowd)!

They might have MS-13! And siege weapons!
 
I just politely tell Mormons I don't want to talk. I save the hose for Jehova's Witnesses. :D

I find the hose works on anyone selling religion. I've always wished I was wearing a Devil's costume when they stop. I imagine inviting them to switch teams.
 
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