2018 Midterm Election Thread

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luthervol said:
It's my brother in law (not that it matters). His appointments to the EPA and the DOE spoke clearly on the "official" position on the environment and public education . The heightened tensions concerning undocumented citizens has had a direct impact on many students in our district. My wife has a senior AP Calc student who is an excellent student and kid. She was asking him about his college plans and he eventually admitted that he wouldn't be going to college (possibly the local community college) because his parents were scared of the application process to major universities. He finally told her his father was an illegal alien and they were scared he would be sent back. She was stunned because the boy was so "American" she assumed his family had been here for generations.
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SIAP but why is it a big deal that Sean Hannity stumped for Republicans last night? He’s not a journalist, right? It seems like getting upset when Michael Irvin cheers for the Cowboys.
 
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Currently in harris county, TX, voters are arriving in large numbers at the polls

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RockyTop85 said:
SIAP but why is it a big deal that Sean Hannity stumped for Republicans last night? He’s not a journalist, right? It seems like getting upset when Michael Irvin cheers for the Cowboys.
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IMO, it is a distraction for outlets like CNN and MSNBC to point towards this and use it as some sort of technicality on election day. If Obama had dropped the leash for those two networks, they would have gone above and beyond anything Hannity had done, including drinking BHO's bathwater if instructed to do so.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
You sound very definitive in that opinion. Care to defend it rationally? Or should we continue the conversation with that just being your opinion?
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It's self evident. Are you of the opinion that 100% goes to great charitable causes?
 
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RockyTop85 said:
SIAP but why is it a big deal that Sean Hannity stumped for Republicans last night? He’s not a journalist, right? It seems like getting upset when Michael Irvin cheers for the Cowboys.
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Yes, Hannity abandoned any pretense of being a "journalist" a long time ago, if he ever had one to begin with. I don't have a problem with openly, obviously partisan talkers from a major network stumping for a candidate. He doesn't hold himself out to be anything different, and that's OK. If, say, Rachel Maddow went to a Beto event in Texas, I'd disagree with her opinion, but I wouldn't criticize her un-objectiveness, because she doesn't claim to be objective to begin with. She is really open that she approaches stories from a particular point of view.

What chaps my a$$ is disingeniousness, which is a tactic employed by the more "mainstream" news organizations (CNN, ABC/CBS/NBC, the news reporting arms of the NYT/WaPo, etc.). Just as an example, Jeffrey Toobin is presented by CNN as their "Chief Legal Analyst," a very neutral, objective sounding title. However, he's there to spout progressive, Democratic talking points to rebut claims by Trump surrogates and supporters, and who appear on the show very clearly labeled as a Trump supporter. The whole idea of it all is to create this feel that here's a very objective, balls and strikes guy, and he is just eviscerating all this nonsense a Trump person is saying.

I don't mind opinion-based commentary, not at all, no matter the opinion. The key is that it just be clearly labeled, figuratively speaking. What I can't stand are opinions presented as facts.
 
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luthervol said:
It's self evident. Are you of the opinion that 100% goes to great charitable causes?
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Are you of the opinion that charities that dont "100% go to great causes" should be removed from inclusion of the figures were discussing from the study?
 
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hog88 said:
Ok, what I was asking is what exactly have his appointments done to negatively affect the environment or public education. Something policy wise or actual action we can point to and discuss whether it's had a negative/positive effect not what the appointments "spoke to" that's 100% subjective. Surely you have some clearly defined examples.

Sorry about your wife's student but shouldn't he be protected by DACA?
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76 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
All told, the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could lead to at least 80,000 extra deaths per decade and cause respiratory problems for more than one million people, according to a recent analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard University. That number, however, is likely to be “a major underestimate of the global public health impact,” said Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Betsy DeVos: A One-Year Progress Report
Higher Education
This is where most of the action has occurred. DeVos and her team are in the early stages of rewriting two sets of regulations put out by the Obama administration and intended to protect student borrowers: gainful employment, which was intended to weed out programs that required big tuition payments but offered dim job prospects, and borrower defense, which helps students who took out loans to attend institutions later found to be fraudulent.

I'm not one to discount the subjective. Feelz are a little more important than what you guys like to portray. The student and his family are living with more fear and uncertainty. Many of you feelz that is a good and justified thing; I feelz it is a bad and unnecessary thing.
 
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utvols88 said:
Are you of the opinion that charities that dont "100% go to great causes" should be removed from inclusion of the figures were discussing from the study?
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Not at all. I was simply pointing out the biggest contributing factor to the data.
 
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luthervol said:
It's self evident. Are you of the opinion that 100% goes to great charitable causes?
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I'm sure my point was clear. You seem to want to enforce your opinion of worthy causes (Planned Parenthood) via tax code and federal budgets, while belittling other people's opinions of worthy causes, including supporting churches, the gospel and whatever else a local congregation chooses to do to support its community.

Thus the question, are you admitting to opinion? And if so, why is your opinion about charity better than a Christian's/church's?

I'll hang up and wait for your rational and reasonable response, Mr relative.
 
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luthervol said:
76 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump
All told, the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could lead to at least 80,000 extra deaths per decade and cause respiratory problems for more than one million people, according to a recent analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard University. That number, however, is likely to be “a major underestimate of the global public health impact,” said Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Betsy DeVos: A One-Year Progress Report
Higher Education
This is where most of the action has occurred. DeVos and her team are in the early stages of rewriting two sets of regulations put out by the Obama administration and intended to protect student borrowers: gainful employment, which was intended to weed out programs that required big tuition payments but offered dim job prospects, and borrower defense, which helps students who took out loans to attend institutions later found to be fraudulent.

I'm not one to discount the subjective. Feelz are a little more important than what you guys like to portray. The student and his family are living with more fear and uncertainty. Many of you feelz that is a good and justified thing; I feelz it is a bad and unnecessary thing.
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Thank you for the copy and paste, I'll read the articles but I was shooting for your thoughts on the subjects not a third parties. Or even your thoughts on what the writer had to say.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
I'm sure my point was clear. You seem to want to enforce your opinion of worthy causes (Planned Parenthood) via tax code and federal budgets, while belittling other people's opinions of worthy causes, including supporting churches, the gospel and whatever else a local congregation chooses to do to support its community.

Thus the question, are you admitting to opinion? And if so, why is your opinion about charity better than a Christian's/church's?

I'll hang up and wait for your rational and reasonable response, Mr relative.
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Your point wasn't the least bit clear, and still isn't.
I'm not wishing to enforce my opinion of worthy causes, no more than I would support a person having the right to designate that his tax dollar not be used to fund the military or a particular weapons system. Society doesn't work that way. I also in no way belittled anyone's choice to support their local congregation, by in large, I thinks that's usually a pretty good thing. But we all know there are many charlatans and
 
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hog88 said:
Thank you for the copy and paste, I'll read the articles but I was shooting for your thoughts on the subjects not a third parties. Or even your thoughts on what the writer had to say.
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Sorry to disappoint. When I give my thoughts, you want facts and links. Catch 22.
I think the parts I provided from each article provide an appropriate middle ground between the subjective and the objective.

Trump's vision for the EPA and the environment in general suck. (and will cause great long term harm)
Trump's (Devos') opinion of public education and the appropriate role of the federal government suck. ( and will cause great long term harm.)
 
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luthervol said:
Your point wasn't the least bit clear, and still isn't.
I'm not wishing to enforce my opinion of worthy causes, no more than I would support a person having the right to designate that his tax dollar not be used to fund the military or a particular weapons system. Society doesn't work that way. I also in no way belittled anyone's choice to support their local congregation, by in large, I thinks that's usually a pretty good thing. But we all know there are many charlatans and
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Then as usual, your idiotic response was useless.

luthervol said:
You have to factor in the % given to religious affiliation. That would more than explain the difference.
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And you're talking put off both sides of your mouth, as usual. You want people to earmark their tax dollars, but admit that's not the way society (socialism) works, so you are indeed promoting your opinions as the ones govt takes from me via tax money and use to support.
 
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NYT MAKES CHANGES TO ELECTION NEEDLE SO READERS WON’T GET UPSET

The New York Times is changing a voting data graphic that many readers claim led them to falsely believe then-candidate Donald Trump would lose the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.

TheNYT is working to avoid triggering PANIC ATTACKS among people who felt the election needle duped them into believing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily win. The needle supposedly created confusion between real-life election data and flawed predictive polling.

NYT Makes Changes To Election Needle So Readers Won’t Get Upset
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
NYT MAKES CHANGES TO ELECTION NEEDLE SO READERS WON’T GET UPSET

The New York Times is changing a voting data graphic that many readers claim led them to falsely believe then-candidate Donald Trump would lose the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.

TheNYT is working to avoid triggering panic attacks among people who felt the election needle duped them into believing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily win. The needle supposedly created confusion between real-life election data and flawed predictive polling.

NYT Makes Changes To Election Needle So Readers Won’t Get Upset
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Oh my. No words to describe this.
 
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