…ewwww
There have been plenty of examples where someone was carrying a weapon for “safety” where the presence of the weapon when detected turned the incident deadly. If that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes. Besides, if I’m at a Trump rally my head is already so far up my ass there is plenty of room for a pistol up there.
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When you are carrying, you can’t help but realize that in any altercation, there will always be at least one deadly weapon present, even if it never comes out. It’s sobering. Even if you are later vindicated after an incident… Better to avoid avoid avoid anything with potential to go south.
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If I were to go to a protest I would be able to list specific issues with whatever I am protesting other than “He’s said things about women”, or “He’s racist about some people”.
I find these rallies funny to watch. We don’t do them here since the leader is chosen by the party and then the public chooses the party to govern. Also how hasn’t the election been halted after all these allegations that Clinton is being traditionally Clinton and frauding everything? Also also how hasn’t the election been halted after Sanders mysteriously got left out of things? Also also how hasn’t the USA realised how damn weird their election process is and replaced it with something more sensible, like a telethon or a special episode of Jerry Springer?
I’m not trying to be snarky, just genuinely interested in how on earth you guys looked at the typical European method and decided “this needs more crazy rules, random parties, and the occasional lynch mob!”…
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It wasn’t designed to be two parties. The shenanigans weren’t intended either, although they’re not a new phenomenon.
Also, the typical European method was not what it is today. The monarchy system was specifically avoided. 
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The typical European method at the time we started this was to make sure you had the right parents.
And as far as I know we’ve never stopped an election. I don’t there is a provision for it. And looking at elections a couple hundred years ago, this one is still kind of tame.
But at least the Europeans realised they were doing something stupid and changed it 
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I thought that’s exactly what’s happened.
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Think of it like the Eurovision Song Contest for Americainian leadership.
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Well now that’s just depressing when you put it like that! You’ve taken all the magic out of it 
All the bitching about infrastructure problems, just a few years after a huge outlay of money that was supposed to be for infrastructure.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/did_feminist_groups_derail_the_stimulus_bill.html
Oh wait, too many men work in construction.
Gosh, why isn’t this working?
@Woodman… did you see the publication date on that article? Not that it makes it less true, just less… timely.
Yeah, I know. It’s my rebuttal to the latest spree of articles about it, which I didn’t link to and should have. That was the last time we pushed for shovel jobs.
Money for new construction also goes more to women than money for maintenance. Seems there is a shortage of women in construction and a shortage of men in EPA think tanks and social service review boards.
BTW, I put this on my facebook as well, but the number of polling people and campaign people wandering around Indiana is freaking people out.
We’re not used to presidential candidates coming here in the primaries. I think Trump has already been in Indiana more than Obama has been ever. And Cruz is right there with him.
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Considering the fact that none of his transcripts have been released I wonder what the backing for that is. I have read article after article that’s basically a circular argument on his intelligence. I’m not willing to make allowances for him that I didn’t make for the other C students that have been president, and we know that was his grade through High School. He didn’t publish anything when he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, so we can’t go off of that, and apparently from what’s been said of his class at U of C, he was all over the place on topics and depending on who you ask he was awesome or mediocre.
The only thing I can point at that says high IQ is his inability to process social queues.
Not saying he’s an idiot, and I’m not even necessarily saying he doesn’t have a high IQ, but the traditional forms of evidence aren’t there. Obama has had about as many missteps in public as Bush, and more than Clinton. 57 states, corpesman, potatoe, that sort of thing. (OK, not potatoe, I put that there) Clinton and Bush both definitely had higher social IQs.
I don’t know that I want someone super smart as president anyway. I think I’d rather they do something more useful.
And on the other topic, Bernie people and Cruz people called and knocked on my door over the weekend.
Step-daughter parked her car in my driveway. Her car no longer has a Bernie sticker on the bumper.
Hmm, I wonder if the two statements are related? 
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While I don’t agree with silencing free speech, I can get behind messing with friends and family like that.
And speaking of politics. In my PAthfinder group I am likely the farthest to the Libertarian side, and easily the most liberal on transgendered bathroom activities. Among a Bernie supporter, two undecided democrats, and two oh god don’t make me vote for Trump individuals I was the closest to the accepted liberal stance of just use what you are comfortable with. I’m not quite where let’s say George Takai is on it, but it was surprising to see how liberal I was.
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I enjoy the concept of liberal Americans.
Everything has perspective… your most left-wing liberal presidential candidate sits somewhere to the right of centre and up towards the authoritarian end of the Stalin-to-Ghandi scale. Your most right-wing candidate is regularly compared (by our media, at least) to Hitler - if Hitler had been a bit more pro-Church than he was.
Mind you, sat here in England, I can’t really talk much about nazis. The Britain First and English Defence League lobbies continue to make the UK a shittier place for anyone who isn’t rich, white, Christian, straight and male. As does the current government who seem to be of the opinion that the easiest way to bring the UK out of recession (because seriously, if you discount the City of London from our economy, we’re as bad as the Republic of Ireland in the 1990s) is to drop taxes for rich people and disassemble the NHS so poor people have to buy health insurance and still pay the same income tax that originally in part funded the NHS.
And since our political axises (sises? axiii?) are skewed on the Z plane it’s even more screwey. American politics assume a least a modicum of independence, which I’ve noticed is not the default in many places. So while some politicians here may be to the left of some European ones, they appear to be right of center to Europeans because of that assumption.
Most of the politicians in Europe seem hopelessly authoritarian to me. A lot of the things they are trying to control come from how people think, so you have to try to control how they think and feel in order to control the issue.
And while I’m typing this WinAmp queues up Prologue, August 29, 1968 and Someday.
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