Howard Dean was talking about just that on NPR this morning (sorry I am an idiot who doesn’t know how to hyperlink and there are no millenials available to help me). http://www.npr.org/2016/11/15/502111367/howard-dean-wants-to-lead-the-dnc-again-has-a-50-state-strategy

Well I’m facing being put on a registry and a flat out travel ban on my relatives, and I work with a lot of folks with whom I discussed policy issues who refused to admit that Trump’s platform included these types of provisions, so I will readily admit to being biased. I don’t know how to debate around the fact that…

A friend of mine made the same argument—he argued that it’s like admitting to farting in public—people were too embarrassed to tell the truth when being polled. I definitely suspect this of certain friends and co-workers.

So what I’m getting from this (honest not snarky question), is that even the pollsters ignored the middle of the country (aka giant red river of destruction), correct?

It looks like a strapless, no?—so multiple layers plus walking around all night could equal some serious pit sweat....just sayin....

The average US salary is going down (that’s the scary part), but it’s around 53K a year. You can live on that in some major cities, in other ones, not so much.

Made the same point above—move to a more affordable city where you can actually buy a house and cost of living is lower and you actually feel like you’re getting somewhere.

While rents are going up here, cities like Atlanta (which have lots of jobs) are a lot more affordable. The only added cost is a car and gas, but if you’re cutting your rent in half or so, you can afford it and still save.

Echoing the stock market comment. Stocks with high dividends are great too, because you can reinvest the dividend income—then later in life use the dividends as actual income.

So word on the street is that they don’t bother to teach civics in middle or high school anymore, which is a big part of the problem our country faces today (imho). I don’t understand how we can encourage young people to participate in a democracy when they don’t understand what that participation means.

Thank you for saying this—while hijab is personal choice for Muslim women, it is because of the perception associated with it in America that I have never attempted wearing it in the states so this is not so new to me...that being said, I was so hopeful that fear was being eradicated and things were getting…

The Southern Poverty Law Center does incredible work. Sorry, I’m not good with the hyperlink thing: https://www.splcenter.org/

So true—all of my American friends who have moved to the Gulf come back speaking this way. I see a lot of folks saying the cadence is European, but it’s really more from Arabic. The pauses she makes between sentences and the “you, know” come from saying ya3ne in Arabic, which is basically a filler word along the…

Lol that was me after two years in Germany/Denmark. Also I would put “oder?” with a high intonation at the end of sentences in English.

The accent is clearly the result of her hanging out with Gulfies and Saudis—it’s actually a really common accent you’ll hear among English speakers in Dubai, UAE, etc.