
'Marriage Changes When You Don't Just Need A Warm Body and a Paycheck': A Talk With Rebecca Traister
After two months, my copy of Rebecca Traister’s new book is already dog-eared, wine-stained, and train-battered. All…
After two months, my copy of Rebecca Traister’s new book is already dog-eared, wine-stained, and train-battered. All…
This will give you some background on that picture.
Because the chops it takes to be a business leader and the chops it takes to be a civic leader in a representative democracy are almost completely mutually exclusive?
So, I’m a business owner and real estate investor, and his business record is not impressive. He started with millions of his dad’s money and proceeded to use corrupt, purchased influence over politicians to build just enough equity to leverage himself to the sky. Then he used the free cash flow to make himself flashy…
WOW real trump supporters! I thought they were all too busy being casual racists and having sex with their sisters to be on the internet.
Well it would be different if he actually was successful and did it all himself from the ground up. 1. He inherited a ridiculous amount of money from his father 2. He would have made significantly more money by just sticking it all in index funds and doing nothing. So he's an asshole, a trust fund baby and a bad…
Is it really worth replacing a half-decent politician with one of the worst non-politicians in history?
This is a classy strawman made of the finest 24K gold. Look at the great, tremendous quality of that argument.
Ah, the envy/jealous retort, never fails.
Do we have to pick just one?
There is a Black establishment, largely driven by church leaders and the like, and they do a wonderful job of turning out voters for preferred candidates. The Clinton’s have a natural advantage with the Black establishment and Hillary knows how to tap into it. For what it is worth, I am a 39 year old black guy, and…
Shall we perhaps give black voters a tad more credit instead of saying they are voting against their interests? Perhaps older black people in the south, a group that has arguably faced the greatest battles in this country, do not buy the idealism of Sanders. I like Sanders but for supporters of Obama, Clinton is a…
It may be, I just didn’t want to overstate the point because this is hard to quantify. The intellectuals and activists I pay attention to support Sanders, but I’m biased because I support Sanders, so the discourse I am reading is slanted toward that progressive, intersectional thinking. It’s also difficult to get an…
I’m baffled by this myself. My GF says its because way too many of ‘us’ aren’t doing our homework and voting solely on name recognition and who our pastor says to vote for. I don’t totally disagree.
She does well with OLDER African Americans, ie the over 45 crowd. I assume many of the younger folks are voting Sanders but more older people are actually voting. If I can find a statistics based on average age of voters I’ll post it.
The establishment does an incredibly good job of organizing GOTV efforts in the black community. She is the establishment. She is also running against a crazy looking old white dude from Vermont...which on it’s surface is not appealing.
The Clintons made their entry into politics via courting black southerners...they know how to pander to them.
Has there been any insight into why she does so well with African American voters given her spotty history regarding their interests? It seems so bizarre to the point of being baffling.
Nono, see, she’s scantily-clad because she’s teeming with cooties! This is totally challenging gender stereotypes!