Welcome to my world!
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Evangelicals tut tut about his tone towards women, they still love him but wish he was more like them in hating women including their “wives and daughters”, whereas they love his racism, xenophobia and war crimes.
The “librul media” loves Trump and evangelicals, leftists hate his warmongeryness that makes Clinton’s aggressions look serene by comparison and his lack of consent, but the media doesn’t care about their interests.
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I think it reflects lots of superficial “norms” of politics, where war and colonialism are considered “part of the business” while superficial things such as whether or not one is married, has facial hair, certain genitals or skin color can be overwhelming deal-breakers. Much of it seems to obviously defy reason, and even explainable morality or ideology.
It seems to me the same sort of problem of being being easily conned with regards to hiring for regular jobs, where people get hung up over frivolous signifiers time and again over evidence of competence, no matter how easy it is to demonstrate the failures of that approach.
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This does however conflate media narratives and interests with personal beliefs.
Why “people” don’t care certainly varies widely on the “people” you’re sampling.
Goes without saying, does it not?
And that was in Canada!
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Well, specificity helps the usefulness of the question and the answer alike.
I don’t think it necessarily goes without saying! (Though I certainly wish it did.)
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To be honest, i’m just pretty thankful that some backs are finally metaphorically breaking.
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Sounds like it’s not changing any mens’ opinions though.
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They seem to be behind “destroying” Daesh, which is most certainly considered war, largely because they are mostly “over there.” You’re also ignoring their warmongering here, on Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans, and women. These are not people advocating for peace.
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Can he really tear down the country with those tiny hands?
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Is that Cyriak? And, if not, why the hell not?
It’s from here:
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I desperately miss The Nightly Show.
Gerrymandering is not a factor in presidential elections. It’s not like whatever party controls Congress can redraw the boundaries between states to game the Electoral College.
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I meant the electoral college. I then decided to leave in gerrymandering rather than edit the comment for the umpteenth time. Mainly because it’s a factor, it’s just a subtle one. I was waiting for someone to point out that it doesn’t count, because the people here are a sharp bunch. Putting aside the fact that the way district lines get drawn affects how much voters feel that they can affect change in the system if their congresscritters are red or blue, year over year. The fact is that having a strong congressional foothold in a state is important in running a ground game, and it’s important in fundraising and getting voter turnout for your side up. At least that was what I was going to say as soon as someone noticed the error. 
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State lines are gerrymandering!
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Well, West Virginia is shaped pretty weird!
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West Virginia looks like a hand giving the finger.
It was originally the abolitionist Western part of the state of Virginia, and it seceded to become its own state. That explains the Eastern panhandle, because it used to be the Pennsylvania/Virginia border.
The Northern panhandle with Weirton and Wheeling is a little weird. Why didn’t Pennsylvania just extend westward to the Ohio River?
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