BBO Discussion Forums: Has U.S. Democracy Been Trumped? - BBO Discussion Forums

Initially, I would not have thought it to be an important issue (election-wise) but it seems that some illegals fearing a Trump policy that would see them deported might sway them to vote, especially if somehow they were convinced that even the President said it was something they should consider. (Not that he did, but just the confusion between english-speakers regarding that interview might be ambiguous enough for the unscrupulous to convince non-english speakers to give it a try because the alternative would be the same (deportation) anyway.

You mean this guy? Jonathan Ferguson


No.

You mean this guy? Jonathan Ferguson

The Political Cesspool is a weekly far-right talk radio show founded by Tennessean political activist James Edwards and syndicated by the organizations Liberty News Radio Network and Accent Radio Network in the United States. First broadcast in October 2004 twice a week from radio station WMQM, per Edwards it has been simulcast on Stormfront Radio, a service of the white nationalist Stormfront website[4] and as of 2011 is broadcast on Saturday nights on WLRM, a Christian radio station in Millington, Tennessee. Its sponsors include the white separatist Council of Conservative Citizens and the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial group.[5]

According to its statement of principles, the show stands for the "Dispossessed Majority" and represents "a philosophy that is pro-White."[6] It has attracted criticism—including from The Nation, The New Republic, the Stephen Roth Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Anti-Defamation League—for its promotion of anti-semitic, white nationalist and white supremacist views.[7][8] According to the SPLC, the show has featured a "Who's Who of the radical right", including members of the Ku Klux Klan; they say Edwards has probably done more than anyone in America to promote neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and other extremists

I have been an immigrant myself for the last 10 years (in two different countries).

I can promise you that almost no non-citizens voted in the US election. The reason is simple. As a non-citizen, you are much more afraid of committing felonies. You have fewer rights in any legal proceedings. And you have quite a bit more to lose - even minor infractions could cause you to get deported. (Or just not get your VISA renewed.) AKA having to move away from the place where you work, where you have friends, etc.

Indeed, the whole premise of the question is that even citizens may be afraid of voting - if they have family, or friends with the same address who are not, and who may not have a legal right to stay in the US. This fear may sound irrational to you. But to me (again, having been an immigrant myself for 10 years) it seems much more plausible than trying to vote illegally as a non-citizen (or, for heaven's sake, as an undocumented immigrant). Why risk your existence for a single vote that almost certainly won't change the outcome?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Top strategists from the campaigns of Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton, interrupting each other and sometimes raising their voices, engaged in an angry debate on Thursday about how Mr. Trump pulled off his upset victory.

Emotions were still raw at the campaign post-mortem, held at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, particularly over the influence of Stephen K. Bannon, who left Breitbart News — which he has called a “platform” for the white nationalist alt-right — to help run Mr. Trump’s campaign.

With campaign managers and pollsters talking over one another and a large crowd of campaign veterans from the news media looking on, Ms. Palmieri said her proudest moment from the campaign was a speech Mrs. Clinton gave in Nevada condemning the alt-right.

“I would rather lose than win the way you guys did,” Ms. Palmieri said.

Kellyanne Conway, who was Mr. Trump’s third and final campaign manager, asked, “How exactly did we win?”

She answered her own question: by connecting with voters in places “where we were either ignored or mocked roundly by most of the people in this room.”

“Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?” Ms. Conway asked Ms. Palmieri. “You’re going to look me in the face and tell me that?”

Ms. Conway went on, pointing out Mrs. Clinton’s failings. “Do you think you could have just had a decent message for the white working-class voters?” she asked the Clinton advisers. “How about it’s Hillary Clinton, she doesn’t connect with people? How about they had nothing in common with her? How about you had no economic message?”

Nice find!

Lots as if Jon is retweeting a lot of @JamesEdwardsTPC

He is also tweeting that folks should deliberately place pork in the halal section of supermarkets noting that this will force the owners to discard all of the food...

Yes, I saw those too. Reading down those tweets is like watching people swim in a cesspool. And the president-elect in there swimming with them.

I have been an immigrant myself for the last 10 years (in two different countries).

I can promise you that almost no non-citizens voted in the US election. The reason is simple. As a non-citizen, you are much more afraid of committing felonies. You have fewer rights in any legal proceedings. And you have quite a bit more to lose - even minor infractions could cause you to get deported. (Or just not get your VISA renewed.) AKA having to move away from the place where you work, where you have friends, etc.

Indeed, the whole premise of the question is that even citizens may be afraid of voting - if they have family, or friends with the same address who are not, and who may not have a legal right to stay in the US. This fear may sound irrational to you. But to me (again, having been an immigrant myself for 10 years) it seems much more plausible than trying to vote illegally as a non-citizen (or, for heaven's sake, as an undocumented immigrant). Why risk your existence for a single vote that almost certainly won't change the outcome?

Frankly, I don't see the difference between this and advertising penis enlargement pills

Deplorables, meet despicables.

Despicables, aren't they funny?
This thread has provided so much entertainment since election night.

Now I have to go and delete all my profiles, the Internet police is out, looking.

Now I have to go and delete all my profiles, the Internet police is out, looking.

Penis enlargement pills don't encourage hate and intolerance.

Seriously, I cannot believe you guys are still feeding the troll. I stopped about 20 pages back It is only a shame that his sh!te has made this thread almost unreadable. Look back objectively at the way this thread has deteriorated and you have to admit the trolling won out here. Let's please make sure this is the only thread that gets ruined.

Despicables, aren't they funny?
This thread has provided so much entertainment since election night.

Now I have to go and delete all my profiles, the Internet police is out, looking.

Its a crying shame that people don't treat you the same after they figure out that you're a neo-Nazi...

Penis enlargement pills don't encourage hate and intolerance.

Hmmm

A raving lunatic, who boasted that his posts here were intended for some other 'audience' was exposed as a neo-Nazi twitter asshole, with clear symptoms of mental illness.

Andrei's response to this exposure is fear that his identity will be found out as well?

Most of us here have no worries about being known.

I wonder why Andrei is so worried?

Hmmm

Birds of a feather, perhaps?

Yeah, but the BBO moderators don't take actions regarding hate and intolerance.
The do act wrt advertizing...

1. You will not engage in conduct or post any material that is defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law. Doing any of these is a good way to find yourself barred from the forums. The board should never go above PG-rated for any reason.