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It is. It also points out the major fallacy in the whole "liberal media" canard. The media is corporate - profits first! Don't say anything that is bad for business! The media (the owners of the media, not the individual reporters) doesn't care who is president or who is in congress and the decades-long mantra that the "liberal media" is to blame for everything has given rise to our new post-factual world. Hey - you are now free to believe whatever you want and there is a website out there that is the digital equivalent of a four year-old with a crayon and a pizza box who will back you up.
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As is your wont, you've conflated various things I've said to fit your purpose. Of course I'm guessing about the future - there is a fairly well established history of how these things often? usually? (but not always) play out. "Wave elections" almost always occur in the midterm of the a president's first term.
Talk to me in four years after all of the draining and burning is done. Unity platform.... haha! Good luck to all of us. While I'm thinking to ask: did his rape trial involving the then 13-y/o girl start today? I haven't had a chance to check.
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Wrong yet again (I do admire your consistency.) I did watch a good chunk of his speech. I saw his mouth move. I heard words come out. He has contradicted himself at almost every step of the campaign - we are supposed to believe these particular words because they came at a particular point in time? That's foolish. I'll see what he actually does rather than listen to the word salad. At least he accepted the results of the election...
Look - this will play out the same way it always does. The novice will get in office, full of big plans. He has the wind at his back with the house and senate. They will inevitably overreach - I won't predict how, but there are probably a dozen likely paths. In 2018, the senate will flip. If he's learned on the job and matured to the point that he's respected within his party and can consistently act like an adult, he'll have a fighting chance to win a second term but he'll never have the both the house and senate again after 2018. However, when the people who feel as though they've been left behind realize in four years that nothing changed in their lives, they aren't as likely to turn out in big numbers. And after the 2020 census, districts will be redrawn and the the machine that hands the house to the GOP every two years by big margins in total seats despite getting fewer votes, will be weakened to an extent. Nothing will change. Manufacturing jobs that disappeared from the US aren't going to magically reappear not because the US worker can't compete but because those jobs don't exist on anywhere near the scale they used to, having been replaced by technology. Trade deals aren't going to be canceled. Debt isn't going to be "renegotiated". He'll get a judge or two, probably a tax cut that won't benefit the working class and relations with the rest of the world will suffer. And that's about the extent of it - he doesn't have the temperament or intellect to actually effect much of what he's after. If congress happens to like something he's talked about, they'll tee it up for him and that'll get done.
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No need to repeat - you don't have much to say that's interesting and you clearly don't bother to read what others say. I acknowledged that the rules are what they are - but when one party wins the popular vote six out of the last seven presidential elections and routinely outpolls the other party in house races by a million + votes in aggregate, the sentient person at least pauses to consider if maybe the system isn't functioning as it should. At least considers it.
But I won't piss on your day. Create whatever narrative you need to validate your view of yesterday as a watershed moment in American politics. Go ahead - Make America Hate Again! Quote:
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Losing so badly that she'll win the national vote. This wasn't a huge win - don't kid yourself. The electoral college is what it is and those were the rules of the game going in, but when you can add up ten states with a combined population of 23 million and get 55 electoral votes, the same number as California gets with 39 million people - that isn't exactly a representative democracy.
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You/he certainly do have that freedom but to your point: we'd all be better served if the people most eager to utilize that freedom stopped and asked themselves if anyone really cares what they have to say. JCManHate clearly needs attention and will take any outrageous Trump-style position to stir the pot. I get that. He lacks the maturity to understand nuance. But he is close to single-handedly (with at least a nod to Yvonne, Monroe, et al) making this site something to avoid rather than being the useful community resource it could - and occasionally used to - be. That's unfortunate.
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Thanks, Mary Pat.
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Probably Ashura. I didn't see it this year but they have been held there in the past. Timing is right.
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I think you meant sarcasm, the native tongue of New Jersey.
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Same reason there is a comics section.
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Who is "Governor Christie"?
What a joke. Too bad he doesn't have a few more years left on his term - it would make impeaching him worthwhile.
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The worst part about this election? It killed House of Cards. It will never be able to top reality.
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Dude - unless you are actually Mary Pat, your blind allegiance and loyalty to Christie is creepy. Why do you care so much? They are all full of shit - why soil yourself?
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?Fulop has become New Jersey?s Ted Cruz,? a longtime observer said. ?No one wants to be associated with him now.? Quite funny - not far from the truth, either.
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The second coming of Peter Cammarano...??
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Not on par. You are comparing apples and orangutans by cherry-picking waterfront luxury buildings in DTJC and comparing them with average Brooklyn prices.
Check out this. Wouldn't DUMBO be a better comp for new luxury DTJC stuff? Studios and small 1brs from $3500 to $4500 with some outliers well above; 2 brs mostly $4,300 to $6k; some in the $7,000 to $9,500 range. Those prices are at least $1,000 above here.
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Uh, no. There is no "message" to dispute. You just goobled out something that started with "I'm sure" and then rolled around in a bunch of (I'm sure quite stimulating, to you) hypothetical crap. And I'm not sure who "you guys" are. I hold no office, nor do I intend to ever seek one.
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How perfect that the first response to the post titled "Don't feed the trolls" comes from the biggest troll on the site.
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The 9/11 remark was intended for Yvonne. I certainly don't need a coloring book history lesson from you, though. In fact, if we are rounding up people to ship out of the country for fear of the damage they might do, why don't we start with basic intelligence testing? Find a nice place where you can all go and enjoy no services, hate freely and shoot each other at will.
Have a nice day.
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Wrong and wrong. Germany has the largest muslim population in Europe and in percentage terms, Bulgaria has a much larger proportion of muslims. As was said previously, France's problems are rooted more in the actions of the French (treatment of immigrants, colonial misdeeds) than those of muslim immigrants. Clinton will make the situation worse not because of immigration but because she will continue the misguided war-mongering policies that created the mess to begin with. Blather on and on about how liberals faked the moon landing, Obama plays poker with bin Laden every Thursday in the White House basement and MSNBC is coming for your guns or whatever it is you people are onto, but in the end this is all very simple: you reap what you sow. Aggressive interventionist policies, indiscriminate bombing, suppression of human rights, etc. have brought us to where we are. To think that 9/11 was the beginning of this shows a remarkable lack of historical understanding.
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How would it be any different than if there were some ceremony honoring the dead of Katyn at the statue and someone posted the history of the massacre (of which a lot of people are unaware.) I'm an athiest and I see no problem with it. As dmark said - if it's too long or uninteresting to you, don't click or move along if you did click and aren;t into it.
I'll never understand why people get so worked up by others openly practicing their faith if they aren't proselytizing or in any way impinging on anyone. Aren't we, the well-educated enlightened left, supposed to be the champions of tolerance and inclusion?
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Exactly - just like no one litters in Union City. It isn't tolerated. These are the quality of life issues that really make a city liveable - not the fifteenth pizza place in four block radius or another cookie cutter, tax-abated high rise alongside a dozen others. I think in the end though, traffic enforcement and anti-litter efforts don't succeed (or aren't pursued) because that just isn't the ethic in Jersey City, outside of the JCList echo chamber. People who live outside downtown (and many who do live here) choose to be completely dependent on their cars and expect the world to bend to their desires, which is to be able to get wherever they are going as quickly as possible and park their car within twenty feet of the front door of their destination.
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Right. Because conservatives love facts? Please.
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Does anybody on this site read? I posted an article that went to considerable lengths to explain the original application (jewish) of the word, which is why I'm pretty sure the Brooklyn jews wouldn't really be down with it. The article also went on to say that the usage and meaning of the word has changed a lot - as happens with many words.
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And you kind of prove my point when you say "Newport is ghetto". If you said "Newport is A ghetto" and you were arguing for the historic usage, I'd be inclined to agree. Without the article, it becomes the current usage and while I wouldn't want to live in Newport, with a median household income above $120,000, it is hardly "ghetto".
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Not struggling at all - pretty sure I explained its outdated and current uses quite clearly. Point is, "ghetto" is a pejorative term, at least as it has come to be used:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitc ... w-ghetto-lost-its-meaning Ghettos were always defined by lack of choice ? they were places inhabitants were forced to live, whether by anti-Semitic governments, discriminating neighbors or racist practices like redlining. Sociologist Mario Small argues that these limits have largely been lifted, such that researchers should no longer consider "ghetto" a useful word for urban slums. And indeed, use of the word "ghetto" in print has been declining since the early '70s. But slang variants have been rising in popularity since before the turn of the millennium. And a quick glance at social media suggests they're not going away; on a recent weekday, twitter users referenced "ghetto" almost 20 times per minute. "Being ghetto," or behaving in a low-class manner (see also: "ratchet"). "Ghetto fabulous," flashy glamour without the wealth. "Ghetto" as an adjective, roughly synonymous with "jury-rigged," for anything cobbled together out of subpar materials.
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Whites are minorities in California - are Malibu and Newport Beach ghettos? Newport (JC) is overwhelmingly Asian - do they suffer from "such pressures"? You certainly wouldn't get away with calling the Orthodox and Hassidic communities in Brooklyn "ghettos" and they don't face "such pressures".
It's just lazy to throw a demographic map up and say "look, pockets of ethnic people. Ghettos!"
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