(Part 2) Best products from r/hillaryclinton

If you're actually trying to understand, George Packer had a big article in The New Yorker about it recently. I haven't finished it yet, but it's good so far, and Packer's a superb journalist who has been looking at this question since before the election (he wrote a book called The Unwinding).

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/hillary-clinton-and-the-populist-revolt

https://www.amazon.com/Unwinding-Inner-History-New-America/dp/0374534608

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Hillary-Presidential-Campaigns-Ceiling/dp/0062413597

That one, but dont buy it, that woman is trash.

This is the only interesting book written about the campaign so far imo:

https://www.amazon.com/Destruction-Hillary-Clinton-Susan-Bordo/dp/1612196632

Edit: I forgot to mention Palmieri's book, also a great book:
https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Madam-President-Letter-Women/dp/1538713454

Yes.


William Julius Wilson would agree.

Great book and thinker on this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/More-than-Just-Race-Issues/dp/0393337634

That's awesome!!! This book about Hillary looks sooooo cute!

If it interests you, there's also a Pulitzer Prize winning book about the history of the speech.

https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Gettysburg-America-Schuster-Library/dp/0743299639/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496099023&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=the+gettysburg+address+by+abraham+lincoln+history+pulitzer

The thing is that Trump is not completely wrong (although he would have been a bit more correct about the currency manipulation a few years ago). The Japanese, South Korea, Taiwanese... and now the Chinese got rich protecting their own markets/currencies and selling to markets in North American and Europe (they did it by applying variations on what's called the 'developmental state" model). You could buy a South Korea car in the US long before you could buy an American car in South Korea. Their explicit national policy was to prioritize their growth over and above any "free market" considerations. In other words, they ignored the rules of free trade when it suited them. This is in fact not free or fair, and the costs of these policies are often borne by a concentrated unlucky few (even though everyone else benefits).

There is a fairly established literature on the politics surrounding trade, if anyone is interested. (I always tell people to start here and here to get in the proper analytical mindset). Notice that that NYT article never really quoted political economists, but only economists? That because the math of economics pretends the political consequences of trade do not exist. Trade absolutely needs to be accompanied by a generous welfare state to compensate the losers and keep them invested in the process.

Don't dismiss the anger of working class democratic voters. It's not sourced in irrationality.

Slate's Political Gabfest had an interview with Jane Meyer, who spent 6 years researching the Kochs to write this book and this is actually very true.

The Kochs started funding think tanks and scientists to publish studies that aligned with their interests like 40 years ago. Since they have oil money, they have poured a fortune into building up an academic argument to convince people that the science of global warming is in doubt. There are like 3 scientists on their side who publish work and fly all over the country testifying that global warming is fake. It's terrifying, and I'm glad someone is calling them out for the sinister way they influence our system.

Honestly, it's big money individuals like this who are scary influential in our politics. Corporations can't donate to politicians, but individuals that own them can, and none of them give to democrats. Well other than a few who really want to fight global warming, but honestly we should take that money. They start massive superPACs and force republicans to come to their conferences and beg for money.

This weekend, I was shopping at Barnes and Noble for a gift for my nephew, and noticed a big display in the children's biography section of picture books about Hillary! (I believe this was one of them, featuring a nice illustration of luminaries of women's history and culture gathering around Hillary.) Not gonna lie, that display was exactly what I needed in the midst of the Saturday caucuses.

(Also had to look into the S section to see whether you-know-whose life has been documented for kids. There was no Sanders biography, though I did see one about the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli. I guess history really does tend to judge achievements with an accurate eye.)

Amazon reviews are the best. You'll want to look at the bobble-head Jesus, and the communion wafers.

https://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-11093-Dashboard-Jesus/dp/B000CIS34U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1473285444&sr=8-2&keywords=bobble-head+Jesus

https://www.amazon.com/Broadman-Church-Communion-White-Wafers/dp/0805470859/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1473285539&sr=8-3&keywords=communion+wafers

It's way cheaper. I only do a few times with each blade, maybe 4-5 though you could probably get more. I get like 50 blades for $15 on Amazon.

Feather Double Edge Blades, 50 Count https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AGG3MNU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Mshsyb12YQ268

Merkur Long Handled Safety Razor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NL0T1G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ithsybSPNB9Z7

> Can you cite your sources for the electoral college facts you came up with?

Regarding electors using independent judgment, read Hamilton's Federalist No. 68. Regarding the electoral college's connection to slavery, read Professor Akhil Reed Amar's The Constitution Today, which explores the history of the Electoral College, among other things.

> You also fail to understand that if this were a popular vote election, the entire game would be changed.

We can make an informed guess. The Bush/Gore election was close enough to say Bush could've won a popular vote, but Clinton's likely lead is going to be pretty large, in the 1-1.5% range. With 126 million votes out of 218 million registered voters, that is a very large and representative sample with margins of error that are much lower than 1%. Moreover, given that the campaigns were generally focused on national issues, voting behaviors aren't likely to change that much.

> Absolutely not all absentee ballots are included in that. Especially not at this point in time.

Legally, they must all be counted. Aside from speculation and rumors, there is literally no evidence that absentee ballots are not counted at any large scale, or in a way that's favorable to any particular candidate. Your quotation is unsourced and unprovable, and assumes that absentee ballots are counted last (there's no rule on what order they're counted) and assumes the election officials are shirking their duties. Moreover, these things are done at many different counting facilities, and it's not possible for one location to know for sure that every single issue on the ballot has a larger margin of victory than the remaining absentee ballots across the relevant region (be it city, county or state elections).

> You didn't address this one at all. Strange.

I only wanted to address the inaccuracies in your post. But, yes, I would be for this change even if my candidate won the EC. I was for this change back when Bush won, and I voted for him.

> The state of California has passed legislation that will automatically register eligible voters when they obtain or renew a driver’s license. ... Napolitano explained that in California, when one signs up for a driver’s license, one does not have to prove that they are in America legally."

No. What's automatic is that the registrant's information is sent to the Secretary of State, where citizenship is then verified. It's the same as if a non-citizen had filled out the voter registration application and mailed it in. My wife is not a citizen (she's a permanent resident) but has a California driver's license, but she's not registered to vote.

With regard to illegal immigrants, they do not get the same driver's license as other California residents (whether US citizens or not). It's a provisional license, and obtaining one does not trigger the voter registration process, not least because the person doesn't provide the DMV with a social security number.

I agree. I've been reading a great deal about that period in the last year or so, both pre-1933 and post. This book, which I've read twice, shows how people didn't think Hitler would last long once he came to power.

The difference between Bevin and a head of state is that a state governor ultimately is limited in his or her power. However, when you put a fascistic narcissistic dissembler in the head of state chair, it's a very different story.

Battle Wizards may be the funnest game I've ever played

an Amazon link is all I could find sorry