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    Thread: Brexit Results
Post: RE: Brexit Results

Well, Neil doesn't think it was unexpected, so maybe I'm just not thinking this through clearly right now. https://twitter.com/HoweGeneration/statu...6441612288
Bronco80 Beyond America 57 37,712 06-24-2016, 10:52 AM
    Thread: The Case for Vice President Al Franken
Post: RE: The Case for Vice President Al Franken

I would prefer Franken to Warren, as Minnesota has a Democratic governor, but I still really hope she doesn't pick a senator at all.  Keep the Senate as strong as you can so you can actually get good ...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 3 2,653 06-24-2016, 08:52 AM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

I'm happy that Kennedy came around and saw the writing in the wall on Fisher.  Good on him.  Now I hope he does the same in Whole Women's Health.  I was pessimistic that it was going to end in a 4-4 t...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-24-2016, 08:48 AM
    Thread: Brexit Results
Post: RE: Brexit Results

Wow.  The 4T marches on... OK, fellow S&H readers, what do we make of the generational breakdown here, if anything? [Image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clt480nWYAQvvhx.jpg]
Bronco80 Beyond America 57 37,712 06-24-2016, 08:45 AM
    Thread: Debate about Gun Control
Post: RE: Debate about Gun Control

(06-18-2016, 05:24 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: (06-17-2016, 01:12 PM)Mikebert Wrote: It seems to me that the Supreme Court made abundantly clear that they have NOT yet ruled on whether a ban on more ...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 572 354,433 06-20-2016, 04:11 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

Meanwhile, the main reason why I came to this thread was to point out this terrible Fourth Amendment decision, yet praise Sotomayor for bluntly calling out this terrible opinion. http://www.supremeco...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-20-2016, 04:07 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

(06-20-2016, 05:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I have never thought highly of Clarence Thomas as a jurist. He seems too much like a flunky of the Executive branch when a Republican is President and too cons...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-20-2016, 04:05 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

(06-20-2016, 02:02 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Good news: from newsmax: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is reportedly considering retirement from the nation's high court after this year's presid...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-20-2016, 04:01 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

(06-10-2016, 12:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: (06-08-2016, 08:34 AM)Bronco80 Wrote: Dear Kelly Ayotte, Susan Collins, Mark Kirk, and Lindsey Graham: It's good that you're blasting Trump for his hor...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-10-2016, 06:03 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

(06-10-2016, 11:34 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: (05-14-2016, 04:56 PM)Bronco80 Wrote: I'm staking out territory on this thread since this tends to be up my wheelhouse, and we're likely to get a bunch of opi...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-10-2016, 06:01 PM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

DC v. Heller is looking more to me as a vanity project from the right wing of the Court.  They were so intent on making a landmark decision with the Second Amendment, but they haven't bothered with ex...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-10-2016, 08:22 AM
    Thread: U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms
Post: RE: What was old is new again

(06-01-2016, 10:03 PM)taramarie Wrote: In other words what i have been saying...unisex toilets. We use them already. Exactly.  We had unisex toilets in college and no one gave a shit.  Well, figura...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 39 27,899 06-09-2016, 10:07 PM
    Thread: Presidential election, 2016
Post: RE: Presidential election, 2016

(06-09-2016, 06:36 PM)playwrite Wrote: OMG, is any one else watching Elizabeth Warren tearing the GOP and the Orange Yam a new place to poop out of! My God, Clinton's got to pick this awesome woman...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 1,224 673,478 06-09-2016, 10:04 PM
    Thread: Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!
Post: RE: Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while ...

(06-09-2016, 07:09 PM)Odin Wrote: 'You were born in a Taco Bell': Trump's rhetoric fuels school bullies across US :@ As usual, Simpsons Did It. [Image: http://i.imgur.com/A3WXlrl.jpg]
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 3,008 1,588,474 06-09-2016, 10:00 PM
    Thread: Presidential election, 2016
Post: RE: Presidential election, 2016

I'm optimistic about the Blue Wall concept, but only cautiously so.  10-15 years ago I never would have thought of Virginia as a swing state.  Sometimes a weird shift or two happens that we don't fore...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 1,224 673,478 06-09-2016, 12:30 PM
    Thread: Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!
Post: RE: Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while ...

Team Taramarie, et al on the fascism discussion upthread.  The more obvious comparison is the array of nativist parties worldwide, like the UKIP, Front National, AfD, etc.  About the only truly fascis...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 3,008 1,588,474 06-09-2016, 12:26 PM
    Thread: Approval, incumbent US Senators up for election in 2016
Post: RE: Approval, incumbent US Senators up for electio...

(06-05-2016, 07:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It seems that the two octogenarian Republican Senators running for re-election (McCain, Arizona; Grassley, Iowa) are losing their once-sure holds on Senate sea...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 5 5,167 06-08-2016, 08:52 AM
    Thread: Debate about the Vietnam War
Post: RE: Debate about the Vietnam War

To keep the way I see it brief, both sides were terrible, thus the US should not have taken a side.
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 59 41,215 06-08-2016, 08:48 AM
    Thread: The Supreme Court
Post: RE: The Supreme Court

Dear Kelly Ayotte, Susan Collins, Mark Kirk, and Lindsey Graham: It's good that you're blasting Trump for his horrendous comments about Gonzalo Curiel regarding the Trump University case.  But your c...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 23 15,679 06-08-2016, 08:34 AM
    Thread: Request for feedback
Post: RE: Request for feedback

Just want to say that I'm very glad we gave Neil Howe his own forum.  That'll be much better than trying to cram each one of his articles in just one thread as I tried to do both here and on the old b...
Bronco80 Forum feedback 62 61,553 06-08-2016, 08:06 AM
    Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries

So I was out of town when Muhammad Ali died, and I was catching up on other things before I could comment on this sad news here.  I'll briefly add that it's tough to find a cusper Artist/Prophet that ...
Bronco80 Special Topics/G-T Lounge 1,794 1,283,098 06-08-2016, 08:03 AM
    Thread: Party realignment ending or just starting?
Post: RE: Party realignment ending or just starting?

(05-26-2016, 12:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: With the likely exception of the first one, realigning elections have always come in each 2T and 4T, and usually somewhere near the beginning. If we agree...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 44 34,143 05-26-2016, 06:18 PM
    Thread: The ideology of Silicon Valley
Post: RE: The ideology of Silicon Valley

(05-26-2016, 05:21 PM)Dan Wrote: Here's an interesting interview about the i ideology of people in Silicon Valley.  It's from AEI, a conservative think thank but still interesting. http://www.aei.o...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 9 6,609 05-26-2016, 06:15 PM
    Thread: Gender pay gap
Post: RE: Gender pay gap

(05-26-2016, 07:03 AM)Odin Wrote: I know plenty of women who are A-OK with having to sign up for the draft. In fact the only women I know who are explicitly against it are militant (heh) pacifists a...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 32 24,051 05-26-2016, 06:13 PM
    Thread: Gender pay gap
Post: RE: Gender pay gap

(05-26-2016, 06:17 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Quote:--I'd love to junk the monstrosity of the current health care system in favor of a "Medicare at age 0", or single payer.  But politics is difficult, and i...
Bronco80 General Political Discussion 32 24,051 05-26-2016, 06:11 PM