Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Anybody can emerge into a position of leadership. The next election shows even nutz and liars have a shot. No more guilt for me.
HE served his purpose. And his 8 year presence in the White House expiated, once and for all, and lingering guilt or doubt I moght have otherwise carried due to some incoherent effulvia over privildge.
Anybody can emerge into a position of leadership. The next election shows even nutz and liars have a shot. No more guilt for me.
December 21, 2016 at 8:05 PM
put down that drink and go sleep it off
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/opinion/was-barack-obama-bad-for-democrats.html
Quotes:
"His legacy regrettably includes the more than 1,000 Democrats who lost their elections during his two terms. Republicans now have total control in half of America’s states."
"the president believed the country’s main challenges were unrealized opportunity for a newly ascendant, multicultural America, rather than the continuing economic struggle experienced by a majority of Americans."
"On the eve of the 2016 election, the president used the refrain: “We’ve seen America turn recession into recovery” and 15.5 million new jobs. Pointedly, he said, “Incomes are rising. Poverty is falling.”
The public’s reaction was stark from the beginning. "
Look at this one story. The Republicans have total control in half the states doesn't sound so bad for the Democrats. Maybe the Dems have the other half? Nope. The whole story is Republicans have total or partial control in all but six states. The Dems have only 6 states left. Not only that, but you have to look hard to find blue districts outside these last 6 Democrat states. The whole story paints a much clearer picture, doesn't it?
A second example from this same article. The NYT claims that incomes are rising under Obama. What the NYT didn't say is incomes rose much more dramatically during the Bush Administration. Every single year during the Bush era, the average family took home more income after taxes than the year before. Incomes actually DROPPED during much of Obama's tenure. "Dropped" isn't a full description, "crashed" is more like the truth. Incomes have only recently risen, but they're only rising from the Obama low and much of this income recovery took place after America voted to toss the Democrats out of Congress.
Want the latest proof of incompetent judgment combined with an outsized ego? Check out today's CNN article, http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/politics/axe-files-president-obama/index.html
The title is: "Obama's exit interview: I could've won again". The opening sentence say it all: "Arguing that Americans still subscribe to his vision of progressive change, President Barack Obama asserted in an interview recently he could have succeeded in this year's election if he was eligible to run." This is just delusional.
And, in a fine example of "impartiality" of the mainstream media, the interviewer is none other than David Axelrod.
December 24, 2016 - Gallup
President Obama Job Approval
Approve 56, Disapprove 41
December 23, 2016 - Rasmussen Reports
President Obama Job Approval
Approve 56, Disapprove 43
December 21, 2016 -Reuters/Ipsos
President Obama Job Approval
Approve 56, Disapprove 41
December 15, 2016 - FOX News
President Obama Job Approval
Approve 53, Disapprove 41
Never thought I would feel sorry for Hillary, but what he is doing to her now, blaming her for losing the election, is just repugnant. Her and all those Democratic candidates for US Congress. And all those Democrats who lost in countless state elections. He's just a brilliant general put in charge of this horrible army, right? What a delusional egomaniac.
President Obama Job Approval
Approve 56, Disapprove 41
56% are afraid of being called "racists". You might wonder how these same people would answer if they could vote anonymously. Would they still be primarily concerned with giving a politically correct answer, or would they actually vote their pocketbook? Oh wait, we already know that answer since November 8.
Hope you enjoy getting massively screwed under president Trump(POTUS-of-the-bad-combover).
December 27, 2016 at 4:15 PM
We will!! You won't, left coast lib-boy. Your turn to feel screwed over. (Boy-of the-bad-tats-and-piercings).
Meanwhile, there are some thoughtful observations in this thread. When polled, Americans say they approve of Obama, yet when they vote they elect people who will erase his legacy. What's going on here? The answer of 10:54 pm is that when people publicly express disapproval of Obama's policies they are immediately attacted as racists. So when they are polled by phone they feel intimidated to state their reservations. That's also why Hillary was "polling" ahead of Donald by double digits. Remember that? Bottom line is election results are definitely Solid Facts, much more so that polls. Ignore at your own risk.
Another good point made here is that there is an important difference between looking thoughtful and having good judgment. For a community organizer or a motivational speaker, appearances and manners are the most important characteristics, but for a US president it is judgment and competence that fundamentally matter. When Obama instructed the Justice Department to go after police departments across the country, the police pulled back, lest they be accused of "bigotry" and "racism". As a result, gang violence exploded and thousands of blacks were killed. In Chicago alone, there have been nearly 800 homicides this year, with victims overwhelmingly black and poor. When Obama pronounced ISIS a "JV team" and derived Romney for identifying Russia as America's number one political foe, he let the events in Syria and across the Middle East spiral out of control. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered, while millions were displaced. People die when a US president fails to understand what's going on.
Time will tell what kind of judgment Trump will have as president, but for Obama we already have 8 years of data and the results are conclusively dismal. Back to community organizing, before even more harm is done.
This is the Obama legacy that will be written down and studied by the next three generations of history/political science students.
Even Obama's step brother from Kenya (a naturalized US citizen) voted for Trump ! He wasn't fooled ! Sad.
If you see any combination of the following key words: "white privilege", "white male bigotry", "racists", "fascists", "xenophobes", "prejudice", "disenfranchised communities", and on and on, save your breath. It's going to be impossible to reason with these people. They have been completely lobotomized during their college years by their liberal professors, leading to the complete loss of their ability to critically analyze their own ideas. All answers will be regurgitated slogans.
December 28, 2016 at 7:49 PM
You are so pathetic, are you saying one should not go to college? That is crazy, as education is the key to safe, fair, and just future for all, not just cis white, straight, Christian males. The election result is the last grasp to hold on to power and enjoy the ability to subjugate marginalized groups. We cannot allow this to be normalized, this is not normal. Having fascists in the white house is not normal, does anyone realize this? This is not about "slogans" this is a matter of life and death, just being in America is now triggering. We where making so much progress, American never was great but we where getting better and now we threw it all away, all of it. I and many others keep asking ourselves how it went so wrong, we already knew about the underbelly of white male American hatred but somehow we thought there would be a shred of dignity even to these people, but we got it wrong. We have learned from our mistakes, we will not underestimate just how vile and inhuman these haters are. We knew they were bad but we just could not admit how just how bad and now in a single election they have completely destroyed 200 years of progress, 200 years of rights, 200 years of hope. God (or higher inclusive spiritual being) help us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Poe's law is an Internet adage that states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.
1.) Russia/Putin hacked the election causing Hillary's loss (really ?)
2.) Clinton's personal State Dept server with Classified on it was never hacked (really ?) so she shouldn't go to jail. FBI Director James Comey said so.
3.) Podesta is a Satanist. He enjoys "spirit cooking". Maybe true on this one.
4.) Don't eat the pizza in Washington DC (look for the Pedophilia symbols first).
5.) Obama could have won a third term (not likely, even his half-brother voted for Trump).
6.) Jill Stein's recount will overturn the election (actually Trump gained votes)
7.) Huma's ex-Anthony Weiner lost the election for Hillary (really ?)
8.) Illegals did not submit absentee or ballots by mail votes for Hillary in CA, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.
By the way, we have not had a competent Commander-in-chief in 16 years. Look what happened to the world as a result. Trump may likewise prove not up to the task, but the bar has been set really low.
55% of college undergraduate students are women. There is no white male privilege regarding college attendance.
7:53 PM, you're on the wrong side of the facts. You're just exposing yourself as another ignorant liberal.
9) Democrats will convince Electors to switch to Hilliar (more switched away from Hilliar than switched away from Trump).
10) Brian Williams of NBC was on a helicopter that got shot down in Iraq (too bad there was film proving otherwise).
11) Obama created 15.5 million jobs (Obama LOST 3 million jobs when he had a Dem Congress, every single job created happened AFTER the Republicans took back the house).