#2016 elections
Bernie Sanders said he looks forward to discussing party unity with Hillary Clinton after emerging from a meeting in the Oval Office.
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This election season has been on fire since the beginning. With so many large personalities and explosive debates, it can be hard to keep up sometimes. Many hard-hitting issues have been covered since the race for the presidency started, but we still haven’t heard much on LGBT issues.
We did some digging, and here are some of the top statements some of this year’s most notable presidential hopefuls have made on LGBT issues throughout the years. You’ll find that some candidates have evolved while others…not so much.
Breitbart thinks this will make people like Hillary less.
[An excerpt from breitbart.com reading: “Hillary’s combative behavior is nothing new; she’s been that way all her life. For my 2005 book The Truth About Hillary, I interviewed Hillary’s grammar school classmate, Jim Yrigoyen, who told me the story of being ordered by Hillary to guard a warren of baby rabbits, and not give any of them away to neighborhood boys. When he did, recalled Yrigoyen, ‘Hillary hauled off and punched me in the nose.’“]
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#ThatMexicanThing makes sure Mike Pence can’t just shrug off Trump’s racism
In Tuesday’s VP debate, after Tim Kaine brought up Trump’s Mexican comments, Pence seemed openly annoyed and called it “that Mexican thing.” In response, Latinos used the hashtag to dispel stereotypes about undocumented immigrants. Even better, someone snatched up ThatMexicanThing.com and is redirecting it.
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[Top: Animated gifset from the VP debate.
Kaine: When Donald Trump says … Mexicans are rapists and criminals … he is showing you who he is.
Pence: Senator, you whipped out that Mexican thing again.]
[Below: a collection of tweets from 4th October 2016. Edited slightly for clarity.
Saeed Jones:
i’m sorry did he say “you whipped out that Mexican thing again” *puts on reading glasses* did that happen?
Teddy Goff:
Sincere gasps at @HFA HQ as Pence said “you whipped out that Mexican thing again.” Astonishing
Gabe Ortiz:
#ThatMexicanThing where my mom has worked as a housekeeper for 25 yrs because her dream is to see her family’s dreams come true. #VPDebate
Matthew Duarte:
#ThatMexicanThing is my abuelita who moved to San Antonio without speaking English & slept in a barn while picking lettuce every summer.
Juan Altamirano:
#thatmexicanthing where we work hard, play by the rules & continue to be discriminated. While [Donald Trump] cheats the system. #VPDebate
Oliver Willis:
Millions of Latino voters, showing up at the polls to reject blatant hate #ThatMexicanThing
“That Mexican Thing” [user jpbrammer]:
#ThatMexicanThing my abuela picked cotton and dropped out of the 5th grade bc she couldn’t speak English. My mom was first to go to college.
#ThatMexicanThing is where you sacrifice over and over again to give your children a better life so they’re safe from people like Mike Pence
Chris Licata:
#thatmexicanthing [is] not a “thing at all” they are my family and friends.
LarBear:
I was a little put off at the flippancy [Pence] uttered #thatmexicanthing “That Mexican thing” is racism and shouldn’t be blown off.
karen kirchen:
#ThatMexicanThing you do when [you] save to send your kids to college
derek:
#ThatMexicanThing is called voting to keep racist hatred out of the white house. #ImWithTim #ImWithHer #VPDebate
Luis Ruiz:
#ThatMexicanThing where my immigrant mom put my ass through college and law school
Tiana Trejo:
#ThatMexicanThing where my father served our country in the Navy for over 20 years
Cynthia Mendoza:
#ThatMexicanThing where Latinos stop a #MikePence 2020 presidential bid before it even begins. #pencedejo #VPDebate
Stephanie:
Dear Mike Pence, you are not in Indiana anymore. #ThatMexicanThing could cost you the election.
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The so-called “alt-right” are neo-Nazis by any other name, and that’s how the media should address them.
[Screenshots of a series of tweets by Andray D. (twitter user AndrayDomise) on 18 November 2016, as follows:
So I’ve noticed journalists are struggling with what to call the neo-Nazi/alt-right/white nationalist movement. Allow me to offer some help.
The actual factual term is “neo-Nazi.” If you trace the roots of the movement to their origin, you end up at Stormfront and other hate sites
Stormfront, White Aryan Resistance, other popular sites are the content origin of white nationalist stories & rhetoric for the past decade
The content from these sites end [sic] up disseminated via 4chan, Reddit, other content aggregators. Eventually repackaged in “alt-right” sites
When Steve Bannon took over Breitbart after the death of Andrew Breitbart himself, the site began a tilt towards white nationalism…
Now this part is important. People generally have an image of neo-Nazis as hypermasculine boors with muscles, tattoos, and bald heads.
Yiannopoulos and his merry band cut against that image. Many are soft-spoken, well-dressed, and highly educated. Which makes them dangerous.
Because they’re often charming enough to get even the leftest of left-wing publications to describe them this way:
[Screenshot of a headline from October 27th: Meet The Dapper White Nationalist Who Wins Even if Trump Loses]
They’re not stupid people. In fact, they’re very highly educated. And they call themselves the “alt-right” for a reason.
And they know people are trained to reflexively hate anything with the word “Nazi” in it. We’ve had almost a century of social conditioning.
So they use the phrase “alt-right,” which not only sounds innocuous, but sounds like counterculture to establishment Republican elitism
So when you call them “alt-right,”, you’re engaging them on terms they’ve set, and spreading the false perception of “alternative views.”]
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6. Prosecuting so called “climate deniers.”
