Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013)

Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by forgetsusername on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:01PM (#12790074)

>it seems to can expect even more of the same from the next president

This is the saddest thing about this election. Everyone is so distracted by the Trump buffoonery that a Generic Politician (tm) is going to take the reins and continue policies we've been bitter about for years. And most will see this as a "good thing" ("At least it's not Trump!")

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by llamataboot on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:23PM (#12790260)

To be fair, having a professional political class, having politics infested with large amounts of money, and having a two party system make it pretty sure odds that by the time someone gets to the level of "serious presidential contender" that they want to preserve the status-quo in most of these things.

We did get two decent outsider runs this year, and I do wish Bernie Sanders was mopping the floor with Trump, but there are limits to the amount a President can do when the entire process rewards pay-to-play, incremental change, and preserving business-as-usual.

And, to be fair, it's pretty great that it's not Trump.

But yes, it was a horribly sad election. In some ways HRC represents everything that is wrong about politics in the US, and Trump represents everything that is wrong about, well, pretty much everything.

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by jjawssd on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:51PM (#12792014)

Why are you so upset over Trump? Is it because he is mean to people he doesn't agree with? How do you hold Bernie in a higher esteem? Trump has a far better track record.

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by sremani on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:23PM (#12790264)

Trump gets blame, Hillary gets blame, Dubya gets blame but hello, what about the guy who is in charge for the past 8 years, will he be held accountable?

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by rasz_pl on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:46AM (#12795417)

At least he did deliver on his election promise to close Gitmo.

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by atom_enger on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:30PM (#12790327)

Who is in charge?

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by wu-ikkyu on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:32PM (#12791406)

Nobody. It's a runaway train. Blaming any one individual is naive and pointless.

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by kyleblarson on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:17PM (#12790803)

Of course not. Are you racist or something?

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by cloudjacker on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:27PM (#12790295)

A lot of people see it as a rare opportunity to ditch the current establishment.

A lot of people know the repercussions of mentioning anything that sounds like affinity toward Trump.

A lot of people know the inefficiencies in the Republican nomination process and the inefficiencies in the Democratic nomination process that promote the dichotomy being presented.

The point is, not everyone is distracted by that.

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Re:Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013) by CaptSpify on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:49PM (#12790534)

And that's the point. With the two party system we keep encouraging by voting against the "other team" ensures that nothing really changes.

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