wiki: He favors a strong immigration border policy and a guest worker program[168] and a flex-fuel mandate for cars sold in the U.S.[169]
Gingrich has taken a diminutive view of internationalism and the United Nations, saying in 2015, "after several years of looking at the UN, I can report to you that it is sufficiently corrupt and sufficiently inefficient. That no reasonable person would put faith in it."[170]
Twitter也是特朗普的战场。除了开宗名义直接攻击,如去年12月一句「The last thing this country needs is another Bush」(这个国家最不需要的就是另一个布什)攻击杰布布什,也曾经发动多轮Twitter攻击,针对霍士电视台记者凯利、另一共和党候选人卢比奥以至封杀他企业男装系列的百货公司Macy's等仇敌。
就像应验传播学之父Marshall Mcluhan名句「媒介就是信息」(Medium is the Message),在个人化网络世代中,媒介就是极个人化的手机荧幕。投射的自然同样极个人化的性格营造,就像认识一个人一样,更易取决于感觉。特朗普在社交媒体中不只以make noise取胜,关键在于顺应社交媒体的生态,密集地以上述的语言特色营造强烈性格。
Twitter也是特朗普的战场。除了开宗名义直接攻击,如去年12月一句「The last thing this country needs is another Bush」(这个国家最不需要的就是另一个布什)攻击杰布布什,也曾经发动多轮Twitter攻击,针对霍士电视台记者凯利、另一共和党候选人卢比奥以至封杀他企业男装系列的百货公司Macy's等仇敌。
就像应验传播学之父Marshall Mcluhan名句「媒介就是信息」(Medium is the Message),在个人化网络世代中,媒介就是极个人化的手机荧幕。投射的自然同样极个人化的性格营造,就像认识一个人一样,更易取决于感觉。特朗普在社交媒体中不只以make noise取胜,关键在于顺应社交媒体的生态,密集地以上述的语言特色营造强烈性格。
what? we need to be unemployed to have health insurance? who will pay for food, clothes,house and other bills. Obama?
Rick MacGregor on February 2, 2016
If you looked at what you have to pay (If you could afford it) and then add in the deductible, the insurance plans under the ACA are ludacris. Furthermore, with exceptions, the 18 – 28 +/- group are the healthiest ones out there and the last ones to need insurance. Regardless of your political persuasion, the Act needs a major overhaul. Like most governmental ideas with good intention, it does nothing but hurt the middleclass.
Curtis Noll on April 18, 2016
I agree completely! My son is 43. He is a diabetic and has lupus. His healthcare costs are eating him alive! ObamaCare wants another $100 per month from him to participate. In spite of his health, he works 3 days a week plus cleans houses once every two weeks. His health is failing and there is no help from Medicaid because he has no dependents. Also, $16 per month for food stamps. No help from any direction. Where is the solution from Obamacare?
ObamaCareFacts.com on April 18, 2016
The frustrating thing here is that the solution from ObamaCare is Medicaid expansion… which is currently rejected in about 20 states by the GOP leadership in that state. http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacares-medicaid-expansion/
This same reasoning can explain why the food stamp allotments and other assistance in a given state is sparse. Just general GOP ideology that assume people with low income shouldn’t get government help and that private charities will suffice. This leaves me in a position where I am left to suggest local charities, which do exist in real life.
Anyway, hope this doesn’t come off like just a dig on the practicality of Republican ideology, I have a friend with Lupus and personally find this frustrating to say the least.
Only other suggestion is to check where the eligibility levels fall, getting better assistance could be a matter of making a little more or less money (something that sounds like it could be controllable). Kevin on March 3, 2016
I am wondering the same thing. I picked a silver plan of which deductables are completely insane as it is, but Bronze is even worse. Theres no way I could EVER pay the deductable if sick anyhow so the plans worthless to me. I make 28000 per year, i have rent, bills, phone, electric, internet IS necessary nowdays, and everyone needs money to live, if we all just paid bills and never lived life/had fun, we might as well all die. I get no tax credit whatsoever, $200 per month bills make me unable to afford what we need. I cant afford to lose my “refund” either. Refund? Its MY money they used its not a refund, its giving back stolen income, really. I have no answers and it would seem theres no answer. You just live in poverty, dont pay, pay and dont eat, or lose your so called tax refund. They offer no solution! They should be paying our insurance in full. The plans offered are horrible anyhow.
Kaia on April 27, 2016
This is ludicrous! Have son in college full time. Has apt and makes $7-8000 a year. We help support him because his earnings pay for his food, gas and electricity. Since we claim him, our crappy income is included. I’m on SSD his father doesn’t make that much. When filed for Obamacare, they want $250 for coverage! Wtf! The catastrophic coverage wasn’t much lower and what good is it! It’s a disgrace! BUT—- if He huaren.used the fence from Mexico to the U.S., no problem ! They will even give me foodstamps and a place to live!!! What a JOKE Steve on October 26, 2015
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I am unemployed and disabled, but not eligible for SSDI or SSI since the government says I’m not disabled.
WHAT do I do? I’m not eligible for any aid with insurance due to my “income being too high.”
My income is $0!!
It’s all a joke to the government!
ObamaCareFacts.com on November 3, 2015
Just remember that ObamaCare tried to expand coverage to you for free and the GOP in your state blocked this. In short you and millions of others have no coverage options due to Republicans in your state.
mk on November 13, 2015 Answer Rating:
I’m so tired of the Dem’s blaming the Rep’s and the Rep’s blaming the Dem’s. You are elected by the people to work FOR us not against us, stop blaming each other and LISTEN to the people! I didn’t want this health care, I was just fine making payments out of pocket now I am forced to pay for something I don’t want and can’t afford. I was fine with my $50 a month payment for my medical bills that was affordable.
ObamaCareFacts.com on November 13, 2015
You are right, we all should be focusing on the best healthcare options for our country and not pointing fingers over political differences. The caveat of course is that each party, and in some instances each politician, has very different views on what the right next move is. Still, we need to remember to focus on what we have in common more than how your political leanings make us different. Ideally.
Michelle on December 15, 2015
The best healthcare option for our country or its people???? For the people and those in healthcare business it is a having a free market where the government is not monopolizing or invested in a business such as healthcare. The Healthcare system we have is ment to divide people . Only 2 religions are exepemt and only one or 2 other insurance companies are also exempt. One is MEDI SHARE. A christian company that pats for everything you cant . It has a few rules but it seems worth it. A family of 3 can be coverd for aprix 200. A month ,double check that. The only good thing this obamacare did was to make people more religious and seek real help elswhere So thanks.
Brooke Singleton on December 11, 2015
“Just remember that ObamaCare tried to expand coverage to you for free and the GOP in your state blocked this. In short you and millions of others have no coverage options due to Republicans in your state.”
At first I thought this comment was made by someone looking at this website. Then I realized, no, this comment was made by the official in charge of this website. I hope you realize how unprofessional your comment was. Most people would be in trouble with their boss for writing with that tone and making a comment like that. I suggest you edit it, although I’m guessing your supervisor is just fine with you making remarks of that nature.
ObamaCareFacts.com on December 11, 2015
Point taken. Counter point (from the boss / author of this privately run free to use fact site attempting to help people understand the law).
The PPACA was written to expand Medicaid coverage to all adults below the 133% poverty level (138% in practice). A libertarian / conservative backed lawsuit NFIB V. Sebblius attempting to “break” ObamaCare made it to the Supreme Court. That ruling ended with the mandate being declared a tax and let states opt-out of Medicaid expansion. Almost exclusively “red” states opted out of expanding Medicaid. The stated reason was cost, but this is really a weak argument. Likely the goal with opting out is the same as the NFIB case, to break ObamaCare and make Obama look bad. We can’t say this was the intention of all, but we can look back at videos, see the behavior of the GOP, and think of basic strategy and reasonably guess this is the case.
So when we say “ObamaCare tried to expand coverage for free (or low cost) to millions of uninsured low income Americans and that Republicans in your state are to blame for you not having coverage.” This is true. There is no elegant way to say that the GOP has sacrificed a bunch of low income Americans as pawns in an ideological war against Obama and subsidized healthcare. That was there choice, I don’t think it’s’ unfair to call it how it is. I could have framed the above as more favorable to the GOP like “they fought the socialist law to free poor people from the tyranny of state spending”, but I gotta say the version I went with sounds more true.
To clarify, we are a privately run website (the official one would of course never talk politics, only healthcare). Our aim is to help people understand the PPACA. In this case the data point to convey is that if you don’t hold Republicans accountable for rejecting Medicaid for political reasons then people in your state will continue to go without healthcare. If you don’t have healthcare because your Governor rejected expansion then this likely matters to you.
Deb on January 20, 2016
Perhaps had the Democrats not voting for this atrocity in the middle of the night without any Republicans knowing about it…it could have been different. I am also between a rock & a hard place…$0 income….husband is disabled & gets $345 a month after his $200 premiums for medicare…make too much for medicaid & can’t afford Obamacare at $426 a month…no that isn’t for a premium plan…high deductible & high out of pocket $12000…is this really reasonable??? No!!! I m 59 yrs old…my husband makes too much for me to qualify for medicaid & burger flippers want $15 an hr…ha!!!
ObamaCareFacts.com on January 20, 2016 Can’t agree more with the first statement, if the parties would work together we would have better legislation. Ryan even admits that the GOP has been the party of “NO”. Everything else aside, their stonewall tactics have been about as useless as a wet noodle for the country. Blocking liberals is not governing, it’s just stalling. I am NOT impressed. Stop the hate and pandering and give us a smart business oriented solution that provides universal coverage, give the people and the other party something to take seriously.
Leasa on February 13, 2016
The truth is nothing is free. Tax payers still have to pay taxes. And then the “government” takes hard working tax payers money and gives free or low cost insurance and anything else people that don’t work want or need. I don’t have insurance. I can’t afford to buy groceries. We only make it by the grace of God. I dare you to say the republicans didn’t want people to have free stuff. Where is the government getting the FREE money to help all the people that aren’t working. The only people that should have “free” insurance are truly physically or mentally disabled. And for the other people, the great and powerful government should have jobs available for American citizens. And since no one is really listening: let me just say: If an illegal alien has a child in the United States that child or children should also be illegal. Nothing’s free unless you don’t work. Which gives people very little incentive to work. Ridiculous.
Billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly willing to give Donald Trump as much as $100 million for his presidential campaign -- a purported record-setting amount for the wealth casino magnate.
http://gizmodo.com/senate-gop-launches-inquiry-into-facebook-s-news-curati-1775767018
他们的工作就是整天说废话,政客嘛。。。扭扭捏捏就是想谈判呗,那就谈,能占据头条也不错
哈哈,法国人太与时俱进了,比美国这帮脑子坏掉的左棍招人爱。
我老感觉是川普主导的一场戏。
要是软泡一开始就背书了,就没有drama了, 没有drama就没有那么多attention, attention 越多, 川普的momentum越强大。
想起了女生处对象前都要半推半就一下。。。
今年跟踪美国大选的收获
1. 本来是冲着希拉里来的,结果不到半个月自我反水,成了唐老床的死忠粉。但也
欣喜地确认了自己很正常,与“沉默的大多数”高度一致。
2. 一开始大家都以为是个笑话的候选人,结果一路凯歌成了不可阻挡的Nominee。
3. 一开始大家都以为是个笑话的“建墙”,结果在3月辩论中,居然成了各和党候
选人共同一致的基本国策。
4. 总算搞清楚了什么叫建制派Establishment。
5. 搞清楚了什么叫Super Delegates。
6. 搞清楚了Convention,Caucus和Primary的区别
7. 发现原来Primary还有Open和Close的差别,还有开而不开和不开而开的差别。
8. 最熟悉的数字:1237。
9. 明白了啥叫Contested Convention或Open Convention。
10. 发现了Delegates和Votes是两码事儿。Lying Ted对这个可是比谁都更明白,可
惜成也萧何、败也萧何。
11. 明白了谋局要站得高看得远,不要纠结于一时的成败。塞翁失马,焉知祸福?
有人说和党Primary的转折点是New York,但我觉得应该是Colorado。
12. 发现有人的脸皮可以厚到1:46还赖在Primary里的。
13. 发现还有人脸皮厚到没在美国出生也敢跑来竞选总统。
14. 学会了演讲用词造句要简单明了!包括起Logo、给人起外号,都要起得精准、
简洁、掷地有声。譬如Make America Great Again! Little Marco,Lying Ted,
Crooked Hillary… 适合三万人齐声高喊的那种。。。
15. 发现从2月开始,动不动就Super Tuesday。还真是一个比一个Super。特别是
New York、美东五州、Indiana的Landslide!太爽气了!还有Missouri,有惊无险!当
然看得最郁闷的是Wisconsin和Ohio。
16. 以前以为自己偏左,今年开始觉得从华人利益出发,应该往右转;但是后来也
被唐老床带得,搞不清左右了,但是头脑反而清楚了:common sense first,不容易被
政治正确洗脑了。
17. 如今不管选啥,政治不正确才是政治正确哦!
18. 不爱看微信了,反而开始刷屏英文新闻,可是也从这开始,才发现原来主流媒
体CNN,FoxNews,WashingtonPost,WSJ都没法看没法信了。各种歪曲抹黑太疯狂。以
为FaceBook靠谱点,后来发现在小札的领导下,原来也有各种网管和水军。Twitter似
乎好一点儿,最靠谱的是老百姓自己发的Youtube,不带剪接的。对了还有下面的评论
都很实在很欢乐。
19. 刚支持老床的时候还有点儿怀疑,但是主流左右各大媒体抹黑了近一年居然也
没挖出什么负面新闻来,反而挖出个活雷锋。
20. 发现自己可以更好地欣赏一些模仿秀了。最逗的是模仿唐老床和三德子辩论那
场,Immigration Chicken笑得肚子抽筋。
21. 才知道老床的生意除了那么多房子,还有Trump Steak,Trump Airline,Trump
Magazine,Trump Vodka,Trump University….
22. 总算搞清楚了荣泡、软泡、泡软的关系。。。
23. 总算搞清楚了利比亚、班加西。。。
24. 知道了女人找男人不能找手太小的。
25. 知道了推销自己要先弄清楚自己的定位。有些话,老床可以说,Little Marco
就不能说;因为同样的笑话,孙悟空讲了没事,沙僧一提就完蛋了。
26. 实在搞不清大众上厕所的问题该怎么解决了。。建议都在憋着等回家吧!
27. Bloomberg估计最郁闷,有一个同是纽约人的Billionnaire,没有任何从政经验
,成了和党Nominee,居然不是他!
28. Biden估计第二郁闷,主党的一疯一骗,弄不好最后一片哀鸣啊,好后悔没出来
救阵!
29. 开始杞人忧天:鸠占鹊巢,鹊咋办呢?再开一党还来得及吗?
30. 开始听明白“龙虾党”这个词儿了。
31. 开始发现正常人在严重偏左的社会里已经被严重逆向歧视了。
32. 发现今年反向助选的人和团体特别多。
33. 意识到结果往往和花钱多少不成正比,有时候还成反比。
34. 发现越有先见之明,越早上车的越划算。太晚了可能连汤都喝不上了。
35. 发现美国所谓的民主,往往就是2狼1羊投票午饭吃啥;或者羊的面前是屠宰场
,不过,有左右两扇门可选。
36. 发现无论在哪里,人性还是相通的,Common Sense还是基本一致的,老祖宗还
是对的:得民心者得天下!
wiki:
He favors a strong immigration border policy and a guest worker program[168] and a flex-fuel mandate for cars sold in the U.S.[169]
Gingrich has taken a diminutive view of internationalism and the United Nations, saying in 2015, "after several years of looking at the UN, I can report to you that it is sufficiently corrupt and sufficiently inefficient. That no reasonable person would put faith in it."[170]
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LOL~~~~除了第一点跟他不同,其他都差不多啊啊啊~~~太欢乐了!
这个是泡软=Paul Ryan.
软泡=Rand Paul
总结的好!
总结太精辟了,应该单独开一帖,哈哈
哈哈哈~~赞牛金贵
2012年出来选过,当时记得大家对他印象还不错
我也刚要转这个~~除了我不是冲着希拉里来的,其他都好赞同
还有荣泡是软泡的老爸Ron Paul
中文太美妙了
不过白脸炮没背书耶
Man, what a debate~~~
上次是因为牛金贵带头弹劾比尔克林顿不得人心, 结果他自己也有绯闻,所以公众对牛金贵没有容忍度. 除了绯闻外牛金贵还真是个人才.
应该快了,rnc chairman发话,说软泡很快就会背书了
从船长一路选举也能看出,船长是个deal maker,从 千军万马到一马平川,老巫婆声那么多党内大佬支持,做国务卿的时候搞得中东乱七八糟,一手扶植isis,以前搞不定黑8,现在连个名不见经传的三德子都搞不定,眼见为实,选她是找死啊。
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华裔北美川普助选团”
5月4日傍晚,美国洛杉矶罗兰岗,一家中餐馆的小包厢里,几十个华人正在这里聚会,他们都说着中文,情绪激昂,不少人都穿着同一款白色T恤,上面印着大大的英文字母——TRUMP。
“Trump”是美国大选正如日中天的共和党参选人特朗普的名字。聚集在小包厢里的华人,来自一个自发支持特朗普的华裔团体——“华裔北美川普助选团”。
当天的聚会,这是这个组织越来越多政治聚会中的一次。
“华裔北美川普助选团”的白色标志被挂在有着龙凤雕刻的背景墙正中央,每一位参与的华人胸前都别着蓝色徽章,标明他们在团里的不同职位——团长、第一副团长、冲锋大队长、一等兵、专业铁粉、普粉……
席间,他们一边相互攀谈,一边翻看手里的手机,一个人数已经到达500人的微信群里,图片、表情、中文文字在不断更新。参加聚会的人,也不时将现场的照片在群里分享。这个微信群,是“助选团”主要的在线联络平台。
5月4日聚会的正式主题,是“助选团”第三次全国义工协调会议。他们拟出了一份全面为特朗普助选的战略目标:
一、在美国各大城市迅速成立分舵,
二、尽可能参与“支持川普总统”竞选活动,
三、强烈抵制民主党候选人。
大计商定,参与者比着Trump首字母的“T”的手势,欢乐合影,
“我的目标是在两个月内,开一个全美华裔支持川普大会,邀请Trump亲自来对华人演讲!”这次聚会后,“团长”王湉对新浪国际表示。
“我不喜欢中国官方叫他特朗普,川普,比较接地气,好念,还跟我们四川人民有点关系!”
王湉原本支持的共和党总统参选人是杰布布什,但在他退选后,王湉开始在微信上发起挺特朗普的微信群。
5月3日,特朗普党内最大竞争对手克鲁兹退选,之后,“这个群人数一夜暴增,现在全美国已经有700多人。”即使这700人中,潜水用户或真实支持者的人数不明,但核心成员仍充满战斗力。”王湉说
发红包、发表情、群里每天都能有上百条中文讯息……这个微信群就跟中国国内一般的群没什么两样,但群里大多都是华裔、甚至只有绿卡的中国人,他们聚拢在这个网络空间的目的就只有一个——支持特朗普。
代表“助选团”里不同人员身份的徽章。
“特朗普这哥们真靠谱”
“北美川普助选团”制作给干部的徽章,写着充满中国味的职称:团长、冲锋大队长、一等兵、专业铁粉
王湉32岁,10岁从北京移民美国,自封为这个全美第一的“华裔挺特朗普团”发起人与团长,目前在美职业是“自由投资者”。
多数当地侨胞更熟悉王湉的笔名“天天”。这个名字活跃于过去多场与华裔相关的维权运动中。从2013年ABC电视台节目出现“杀光中国人”玩笑引起华裔大规模抗议;到常春藤大学盟校对亚裔招生录取提高录取标准和限制名额引发的抗争;一直到最近、2016年初,全美15万华裔上街头、为争取误杀非裔青年的“梁彼得警官”维权运动。
“天天”多次以各种政治活动“发起人”自称,且在游行示威时,坚持使用“政治不正确”口号(如对非裔族群有针对性、排他性口号),曾引起华裔社团内部的不满。
“FuckPolitical Correctness(去他的政治正确),”王湉说,美国是一个言论自由的国家,他不明白为什么喊口号,还要顾虑到非裔或其他种族的感受。
这一点,王湉似乎在特朗普身上找到了共鸣。特朗普曾称,“这个国家最大的问题就是政治正确。我没有时间搞政治正确“。
“有一天我花了5个小时,在YouTube上把特朗普说过的话都研究一遍。”他对新浪国际回忆,“我突然觉得,这哥儿们真靠谱,是个有血性的男人!”
“他不喜欢非法移民,我也不喜欢”
王湉特别欣赏特朗普毫不隐藏的真性情,“他不喜欢非法移民,我也不喜欢;他说他爱中国人,我也爱中国人;他不喜欢穆斯林来美国……我不能说我不喜欢穆斯林,但是我们根本还没有完善的措施,防范恐怖分子进来,所以我也支持,先别让穆斯林进来。”
通过微信群,王湉拉拢越来越多志同道合的“川粉” ,包含第一副团长、29岁、从山东移民美国7年的房产经纪刘吉米,以及从北京移民美国18年、从事金融业的余涛等。
这群来自中国的第一代移民,有的已经顺利入美籍,有的拿到绿卡,他们最认同特朗普的政策就是-——打击非法移民。
余涛把自己推特账号改成“川普的伟大长城” ( TheGreatWallofTrump ),自我介绍写着:18年前我合法的到这个自由世界,追求我的梦。我是投票给川普的亚裔,盖长城吧!
“我住过凤凰城,深深知道非法移民对美国的伤害,毒品、犯罪、占用社会福利资金。。。。。。,都是我们中产阶级去承担。”余涛说。
刘杰米也认同, “偏袒非法移民,不就是打压了合法移民吗?你给了他们本来就不该有的。”
王湉则将特朗普在墨西哥边境盖长城的提议比喻为“养狗防盗”。
“加州是非法移民的重灾区!我个人是合法移民,我花了很多时间、精力,过了很多非常苦的年月才拿到绿卡,而这些人只用走过来,就可以干活、赚钱,还生一大堆小孩,成为公民在家里拿社会福利金……我觉得很不公平。”
“就好像我们家里被人抢钱、偷钱一样,你是不是需要建一个大门呢?或养一条狗,小偷就进不来了, Make sense?”
移民美国7年的刘吉米,第一次在加州看见了特朗普,他发朋友圈标注自己在现场。
移民美国7年的刘吉米,第一次在加州看见了特朗普,他发朋友圈标注自己在现场。
“第一群站出来的华人”
4月28日,特朗普到洛杉矶举行造势活动。王湉和刘吉米兴致勃勃地赶赴现场。
王湉自掏腰包七百多美元,制作了T恤、徽章、布条。穿着“Chinese American Love Trump”字样的衣服,走在超过三万人的会场里,他感到非常骄傲。
“现场大多都是白人,我们是第一群站出来的华人,像是大熊猫一样,很稀有、被盯着看,我觉得非常骄傲。”
刘吉米也马上在朋友圈里发了现场图片,写着:“见识了美国第一大网红,总统候选人川普的脱口秀,现场人山人海,我个人喜欢他对老墨的态度。现场看到老美的疯狂,我突然觉得:一个国家政治越开放、越平民化,参与的人越多,这个国家就会越强大。”
这股参与政治的热情,让他们感觉进入美国社会的“主流”。
更让这个群体为之振奋的是,特朗普竞选团队在社交网站上制作的一部“特朗普大家庭”五分钟短片里,收录了这群“华裔北美助选团”当天参与造势的照片。这部影片在网上至今已有250万的播放次数。
“2分19秒的时候,华裔北美助选团出现在川普官方宣传片里。”王恬兴奋地在朋友圈里分享,“呼吁所有共和党支持者团结起来支持特朗普,打倒希拉里”。
当天,并非所有人都像他们一样快乐。造势会场外,抗议特朗普’歧视移民’的示威者,与他的支持者、乃至警察发生流血冲突,警车遭砸、最后20多人被捕。
王湉与成员穿着自制T恤,参与特朗普的加州造势大会,收录在特朗普官方竞选影片里。
第一代移民、华人中的少数派
数据显示,在美国华人群体,像王湉、刘吉米、余涛这样的“铁杆川粉”仍属少数。
近20年来,占美国人口约6%的亚裔选民,政治倾向不断向民主党靠拢。2012年,民主党的奥巴马竞选连任,拿到包括华裔在内73%亚裔选民的支持。
“那是因为大部分华人都是比较苦的老百姓,穷人希望挺民主党,可以拿一些社会福利”王湉这么解释,“但这不应该是华裔的美国梦,华裔应该是当企业老板,参加政治,加入美国的主流!”
王湉说,支持特朗普的群体,来自全美各地,他们有一个最大的交集——关注政治、社经地位已较稳固的第一代移民。
“九成以上是第一代移民,用中文来对话。平均收入不差,我估计中位数在五万美元以上”。这个数字远高于2014年全美年收入中位数的2.8万美元。
“我有信心说服更多华人参加(挺川普)。”余涛补充, “这个团体里基本上没有吃福利的“龙虾党”——那些拿食物券、吃福利的民主党。他们的观点就跟“黑墨穆”是一样的,来到美国,就觉得这国家好像欠他们的,欠一辈子。”
华盛顿邮报曾撰文分析:亚裔向民主党靠拢的主因,是因为共和党不断走向激进,让少数族群感到不安。美国国家统计局的一项调查还发现,亚裔美国人的平均收入远高于美国的其他族裔。
“特朗普会和中国做朋友”
自参选以来,特朗普就特别喜欢拿中国“开铡”,他以“强奸”一词形容中国对美国贸易的支配优势、他说“中国吸走了美国的钱与工作”、“中国占尽美国的便宜。”
对于中国被特朗普当靶子,“华裔北美川普助选团”成员并不认为这有什么不合适。
“他要选的是美国总统,他当然要以美国利益来说话阿。”
接受采访的团员都坚信,特朗普是个利益至上的商人,知道怎么吸眼球、打选战;但真正上台成了美国总统,“特朗普还是会跟中国当好朋友。”
“我每次回去中国,都很高兴看到祖国的发展;但是我好不容易到了美国,我的两个孩子也在这里出生长大,我也希望美国越来越强。”余涛说,现今的美国,已经不是她18年前移民过来时的美国——经济实力衰退、外交影响力下降、非法移民问题严重。
她一听到特朗普的演讲,觉得终于有人说出了“美国老百姓的心里话”。
“去年开始,我决定用社交媒体去影响我身边的朋友”,
余涛说,在美国圈子里,她在推特自称“一个爱川普的中国女人”,现在已经有三千多个粉丝;在华裔的圈子里,她跟着“华裔北美川普助选团”热烈讨论,并开始在自己的小区、教会群、朋友圈里为特朗普拉支持,“我斗胆发了支持川普的帖子,有人跟我斗,我就开始跟他讨论,我就说服他们,为什么中国人要挺川普、要投共和党。”
余涛说,过去华裔对政治过于冷漠,只顾着赚钱,现在他们意识到在美国社会, “你不管赚多少钱,最后还是得听人家的,不参政、最后还是得任人宰割。”
“我作为一个中国人,一个美国中产阶级,这最符合我们的利益。”余涛说。
华裔北美川普助选团微信群的群规。
中国社交工具融入美国政治
值得一提的是,微信这个源自中国公司的社交媒体工具,近几年在美国一次次的华裔政治运动中日益发挥重要的组织作用,对“华裔北美川普助选团”也是如此。
在这些微信群里,中国文化和美国政治奇妙地被拼接、融合。
5月5日晚上,“华裔北美川普助选团”微信群出现了一条《紧急抗议通知》,“今天下午,希拉里在洛杉矶找一些华人和她照相,一人2700美元”“大家快一起来抗议。”
在有500位成员的群里,讨论热烈展开。文字、贴图,快速地刷屏。
其中还穿插了几次突兀的广告“湾区别墅合租,想来美国生小孩的欢迎索取信息微信”
“群主,踢出去。”
“踢”
“又来广告(怒)。”
“本群只谈川普的事儿,其他事儿一律不可以讨论,违反一次,踢!”
一阵混乱,出现了一个讯息——“没有特朗普,就没有新美国。西方黑、月亮升,美国出了个特朗普”
“说得好!”
“转!”
“说得好!”
微信红包、贴图,再次此起彼落。
“千万千万不要小看wechat,这是华人世界里面最有效组织民众的工具。”王湉对新浪说,通过微信,共和党“挺特朗普”的华裔就要归队了。
新浪国际 唐家婕 自华盛顿
稀癞痢又开空头支票,许诺这个那个,给选民灌迷魂汤。看新闻下的留言欣喜地发现明白人还是有很多。
美国新闻媒体Politico以特朗普的Twitter户口建立语言资料库(Corpus),从统计及语言学研究方法,观察他自2009年起至今约15000条贴文,初步得出以下几点观察:
社交媒体宠儿
特朗普的Twitter支持者是全部共和党候选人之冠,高达676万人,自去年6月正式宣传参选后,短短两个月间他的Twitter便超越了希拉里的560万人。除了他们二人外,其余候选人的Twitter追踪者人数均只有100万左右。此外,宣传参选后,他的贴文转发及赞好的数量都直线飊升,使他的言论转发更广为散播。
Twitter也是特朗普的战场。除了开宗名义直接攻击,如去年12月一句「The last thing this country needs is another Bush」(这个国家最不需要的就是另一个布什)攻击杰布布什,也曾经发动多轮Twitter攻击,针对霍士电视台记者凯利、另一共和党候选人卢比奥以至封杀他企业男装系列的百货公司Macy's等仇敌。
攻击手法︰加形容词
特朗普其中一个最大特色,就是喜欢在特定名词,特别是人名前加上形容词。进入竞选阶段后,这个习惯继续滋长,差不多每一位候选人都有一两个专用形容词。
他还会为个别对手配上特定的形容词,例如「light-weight」似乎专为卢比奥而设,如此组合出现47次,而Nasty则似乎专门配搭民主党候选人希拉里。他为自己名字配的形容词,就是「Great」,出现32次。
我、我、我、我、我
过往选举宣传用语概念中,候选人倾向避免用代名词「我」,而用「我们」以显示团结及领袖风范。特朗普却反其道而行,他最常用的代名词就是「我」,亦是最常使用第三身代名词「他/她」的候选人。
他最常用的词彙中,第一名为Winner,其馀是Loser、Failed、Nasty、Stupid、Worst、Bad,另外两位候选人Christie、Bush,以及自己的真人秀节目Apprentice(排名不分先后)。从中可见,他的10大常用字当中,有6个是负面字眼。
虽然特朗普完全违反以往候选人惯用的竞选策略,但社交媒体战线上,特朗普似乎是真正驾驭社交媒体的候选人,重点就在于营造鲜明深刻的个性。
情绪主导的零碎世界
全天候发布、真实感、即时性、匿名制等,都是讨论社交媒体对政治影响的常见说法,但都只是表面的特性。其潜在影响,就是信息零碎(fragmentation)及抽离语境(decontextualization)。
就像应验传播学之父Marshall Mcluhan名句「媒介就是信息」(Medium is the Message),在个人化网络世代中,媒介就是极个人化的手机荧幕。投射的自然同样极个人化的性格营造,就像认识一个人一样,更易取决于感觉。特朗普在社交媒体中不只以make noise取胜,关键在于顺应社交媒体的生态,密集地以上述的语言特色营造强烈性格。
片言只语难成完整论述
以Twitter作例,话语压缩140个字元的空间,沟通主要透过密集的零碎语句和片段,读者难以将之连贯整合。最终能够停留在记忆的,通常只有牵动到情绪的片段,如口号、即时反应与评价等。
这些情绪化的片段与其语境关连不高,读者难以在一个连贯的语境中,将片段整合成完整合理的论述。例如我们会记得特朗普以夸张的形容去反对新移民,但难以整合出他如何阐述移民政策。
虽然其馀所有候选人都无可避免地投身社交媒体的洪流,祖父级的桑德斯却因为同样表现出强烈的个性,而在社交媒体战线上赢得回响。相反,已熟知大众媒体玩法,以建立连贯正面的公众形象先行的杰布布什与希拉里却未能突围。
这你还真错了,他是很早就出面支持老唐的。老唐去加州演讲的时候,他跟其他支持者一起穿着统一的衣服露面。
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地面攻势还是非常重要的呀
没错,我的意思是那次活动人家有出面支持,但是表态并不是2礼拜前才开始的。
LINK: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
点击州名, 就可以看到州内每个COUNTY的选举情况了。
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是有这个团体的,我微信群里有个朋友加入了,这个朋友也是上次梁警官游行事件出力组织者之一,我看他发的图片里面聚会的人有:北美崔哥,白灵,让我大吃一惊,第一次对白灵的印象好了一点。
应该是需要软泡发动house弹劾吧,但是软泡不给力啊
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Laura smith on April 1, 2016
what? we need to be unemployed to have health insurance? who will pay for food, clothes,house and other bills. Obama?
Rick MacGregor on February 2, 2016
If you looked at what you have to pay (If you could afford it) and then add in the deductible, the insurance plans under the ACA are ludacris. Furthermore, with exceptions, the 18 – 28 +/- group are the healthiest ones out there and the last ones to need insurance. Regardless of your political persuasion, the Act needs a major overhaul. Like most governmental ideas with good intention, it does nothing but hurt the middleclass.
Curtis Noll on April 18, 2016
I agree completely!
My son is 43. He is a diabetic and has lupus. His healthcare costs are eating him alive! ObamaCare wants another $100 per month from him to participate. In spite of his health, he works 3 days a week plus cleans houses once every two weeks. His health is failing and there is no help from Medicaid because he has no dependents. Also, $16 per month for food stamps. No help from any direction. Where is the solution from Obamacare?
ObamaCareFacts.com on April 18, 2016
The frustrating thing here is that the solution from ObamaCare is Medicaid expansion… which is currently rejected in about 20 states by the GOP leadership in that state. http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacares-medicaid-expansion/
This same reasoning can explain why the food stamp allotments and other assistance in a given state is sparse. Just general GOP ideology that assume people with low income shouldn’t get government help and that private charities will suffice. This leaves me in a position where I am left to suggest local charities, which do exist in real life.
Anyway, hope this doesn’t come off like just a dig on the practicality of Republican ideology, I have a friend with Lupus and personally find this frustrating to say the least.
Only other suggestion is to check where the eligibility levels fall, getting better assistance could be a matter of making a little more or less money (something that sounds like it could be controllable).
Kevin on March 3, 2016
I am wondering the same thing. I picked a silver plan of which deductables are completely insane as it is, but Bronze is even worse. Theres no way I could EVER pay the deductable if sick anyhow so the plans worthless to me. I make 28000 per year, i have rent, bills, phone, electric, internet IS necessary nowdays, and everyone needs money to live, if we all just paid bills and never lived life/had fun, we might as well all die. I get no tax credit whatsoever, $200 per month bills make me unable to afford what we need. I cant afford to lose my “refund” either. Refund? Its MY money they used its not a refund, its giving back stolen income, really. I have no answers and it would seem theres no answer. You just live in poverty, dont pay, pay and dont eat, or lose your so called tax refund. They offer no solution! They should be paying our insurance in full. The plans offered are horrible anyhow.
Kaia on April 27, 2016
This is ludicrous! Have son in college full time. Has apt and makes $7-8000 a year. We help support him because his earnings pay for his food, gas and electricity. Since we claim him, our crappy income is included. I’m on SSD his father doesn’t make that much. When filed for Obamacare, they want $250 for coverage! Wtf! The catastrophic coverage wasn’t much lower and what good is it! It’s a disgrace! BUT—- if He huaren.used the fence from Mexico to the U.S., no problem ! They will even give me foodstamps and a place to live!!! What a JOKE
Steve on October 26, 2015
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I am unemployed and disabled, but not eligible for SSDI or SSI since the government says I’m not disabled.
WHAT do I do? I’m not eligible for any aid with insurance due to my “income being too high.”
My income is $0!!
It’s all a joke to the government!
ObamaCareFacts.com on November 3, 2015
Just remember that ObamaCare tried to expand coverage to you for free and the GOP in your state blocked this. In short you and millions of others have no coverage options due to Republicans in your state.
mk on November 13, 2015
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I’m so tired of the Dem’s blaming the Rep’s and the Rep’s blaming the Dem’s. You are elected by the people to work FOR us not against us, stop blaming each other and LISTEN to the people! I didn’t want this health care, I was just fine making payments out of pocket now I am forced to pay for something I don’t want and can’t afford. I was fine with my $50 a month payment for my medical bills that was affordable.
ObamaCareFacts.com on November 13, 2015
You are right, we all should be focusing on the best healthcare options for our country and not pointing fingers over political differences. The caveat of course is that each party, and in some instances each politician, has very different views on what the right next move is. Still, we need to remember to focus on what we have in common more than how your political leanings make us different. Ideally.
Michelle on December 15, 2015
The best healthcare option for our country or its people???? For the people and those in healthcare business it is a having a free market where the government is not monopolizing or invested in a business such as healthcare. The Healthcare system we have is ment to divide people . Only 2 religions are exepemt and only one or 2 other insurance companies are also exempt. One is MEDI SHARE. A christian company that pats for everything you cant . It has a few rules but it seems worth it. A family of 3 can be coverd for aprix 200. A month ,double check that. The only good thing this obamacare did was to make people more religious and seek real help elswhere So thanks.
Brooke Singleton on December 11, 2015
“Just remember that ObamaCare tried to expand coverage to you for free and the GOP in your state blocked this. In short you and millions of others have no coverage options due to Republicans in your state.”
At first I thought this comment was made by someone looking at this website. Then I realized, no, this comment was made by the official in charge of this website. I hope you realize how unprofessional your comment was. Most people would be in trouble with their boss for writing with that tone and making a comment like that. I suggest you edit it, although I’m guessing your supervisor is just fine with you making remarks of that nature.
ObamaCareFacts.com on December 11, 2015
Point taken. Counter point (from the boss / author of this privately run free to use fact site attempting to help people understand the law).
The PPACA was written to expand Medicaid coverage to all adults below the 133% poverty level (138% in practice). A libertarian / conservative backed lawsuit NFIB V. Sebblius attempting to “break” ObamaCare made it to the Supreme Court. That ruling ended with the mandate being declared a tax and let states opt-out of Medicaid expansion. Almost exclusively “red” states opted out of expanding Medicaid. The stated reason was cost, but this is really a weak argument. Likely the goal with opting out is the same as the NFIB case, to break ObamaCare and make Obama look bad. We can’t say this was the intention of all, but we can look back at videos, see the behavior of the GOP, and think of basic strategy and reasonably guess this is the case.
So when we say “ObamaCare tried to expand coverage for free (or low cost) to millions of uninsured low income Americans and that Republicans in your state are to blame for you not having coverage.” This is true. There is no elegant way to say that the GOP has sacrificed a bunch of low income Americans as pawns in an ideological war against Obama and subsidized healthcare. That was there choice, I don’t think it’s’ unfair to call it how it is. I could have framed the above as more favorable to the GOP like “they fought the socialist law to free poor people from the tyranny of state spending”, but I gotta say the version I went with sounds more true.
To clarify, we are a privately run website (the official one would of course never talk politics, only healthcare). Our aim is to help people understand the PPACA. In this case the data point to convey is that if you don’t hold Republicans accountable for rejecting Medicaid for political reasons then people in your state will continue to go without healthcare. If you don’t have healthcare because your Governor rejected expansion then this likely matters to you.
Deb on January 20, 2016
Perhaps had the Democrats not voting for this atrocity in the middle of the night without any Republicans knowing about it…it could have been different. I am also between a rock & a hard place…$0 income….husband is disabled & gets $345 a month after his $200 premiums for medicare…make too much for medicaid & can’t afford Obamacare at $426 a month…no that isn’t for a premium plan…high deductible & high out of pocket $12000…is this really reasonable??? No!!! I m 59 yrs old…my husband makes too much for me to qualify for medicaid & burger flippers want $15 an hr…ha!!!
ObamaCareFacts.com on January 20, 2016
Can’t agree more with the first statement, if the parties would work together we would have better legislation. Ryan even admits that the GOP has been the party of “NO”. Everything else aside, their stonewall tactics have been about as useless as a wet noodle for the country. Blocking liberals is not governing, it’s just stalling. I am NOT impressed. Stop the hate and pandering and give us a smart business oriented solution that provides universal coverage, give the people and the other party something to take seriously.
Leasa on February 13, 2016
The truth is nothing is free. Tax payers still have to pay taxes. And then the “government” takes hard working tax payers money and gives free or low cost insurance and anything else people that don’t work want or need. I don’t have insurance. I can’t afford to buy groceries. We only make it by the grace of God. I dare you to say the republicans didn’t want people to have free stuff. Where is the government getting the FREE money to help all the people that aren’t working. The only people that should have “free” insurance are truly physically or mentally disabled. And for the other people, the great and powerful government should have jobs available for American citizens. And since no one is really listening: let me just say: If an illegal alien has a child in the United States that child or children should also be illegal. Nothing’s free unless you don’t work. Which gives people very little incentive to work. Ridiculous.
更多的在 http://obamacarefacts.com/questions/still-cant-afford-coverage/
50多的人了还有那样的身材和皮肤,其实也挺励志姐的哈哈
Bloomberg似乎跟GOP establishment搭上了,在今天的WSJ上发了一篇和Koch Industries CEO联合署名的文章,讲校园里的言论自由。
After a couple years of debate, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives will officially hold impeachment hearings!
Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-news-u-s-house-will-vote-impeachment/#ixzz48auxq6wc
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真是的,当初克林顿一个绯闻就搞得差点下台,黑8简直是一手遮天,居然house不弹劾,真不知道养着house这帮人干嘛吃的。
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/gop-megadonor-adelson-pledges-support-to-trump.html
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/05/13/donald-trump-jeb-hensarling-pete-sessions-house-paul-ryan/84341542/
你真是急脾气,人家很纠结,很痛苦,最不希望的事情这么快就发生了,人家心理没有准备,给人家点时间嘛
对税的事说的很清楚,减税,但因为只是他的方案,通过议会时要修改,所以富人的税可能会比他建议的多点,但还是减点,主要是中产减,结果被媒体给说成增税;
最低工资他觉得七块五太低了,但各地消费水平不一样,要因地制宜,不搞全国一刀切,具体由洲政府决定;
医疗,社安开支这些福利不按现政策搞,但也不會取消,要优化系统减少浪费的成本大法官铁定提名保守派;
川普的铁票中大量的篮领中产,他在很多问题上必须要考虑他们的利益,所以他和建制派渐进磨合而不是急速拥抱,是必然的也是有利的,总的来说,川普是个精明实用的商人,目标明确,思路清晰,讲话比政客听起来有內容
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/nebraska-gop-convention-resolution-introduced-reprimand-nevertrump-sen-sasse/
哇,NE好样的!
Donald Trump fires back over "lame hit piece" on women
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-fires-back-at-failing-ny-times-for-lame-hit-piece-on-women/
Across the country, state party leaders are pushing activists to get in line.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-never-republicans-223185
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/15/rncs-priebus-argues-voters-don-t-care-about-trumps-past-want-earthquake.html