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gnarlyhotep posted:God 4 president 2016 They count those votes as Republican.
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Venom Snake posted:Holy poo poo my sides have entered outer space ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 10:47 |
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Who would Carson staff his cabinet with?
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 11:16 |
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I will bet even money we'll get at least one white supremacist.OniPanda posted:Still no Pokémon quotes, still not a replacement for the Cain Train. Cain owned his crazy. He embraced it. Motherfucker was the mayor of Crazytown, and he kept all the taxes to the default settings. Carson is aware that the insanely stupid poo poo he says to the |Tea Party to make them give him money don't help in the general, so he's trying to not be crazy. Instead he'll try boring.
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Chantilly Say posted:Who would Carson staff his cabinet with? Old white guys duh. And Paul Ryan. He seems to be on the same level as Ryan, making up whatsoever comes into his head and claiming it will work.
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How is Carson even getting support as a candidate? Is the GOP strategy to always lose the presidential elections so they can always blame the democrats while maintaining status quo in perpetuity in face of a dwindling support of their actual views?
Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Rincewinds posted:How is Carson even getting support as a candidate? Is the GOP strategy to always lose the presidential elections so they can always blame the democrats while maintaining status quo in perpetuity in face of a dwindling support of their actual views? Because they're not racist if they have a black candidate, you see.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:58 |
quote:Asked whether being gay is a choice, Carson responded: "Absolutely…because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question." This guy has got the pedal to the metal.
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mdemone posted:This guy has got the pedal to the metal. Support our veterans. Medical treatment for all gay service men!
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:22 |
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Looping back to the "how will they go after Hillary" question, there's an interesting article on The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/among-the-hillary-haters/384976/) that goes into how various scandals/attacks have affected Hillary's popularity over the years before turning to examine the attack strategy from the right (it's actually kind of crazy). It's a long read, but it's also a good sign of how hosed up politics are.
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Venom Snake posted:Oh my god my I can't breathe send help Jesus, how is this not the first attack ad against him? "Ben Carson cheers dead soldiers as 'a gift from God'"
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:47 |
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Ben Carson doesn't look very alert.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:55 |
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Rincewinds posted:How is Carson even getting support as a candidate? Is the GOP strategy to always lose the presidential elections so they can always blame the democrats while maintaining status quo in perpetuity in face of a dwindling support of their actual views? Ben Carson isn't getting support from the establishment GOP who have "strategy", his candidacy is entirely grassroots driven - people who like him and his message, but aren't very concerned (at this stage of the process, at least) with electability or governance. The GOP grassroots doesn't place a very high premium on choosing the electable candidate: Romney only barely broke 50% of the popular vote in the 2012 primary, despite his opponents being Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul, and despite being the only candidate left in the race for big popular vote states like Texas and California.
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OniPanda posted:Still no Pokémon quotes, still not a replacement for the Cain Train. I desperately need this as my avatar, but I'm so certain that someone already has it because it is so awesome. Also, Ben Carson forever. I would vote for him just to keep the crazytrain going as far as it can.
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Alter Ego posted:Jesus, how is this not the first attack ad against him? "Ben Carson cheers dead soldiers as 'a gift from God'" Oh, no, it's much worse than that. "Ben Carson said [thing vaguely related to Obama] is good!"
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 15:12 |
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Wheeee posted:2016 Presidential General: Wherein the dynastic warmongering corporate whore is the lesser evil Call me old-fashioned, but it may be in poor taste to use the word "whore" for Hillary Clinton. I hate the Clintons, too, but we might as well use some decorum. Granted, this is coming from me, the guy who has no problem throwing around the word oval office like a pigskin on a summer day.
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Plisk posted:Call me old-fashioned, but it may be in poor taste to use the word "whore" for Hillary Clinton. I hate the Clintons, too, but we might as well use some decorum. If you've got a more appropriate metaphor for the activities of politicians without so much baggage, let it rip.
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SedanChair posted:If you've got a more appropriate metaphor for the activities of politicians without so much baggage, let it rip. These days I like to use "carpetbagger." It has the same sense of "in it just for the money," it isn't gendered, and it's antiquated and rarely-used enough that it still has some sting.
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Carpetbagger means more "trying to get elected somewhere you don't live, isn't it?"SedanChair posted:If you've got a more appropriate metaphor for the activities of politicians without so much baggage, let it rip. Stooge
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:These days I like to use "carpetbagger." It has the same sense of "in it just for the money," it isn't gendered, and it's antiquated and rarely-used enough that it still has some sting. We all know the only presidential carpetbagger is Obama.
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I like this line:quote:“I don’t even think he could win if he was running for mayor out here,” said one of his neighbors, who lives along the winding gravel road that leads to his palatial estate. “No one out here knows him. He tends to insulate himself.” from this article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/ben-carson-politics-legacy
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Pinterest Mom posted:Carpetbagger means more "trying to get elected somewhere you don't live, isn't it?" They already used that against HRC when she moved to NY to run for Senate.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Carpetbagger means more "trying to get elected somewhere you don't live, isn't it?" It's both. Really it's got a two part meaning 1) running for office somewhere you don't live 2) just to make money for yourself as a politician
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SedanChair posted:Ben Carson doesn't look very alert. Neither did Thurgood Marshall - having a sleepy-looking face isn't much of an indicator unless you're Scott Walker. In that case it isn't so much sleepy as it is drunk. Dude looks like he's just downed a boot full of natty ice in the next room over.
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Geeez. HRC's private email was run out of a server in her home.quote:The computer server that transmitted and received Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails — on a private account she used exclusively for official business when she was secretary of state — traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York, according to Internet records reviewed by The Associated Press. They went through a lot of effort and expense to keep her email off government servers. This isn't a confused tech-illiterate old woman registering for a Gmail account.
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Hillary Clinton migrates her own Exchange servers.
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I hope it turns out that Hillary's e-mails are just thousands of lolcats and goatse pranks.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:21 |
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I don't necessarily think that there's any deep dark secret hidden in the files. But barring some exculpatory circumstance, it's pretty clearly a cynical move with an eye on this election. She didn't want to leave a record that anyone could use against her, no matter what it was.
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Fulchrum posted:No, it'll be because Democrats are the real racists. Since being bombarded with the consistent message that political opposition to a black president is inherently racist, I have no choice but to assume this must be true.
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mdemone posted:
Prison rape = gay is a choice. ChickenRiceNPeas posted:That video was entirely too long. I retract my earlier statement. In my defense though, anything sounds reasonable when it's said in a dull monotone.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Geeez. HRC's private email was run out of a server in her home. So... did they at least hire someone capable of running these servers in a secure way or did we have foreign intelligence services crawling in and out of it like termites through a piece of wood? If not, what the gently caress?
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ChickenRiceNPeas posted:
Though by definition only for the rapist.
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Karnegal posted:Looping back to the "how will they go after Hillary" question, there's an interesting article on The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/among-the-hillary-haters/384976/) that goes into how various scandals/attacks have affected Hillary's popularity over the years before turning to examine the attack strategy from the right (it's actually kind of crazy). Am I shallow in this being the most interesting piece of the article to me: quote:Robert Todd Lincoln gave the painting to his great-great-grandfather Patrick D. Tyrrell for his role in uncovering a crime boss’s plot to steal the president’s corpse and hold it for ransom. WTF. Off to wikipedia I go!
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Chadderbox posted:So... did they at least hire someone capable of running these servers in a secure way or did we have foreign intelligence services crawling in and out of it like termites through a piece of wood? If not, what the gently caress? Dunno! What is Hillary hiding? Is she a leaker? Better raid the house and grab the servers, for freedom and America.
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Shageletic posted:Am I shallow in this being the most interesting piece of the article to me: I don't think so, that was a crazy as gently caress random aside. I was blown away by the focus groups being used to hone in on how much you can poo poo on Hillary before women start supporting her in response. Like, let's try 20 different methods of attack and see which stick!
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Pinterest Mom posted:Geeez. HRC's private email was run out of a server in her home. One thing just doesn't make sense to me - HRC's activities as SoS have already been gone over with a fine-toothed comb. How many thousands of man-hours were put into the multitude of Benghazi hearings, which included a ton of her email communications? And NOBODY (on any side) noticed that she wasn't using an official email? That just seems like a downright odd thing to have missed, especally since the GOP was desperately hunting for something to pin her with.
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Tempest_56 posted:One thing just doesn't make sense to me - HRC's activities as SoS have already been gone over with a fine-toothed comb. How many thousands of man-hours were put into the multitude of Benghazi hearings, which included a ton of her email communications? And NOBODY (on any side) noticed that she wasn't using an official email? That just seems like a downright odd thing to have missed, especally since the GOP was desperately hunting for something to pin her with. Unless they're only allowed to criticize her based on theatrical reasons but would get horribly slapped down if they actually tried to make her look bad for legit reasons. Given how many people were obviously aware she was using it, my guess is that this is a smoke but no fire situation. Either that or it's similar to how everyone didn't want to criticize Brian Williams for his puffery and now it's turning out that a lot of them were probably doing the same poo poo and didn't want to get called out for it.
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Never mind, I'm an idiot.
DARPA fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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If Trump runs, do you think candidates will bring up his bankrupt hotels/casinos If Carly Fiorina, do you think people will bring up that she is rated one of the worst CEOS in business
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:If Trump runs, do you think candidates will bring up his bankrupt hotels/casinos No. The strategy for dealing with Trump is to smile and let him talk. The rest will take care of itself.
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