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Discendo Vox posted:This is the greatest phrase I have ever encountered. Thank you. I stole it from Charles Pierce, who also coined referring to Newt exclusively as The Definer of Civilization's Rules and Leader (possibly) of the Civilizing Forces, based on the old Newt doodle.
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Joementum posted:The Definer of Civilization's Rules and Leader (possibly) of the Civilizing Forces Even with Donald loving Trump in the running, there's a way to go before this race becomes as much of a circus as 2012.
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Jul 1, 2015 23:39
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Jul 1, 2015 23:43
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Peter King has ruled out a run for President.
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Jul 1, 2015 23:44
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Joementum posted:Human bowling jacket Paul LePage managed to talk for three minutes today without threatening to assassinate a Democrat and, in those minutes, endorsed Chris Christie, mostly because Christie got him re-elected. wait howd he do that
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Jul 1, 2015 23:44
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PupsOfWar posted:wait howd he do that Christie was chairman of the Republican Governors Association during the 2014 cycle and had discretion over disbursements of funding to campaigns. He also stumped for LePage in Maine. (But, yes, the real reason LePage got reelected was that idiot Eliot Cutler, not anything Christie did.)
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Jul 1, 2015 23:50
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PupsOfWar posted:wait howd he do that Chris Christie lost all the weight, donned a wig, and ran under the pseudonym "Elliot Cutler" in the Maine gubernatorial race.
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Jul 1, 2015 23:50
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And nothing of value was lost.
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Jul 1, 2015 23:52
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Jul 1, 2015 23:52
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Where's the loving signature Trump? Also pants made by rapists.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:01
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Trump was actually called out on that in a CNN interview the other day. His response was the old "well, see, I have to do it in order to stay competitive, because of bad US economic policy" routine.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:02
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Honestly if you think where your clothes are made are 100% a reflection on the quality of said garment then you are a chump.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:13
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I have a friend who was very concerned about Donald Trump in 2012 and was wondering how the country could be so screwed that he was a serious contender in the primaries. I had to explain to her all the reasons why there was no way in hell Trump would make it out of the primary and why him joining the race is actually a hilarious thing. Towards the end of the primaries she started to see what I meant. This election, she's laughing with me.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:24
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Madison is Bernin' tonight.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:27
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Three Olives posted:There have been rumors for a long time that Trump's inflow/outflow was incredibly precarious and that he basically begged NBC to keep The Apprentice because he needed the cash coming in. Lawrence O'Donnell has said this about Trump for years.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:35
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Vertical Lime posted:How about Trump showing a supposed letter of the head of NBC liking a hotel of his I'm confused, did the NBC guy write a paragraph about great it was that the staff was openly racist and that there wasn't a single Mexican there to rape him and it just got cut off by the square Instagram edit?
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Jul 2, 2015 00:42
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Jindal's tech team may not understand just how this whole internet thing works, with the facebooks and twitters and whatnot.
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Jul 2, 2015 00:51
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So other than Carson has any candidate wished us Canadians happiness today?
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Jul 2, 2015 00:55
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What kind of sick bastard ruins guacamole with any form of peas anyway? 
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Jul 2, 2015 01:06
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Scyantific posted:What kind of sick bastard ruins guacamole with any form of peas anyway? More or less what Obama and Bush are both saying, yeah.
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Jul 2, 2015 01:07
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Quote of the afternoon - "Well, somebody's doing the raping, Don! I mean somebody's doing it! Who's doing the raping? Who's doing the raping?" ~You-know-who
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DaveWoo posted:Trump was actually called out on that in a CNN interview the other day. His response was the old "well, see, I have to do it in order to stay competitive, because of bad US economic policy" routine. Problem is even when the option exists to buy american just small price differences has people buying the made in china/mexico thing every time. Clothing is also one of the few things that has become cheaper over the years that's not a tech product, so people aren't really complaining about it either. Captain_Maclaine posted:Jindal's tech team may not understand just how this whole internet thing works, with the facebooks and twitters and whatnot. His campaign is amazingly bad, he's apparently learned nothing since 08.
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Jul 2, 2015 01:13
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Problem is even when the option exists to buy american just small price differences has people buying the made in china/mexico thing every time. Clothing is also one of the few things that has become cheaper over the years that's not a tech product, so people aren't really complaining about it either. It doesn't help that at least a couple of generations now have grown during a time when "American Made" is synonymous with "pile of crap". I was born in 1983 and I have a hard time imagining buying a car made by an "American" company regardless of the merits of the actual vehicle itself.
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Jul 2, 2015 01:36
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Hey the best foreign sedans are American made, like the all new Hyundai Sonata.
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greatn posted:Hey the best foreign sedans are American made, like the all new Hyundai Sonata. American made means nothing when it comes to cars. My old Pontiac was made in Mexico, my wife's Acura was made in Indiana.
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Jul 2, 2015 01:52
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That's why I put American in quotes. The point I was making is that a lot of cars that American car companies were putting out when I was growing up were hot garbage and that perception tends to stick in your mind even though things may change.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:04
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Three Olives posted:I'm confused, did the NBC guy write a paragraph about great it was that the staff was openly racist and that there wasn't a single Mexican there to rape him and it just got cut off by the square Instagram edit? I'm guessing the letter predates Trumps comments on Mexican rapists.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:30
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Skwirl posted:I'm guessing the letter predates Trumps comments on Mexican rapists. No poo poo, sherlock
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Jul 2, 2015 02:31
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Problem is even when the option exists to buy american just small price differences has people buying the made in china/mexico thing every time. Clothing is also one of the few things that has become cheaper over the years that's not a tech product, so people aren't really complaining about it either. Because it's not normally a small price difference. A lot of the consumer goods made in the US right now are artisan stuff which means that it costs more to make and there's usually a significant profit margin on top of it because it costs more to make.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:35
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I work at Macys and apparently one of our managers received a phone call from a "group of 160 seniors" who were going to cut up their macys cards in response to the news. We are a smaller store and only carry a few of trump 's dress shirts, but they're all supposed to go on the clearance track tomorrow. 
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Jul 2, 2015 02:52
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Somewhere a group of 160 seniors shreds their loving medicare cards and America is the better for having lost eight score shitheads.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:59
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:His campaign is amazingly bad, he's apparently learned nothing since 08. While true, I suspect he's learned nothing for much longer than that.
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I wonder exactly how much damage Trump has done to his brand so far. I mean any sort of deal with Trump right now has to feel like it is going to be toxic at least near term. Surely his naming contracts have outs for if the Trump brand came to be known as ill repute. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jul 2, 2015 |
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Three Olives posted:I wonder exactly how much damage Trump has done to his brand so far. I mean any sort of deal with Trump right now has to feel like it is going to be toxic at least near term. He has done no damage, bad news only causes Trump to grow stronger and his supporters to swell. Trump could punt a Mexican baby tomorrow and he would gain 3 points in the polls. The only thing that will ever damage Trumps brand is if someone can irrefutably prove his net worth isn't even half of what he claims it is.
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FIRST TIME posted:That's why I put American in quotes. Since the '90s, American cars have been pretty competitive quality-wise in their price brackets. Hell, my family somehow stumbled into owning nothing but Fords and none of them have had any issues despite being driven into the ground (Outside of a wonky transmission on my dad's 2007 Freestyle that was covered by the warranty, and even then he's put 250K+ miles on the drat thing without anything else but minor problems). Unless a car has actual substantiated problems, I wouldn't discount three of the largest automakers in the world just because they made some shitboxes in the '80s. (Granted, I might be slightly defensive since I grew up in Michigan and I'm sure every single one of my friends either works or has family who works for the auto industry in some capacity.)
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The Nastier Nate posted:He has done no damage, bad news only causes Trump to grow stronger and his supporters to swell. Trump could punt a Mexican baby tomorrow and he would gain 3 points in the polls. He's not just getting unfavorable headlines, businesses are actually closing off relationships with him. Do you think he'd take the time to appear on The Apprentice if it wasn't worth something to him?
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Jul 2, 2015 03:24
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Joementum posted:I stole it from Charles Pierce, who also coined referring to Newt exclusively as The Definer of Civilization's Rules and Leader (possibly) of the Civilizing Forces, based on the old Newt doodle. I read Pierce, but I never 'got' the 'human bowling jacket' one.
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Voyager I posted:He's not just getting unfavorable headlines, businesses are actually closing off relationships with him. Do you think he'd take the time to appear on The Apprentice if it wasn't worth something to him? My theory is that many of his supporters, who never bought a crappy Trump button-up or tie in their life, because...why would you?, will make sure that their next clothing purchase will be from the Trump line.
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The Nastier Nate posted:My theory is that many of his supporters, who never bought a crappy Trump button-up or tie in their life, because...why would you?, will make sure that their next clothing purchase will be from the Trump line. What percentage of Trump supporters do you suppose wear a tie on a regular basis?
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Bernie's event in Madison tonight set a record for 2016 candidate events with over 10,000 attendees.richardfun posted:I read Pierce, but I never 'got' the 'human bowling jacket' one. It evokes the image of a very particular type of American man, which LePage embodies better than anyone.
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