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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Bqhatevwr.

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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006

Joementum posted:

Bqhatevwr.



What's with the messy pile of garbage there?

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Chrpno posted:

What's with the messy pile of garbage there?

I hear he's a candidate for President.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Mo_Steel posted:

I hear he's a candidate for President.

Can of Schweppes on a Log Pile 2016!

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

Wish she had done this earlier. Plainly said, simple, to the point.

Cigar Aficionado
Nov 1, 2004

"Patel"? Fuck you.

She's floundering with this email thing.

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?
So Jeb's big left wing tax plan is overall a massive embrace of supply side economics, cutting corporate rates, rolling back the progressive tax system, cutting capital gains, and throwing more deductions to businesses. But it involves "hitting" carried interest (any bets as to how minor the "hit" will be?). Trump is surely turning Republicans into socialists!

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Mrit posted:

Wish she had done this earlier. Plainly said, simple, to the point.

Won't matter because that's not what it's about. Not what it's ever been about.

Fish Cant Hold Gun
Jul 2, 2015

by Ralp
Trump is repeatedly shouting "All Lives Matter!" on O'Reilly right now.

Bill asked him about his support for Planned Parenthood and Trump denied it, said he never said it, then said "You have bad researchers!" O'Reilly actually apologized and said he's fire the people responsible.

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

Joementum posted:

Won't matter because that's not what it's about. Not what it's ever been about.

Sadly true. :(

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Joementum posted:

Won't matter because that's not what it's about. Not what it's ever been about.

Eh, clamping down on this in an effective way from the get go would have been best for her. Now it's "a thing" and if republicans can scrounge up a single scrap of self-control, they can add enough 'fuel' to the fire to keep it burning a good long while.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Cigar Aficionado posted:

She's floundering with this email thing.

Eh, her husband had a tabloid romance blow up on him right before a primary and survived. It's going to take more than some "intelligence experts" and pissy NYT editors to take out a Clinton.

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Joementum posted:

Can of Schweppes on a Log Pile 2016!

Refreshing and constructive. :eng101:

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Eh, clamping down on this in an effective way from the get go would have been best for her.

That was impossible.

sullat
Jan 9, 2012
McAfee is still alive and not on a Central American prison? Good on him. I suppose that's qualification enough to be president. Which party is he running in?

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:

Trump is repeatedly shouting "All Lives Matter!" on O'Reilly right now.

Bill asked him about his support for Planned Parenthood and Trump denied it, said he never said it, then said "You have bad researchers!" O'Reilly actually apologized and said he's fire the people responsible.

Remember when people upthread were claiming that Trump has crossover appeal to Democrats?

Neeksy
Mar 29, 2007

Hej min vän, hur står det till?

Xenophon posted:

speaking of dumb southern fuckwits



They're called Party Favors, Jimmy.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Yeah if there's one thing the GOP has done for Hillary it's put her family through the goddamn Spartan Agoge of lovely politics for the past 25+ years. They even tried flying a loving plane into the white house, on top of saying poo poo like "the white house dog" in reference to Chelsea, who was like 12 at the time.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Joementum posted:

That was impossible.

Well I'd have to imagine not waiting months to do this would have been more effective.

Fish Cant Hold Gun
Jul 2, 2015

by Ralp

Joementum posted:



Extra bonus quote of the night, “I want to wait to see what she does call me. Grandma’s fine. Madame President’s fine. Whatever she chooses.” ~ Hillary Clinton, on her granddaughter.

Goddamn, that's the kind of thing you say about your daughter's new boyfriend, not your flesh and blood.

"Gee Mrs. Clinton, thanks for having me over for dinner."
"Oh please Marc, call me 'Hilary.' Or 'Senator'. Or 'the next President of the United States, Hilary Clinton'. Whatever feels more natural to you."

Mrit
Sep 26, 2007

by exmarx
Grimey Drawer

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:

Goddamn, that's the kind of thing you say about your daughter's new boyfriend, not your flesh and blood.

"Gee Mrs. Clinton, thanks for having me over for dinner."
"Oh please Marc, call me 'Hilary.' Or 'Senator'. Or 'the next President of the United States, Hilary Clinton'. Whatever feels more natural to you."

She... was making a joke.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Mrit posted:

She... was making a joke.

Jokes aren't allowed in the gilded mawble pantheon of political campaigns.

Fish Cant Hold Gun
Jul 2, 2015

by Ralp

HappyHippo posted:

Remember when people upthread were claiming that Trump has crossover appeal to Democrats?

Well, now Glenn Beck is on O'Reilly saying that he hates Trump because "Donald Trump is a progressive". I.. I don't know how to feel anymore...

Edit: Beck also said that to side with Israel is to side with life and to support the Iran deal is to "choose death". This is the world we live in.

Mrit posted:

She... was making a joke.

There's a hint of truth in every joke.

Fish Cant Hold Gun fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Sep 9, 2015

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug

Joementum posted:

Bernie is staffing up in South Carolina and he'll be touring the state soon with Cornell West, which should be :munch:

Cornell West is both a strong critic of the current administration and recently ripped the new Ta-Nehisi Coates book, calling TNC 'cowardly silent' and 'paralyzed by [his] Obama worship'

so this is basically a home run for Bernie in winning over the black vote.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

Cornell West is both a strong critic of the current administration and recently ripped the new Ta-Nehisi Coates book, calling TNC 'cowardly silent' and 'paralyzed by [his] Obama worship'

so this is basically a home run for Bernie in winning over the black vote.

I'm sure they can both be things to all people because that's how it works when two figures are known nationally. It's not a contest between who is wrong or right about racism in America. Not every black person thinks Obama is end all be all either, that's Hannity speak.

Bob Ojeda
Apr 15, 2008

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Joementum posted:

Won't matter because that's not what it's about. Not what it's ever been about.

I think it's the best possible play tbh. I find it hard to believe any substantial amount of voters really give a poo poo about the details of the email scandal. If she's willing to say "Yeah, I hosed up and used the wrong email, sorry about that" I think it's a lot harder to play the WHAT IS HILLARY HIDING game with any degree of success.

Of course it won't go away, but I think it's a better way of managing the damage than trying to educate America on the specifics of State Department classification protocols

Bob Ojeda fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Sep 9, 2015

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

The emails are just this year's Vince Foster.

Last year's VF was Benghazi, before that it was Russia, before that it was the Sarajevo sniper fire, etc.

PotatoManJack
Nov 9, 2009

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:


There's a hint of truth in every joke.

"What about that Bavarian cream pie joke I told you? There's no truth to that. Nobody with a terminal illness goes from the United States to Europe for a piece of Bavarian cream pie and then when they get there and they don't have it he says, 'Ah, I'll just have some coffee.' There's no truth to that."

tomapot
Apr 7, 2005
Suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Oven Wrangler

Patter Song posted:

Who's ready for a PPP poll of third (gently caress off Nevada)-in-the-nation South Carolina?
...
Christie 1%


Joementum posted:

Bqhatevwr.



As a New Jerseyan / Jerseyite (whatever you call us) I have mixed emotions about Christie's ruinous campaign. Part of me is glad he is sucking this bad after all the hype he received during the last election cycle. Part of me is sad he won't get the nomination because I'd throw whatever spare cash and hours I could carve out of my day to make sure he lost in the general. I don't think I'll be as passionate working for someone else's defeat as I would against him.

ATribeCalledKvetch
Nov 5, 2010

I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.

Boosted_C5 posted:

"Letting you plebes keep more of your own money caused the financial meltdown. Certainly not housing policy and that housing bubble that just popped. Certainly not the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999. Nope, it was the *menacingly* BUSH TAX CUTS!!! Well, we're just gonna have to go ahead and tighten your leash again peons. We wise ones who certainly had nothing to do with this calamity are just gonna have to start taking more of your money again so we can fix this mess that was totally everyone elses' fault and not ours"

-Every Democrat in late 2008. They won. Handily.

I too make over 400k a year.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Chris Christie believes that college students have far too many options available when it comes to exercising.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

He's not wrong.

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"

sullat posted:

McAfee is still alive and not on a Central American prison? Good on him. I suppose that's qualification enough to be president. Which party is he running in?

The :science:CYBER:science: Party!

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/08/news/john-mcafee-for-president/


I guess he's running to bring up awareness of bad government IT.

And maybe push for increased R&D of drugs you can put in your butt so you can have sex 24 hours straight. I hear he has a name picked out!

Dubstep Jesus
Jun 27, 2012

by exmarx

McDowell posted:

He's not wrong.

yes he is, rock climbing walls aren't driving tuition increases, decreases in state funding are

Dubstep Jesus
Jun 27, 2012

by exmarx

Mo_Steel posted:

I hear he's a candidate for President.

:boom:

Fish Cant Hold Gun
Jul 2, 2015

by Ralp

As someone who is taking out yet another loan to pay this autumn's insane tuition bill, I can absolutely vouch for what the fat man is saying. Colleges need to stop throwing money at stupid bells and whistles, lower tuition, and use alumni money to fix asbestos filled classrooms that are falling apart instead of renovating the loving football stadium for the nth time.

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:

As someone who is taking out yet another loan to pay this autumn's insane tuition bill, I can absolutely vouch for what the fat man is saying. Colleges need to stop throwing money at stupid bells and whistles, lower tuition, and use alumni money to fix asbestos filled classrooms that are falling apart instead of renovating the loving football stadium for the nth time.

Or states could stop slashing the education budget to the bone

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:

Well, now Glenn Beck is on O'Reilly saying that he hates Trump because "Donald Trump is a progressive". I.. I don't know how to feel anymore...

Glenn Beck is saying that because Trump doesn't give a poo poo about religion (gay marriage, abortion) and contraceptives.

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withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Fish Cant Hold Gun posted:

As someone who is taking out yet another loan to pay this autumn's insane tuition bill, I can absolutely vouch for what the fat man is saying. Colleges need to stop throwing money at stupid bells and whistles, lower tuition, and use alumni money to fix asbestos filled classrooms that are falling apart instead of renovating the loving football stadium for the nth time.

I'm reminded of when I was an undergrad and some insufferable assholes were vigorously campaigning for an option to have a few dollars refunded from your tuition bill if you signed a form agreeing to never use the "free" campus mass transit system.

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