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Zeroisanumber posted:This train has no brakes. This kind of complacency is dangerous. Always remain vigilant when the stakes are this high.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:This kind of complacency is dangerous. Always remain vigilant when the stakes are this high. Actually, studies show that when voters think they're going to win, they're more likely to turn out to vote. Obviously candidates is a different story, but no one here is actually running.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:18
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FCKGW posted:Trump is is in the WWE hall of fame, this isn't new to him. Summer 2016: Reporters in the Texas capital are on the edge of their seats as Trump finally announces his veep pick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNgxyL5zEAk Ahahaha this loving election
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Feb 25, 2016 19:20
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Oh thank christ. Sandoval, unintentional hero of democrats everywhere.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:21
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I love journos whining about access. https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/702920327475494912 YOU CANT CUT BACK ON PRESS AVAILABILITES! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Oh thank christ. Sandoval, unintentional hero of democrats everywhere.
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Probably realized he didn't wanna become a cudgel in a political fight. I doubt Obama was ever serious about nominating him in the first place, he just wanted to bait republicans into saying "Oh we'll make an exception to our dumb made-up rule for this guy."
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Feb 25, 2016 19:30
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gradenko_2000 posted:How insane are we talking about here? Supported companies sterilizing women as a precondition for employment over increasing safety standards. Not as an abstract thing either. 5 women underwent sterilization to keep their jobs. This was for a chemical company. The defense was that the exposure to the chemicals could cause severe birth defects in future children so to not be held accountable that they made the women get sterilized to work there.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:37
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Junior G-man posted:Matt Taibbi's new long read on Trump is well worth your time. This is a great read. Makes me loathe and respect Trump at the same time. In the words of some robot, Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:42
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zoux posted:I love journos whining about access. What the hell is gaggling?
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haveblue posted:What the hell is gaggling? It's like googling but for gals.
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Fried Chicken posted:Supported companies sterilizing women as a precondition for employment over increasing safety standards. Even in the 90s Johnson Controls banned women from any jobs that could potentially get transferred or promoted to positions where they might damage a potential fetus. Sadly, it also took until the 90s for the unions to stick up for these women too.
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haveblue posted:What the hell is gaggling? Press conference, IIRC. Remember that the press basically hate Hillary's guts to begin with because she's essentially cut off interaction with them since her husband was president.
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haveblue posted:What the hell is gaggling? Press circlejerk, basically.
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haveblue posted:What the hell is gaggling? Basically the most informal press avail. Whenever you see a mass of reporters crowding around a person not at a podium and sticking mics and cameras in their faces, that's a press gaggle. Generally a candidate comes off the stump and talks directly to the press pool so they can directly ask questions to get their quotes. It's making their job harder which is why they're whining about it.
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CaPensiPraxis posted:Here I thought fabgoons were making another incursion. Nah, that'll be in 2024 with first gay president Tammy Baldwin. Well, second, if you count Buchanan.
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Zeroisanumber posted:This train has no brakes. Oh so you are a republican?
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Teddybear posted:Nah, that'll be in 2024 with first gay president Tammy Baldwin. I was going to say 
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computer parts posted:And that's before you consider that Trump might be too toxic for some regular GOP voters, which hasn't happened in a long time. It's hard for me to envision a scenario where he doesn't take it all.
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Junior G-man posted:Matt Taibbi's new long read on Trump is well worth your time. Fantastic read. What I love about this article is how it takes to task established journalism as an enabler and their role in facilitating what is essentially something not possible without their contributions. I thought this part was telling: quote:It's simple transitive-property rhetoric, and it works. The press went gaga for Rubio after Iowa because – why? Because he's an unthreatening, blow-dried, cliché-spouting, dial-surveying phony of the type campaign journalists always approve of.
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SedanChair posted:I'd love to be able to say it's safe. Yeah. I'm actually deeply frightened that Trump has gotten this far. The Republican establishment appears to be just as afraid, though I admit I'm not paying as close attention to that. Simply put, this whole thing scares the crap outta me and I wish I had more confidence in its outcome. EDIT: Or maybe just the ability to leave the country if things go badly. Inglonias fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Junior G-man posted:Matt Taibbi's new long read on Trump is well worth your time. gently caress, made me want to vote for Trump
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Fried Chicken posted:Supported companies sterilizing women as a precondition for employment over increasing safety standards. Always more, always worse.  For all that I dislike Alito and the late Scalia, they're pretty okay next to Bork.
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DeathSandwich posted:Press conference, IIRC. Remember that the press basically hate Hillary's guts to begin with because she's essentially cut off interaction with them since her husband was president. can;t imagine why
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Clinton's righteous, pure, and correct contempt for the press is one of my favorite things about her. I can see why people amenable to fascism would admire the same in Trump
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Junior G-man posted:Matt Taibbi's new long read on Trump is well worth your time. One thing I do love about Trump is how he shits all over the news media. Granted, he'd replace it with a bunch of sycophants to the Glory of Trump, but just by articulating with a megaphone the concern that the media is totally corrupt and completely uninterested in the political interests of anyone making less than several million dollars a year, he's radically altered the conversation, and destroyed whatever legitimacy the "Beltway" had. gently caress CNN, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York TImes, Politico, ABC, NBC, CBS, even PBS and NPR (sadly, but they've betrayed us worst of all). It's been comical watching how ludicrously out of touch they are with the situation on the ground, and how little these apparently educated people know about American history - or pretend not to know, I can't tell. Anti-immigrant and protectionist sentiments have been an ebbing and flowing force transcending the normal party divide since the early 19th century. jfc, does American political journalist knowledge only extend as far as WWII + some Civil War and American Revolution stuff? I'm going to assume yes.  I don't hate any Republican politician or Democratic politician as much as I hate the news media that enables the corporatist agenda that's done most of the work of destroying America. When Donald Trump says Make America Great Again, he's not wrong that that is a thing that needs to happen. He's only wrong about how to do it.
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Junior G-man posted:Matt Taibbi's new long read on Trump is well worth your time. lol quote:It's a few minutes after that when a woman in the crowd shouts that Ted Cruz is a pussy. She will later tell a journalist she supports Trump because his balls are the size of "watermelons," while his opponents' balls are more like "grapes" or "raisins."
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Inglonias posted:Yeah. I'm actually deeply frightened that Trump has gotten this far. The Republican establishment appears to be just as afraid, though I admit I'm not paying as close attention to that.
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Can't stop quoting that Taibbi article ^^^^This guy gets it These are some of my favorites quote:The two men, of course, are polar opposites in just about every way – Sanders worries about the poor, while Trump would eat a child in a lifeboat – but both are laser-focused on the corrupting role of money in politics. quote:Cruz in person is almost physically repellent. Psychology Today even ran an article by a neurology professor named Dr. Richard Cytowic about the peculiarly off-putting qualities of Cruz's face. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224#ixzz41DDLGQyw
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LeeMajors posted:My favorite part of the Taibbi article: Trump agrees that Cruz has the most punchable face.  He really is a man of the people.
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foobardog posted:Ted Cruz looks like he's the evil mayor of a town in a kids movie. He's a dead ringer for the foremost rich kid at the camp that's trying to close down the protagonist's camp in that kind of movie.
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zoux posted:More of a melting snowman face, imo. I play naive to politics at work in order to avoid trench warfare with my coworkers, and it finally paid off yesterday when I got to ask Cruz supporter if he was talking about that guy who looked like "Melty Nixon". He paused briefly, looked down, said "Yes", and then went back to talking about Conservative Principles.
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Talmonis posted:I'm more worried about his MRA/Gamergater support. I keep seeing supporters say he's a perfect foil to "all the SJWs" MRAs and Gamergaters are not a serious presence in the real world. They're an extremely vocal internet subculture, nothing more. Worrying about Trump is perfectly natural, but not because he's about to start offering opinions on female characters in videogames or w/e.
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Inglonias posted:Yeah. I'm actually deeply frightened that Trump has gotten this far. The Republican establishment appears to be just as afraid, though I admit I'm not paying as close attention to that. Do what my fiancée did, get engaged to a European 
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