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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/rob_flaherty/status/702920080817049600 Probably because the establishment GOP candidates have been so busy fighting each other and trying to evade Trump they haven't even bothered to research Trump for lines of attack. If you're too afraid to even consider going on the offensive with Trump for fear of being crushed utterly like Jeb! et al, why bother doing the research? It's wasted time and effort in that logic.
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PleasingFungus posted:MRAs and Gamergaters are not a serious presence in the real world. They're an extremely vocal internet subculture, nothing more. It's not their stupid cause, it's that they're pilot fish. I'm worried that they're just the tip of the racist iceberg. That the inner racist and xenophobe in a lot of white Americans who are staying mum about it out of fear of being called on it will quietly pull the lever for Trump while anonymous.
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computer parts posted:"Plausible" in the sense that "A Republican at one point or another said that they can take [state]" but in reality PA is not flipping, Wisconsin is not flipping, CO and NV are not flipping, probably Ohio and Virginia too. I don't know about Ohio and Virginia - Obama won those states by relatively small margins last time around, and I could see them flipping to Trump under the right conditions. Throw in another state like Iowa or New Hampshire, and Trump wins.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/rob_flaherty/status/702920080817049600 I was convinced of this after the airwaves weren't filled with Howard Stern clips the week after Iowa
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zoux posted:We're pretty far out from November y'all. Space and time mean little before Donald Trump.
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i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President.  Like, what do we do if that happens???
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. My dude have you tried nihilism
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. Close the windows, it'll keep the flying pigs out.
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zoux posted:My dude have you tried nihilism Couldn't muster enough energy to care about it really.
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds.
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zoux posted:We're pretty far out from November y'all. Solkanar asked for maps!
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DaveWoo posted:I don't know about Ohio and Virginia - Obama won those states by relatively small margins last time around, and I could see them flipping to Trump under the right conditions. Throw in another state like Iowa or New Hampshire, and Trump wins. Northern Virginia is going to determine who wins that state and those people may as well be Hillary clones. Plus they have a Democratic governor so you can't even argue Voter ID like in Wisconsin.
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. Laugh as everything burns. The worlds a joke and we're the punchline
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whitey delenda est posted:back a couple pages but, I knew about the Bork confirmation hearings and how his name got verbed, but this is loving WILD Perlstein's focus isn't really on Watergate - there's reams of books on that topic already - as much as the conservative movement and the terrible place the US dove into in the 1960s and 1970s and has yet to really surface from. If anything, Watergate was a problem in the sense that it allowed the conservative movement to disavow Nixon and for the country to pretend that the cancer had been cured when Nixon resigned, only for Reagan to happen.
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trump is ozymandias and sanders is rorschach
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bft6KgS0_CQ&t=275s That's a really depressing video.
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Empress Theonora posted:this is not very helpful advice Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.
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Fried Chicken posted:Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV. this is very helpful advice also, explains the multiverse and the timeline we exist in where Trump is going to be the GOP nominee
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Spun Dog posted:Couldn't muster enough energy to care about it really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oELL7hfKYfA
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Empress Theonora posted:this is not very helpful advice If politics is threatening your mental health stop following politics.
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE
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Empress Theonora posted:this is not very helpful advice it'll have even less likable characters than the most recent entry of that series
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haveblue posted:If politics is threatening your mental health stop following politics. But how do I get politics to stop following me?
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Empress Theonora posted:i'm going to spend like the rest of 2016 in a state of complete terror over Trump somehow becoming President. Join the Trumpstaffel and enjoy your new career of kicking down the doors of terrified Mexican families.
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a shameful boehner posted:this is very helpful advice Why do we all have to live in the worst timeline?! 
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Klaus88 posted:Why do we all have to live in the worst timeline?! the cronenburg-earth timeline is slightly worse than this one. slightly.
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whitey delenda est posted:back a couple pages but, I knew about the Bork confirmation hearings and how his name got verbed, but this is loving WILD Nixonland ends right after the 1972 election, so doesn't cover this at all really. Still worth reading.
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haveblue posted:If politics is threatening your mental health stop following politics. it sure would be nice to be able to insulate myself from the effects of politics and just ignore them
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Empress Theonora posted:it sure would be nice to be able to insulate myself from the effects of politics and just ignore them Billions of people also wonder why things happen for no apparent reason so there's a tradeoff there just dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed
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If I were defending Bork I would point out that his bosses at the JD both told him to go ahead and fire Cox because Nixon was eventually going to find someone to do it and they wanted to save the department from further damage and mayhem. But I won't defend him, the man was a swine. If he'd gotten on the court in 87 instead of Kennedy the US would be a meaner, darker place.
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computer parts posted:Northern Virginia is going to determine who wins that state and those people may as well be Hillary clones. Plus they have a Democratic governor so you can't even argue Voter ID like in Wisconsin. Yep, NOVA is literally populated solely by HillBots working for the federal government and contiguous industries, Trump terrifies them and they will vote in yooge numbers. Not to mention T-Mac will see VA go for Hillary if it requires him to escort every voter to the polls personally, and in exchange he's got a cabinet position (or something else nice, replacing DWS? I can dream) waiting for him when he's done as governor.
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Empress Theonora posted:it sure would be nice to be able to insulate myself from the effects of politics and just ignore them Have you considered denial? Just straight up "nope, all's well in whoville."
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lol at colorado and massachusetts and pennsylvania and maryland H.P. Hovercraft fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Karl? Karl is that you? Come home Karl your parents are worried
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Mr. Nice! posted:I don't know anyone in Florida remotely excited about Rubio. The people who are happen to be so old as to have trouble exhibiting detectable excitement. They need to throw exclamation points after their names, for example.
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haveblue posted:If politics is threatening your mental health stop following politics. This. People get way too invested in it. Especially in regards to supporting candidates. Just sit back and watch this poo poo like it's a movie.
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porfiria posted:You guys understand that while it makes at least some sense for the GOP to have slept on Trump, it's, like, impossible for Hillary to do that? Because there will be literally nothing else for her staff to do all day? It's not just going after him. It's going after him in the right way. I don't know if I trust the Democrats (no matter who is the nominee) to understand why he's popular, and how they can counter his specific brand of nonsense. The Democratic party will have nothing to do but attack him, but I think if they attack him in the traditional sense, it'll only help him. I said this in the GOP primary thread; I'm pretty sure the best way to deal with Trump is to sink to his level. Emasculate him, make him look weak, or make him look out of touch. Anything else (rightly calling him a bigot, pointing out his platform is lunacy, etc) will not help. fknlo posted:This. People get way too invested in it. Especially in regards to supporting candidates. Just sit back and watch this poo poo like it's a movie. Nichael fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Talmonis posted:It's not their stupid cause, it's that they're pilot fish. I'm worried that they're just the tip of the racist iceberg. That the inner racist and xenophobe in a lot of white Americans who are staying mum about it out of fear of being called on it will quietly pull the lever for Trump while anonymous. Yeah, while gamergaters and the dark enlightenment are the most vocal and visible, like tumblrites they are just the obvious part of a larger subculture that is brewing. In the case of tumblr, like while there are people talking about being transracial fictionkin, there is a heightened discussion and acceptance about gender roles that I think will fast come to the forefront of conversation in the "mainstream" sphere. I definitely think the same thing exists among neoreactionaries, and for all their protestations against identity politics, it's definitely hiding behind their and right-libertarian's rejection of democratic principles. Some one in a right-wing think tank is going to figure out how to put a respectable spin on that, and it'll catch on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYYVrBX4v0
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