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Despera posted:Vulture capitalist worked on someone much less vile Well, it helps Romney was actually a vulture capitalist, you know.
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Majorian posted:I mean, actually I do - not as much as they do, certainly, but as we know, opinion writers don't have to have a very good track record to be well-paid. Holy poo poo a ton of people whose job it is to know vs sa goon.
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Despera posted:Vulture capitalist worked on someone much less vile That last point is debatable.
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sharkbomb posted:I still remember the Jeb Bush video that I saw in October 2015 that inspired me to join PredictIt and bet against him: Jeb on Fantasy Football Lol
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InsanityIsCrazy posted:keep on keepin on, brother Seriously, did you actually think Ben Carson or John Kasich were going to be the nominee?
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sharkbomb posted:You're totally right-- I just can't believe that all of Jeb's donors committed SO MUCH for SO LONG to his campaign. I have a theory that the entire Bush political clan actually decided to cash out on Citizens United and all of Jeb's superPAC money was funneled through connected consultants and media companies. Don't pity Jeb, the dude probably made a fortune scamming the Republican party. He and Columba Bush are floating around on a yacht right now, smoking mad weed and listening to Steppenwolf Jeb actually believed he was going to win the nomination. There were a lot of smart people who believed we were well on our way to a Jeb/Hillary showdown. There's no conspiracy here, the Republican party is in complete disarray.
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Despera posted:Holy poo poo a ton of people whose job it is to know vs sa goon. You're citing Bill Kristol as an authority. Bill freaking Kristol.
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I remember listening to Slate Political Gabfest, which leans heavily liberal, and listening to David Plotz and John Dickerson make the case that, indeed, this is the strongest Republican field in a long time. I think that was BT (Before Trump), after which everything changed.
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I'm just accepting it as a certainty that when Donald Trump has 1236 of the 1237 delegates needed to win the nomination the fine members of the political punditry will still be spewing out dozens of articles every day on how if Rubio gets 100% of the remaining votes HE CAN STILL WIN THIS. Matt Taibbi gets it http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224?page=7 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. Subvisual Haze fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Majorian posted:You're citing Bill Kristol as an authority. Among like 20 others
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Despera posted:They get paid for their opinions, do you? drat this is a flaming hot take
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Majorian posted:Seriously, did you actually think Ben Carson or John Kasich were going to be the nominee? If it's good enough for Nate Silver... quote:natesilver: So, Harry. Who is more likely to be the Republican nominee, Ben Carson or Donald Trump?
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The TDS is back in full swing I see. We are privileged to be witnessing one of the great political upsets of our age. And that wall is going to be beautiful. It's going to be great when—after a seemingly endless chorus of idiots droning on about how it's impossible, won't work, can't work, will cost too much, and whatever else—we see it stretch out through the desert. And then the people will ask themselves, what else that we've been told is impossible can be achieved?
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[It will be interesting to see how Trump does in a GE. Up until this point, his base of working-class white men has been his consistent base, but if he can't expand beyond that, it's difficult to see how he could win a GE. Even if he were to win, is there any hope if he's playing to a crowd that will be increasingly marginalized? The GOP has long recognized that continued strength can only be gotten through increasing outreach. Even if Trump wins, I don't see how his supporters restructure American politics without either changing to broaden their appeal or a race war (what percentage of Trump supporters have read The Turner Diaries, I wonder?)
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Majorian posted:Seriously, did you actually think Ben Carson or John Kasich were going to be the nominee? Ben Carson continually received way more votes than he shouldve, yet he has no platform and, apparently, narcolepsy it's not a question of how lovely the candidates were, it's a question of how many blithering idiots will vote for them
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One popular swing state governor is considered a strong candidate much less three
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Hey guys, did you hear? Being paid to do a thing means you are good at that thing. poo poo's loving unreal
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Lyapunov Unstable posted:Nice, she's going to frame him as an insecure creeper/wifebeater Trump wears a Bill Clinton mask to his next rally and says "Why Yes, I am a creeper and wifebeater!"
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Democrazy posted:[It will be interesting to see how Trump does in a GE. Up until this point, his base of working-class white men has been his consistent base, but if he can't expand beyond that, it's difficult to see how he could win a GE. Even if he were to win, is there any hope if he's playing to a crowd that will be increasingly marginalized? You do realize that Romney would have won with like 3% more of the white vote, right? Edit: The GOP "establishment" position is what you lay out, try to convince various flavors of brown people that they want to vote Republican. The Trump position is to convince Americans they should vote American, and any citizen is welcome. I think it's pretty obvious which of these is a better general election strategy.
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User posted:And then the people will ask themselves, what else that we've been told is impossible can be achieved? Moon base! Manned mission to Mars!
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InsanityIsCrazy posted:Ben Carson continually received way more votes than he shouldve, yet he has no platform and, apparently, narcolepsy This is all true, but it just reinforces my belief that Trump stumbled into exactly what those blithering idiots wanted to hear.
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InsanityIsCrazy posted:Trump wears a Bill Clinton mask to his next rally and says "Why Yes, I am a creeper and wifebeater!"
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Lyapunov Unstable posted:framing is a big word I know but it's ok 
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Brannock posted:Moon base! Manned mission to Mars! No poo poo dead serious we need to get back into space for real, but first we need to get our own house in order. Political Correctness didn't get us to the Moon.
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Despera posted:Among like 20 others Most of whom have as bad a record as Kristol does. Almost everybody you cited is extremely bad at their job.
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Lotka Volterra posted:Hey guys, did you hear? Being paid to do a thing means you are good at that thing. poo poo's loving unreal If a lot of poeple who are paid to figure out this exact thing think so their opinion is worth more than the goon take on the conservative field.
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User posted:No poo poo dead serious we need to get back into space for real, but first we need to get our own house in order. Political Correctness didn't get us to the Moon. "Political correctness" = not treating other people like poo poo for no reason other than that you really, really want to say the n-word. Despera posted:If a lot of poeple who are paid to figure out this exact thing think so their opinion is worth more than the goon take on the conservative field. Please stop, I can't breath. 
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Majorian posted:This is all true, but it just reinforces my belief that Trump stumbled into exactly what those blithering idiots wanted to hear. whaddya mean stumbled hes been a television personality for decades he knew what "Real Americans" have been freaking out about for years
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This was one of the "strongest" Republican fields in decades. That's what makes this so loving funny.
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User posted:No poo poo dead serious we need to get back into space for real, but first we need to get our own house in order. Political Correctness didn't get us to the Moon. Perfidiously, Newt Gingrich was the most well-equipped candidate to address both of these issues, yet the electorate widely rejected him.
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InsanityIsCrazy posted:whaddya mean stumbled I don't think that's true. He's been stumbling between his political positions like a drunk between bars for the past twenty years.
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Despera posted:If a lot of poeple who are paid to figure out this exact thing think so their opinion is worth more than the goon take on the conservative field. Their opinion is worth precisely poo poo, as it was a bad one held by idiots
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Majorian posted:"Political correctness" = not treating other people like poo poo for no reason other than that you really, really want to say the n-word. It looks like you don't know what Recorde's famous symbol means.
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Majorian posted:"Political correctness" = not treating other people like poo poo for no reason other than that you really, really want to say the n-word. Oh man you guys are so convincing
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Majorian posted:I mean, actually I do - not as much as they do, certainly, but as we know, opinion writers don't have to have a very good track record to be well-paid. Why should anyone in the Republican primary thread listen to Nancy Pelosi's ideal constituent, you napa valley winemaker?
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Despera posted:If a lot of poeple who are paid to figure out this exact thing think so their opinion is worth more than the goon take on the conservative field. A lot of these same morons spent months talking about how Romney was a sure bet to win against Obama when all of the polling and evidence said otherwise.
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I do love that the only pundit worth a poo poo this cycle is a cartoonist. Edit: I don't consider Sundance a pundit.
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Despera posted:If a lot of poeple who are paid to figure out this exact thing think so their opinion is worth more than the goon take on the conservative field. blind leading the blind in this post-trump primary
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Majorian posted:"Political correctness" = not treating other people like poo poo for no reason other than that you really, really want to say the n-word. Keep pretending that.
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