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https://twitter.com/iamgavinjames/status/704501924855308288 There has to be video of every single person on the right defending Mitt on TAX RETURNS.
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Epic High Five posted:What the gently caress is it with young Republicans and bow ties ive been known to wear a bow tie, mainly because they upset people for no good reason
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so loving future posted:Or do you?? lol if you're so far gone you actually want to see trump as president
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Legit can't really tell what's going on in that .gif, too short, small and blurry, might be one of those "you see what you want to see" situations.Venom Snake posted:It's his plan to pivot to the center in the general. He will make a kickstarter and match every dollar. Crowdfunded fascism is the way of the future my friend. I want to see the Trump Wall stretch goals and backer rewards. Top two donors get to be huge stone statues either side of the big, byootiful door. If it makes double the asked-for funds they'll build the Canada wall too.
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Whats a more retarded overaction: choke slamming a dude into a table because he lightly shoved you or building a great wall of china times 10 to keep people who don't exist out.
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It all makes sense now. Trump is the white Louis Farrakhan.
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Montasque posted:https://twitter.com/iamgavinjames/status/704501924855308288 To be fair Mitt probably just avoided paying any taxes while Donald probably paid 0 and also disappeared some people.
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Trump as the literal actual President would own so unbelievably hard.
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quadrophrenic posted:i see a dude stepping back a half-step  quadrophrenic posted:so if that was a "shove" it was an extremely limp-wristed shove that probably could've been handled with a little bit less than a full on chokeslam Brannock posted:Are you literally incapable of seeing rapid backwards movement? Brannock posted:The retaliation was way over the top
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OctoberBlues posted:You better dig through those drawers man, ebay tells me that could be worth upwards of $10 holy poo poo either you guessed or you looked it up, nice i bet i could make like 0.25 times that much selling the baseball cards that probably were in the same drawer ebay doesnt seem to have prices for a high school quiz bowl championship ring though man i forgot about that drawer. the dozen dollar drawer
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Mitt Romney is the generic corporate villain of the week on captain planet and Donald Trump is literally cobra commander.
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Hahahaha that's wonderful
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oystertoadfish posted:once the next team playing on the softball field was short a player and i didnt have poo poo to do so i volunteered to fill in, turned out they were a bunch of secret service people, but i think the ones that work in offices in the dc area stopping counterfeit money? It was pretty cool of him
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Maoist Pussy posted:Trump as the literal actual President would own so unbelievably hard. "fascism is good" - all trump supporters, whether out loud or tacitly
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Darth Windu posted:It was pretty cool of him they were all very nice, and i dont think i was sarcastic or goony about it, i would hope i acted very appropriately in response edit: sarcastic or goony at the time. now im a sarcastic goon. nothing can save me now
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Diamond & Silk stumping for Trump and throwing major shade on David Duke, the KKK, the Media, and the Democratic party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR93wQm-YDk It's about UNITY folks, UNITY!
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Maoist Pussy posted:Trump as the literal actual President would own so unbelievably hard. Yeah
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Venom Snake posted:Whats a more retarded overaction: choke slamming a dude into a table because he lightly shoved you or building a great wall of china times 10 to keep people who don't exist out. Lol
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To be fair: it's the Great Wall of China divided by ten, not times ten.
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Christ how loving difficult is it for people to actually go after Trump on poo poo that isn't immediately falsifiable, there's hundreds of this stuff Instead idiots elect to tackle "issues" that can be successfully argued down and makes their position look even more laughable than it immediately comes off as
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This trump kkk poo poo is such a work, he's on tape instantly disavowing him on Friday when he first heard, now he has rubio attacking racists in the southern states, which is gonna let him run up the score even more and on wednesday he gets to say "oh it was a bad mic and liberal media tricks, i said three days earlier that i disavow, can you believe these guys" and it will work because half his supporters will buy antimedia narratives and the other half think he's just playing the game and pretending to not like the KKK because of political correctness, and theyre glad he is a secret white supremacist
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find Trump there, staring out at you! - the Azhar Book, chapter 4, verse 3, line 7
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oystertoadfish posted:they were all very nice, and i dont think i was sarcastic or goony about it, i would hope i acted very appropriately in response That's good!! I met some people who worked on LIGO and they gave me a NRAO pin, this is kind of like your story
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Montasque posted:https://twitter.com/iamgavinjames/status/704501924855308288 The GOP is not good at long term strategy it seems.
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Montasque posted:Diamond & Silk stumping for Trump and throwing major shade on David Duke, the KKK, the Media, and the Democratic party: i want to tax these ladies more
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Out of all the leaders people could have picked to be their Duce, to show masculinity in the face of leftist PC millenial crybabies, they picked the orange man with a 180 degree combover who gets mad when you make fun of his stubby little fingers
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Fiction posted:"fascism is good" - all trump supporters, whether out loud or tacitly Nationalism is actually the antidote to globalist neoliberal hegemony, so, yes.
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Maoist Pussy posted:Trump as the literal actual President would own so unbelievably hard.
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Montasque posted:Diamond & Silk stumping for Trump and throwing major shade on David Duke, the KKK, the Media, and the Democratic party: Are they employees of the Trump campaign? And are Diamond and Silk really their names?
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Maoist Pussy posted:Nationalism is actually the antidote to globalist neoliberal hegemony, so, yes. - a white person
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Maoist Pussy posted:Trump as the literal actual President would own so unbelievably hard. I'd consider voting for trump if Scalia was still alive and if I wasn't dating someone likely to be deported Like yeah at least it wouldn't be boring
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Brannock posted:Christ how loving difficult is it for people to actually go after Trump on poo poo that isn't immediately falsifiable, there's hundreds of this stuff You have been saying this for months and have yet to bring up one of these hundreds of things. Also you can attack Trump for literally anything because the dude is the textbook definition of an empty suit. His policy positions are so insane and mercurial he comes off like a magic 8 ball that pulls its answers from a twitter markov generator.
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https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/704529177865752576 GOP intellectual class with the hottest takes this cycle.
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Maoist Pussy posted:Nationalism is actually the antidote to globalist neoliberal hegemony, so, yes. Do you have poo poo like those poetry magnets but of internet-communist buzzwords and every time you post you just throw a couple randos at your screen to help out?
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Montasque posted:https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/704529177865752576 He's not wrong through?
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Fiction posted:- a white person Are you trying to imply that black people are not Americans? Because you are wrong and you should be ashamed of it.
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Why Republicans should brace for a contested convention Republican commentators have dismissed concerns over a contested convention with a hand-waving reference to “winner-take-all” primaries later in the calendar. Like so much of the rest of Republican reasoning, that confidence is built on a set of factual assumptions not born out in the world around us. These are the reasons we can anticipate a contest at the convention to select the nominee. 1) Few delegates will be assigned in a true, statewide, winner-take-all contest. Only eight states, delivering less than 400 of the necessary 1247 delegates needed for a majority, will be awarded in a winner-take-all fashion. One of them, Ohio, is a likely win for Kasich who is otherwise a delegate laggard. He is unlikely to drop out before that March 15th primary. 2) The system is only designed to select a winner if one candidate can consistently top 50%. Most of the states that commentators describe as “winner-take-all” are in fact proportional unless one candidate tops 50%. That list of about 12 states includes some big ones, like Texas (155) and New York (95). Something remarkable and unpredictable would have to happen in the five weeks or so for someone to reach 50% just about anywhere. 3) Trump has a hard ceiling somewhere in the mid-thirties. So does every other GOP candidate. Pollsters have made clear that Trump’s support dries up beyond about a third of GOP voters in almost every state. What they haven’t mentioned is that practically every other candidate experiences a similar, fairly low ceiling. Cruz may actually top out a bit lower than Trump. Pollsters point to voters’ generally favorable image of Rubio. However, that only extends to their view of him as a person, not as a candidate. Once negative campaigning focuses in on Rubio, his embrace of immigration reform will translate into a hard cap. That cap is made worse by Rubio’s general weakness as a candidate. He may be less annoying than Cruz and less revolting than Trump, but he’s not very good at this. We have a deeply divided Republican primary electorate, creating strong incentives to stay in the race for candidates in the top four or five. 4) A vast majority of delegates are ‘soft-pledged,’ meaning they shed their attachment to their assigned candidate after a failed first ballot. Here’s where the Republican ‘Red Wedding Scenario’ gets its energy. Most GOP delegates are only locked into their selection if there is a clear winner. Soft-committed delegates are basically only committed if the convention doesn’t matter. After a first failed ballot, serious, involved, committed members of the Republican Party – the kind of people who become convention delegates – are set free from the yahoos who voted in the primaries. They get to pick the winner. In 100 out of 100 potential runs of that scenario, Donald Trump fails to win the nomination. In fact, there is reason to expect that the nominee would be someone who wasn’t even a candidate in the primaries. 5) There are no brokers. Note the vital difference between a ‘contested’ and a ‘brokered’ convention. Decades ago, before primaries played such a prominent role, powerful interests in the parties negotiated the convention outcome. This was a vital service, as 2500 people who don’t know each other will often have difficulty organizing themselves toward a sensible outcome without the help of some leadership. In a scenario like we face this year, a dozen or so leading figures should be able to help mediate an outcome prior to the convention, at least limiting the convention delegates to two or three reasonably options. There are no authoritative figures inside the party with the credibility and influence it takes to bring potential rivals together. It will be an unpredictable, bare-knuckles fight. There is a chance that a contest on the convention floor could extend beyond the convention, with more than one claimant insisting that he was the winner in a disputed outcome that lands in the courts. 6) And a note about Rule 40. Some have pointed out that Rule 40 would bar consideration of any potential nominee who failed to win a majority of the delegates in at least 8 states. Rule 40 doesn’t matter because the party gets to make the rules more or less on the fly, within the constraints of what is politically possible. If primary results dictate that Rule 40 becomes a problem, then the party will simply change it at the start of the convention. The real difficulty here is that we have no political structure in place to allow the Republican Party to select its nominee in a convention. Over the past seventy years or so our conventions have evolved from a real political process to a pep rally focused on marketing a nominee who, for all intents and purposes, was selected before anyone cast a primary ballot. Forcing the convention to perform the complex task of selecting the party’s nominee for the White House is like taking sailboat down a Class 5 rapid. In some ways, this kind of catastrophic institutional challenge might be just the medicine we need. Maybe we will recognize the cost of building an entire political platform on fantasies. Perhaps out of the wreckage of Cleveland we can build something more credible. Evolutionary forces have a way of imposing discipline when we fail to do it ourselves.
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