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What is it with him and the word good? Like, has he ever heard of a synonym or something ?????
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Wouldn't be surprising. The email leak has shown that the DNC has repeatedly tried to rig the election in favor of Democratic candidates.  Trump may not be a socialist but he's certainly a socialite.By the end of the election he may as well be Howard Hughes without the contributions to the sciences of aeronautics, cinematography, and personal hygiene.
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Aug 2, 2016 08:15
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Hermsgervørden posted:I'm probably going to travel to a swing state to do GOTV for Clinton. Is there a city where really good turnout flips both a senate seat and a house seat?
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Aug 2, 2016 08:19
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Luna Was Here posted:What is it with him and the word good? Like, has he ever heard of a synonym or something ?????
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Aug 2, 2016 08:24
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So supposing Trump decides to step down at this point or actually kills himself staying up all night responding to Twitter. What happens to his spot as the Presidential candidate? Does Pence step up?
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Aug 2, 2016 08:31
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Triskelli posted:So supposing Trump decides to step down at this point or actually kills himself staying up all night responding to Twitter. What happens to his spot as the Presidential candidate? Does Pence step up? Executive committee of the party chooses a new candidate.
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Aug 2, 2016 08:35
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Triskelli posted:So supposing Trump decides to step down at this point or actually kills himself staying up all night responding to Twitter. What happens to his spot as the Presidential candidate? Does Pence step up? Presumably it's up to the RNC whether they fill it by vote (I.e. reconvening an emergency session  ) or by committee decision. No matter who they pick, a bunch of trumpites will feel left out and throw a fit.
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Aug 2, 2016 08:36
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I suspect the terrible vocabulary is a deeply ingrained habit of training himself to speak badly. He probably learned early on that it's easy to con rubes if you sound dumber than them. Think that episode of South Park where Cartman gives himself Tourettes Syndrome.  Also, I seriously thought the "Mexican" judge fiasco would be the last tailspin, especially since he semi-fired Lewandowski. He might have been a master manipulator, but he's too emotional now. To be fair, his core followers are voting for a personality more than anything, so maybe he would lose their support if he stopped being a whiny baby who hates to apologize.
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Aug 2, 2016 08:41
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Luna Was Here posted:What is it with him and the word good? Like, has he ever heard of a synonym or something ????? I don't know about whether he's doing it "ironically" or otherwise intentionally, but it's pretty clear to me that Trump has a very limited vocabulary.
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Aug 2, 2016 08:47
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Triskelli posted:So supposing Trump decides to step down at this point or actually kills himself staying up all night responding to Twitter. What happens to his spot as the Presidential candidate? Does Pence step up?
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Aug 2, 2016 08:47
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Samurai Sanders posted:Months ago there was the argument that he was deliberately keeping the reading level of his speaking down to about a third grade level. Is that argument still a thing? Trump deliberately speaks at a third grade level much like I deliberately walk on the ground instead of majestically flying through the sky like an eagle
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Aug 2, 2016 08:56
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berserker posted:http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-new-york-times-226546 Jesus it's like he must only read the quotes of himself then.
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Aug 2, 2016 09:09
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Is this the first year the general election started before the Olympics? Going to be weird seeing the candidates try to pry attention away from that.
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Aug 2, 2016 09:12
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Pakled posted:Unfortunately, no amount of Trump hate is going to convince Utah to elect the first trans person to be nominated to run for the US Senate by a major party.
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Aug 2, 2016 09:16
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Edmund Lava posted:Is this the first year the general election started before the Olympics? Going to be weird seeing the candidates try to pry attention away from that. i mean i dont think people really want to think about the shitshow that will be rio 2016 honestly it wouldn't surprise me if more people started to tune into The International rather than the Olympics this year
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Aug 2, 2016 09:16
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Is Trump's fear-mongering of the vote getting rigged going to go anywhere? Or might it actually cause a little civil war in November?
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Aug 2, 2016 09:23
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Edmund Lava posted:Is this the first year the general election started before the Olympics? Going to be weird seeing the candidates try to pry attention away from that. Seeing people literally swimming through raw sewage and contracting diseases is a powerful argument for the need for competent government and infrastructure investment. But street gangs wantonly mugging people and maybe even murdering them, potentially all caught live on camera, is the type of thing that could benefit a xenophobic strong man candidate.
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Luna Was Here posted:i mean i dont think people really want to think about the shitshow that will be rio 2016 Disagree. Not that it won't be a poo poo show cause it will, but the media mostly going to be running positive patriotic stories like Simone Biles crushing the dreams of lesser women.
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Edmund Lava posted:Disagree. Not that it won't be a poo poo show cause it will, but the media mostly going to be running positive patriotic stories like Simone Biles crushing the dreams of lesser women.
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Aug 2, 2016 09:37
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I'm seriously wondering just how long Trump is going to spend responding to the Khans. Another day? Days? Weeks? Will he continue to die on this hill over and over until the end of the election? Beyond? I mean people are going to keep poking him with it until he gives up on his own. So when does he decide to give up on his own?
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Aug 2, 2016 09:42
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Ice Phisherman posted:I'm seriously wondering just how long Trump is going to spend responding to the Khans. Another day? Days? Weeks? Will he continue to die on this hill over and over until the end of the election? Beyond?
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Aug 2, 2016 09:48
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Holy gently caress, y'all post a lot. I'm still catching up on the July thread, but a shitposting idiot actually had a good idea. We should compile a list of reputable sources, aka link to this page and you won't get immediately mocked. I can think of plenty of sources on the other side of that question. But what are some that can be linked with confidence?
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Aug 2, 2016 09:56
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:it took me years to figure out that fried chicken and watermelon were used as dog whistles, and i still dont fukken get it. who the hell *doesnt* love fried chicken and watermelon, no matter the color of their skin? Who doesn't love pasta and tomato sauce? But if I want to make some covert refrences to Italians those foodstuffs would accomplish that, and why would I need to be covert about it unless I was being insulting. Dog whistle stuff must have plausible deniability and one way to get that is to take something innocuous or even positive that's specific to a group/culture and turn it into a stereotype of them that you can then deride or condescend about when you can't explicitly call those people poo poo.
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Aug 2, 2016 10:15
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Lemming posted:Trump deliberately speaks at a third grade level much like I deliberately walk on the ground instead of majestically flying through the sky like an eagle This is amazing
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Aug 2, 2016 10:58
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Ice Phisherman posted:I'm seriously wondering just how long Trump is going to spend responding to the Khans. Another day? Days? Weeks? Will he continue to die on this hill over and over until the end of the election? Beyond? He's also decided to die on Mount Putin http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia.html
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Skeesix posted:He's also decided to die on Mount Putin yeah. pretty much. he loves russia and putin and wants to kill browns with them.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. pretty much. he loves russia and putin and wants to kill browns with them. If he wanted to kill the Browns he could have just stayed in Cleveland.
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Inferior Third Season posted:Seeing people literally swimming through raw sewage and contracting diseases is a powerful argument for the need for competent government and infrastructure investment. You would think, but almost half of America will instead interpret it as "See? Government can't do anything right!" We might get a line or two of "In Brazil they have big government. You can see how the Olympics turned out to see how big government turns out. Hillary Clinton wants big government. Bad!"
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Aug 2, 2016 12:28
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berserker posted:http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-new-york-times-226546 please let donald trump blacklist the new york times. please let him bar the last relevant american newspaper not in part owned by murdoch from his events. please let this happen. they already hate him, and i want to see what it'd be like for them to go all the way in on their disgust. please, donald. please revoke the new york times' access to your events. you know you want to.
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Inferior Third Season posted:I'm really interested in seeing how the Olympics will be interpreted through the American political lens, if it's even half the clusterfuck it's shaping up to be. It'll likely be spit down the middle as always: People who pay attention to the situation will see that Brazil's government is corrupt and failing in important ways, more democrat leaning sources will state that they need real regulation while the right wingers will try to turn it into support for their xenophobia, racism, and "government can't do anything right (please give us full control of the government)" narrative. I fully expect it all to fade away from the public eye fairly quickly just like Sochi's incredibly rampant corruption unless a very large percentage of the athletes come home with chronic disease or stab wounds. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Ars Technica posted:http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/dnc-staffer-got-pop-up-messages-alerting-of-state-sponsored-actors/ More evidence of Russian fuckery in the DNC. Ironic that this information came out from the Wikileaks email dump.
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edrith posted:please let donald trump blacklist the new york times. please let him bar the last relevant american newspaper not in part owned by murdoch from his events. please let this happen. they already hate him, and i want to see what it'd be like for them to go all the way in on their disgust. please, donald. please revoke the new york times' access to your events. you know you want to. Once the NYT is banned it's pretty much just USA Today and WSJ for major national newspapers right?
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Aug 2, 2016 12:59
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Serrath posted:Listing things in some sort of chronological order like this has so much more impact than watching each train wreck one at a time. because, among those different stories that occurred in just 2 days there's so much more nuance and detail to be explored. Like the fact that the firefighter trump smeared was civilian of the year a couple of years ago for his response during a mass casualty event (and the fact that the elevator failed due to mechanical interference from Trump's own security detail) or the transcript pertaining to the answers he gave to the question of Crimea (seriously read it, it's a thing of beauty) actually copies, word for word, the responses he gave when he was confronted with the same question in an interview several months ago. Did his security detail really gently caress up the elevator? 
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Charlz Guybon posted:Did his security detail really gently caress up the elevator? quote:Trump's security team was given control of the hotel's elevators during the event, said Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney who co-owns the hotel. From ABC news
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What Trump could do for the debates is pull a Mike gravel. Pull out of the debate(Gravel was simply forced out due to low numbers) and live broadcast a counter event(Gravel has to use YouTube after the fact but Trump could afford to buy airtime) and watch the live Hillary interview, pausing and "rebutting" after every answer and make accusations free of moderator review or rebuttal.
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greatn posted:What Trump could do for the debates is pull a Mike gravel. Pull out of the debate(Gravel was simply forced out due to low numbers) and live broadcast a counter event(Gravel has to use YouTube after the fact but Trump could afford to buy airtime) and watch the live Hillary interview, pausing and "rebutting" after every answer and make accusations free of moderator review or rebuttal. He could, but it would be a terrible idea. So maybe.
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Aug 2, 2016 13:18
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Someone tweet that idea at him, please 
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Look, as long as I get a video of Trump looking at the camera and then throwing a big rock in a lake I'm good
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over the weekend, I discovered that my 24/7 Fox News-watching relatives can't stand Trump. (I doubt they'll vote for Clinton or at all, but we're in MD/VA anyway so 3-4 votes shouldn't matter.) I really thought they had no principles other than DEMS BAD until now, so in a roundabout way, Trump has caused me to slightly respect these people A Good Candidate
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greatn posted:What Trump could do for the debates is pull a Mike gravel. Pull out of the debate(Gravel was simply forced out due to low numbers) and live broadcast a counter event(Gravel has to use YouTube after the fact but Trump could afford to buy airtime) and watch the live Hillary interview, pausing and "rebutting" after every answer and make accusations free of moderator review or rebuttal. Actually I'd call this pulling a Perot: 
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