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Pakled posted:It's not a primary source, but do yourself a favor and read "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" by Rick Perlstein. Politics in the 60's were amazing and the '64 campaign was a glorious mess. yeah that book's amazing
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Eifert Posting posted:Show me one instance where Putin acted outside his personal political interests. Trump would absolutely be harder to manage. Oh yeah. Putin's a fucker, but he's a smart fucker. I expect campaigning with him would be a dream, if you weren't concerned about ethics.
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/760633940151443457 I love the idea of Trump being such an uncontrollable idiot that even a foreign plant trying to manipulate him for power realizes that he's just not worth the effort. He's too stupid to even be a "useful idiot". EDIT: Better yet, the idea that what we hear from Trump is actually the cleaned up version that they managed to salvage. What sort of completely vile clueless egotism would we get otherwise?
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Raenir Salazar posted:Goddamnit. Sex tape showing Friend Ben shagging Melania while Trump watches Trump straight up calling Clinton a oval office during a debate before walking off stage screaming incoherently into the hot mic he forgot to pull off IRS investigation opened into that check Manafort getting caught on a return flight from Russia with a can of polonium-laced CHI Helmet-head hairspray DNC hack conclusively traced to Russian government Trump U case goes extremely poorly for the Trump side of the courtroom Trump actually goes into an interview where the reporter asks him about the border conflict between two small but geopolitically important countries which don't exist, and just answers with the same "We're looking into that, we're looking into a lot of things in the conflict such as where it intersects with our influence and presence in the region" before Stephen Colbert leaps out from behind a door and explains in his trademark gleeful tone that those countries actually have never existed. Night10194 posted:What's AG group? Gonna guess agriculture.
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Metapod posted:I need to know how it's worse Well, "suicidal" implies no one's actually made an attempt
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Night10194 posted:What's AG group? The return of the bimetallists
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Metapod posted:I need to know how it's worse If I had to pick, I would place my personal bet on there being rampant harassment and particularly sexual harassment among staffers.
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Spiritus Nox posted:If I had to pick, I would place my personal bet on there being rampant harassment and particularly sexual harassment among staffers. Low hanging fruit on that prediction.
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Night10194 posted:What's AG group? ag as in agriculture, farmers like him
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Dexo posted:https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/760633940151443457 Trump's getting the Bay of Pigs treatment.
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FAUXTON posted:Trump actually goes into an interview where the reporter asks him about the border conflict between two small but geopolitically important countries which don't exist, and just answers with the same "We're looking into that, we're looking into a lot of things in the conflict such as where it intersects with our influence and presence in the region" before Stephen Colbert leaps out from behind a door and explains in his trademark gleeful tone that those countries actually have never existed. If Trump somehow ends up on TV with the likes of Oliver or Stewart, you know this is going to happen. "Agrabah vs Durotar, what are your views on this important but troubled international border?"
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Popular Thug Drink posted:ag as in agriculture, farmers like him I'll take farmers over tea partiers
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Reminder: Huelskamp was kicked off of Agriculture Committee by Boehner after not being a team player in 2012
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Cythereal posted:If Trump somehow ends up on TV with the likes of Oliver or Stewart, you know this is going to happen. "Agrabah vs Durotar, what are your views on this important but troubled international border?" Trump is Barrens Chat personified, no way it'd be a tough choice for him
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Remember back when Trump made a big deal about how gross it was that Hillary went to the bathroom one time? Such more innocent, civilized times, those. 
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TheBigAristotle posted:I'm really looking forward to the HBO movie about this campaign. Six Seasons and a Movie about this campaign you mean.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Oh yeah. Putin's a fucker, but he's a smart fucker. I expect campaigning with him would be a dream, if you weren't concerned about ethics. If I was the campaign manager of Putin literally the only thing I would do without being asked is to put an asterisk* next to my name in the org chart and then hide under my desk until retirement. *Not to be shot. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Wait, so if tea-partiers are getting primaried... Are we actually looking at a real GOP civil war, possibly?
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I can't believe Trump is self destructing this fast. We knew it'd happen but this has to be a record. How many more 'shakeups' in his team is he gonna have before the election? Sticking to once a month? Maybe boost it to twice now that the REAL campaign has started. The DNC spending 3 days dunking on him while he was ignored in the media probably did a huge number to his ego, and then he goes into the weekend massively loving up the response to the Khan's speech so that dominates the news for another 4 days. Not even when he went after the hispanic judge handling the Trump U case did he have more a full week of nothing but anti-Trump stories and right now he's on day 8-9 with no signs of things letting up... and that's immediately following the "record setting" RNC speech he gave.
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Words can't express how much I want to see Trump and his idiotic true believer followers annihilated in a 50-state sweep. I want Democrats at all levels to run up the score so obscenely that Hillary rides into office with both houses of Congress at her back. I want her to spend mid-September onward as shadow president, ensuring the smoothest transition of administrations in modern history. I want her to ram through every goddamn milquetoast proposal the Democratic party can muster ahead of 2018. I want her to rule over with ruthless technocratic competence, and for 2016 to go down in history as the price old, white idiots pay for flying too close to the idiot sun. What a time to be alive.
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Night10194 posted:Wait, so if tea-partiers are getting primaried... nah. tea partiers come and go with rapidity, they can never deliver on their promises so they get booted out and replaced by some other jerk who gets booted out next year and so on
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I feel like Trump is going to do everything in his power to avoid the debates. He will piss and whine about how they aren't worth his time because it is biased and rigged. Man, I hope I am wrong though.
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It's hard to believe it's only been two weeks since the RNC. I did not expect Trump to crash and burn with such alacrity.
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MODS CURE JOKES posted:We live in the good timeline, you guys If that's the case give David back. 
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Madkal posted:I feel like Trump is going to do everything in his power to avoid the debates. He will piss and whine about how they aren't worth his time because it is biased and rigged. Man, I hope I am wrong though. You're not. For as much as Hillary sucks at speaking to large crowds or debating someone to the left of her on things, she's ice loving cold when it comes to going up against republicans and only gets better the more insane and unhinged they are. It's why Trump is trying to change the rules of the debates right now to either move them to more favorable terms for himself, or to get Stein and Johnson there so he can use them to go after Hillary or talk about how much better his plans are than theirs.
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Pakled posted:It's not a primary source, but do yourself a favor and read "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" by Rick Perlstein. Politics in the 60's were amazing and the '64 campaign was a glorious mess. Then read Nixonland to get a glimpse of our future. 
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My new fear is that Trump flames out within the next month, quits out of anger, and then the GOP replaces him with Cruz or whoever. This gives the Trumpers two months to come to terms and vote for the new Not Hillary and then the moderates that were turned off by Trump to come back. I know that's a long shot but at this point it sounds like a clearer path to victory than Trump himself actually winning.
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Radish posted:My new fear is that Trump flames out within the next month, quits out of anger, and then the GOP replaces him with Cruz or whoever. This gives the Trumpers two months to come to terms and vote for the new Not Hillary and then the moderates that were turned off by Trump to come back. I know that's a long shot but at this point it sounds like a clearer path to victory than Trump himself actually winning. I think if they actually have their nominee flame out to the extent that they have to replace him and try to spin up a campaign apparatus with 60 days to go they're turbo-hosed.
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At the current rate by the debates Trump's campaign might just consist of him sitting around writing angry tweets with no staff. I don't see much of a chance Trump gives up his candidacy though. I think he rides that fucker down to the end Slim Pickens style. The Republicans can try to remove him but no way that ends up with them getting in a new candidate and then winning in Nov.
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Radish posted:My new fear is that Trump flames out within the next month, quits out of anger, and then the GOP replaces him with Cruz or whoever. This gives the Trumpers two months to come to terms and vote for the new Not Hillary and then the moderates that were turned off by Trump to come back. I know that's a long shot but at this point it sounds like a clearer path to victory than Trump himself actually winning.
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This isn't terribly shocking. Trump refused to take anyone's advice before, its unsurprising that he's making his Campaign Manager's life a living hell by being a petty dictator while his campaign burns around him.
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Kobayashi posted:Words can't express how much I want to see Trump and his idiotic true believer followers annihilated in a 50-state sweep. I want Democrats at all levels to run up the score so obscenely that Hillary rides into office with both houses of Congress at her back. I want her to spend mid-September onward as shadow president, ensuring the smoothest transition of administrations in modern history. I want her to ram through every goddamn milquetoast proposal the Democratic party can muster ahead of 2018. I want her to rule over with ruthless technocratic competence, and for 2016 to go down in history as the price old, white idiots pay for flying too close to the idiot sun. What a time to be alive. Get a load of this guy! He wants the political party that most aligns with his beliefs to win A LOT
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Night10194 posted:I think if they actually have their nominee flame out to the extent that they have to replace him and try to spin up a campaign apparatus with 60 days to go they're turbo-hosed.
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Radish posted:My new fear is that Trump flames out within the next month, quits out of anger, and then the GOP replaces him with Cruz or whoever. This gives the Trumpers two months to come to terms and vote for the new Not Hillary and then the moderates that were turned off by Trump to come back. I know that's a long shot but at this point it sounds like a clearer path to victory than Trump himself actually winning. Cruz has literally no reason to jump on that grenade because he's the favorite in 4 years anyway.
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Kobayashi posted:Words can't express how much I want to see Trump and his idiotic true believer followers annihilated in a 50-state sweep. I want Democrats at all levels to run up the score so obscenely that Hillary rides into office with both houses of Congress at her back. I want her to spend mid-September onward as shadow president, ensuring the smoothest transition of administrations in modern history. I want her to ram through every goddamn milquetoast proposal the Democratic party can muster ahead of 2018. I want her to rule over with ruthless technocratic competence, and for 2016 to go down in history as the price old, white idiots pay for flying too close to the idiot sun. What a time to be alive. Democrats advocating for Hillary to usurp Obama's authority before the inauguration! 
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