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JonathonSpectre posted:God drat I hope I live at least a couple more years because I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT to read the books that are going to be written about this utterly unbelievable shitshow. Because God is good
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Ol' Reince will always remind me of this great Daily Show segment about the election of the GOP Chair. The question at 2:25 was the part that stuck in my mind, but watching Michael Steele quote A Tale of Two Cities right after saying his favorite book was War and Peace
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Pakled posted:He's still employed by CNN, right? How can they justify this poo poo? Ratings.
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Pakled posted:He's still employed by CNN, right? How can they justify this poo poo? $500,000 well spent.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:11
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CNN has to import pro trump people because all their stock conservatives loathe him
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Aug 3, 2016 05:12
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I feel like we're at the point where Trump managing to keep his mouth shut for a day would be seen as a tremendous recovery and shift for his campaign.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:13
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Epic High Five posted:CNN has to import pro trump people because all their stock conservatives loathe him This appears to be the most likely case
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Pakled posted:He's still employed by CNN, right? How can they justify this poo poo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-71uqV0LHag
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ImpAtom posted:I feel like we're at the point where Trump managing to keep his mouth shut for a day would be seen as a tremendous recovery and shift for his campaign. Maybe that's the plan. Act so incredibly incompetent and set the bar so goddamn low for 2 straight months that by the time November rolls around Americans will be legitimately blown away by the way Donald managed to get all through October without literally making GBS threads his pants like a goddamn child, and that will be enough to get them to vote for him. 
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Aug 3, 2016 05:16
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Aug 3, 2016 05:18
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Will the DNC and/or the PACs supporting Democratic Senate candidates start running ads shaming the GOP candidate for not rebuking Trump? Because that could work. The ads in Ohio are trying to paint Rob Portman as soft on China or in the pockets of the Chinese. It's not terribly effective. Meanwhile they're running ads about Ted Strickland where it's Ol' Ted on video basically saying he was a lovely Governor. We need these Senate races to hop on the Trump Train. And when the Republicans start disavowing Trump the Dems can hit them with "you only started disavowing him as soon as he started hurting your chances, not because you actually have a spine."
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Aug 3, 2016 05:19
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Evil Fluffy posted:http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-the-simpsons-scathe-donald-trump-in-campaign-ad-w431846 This however, owns. https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/760277910758494212
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Evil Fluffy posted:http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-the-simpsons-scathe-donald-trump-in-campaign-ad-w431846 Thr Simpsons WAS a national treasure. This poo poo sucks.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:30
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sarmhan posted:Hillary Clinton's Twitter account is a national treasure. The people who run it deserve a raise. One of the funniest things on there was her simply retweeting Martin Shkreli's endorsement of Trump.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:31
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Evil Fluffy posted:http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-the-simpsons-scathe-donald-trump-in-campaign-ad-w431846 Man, Castanella and Julie Kavner sound tired as gently caress. The simpsons isn't about humor or anything anymore. It's there for celebrities to show up and do a voice, then everyone gets a nice handshake and check and goes home. It's a series that should have retired years ago triumphantly or changed up its formula. (IE: People start aging, dying off, and new cast replacing them) Edit: I did like the tiny hands gag, that was pretty decent. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Pakled posted:If this is the route they take, they'll be completely writing off this presidential election and focusing on staying in control of Congress. That's the beautiful trap they've stepped into. The top of the ticket is getting toxic enough to effect the down ballot, but if they actually write off the top of the ticket that effects the down ballot. Not only does coming out against Trump piss off the Trump faithful, those who head their call are just going to stay home, because the only other choice is vote Hillary. JonathonSpectre posted:God drat I hope I live at least a couple more years because I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT to read the books that are going to be written about this utterly unbelievable shitshow. I wonder how many variations of titles like Stranger Than Fiction we're going to end up with. The Circus got used last time, so that's going to make clown titles harder to do.
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Everyone asking about Tim Huelskamp losing in Kansas, here's a Politico article from last week talking about that race. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/tim-huelskamp-kansas-primary-226486 quote:What’s resulted in “the Big First,” as locals in the rural 63-county district call it, is an unlikely, multimillion dollar proxy fight this summer between some of the most powerful interests in the Republican Party. Outside conservative groups, including the Club for Growth and Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity, have swooped in to try and save Huelskamp in Tuesday’s primary, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Ricketts family’s “Ending Spending” group are spending big to send the three-term congressman back to Kansas. Essentially the guy who beat him is likely better for Kansas and the GOP because he'll act a little more like a real politician instead of an actual child. That said he's still conservative as gently caress. Bonus, this race cost the Koch brothers a bunch of wasted money.
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Mountaineer posted:Republicans are in a tough spot. If things got bad enough they could come out and say they're not going to defend Trump anymore and instead they'll focus on congressional and states races. The thing is they kind of have to cling to the possibility of winning the presidency, because losing that almost certainly means losing the Supreme Court. Except they have to know that ticket-splitting is pretty rare these days and if they telegraph "we are pulling out of the POTUS race" it's going to turn into a rout as Hillary can disengage a lot of forces to focus on down-ballot as well and know that she's going to get a blowout bump. The blowout bump being the situation in which candidates up by large margins in polls tend to do even better on election day as people want to vote for a winner. But my fever dream of 400 electoral votes gets closer and closer every day. 
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Please tell me someone has a screenshot of CNN right now What's happening?
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Epic High Five posted:Nope, there is zero chance enough of the party rejects Trump to make any difference at all. There's a non-zero chance that the party turns on him near the end. They have to cling to the hope of winning because the Supreme Court nominees are going to change the face of the law by swinging to the left or right. Their only hope at this point is Hillary shooting herself in the foot with a German 88. Once there's virtually no doubt she'll win, maybe mid-October, they might turn on Trump en masse and try to take back control of their own party over the next 4 years. The congressional candidates might do this sooner if they're in close races. It's fairly unlikely this will happen IMO because refusing to support the nominee their party voted for is going to have huge short-term ramifications, but I still think it's a possibility. I hope they don't because that'll mean some other outsider will run in 4 years and they'll have no control then either. Oh, and this doesn't take into account the possibility of a Trump bombshell regarding his taxes, net worth, pics of him daughterfucking, etc.
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Gyges posted:I wonder how many variations of titles like Stranger Than Fiction we're going to end up with. The Circus got used last time, so that's going to make clown titles harder to do.
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Night10194 posted:What's happening? Trump's gaffes are literally multiplying.
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Aug 3, 2016 05:57
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I feel like this is just one long episode of that 70 show and everyone is taking turns burning Kelso
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Gyges posted:That's the beautiful trap they've stepped into. The top of the ticket is getting toxic enough to effect the down ballot, but if they actually write off the top of the ticket that effects the down ballot. See, when Cruz gave his speech, I thought it was by far the best speech of the RNC. It was hopeful. It was impassioned. It wasn't overly negative or overly reliant on bashing Hillary. It was a great speech to stump for his party's platform and a reminder "It's more than just the presidential race here!" But, he didn't bend the knee, and his message got lost.
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straight up brolic posted:The GOP are dumb and stubborn, but they should have confirmed Garland when Obama nominated him. I remember seeing one analyst who said they should do that immediately as soon as Trump became presumptive nominee. Bet that guy feels  now.
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Gyges posted:I wonder how many variations of titles like Stranger Than Fiction we're going to end up with. The Circus got used last time, so that's going to make clown titles harder to do. Dumpster Fire will have to be one of them, surely.
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showbiz_liz posted:Dumpster Fire will have to be one of them, surely. MSNBC has you beat: Trumpster Fire.
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iospace posted:See, when Cruz gave his speech, I thought it was by far the best speech of the RNC. It was hopeful. It was impassioned. It wasn't overly negative or overly reliant on bashing Hillary. It was a great speech to stump for his party's platform and a reminder "It's more than just the presidential race here!" It was also one of the only speeches that actually had any substance regarding Republican policy. No one cared. Good though, because gently caress Ted Cruz.
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Filthy Hans posted:There's a non-zero chance that the party turns on him near the end. They have to cling to the hope of winning because the Supreme Court nominees are going to change the face of the law by swinging to the left or right. Their only hope at this point is Hillary shooting herself in the foot with a German 88. Once there's virtually no doubt she'll win, maybe mid-October, they might turn on Trump en masse and try to take back control of their own party over the next 4 years. The congressional candidates might do this sooner if they're in close races. The great thing about this is, the GOP can't reject him by running to the right. There's literally nowhere for them to go but toward rationality, sanity, and reason. There's no emotional appeal they can make, the nativist angle is completely locked up by Trump, and the Religious Right already sold out. But, by moving "left," they open up their flank to the lunatic fringe. So, either the GOP succeeds in in carving out some slightly-left-of-now position, which is unequivocally better for the country, or they get consumed by Frankenstein's monster. It feels like dawn in America. Either that, or the light of the train barreling down the tunnel.
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This may well have already been posted but gently caress it, it's incredible: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/runaway-trump-unmanageable_us_57a15f8de4b08a8e8b600c89?2qjz1j30qqjvsfw29quote:Trump does not take well to criticism, one official said, so any critique has to be prefaced with lavish praise ― as if dealing with a child. Oh man I'm losing my poo poo at this, I hoped the Trumpster Fire had a chance of putting the GOP in a really difficult position come November if Hilldawg wins, but I didn't expect him to be so monumentally atrocious that he managed to get them all to throw their hands in the air within a week of the conventions ending. Any other candidate would be considered an utter disaster if they had this many scandals, gaffes, and unforced errors in their entire campaign. Their campaign would be considered an unprecedented catastrophe and the party would be expected to take a long hard look at itself to ask how someone so fundamentally unqualified to even run a campaign, let alone a country, and would at the least see heads roll and party machinery carefully tweaked. But Trump didn't do it in a campaign of just over three months. He did it in a loving week. God alone knows what the future holds. 
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straight up brolic posted:The GOP are dumb and stubborn, but they should have confirmed Garland when Obama nominated him. They still can. Garland's just twisting in the wind right now. At any point they can continue the vetting/nomination process.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:They still can. Garland's just twisting in the wind right now. At any point they can continue the vetting/nomination process. I wouldn't be surprised that at the end of summer recess, we see confirmation proceedings. It may not end in confirmation, but they'll likely start.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:They still can. Garland's just twisting in the wind right now. At any point they can continue the vetting/nomination process.
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