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Pakled posted:"That baby was probably a Democrat anyway. You know how entitled millennials are." Hey, don't put that baby on millenials
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straight up brolic posted:If he had a shred of common sense he would not have accepted the purple heart True, but he can't undo that, and he can't admit he's wrong.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've been thinking about this Trump Purple Heart thing. I don't think he can back down, but if he had a shred of common sense, he'd have that medal mounted in a nice display, with a portrait of that veteran. He'd then hang it up in his office in a conspicuous place. Then, he'd arrange for an interview or a photoshoot where you can see it in the background. this is excellent advice for the eventuality where ted cruz finds himself on the 7 1/2th floor of an office building.
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straight up brolic posted:If he had a shred of common sense he would not have accepted the purple heart It was a copy the veteran had made specifically to give to Trump. I think accepting it is fine, you just have to follow that up with "What an honor, I'm truly humbled by this gesture" and then spin that into taking better care of our veterans. You don't go "Wow, I always wanted one of these! So much easier to get it this way!"
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Gyges posted:At least he'll still be billing their credit cards though. Do you think he'll stop once the election's over?
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Aug 6, 2016 03:40
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I don't think anyone would actually care at all if he would just stop bringing it up constantly. Like actual quote: "The media is dishonest for saying I threw the baby out. Yeah, I threw that baby out. It was noisy." You can see "I need to save my image" and "I'm always right" clashing. EDIT: Another choice quote: "Sometimes knowing a little is better than knowing too much."* *for republicans EDIT 2: At least there's another turd mine open while Trump's being boring: Trump staffers on twitter. Yinlock fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:But Trump is Trump, so I won't be surprised if he starts trying to collect as many Purple Hearts as possible.
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Aug 6, 2016 03:47
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I'm legitimately starting to think he's going out of his way to throw this election. No one could make this many gaffes in a row on purpose. He can lose in a landslide and say the election was 'rigged'. His base will eat it up, so he will save face there--and he will avoid his 'dog catches car' moment.
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Aug 6, 2016 03:50
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He's not throwing the election. The polls will narrow and it'll be a close race after the debates.
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Aug 6, 2016 03:57
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CelestialScribe posted:He's not throwing the election. The polls will narrow and it'll be a close race after the debates. In a universe where Trump could win a debate this is indeed possible. This is an actual headline: Trump Calls Clinton 'Close to Unhinged,' Assures He's Pro-Baby At this point how could this possibly end up a close race short of Hillary actually having strong ties to Lucifer
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Would someone explain to me what it means to be "rat hosed" in the political world? I keep seeing it.
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Lol he doesn't need to win to tighten the polls. I'm not saying he'll be elected. But it will be close.
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BearDrivingTruck posted:Would someone explain to me what it means to be "rat hosed" in the political world? I keep seeing it. It's just a colorful expression for being screwed out of something in a scummy way.
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BearDrivingTruck posted:Would someone explain to me what it means to be "rat hosed" in the political world? I keep seeing it. Somehow, wikipedia has an article on this: "Ratfucking is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks. It was first brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their book All the President's Men."
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^^^ Basically means to be cheated in a very politically motivated, but also personal way. The kind of thing where everyone hates you so much that they briefly unite for the pleasure of loving you out of something on a technicality. Yinlock posted:How could this possibly end up a close race short of Hillary actually having strong ties to Lucifer
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I don't think he'll debate. He's going to skip them.
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LeeMajors posted:I'm legitimately starting to think he's going out of his way to throw this election. No one could make this many gaffes in a row on purpose. He can lose in a landslide and say the election was 'rigged'. His base will eat it up, so he will save face there--and he will avoid his 'dog catches car' moment. Peter Principle. He's been promoted to the level of his incompetence. While he's not a particularly good businessman he's amazing at marketing. He mopped the floor with the republican candidates because the party was too weak and divided to call him out in an effective way. He dispensed with dog whistle racism and went with real racism which to a certain segment of the voting population must be absolutely refreshing even if it does drat your reputation. Primary Trump kicked a lot of rear end, but candidate Trump is going to get kicked about when he's in the same room with Hillary. I'm waiting for her to start an emperor has no clothes moment when she demonstrates just how incompetent he is.
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Evil Fluffy posted:One of the nice side-effects of this is that when he first entered the race he caused damage to his brand due to his racism and toxicity. If/when he gets blown away in a landslide come November it might maybe, just maybe, be enough to cause the gold leaf to fall off the Trump-branded turd and ruin him for good. Sadly the rest of us still have to live with the people that constitute his base and their fired up ideological views
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Yinlock posted:At this point how could this possibly end up a close race short of Hillary actually having strong ties to Lucifer Lucifer is known to be a man of wealth and taste, which puts him two up on Trump.
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FuturePastNow posted:I don't think he'll debate. He's going to skip them. He can probably be lured into one because he'll honestly think he can win, because he's a narcissist and a complete idiot.
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Yinlock posted:Like actual quote: "The media is dishonest for saying I threw the baby out. Yeah, I threw that baby out. It was noisy." "I would never throw a baby out just like it was something to do. I got more sense than that. Yeah, I remember throwing that baby out." The Rokstar fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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FuturePastNow posted:I don't think he'll debate. He's going to skip them. He won't skip them because he honestly believes he is a smart and good speaker and honestly believes that his arguments in fact do own Clinton hard. Trump will debate because in Trump's eyes he can do nothing but win. The debates will be his chance to take down Clinton and he will jump at it.
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Ice Phisherman posted:Peter Principle. He's been promoted to the level of his incompetence. This is a good point, Primary Trump only had to deal with Republican voters who have been softened up by decades of Fox News and must have been a goldmine of easy pickings for a con-man. Then he moves into the Actual Election phase where things like "facts" actually matter.
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Also if this was TV instead of politics, The Trump Campaign would totally be getting renewed and would be considered a breakout success.
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Trabisnikof posted:He won't skip them because he honestly believes he is a smart and good speaker and honestly believes that his arguments in fact do own Clinton hard. I'm like 90% sure he's gonna do the first debate, get his rear end handed to him, and then skip the rest insisting that the moderators are biased against him.
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I'm still pushing for the Paul Manafort Reality TV Show. Just a half-drunk man trying to deal with Trump's bullshit. The tense music swells as he watches Trump clothesline a baby seal and slowly reaches for the booze.
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The Lone Badger posted:Lucifer is known to be a man of wealth and taste, which puts him two up on Trump. Trump's just a poor boy, he needs no sympathy.
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In a movie, Trump would walk out post-debate with a hot mic and we would hear him say "I nailed it. I mean, look, I am great. Just amazing. And those people voting for me are dumb. D-U-M-B dumb. I could sell them poo poo and they would LOVE it. I am going to make SO MUCH MONEY" And then everyone would get mad and his toupee would fly off. In real life, people would be like "yeah he tells it like it is everyone else voting for him is dumb but not me!"
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The Republican nominee for President has spent an entire week of his campaign feuding with a baby. A literal, not figurative, infant. It may not seem like it but - and this is important - this is what is actually happening.
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Jackson Taus posted:You guys realize this is gonna flip back around right? There's no way Trump can keep flailing like this for the next three months. Eventually folks will get tired of him rehashing his previous comments, or Hillary will [whatever the female equivalent of stepping on one's own dick is], or Manafort will roofie him for three days straight during the Olympics, and suddenly a poll will come out where he's down by 3-4 instead of 7-8, and everyone will be talking about how he's right back in the race. Here's the thing: it doesn't matter. The conventional wisdom says that, in a generic, spherical presidential race, there's a sort of natural ground state of popularity for each candidate and that a candidates words and actions can only move their popularity up or down so many percentage points, and only for so long. Post-Republican Realignment, the nation is simply too locked in to partisan politics to swing the needle either way very much. Traditionally in modern politics candidates and the 2 parties that back them have been close enough in popularity that any given race can be spun as a theoretically winnable horse-race, depending on how this or that turns out; Obama was always more popular than Romney, but it was just theoretically possible that if Obama had flubbed the other two debates and there had been a terrorist attack or if Romney's ground game had actually existed, we could be looking at President Mormon. The two candidates' ground state popularities were close enough that their actions always mattered. So all we were waiting for in Trump v. Clinton race's natural equilibrium was; it's a number that's impossible to gauge without months of polling, and it doesn't usually settle out until a week or two after both national conventions. We still don't know precisely what the campaign's natural equilibrium was, but assuming a normal, temporary 2-4 point convention bounce, then today's current polling indicates a natural race equilibrium of Clinton +4-6. Which, in modern political terms, is a crazy pants bad number for Trump. That was better than Obama's largest aggregate lead on Romney, for reference. It's 2016, so who knows what the gently caress will eventually happen, but if any shred of modern political theory still holds true, you can stick a fork in Donald Trump; even if he shuts the gently caress up from now until the end of the campaign and never makes another gaffe, and the polls revert to their natural mean, he's still only looking at an Obama/McCain-style loss, instead of a Bush/Dukakis-style loss.
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CelestialScribe posted:Lol he doesn't need to win to tighten the polls. Holy gently caress, CelestialScribe is saying Trump might lose. Pack it in Trump, you've lost.
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CelestialScribe posted:Lol he doesn't need to win to tighten the polls. You've come so far.
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The Lone Badger posted:Do you think he'll stop once the election's over? poo poo no. I fully expect Trump jr to run for something and for it to turn out he funneling the money from years of continuously billing people's cards into his campaign.
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Gyges posted:poo poo no. I fully expect Trump jr to run for something and for it to turn out he funneling the money from years of continuously billing people's cards into his campaign. There's been rumors one of his sons is going to run for mayor, so there's that.
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Somehow there are still 94 days until the election
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Trabisnikof posted:Also if this was TV instead of politics, The Trump Campaign would totally be getting renewed and would be considered a breakout success. No, it'd be on the chopping block because the demographics are just terrible.
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I honestly think there is a risk of the GOP running a coup. They are entirely willing to redistrict viciously to their advantage, this may be their last chance ever at the executive position, as much as it would be filled with a nigh uncontrollable idiot, I am worried about absolutely any stupid evil trick they might decide to pull.
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http://www.rappler.com/nation/142109-duterte-us-ambassador-goldberg-buwisitquote:CAPIZ, Philippines – The notoriously frank President Rodrigo Duterte had something to say about United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg on Friday, August 5.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Somehow there are still 94 days until the election Balloon Boy? Wait was that the dad that turned out to be a loving liar? edit: yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:The Republican nominee for President has spent an entire week of his campaign feuding with a baby. A literal, not figurative, infant.
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