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Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

save this for if it happens over the next two weeks

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/437784258686767104

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Slate Action
Feb 13, 2012

by exmarx
California update: going great for Trump!

https://twitter.com/MartinWisckol/status/761623970676301824

(Orange County, CA hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1936.)

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Baloogan posted:

Trump signs his "!" when it's actually him typing.

It connotes excitement

Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."


So Trump only had control of his tweets for an hour or so before they changed the password. No fair. :(

Imagining Hitler in the bunker arguing with Bormann over control of the Third Reich's last functioning iPhone.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007


Its the conspiracy vid posted a few pages back probably. Clinton is crazy because she had an aneurysm.

Swedgin
Aug 22, 2006

by exmarx

Slate Action posted:

California update: going great for Trump!

https://twitter.com/MartinWisckol/status/761623970676301824

(Orange County, CA hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1936.)

Orange County is filled with white moms who drive BMWs and vote for candidates like Romney and McCain, exactly the demographic that Trump's scared off. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go narrowly for Clinton this year

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"
From the Right Wing Media Thread:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/761764905028583424

Someone on Twitter thought this sounded like a Star Wars opening crawl.

https://brorlandi.github.io/StarWarsIntroCreator/#!/AKOT2hEyaklyHNy4rzd7

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

William Bear posted:

From the Right Wing Media Thread:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/761764905028583424

Someone on Twitter thought this sounded like a Star Wars opening crawl.

https://brorlandi.github.io/StarWarsIntroCreator/#!/AKOT2hEyaklyHNy4rzd7

Capitalize important phrases like TRUMP-CRUZ WARS and it's perfect.

jackofarcades
Sep 2, 2011

Okay, I'll admit it took me a bit to get into it... But I think I kinda love this!! I'm Spider-Man!! I'm actually Spider-Man!! HA!
https://twitter.com/darth/status/761970857157599232

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


The Populist Nationalist Champions of the New and Better Republican Party Borne in Cleveland That Will Reign Supreme For Years To Come

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
Bill, Son of Irving

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe

William Bear posted:

From the Right Wing Media Thread:

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/761764905028583424

Someone on Twitter thought this sounded like a Star Wars opening crawl.

https://brorlandi.github.io/StarWarsIntroCreator/#!/AKOT2hEyaklyHNy4rzd7

I hope that means that Populist Nationalist Champions of the New and Better Republican Party Borne in Cleveland That Will Reign Supreme For Years To Come is the new name of the Republican Party.

Swedgin
Aug 22, 2006

by exmarx
lmao

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/761970301554929665

Slate Action
Feb 13, 2012

by exmarx

On the other (tiny) hand:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/761970626999443456
Also,

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/761972890979926016

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Swedgin posted:

Orange County is filled with white moms who drive BMWs and vote for candidates like Romney and McCain, exactly the demographic that Trump's scared off. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go narrowly for Clinton this year

OC is a very bad county

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

Patter Song posted:

I hope that means that Populist Nationalist Champions of the New and Better Republican Party Borne in Cleveland That Will Reign Supreme For Years To Come is the new name of the Republican Party.

GOP? more like PNCNBRPBCTWRSFYTC!

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

TheTatteredKing posted:

Okay but does he suggest people are programmed agents

yes. all the time. i was just bringing up the juice box thing to demonstrate just how batshit he is

Swedgin
Aug 22, 2006

by exmarx
it is just endlessly fascinating to me that a plurality of Americans are saying either "she's not honest, but I'm voting for her" or "he can't control himself, but I'm voting for him"

this loving election dot html

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


The Thousand Year Nationalist Republican Reign will lay waste to the (((Corrupting Forces of Globalist Special Interests)))

Slate Action
Feb 13, 2012

by exmarx

Swedgin posted:

it is just endlessly fascinating to me that a plurality of Americans are saying either "she's not honest, but I'm voting for her" or "he can't control himself, but I'm voting for him"

this loving election dot html

That's just what happens when people despise both candidates.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Slate Action posted:

That's just what happens when people despise both candidates.

I fear for how they would gone after Bernie for being (((non-Christian))). Ah well.

e: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/621781334592241665

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004

Baloogan posted:

Trump signs his "!" when it's actually him typing.

Theory checks out

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/621781334592241665

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


I wish the Trump Show would just go away but my genuine feeling is that we're probably headed for 2012 margins again, which were close enough to make people worry.

dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003

I think it only holds when it's a short phrase (or preferably one word) at the end. If it's more of a proper sentence, my bet would be not him.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/761892829434183684

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/761511930238496772

DrPlump
Oct 5, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Patter Song posted:

1928electoralmap.jpg

There were situations where the South was willing to go GOP even then.

The nominal liberal/conservative ideological split between the parties is comparatively new. GOP/Dem was more management/labor oriented back then.

19th century, the Republicans were the party of progressivism and civil rights. Democrats were laissez faire proto-libertarians. WWI started a trend of Republicans being more pro-business, Dems being more pro-labor, which FDR solidified.

Truman began to take the civil rights mantle from the Republicans, which accelerated with JFK and became complete with Johnson. The Dixiecrats revolted in '48 as a result, but remained nominally Democrat due to their labor ties while looking for a way out. Wallace's success in '68 and '72 showed they were willing to switch loyalties, which became the Southern Strategy implemented initially with Nixon and completed with Reagan.

As a result, the Republicans became the party of privilege - be it white, religious, or guns - assembling a coalition of single-issue voters with Reagan. That has produced a party of ideological nutters, due to the stroking of their manias. The Democrats have become the party of everything else - nominally liberal, but more the party of good government and pragmatism.

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

yes. all the time. i was just bringing up the juice box thing to demonstrate just how batshit he is

Thanks. I consider like fluoridation of water to influence sexuality a different wheel house from Manchurian candidates. The latter needs more precise results so I assume it's harder if either was possible. In addled minds I could see one being a bridge too far of the possible.

Swedgin
Aug 22, 2006

by exmarx

three exclamation points, shameful effort

Slate Action
Feb 13, 2012

by exmarx

exquisite tea posted:

I wish the Trump Show would just go away but my genuine feeling is that we're probably headed for 2012 margins again, which were close enough to make people worry.

We're clearly going right back to where we were pre-conventions, which was Clinton +3 or +4. And it'll stay that way, except for when Trump ties it up after he is declared the winner of the first debate.

Bunleigh
Jun 6, 2005

by exmarx
It somehow only just occurred to me that if dems take back the house, Paul Ryan's speakership will have lasted all of one year, and now I yearn for it

https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/761976811471331328


Watching Ryan haplessly put himself in one untenable position after another is one of my favorite things

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.


WHY IS HE YELLING?!

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead
John McCain only made good because he had a powerful and influential father who buoyed him up despite his repeated failures in his chosen career. Sad!

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

Bunleigh posted:

It somehow only just occurred to me that if dems take back the house, Paul Ryan's speakership will have lasted all of one year, and now I yearn for it


Watching Ryan haplessly put himself in one untenable position after another is one of my favorite things

from that article

quote:

Jay Bergman, an Illinois oil executive and major Republican donor, said Mr. Trump’s clash with the parents of a slain soldier had been a sharp reality check. Mr. Bergman said he had previously viewed Mr. Trump as a “loose cannon like a fox” — calculating his inflammatory comments to drive his message. That view was harder to sustain after Mr. Trump’s latest eruption, he said.

i can't decide if that's stupid or brilliant

Xandu
Feb 19, 2006


It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

it's funny how basically every politician ever has had speechwriters and now social media teams and yet trump is the only one who gets poo poo for someone else's words being put out there in his name

Because Trump sounds so ludicrous normally, the discrepancy is obvious.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Slate Action posted:

We're clearly going right back to where we were pre-conventions, which was Clinton +3 or +4. And it'll stay that way, except for when Trump ties it up after he is declared the winner of the first debate.

Watching this election cycle confirms my feeling that Obama's 2012 reelection bid was maybe the single best political campaign ever put together.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
foxes are the loose cannons of the animal kingdom. they don't play by the rules but they get results, damnit!

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Darkman Fanpage posted:

foxes are the loose cannons of the animal kingdom. they don't play by the rules but they get results, damnit!

turn in your bushy tail and bright eyes, you are off the food chain!!!

Slate Action
Feb 13, 2012

by exmarx

exquisite tea posted:

Watching this election cycle confirms my feeling that Obama's 2012 reelection bid was maybe the single best political campaign ever put together.

Clinton's campaign is nearly as good in terms of competence, it just has a drastically inferior candidate.

Trump has a cult of personality and a judo grip on the media, but mechanically speaking I've never seen a worse campaign.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

exquisite tea posted:

Watching this election cycle confirms my feeling that Obama's 2012 reelection bid was maybe the single best political campaign ever put together.

The people of this great nation are so high on prescription pills and drunk half the time that "forgetting to pick your kids up" is a major issue. We are blessed that people remember that faces arent food most (most) of the time, nobody is going to remember that trump insulted then bounced a baby

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Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

https://twitter.com/LilPicture/status/761982587338358784

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