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Geoff Peterson posted:https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/764989713149267968 What's that word for shocked but not at all surprised?
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The Puppy Bowl posted:What's that word for shocked but not at all surprised? Trumped
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Aug 15, 2016 03:22
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Geoff Peterson posted:https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/764989713149267968 This won't go anywhere. We literally already knew Paul Manafort is a Russian plant. Trump is just a useful idiot, Manafort has always been the real representative of the influence of a foreign government, it's just that Trump is so blatantly stupid that the American electorate hates him. As we've seen in the Phillipines, if Trump were running in a non-Western democracy with less competent opponents and a more corrupt system (I.e. What Americans think our system is, rather than what it is) Manafort would already have him in office and that country dancing to Putin's tune. It's a lot harder to do that poo poo here though, for a variety of reasons, not all of them good.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:26
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Crowsbeak posted:Ah, so Fishmech would you be fine with people mutilating others who might not even be consenting in theaters and then say it was necessary to please a God? Also are Christians required to hurt a person? Seriously, do you _not_ know anything about professional wrestling in this day and age? The entire career of Mick Foley, for example.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:32
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Crowsbeak posted:Yeah you obviously know nothing of the classical era lol. Says the guy who believes random Christian lunatics, who claimed the Romans totally engaged in mass human sacrifice.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:33
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Did anything ever come of that Dailymail story about the Clinton Foundation being investigated by DoJ?
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Aug 15, 2016 03:34
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radmonger posted:If anyone is wondering what the derail of the last few pages is about, this explains it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jan/10/comment.film Thank you! It's these little things that make you realize how deeply weird the world remains.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:34
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Lightning Knight posted:This won't go anywhere. We literally already knew Paul Manafort is a Russian plant. Trump is just a useful idiot, Manafort has always been the real representative of the influence of a foreign government, it's just that Trump is so blatantly stupid that the American electorate hates him. We did, but nobody had any smoking gun. A NYT writer said they had a piece of Manafort in the chamber for this week that has nastier stuff than even this so I doubt this is a dud of a story Unzip and Attack posted:Did anything ever come of that Dailymail story about the Clinton Foundation being investigated by DoJ? It was all made up to boost sales of Clinton Cash
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Aug 15, 2016 03:35
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Lightning Knight posted:This won't go anywhere. We literally already knew Paul Manafort is a Russian plant. Trump is just a useful idiot, Manafort has always been the real representative of the influence of a foreign government, it's just that Trump is so blatantly stupid that the American electorate hates him. Of course, it was all known (though the allegation of $17m in payoffs and much more in money laundering is newish). Mostly posted due to the tweeter. Also: News: https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/764992807236808704 Views: https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/764994432076742657
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Aug 15, 2016 03:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's also a matter of making Obama dance to their specific phrasing. Trump and other Republicans are trying to control what Democrats say and don't say. If Obama doesn't use the magic words, they get to say he's not "getting serious" about "terrorism," and if he does use the words, it looks like they cowed him into using the words. Just playground bullying writ large. Controlling the language we use in politics is a key part of Republican strategy - look at things like the "death tax" for another example. Night10194 posted:I think the purest, most beautiful part of this is it being RTed by Lewandowski. Same, it's lovely.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:40
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Lightning Knight posted:This won't go anywhere. We literally already knew Paul Manafort is a Russian plant. Trump is just a useful idiot, Manafort has always been the real representative of the influence of a foreign government, it's just that Trump is so blatantly stupid that the American electorate hates him. I feel I should point out that this doesn't actually connect Manafort to Russia. It's quite a bit more likely that the money was basically stolen from the Ukrainian people rather than paid for by Kremlin. The Yanukovich regime was very much about personal enrichment, foreign policy aspects were very much secondary.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:40
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Why does it feel like Trump's entire campaign is staffed by trash-tier Russian sleeper agents? Oh right. Because it is.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:42
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Is Manafort open to tax evasion charges from not reporting the bribes?
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Aug 15, 2016 03:44
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Augus posted:Remember that scene in Django Unchained where Leonardo Dicaprio accidentally cut his hand while hamming it up for the Academy and they kept filming the rest of the scene with him bleeding real blood? That was crazy. It's even more hosed up when you remember that he smeared all over Kerry Washington's face, and the horror in her expression is real.
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OddObserver posted:I feel I should point out that this doesn't actually connect Manafort to Russia. It's quite a bit more likely that the money was basically stolen from the Ukrainian people rather than paid for by Kremlin. Read the article, he is actually connected to deals with Putin's inner circle of oligarchs by it. quote:Among the hundreds of murky transactions these companies engaged in was an $18 million deal to sell Ukrainian cable television assets to a partnership put together by Mr. Manafort and a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Read the article, he is actually connected to deals with Putin's inner circle of oligarchs by it.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:50
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We are now halfway through August and Trump's entire campaign is still trending downward. He is literally running out of time to even stabilize things because if he goes into September with this stank of loser all over him he'll never be able to make up ground.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:51
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Crowsbeak posted:Yeah you obviously know nothing of the classical era lol. It happened in fact it was remarked upon, sorry if reality doesn't agree with you. I'm sorry but 'it happened' is not the same thing as ' it was a mass cultural custom done constantly for every god all over the Greek/Roman world.' Human sacrifice was perishingly rare in Rome; overall they found it distasteful and barbaric, and had it outlawed. Again, if you sincerely cared about this you'd portray it accurately instead of exaggerating and inventing stories to feel self-righteous about.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:53
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Read the article, he is actually connected to deals with Putin's inner circle of oligarchs by it. I did, but I don't see this as being some sort of secret-agent-trying-to-destroy-the-US sort of deal, but rather as thieves being thieves. That's just what Putin's buddies do in Russia. That's what Yanukovich's buddies did in Ukraine (and many still do, since much of their power isn't political, or at least not nationally political, but rather regionally oligarchic).
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Aug 15, 2016 03:53
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I saw some businesses set on fire. I don't know why people think that's the go-to for poo poo like this. Probably because they get followed around and not hired or given equal service at businesses? I bet you would have hated sit-ins 70 years ago.
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Aug 15, 2016 03:57
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Cthulhumatic posted:Why does it feel like Trump's entire campaign is staffed by trash-tier Russian sleeper agents? The funny part is that the even Russian Agents seem to be getting sick of his poo poo Like yeah, it might be better for Putin if the US is a geopolitical trash fire but for Paul Manafort it's gotta be a nightmare working for Trump. He deserves every minute of that nightmare though.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:00
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It's pretty incredible that this is all it takes for Corey Lewandowski to cite a NY Times article. Jackals
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Aug 15, 2016 04:01
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:We are now halfway through August and Trump's entire campaign is still trending downward. He is literally running out of time to even stabilize things because if he goes into September with this stank of loser all over him he'll never be able to make up ground. Oct 16-31 will be the fortnight of 'Assange will drop the bomb on Hill ANY DAY NOW' and failed toxxes.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:02
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Bip Roberts posted:Is Manafort open to tax evasion charges from not reporting the bribes? He's open to more than just that. This definitely falls under Foreign Corrupt Practices.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:04
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ZobarStyl posted:Don't fret, we'll have all of Sept thru Oct 15 for random people to wander in and claim the worst equipped campaign in the history of politics is going to turn it all around cause 'BREXIT happened guys' If this Russia thing gains legs I think Assange is going to be out of the picture as far as the election goes. The "Wikileaks is a Russian mouthpiece" thing was a wild haymaker thrown by the Democrats in an attempt to deflect the damage of the DNC leaks, but between Trump's big fat loving mouth and Manafort's publicized pro-Russian ties, any future bombshells are going to be duds.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:We are now halfway through August and Trump's entire campaign is still trending downward. He is literally running out of time to even stabilize things because if he goes into September with this stank of loser all over him he'll never be able to make up ground. Also, it's loving August and we're in the middle of an Olympics where everything from the infrastructure to the US coverage is awful, and Trump still manages to pull focus. August is supposed to be sleepy and boring. Nothing of note is supposed to happen in August, and Trump can't even manage to do that right.
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Oxxidation posted:If this Russia thing gains legs I think Assange is going to be out of the picture as far as the election goes. The "Wikileaks is a Russian mouthpiece" thing was a wild haymaker thrown by the Democrats in an attempt to deflect the damage of the DNC leaks, but between Trump's big fat loving mouth and Manafort's publicized pro-Russian ties, any future bombshells are going to be duds. Uhm, that wikileaks was a Russian mouthpiece was very obvious way before the whole DNC thing happened.
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OddObserver posted:Uhm, that wikileaks was a Russian mouthpiece was very obvious way before the whole DNC thing happened. I know, but the US's usual partisan discourse would have made the accusation a non-starter if it weren't for Trump loudly and repeatedly blowing kisses to Putin and Manafort's own Russian ties. Now it's going to be part of any conversation about Wikileaks to the point where it might just drown out any controversy caused by whatever else they try to dig up.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:11
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OddObserver posted:Uhm, that wikileaks was a Russian mouthpiece was very obvious way before the whole DNC thing happened. Yeah, but now Clinton and the DNC can look at legitimate documents, say they're forgeries by an obviously complicit party in an attempt by a foreign power to influence the election, and turn it into an attack on Trump
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Aug 15, 2016 04:12
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Man you guys remember when Trump was just insulting the Pope? We've moved on since then huh?
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ErIog posted:Also, it's loving August and we're in the middle of an Olympics where everything from the infrastructure to the US coverage is awful, and Trump still manages to pull focus. some of the US diving team got robbed at gunpoint and they had to drain the swimming pool because it turned green and started smelling like farts (the diving pool is having the same thing happen to it but they're refusing to drain that one though) i imagine we'll get more olympics coverage
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Still though, things seem like they have been relatively quiet on the Trump front over the last few days. Is he still speaking in public every day and just not saying any new crazy things? I mean, if he doesn't keep up the crazy, the media will turn to Hillary for basically the first time in the general election. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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*hand hovers over reset button for "Days since Trump's last gently caress-up" counter* The single digit display is a money-saver like you won't believe.
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there wolf posted:I'm sorry but 'it happened' is not the same thing as ' it was a mass cultural custom done constantly for every god all over the Greek/Roman world.' Human sacrifice was perishingly rare in Rome; overall they found it distasteful and barbaric, and had it outlawed. Again, if you sincerely cared about this you'd portray it accurately instead of exaggerating and inventing stories to feel self-righteous about. As far as I know there were three incidences of human sacrifice during the whole of the Republican period. Each was in response to a massive and seemingly insurmountable threat to Roman independence like Hannibal's victory at Cannae or the invasion of the Germans when Marius was consul. They didn't do it unless they were desperate.
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SSNeoman posted:*hand hovers over reset button for "Days since Trump's last gently caress-up" counter* 
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Samurai Sanders posted:Still though, things seem like they have been relatively quiet on the Trump front over the last few days. Is he still speaking in public every day and just not saying any new crazy things? It's the weekend, and he's giving a speech about B. Hussein Obama's ISIS on Monday. I can't imagine him not walking away from that without a couple of new absurdities.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Still though, things seem like they have been relatively quiet on the Trump front over the last few days. Is he still speaking in public every day and just not saying any new crazy things? Just follow the reporters embedded with his campaign on twitter. He's still saying crazy stuff every day.
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Aug 15, 2016 04:25
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SSNeoman posted:Man you guys remember when Trump was just insulting the Pope? Not to get weird and whatnot, but I was raised Catholic and an ISIS attack on the Vatican would result in the weirdest coalition of angry people ever. Like Philippinos tag teaming with Mexicans tag teaming with Italians tag teaming with Austrians tag teaming with the Swiss tag teaming with a bunch of dudes who signed up for the US Marines. It would get sideways and weird real quick.
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The best part about this, is that it's Sunday night and already the entire next week is a lost one for Trump. Especially if Adam Weinstein is correct and the hits keep coming. E: Yeah, IMO an attack on the Vatican would be tantamount to 9/11 or worse. Huge swathes of South America, Asia, and Africa would be DEEPLY upset. Catholics, whether you believe it or not, are also the largest religious sect in the United States and there would be plenty of non-Catholics ready to kick some rear end if it meant bombing brown people. Boon fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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