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Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

GalacticAcid posted:

Do you differentiate between liberals and the left? I'm not asking to be a dick, some people don't think it's a valuable distinction in the US.

Correction: people are programmed by television not to see a distinction. If you don't drink Pepsi you drink Coke and vice versa.

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size1one
Jun 24, 2008

I don't want a nation just for me, I want a nation for everyone

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/771763751418728448

And it was the ten thousand dollar department of defense hammer from all those chain emails!

We should be upset about this. Merely smashing it with a hammer isn't enough protection against data loss. Those phones should have been ground into tiny bits.

straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

The emails thing is seriously pathetic

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset



CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Courtesy of the Young Dems...



#Tacodems

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

straight up brolic posted:

The emails thing is seriously pathetic

It was pathetic as soon as the latest Ben Ghazi hearing ended.

a foolish pianist
May 6, 2007

(bi)cyclic mutation

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

Courtesy of the Young Dems...



This truck has the wrong kind of taco on it.

Boon
Jun 21, 2005

by R. Guyovich
I got Chipotle today.

Not Mexican nor was it a taco, but it was still good.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Boon posted:

I got Chipotle today.

Not Mexican nor was it a taco, but it was still good.

Chipotle is a pretty good metaphor for the Left's critisism of Clinton actually.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/FlitterOnFraud/status/771801077343776768

Huh, how are all these people with political agendas cherry picking out of context working notes from an investigation they weren't party to coming to wrong conclusions? Well, who am I to disagree with Comey.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


zoux posted:

If you think the NYT is a good source on this story, see if you can find the lie here

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/771770659911368704

One of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits. -- Donald Trump

Well, I never thought I'd agree with Donald J. Trump, but here we are...

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


size1one posted:

We should be upset about this. Merely smashing it with a hammer isn't enough protection against data loss. Those phones should have been ground into tiny bits.



All I see is a phone dancing around in the blender. Better to wipe your data the :black101: way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkidhcHDhkc

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer
So how soon after I vote for Hillary do I get my neighborhood taco truck? Is there a place to place preferences? If the tortillas aren't corn I'm a call her a Blue Dog.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Eifert Posting posted:

So how soon after I vote for Hillary do I get my neighborhood taco truck? Is there a place to place preferences? If the tortillas aren't cornhandmade I'm a call her a Blue Dog.

There.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

straight up brolic posted:

The emails thing is seriously pathetic


DemeaninDemon posted:

It was pathetic as soon as the latest Ben Ghazi hearing ended.

The sheer desperation to find something, anything to equate Trump to Clinton is baffling. How desperate can you get? I can see it with Republicans since they really want to distract from the fact that the Orange One is really just saying what they have for decades, but how does the media not owned by Rupert Murdoch or neo-Nazis (the ones that don't work for Trump already) get so terrified of the idea of bias that the have to reach this hard to make mountains out of every molehill and ignore the fascist rodeo clown's complete failure?

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Geostomp posted:

The sheer desperation to find something, anything to equate Trump to Clinton is baffling. How desperate can you get? I can see it with Republicans since they really want to distract from the fact that the Orange One is really just saying what they have for decades, but how does the media not owned by Rupert Murdoch or neo-Nazis (the ones that don't work for Trump already) get so terrified of the idea of bias that the have to reach this hard to make mountains out of every molehill and ignore the fascist rodeo clown's complete failure?

They know poo poo stories drives ratings since the right is absolutely terrified of another Clinton. Even more so since she's an incredibly strong woman.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

The train of thought isn't that hard to follow if you think like a self-absorbed idiot

Emails are evidence of corruption because I decided they were ahead of time - emails have no evidence of corruption - I was wrong clearly the corruption evidence was deleted

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc
Meanwhile, Trump still deliberately lied about why he can't release his tax returns.

But it's Crooked Hillary who is lying, everyone

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

theflyingorc posted:

Meanwhile, Trump still deliberately lied about why he can't release his tax returns.

But it's Crooked Hillary who is lying, everyone

Also his weird volunteer contract specifically forbids speaking about them

But did you know that if you turn upside down and squint it looks like Hillary had a chance of maybe doing a bad thing???

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

theflyingorc posted:

Meanwhile, Trump still deliberately lied about why he can't release his tax returns.

But it's Crooked Hillary who is lying, everyone

Politifact rates your statement: pants-on-fire!

There is no way to know that Trump isn't just stupid and ignorant and actually believes what he says!

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Clinton recommends socialist, communist price controls to destroy pharmaceutical job creators.

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

DemeaninDemon posted:

It was pathetic as soon as the latest Ben Ghazi hearing ended.

Wasn't the hope of finding some Benghazi smoking gun the entire point of digging around in her emails in the first place? Of course nothing ever came of that and now we're shouting about IT security protocols that nobody would care about if Clinton wasn't involved.

For anyone who wasn't old enough to pay attention in the 90s, this is how investigating the Clintons works. They're accused of some high crime or intrigue and a deliberately open-ended investigation is launched until something, anything is dug up that their opponents can hang around their necks.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich
If I was part of the HRC GOTV team, right now I would be retrofitting trucks into taco trucks to bring people to the polls and then going apeshit on social media about it. Nothing will get the millenials out like a cheap gimmick they can meme and snap about

RiotGearEpsilon
Jun 26, 2005
SHAVE ME FROM MY SHELF

WeAreTheRomans posted:

If I was part of the HRC GOTV team, right now I would be retrofitting trucks into taco trucks to bring people to the polls and then going apeshit on social media about it. Nothing will get the millenials out like a cheap gimmick they can meme and snap about

Still nine weeks out. People will remember the taco truck meme nine weeks from now but it won't have the same power it has now.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-as-the-race-tightens-dont-assume-the-electoral-college-will-save-clinton/

:derp:

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
Nate Silver is a bitch.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


radical meme posted:

Clinton recommends socialist, communist price controls to destroy pharmaceutical job creators.

Will be offset by phenomenal growth in taco truck sector.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
No really please clicking onto my site!! It's a horse race I swear!!!

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Augus posted:

So with all this "The lead is closing! :derp:" talk, anybody pointing out that Trump's not really picking up any votes for himself?

This is almost always the case. Trump has exceeded 44% three whole times since October. With the exception of that brief period around the RNC, every instance of the polls tightening has far more to do with Hillary's support dropping than Trump's increasing. Most often those periods coincide with Trump's brief forays into shuting the gently caress up and the media flipping out over emails because they've got nothing else to talk about with Hillary.



GalacticAcid posted:

Yessss Kissinger won't endorse Clinton!

I'm with her now.

This is silly. Yes, Kissinger is a fat loving piece of poo poo who deserves to be in a jail cell. However Kissinger and other dickbags from the right endorsing Hillary has almost nothing to do with her policies and is based on all but 0 agreement on anything. They're all swinging support her way because the Orange Hate Golem is so bad that he's garnering negative endorsements of disagreement. They are all saying that Trump is so bad they'll endorse Clinton, which is analogous to Georgia fans rooting for Florida to win a game.

It's absolutely nothing like Trump's endorsements by neo-nazis and the KKK, they're giving him positive endorsements of agreement, because he's expressing racist trash opinions. Like an Eagles fan picking up batteries.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I mean if you think polls don't just tighten naturally as a function of normal campaign operations between two largely comparable organizations and are actually responding to events and news, then the recent tightening in polling we saw was a result of Trump's moderation on immigration and softening of rhetoric. Which ended Wednesday.

Gyges posted:

This is silly. Yes, Kissinger is a fat loving piece of poo poo who deserves to be in a jail cell. However Kissinger and other dickbags from the right endorsing Hillary has almost nothing to do with her policies and is based on all but 0 agreement on anything. They're all swinging support her way because the Orange Hate Golem is so bad that he's garnering negative endorsements of disagreement. They are all saying that Trump is so bad they'll endorse Clinton, which is analogous to Georgia fans rooting for Florida to win a game.

It's absolutely nothing like Trump's endorsements by neo-nazis and the KKK, they're giving him positive endorsements of agreement, because he's expressing racist trash opinions. Like an Eagles fan picking up batteries.

The fact that she's getting all these endorsements/votes without a single policy concession is great news for the Democratic Party. I don't expect any to stick around after the election, but they may not necessarily go back to being lockstep GOP voters either.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

RiotGearEpsilon posted:

Still nine weeks out. People will remember the taco truck meme nine weeks from now but it won't have the same power it has now.

Are you saying that if you were offered a ride to the polls in a taco truck that fed you tacos and then you got a sticker that said "I Rode Hilary's Taco", you'd be like "nah bru im sweet"?

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Are you saying that if you were offered a ride to the polls in a taco truck that fed you tacos and then you got a sticker that said "I Rode Hilary's Taco", you'd be like "nah bru im sweet"?

"While that may not be an illegal bribe, certainly the Clinton campaign should have known to avoid the optics of impropriety" - A Talking Head

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

RiotGearEpsilon posted:

Still nine weeks out. People will remember the taco truck meme nine weeks from now but it won't have the same power it has now.

Early voting in several states starts weeks before then. Also it should be pretty easy to get some taco trucks to the limited number of early voting locations, they can probably even just ask existing Taco Trucks to do it.

gently caress, now I really want Taco Trucks to show up at early voting locations if for no other reasons than having Taco Trucks in the parking lot when it's time for my lunch. Surely the entrepreneurial spirit of Food Truck drivers will prevail and they'll head the call regardless.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Yinlock posted:

Also his weird volunteer contract specifically forbids speaking about them

But did you know that if you turn upside down and squint it looks like Hillary had a chance of maybe doing a bad thing???

This contract makes it sound like all volunteers get a printout of his taxes but they're all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo loyal.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Trabisnikof posted:

"While that may not be an illegal bribe, certainly the Clinton campaign should have known to avoid the optics of impropriety" - A Talking Head

by that point it'll be too late and the manocide will have commenced

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Gyges posted:

This is silly. Yes, Kissinger is a fat loving piece of poo poo who deserves to be in a jail cell. However Kissinger and other dickbags from the right endorsing Hillary has almost nothing to do with her policies and is based on all but 0 agreement on anything. They're all swinging support her way because the Orange Hate Golem is so bad that he's garnering negative endorsements of disagreement. They are all saying that Trump is so bad they'll endorse Clinton, which is analogous to Georgia fans rooting for Florida to win a game.

kissinger did not endorse her, presumably because he feels there's no sufficient policy agreement with her. if he had endorsed her, it would presumably be because he felt there was sufficient policy agreement. the endorsement of an actual war criminal should matter a whole lot, regardless of what candidate gets endorsed.

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/771817856694575105

Here we go!

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

WeAreTheRomans posted:

by that point it'll be too late and the manocide will have commenced

Good thing the Supreme Court will be able to rule 5-4 on any critical election rated issues and lower courts won't have the final say due to a 4-4 split or anything....

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Trabisnikof posted:

Good thing the Supreme Court will be able to rule 5-4 on any critical election rated issues and lower courts won't have the final say due to a 4-4 split or anything....

motherfucker, how had I not even considered this as a key reason for the stalling and obfuscation...

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

PhazonLink posted:

This contract makes it sound like all volunteers get a printout of his taxes but they're all soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo loyal.

Forced loyalty is a kind of loyalty, I suppose.

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Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Nate Silver is a bitch.

Nate Silver is a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the "Mr. New Castrati" voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program. In fact, Silver could easily be the poster child for the New Castrati in both image and sound. Nate Silver, like most liberal and leftist celebrities and favorites, might be of average intelligence but is surely not the genius he's made out to be. His political analyses are average at best and his projections, at least this year, are extremely biased in favor of the Democrats.

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