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Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I still love the three percent of Hillary supporters who think she is working for Lucifer. :v:

Hail Satan.

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vorebane
Feb 2, 2009

"I like Ur and Kavodel and Enki being nice to people for some reason."

Wrong Voter amongst wrong voters

Goatman Sacks posted:

He bragged the DAY OF THE ATTACKS that his building was tallest again.

"“actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest.”

Please tell me he did this on camera.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

The Kaine-Pence VP debate is gonna be boring as poo poo. Can we just being Joe and Paul back and have them remix the '12 VP debate. Uncle Joe deserves to get a couple of good victory dunks in on Ryan before driving off into the sunset in his Air Force Two-themed Trans AM.

E: gently caress while we're at it, have Hillary take a knowing pause half way through the Town Hall Presidential debate, then have Obama come running out on stage to the tune of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" and have him tag in for 15 minutes so he can go to town on Trump right to his face.

nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Sep 11, 2016

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
My dad is a Trump supporter because of the most mind numbing "both sides are bad but at least Trump isn't beholden to so and so. Also stop calling him a racist, I guess we can't have a mature conversation about this after all. :rolleyes:" poo poo imaginable. It makes me want to blow my brains out. I do not have the heart to ask him whether he believes Obama was born in this country.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



It appears that Hillary apologized for her comments, which I think is probably a mistake.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Shimrra Jamaane posted:

My dad is a Trump supporter because of the most mind numbing "both sides are bad but at least Trump isn't beholden to so and so. Also stop calling him a racist, I guess we can't have a mature conversation about this after all. :rolleyes:" poo poo imaginable. It makes me want to blow my brains out. I do not have the heart to ask him whether he believes Obama was born in this country.

"I'm not calling him racist, the legal system is" then tell him about the C-labelled rental applications

smg77
Apr 27, 2007

nine-gear crow posted:

The Kaine-Pence VP debate is gonna be boring as poo poo.

I'm kind of worried this is going to be the case. As much as I've warmed up to T-Kaine he's just too nice to go after Pence in any meaningful way. Our only hope is that he ignores the debate questions and tells dad jokes and plays harmonica the whole time.

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

vorebane posted:

Please tell me he did this on camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w&t=110s

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



smg77 posted:

I'm kind of worried this is going to be the case. As much as I've warmed up to T-Kaine he's just too nice to go after Pence in any meaningful way. Our only hope is that he ignores the debate questions and tells dad jokes and plays harmonica the whole time.
Maybe we'll get the Demon Kaine

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

FlamingLiberal posted:

It appears that Hillary apologized for her comments, which I think is probably a mistake.

She apologized for saying the word "half", she double downed on the "deplorable."

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

FlamingLiberal posted:

It appears that Hillary apologized for her comments, which I think is probably a mistake.

Nothing Matters

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


smg77 posted:

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/774718165511184384
https://twitter.com/PRyan/status/774708981533114368

Having to watch Paul D. Ryan debase himself on a daily basis is the best thing about this election.
We've got Former House Speaker John Boehner on the line:

BOEHNER: (inaudible)

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Epic High Five posted:

"I'm not calling him racist, the legal system is" then tell him about the C-labelled rental applications

I've done this. He defends it as sensible for not wanting to rent out to financially unreliable people, color has nothing to do with it...

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

wouldn't it have been the third tallest in that case? or were WTC considered to be one building despite being two towers, how's that work

size1one
Jun 24, 2008

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

This isn't an isolated event or a rare event either. Which is why Hillary should be doubling down on the deplorables. Trump and his supporters have no issue violently throwing people out of his rallies. You don't even have to make a disturbance to be thrown out, merely looking like someone who they don't like is enough. But they rarely throw the deplorables out. A deplorable is more likely to be applauded than face any negative consequences. Trump and his supporters absolutely should be called out for creating a safe space for deplorables. Drive that wedge in hard.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I've done this. He defends it as sensible for not wanting to rent out to financially unreliable people, color has nothing to do with it...

Well I suppose the multiple lawsuits he faced that found the applicants as being at least as qualified as other tenants won't have any effect

What was his take on, "he's a Mexican" for Curiel

Iron Lung
Jul 24, 2007
Life.Iron Lung. Death.
Guys, I hate to dox CS, but I figured out who they are in real life. Its my mom. "THEY'RE TIED" she said to me over lunch. I need to get her to stop watching TV news about it, its really bad for her blood pressure.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Epic High Five posted:

Well I suppose the multiple lawsuits he faced that found the applicants as being at least as qualified as other tenants won't have any effect

What was his take on, "he's a Mexican" for Curiel

The judge was biased :suicide:

radmonger
Jun 6, 2011

Goatman Sacks posted:

He bragged the DAY OF THE ATTACKS that his building was tallest again.

"“actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest.”

Through a heroic bit of investigative journalism, solid proof is discovered and released that Trump, via his numerous Saudi contacts, actually was a backer of 9/11. An unnamed source is quoted as saying 'he said he was good for 5 million, but we never saw a cent. And it's not like we can sue him'.

His poll numbers drop 4% for a week, then rebound.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Iron Lung posted:

Guys, I hate to dox CS, but I figured out who they are in real life. Its my mom. "THEY'RE TIED" she said to me over lunch. I need to get her to stop watching TV news about it, its really bad for her blood pressure.

If your username used to be Microwave then a whole lot of things just came together neatly

FairGame
Jul 24, 2001

Der Kommander

Even if they are tied, like...what the gently caress are we supposed to do about it?

I've had him on ignore for at least a month, but I never really understood what CS wanted/wants with all his doomsaying.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 205 days!

FairGame posted:

Even if they are tied, like...what the gently caress are we supposed to do about it?

I've had him on ignore for at least a month, but I never really understood what CS wanted/wants with all his doomsaying.

I assume it's a form of concern trolling, since we get one every election. Either that or they're all the same person who's really dedicated to the gimmick.

rscott
Dec 10, 2009

FairGame posted:

Even if they are tied, like...what the gently caress are we supposed to do about it?

I've had him on ignore for at least a month, but I never really understood what CS wanted/wants with all his doomsaying.

Attention

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
CS is definitely a gimmick.

Serrath
Mar 17, 2005

I have nothing of value to contribute
Ham Wrangler

smg77 posted:

I'm kind of worried this is going to be the case. As much as I've warmed up to T-Kaine he's just too nice to go after Pence in any meaningful way. Our only hope is that he ignores the debate questions and tells dad jokes and plays harmonica the whole time.

The VP debate generally doesn't matter. Every election, it feels like it does and it makes the news for a couple of days but is almost always forgotten, even when it's memorable (e.g., Palin v Biden). I cannot see a set of circumstances where people will switch their vote from Clinton to Trump or vice versa depending on the results of the VP debate.

Or did you mean you're worried that you won't find it entertaining? Because I share this worry, not looking forward to being bored for 2 hours when I could be doing other things.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Shimrra Jamaane posted:

The judge was biased :suicide:

Welp, pretty much all hope is lost. Just catalog everything he's saying that's enormously contradictory and don't let him live it down later when he pretends this never happened and he had no role in galvanizing white supremacy

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

The judge was biased :suicide:

Sever.

Reading other peoples' stories on D&D make me so glad political disagreements with my parents basically boil down to how quickly we should try to transition to socialism.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



CS is almost certainly the alt of somebody who posts a whole lot, because they post bad news like instantly and then disappear and do so consistently

If we really want to find out we need to goad CS into getting lippy with ZDR so he'll post IP address matches

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


I know there are a lot of people saying the media is actively pushing Trump because they want a horse race but I heard David Rennie of the Economist say this recently and I think there is a lot of truth in what he says

quote:

Here's something I think is really paralyzing us in the media. And I speak as somebody who goes to, you know, a fair number of Trump rallies, interviewed a fair number of Trump supporters. I think that we are paralyzed by the fact that criticizing Donald Trump feels, often, like you're criticizing his supporters.

It's a very odd experience. I've been covering American elections since 2004. Normally when you criticize a policy, you're criticizing that policy. You're saying it's a bit too left wing, a bit too right wing, it doesn't, you know, add up. The numbers look a bit big. Donald Trump's policies -- because so often they don't actually make any sense, they're describing a world, there's a flat-Earth kind of claim that you can do this with the Chinese and force the Chinese to rein in the North Koreans on nukes. And, you know, you then have to say, well, how would you do that? Why would they do that? You know, they make no sense.

The problem with that is that when you talk to his supporters and you say, well he's talking about this with immigration. How would you go about rounding up 11 million people? The response from them very often is some form of, are you calling me stupid? Because if you're saying his policies just make no sense, what are you saying about the people who believe them?

And that paralyzes us.

I know several reporters have commented on the backlash and torrent of hate they get whenever they dare to express any sort of question about whether Trump is lying or able to deliver on these promises. Lauer probably didn't go into it thinking he wanted to give Trump a leg up on Hillary but he knew that ripping her on emails was a safe thing to do while questioning Trump on anything is probably going to get you an inbox full of graphic death threats. The media doesn't give a poo poo about horse races as much as they don't want to stick their genitals in a blender.

I think where he's wrong is that this is not a new phenomenon as much as Trump having both stripped away all the middle steps the GOP and the media were using to obscure the deus ex machina required for most of the GOP platform to work and has by his own example of directly lashing out at the media for everything has encouraged his supporters to attack the reporters.

Bar Ran Dun
Jan 22, 2006




I bet she did this to prime a debate question. It will get asked about.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Shifty Pony posted:

I know there are a lot of people saying the media is actively pushing Trump because they want a horse race but I heard David Rennie of the Economist say this recently and I think there is a lot of truth in what he says


I know several reporters have commented on the backlash and torrent of hate they get whenever they dare to express any sort of question about whether Trump is lying or able to deliver on these promises. Lauer probably didn't go into it thinking he wanted to give Trump a leg up on Hillary but he knew that ripping her on emails was a safe thing to do while questioning Trump on anything is probably going to get you an inbox full of graphic death threats. The media doesn't give a poo poo about horse races as much as they don't want to stick their genitals in a blender.

I think where he's wrong is that this is not a new phenomenon as much as Trump having both stripped away all the middle steps the GOP and the media were using to obscure the deus ex machina required for most of the GOP platform to work and has by his own example of directly lashing out at the media for everything has encouraged his supporters to attack the reporters.

Cowards

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

CS shouldn't be allowed to do their Arzy gimmick posts until they toxx for Trump.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.


Agreed. They need to stop pretending to get the vapors and do their goddamn jobs.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Shifty Pony posted:

The media doesn't give a poo poo about horse races as much as they don't want to stick their genitals in a blender.

The problem is they've been sticking the shaft into the blender and now that it's getting to the balls they're all like "WOAH, HEY NOW, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL US THIS WAS A BAD IDEA".

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

BrandorKP posted:

I bet she did this to prime a debate question. It will get asked about.

"As quickly as you can, why didn't your comment about Trump's supporters disqualify you from office?"

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Seriously, you've got nonprofits and vigilante justice seekers attacking these lunatics on all their positions for years and these journalists are making their jobs and lives way harder because they're scared to stop talking in strictly equivalent abstractions? What did they think they were getting into? Does this seem like extremis circumstances and I'm supposed to forgive them for running scared to tired old scandals attacking the candidate with less angry supporters?

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

My dad is a Trump supporter because of the most mind numbing "both sides are bad but at least Trump isn't beholden to so and so. Also stop calling him a racist, I guess we can't have a mature conversation about this after all. :rolleyes:" poo poo imaginable. It makes me want to blow my brains out. I do not have the heart to ask him whether he believes Obama was born in this country.

The next time he whines about someone being called racist, tell him you don't have the patience for his politically correct nonsense.

vorebane
Feb 2, 2009

"I like Ur and Kavodel and Enki being nice to people for some reason."

Wrong Voter amongst wrong voters

Well, I know what I want played all day everywhere tomorrow.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
I love my dad though :(

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I love my dad though :(

You can love someone and still sass them

In fact it's when the waterfall of sass and bad jokes stops that it becomes time to worry

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