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Dirt
May 26, 2003

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776912648877252608

2nd Ammendment chat again. Every time he starts catching up in the polls it goes to his head and he starts getting crazier.

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Mar 19, 2012

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Dirt posted:

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776912648877252608

2nd Ammendment chat again. Every time he starts catching up in the polls it goes to his head and he starts getting crazier.

Surely this will be the quote that nails him.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

Dirt posted:

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776912648877252608

2nd Ammendment chat again. Every time he starts catching up in the polls it goes to his head and he starts getting crazier.

It has been what, one month since he last called for the assassination of his opponent?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

I was not aware Hillary Clinton was in favor of a complete repeal of the second amendment and guns being taken away from all soldiers, police officers, and secret service agents. That's a pretty crazy position! I wonder why people don't talk about it more?

lozzle
Oct 22, 2012

by zen death robot

Superrodan posted:

I was trying to determine who the Democrat equivalent of Trump would be that we would need Superdelegates and I couldn't really figure it out. I understand why the system exists in theory but I can't think of anyone who people could choose in practice.

Huey Long

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

Superrodan posted:

I was trying to determine who the Democrat equivalent of Trump would be that we would need Superdelegates and I couldn't really figure it out. I understand why the system exists in theory but I can't think of anyone who people could choose in practice.

Chuck Schumer or Dianne Feinstein immediately comes to mind.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.
https://twitter.com/MikeGrunwald/status/776912570687127553

jesus

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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Superrodan posted:

I was trying to determine who the Democrat equivalent of Trump would be that we would need Superdelegates and I couldn't really figure it out. I understand why the system exists in theory but I can't think of anyone who people could choose in practice.
I think it was put into place after Mondale.

The reason it's there is in fact in case there's a Trump. I bet the Republicans are going to institute a similar system if Trump loses.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Superrodan posted:

I was trying to determine who the Democrat equivalent of Trump would be that we would need Superdelegates and I couldn't really figure it out. I understand why the system exists in theory but I can't think of anyone who people could choose in practice.

If the GOP ever moderates itself we become much more vulnerable to things like billionaires running vanity candidates that we can't push out because of CU. As far as facist strongmen are concerned it's not terribly likely, not because Democrats are inherently noble, but because in the US all the anti-fascist, anti-nativist voters (aka minorities) are only welcome in a single party in which they wield disproportionate influence

So if the GOP moderates AND there's a restructuring of minority support (not impossible but is probably a generational thing at this point thanks to Trump), then supers will possibly be needed to prevent a Democrat Hitler. Until then they're primarily useful in preventing a lunatic from riding the split votes of a wide and never narrowing field to take control as the face of the party, not that something like that would ever happen in modern politics

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

lozzle posted:

Huey Long

with the democratic voterbase looking like it does right now?

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Oct 10, 2006

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Nessus posted:

I think it was put into place after Mondale.

The reason it's there is in fact in case there's a Trump. I bet the Republicans are going to institute a similar system if Trump loses.

After 1980, when Ted Kennedy had run against Carter and this was seen as one of the major causes for Carter losing.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Dirt posted:

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776912648877252608

2nd Ammendment chat again. Every time he starts catching up in the polls it goes to his head and he starts getting crazier.
Pretty sure he went up in the polls last time he said this.

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

They're like Slavic neo-Nazis.

Which is somehow even dumber than Islamaphobes mistakenly targeting Sikhs. It's one thing to be ignorant of someone else's race, but how do you not know that your own was targeted for genocide while your grandparents were children?

Staggering.

lozzle
Oct 22, 2012

by zen death robot

paranoid randroid posted:

with the democratic voterbase looking like it does right now?

Wikipedia posted:

Long is best known for his Share Our Wealth program, created in 1934 under the motto "Every Man a King." It proposed new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve System.

Maybe?

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Pretty sure he went up in the polls last time he said this.

He didn't.

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Dirt posted:

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776912648877252608

2nd Ammendment chat again. Every time he starts catching up in the polls it goes to his head and he starts getting crazier.

This is it guys! The election is over!

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
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FactsAreUseless posted:

Pretty sure he went up in the polls last time he said this.

Donald Trump is going to be President of the United States

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:

*angles for the assassination political rival 2 times in 3 months*

NYT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVejEB5uVk

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

Fojar38 posted:

Donald Trump is going to be President of the United States

lol

lozzle
Oct 22, 2012

by zen death robot

Eifert Posting posted:

Which is somehow even dumber than Islamaphobes mistakenly targeting Sikhs. It's one thing to be ignorant of someone else's race, but how do you not know that your own was targeted for genocide while your grandparents were children?

Staggering.

I'm pretty sure they agree with Hitler about there being a master race that should be elevated above all others, they just disagree with what that master race actually is (hint: it's themselves).

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


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Fojar38 posted:

Donald Trump is going to be President of the United States

your red text seems to declare otherwise

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

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This is great.

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
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I can't stop Arzying

I'm melting doooooown

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Fojar38 posted:

I can't stop Arzying

I'm melting doooooown

Then go donate your time and money to the Clinton campaign.

If you're not willing to do that you're not worried enough to Arzy

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

He did. Only slightly, but still. Here's a poll aggregate. Notice the sharpest rise in this period (August 8 to August 20) is immediately after he says that on the 9th, then rises steadily but slower for the rest of the period.

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
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ImpAtom posted:

Then go donate your time and money to the Clinton campaign.

If you're not willing to do that you're not worried enough.

I'm Canadian :negative:

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Fojar38 posted:

I'm Canadian :negative:

Then enjoy the wall that will be put up when Donald Trump declares you all 'more polite rapists'

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I point this out only to explain that this is what America wants. This is why people support Trump so heavily.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

FactsAreUseless posted:

He did. Only slightly, but still. Here's a poll aggregate. Notice the sharpest rise in this period (August 8 to August 20) is immediately after he says that on the 9th, then rises steadily but slower for the rest of the period.



:lol: "He went up vaguely over 12 days (then sharply went down)! Clearly it helped him in the polls!"

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
---------------------------->

ImpAtom posted:

Then enjoy the wall that will be put up when Donald Trump declares you all 'more polite rapists'

Our economy is already in a bubble and our prime minister recently went and bent over for the Chinese, if we lose NAFTA its over.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

:lol: "He went up vaguely over 12 days! Clearly it helped him in the polls!"
It didn't hurt him at all.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Sure, that could be very minor statistical noise as a result of Clinton's lead just not being sustainable, but I posted a screenshot of a graph and that graph has numbers on it and that makes the things I say correct.

BI NOW GAY LATER
Jan 17, 2008

So people stop asking, the "Bi" in my username is a reference to my love for the two greatest collegiate sports programs in the world, the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Marshall Thundering Herd.

FactsAreUseless posted:

It didn't hurt him at all.

I didn't say it did. I said it did not noticeably help him; we were also in a different moment in the cycle where Clinton was still riding pretty high -- not in the nadir of race for Clinton.

prom candy
Dec 16, 2005

Only I may dance

Zeeman posted:

I believe you mean Dr. Ron Paul



In my imagination Ron Paul is about to walk this infant outside and place him in the gutter because his parents don't have health insurance.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

I think we should call doctors Second Opinion People.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

prom candy posted:

In my imagination Ron Paul is about to walk this infant outside and place him in the gutter because his parents don't have health insurance.

That's a hell of a thing to imagine.

Subvisual Haze
Nov 22, 2003

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault.
Hillary's down to 57% on the 538 Now Cast. Someone please send Silver a message to stop Arzying. Only by chanting the ritual words ARZY can we keep the chaos at bay.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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



FactsAreUseless posted:

Sure, that could be very minor statistical noise as a result of Clinton's lead just not being sustainable, but I posted a screenshot of a graph and that graph has numbers on it and that makes the things I say correct.
Yeah, this checks out.

lozzle
Oct 22, 2012

by zen death robot

prom candy posted:

In my imagination Ron Paul is about to walk this infant outside and place him in the gutter because his parents don't have health insurance.

"Pro-life, until it's out of the womb." It's the conservative libertarian way!

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paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

FactsAreUseless posted:

Sure, that could be very minor statistical noise as a result of Clinton's lead just not being sustainable, but I posted a screenshot of a graph and that graph has numbers on it and that makes the things I say correct.

your numbers are hosed up and bad, Bob

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