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Halfway through Taibbi's latest in RS and loving  quote:All 16 of the non-Trump entrants were dunces, religious zealots, wimps or tyrants, all equally out of touch with voters. Scott Walker was a lipless sadist who in centuries past would have worn a leather jerkin and thrown dogs off the castle walls for recreation. Marco Rubio was the young rake with debts. Jeb Bush was the last offering in a fast-diminishing hereditary line. Ted Cruz was the Zodiac Killer. And so on. Also, I present to you the current GOP base summed up in a single photo: 
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Agrajag posted:can someone explain what this means and have a clip of paul ryan's speech? No clip, but in 1996 when it became obvious Bob Dole wasn't going to win, the republicans did the wise move of pulling all but token support for the white house race and sent it downballot, saying, "Don't give Bill Clinton a blank check." It worked, and to Bob Dole's credit, he was ok with it. The problem is Trump is not Bob Dole, and he won't take stuff like that lightly. Cthulhumatic posted:Jesus, that's the GOP's End of Days in picture form. Pretty much.
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Agrajag posted:can someone explain what this means and have a clip of paul ryan's speech? Here are some snippets: https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/786977696714723328 https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/786978108171747328 https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/786979180416077825 https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/786980851372273665
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Agrajag posted:can someone explain what this means and have a clip of paul ryan's speech?
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iospace posted:http://www.270towin.com/maps/0wmm9 If that happened, Alaska would probably flip too.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:The UK had that huge scandal that implicated tons of powerful people with sexual abuse (of minors too?). Did any of the people implicated actually have to answer for anything? Yeah, some did. This guy, for example, whom I absolutely adored as a child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris
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Oct 14, 2016 18:26
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Ryan... proclaiming CLINTON will be paternalistic. lafooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:27
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There was a good point of Keeping it 1600 though, which is who's going to go to the polls just to vote for their Republican Congressional candidate and write in the top of the ticket? Maybe a percentage, but not a good quantity
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torgeaux posted:Jeez, I'm dealing with a guy who thinks Trump's problem, and why he's hurting the GOP, is that he embraced liberal economic theory and betrayed conservative principles. Sure. It's worth it to go back and examine the 2012 Republican autopsy, and watch them ignore every lesson they learned, and even ignore where they got it wrong. This is exactly the "lesson" that rank-and-file conservatives will take from this election. The Republican leadership's lesson is going to be "we need tighter control over the nominating process and for the love of god, fewer primary contestants."
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Saying you must avoid giving the incoming president a blank check is a tacit admission you've lost the presidency and now must focus on building an opposition downticket. It was famously used against Bill Clinton during the 1996 election once it was clear Dole was hosed.
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trash person posted:I like Trump's whole, 'I have evidence the accusations are false.' thing. I turned on Rush for 30 seconds, he was talking about how the woman who was groped on the plane couldn't remember whether the plane was a 737 or not. Clear evidence folks.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:28
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Quorum posted:They tune out the individual stories, certainly. But the reason that dog bites man stories are inconsequential is because there was already a widespread understanding that dogs bite men. If voters start tuning out stories about sexual assault, it will be because there is now a widespread understanding that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser. I find it hard to believe that this would be good for Donald Trump. Winning over die hard trumpeters was never within the realm of possibility, it's all about making a cash grab for the center and bernie bros
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Oct 14, 2016 18:29
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as a person on twitter so aptly put it: "what planet he on?"
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Oct 14, 2016 18:30
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Samovar posted:Ryan... proclaiming CLINTON will be paternalistic. Paul Ryan is an evil human being who wants the poors and elderly to die in the street. It's good not to forget that.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:30
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This latest batch of scandals hasn't actually moved the needle on Trump himself for me. I've been at maximum outrage for the man since his Arizona speech. What they have done is undermine my confidence in the people in positions of authority who could've stopped this. At this point, anyone putting Donald Trump in contact with a human female had to know there was a realistic chance that something bad was going to happen.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:31
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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/786981448419008512
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Oct 14, 2016 18:31
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Paul Ryan is a spineless coward.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:32
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The GOP is a mess. The GOP is a waste.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:33
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zxqv8 posted:Demolition is hardly the worst thing that could happen. I'd like for Cuban to buy it and rename it the Jill Harth Tower.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:33
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Crabtree posted:He deserves to have everything taken from him, for his empire to fall and for his tower to be demolished.
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canepazzo posted:http://www.traitorstotrump.com/traitors Adam Kinzinger being labelled a traitor is loving delusional. He's the guy who sent that "Second Amendment Survey" that just asked about abortion that I posted before. He's like a prototypical generic hard right winger.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:34
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https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/786983451689836544 This is a bad thing? 
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Oct 14, 2016 18:35
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Withnail posted:I turned on Rush for 30 seconds, he was talking about how the woman who was groped on the plane couldn't remember whether the plane was a 737 or not. Clear evidence folks. how has this fucker not OD'd on oxy already
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Oct 14, 2016 18:35
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"Liberal Progressivism doesn't work" haha what I'd give to see someone force him to unpack that statement. Please, do go on. Explain what you mean and on what evidence 
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straight up brolic posted:There was a good point of Keeping it 1600 though, which is who's going to go to the polls just to vote for their Republican Congressional candidate and write in the top of the ticket? Maybe a percentage, but not a good quantity Right, and that is why Hillary is running up the score as much as possible. The more people that can be convinced that Trump is going to lose badly the more demoralized GOP members don't bother to show up to vote. Dems will need some whipping to keep the numbers up hillary has a massive GOTV operation and it isn't that hard to get people excited about being part of a winning team. If the turnout is midterm levels for the republicans and presidential levels for the democrats you would be looking at a GOP downballot massacre.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Paul Ryan is a spineless coward. Seth Meyers had a great joke on... Tuesday? about how the R leaders, including Ryan, are so spineless they have to be transported by bucket.
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DaveWoo posted:Here are some snippets: It's the exact same appeal to resentment Trump has nakedly exploited, only with more polite and refined language.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:36
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No Butt Stuff posted:Paul Ryan is a spineless coward. TO be fair. The tea party did claim his spine as a trophy years ago.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:37
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Well at least Paul Ryan learned his lesson and carefully hand picked people to ask questions.
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Oct 14, 2016 18:38
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canepazzo posted:http://www.traitorstotrump.com/traitors Is this someone's "people to murder" list?
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Penisaurus Sex posted:This latest batch of scandals hasn't actually moved the needle on Trump himself for me. I've been at maximum outrage for the man since his Arizona speech. Yeah. Similarly the fact that the Republican party let it get this far and he's frighteningly close to being elected while going full open fascist is unbelievably irresponsible.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/786947614172250115 Yes, but the country boy let her play with his rifle, Laura. That's the point that's being debated here.
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https://twitter.com/Philip_Elliott/status/786978803222515712 https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/786983730225225728
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This might be the sleeper nominee for new favorite Trump nonsense quote:quote:I'm telling you, Hillary will just be another four years of Obama, which is worse than Obama.
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Secret Agent X23 posted:I'd like for Cuban to buy it and rename it the Jill Harth Tower. And turn it into low income housing. Also, thought this was interesting: http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-white-house-announces-green-initiatives-for-baltimore-20161014-story.html The White House just passed an initiative that will grant money and resources to Baltimore to turn vacant lots and dead blocks into green spaces, community gardens and the like, as well as establishing urban wildlife and nature refuges and bringing jobs to the community. It's apparently going to be the first of it's kind of this scale, and I'm really curious to see how it turns out and if other cities follow suit
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still endorses Trump, gg
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Withnail posted:I turned on Rush for 30 seconds, he was talking about how the woman who was groped on the plane couldn't remember whether the plane was a 737 or not. Clear evidence folks. I want to call into his show and ask if he can remember the model of plane he was on when he got popped with having boner pills in a bottle with someone else's name on it.
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psutify posted:Is this someone's "people to murder" list? it's happened before 
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Oct 14, 2016 18:46
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At this point expecting Ryan to unendorse assumes he himself does not believe in or approve of Trumps message. No, I think he's right on loving board with it.
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Are there any good websites that let you see how the electoral map looks if you give Clinton +X% nationally or otherwise mess around with things like turnout? The closest thing I know was that one that let you tweak the 2012 results, but given the changes in the electorate this year I'm wondering if there's something more up to date.
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