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Northjayhawk
Mar 8, 2008

by exmarx

Combed Thunderclap posted:

Looking at his background, why the hell did Obama select Comey in the first place? Dude puts money into the McCain and Romney campaigns, parachutes out of the Bush Administration into a GC position at Lockheed Martin, and in 2013 after having your agenda stonewalled for five years you think "yes, this man shall run the FBI for the next decade"?

Sometimes I really don't get Obama at all.

1st term Obama was a naive idiot who thought the Republicans would negotiate with him. In that spirit, he wanted to project an aura of bipartisanship and compromise by appointing some Republicans.

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Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:

Trump's not winning you loving babies.

Know how this gets out of the news cycle? Oppo bomb. Get ready for something almost as bad as sexual assault.

There is no oppo bomb coming.

At the same time, Trump is still not winning.

Artificer
Apr 8, 2010

You're going to try ponies and you're. Going. To. LOVE. ME!!
They've had a few hours to deploy an oppo bomb. No more is coming.

EwokEntourage
Jun 10, 2008

BREYER: Actually, Antonin, you got it backwards. See, a power bottom is actually generating all the dissents by doing most of the work.

SCALIA: Stephen, I've heard that speed has something to do with it.

BREYER: Speed has everything to do with it.

WampaLord posted:

When was the last time the news kept anything in the news cycle for 11 days?

9/11?

Malaysian air

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

you mean other than the anit-semetic alt-right pro-putin poo poo?

MattD1zzl3
Oct 26, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 4 years!

WampaLord posted:

When was the last time the news kept anything in the news cycle for 11 days?

9/11?

Wasnt pussygate at least 20 days ago?

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


EwokEntourage posted:

Malaysian air

He said the news, CNN obviously isn't included in that.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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



Aerox posted:

Not quite -- he's saying the whole thing was a false flag orchestrated by Clinton and the corrupt FBI to try to keep everyone's attention away from upcoming Wikileaks documents that are totally, for sure, definitely going to get Hillary this time.
OK, so my read on this is that either Russia has successfully addled their brains, or they're taking the hilarious long shot on "Clinton doesn't win" rather than the more sensible "dig into her lead, perhaps save the lege".

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Rick Wilson lied. There were no more oppo bombs.

Huge_Midget
Jun 6, 2002

I don't like the look of it...

Northjayhawk posted:

1st term Obama was a naive idiot who thought the Republicans would negotiate with him. In that spirit, he wanted to project an aura of bipartisanship and compromise by appointing some Republicans.

A mistake that Iron Abuelita will not make. Can't wait for the long knives to come out after the 11th.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
let full arzy commence

Huge_Midget posted:

A mistake that Iron Abuelita will not make. Can't wait for the long knives to come out after the 11th.

please do not jinx this by invoking a nickname similar to Margaret Thatcher's

Dead Cosmonaut fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Oct 28, 2016

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)
I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269, a straw poll of the House suggests that Trump wins, but then a state flips to Clinton after a recount, which is argued in front of the Supreme Court, who decides in 4-4 to uphold the recount, matching the 9th district ruling.

The electoral college is contested, with questions of who gets to sit. In the end, the college votes Clinton, but the House has a vote in record, assuming a tie for Trump.

The House relents for immediate impeachment, knowing the new Senate will find Clinton not guilty. They do so, Clinton remains President.

The stress of all of this leads to Trump having a heart attack and dying. Conspiracy theories fly, followed by bullets. The Second American Civil War begins in earnest.

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Supraluminal posted:

We don't actually know anything about the contents of this batch of emails, right? Those that we've seen so far haven't been particularly damaging (the worst to date is probably the Doug Band/Clinton Foundation memo, which I think mostly served to confirm that the Clintons are in fact politicians), but it seems early to completely dismiss the latest round. All we can really say is that it doesn't seem any more likely to be a disaster than what has already been released.

Correct, the contents of the emails are unknown at this point. And, as people have reported, beyond Comey's vague notification the actual Clinton server investigation isn't being reopened.

HOWEVER -- the bigger problem is not the content of the emails but Huma's involvement. As part of Clinton's investigation, Huma was interviewed, and most likely her access of emails and the emails she had possession of were reviewed. The FBI are now stating that they are reviewing, that were Huma's possession, emails and a device, which means she didn't disclose them before, or at the very least the FBI didn't discover.

Huma's actions are going to keep this in the news.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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



foobardog posted:

I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269, a straw poll of the House suggests that Trump wins, but then a state flips to Clinton after a recount, which is argued in front of the Supreme Court, who decides in 4-4 to uphold the recount, matching the 9th district ruling.

The electoral college is contested, with questions of who gets to sit. In the end, the college votes Clinton, but the House has a vote in record, assuming a tie for Trump.

The House relents for immediate impeachment, knowing the new Senate will find Clinton not guilty. They do so, Clinton remains President.

The stress of all of this leads to Trump having a heart attack and dying. Conspiracy theories fly, followed by bullets. The Second American Civil War begins in earnest.
This is the sequence from the Drama Timeline. We live in the Stupid Timeline, so this won't happen.

Pastrymancy
Feb 20, 2011

11:13: Despite Gio Gonzalez warning, "Never mix your sparkling juices," Bryce Harper opens another bottle of sparkling grape and mixes it with sparkling cider.

1:07: Harper walks to the 7-11 and orders an all-syrup Slurpee.

1:10-3:05: Harper has no recollection of this time. Aliens?
I don't know what's worse: Arzying or ironic accelerationist fanfic

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

foobardog posted:

I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269, a straw poll of the House suggests that Trump wins, but then a state flips to Clinton after a recount, which is argued in front of the Supreme Court, who decides in 4-4 to uphold the recount, matching the 9th district ruling.

The electoral college is contested, with questions of who gets to sit. In the end, the college votes Clinton, but the House has a vote in record, assuming a tie for Trump.

The House relents for immediate impeachment, knowing the new Senate will find Clinton not guilty. They do so, Clinton remains President.

The stress of all of this leads to Trump having a heart attack and dying. Conspiracy theories fly, followed by bullets. The Second American Civil War begins in earnest.
this isn't the word doc for your kindle porn

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

rock
ice
storm
abyss



It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

*
This thread moves like lightning these days so the usual apologies if this has already been posted.

Anyhow, lol:

https://twitter.com/crampell/status/792118373043798016

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Northjayhawk posted:

1st term Obama was a naive idiot who thought the Republicans would negotiate with him. In that spirit, he wanted to project an aura of bipartisanship and compromise by appointing some Republicans.

But...hope and change!

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
Ssssssssssooooooooooooooooo w/r/t SCOTUS on the transgender bathroom case, should I arzy over the injustice/them punting it back down(4-4) or drink because that dead fucker is still paying dividens?

CascadeBeta
Feb 14, 2009

by Cyrano4747

foobardog posted:

I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269, a straw poll of the House suggests that Trump wins, but then a state flips to Clinton after a recount, which is argued in front of the Supreme Court, who decides in 4-4 to uphold the recount, matching the 9th district ruling.

The electoral college is contested, with questions of who gets to sit. In the end, the college votes Clinton, but the House has a vote in record, assuming a tie for Trump.

The House relents for immediate impeachment, knowing the new Senate will find Clinton not guilty. They do so, Clinton remains President.

The stress of all of this leads to Trump having a heart attack and dying. Conspiracy theories fly, followed by bullets. The Second American Civil War begins in earnest.

loving what. Also map it.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Pastrymancy posted:

I don't know what's worse: Arzying or ironic accelerationist fanfic

any kind of emotion donald trump invokes

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
I've given this a lot of thought and performed some careful analysis. I don't want to get into the weeds of my methodology, but friends, :smith: , I have some bad news. Abuela has failed us and will lose.

Donald Trump is our next president.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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



Pounded In the Butt by News Coverage of Ladybuck Emails That Prove Love Is Real

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

GalacticAcid posted:

I've given this a lot of thought and performed some careful analysis. I don't want to get into the weeds of my methodology, but friends, :smith: , I have some bad news. Abuela has failed us and will lose.

Donald Trump is our next president.
post the map

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

foobardog posted:

I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269, a straw poll of the House suggests that Trump wins, but then a state flips to Clinton after a recount, which is argued in front of the Supreme Court, who decides in 4-4 to uphold the recount, matching the 9th district ruling.

The electoral college is contested, with questions of who gets to sit. In the end, the college votes Clinton, but the House has a vote in record, assuming a tie for Trump.

The House relents for immediate impeachment, knowing the new Senate will find Clinton not guilty. They do so, Clinton remains President.

The stress of all of this leads to Trump having a heart attack and dying. Conspiracy theories fly, followed by bullets. The Second American Civil War begins in earnest.

Just for fun. What combination of state electoral votes results in a tie election?

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)

Nessus posted:

This is the sequence from the Drama Timeline. We live in the Stupid Timeline, so this won't happen.

Yeah, y'all're probably right, I just find chaos reigning to be interesting, and makes me feel better that it's likely not going to happen.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Northjayhawk posted:

1st term Obama was a naive idiot who thought the Republicans would negotiate with him. In that spirit, he wanted to project an aura of bipartisanship and compromise by appointing some Republicans.

He only made the same mistake a lot of other Americans made: Fail to realize how radicalized the party had gotten. I know it's difficult to talk about in juxtaposition to Donald Trump, but the Republican Party thoroughly radicalized to the point where any candidate on the stage is a loving disaster if you bother to look deeply into their policies

Cyron
Mar 10, 2014

by zen death robot
let me sing this threads theme.

Crawling in my skin...

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Endorph posted:

post the map

https://twitter.com/Bikers4Trump/status/792110895073812481

mcvey
Aug 31, 2006

go caps haha

*Washington Capitals #1 Fan On DeviantArt*
make your ways to the border(s) now before it gets too jammed up with refugees.

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

1-800-DOCTORB posted:

Obama should resign a day early and let Biden be president for a day.

From this morning, which is apparently 1000+ posts ago (what the hell happened this time?) but I would legit love to see this happen.

TheGreatGnocchi
Jun 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

foobardog posted:

I don't want it to happen, but it really does seem that this election will be called 269-269

No, it won't. The only thing that will happen after this is that Hillary will probably win the same EV's as Obama in 2012. You guys are irrationally freaking out (tired of the word Arzying), over the fact that she won't win in a huge loving landslide. Calm the gently caress down people.

TheGreatGnocchi fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Oct 28, 2016

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Endorph posted:

post the map

the methodology is secret, unfortunately, just know that it is correct and true

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

At absolutely worst, it'd be Huma loving up and Clinton is not in any way responsible since the idea she can control who reads emails on what devices would be laughable.

It's a shame this won't destroy Comey's career and he'll likely make bank via speaking fees and/or right wing media appearances after he leaves the FBI.


Because it's a literal front for Russian propaganda and even if Assange turned out to be only a useful idiot his #2 is a Putinist through and through. Wikileaks' consistent alt-right activities and stalwart defense of Putin and Russia has been covered in the thread a lot.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:

Trump's not winning you loving babies.

Know how this gets out of the news cycle? Oppo bomb. Get ready for something almost as bad as sexual assault.

"This video of Trump grabbing and kissing a woman against her will isn't good enough" is horrible and it's where we are at this point. :smith:

Anomalous Blowout posted:

This thread moves like lightning these days so the usual apologies if this has already been posted.

Anyhow, lol:

https://twitter.com/crampell/status/792118373043798016

This idiot's still going to vote straight ticket R in this and probably many more elections.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
wow this thread sure is going places :stare:

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

-Dethstryk- posted:

You know, after seeing the outcome of the exhaustive investigation, I don't blame their initial responses since the entire thing turned out to not be that big of a loving deal.

No, but when she said there was nothing, and there turned out to be something (even though it was very, very little)...well, that kind of mistake helps pour gasoline on the fire.

That said, Trump is WAY overselling this latest development, and it's hilarious. It will backfire spectacularly.

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)

Tricky D posted:

Just for fun. What combination of state electoral votes results in a tie election?



The most unrealistic thing is NH going Trump. Definitely only a nightmare scenario, though.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Trump is basically already a nightmare that every liberal wants to end

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

GalacticAcid posted:

the methodology is secret, unfortunately, just know that it is correct and true

Don't be an rear end.

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CascadeBeta
Feb 14, 2009

by Cyrano4747

foobardog posted:



The most unrealistic thing is NH going Trump. Definitely only a nightmare scenario, though.

According to Nytimes upshot, NH is like 95 percent Democrat so that's incredibly unlikely.

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