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Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Covok posted:

I can accept this.

I can't. I'd like the hope that a SCOTUS nominee can get a single loving hearing in the next four years.

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A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

moist turtleneck posted:

I just want Hillary elected so she can take even more guns away than Obama did

So one gun?

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Tom Guycot posted:

Holy poo poo, was Tashan Dorrsett former insane poster Tweak all this time? That would explain so much...

who was Tweak?

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

computer parts posted:

I'm actually betting it's less Hillary specifically and more that Russia gave them a bunch of support if they did things in a certain way.

Remember Assange is a self-centered little twerp. Everything that happens goes through the lens of 'I am the most important guy on the planet', and Hillary was secretary of state when he fled into the little hole he's in. He probably really does think she keeps trying to kill him.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Like, to the transgender community of this thread, is there a precedent for some people within the transgender community still having very traditional ideas of gender roles and sexuality and being kind of lovely about them? Its genuinely surprising to me to see a trans person going around calling people "low testosterone beta cucks" and "50 year old bisexuals" because it seems to me like those would be insults and ideas a trans person would be pretty sensitive about.

I don't mean to put any of you on the spot, but I just am kinda surprised by her. Maybe I am too deep into a virtue of the oppressed fallacy.

See Caitlyn Jenner's remarks on same sex marriage

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Non Serviam posted:

Switching gears a bit, does anyone have any theories as to why Assange has it out for Clinton?

I get it that after all this time he might be suffering from cabin fever but he can't honestly think a Trump presidency would give him safe passage out of that embassy.

She criticized him for posting all the diplomatic cables Manning leaked because it contained personal information and put people's lives at risk.

Edmund Lava
Sep 8, 2004

Hey, I'm from Brooklyn. I'm going to call myself Mr. Friendly.

Harrow posted:

I'm not super familiar with all of the laws, but I do work for an electronic medical record company and I know if I released private health information about someone that I accessed through our system, I'd be fired and my company would be sued hard.

But yes, this is in large part why I can't support what Wikileaks is doing. They're turning up a bunch of low-level dishonesty, letting people make a huge deal out of politics as usual, and just destroying innocent people's privacy in the process. The collateral damage is not worth the result.

Those laws (HIPPA specifically) only apply to health care professionals. The press and the public can do whatever they want.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Covok posted:

I can accept this.

It would be an epic disaster for a party getting to run against Trump.

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Night10194 posted:

Remember Assange is a self-centered little twerp. Everything that happens goes through the lens of 'I am the most important guy on the planet', and Hillary was secretary of state when he fled into the little hole he's in. He probably really does think she keeps trying to kill him.

Yeah, but at least their twitter account has been spreading Russian BS that's completely unrelated to the campaign and chronologically precedes it (stuff like Russian MH-17 conspiracy theories).

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Roland Jones posted:


No idea who that is, but she did claim to have been here for a decade despite having a regdate of 2015 or so.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

who was Tweak?



Tweek used to put on blackface on GBS video chatrooms, especially if there were black posters already chatting. And was pretty crazy in other ways but man they loved to do blackface.

B B
Dec 1, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy8HRdlLGCQ

:drat:

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Non Serviam posted:

Switching gears a bit, does anyone have any theories as to why Assange has it out for Clinton?

I get it that after all this time he might be suffering from cabin fever but he can't honestly think a Trump presidency would give him safe passage out of that embassy.

I'm not sure, but him hating her and him wanting out of the embassy aren't connected; he didn't enter it until after the thing with his rape charges, which was after the Manning leaks. It's just a convenient excuse for him to not acknowledge that he's hiding because he's a rapist and justice would come down on his head hard if he didn't hide there.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Wikileaks prays on people not connecting that politicians talk in private just like we talk in private.

I would make jokes or talk hella poo poo about co-workers or rivals to people privately(or something I perceive as private anyway). Like man if people/customers/users at my old job could see or hear the jokes I made about them I would be fuuucked.


Politicians are the same way. No loving poo poo the Clinton campaign was tossing around ideas(some of them terrible ones they never used, but it's just brainstorming). But it's treated as some loving affront unto man that a campaign team was doing it's job.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Pablo Gigante posted:

See Caitlyn Jenner's remarks on same sex marriage

Or her attempt to become Ted Cruz's "trans ambassador."

:barf:

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
If the GOP controls the Senate then it doesn't matter because they'll never stop investigating

eviltastic
Feb 8, 2004

Fan of Britches

Pablo Gigante posted:

See Caitlyn Jenner's remarks on same sex marriage

I googled this and what I found is completely unobjectionable?

Jenner's blog posted:

Like many people, there was a time when I didn’t realize how important it is for gay couples to have the right to get married. But after hearing from my gay friends and learning more about the hardships they faced because of discrimination, it became clear to me that everyone should be able to marry the person they love.

http://caitlynjenner.com/2015/09/what-ive-learned/

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER
I think the only reasonable conclusion about Caitlyn Jenner is that she is dumb as hell as was just as dumb when she presented as a man.

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.
I always under the impression Caitlyn Jenner was kind of a unique figure because she enjoys a lot of privileges that protect her from some of the realities of most trans individuals.

I could be way off base though

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.
The only reason Bernie might be doing better in a general election against Trump is because the anti-semitism against him would be so loving extreme that only the most hardcore neonazis would be supporting the GOP at this point. Look at the crazy (((globalist))) stuff and then replace KKKilary KKKlinton with Socialist Jew Commie Bernie Sanders and try to imagine how much more extreme it would be.

Sanders isn't nearly as stone-faced as Clinton and the odds of Trump getting under his skin and causing an Old Man Yells At Cloud moment in the debates would be much greater. Plus there's that whole "Sanders did next to nothing for his downticket people in the primaries" which would be bad in the general when paired with Schumber being such a self-serving rear end in a top hat.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Yes you are, you just have to know your audience and how to market it.

See: Star Citizen

computer parts posted:

Aren't Obama's approval ratings only like 55% right now? And that's people in general, not voters, and with the assumption that he will never ever be president ever again?

Obama's approval ratings are currently among the highest for any outgoing POTUS, yes.

Crain posted:

Don't know if this was posted but it seems that our buddy Tashan Dorrsett is getting the FBI involved with investigating her ban:

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793397187984039936

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793444823969607680

Well the FBI does like fighting with the CIA...

OddObserver posted:

It's also why Wikileaks are scumbags: it's private health information about a private citizen. Not something anyone has any business publishing.
Actually, aren't there tons of laws about this sort of stuff --- I guess they probably apply to doctors?

AFAIK this wouldn't fall under pretty much any medical information law because it's not posting the actual medical records and a law that says "you can't post about someone having an illness" would be beyond broad and likely an outright 1A violation as a result.

Ein Sexmonster posted:

I think they're straight wrong about senate. IL, WI, NV, and PA are all pretty much over. NC, NH, FL are competitive.

I'm skeptical about PA unless the polling there has been consistently bad for Toomey and not just "this one poll shows him with an absurdly large deficit."

When did FL get competitive? And hasn't IL/WI had bad trends for the Dems over the last week or 2? I'd love for you to be right and the Dems win due to ground game and such but I'm not hugely optimistic.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
What if the upcoming FBI investigation on SA finds HRC's secret platinum account? :ohdear:

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Crain posted:

Don't know if this was posted but it seems that our buddy Tashan Dorrsett is getting the FBI involved with investigating her ban:

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793397187984039936

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793444823969607680

what

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Pablo Gigante posted:

See Caitlyn Jenner's remarks on same sex marriage

Alternatively - don't

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

eviltastic posted:

I googled this and what I found is completely unobjectionable?


http://caitlynjenner.com/2015/09/what-ive-learned/

Fair enough, but prior to that she had a very "traditional" view of marriage even after transitioning

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Like, to the transgender community of this thread, is there a precedent for some people within the transgender community still having very traditional ideas of gender roles and sexuality and being kind of lovely about them? Its genuinely surprising to me to see a trans person going around calling people "low testosterone beta cucks" and "50 year old bisexuals" because it seems to me like those would be insults and ideas a trans person would be pretty sensitive about.

I don't mean to put any of you on the spot, but I just am kinda surprised by her. Maybe I am too deep into a virtue of the oppressed fallacy.

I'm like, 93% sure that transgender people can believe anything cisgender people can believe. Don't quote me on that, though.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
I'm not sure where they're getting this idea that the Republicans are going to retain the Senate.

Also I'm fairly sure in retrospect that there's no world where the Dems retook the House this year because hypothetical landslides don't matter when you aren't actually running enough good downballot candidates to win suddenly competitive seats.

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



Unreported in that earlier advertising blitz from Camp Trump - they pulled ads from PA. Read it as you will.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



So this person was some kind of pro-Trump troll? That's seriously pathetic.

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

FlamingLiberal posted:

So this person was some kind of pro-Trump troll?

Even worse, Pro-Trump sincere!

Wyld Thang
Feb 23, 2016

Ein Sexmonster posted:

No. No he hasn't said that.
He will continue to believe that she is the worst candidate imaginable, probably for the rest of time.

Progressives are a true minority of the Democratic party because their policies are notoriously horrible.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Non Serviam posted:

Switching gears a bit, does anyone have any theories as to why Assange has it out for Clinton?

I get it that after all this time he might be suffering from cabin fever but he can't honestly think a Trump presidency would give him safe passage out of that embassy.

She was head of the state dept when he leaked the state dept cables so he thinks she's after him because he's an insane narcissist.

davebo
Nov 15, 2006

Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito
College Slice
In terms of who I'd like to share forums with, "self hating racist sjw's and weird 52 year old men in open bisexual relationships" > Trump voters.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
I honestly believe that Trump is going to underperform the polls. There's gonna be an unusually high Latino turnout, and shy Clinton supporting Republican women, two factors that the polls can't account for.

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax

Guy Goodbody posted:

I honestly believe that Trump is going to underperform the polls. There's gonna be an unusually high Latino turnout, and shy Clinton supporting Republican women, two factors that the polls can't account for.

And modern data driven voter registration and mobilization.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

canepazzo posted:

Unreported in that earlier advertising blitz from Camp Trump - they pulled ads from PA. Read it as you will.

That's batshit insane, but then, Trump.

Also, I think this may be the one year a shy tory effect isn't insane to hope for. I remember prior polls found way, way more husbands think their wives are supporting Trump than actually are. We're winning without it, just...It'd be a good surprise to cap this off.

A Fancy 400 lbs
Jul 24, 2008

Evil Fluffy posted:

And hasn't IL/WI had bad trends for the Dems over the last week or 2?

I don't know about WI, but Kirk has been absolutely bombing in IL after claiming that Duckworth was lying about her family serving in the US military since the Revolutionary War(which is true) because her mom is from Thailand during a debate.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.
I'm glad we finally have the proper thread title after months of waiting.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Guy Goodbody posted:

I honestly believe that Trump is going to underperform the polls. There's gonna be an unusually high Latino turnout, and shy Clinton supporting Republican women, two factors that the polls can't account for.

Bleh. Don't put too much faith in that. Obama outperformed his 2012 polling but it wasn't by some huge margin. I expect Hillary might outperform her polling by a max of about 3% (i.e. the margin of error), which is meaningful but not absurdly huge.

GI_Clutch
Aug 22, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
Dinosaur Gum

Yawn. While it's all horrible stuff he's said, it feels like every Hillary ad I've seen for months is just compilations of the same clips. They need something better than "listen to what Donald said in an interview ten or more years ago" and sometimes "he incites violence and also he mocked a reporter with a disability." I mean, I guess maybe they don't have much else to go on since he hasn't been in office, but there has to be something else they can hit on from the debates, his rallies, etc.

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

Non Serviam posted:

Switching gears a bit, does anyone have any theories as to why Assange has it out for Clinton?

I get it that after all this time he might be suffering from cabin fever but he can't honestly think a Trump presidency would give him safe passage out of that embassy.

The US state department made it really loving hard for wikileaks to raise money while Clinton was at the helm to start with. Also Assange has a huge hate boner for the US, jews, and women while also being the pawn of Putin.

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Crain posted:

Don't know if this was posted but it seems that our buddy Tashan Dorrsett is getting the FBI involved with investigating her ban:

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793397187984039936

https://twitter.com/fatgayandsassy/status/793444823969607680

im not selfhating

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