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Gunder posted:Trump having the launch codes is a concern we all share. also this unironically
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Stereotype posted:Though interestingly only his friend broke the law. Huh? They both did. I mean, to the extent the US could get it to apply: quote:It shall be unlawful for - (1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make - (A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
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Koalas March posted:I'm so loving pissed. Anyone who posted in the last thread admitting to donating money should get probated until the election. you literally helped to fun the disenfranchisement of black voters. And yall better not come up in here and start bitching about black turn out, you sanctimonious fucks Unless they used the money it wasn't used to disenfranchise them. Still was a loving stupid thing to do given that the NC GOP party is notoriously bigoted by even the party's standards though. At least the PR benefit of "Dem gives money to GOP group that suffered an attack; GOP group turns around and acts like an utter bastard in the wake of it" is still pretty godawful though.
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Gunder posted:Trump having the launch codes is a concern we all share. Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it r-right? someone educate/reassure me here
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Nov 3, 2016 01:04
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/793954421935894532 https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/793962615361957889
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Ciaphas posted:Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it Nah, the president says something gets nuked and it gets nuked. We will literally face a fiery death of radiation if Trump is elected. Like Trump would ever have someone with a conscious between him and the launching.
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Ciaphas posted:Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it Nope. The whole system is predicated on the president not being a petulant child.
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Ciaphas posted:Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it There are very little checks and balances on the President just deciding to nuke some people. I believe that, as long as he can clearly identify himself, one of the people in the chain would have to refuse to do their duty. There was a terrifying article linked in one of the previous 3,000 pages.
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Ciaphas posted:Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it There was a post about it in the last thread, but no, there is no check on the president's power to launch nukes if he can't be talked out of it
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Ciaphas posted:Much as I abhor the very idea of that gross Yam Golem having possession of the Nuclear Football, checks and balances in the White House alone would put paid to using it Not really barring, basically, a Secret Service coup. Edited: beaten like a dead horse in USPol.
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eviltastic posted:Huh? They both did. I mean, to the extent the US could get it to apply: eviltastic posted:Huh? They both did. I mean, to the extent the US could get it to apply: Oh huh I missed the indirect part of that whoops. There's another part where you can't help a foreign national give to a political party. Though with our current FEC he could probably just say he was paying his friend for his friendship and the simultaneous political contribution was just a coincidence.
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uh holy poo poo i thought secdef or the VP or someone else had to be in on it what the gently caress
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like seriously i need some anti-anxiety meds right freaking now
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Eltoasto posted:There are very little checks and balances on the President just deciding to nuke some people. I believe that, as long as he can clearly identify himself, one of the people in the chain would have to refuse to do their duty. There was a terrifying article linked in one of the previous 3,000 pages.
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Nov 3, 2016 01:07
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So Trump fans scared off that woman making rape allegations against him? Did anything more happen with that? Piles of puke
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All Trump has to do to get my vote is prove he has caused people to bully Frank Luntz.
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Anyone else feel super sad that trumps assault accuser decided to not come forward because of death threats? Not in a "I'm sad that there was a missed opportunity to slam trump" way but more in a "I'm disgusted by the human race and how people are behaving this election cycle" kind of way
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Nov 3, 2016 01:08
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I've been getting calls lately from California numbers that is a robocall entirely in Spanish presumably talking about the election (I heard 'eleccion' a lot). Dem GOTV effort? I don't live in CA anymore but I do have a CA cell number though I dunno why they think I speak Spanish.
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Ciaphas posted:like seriously i need some anti-anxiety meds right freaking now On the bright side if the nuke goes off near you the death will be painless.
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Nov 3, 2016 01:10
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mcmagic posted:He has to resign. I don't even think she can fire him since he's on a 10 year term and it would look personal even though everyone knows he should be fired. It'll depend. The DoJ or Congress can ask the POTUS for revoke his assignment.
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Nov 3, 2016 01:10
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If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long?
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Nov 3, 2016 01:09
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FactsAreUseless posted:Nixon reportedly would get drunk and call for stuff to be nuked, but IDK how confirmed that is. Likewise I imagine there were some tacit understandings among top brass near the end of the Reagan presidency.
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Stereotype posted:On the bright side if the nuke goes off near you the death will be painless. i work like ten miles from nellis air force base I am not happy over this revelation right now
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GalacticAcid posted:Not really barring, basically, a Secret Service coup. which I think is not unrealistic if the President is a complete mongoloid
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Nov 3, 2016 01:10
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Edible Hat posted:If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long? edit: I'm dumb
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:If you call Massachusetts Romney's home state, then 4 years How could I forget about President Romney? 
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Didn't Nixon's senior staff instruct people to phone them first if the president tried to make any crazy late night phone calls to the joint chiefs? I thought he would regularly threaten to use the nukes and then storm out of the room during heated discussions with his own staff. Think it may have been Christopher Hitchens that once related that story, but might be wrong. I vaguely remember the semi-quote being: "I can give the word and 15 minutes later X million people will be dead!", or something to that effect. Edit: beaten to the reference!
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Nov 3, 2016 01:12
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Ciaphas posted:i work like ten miles from nellis air force base I am not happy over this revelation right now The Boomers are pretty cool though, it wouldn't be all bad
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Nov 3, 2016 01:12
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Yaws posted:I've always found it fascinating the amount of interest our elections get outside the US. Is it because the amount of power the US has or are our elections just more interesting? Some of us have to pay US income taxes and don't get to vote. It will be aggravating to have to help fund this country's slide into facism without even getting a say. Also US elections take way too long. Canada started and finished a federal election and the UK worked through a bloody leadership battle in just a couple of news cycles.
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Edible Hat posted:If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long? Gore lost Tennessee.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/793954421935894532 That's not how VIP movement works in regards to shutting down airspace.
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Nov 3, 2016 01:13
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Stereotype posted:On the bright side if the nuke goes off near you the death will be painless. That's not at all true. Link is to John Hersey's seminal reporting on the aftermath of Hiroshima.
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canepazzo posted:I think I'm gonna be sick: This: https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/793947399605493760 was posted after this: https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/793872462429560832 He's in the loving Senate debate RIGHT NOW.
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Stereotype posted:On the bright side if the nuke goes off near you the death will be painless. I don't think you intended for this to be a pun, but in case you did, you're good people.
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Gunder posted:Didn't Nixon's senior staff instruct people to phone them first if the president tried to make any crazy late night phone calls to the joint chiefs? I thought he would regularly threaten to use the nukes and then storm out of the room during heated discussions with his own staff. Think it may have been Christopher Hitchens that once related that story, but might be wrong. I believe the story was that Kissinger told them to consult him first, but Kissinger may have just wanted to make sure it was a 3rd world country being bombed.
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Edible Hat posted:If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long? Brief look at Wikipedia tells me Nixon, 1968, because he had moved to New York to practice law. He later re-established residency in California.
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I was told that nobody shows up to these rallies. I spent an hour and a half trying to get into a parking garage that was already full.
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El Pollo Blanco posted:You people really know how to put on a spectacle, I'm pretty sure that's 90% of it. I find UK pol to be more interesting personally, but US elections just have so much drama. To be fair, the spectacle in THIS election is incredibly loving absurd. I've been interested in presidential elections for almost 30 years, and the 2nd-biggest spectacle in that time frame looks quaint now. We're never going to have another one like this, or God at least I hope not.
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Edible Hat posted:If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long? If anyone cares about the answer to this bit of trivia, it was one hundred years ago when Wilson lost New Jersey despite being reelected.
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Edible Hat posted:If Trump were to win, he would be the first president to win the presidency without winning his home state in how long? George W Bush lost Connecticut twice 
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