anime was right posted:

this thread doesnt have a lot of quotes from the book im sad

spacetoaster posted:

They're there.

IronClaymore posted:

But you defeated them in that.

IronClaymore posted:

And entirely sure we broke the habit some 50-100 years before you did. And never relied on it so heavily. So very very heavily. I read "Roots", I know what you guys did to 'build' your "nation', if it can be called that.

You put the Spanish to shame, and that's saying something. Because they were like the benchmark for brutality. But you defeated them in that. Grats.

anime was right posted:

ive only seen like three so far. this is basically the gbs version of the suck zone which is fine.

The Human Crouton posted:

Nope. Spain is still the all time dick champion. Less than 10% of the slave trade went to the British colonies because the slaves could actually survive to birth further generations.

The brunt of the slaves were shipped continuously to Central America, South America, and the Caribbean colonies(including Spanish colonies) because the conditions were so harsh for slaves there that they had to keep replacing the ones they worked to death.

VikingSkull posted:

lol you went to war over a barren rock with a third world nation and almost lost

just lol

CassandraZara posted:

But enough about Afghanistan

IronClaymore posted:

Actually, here, you're poking at the wrong shameful genocide. And it was well in to the 1950s and 60s that this poo poo carried on here. And it still goes on! Hah! gently caress you American, we can still be more racist than you!

We...we really kinda can, even though you have Trump. Our racism loving sucks, and I like to critisise the USA all the time, but sometimes I'd like to trade our racism for yours, because ours is just...infinitely awful.

Pawn 17 posted:

Does your government even allow you to use the internet? Are you on an illegal connection right now?

IronClaymore posted:

Sebastien Lenorman posted:

Guys, gals (and pick) are we done arguing about pinochet? Can we go back to dunking on hillary yet?

Sebastien Lenorman posted:

suburban virgin posted:

The electoral college doesn't even make the top 10 list of Problems in U.S Politics though. The Presidency could be decided by coin toss between two baby-boomers carefully selected for the greatest mix of stupidity, arrogance, and likelihood to develop Alzheimer's and it still wouldn't be a major issue because the Presidency isn't that important.

bonerjam posted:

I actually don't think we should eliminate it but I don't vote so it makes zero difference to me either way.

VikingSkull posted:

the fact that no one cares about the electoral college unless their candidate loses by it is how you know it's working as intended

NomChompsky posted:

I don't like it when my favored candidate wins. What now, bitch?

Sebastien Lenorman posted:

Guys, gals (and pick) are we done arguing about pinochet? Can we go back to dunking on hillary yet?

Grumpo posted:

So has anyone actually read the book? What was Bill doing the whole time considering he ya know, won two campaigns and could offer pointed, accurate advice about demographics and swing states?

Guilty as Sin excerpts posted:

New York Times bestselling author Ed Klein has just published his fourth book about the Clintons since 2005, Guilty as Sin. Klein has told how Bill Clinton enjoyed foot rubs, massages and romps in his presidential library with female interns and has described new details about Hillary's medical crises. Guilty as Sin is available in bookstores and for order from Amazon.


In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Bill and Hillary Clinton had a knock-down, drag-out fight about her effort to blame FBI Director James Comey for her slump in the polls and looming danger of defeat.

'I was with Bill in Little Rock when he had this shouting match with Hillary on the phone and she accused Comey for reviving the investigation into her use of a private email server and reversing her campaign's momentum,' said one of Bill Clinton's closest advisers.
'Bill didn't buy the excuse that Comey would cost Hillary the election,' said the source. 'As far as he was concerned, all the blame belonged to [campaign manager Robby] Mook, [campaign chairman John] Podesta and Hillary because they displayed a tone-deaf attitude about the feeble economy and its impact on millions and millions of working-class voters.

'Bill was so red in the face during his conversation with Hillary that I worried he was going to have a heart attack. He got so angry that he threw his phone off the roof of his penthouse apartment and toward the Arkansas River.'
Bill has a luxurious penthouse apartment with an outdoor garden at the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock.

During the campaign, Bill Clinton felt that he was ignored by Hillary's top advisers when he urged them to make the economy the centerpiece of her campaign.
He repeatedly urged them to connect with the people who had been left behind by the revolutions in technology and globalization.
'Bill said that constantly attacking Trump for his defects made Hillary's staff and the media happy, but that it wasn't a message that resonated with voters, especially in the rust belt,' the source explained.
'Bill always campaigned as a guy who felt your pain, but Hillary came across as someone who was pissed off at her enemy [Trump], not someone who was reaching out and trying to make life better for the white working class.'

According to the source, Bill was severely critical of Hillary's decision to reject an invitation to address a St. Patrick's Day event at the University of Notre Dame.
Hillary's campaign advisers nixed the idea on the grounds that white Catholics were not the audience she needed to reach.

'Bill also said that many African Americans were deeply disappointed with the results of eight years of Obama,' the source continued.
'Despite more and more government assistance, black weren't economically any better off, and black-on-black crime was destroying their communities. He said Hillary should have gone into the South Side of Chicago and condemned the out-of-control violence.'

Though Bill conceded that FBI Director Comey's decision to revive Hillary's email scandal created a problem for her campaign, he believed the issue had little impact on the outcome because it had already been baked into the decisions of most voters.
'A big part of Bill's anger toward Hillary was that he was sidelined during the entire campaign by her advisers,' said the source. 'He can't be effective if he sees himself as just another hired hand. He wasn't listened to and that infuriated him. After all, he knows something about campaigns, and he told me in early October that Hillary and her advisers were blowing it.
'Hillary wouldn't listen. She told Bill that his ideas were old and that he was out of touch. In the end, there was nothing he could do about it because Hillary and her people weren't listening to anything he said.'

IronClaymore posted:

Actually, here, you're poking at the wrong shameful genocide. And it was well in to the 1950s and 60s that this poo poo carried on here. And it still goes on! Hah! gently caress you American, we can still be more racist than you!

We...we really kinda can, even though you have Trump. Our racism loving sucks, and I like to critisise the USA all the time, but sometimes I'd like to trade our racism for yours, because ours is just...infinitely awful.

bonerjam posted:

Let's abolish the electoral college for real this time, because its existence is inconvenient to my candidate this particular election.

literally a hog posted:

This is from a different book that came out a while back, but its funny and stuck in my mind. Who knows if its true:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-penthouse.html

spacetoaster posted:

Sebastien Lenorman posted:

Guys, gals (and pick) are we done arguing about pinochet? Can we go back to dunking on hillary yet?

Maya Fey posted:

spacetoaster posted:

The Human Crouton posted:

I don't think I've seen the whole thing before. He's in a venue surrounded by enemies and he's meek until they all think he's given into their holy jerkoff fest, and then he gets vicious as soon as they think they've got him cowed.

That campaign was the funniest 2 years in all of history.