emdash posted:

https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/782346880533487616 lol

Pastrymancy posted:

The part that gets me is that all those problems do exist for people in that age range. Identifying them isn't making fun of them. And politicians identify problems that specific groups have all the time.

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.’


holy poo poo

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

‘Finally. Someone who thinks like me.’


holy poo poo

quote:

It is a man no one knows except Brandon, who had argued with Brandon earlier and who now barges into the trailer, pulls out a handgun and cocks it.

He points the gun at Brandon. He points it at Jacob. He points it at Justin. He points it at Lindsey. He points it at Joey, who stands up in the middle of the living room and says, “Shoot me.”

As the others watch, Joey inches toward the gun.

“Shoot me,” he says again, moving closer, and he keeps saying it.

“If you’re going to shoot anybody, shoot me,” he says, and as he closes in on the man, the man begins backing up.

“Shoot me,” Joey keeps saying, and now the man is out of the trailer and putting his gun back into his waistband, and Joey is escorting him up the rutted road, and the man is walking toward the highway, disappearing into the dark, and now Joey is shaking.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

the chance that woman doesn't attempt suicide after the election is basically 0% and that's really loving sad

I wish we had something to offer these people other than a shrug. Misery and hopelessness and withering contempt from Left and Right, no wonder she's a wreck. Even if we could wave a wand and provide free education and job training to everyone, she's old, she's set in her ways, and the jobs just aren't coming back. She may be a bigot but she's spent her life caught in the gears of a machine so big she can't even see it from inside. Against that propaganda machine, what chance did she have?

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

I'm curious what you think will help them? The standard coastal liberal answer is "education" but that just doesn't work. Even with a college education, even if it was free, there just aren't enough jobs left for everyone. Not even close. That's not to mention the dilapidated state of their communities, the lack of basic human services... this isn't a problem that can be solved by turning everyone into New Yorker-reading urbanites with MBAs. I'm honestly at a loss. Guaranteed basic income is a start, and since we're about to elect the Democratic party's biggest champion of incrementalism and triangulation we know we're not even going to get that much.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So Hillary raised $150 million in September. Her most so far.

Jackson Taus posted:

No, this deduction only applies to income tax, he'd still be on the hook for property taxes and sales taxes and poo poo.

axeil posted:

If I'm reading it right, it's not just $50 million in income but $50 million in taxable income. That's an absolutely huge number as most rich people don't actually pull in that much income per year but instead just let their investments generate interest.

This means that at bare minimum, the dude was able to not pay around $1 billion in taxes over 20 years. A billion.

Night10194 posted:

I have to know why you would posit he would do so.

The Glumslinger posted:

It could theoretically have used 24 bits for storing, but i cant imagine that wouldnt just use 32

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Imagine how hard it must suck to be sitting on all his tax retuns and be unable to release them legally

Like, if I were that dude be talked to by the Times, I would have been like "I cannot show you Mr. Trump's returns which are in that unlocked file cabinet over there, now if you excuse me, I will be in the other room for five minutes making coffee and will not be able to see or hear anything happening in this room"

Augus posted:

Trump's campaign trying to play the moral high ground of not using dubiously-obtained documents during a campaign is pretty hilarious considering their past attitude about hacking the DNC

Also re: civility in politics, in Jackson's day senators were killed in duels with other senators

Nude Bog Lurker posted:

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Just in case anyone was wondering the Trump tax story is still dominating the main headlines on every single news site.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Dems got their work cut out for them to convince the younger crowd to vote for Hillary.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Great thing to point out. A lot REALLY rested on that first debate. Thank god for Trump's incompetence.


Millenials are split like 50/50 when it comes to white vs non-white.

Minority Millennials overwhelmingly didn't vote for Hillary. Except for blacks who voted mostly for Bernie but it wasn't a total blowout. Though the younger they got, the more the gap widen. There is a general distaste for establishment parties in general amongst the youth.

lozzle posted:

Dumb white millenials who supported Sanders but are now planning to vote for Gary Johnson are exactly the dumb white millenials who never loving vote anyways.

Ditocoaf posted:

It's a reference to a @dril tweet which was a silly nonsensical turn of phrase. Building an entire frequently-used term on a single reference to a tiny funny thing seems like a bit much to me, but whatever, you can't stop memes.

(gently caress it: Part of the original tweet's humor comes from how it seems to come out of nowhere but fits well anyway, like most dril tweets. using it as a routine way to say "this guy was owned" diminishes everything involved. I'm a curmudgeon about memes. Arzy is a good and useful term though.)

ParliamentOfDogs posted:

Does anyone have a link to a reputable site that keeps a tab of the accusations that Trump cheats his employees? Googling around I find a lot of individual accusations but I'd like to see a comprehensive accounting if it exists.

ParliamentOfDogs posted:

Yeah, that's kind of the thing. I'm googling around and it's overwhelming. Lot of individual anecdotes, everything from deciding not to pay a half million commission on a whim to snaking tips from wait staff. I'd like to see a huge well researched write up on as much of it as possible. Also, Ivanka Trump kind of sounds like a piece of poo poo as well, I'm not sure why people always seem to go easy on her.

Young Freud posted:

Rape victim. By the Donald, even.

Moatman posted:

I thought that was Turkey.
Unless he also did that to Afghani women

TheGreatGnocchi posted:

Jesus christ people. This is gonna be like a NASA announcement (for Trump supporters). Huge erections and anticipation and a huge loving let down. Assange doesn't have poo poo, probably just some old documents showing some gray area dealings with shady people. This won't sink her campaign and won't shift the polls in any direction. Stop Arzying people.

woke wedding drone posted:

So the Assange announcement should be in about 45 minutes right?

On Terra Firma posted:

So far this press conference is a book promotion?

On Terra Firma posted:

"We are very proud of our drop-box."

They didn't do a loving thing. They were handed documents from various sources and they put them on the internet. They did nothing. Absolutely nothing. No repercussions at all.

Archonex posted:

I expected them to at least have the decency to get to the point without forty minutes of self fellating nonsense.

In other news i'm almost wondering if they timed the broadcast since this joke of a press release is awkwardly timed for the campaign to deal with. It's the perfect time of night to utterly ruin someone's day and have half the staff of your average campaign blearily trying to do damage control over what's likely to be another unsourced claim.


Edit: Is Assange even a US citizen? I never thought to check though I don't think he is. Under our current laws even if she did attempt to have him drone striked or whatever (and lol at that because why the gently caress would anyone bother with Assange?) i'm pretty sure it wouldn't be illegal. The Iraq War did a number on how we conduct wars above board after all.