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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Stereotype posted:

For the first page: Republicans have garbage ideas and are garbage people.
For the sake of the argument I will present the Republican rebuttal:
"You only believe this, because you are a lazy millenial with to much privileges and everyone you hold dear is a pigfucker. Who would trust Stereotype anyway? They are in a porn video. Just search for it! Trump/Pence 2016 it's going to be huge! Like the best. Imagine a big thing and then another big thing and then this is even bigger than that."

Just imagine I'd be posting from a New York time zone.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Oct 1, 2016

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Sensible Thursday posted:

Can't wait for Trump to cite the media's response to this as proof of bias.

Would that make sense? This tweet is quite clearly from her hard working campaign staff. Literally no one had any doubts that Trumps nightly tweets where personally written by him.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Most insane conspiracy theory I have heard all year.

The woman who was on stage debating Trump was not even Hillary at all. It was another body double.


I felt sick reading that. It's the stupidest opinion I could possibly imagine. An actress who can convince millions of people to be a well known public figure for several hours while also memorizing countless political facts, keeping her calm around Donnie and baiting him so much, would be by far the most competent person alive.

I absolutely lost all political respect from the person who told me that. Like I can't even argue anything anymore. If he is so far down the hole, nothing I could ever say to him would make the slightest dent into his convictions.

I've read countless political articles and tweets and sometimes even their comment sections. But the stupidest conspiracy came from a personal friend. He's not even an uneducated blue collar worker. We recently got out college degrees.
I kind of hate him now. :smith:

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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VH4Ever posted:

Yeah if your friend can actually, unironically and sincerely believe in that he's kind of an idiot, I have to say. And I understand why you'd say you kind of hate him now. That's a pretty loving willfully (or very unwillfully) stupid thing to believe no matter how you slice it.
His source was this video where the guy says the opposite in the first 30 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeEttm2CF4

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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GalacticAcid posted:

I read through some really old posts about Trump just to see what people said about him before he became...whatever the gently caress he is.

Someone in Vilerat's fwd: fwd: fwd: thread mentioned that he's always been super miffed about being excluded from the Social Register while bragging that his kids are in it. Intrigued, I did some quick Googling and discovered this passage from The New Yorker in 2012:



Link here. I'm loving dying imagining him reading that and treating his presidential run as a stepping stone to entry into the Social Register.

Edited to include original post, from 2011

Hahaha! Just imagine Donald read that sentence and for that reason alone he decided he must become president. Because not even he can retroactively make his grandparents that rich.

He doesn't really seem interested in the policies, paperwork, presidential salary, stress, living in the white house, meeting foreign leaders, keeping any of his promises, or looking presidential in any form whatsoever. This is probably the only perk he actually wants.
On the other hand if he was president there might be a portrait of him in every mayor public office space and military base.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
At this point i'm genuinely interested what Asange has to say. Not because I think it will be anything worth my time, but because I want to know just how disappointing it is.

"In fifth grade, Clinton cheated on a math test."

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

ColdPie posted:

Guys the mailman just dropped this off. It's from the White House!! Wow!



No one except for maybe Trump actually thinks that the letter was sent from the tower.
The important thing is that this is the address which annoys him the most.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Yes, no one ever claimed that he broke the law with this. This is perfectly legal and theoretically there isn't a problem in getting the best deal for yourself.

The thing everyone hates is the fact that this is possible. Basically this is saying that a rich person can gamble away tons of money and destroy countless jobs. But the government pays for it because he would feel bad otherwise.
The US tax code is broken, but Donald wants to lower even more taxes which only affect people like himself. Hillary will probably argue along those lines.


His intentions could not be clearer if he proposed a special exception on taxes for anyone who is directly related to himself.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Cimber posted:

so 960 million in 1995 is about 1.5 billion today.

So he claimed a loss of 1.5 billion in one year? How exactly? The only thing I can think of is that he's been playing this game for decades. Claim a massive loss one year that deferred income for other years, then defer those losses during that time period until he can save them all up an claim them all in one year.

Never pay a cent in tax.

No. He ist really just that incompetent. That year a casino went belly up and the housing prices shifted against him.

Didn't someone say that his estimated net wealth fell 600 million this year for similar reasons?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
The nowcast is so volatile that it's pretty much worthless though. "If you ignore everything what is coming up and go only by the latest polls to assume that the election was right now. Who would win?"

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Word on the street (Reddit) is that the Wikileaks Wednesday info drop is about Bill's infidelity. Which I'm sure will go swimmingly for Trump lol

Bill allegedly had sex with several women several times. Including Hillary Clinton. What a monster!
The fact that he slept with Hillary is literally the thing the republicans hate most about him.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Of course, the top story Asange was teasing for months is a self insert Mary Sue fan fiction! What else could it have been? Seriously that reads like a text Tedd Rall would write.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

vyelkin posted:

"Can't we just drone strike this guy?" Clinton asked, sinisterly. "His handsome face and success at sleeping with many women makes me, a woman who has been cheated on and is ugly and bad, upset."

The room laughed but stopped when it became clear Clinton was serious.

"Julian Assange is the handsomest man on the planet and also a big sexy stud who leaked government secrets and made us look bad and revealed how Vladimir Putin is the best and Russia is the best and I definitely want to 100% seriously assassinate him for real," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, evilly. "And it would be super easy to do with my magic witch powers just like I killed Vince Foster."

Her aides squirmed uncomfortably.

Halfway across the world, Julian Assange woke up in bed next to three naked women who were all 9s or 10s and not like a Cleveland 9 which is actually a New York 5, but like Swedish 9s and 10s who had just gotten off a hard day's work as starters on the Swedish beach volleyball team.
Hehe Thanks for that! The sad thing is that this is literally what he believes. "I have millions of trusted followers. Once I make it clear that Clinton doesn't actually like me, all of America will hate her."

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Seriously though. If that was all Assange had to "leak" he might be a bigger narcissist than Trump. But to be fair, he lives in social isolation in a tiny room. It's not actually surprising to get mad under those circumstances. He doesn't really have anyone who would look at such stuff critically and ask: "Julian do you really think that this is as earth shattering as you claim?"

But maybe it was just a false flag´operation to lure us into thinking we are safe. The real news might drop soon. Any day now. :tinfoil:

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Conclusions posted:

Does the Secretary of State even have the authority to order a drone strike?

I'd genuinely like to know that too. Obviously Obama isn't supervising each strike, so who does? Some general? Some CIA directive? Some dude from middle management?

Edit:

Inferior Third Season posted:

From what I've learned watching Homeland, the only people authorized to order drone strikes are the President and a middle-management attractive woman in her 30s.

I guess the last one it is then.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Xae posted:

No.

She isn't in the chain of command.

Farchanter posted:

I thought one of the only really questionable things we discovered during the Clinton email investigation was that she ordered drone strikes through the private server. I may have that wrong.

greatn posted:

I think she notified the present workers one was about to happen

Now I wonder how many people think Hillary Clinton used her private server to surpass the chain of command and order illegal drone strikes on her political enemies.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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fknlo posted:

Who the gently caress are you people that think she was actually serious about drone striking some random rapist idiot in a foreign embassy in loving London? :psyduck:

Has anyone here actually implied that we'd take this at face value? Of course it was a stupid joke.
People are either feigning shock over how tasteless it was or they believe Clinton strangled Scalia and 50 other people with her bare hands anyway.
I can sorta understand how their cognitive bias works: "She killed a supreme court judge, and wasn't even put on trial for it. Of course she could and would bomb an embassy in London without any repercussions."

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Flip Yr Wig posted:

Drudge isn't even running the Assange story.

But of course, it's the foxnews headline. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/03/will-wikileaks-assange-delay-october-surprise-announcement.html
It sounds like this tweet isn't his big thing. Just the reason he doesn't trust himself to open a balcony. :tinfoil:

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

iospace posted:

Different story.

That tweet is part of it. Around the halfway mark.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
If Trump had been less than a burning heap of acid sludge in the first debate the spin would have been that he outperformed expectations.
If he isn't at least mediocre now, the spin will be that he didn't manage to improve. Losing the first debate so significantly that even the foxnewspoll showed it left him in a disadvantageous position.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Feldegast42 posted:

Does anybody have recent polling on New Mexico? I'm starting worry a bit about it because its the one state where Johnson actually has some ground. I would hate for the Dems to think they have it on lock and then lose it in a weird threeway here.

That's actually exactly what the latest article by Nate silver talks about. (It's not actually likely)


Actually no sorry. I misread your question.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Oct 3, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Was Trumps stammering in the debate some arcane incarnation which opened a portal to hell, unleashing all of his personal demons at once?

People have been speculating that every single attack is a projection and that he has done all of that himself. By now I believe he has just done literally everything. No matter what you accuse him of (or he accuses other people of) If you dig a bit you find evidence that it's true.


On Terra Firma posted:

Man I don't know if I've ever seen Clinton this aggressive and fired up, but I don't want all of her rallies. Pretty good right now.

http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=3

This was actually really inspiring. Clinton will do responsible and helpful things for the United States and the international communities. :unsmith:

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Oct 3, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Doorknob Slobber posted:

Probably already been discussed, but I heard a Hillary clip this morning that sounded like she was calling education and healthcare paid for by the government "insane". Anyone have a link to that did I hear her wrong?

I've been following this thread and some news feeds all day. First time I hear of it.
Do you mean "insane" as in "all those services should be privatized?"
Or as in "It's insane how little funding those services have."?

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Oct 3, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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HorseRenoir posted:

New Q polls:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/783010909178519552

Clinton up +5 in Florida is good news, I have no idea what's up with Ohio though

Even though the rally she had there a few minutes ago was impressive, Ohio is probably a lost cause.
Ohio is a swingstate in the sense that they are voting for whoever promises the most change in Ohio because no one wants to live in Ohio as it is now. It's filled to the brim with old white men with no higher education.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Bwahahahahahaha!

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
I love the title of this article!
BTW. The polls-only cast hast her at 69.8% now.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Mr.Citrus posted:

Just read about the wikileaks speach move, Is it possible Assange moved the speech from London to Berlin because of Libel laws?

As much as I hate it, it's probably just because there are countless people in my country who actually really like that guy.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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GalacticAcid posted:

You know who else a lot of people in your country liked?

Dude, you don't have to rub it in! There at least a dozen good people around here.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:

God bless America.

I usually don't talk to my coworkers because I am a stereotypical goony goon, but I had to share my glee over Trump's ridiculous weekend. Me and my Hispanic coworker had a good laugh, and then another black coworker jumped into the conversation with a bunch of conspiracy theories about Hillary 'splots. Clinton Foundation is evil, she destabilized Syria to steal gold, Hillary is the worst evil ever, etc.

It kind of shocked me. Like, why does this black dude hate Hillary so much more than Trump? Then I realized this coworker just loves conspiracy theories. Trump doesn't have conspiracy theories about him because he never had significant political influence. Hillary and the Clinton Foundation have been part of the machinations of government and elites for decades. They are conspiracy gold.

I think Hillary will lose the conspiracy nut vote.

The only reason Trump doesn't have conspiracy theories surrounding him ist that all his bad behavior can be proven by facts. Conspiracy nutjobs don't really care for conspiracies which are factually true.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Remember a week ago when we were certain that the debate would be meaningless and that Trump would "win" it anyway?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

computer parts posted:

It seems like they take the current polls, apply a "what if things shifted +/- x%", and then spit up a new map.

So time till election really doesn't matter at all.

Isn't this just how the nowcast works?

Kit Walker posted:

Man, I'm about a thousand posts behind. Anything exciting happen after the NYT Trump tax leak happened?

Yes.

Edit: Okay I don't want to be an rear end.
Trump foundation got a cease and desist, Trumps military tactic amounts to surprise attacks on civilians and stealing a countries resources.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Clintons poll numbers are back above pneumoniapocalyse levels and there is no indication that they would stop climbing the next few days.




Edit: There was also prickly city gushing over how inclusive and varied the nominees are. "It's actually the democrats who only other old white people." How did that turn out Stanis?

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Oct 3, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So how the hell does betting money on elections work exactly? Because at this point I'm seriously considering making a big investment in my future. But where do I do it? And is it legal everywhere?

The easiest way would probably to search "betting on presidential race" or something like that. Depending on where you live you will get a bunch of betting sites. Obviously you want to chose the one which gives the biggest payoff.
But I have no clue how taxation on betting wins works and wehter it's legal wherever you are.
^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah that is probably a better answer. But since this is more like a stack exchange you would be fleecing actual humans (albeit ones who bet on Trump) rather than some betting holes.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 3, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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gradenko_2000 posted:

One of Radio Free GOP's sponsors is a forum called Ricochet, which was described as "the best center-right forum on the internet, no trolls guaranteed", but also that you're supposed to pay a monthly subscription to post there.

I found the idea fascinating. For one, I think I would be okay with paying a monthly sub to SA if it meant keeping the lights on for the amount of entertainment I get from this place, but for another, what is a "center-right forum with no trolls" even going to look like? Is that where Amergin copy-pastes our counter-arguments to?

I'd actually like to have monthly subscriptions here. I am pretty sure I had literally tens of thousands of hours of entertainment from this site and would hate it to be gone. But first Lowtax would have to make it possible to pay without a credit card. No one around here uses them and registering my account back then was a major hassle.

woke wedding drone posted:

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

He announced it for 11 am Moscow time. Conveniently that's when Americans who could check the significance are most likely asleep, while the Russians can propagate it as much as they want.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Oct 4, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Euphoriaphone posted:

Wait, when is this Wikileaks thing supposed to happen? Roger Stone's tweet said Wednesday, but it looks like it's starting now.
Roger Stone may have lied to you.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Jesus! Was that presentation made by a child with 90s software?

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Archonex posted:

From another thread:



No clue if it's true but if so loving lol. Talk about front loading a lot of bullshit into your video. They better source their claims on that. Not that that the media won't be all over it regardless of the truth of it or not, i'm sure.

so it's a <3 minutes video where she made the dry joke from yesterday and some UN press conference video. I wonder what's that about. "UN shows clear bias for Clinton. claims that it doesn't want a nuclear war."

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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Mysticblade posted:

Wait, Snowden and Assange are different people?

What's the difference? I seriously can't distinguish between them. I thought they both worked on wiki-leaks.
Snowden is a computer guy who checked some NSA stuff, found this stuff terrible and decided to risk his life and abandon his family to publish what he found.
Assange is an alleged rapist who owns a drop box, where that some other information ended up.

Edited because I gave Assange to much credit.

cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Oct 4, 2016

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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KiteAuraan posted:

Did the NSA dump end up with Assange? I thought Snowden dropped it to more respectable journalists and Glenn Greenwald was the one who bit.
Yeah, I think you are right.

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cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
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That spokewoman unironically used the word Cablegate two times in one sentence.

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