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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: 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. 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.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Probably not, but annoying the UK and the USA together would amuse him. Russia is already devoting considerable resources to hacking and propaganda directed at the West. They've been linked to various far right groups and efforts to push them in elections across Europe as well. CapnAndy posted:I appeal to you, wise goons, to unfuck some dissonance for me. This is my absolute nightmare map, and quite frankly it felt dishonest to turn NC red: Does directly linking 270towin actually work for anyone? The images have never, ever shown up properly for me.  Colonel J posted:I know it's not a scandal that Hillary was "told some questions for the debate in advance", but I'm not sure exactly why. Usually you guys are good at explaining this stuff. It was a townhall, not a debate, and "you'll be asked about the lead poisoning of the very town this is hosted in" is like saying "hey you'll be asked about foreign policy and probably Syria and Russia specifically, at the foreign policy debate." Maybe Trump is stupid enough to not already know it was going to be a topic but Clinton literally holes up for days brushing up on policy and talking points before debates. Basically, Trump's base eats it up because they're equally short-sighted.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/793528686507134980 PA's numbers are pretty high in general considering we have excuse-only early voting. Maybe we'll have general early/mail-in voting here someday...
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BarbarianElephant posted:This is like saying a virgin is the world's greatest lover, because they have yet to be proved otherwise. Well if you read Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss... (Don't read it, Rothfuss is a lovely author)
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Nov 1, 2016 21:14
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M_Gargantua posted:Why would your tarnish this thread with awful literature when it's already too much Trump A derail about how bad the Kingkiller books are would be better than most recent derails.  Antti posted:Another thing that's not worth Arzying over: Clinton spending money in firewall states like CO. It's the last week of the campaign and they have a mountain of cash to burn through, why not spend some in the firewall states? It doesn't mean their internals show CO suddenly collapsing. Honestly I wish they'd spend it on charting buses for Dem stronghold areas, especially in areas that could be affected by the SEPTA strike. Not only would it help get people to the polls but the right wing freakout over Clinton having an actual bus service for voters would be beautiful to watch. TheGreatGnocchi posted:She doesn't need NC. Now if VA or PA show a near tie then begin to Arzy. Chill the gently caress out people. NC is currently run by a horrific GOP state party and the Senate seat there would go a long ways towards helping get a Dem majority in the chamber. smug n stuff posted:I was referring to the most recent Weiner stuff. Is the whole, "the emails were neither to or from HRC" thing accurate, and if so, why are people caring? Because having it framed as CLINTON EMAILS INVESTIGATION REOPENED BY FBI for several days with less than 2 weeks until the election is loving madness and Comey's rear end needs to be nailed to the wall for his public handling of the case. Sooner or later someone will fabricate a video of a candidate going off on some insane rant, like O'Keefe trying to splice together a bunch of soundbites to make a "Hillary goes on racist rear about black people" clip to post at the last minute so that there's no time to react to it and people head to the polls (or not) in anger. The closest we've had recently was probably the Bush Vietnam stuff. Yeah I'm sure a whitebread piece of poo poo from Texas was hacked and totally wouldn't say awful things about someone they don't like.
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Cingulate posted:NYT overview: It's a Republican in Texas saying something mean about not only a Democrat, but a Clinton. I'll let you take one guess at if this will hurt him in any way.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:"Hey Sully, remember when I said that chart was my last"  Please put this in the OP.
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chumbler posted:He's a republican who held a prominent office. He will have plenty of career options and his reputation will be wholly irrelevant. If anything republicans will venerate him as a real patriot. Fox would gladly bring him on as a talking head, like Judge Neopolitican. Samuel Clemens posted:https://twitter.com/JeffersonObama/status/793574975877767168 God  I'm still having a hard time accepting the idea that Clinton could be up 5+ points. I just don't have that much faith in the American people since it should be C+20 or so because her opponent is a literal fascist surrounding himself with white supremacists.
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Captain Invictus posted:I wonder if they'll actually go after him for it though. Hopefully! Naked, wholly biased abuse of power like that shouldn't be condoned, and not punishing him for it just encourages future abuse. How would they prove a violation of the Hatch Act and not just Comey being an idiot though? That he might have carried a grudge due to Bill's last minute pardon of someone would be hosed up if true, but it's all speculation currently. The Hatch Act seems like one of those things that you'd need a video confession to actually prosecute without it looking like the party in power going after political opponents. With any luck he'll be told "resign or be fired" during the lame duck. Tom Guycot posted:Hey he can bill it as the TRUE state of the union addresses from the REAL president, not that phony one the (((globalists))) put into fake power. I want Donald Trump to give the GOP's response to Hillary Clinton's SOTU so badly.
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Lemming posted:People who vote Republican reward Republicans for being incredibly huge shitheads, and if they do it far enough away from an election (ie more than 1 week away), everyone else forgets they ever did anything. See how not confirming Garland has had zero negative repercussions for any Republicans. Remember when some people thought that blocking Garland would actually hurt the GOP? 
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Even if the GOP holds the Senate the SCOTUS will have a 9th justice by 2019 because if Obama doesn't just recess appoint Garland then Clinton absolutely would do so after the midterms. If the GOP keep the Senate Obama better recess appoint every loving vacancy in January when the old Congress has to gavel out for the new one to be seated TBH. Lemming posted:Even if the Dems take the Senate, there's basically 0 chance they keep it in 2018 Maybe, maybe if Obama stays heavily involved in politics and can help drive turnout in 2018 it'll go ok but I don't see that happening and if 2018 isn't a bloodbath like 2010 was I'll be shocked. It would take some serious political upheaval for 2018 to even be a break-even for the Democrats if Clinton's in the White House. If she's in the White House and the country's doing poorly then the only question is just how big of a majority the GOP would have in both chambers.
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Farchanter posted:How many Republican senators are on board with blocking Clinton's nominee? If Clinton wins, and the Republicans keep the Senate, will enough people cross the aisle that it won't matter? No, because they'll just never bring it up in the first place just like with Garland right now. There could be a super majority of Senators who want to hold hearings and confirm Garland but that means nothing as long as the GOP leadership just doesn't process it in the first place. If the GOP control the Senate there's basically nothing the Dems can do to push a SCOTUS nominee to get a hearing. Paradoxish posted:Apropos of nothing, you guys really need to stop acting like the Democrats have won a demographic total victory and that it's only a matter of time until the GOP dies along with all the old white people. The major growth trend in US demographics is in the Hispanic and Asian populations. Young Asian voters are increasingly identifying as Democrats, but young Hispanic voters aren't a lock at all. A couple of points from here that are worth keeping in mind: I said back in the primaries that Marco Rubio was hands down the worst possible opponent for the Democrats, and precisely for reasons like this. Doesn't matter that he isn't the sharpest tool in the box, he'd have done better than Trump did in the debates and having a few competent handlers frame him as an energetic latino conservative leader would be more than enough. Toss in some rear end in a top hat like Kaisch for 'experience' or whatever and yeah Clinton would've almost certainly been hosed.
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climboutonalimb posted:This is gonna be a lovely week Yeah this looks totally legit and not at all like some crazy alt-right
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Sephyr posted:Last time someone was enough of a fool to argue that the theme of Dr. Wily's castle in Mega Man 2 was the best video game theme ever, when all right-thinking people know that it's Spark Mandrill's tune in Mega Man X. Just want to go back and quote this awful opinion on Megaman music. It's like Christmas for conspiracy theorists. Harrow posted:These are released due to FOIA requests, right? Not something the FBI is choosing to release on its own? Even if it's FOIA requests they could delay Clinton/Trump related requests by a week to conform with DoJ policy if they actually cared to. BI NOW GAY LATER posted:No this would be people inside the FBI who are trying to do that; and it's going to be hilarious when Clinton becomes president and decides to clean house on these fuckers. Followed immediately by the right wing media covering Clinton's scandalous firing of people who were investigating her! 
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FactsAreUseless posted:Anyone else want to say this? You're never allowed to not be active in USPol threads.  Mel Mudkiper posted:Here you go buddy in one convenient single easily quotable post This could use a repost for people.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Democrats are already looking to lose the senate in 2018, and you're a loving idiot on your other point. Yes but you see if Bernie was running they'd win more seats and blue dogs would fall in line and the party would definitely go along with whatever Sanders says because he's such a great leader! I'm sure his followers won't just fizzle out like every other populist-of-the-year politician's movements have. Right? Also somehow the wifebeating shady businessman would've done better against Rubio in the FL senate race. Arrrthritis posted:Can we have corncobs be the new dumbass avatar? Modify the Stupid Newbie image to be Stupid Corncobs? The little (?) could be a tiny
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GI_Clutch posted:Saw this trending on Facebook today. Apparently, if you are Catholic and want the best chance to get away with child molestation, move to Louisiana. A judge decided that priests are not mandatory reporters because confession is supposed to be kept confidential. I''m honestly surprised those laws haven't been struck down on 1A grounds. I could easily see a majority doing so, even if some of the justices go with a "it's horrible poo poo but religion freedoms exist" or something like that. If it wouldn't be an 8-0 ruling I'd actually be pretty surprised. It'd be like requiring doctors or lawyers to break client privilege.
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xrunner posted:Doctors and lawyers are both subject to mandatory reporter laws, fyi (It gets tricky with client privilege, and can be a minefield to navigate, but they definitely are subject to them). But not in all cases (iirc: Defense Attorneys aren't expected to tell prosecutors if their client confesses their guilt?) which would be the same for priests. Someone saying "hey father I did X terrible thing" when they see them in church is not the same as going in to confession. ComradeCosmobot posted:Gloria La Riva believes Hugo Chavez did no wrong because anti-imperialists can do no wrong by definition. I'm guessing she's also too stupid to realize that Chavez would've gone full imperialist in a heartbeat if he thought he could've pulled it off. Like, there wasn't much good or noble about Chavez. He was a legit awful monster of a person and people defended his actions because AMERIKKKA BAD.
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Ganon posted:Bret Baier: FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards "Likely an Indictment" This is a list of right wing conspiracies about the Clinton Foundation. Not to mention it claims that evidence includes info from Wikileaks, and I'm sure a prosecutor would just love to make the argument of why that evidence should be allowed let alone why the entire case shouldn't be dismissed if it's being brought via illegally obtained information. The only thing I don't doubt is that any investigation in to the Clintons is given the highest priority by the FBI.
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edrith posted:i hate everyone Burn it all down and salt the earth where they stood.
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Northjayhawk posted:https://twitter.com/politico/status/794235218148343809 You should read the article. He's just saying he'll review candidates based on merit instead of rejecting them outright. IE: instead of "we'll ignore any nominee" it'll be "Clinton keeps nominating Constitution hating liebral activist judges so I keep saying no" which will probably play better with people too. The end result is the exact same thing just with a more palatable phrasing. It's even worked on several goons in this thread going by responses to the article.
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Look guys I'm sure the party behind Swiftboating wouldn't be able to make hay against Bernie Sanders. Or that the antisemitism already in place wouldn't be even more extreme than it already is. Or that Bernouts crying "Bernie would do better because look at this irrelevant polls  " aren't insufferable.
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If they don't do this again Sunday/Monday (and probably Tuesday morning) I'll be legit amazed. Monday: "CLINTON ABOUT TO BE INDICTED, COMEY TO VISIT DOJ TUESDAY MORNING TO FINALIZE ACTION" Wednesday: "...oh sorry guys my bad I guess I was wrong in how I worded it, definitely a mistake and not meant as last second propaganda."
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Antti posted:I'm going to move on to new hotness of post-Arzying, namely, worrying about how the GOP will break the country after they don't get their way. I unironically want Clinton to purge Republicans from every aspect of government that she has the power to do so in.
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Lemming posted:Lol if you buy your own avatars  ImpAtom posted:A quick note here: Or if Clinton wins by 4+ points in general since I'd be kinda surprised if she ends up at 51% or higher. I could see it being something like 50-46-4 or whatever, but I'd be happy to be wrong and see Clinton win in a 53-46 or whatever victory. Really the margin is irrelevant as long as she wins, and the Senate flips so that we can have some basic government functionality.
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:Kefka is the best one in the series imo He's also the most successful. Even the act of taking him out results in magic being wiped from the (completely hosed) world. Mel Mudkiper posted:What I appreciate about Luca Blight is that at no point are the heroes powerful enough to beat him He also knows this and openly mocks you until the very end. His biggest downside is that the remaining villains aren't nearly as noteworthy (the Neclord fight was pretty good though). And then Suikoden 3's story was just kinda, not great though I can get what they were trying for. ..then they jumped straight to Suikoden 5 and decided not to make a 4th game because doing so would've caused irreparable harm to the series, just like a pair of awful handheld games would've been the final nails in the coffin. Thankfully those things never happened and Suikoden 9 comes out soon... right? Guys? Nessus posted:There's a lot of fast-flowing water in WV, isn't there? And it's pretty near to PA and through that the rest of the eastern seaboard. I'm getting an infrastructure idea... You could probably do wind power in the more mountainous parts of WV though Ican't even begin to imagine the disinformation campaign that coal companies would wage against any other form of energy being pushed there, even with fed assistance.
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WampaLord posted:All the good pollsters are making bank doing internal polling, the only people releasing public polls are outfits no one has ever heard of, and usually they don't have previous polls to compare against. I really hope some info about both campaigns' internal polling comes out after the election. I'd have to hope that Clinton learned a ton from 2008 and spent lots of time reviewing what went wrong, leading her to want polls that show where she's weakest so that they could focus on those areas, leading to some crushing wins on election day. The various "Clinton isn't give black communities sufficient attention" stuff doesn't really support that unless she's just taking those voters for granted, which would be hosed up. Still, internal polling has to be getting put to better/actual use by Clinton compared to Trump. Really hoping the more robust campaign machine and GOTV ends up with a few points more in the Democrats' favor across the board next week. Ciaphas posted:I don't think its imagined, isn't the area around Chernobyl still a festering pile of Don't Go There Ever, or are those different circumstances It's been pretty heavily reclaimed by nature but yeah I still wouldn't recommend a casual hike through the area. freebooter posted:OK, didn't know about the house voting on a deadlock. I guess it's a moot point anyway, he's not going to flip NH without also taking Michigan or something. There are few examples that better reinforce the argument for nuclear than that incident.
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Zerilan posted:I don't know much about the series (I've played maaaybe an hour into the first) but I've always heard that 3 was really good and went for a fairly innovative narrative style. The style itself, especially with the three POVs early on, was definitely cool. The ending and wrap up wasn't quite as good. You should definitely play 1-3 and 5. S1 to get a feel for the series though it's an old PSX game so for someone new to the series it might feel pretty bland or basic. It'll make S2 seem that much better though since the second game is just an improvement in pretty much every way. S3's got a lot of good things, I'm just not a fan of how they ended the story, or the weird pairing combat system they used. Suikoden 4 doesn't exist. You might find information that makes you think otherwise but it doesn't. Don't believe me at your own risk. At the very least playing 2 is highly recommended. Playing Suikoden 1 lets you carry save game info to Suikoden 2 which affects a few things such as recurring character stats and Tir McDohl showing up with Gremio or Camile(?) depending one if you got all 108 characters in S1 before the final dungeon. Tir is reason enough to use a S1 savefile in S2 because he (and soul eater) are still OP as hell. You can also take a Suikoden 2 file in to Suikoden 3. Suikoden 5 is long.as.gently caress. It's also a solid PS2 era game that went back to a lot of the good in 1/2 while taking a few systems from 3. There are characters that show up across the games. Very obvious ones being main characters from S1 in S2, and a few major/secondaries in 1/2 that show up in 3...etc. And Georg, a major character in 5, is completely optional in 2. So yeah, hop on PSN and grab Suikoden 1&2, play through both of them until the election is over. If you want to recruit every single character you're going to need a FAQ or some crazy luck since some characters (Clive in 1, the Squirrels in 2...etc) are kinda absurd.
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Ein Sexmonster posted:Trump's hotels are already failing because of the hit to his image. He's permanently tainted his brand to a large portion of the populace, especially the wealthy. The wealthy already knew Trump was a garbage human being. They only care now because he's made it abundantly clear to everyone else as well.
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Bushiz posted:Y'all are acting like Reddit's lazy here when the much simpler answer is that a good portion of the staff are awful techbros who support trump for president and got off on the stolen photos of 17 year olds. The  ,  ,  ,  , and probably a few other smilies I'm forgetting exist for a reason after all.And that reason is because reddit love child porn, racism, and sexism. Sadly I doubt another reddit bomb would be anywhere close to enough to affect their stance on rampant racism. gfsincere posted:I'm surprised the side scrolling beat em up genre hasn't really been picked up by indie developers. Next house I'm gonna try and get an old Simpsons and TMNT arcade machine for the basement. Dungeon Fighter Online is a side scrolling beat 'em up MMO and it made over a billion dollars in 2015. The PVP tournaments can be fun to watch if you know the game or are in to fighting games in general. There are probably random indie studios making those kinds of games still as well, but the newest(?) beat 'em up I played was probably Scott Pilgrim. The people behind it clearly loved River City Ransom as much as I did.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Mr. Brontosaurus is the same way, 6'5 and finding it vastly preferable to build muscle with cheese fries than stop eating them. Smart man. In college I used to go to The O regularly and there's nothing short of triathlon training that will counteract that level of greasy food. Pretty sure a small fry, without a side of melted cheese, was easily 2-3000 calories. Holy poo poo they tasted so good though. Getting in shape is great and people need to do it if they haven't. I finally started working out again this year after being pretty lazy on it and the difference is noticeable pretty quickly. I don't lift as much as I should but even just doing a lot of cardio helps a ton and it's nice when you're back in a position of being able to run or jog for extended periods of time and not be dying out of breath after 30 seconds.
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ImpAtom posted:My favorite low-effort snack is Edamame. I have a bag of carrots in my fridge and I just grab them like Bugs Bunny.
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/ericmichel/status/794569014311723008 Goddamn, the number of people taking this tweet seriously even with his obvious over the top replies. 
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/794652203546013696 Yeah I'm sure the NC GOP won't just sit on this until Wednesday and then say "oh sorry we couldn't restore their rights in time... darn I guess that means we get to keep these vote results that're more favorable than they could've been." NC's right wing assholes lost this fight but the real question is if they've managed to do enough damage to not lose their stranglehold on the state government.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'd honestly be kind of mad if my boss was on a computer and emailed me to remind them to do something when they get home. You're on a PC in the 21st century Grandma. There's dozens of ways to remind yourself to do something when you get home without having your assistant call you! Personal assistants exist for reasons like that.
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Junkyard Poodle posted:I've got a question for the thread on the extent of Robert Byrd's involvement in kkk/white supremacy. IIRC the short version is he was poo poo when he was younger, realized he was being awful and spent years/decades working to make amends and help minorities. The NAACP doesn't give high marks to ex-klansmen just because they're Democrats, which is probably what your friend is going to keep arguing they did.
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