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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw3yidwGchk A cancer is eating away at America: the cancer of racism, bigotry and white nationalism. As this cancer consumed the previous USPOL, so it shall begin to consume this one. Fortunately, we are only days away from either curing it, or seeing it metastasize out of control. Oh who are we kidding, it’s going to kill us whether we vote Hillary or not. Better buckle up and strap in tight to your front-row seat to watch as the whole nation self-destructs in an orgy of violence and bloodshed. This is USPOL November 2016: Trump Death Rally Edition  (by Tony Cliff) Some Ground Rules Because you guys don’t read the OP, I’m just going to do due diligence and post some of this stuff here, because it’s going to be important over the next few days:
 (by leviathan77) A Short FAQ Oh, and by the way, before we get to the good stuff, there have been a number of new people posting in USPOL over the past few months, so I feel it’s necessary to preemptively answer some common questions.
 (by Jeff Victor) The Story So Far
 (by Matt Bors) 114th Congress Bingo Card Congress was off all last month to campaign, so nothing to see here.  (by Dana Summers) Other News
Talk to other goons (why would you want to do that?) Remember that we have an IRC channel at synirc in #poligoon for livesteaming stuff. Goon Recommendations Documentaries
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Related threads "US Politics" is an incredibly broad topic, as A) the country is freaking huge and B) given our role in international events pretty much everything impacts us. So there are other subthreads SCOTUS thread Right Wing Media There are also regional subthreads that are usually pretty slow, but sometimes cross-pollinate with this thread when something important is happening. Pacific Northwest Illinois Texas California Kansas Lifted the rest of the above from FriedChicken. As before post suggestions for adding to the above and I'll edit them in if I see them. And remember folks, drink chat goes in D&D chat thread. Drink responsibly. Your liver will thank you.    (by Andy Marlette, Mike Luckovich) ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:what's arzying mean i hear that term a lot thanks for asking it means being a cool dude (edit: or dudette) and kicking back to smoke some weed and listen to jazz
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bhsman posted:I'm curious to know which goons have already voted or if anyone prefers going on Election Day for the spectacle/tradition. I do, but probably would vote by mail if my polling place wasn't literally next door to my apartment complex. 
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Bip Roberts posted:What are the weather reports for election day? Any storms in swing states? 7 days out is too early to predict. Come back on Saturday and we might have some idea.
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BGrifter posted:One more week till we can start getting hype about the midterm elections! Then it's less than a year till the Republican primary process will start. To be completely honest, the real fun timeline is as follows:
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themrguy posted:Bless me USPOL, for I have Arzy'd. It's circumstantial and based on the word of one or two anonymous sources. I'm not going to give it a lot of creedence, and it's why I didn't include it in the OP. The tax return stuff is more substantial, but I already included the bigger bombshell from Oct 1.
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It was mentioned obliquely a few pages ago (and indirectly on the last page) but something very weird is going on with one of the FBI's Twitter accounts. After a year plus dead it comes back to life posting a link to Fred Trump's FBI files, followed by records management and ethics standards and policy directive documents, and then documents on Hillary, Petraeus, video from last year's Baltimore protests, and now, of course, an investigation into the Clinton Foundation that everyone has picked up on. Almost makes you wonder if it's a deep cyber security infiltration black flag operation given what we know about Russia's interference in our elections so far...  EDIT: And no one has picked up on the Baltimore protest videos? That's the tweet that seems really odd and suspicious on its face (not to mention the strange highlighting of documents about FBI ethics and records management standards) ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Okay so we're back to Comey just being a tool then.quote:An FBI list of documents recently added to the public vault states that this material, which related to former President Bill Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich, an international commodities trader indicted on tax evasion charges, was released on October 31. NBC's Pete Williams reported that the documents were the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request and were released “under normal guidelines”...
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BiohazrD posted:Yes, this is how stupid most people in this country are. See also: the Ken Bone Bors cartoon in the OP
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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? There is no direct evidence either way. So let's just keep speculating so it stays in the news!
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Duscat posted:We can apparently talk about how Fred Trump was a successful businessman and a philanthropist though, and post a reminder that 15 years ago Clinton pardoned Marc Rich. Look, that was just a legitimate FOIA request. Since a lot of people are interested in it, why should we deny them the right to know more‽
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Nov 1, 2016 21:54
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Ogmius815 posted:I really don't understand this thread's obsession with PJ's magical, pseudo-psychological explanations of how the world works. She's wrong as often as she's right. I don't get it either but if I didn't give the people what they wanted before the election, they would have impeached me like they did poor Fried Chicken.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:whoa who is this new challenger In the list of distinctions that serves as her bio on her campaign website, Gloria La Riva (PSL) lists her good relationship with Maduro and the PSUV higher than her work for immigrant rights and other civil rights within the US itself, and second only to her relationship with Cuba. That says a lot about what she values (and it's not civil rights in the US... Or Venezuela for that matter.). Oh, and that's before you start looking at her tankie-like reflexive affection for Russia on Twitter.
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Freakazoid_ posted:Nobody's perfect. I was thinking either Alyson Kennedy or Gloria Estela La Riva. Gloria La Riva believes Hugo Chavez did no wrong because anti-imperialists can do no wrong by definition.
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Ganon posted:Bret Baier: FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards "Likely an Indictment" This will surely be the case that jails Clinton for good. Any. Day. Now.
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Munkeymon posted:Welp You say that now, but what if that means Trump just won Ohio? (It means nothing because Trump still can't win even with Ohio)
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remusclaw posted:From the game thread. I'm arzying pretty hard over here. Thanks a lot.
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Here. Have some poll questions you might not have seen before.quote:28. Do you think the election results can be trusted to be fair and accurate, or are you worried that the election results could be manipulated? Yup, 17% of America thinks that the news media, not Russia, is out to manipulate election results so that their preferred candidate (Hillary, per 75% of those polled) wins. Also nearly 50% of Americans are at least somewhat concerned about election-related violence during or just after the election.
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ImpAtom posted:The wording is delightfully vague which means yes, probably nothing. Yes, but that's not what the media will say and voters will think!
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Moktaro posted:Enough goofy quips from me, have a +1 for Hillary in CO! 
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Let's see what's going on over at Drudge Report. uh.
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Someone should ask Scott Adams why Al Qaeda wants Trump to win. (The answer is that it's actually the FBI that wants him to win, but that subtext is buried deep in the article and requires using critical thinking to remember that Al Qaeda's ability to threaten the US is considerably smaller than ISIS these days.) ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/794558517717991426 Giuliani is a huge friend of the FBI agent's union, so he's almost certainly right.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/794561401809469440 Eh. Burr is leading so it's only a 6 or so.
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Covok posted:On the day after the election, they'll be 100%. Not if it comes down to Florida again 
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Going way back but go check out the documentary Don't Think I've Forgotten about rock and surf music in Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge took over. It will make you legit cry but you'll also become a gigantic Sinn Sissamouth fan. Can we have this derail now? I haven't seen the movie but grabbed the soundtrack because I assiduously keep tabs on everything Dust-to-Digital puts out. It's good stuff and I was disappointed to not see the detail go in that direction because I'm always interested to hear weird hybrid music that grows out of (or as a reaction to) from the early interactions between western music and non-western music (e.g. Jaipong)
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