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Joementum posted:The Clintons want the DNC to be in Brooklyn. The other cities under consideration are Birmingham, Columbus, Philadelphia, and Phoenix. Isn't one of the points of a democratic convention to serve as a large voter registration drive? Why do it in a state like New York? Seems like Obama was planning on doing like 2008 where every attendee to the speech would get registered to vote and urged their family and friends to vote, but the storms cancelled the big speech in 2012.
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ReindeerF posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM  BEATEN I was all going to have something legitimately funny to post.unlike anyone in Cleveland.
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skaboomizzy posted:God, hasn't that city suffered enough? Well they now have Lebron again and could potentially be in the NBA Finals around June 2016, messing up that RNC timeline
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Aug 8, 2014 19:21
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Fried Chicken posted:Those f-18s that bombed Iraq were launched from the USS Bush 
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Aug 8, 2014 19:39
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Paul Ryan's favorite part of the 2012 campaign was developing the Romney administration transition plan. 
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nachos posted:Well they now have Lebron again and could potentially be in the NBA Finals around June 2016, messing up that RNC timeline
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Which would be so amazing. "No, RNC, you can't be here, basketball is happening." And their inevitably racist response would make Ohio be a solid Blue state by August.
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Aug 8, 2014 19:45
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Has anybody said "the mistake on the lake" yet? Because the mistake on the lake.
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I'm cross posting this from the 2014 thread because it's too good not to. You should read the letters to Tennessee newspaper editors from the Democratic nominee for Governor. They include the line, "I have enough money to do me the rest of my life and enough income to do me the rest of my life, so I don't need to steel form you and If I get elected I will take my salary and buy hugh deers for all our Wild Life Areas. And will will have hog hunting again" There's also a campaign promise to electrocute the current Governor.
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Aug 8, 2014 19:49
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Joementum posted:I'm cross posting this from the 2014 thread because it's too good not to. You should read the letters to Tennessee newspaper editors from the Democratic nominee for Governor. This is the guy who only ran because otherwise under some new law the state was going to take his pet raccoon away from him, right? Hey, "I want to keep my beloved pet" is better motivation than any of the reasons from the other assholes
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Fried Chicken posted:This is the guy who only ran because otherwise under some new law the state was going to take his pet raccoon away from him, right? Unbelievably, that was a different Tennessee Gubernatorial primary candidate. Mark “Coonrippy” Brown ran in the Republican primary and received 44,091 votes (6.8%). Basil Marceaux also ran in the Republican Gubernatorial primary this year and got 13,108 votes (2.0%).
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Joementum posted:Unbelievably, that was a different Tennessee Gubernatorial primary candidate. Mark “Coonrippy” Brown ran in the Republican primary and received 44,091 votes (6.8%). I have to admit that I would've voted for him, if I lived in Tennessee. 
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Dems should troll the poo poo out of the  crowd and have the convention in Salt Lake City. The city itself is pretty blue, we have a large enough facility to hold it, and it might possibly cause some of our state lawmakers to die of apoplexy which would be a nice bonus.e: forgot to mention, I was running errands today and saw a group of people waving non-US flags in front of the Federal building. Got closer and they were clearly from our Arabic population holding a STOP ISIS sign. I merrily tooted my horn at them and they yelled in glee so loudly that I could hear them inside the car with the radio on 
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Aug 8, 2014 21:56
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And we could kick off the convention with a parade with Local Hero Pat Bagley as grand marshal.
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Aug 8, 2014 22:03
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Good luck getting politicians to host their biggest party in a city with wacky liquor laws.
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The D.C. medical examiner is a master troll and has ruled James Brady's death a homicide, caused by the wounds he sustained 33 years ago when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. while protecting Ronald Reagan.
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Joementum posted:Good luck getting politicians to host their biggest party in a city with wacky liquor laws. RIP Philadelphia
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Joementum posted:Good luck getting politicians to host their biggest party in a city with wacky liquor laws. Raskolnikov38 posted:And we could kick off the convention with a parade with Local Hero Pat Bagley as grand marshal.
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Joementum posted:The D.C. medical examiner is a master troll and has ruled James Brady's death a homicide, caused by the wounds he sustained 33 years ago when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. while protecting Ronald Reagan.
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Joementum posted:The D.C. medical examiner is a master troll and has ruled James Brady's death a homicide, caused by the wounds he sustained 33 years ago when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. while protecting Ronald Reagan. Someone's been watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
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Chantilly Say posted:Remind me why we started naming ships after people who aren't even dead yet? Well to be fair, HW Bush was a Naval aviator, just like Jimmy Carter was a nuclear sub officer and got a nuclear sub named after him while still alive.
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Is Mo Brooks still talking about the race war? Let's check and see.quote:“What I want these Democrats to do is to stop dividing Americans based on race. It doesn’t make any difference what your skin pigmentation is,” Brooks said. “In America this is the land of opportunity. You can excel provided you’re willing to study hard, work hard, take advantage of the opportunities that are presented in our country. And there are plenty of people who have been able to establish that this race issue should be way behind us. But unfortunately the Democrat campaign strategy is to keep it going.” Yup, he is!
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Coonrippy 2016
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Joementum posted:Yup, he is! Dem pundits: 
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Stultus Maximus posted:Well to be fair, HW Bush was a Naval aviator, just like Jimmy Carter was a nuclear sub officer and got a nuclear sub named after him while still alive. And a drat fine one, too. Flying an Avenger wasn't any too easy, and he earned his medals.
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Warcabbit posted:And a drat fine one, too. Flying an Avenger wasn't any too easy, and he earned his medals. Looked it up, he's pretty awesome. Bush represents what I wish modern Republicans looked like. A happy middle ground between Eisenhower and whatever these current asshats are.
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Warcabbit posted:And a drat fine one, too. Flying an Avenger wasn't any too easy, and he earned his medals. Seeing Avengers in person always catches me off guard for a second because they're so big for a single-piston-engine airplane.
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Joementum posted:I do appreciate the naive assumption that having RNC delegates from around the country crowd into a city for a week will make residents of that city more likely to vote Republican. I was around for 08 in Minneapolis. The city was a police state for the duration, and all of my favorite bars were crowded with prostitutes and drunken Republicans. The woman who did the porn spoof "Who's Nailin' Palin?" was headlining for the week at a local strip joint. I stopped in out of curiosity, but left when she came on because the clientele sounded like a Tex Avery Cartoon. Got tired of politics and just started sourly barking out, "Lyndon LaRouche!" whenever anyone asked me who I was voting for.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I was around for 08 in Minneapolis. The city was a police state for the duration, and all of my favorite bars were crowded with prostitutes and drunken Republicans. New York reporting: Except for one street full of protestors getting busted, nobody noticed. Traffic impact: nothing serious.
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Joementum posted:The D.C. medical examiner is a master troll and has ruled James Brady's death a homicide, caused by the wounds he sustained 33 years ago when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. while protecting Ronald Reagan. I thought that injuries being able to be blamed for someone's death had a maximum timeframe? IE: Someone breaks my arm and I die 60 years later because scar tissue from the incident was at fault they can't go and find the person then charge them with murder 60 years after the incident. Boon posted:Looked it up, he's pretty awesome. He's pretty much the best case scenario for Elderly Republican (great) Grandfather types in how he acts now. He doesn't make a loving scene or bitch and moan to Fox News (like Cheney) about everything and he still does poo poo like go skydiving, though I guess he does it tandem these days. It's sad that he's so far left of the current GOP, considering he's a former CIA head and was part of Reagan's admin, which was already pretty far right of past guys like Ike or possibly Nixon. And the GOP's sprinting so hard that in the next decade we'll probably be hearing about those commie RINOs Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I was around for 08 in Minneapolis. The city was a police state for the duration, and all of my favorite bars were crowded with prostitutes and drunken Republicans. She (porn star Lisa Ann) also showed up in 2012 in Tampa for the RNC, for the same reason. To this day I kinda wish that the hurricane that just missed us the first day of the convention had hit us full-stop.
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Just a reminder that there was a guy with a functional Reagan hologram in Tampa in 2012 but he wasn't allowed on the convention stage because they were worried that holo-Ronnie would be more popular than Mitt.
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Joementum posted:Just a reminder that there was a guy with a functional Reagan hologram in Tampa in 2012 but he wasn't allowed on the convention stage because they Plus there was a severe risk of drink spillage from all the attendees immediately genuflecting upon seeing His Immaculate Visage
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Joementum posted:Just a reminder that there was a guy with a functional Reagan hologram in Tampa in 2012 but he wasn't allowed on the convention stage because they were worried that holo-Ronnie would be more popular than Mitt. I'm eagerly awaiting the decision from the Roberts court that will clear the way for holo-reagan to run in 2020.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I'm eagerly awaiting the decision from the Roberts court that will clear the way for holo-reagan to run in 2020. This would go 5-4 against, Thomas would never allow a hologram to run as they didn't have those in 1783.
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Joementum posted:Just a reminder that there was a guy with a functional Reagan hologram in Tampa in 2012 but he wasn't allowed on the convention stage because they were worried that holo-Ronnie would be more popular than Mitt.
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Joementum posted:Just a reminder that there was a guy with a functional Reagan hologram in Tampa in 2012 but he wasn't allowed on the convention stage because they were worried that holo-Ronnie would be more popular than Mitt. Instead they let the nominee be overshadowed by Clint Eastwood yelling at a chair.
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Badger of Basra posted:This would go 5-4 against, Thomas would never allow a hologram to run as they didn't have those in 1783. Like Roberts wouldn't kidnap the other justices and replace them with holograms.
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Chantilly Say posted:Instead they let the nominee be overshadowed by Clint Eastwood yelling at a chair. I don't get why people ignore politics its more absurd and entertaining then most TV shows.
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