zoux posted:

New thread? Time for your anti-Arzy booster.

quote:

Four years ago, at a charity fundraiser in Palm Beach, Donald Trump got into a bidding war at the evening's live auction. The items up for sale: A Denver Broncos helmet, autographed by then-star quarterback Tim Tebow, and a Tebow jersey.

Trump won, eventually, with a bid of $12,000. Afterward, he posed with the helmet. His purchase made gossip-column news: a flourish of generosity, by a mogul with money to burn. "The Donald giveth, and The Donald payeth," wrote the Palm Beach Daily News. "Blessed be the name of The Donald."

But Trump didn't actually pay with his own money.

Instead, the Susan G. Komen organization — the breast-cancer nonprofit that hosted the party — got a $12,000 payment from another nonprofit , the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

Trump himself sent no money. (In fact, a Komen spokesperson said, Trump has never given a personal gift of cash to the Komen organization.) He paid the bill with money from a charity he founded in 1987, but which is largely stocked with other people's money. Trump is the foundation's president. But, at the time of the auction, Trump had given none of his own money to the foundation for three years running.

JonathonSpectre posted:

Hey USPol!

Today is the 153rd anniversary of the 1st day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Army of Northern Virginia, the seemingly-unstoppable primary military force of a despotic slave-empire under command of Robert E. Lee, had invaded the North for the second time in an attempt to force the decisive battle, destroy the Army of the Potomac, and win the war.

It didn't quite work out for them that way, as Union forces under the (tremendously under-appreciated and loving BAD-rear end) George Gordon Meade would hold the line for three days against everything Lee could throw at them, and in the end it would be the rebel army (what was left of it!) crawling away from the field in total defeat. Take a few minutes out of your day here on the 1st of July to listen to the greatest song in American history and glory in the fact that 153 years ago today the dream of Slave America suffered a fatal blow on the hills south of Gettysburg.

You don't have to burn a rebel flag in remembrance but it's always a good idea. The Union forever, hurrah boys hurrah, down with the traitor, up with the star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8

Mark Twain posted:

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
His lust is marching on.


I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps;
I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps—
His night is marching on.


I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal;
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel;
Lo, Greed is marching on!"


We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;*
Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat;
O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet!
Our god is marching on!


In a sordid slime harmonious Greed was born in yonder ditch,
With a longing in his bosom—and for others' goods an itch.
As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich—
Our god is marching on.

zoux posted:

New thread? Time for your anti-Arzy booster.

quote:

In Iowa, one insider called Trump’s organization “MIA.” Another said it was “as small as his hands.”

theflyingorc posted:

I am glad we are all still mocking the tiny hands

The Aardvark posted:

This piece from Mother Jones was posted in the last thread and was really good. Definitely worth the read.

DemeaninDemon posted:

This emailghazigate thing is the dumbest, most boring non-scandal in the history of non-scandals.

Madmarker posted:

Mark Twain wrote the best version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic as far as I am concerned.

The Aardvark posted:

This piece from Mother Jones was posted in the last thread and was really good. Definitely worth the read.

RuanGacho posted:

Another is quoted as saying that they think it won't matter because "[Hillary] is so unlikable" so her ground game won't make any difference!

Friend, your nominee is Donald Trump and there's still another party in this country besides the GOP.

quote:

We have done with hoeing cotton, we have done with hoeing corn,
We are colored Yankee soldiers, now, as sure as you are born;
When the masters hear us yelling, they'll think it's Gabriel's horn,
As we go marching on.

Gort posted:

Is that how campaigns work? You can just borrow a ton of cash, transfer it to yourself and then declare your campaign bankrupt?

Spoondick posted:

What's amazing to be is how hard and long RWM has been building the scandals, obviously with the ultimate goal of taking Hillary down during the election. Seriously. What would The Kelly File have done on the daily for the last few years if it weren't for Benghazi or email servers?

Xae posted:

If the Clintons weren't so corrupt how did they get out of the last 20 corruption charges? Obviously they use their corrupt influence to get out of corruption charges.

Checkmate, libtard.

theflyingorc posted:

Clinton scandals are the modern equivalent of those "drown a woman to see if she's a witch" things from back in the day.

Narciss posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html?_r=0


This is big, right?

botany posted:

that's clearly not true, you can't drown a suspected witch more than once.

Zanzibar Ham posted:

What if she survived the first drowning?

haveblue posted:

Then you burn her.

smg77 posted:

https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/748873227708076032

Snatch Duster posted:

This has been making rounds on my facebook feed.

Snatch Duster posted:

Snatch Duster posted:

quote:

[ASK] ME ABOUT BEING
A BIG, FAT BLOB.

Fatty fatty bum bum, that's me!

Xae posted:

If the Clintons weren't so corrupt how did they get out of the last 20 corruption charges? Obviously they use their corrupt influence to get out of corruption charges.

Checkmate, libtard.

blue squares posted:

The battle of the red texts

Violator posted:

I never used to take people's complaints about reddit and/or Bernie Bros seriously, but now that I've actually been paying attention to it all I've really noticed lately how terrible it all is. The entire politics section is an endless supply of threads from terrible sources detailing what a corrupt monster Hillary is with thousands of people piling on the strangest and most bizarre conspiracy theories. It's all 90's era black helicopters theories brought back ten fold. And these are from self-proclaimed liberals! Usually one or two people will come in and explain what's actually going on and they get stomped into the ground because they aren't looking deep enough or they don't see what's really going on.

I know this is common knowledge at this point, but I just realized how toxic it really all is.

Violator posted:

I never used to take people's complaints about reddit and/or Bernie Bros seriously, but now that I've actually been paying attention to it all I've really noticed lately how terrible it all is. The entire politics section is an endless supply of threads from terrible sources detailing what a corrupt monster Hillary is with thousands of people piling on the strangest and most bizarre conspiracy theories. It's all 90's era black helicopters theories brought back ten fold. And these are from self-proclaimed liberals! Usually one or two people will come in and explain what's actually going on and they get stomped into the ground because they aren't looking deep enough or they don't see what's really going on.

I know this is common knowledge at this point, but I just realized how toxic it really all is.

Edit: What really set it off for me last night was the revelation that Bill is an evil mastermind for making small talk at an airport, and it was actually a plan years in the making to disrupt the justice system so that Hillary could steal the election and then remove everyone from power who could threaten her rule.

Violator posted:

I never used to take people's complaints about reddit and/or Bernie Bros seriously, but now that I've actually been paying attention to it all I've really noticed lately how terrible it all is. The entire politics section is an endless supply of threads from terrible sources detailing what a corrupt monster Hillary is with thousands of people piling on the strangest and most bizarre conspiracy theories. It's all 90's era black helicopters theories brought back ten fold. And these are from self-proclaimed liberals! Usually one or two people will come in and explain what's actually going on and they get stomped into the ground because they aren't looking deep enough or they don't see what's really going on.

I know this is common knowledge at this point, but I just realized how toxic it really all is.

Edit: What really set it off for me last night was the revelation that Bill is an evil mastermind for making small talk at an airport, and it was actually a plan years in the making to disrupt the justice system so that Hillary could steal the election and then remove everyone from power who could threaten her rule.

Violator posted:

I never used to take people's complaints about reddit and/or Bernie Bros seriously, but now that I've actually been paying attention to it all I've really noticed lately how terrible it all is. The entire politics section is an endless supply of threads from terrible sources detailing what a corrupt monster Hillary is with thousands of people piling on the strangest and most bizarre conspiracy theories. It's all 90's era black helicopters theories brought back ten fold. And these are from self-proclaimed liberals! Usually one or two people will come in and explain what's actually going on and they get stomped into the ground because they aren't looking deep enough or they don't see what's really going on.

I know this is common knowledge at this point, but I just realized how toxic it really all is.

Zanzibar Ham posted:

But then she can just magic the fire away. I don't think you've thought this through.

Violator posted:

Edit: What really set it off for me last night was the revelation that Bill is an evil mastermind for making small talk at an airport, and it was actually a plan years in the making to disrupt the justice system so that Hillary could steal the election and then remove everyone from power who could threaten her rule.