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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Either someone dropped $100 on avs or Marx got drunk and went mad with power again.

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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Epic High Five posted:

Hint: the gun is by the kid in the backseat because that way in their head, they get carjacked and say, "okay yes but let me get my kid first" and then they grab the gun instead and BLOW THEM AWAY!!!!!!

Even dumber than that: They stuck it under the seat and it slid back from the motion of the car and wound up by the kid, who was able to grab it because they weren't belted in.

Edit: Yodatar rules. Haters swerve!

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Mr Hootington posted:

Don't worry Trump will close that gap when he progressively picks Condoleeza Rice as VP. Shoring up female, black, and establishment blocs of voters.

Condi Rice would sooner light herself on fire and run naked down Broadway at rush hour than set foot in Washington again.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Taerkar posted:

Is there somewhere I can get an English- to-Anti-Clinton dictionary somewhere? Words seem to have brand new and exciting meanings when they involve her.

Just add words that make her seem more nefarious and/or illiberal and/or a secret disciple of Barry Goldwater and Henry Kissinger. Put something in there about her being sold out to the man at the end and you can sell it to Salon.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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SedanChair posted:

It's the New York Times, obviously they're not going to come out and say it.

lol at the idea of the Times being on Hilldog's side.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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botany posted:

Uh the NYT has been pretty obviously anti-Sanders for a while, and that helps Hillary.

NYT has famously been out for Hillary's scalp since the 90's and one of their regular columnists, Maureen Dowd, absolutely hates her guts.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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zoux posted:

If the GOP tried to take the nomination away from Trump after he has 1237+, well, I don't know what would happen but it would be biblical beautiful.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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I can't stop loving laughing over the fact that the GOP rank and file jerkoffs want Donald Trump as their president. Even typing it makes me giggle.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Haha. Hahahaha.

I can't believe that they're actually going with Trump and that I got to watch Ted Cruz eat poo poo and die live.

Today is just too good.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Someone in the other thread called him "4th place in a 2-man race" which sounds about right.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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SgtScruffy posted:

Is Secretary of State Biden a possibility at all in a Hillary Presidency? I wouldn't see necessarily why they wouldn't offer it to him (pending him actually wanting to be in politics after being VP and with his family), it makes sense, but has there been any thoughts on why this wouldn't be A Thing?

He's qualified, but I don't know if he's really interested in staying in politics after this term is up. I also don't know whether or not he'd like to be a part of a Hillary administration, it sounds like they disagreed a lot when they were both on the Obama team.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Grouchio posted:

Any further news on the Republican schism? Is the brokered convention now useless for them?

Unless Trump has a dramatic collapse or the GOP radically changes the nomination rules, there won't be a brokered convention now. Trump will walk in with enough pledged delegates to walk away with the nom in one round of voting.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Avian Pneumonia posted:

What i'd really like to happen is for the establishment GOP to approach Sanders and say okay if we run one of our guys as a third party you can also run as a third party and we'll have a 4 way race. Please tell me all about how this will never happen and how Sanders really and truly basically can't ever be president and I should just start preparing myself for the fact that i'm going to have to vote for someone who supported the invasion of Iraq.

e: So I guess in a 4 way race the house decides? That stinks.

Sanders wouldn't do that because he knows what the consequences of a GOP victory are and he knows that he can't win a race like that.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:

Uh, no it doesn't? It involves flipping states like OH, FL, NC, VA, IA, CO, WI, etc.

Northern VA is filled with people who could almost be Hillary clones, and there is no loving way that Donald "Mexican Rapists" Trump is going to win enough of the Latino vote to take Florida.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Uglycat posted:

That was Us, what shouting 'gently caress Trump' and Dancing in the Streets in South Bend.

Here's what we accomplished yesterday:

1) the Republican Convention will /not/ be a contested convention
2) the Democratic Convention /will/ be a contested convention
3) a vote for /Hillary/ is now a vote for Trump

We got this!
#StillSanders

Are you quoting someone? Because none of this makes sense.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Wax Dynasty posted:

It's not as if Hawaii is awash in haole blood.

That'd be a hell of a thing...

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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The adults showed up.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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zoux posted:

I'm trying to come up with a Democratic analogue to what happened to the GOP and the only equal scenario I can conceive of is "Donald Trump wins the Democratic nomination instead".

Look up the 1968 race post-Bobby Kennedy and you'll get an idea. Different tactics and outcome, but same sort of crack-up.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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zoux posted:

drat, huge slam on Hubert Humphrey outta nowhere.

Humphrey sat up in his hotel room watching the cops beat the poo poo out of a bunch of college kids and idealists on his behalf and I hope the gas got up to his level so he could choke on it.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Hollismason posted:

Who could Donald Trump pick as his VP?


Lindsey Graham.

Mary Fallin comes to mind, or some other GOP female governor. Nikki Haley would tell him to take a hike though.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Freakazoid_ posted:

If a state is willing to remove civil rights, they probably won't mind removing state funded education. It could still be a threat but I can see it not really being a threat. At that point, how do the feds escalate?

JD sues and gets a court order.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Gail Wynand posted:

Hillary Clinton Should Concede to Bernie Sanders Before The FBI Reveals Its Findings

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/clinton-should-concede-to-sanders-before-fbi-reveals-findings_b_9836720.html

lol

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Joementum posted:

There is also the possibility that Trump wins in November and the Republican party embraces Trumpism ushering in a thousand years of darkness.

Not joking. That's a thing that could happen.

We'll finally get our wish as all the suffering of the peoples of the Earth is extinguished in a heartbeat by nuclear fire.

Hail Satan, imo.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Not taking action by Monday means a lawsuit hitting their desks on Tuesday. On stuff like this, Obama don't play.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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This is nothing. Wait until after the convention, then we'll really take out the knives.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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theflyingorc posted:

Guys, if random diehards on my Facebook are to believed, Sanders is a complete shoe in for the nomination.

There's so many people going ITS NOT OVER YET when Sanders would need to win delegates 77 to 398 in California to catch up in pledged delegates.

This is not a commentary on either candidates policy positions, but man there's a certain wing of Sanders supporters that are not understanding how elections work.

People are excited and want to believe that the good guy is going to win. This election will be a good lesson about politics for them.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Cabbit posted:

Is the lesson "there is no good guy"?

Yes. Also that enthusiasm is no replacement for planning, organization, and backing from party insiders.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Radish posted:

I'm having Sensible Democrats tell me that in the incredible off-case of Bernie winning the nomination (:arzy:) that they would vote Bloomberg as a protest vote since Bernie's economic policies are so disastrous. It's amusing to me that they are willing to help in this sort of really bad economic poo poo because :qq: socialism. These people are still whining about Nader and his supporters as well so the irony isn't lost on me.

I'm hearing Bernie diehards tell me that Hillary winning forever shattered their gentle innocence about democracy and they're going to vote Jill Stein but don't care if Trump wins because we deserve it for not Embracing the Youth & Future of the Party.

I suspect the common denominator from the two groups is that they're all white as gently caress.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Mr Hootington posted:

Do we have a ceiling debt this summer or fall again?

It's been kicked to post-election, IIRC.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Well, considering how close we came in 2011 with the debt ceiling "crisis" (and I personally witnessed interning in Congress) because US lawmakers are loving idiots who don't know even the basics of America's relationship to the international economy or how national debt works, lenders have precedence to worry.

E: David Brooks is delusional and needs some serious CBT therapy to realize his delusions about the GOP.

David Brooks was a GOP insider back in the 90's, he might just know more than us.

Edit: Wait, I'm thinking of David Brock. David Brooks is just that one guy who seems nice and smart sometimes but secretly has terrible opinions that make him compulsively vote GOP.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

Let's all be honest with ourselves, I'd be okay with more Obama.

I think about how hard 2008-era Obama would smoke Donald Trump and I smile a little.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

What if we let her also tell people what she really thought about them?

I wouldn't want that. That would be too many swears.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

They'd just look through their notes on the Clinton years after Bill admitted to loving Monica.

IIRC, what actually happened was that Hillary took Chelsea and decamped for Martha's Vineyard for about a month.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Khisanth Magus posted:

Until Trump is a moron and actually orders an attack on some Russian jet or something, and then we have WW3. Then Trump is commander in chief of the largest military in the world in WW3.

Hail Emperor Putin, leader of the Imperium of Russia!

I might start rooting for Russia to wipe us all out.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Joementum posted:

Only one thumb up, Bob? Show a bit more enthusiasm, please!

Heeeyyyyyy.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Joementum posted:

Or like if she has a heart attack in the next few months. It's hard to overstate how totally irresponsible the voters in the Republican primary have been.

"Angry soreheads get excited and go off half-cocked" would be a fair one sentence summation of the 2016 GOP primary.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Mister Macys posted:

v - They already threw Osama out of the chopper at speed over the ocean "buried him at sea".

Stuck in an iron coffin and dumped into the sea for the crabs was better than he deserved but still gets points for expediency.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Radish posted:

It seemed pretty obvious that once JEB flopped, barring some kind of shady convention quirk from Cruz, Trump was most likely going to be the last man standing. The entire field was an absolute joke and he was the only one that had any sort of momentum behind him. The others were just fighting for the not-Trump votes in the same way the not-Romney's did in 2012. I think initially everyone though that JEB would be the Romney of this cycle but it became clear that the base was done settling for an establishment guy that was just going to lose anyway.

This time last year I was predicting Jeb v. Hillary. I got the Hillary part right, and in my defense no one could've called the crazy bullshit that did happen.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Mr Hootington posted:

We probably should have mid July when he overcame rapist Mexicans, not a hero McCain, and I have never asked God for forgiveness to take the lead in the GOP polls.

Honestly, I was just hoping that he would do damage to the GOP brand before he faded away because his trajectory seemed so much like the "not-Romneys" of 2012. I just underestimated the GOP base's determination to shoot themselves in both feet and their collective dicks.

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Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Somewhere on Reddit I'm sure there is a thread on how this will turn the tide of Black peoples' opinion on Trump. So someone found a way to be more stupid than the people who thought that Killer Mike would bring in the Black vote for Bernie.

Yeah, but Killer Mike legitimately owns bones so that theory at least had some sort of logic behind it.

Edit:


I didn't think that they'd actually pick the "loving retarded" option in this case, but here we are.

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