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ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited July 2016 in Debate and/or Discourse
Once upon a time, some guys turned a small body of water into the world's largest cup of tea, and now - long story short - some folks are running for president.

Somehow, this involves giant walls, email, and a movie about a Scandinavian girl with magic ice powers, because fuck, I don't even know anymore.

This thread has a two drink minimum. Discuss.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    This teetotaler erasure

    If I can withstand Brexit sober, I can read this thread sober!

    I think if Trump had his way, the only person suitable for his cabinet would be Donald Trump

    And I'm not talking Trump clones, Trump wouldn't tolerate such talkback, I'm saying he'd probably appoint himself* to everything

    *Or totally spineless yesmen

  • The EnderThe Ender Registered User regular
    Is America great again yet?


    This is taking too long.


    Can I talk to the manager?

    With Love and Courage
  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    The Ender wrote: »
    Is America great again yet?


    This is taking too long.


    Can I talk to the manager?

    Great in the way Voldemort did great things

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    This thread has a two drink minimum. Discuss.

    Hang on, let me get ready.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    The Ender wrote: »
    Is America great again yet?


    This is taking too long.


    Can I talk to the manager?

    Great in the way Voldemort did great things

    Heh, that's actually a pretty good great contrast between Trump, Voldemort, and what their vision of a utopia is.

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  • The EnderThe Ender Registered User regular

    Go Gary Johnson! You give 'em Hell!


    (I have no idea who Gary Johnson is)

    With Love and Courage
  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    The Ender wrote: »

    Go Gary Johnson! You give 'em Hell!


    (I have no idea who Gary Johnson is)

    Former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Libertarian Party candidate, crazy person.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    Actually sad that this thread isn't titled: "the perpetual dumpster fire: Election 2016"

    Still think thats the best tagline ever made.

  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    edited July 2016
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

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  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    The Ender wrote: »

    Go Gary Johnson! You give 'em Hell!


    (I have no idea who Gary Johnson is)

    Former Republican Governor of New Mexico, Libertarian Party candidate, crazy person.

    Wants to you to know he can cure ebola with his weed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klnU9CLsBoE

  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

    Fusion's pretty good, and MSNBC used to be.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    syndalis wrote: »
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

    Fusion's pretty good, and MSNBC used to be.

    The only thing MSNBC is good for is giving Rachel Maddow airtime. And it really should just be 24 hours of her.

  • Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Not a doctor Tree townRegistered User regular
    Wow, Trump essentially told Flake he'd rather have a Congress full of Democrats than have Republicans who disagree with him.

  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    Kinda takes the "will you respect article 1" question into context again.

  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

    Fusion's pretty good, and MSNBC used to be.

    The only thing MSNBC is good for is giving Rachel Maddow airtime. And it really should just be 24 hours of her.

    Her rotating cast of fill-ins is pretty good, too. I'll happily watch them wherever they show up.

    Otherwise, it's basically been going downhill since 2008.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

    Fusion's pretty good, and MSNBC used to be.

    The only thing MSNBC is good for is giving Rachel Maddow airtime. And it really should just be 24 hours of her.

    Chris Hayes is pretty good. Sometimes he has a Trumper on and he just gets the best wrf faces at everything they say. Also Last Word is alright, I appreciate Laurence's anger and lack of fucks to give. Oh and AM Joy is great

    Otherwise yeah the station is pretty meh.

    I'm gonna check out Fusion and see how I like it

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    TV news is useless for non-breaking stuff. Cronkite managed to express about a page and a half of the New York Times level of information in half an hour. And most TV news isn't on par with Cronkite.

  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    moniker wrote: »
    TV news is useless for non-breaking stuff. Cronkite managed to express about a page and a half of the New York Times level of information in half an hour. And most TV news isn't on par with Cronkite.

    And nowadays things can break even faster on the internet. And even then, reading it is much faster. At this point, if I click a link and am taken to a video, I just hit back and look elsewhere.

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  • AsharadAsharad Registered User regular

    Wants to you to know he can cure ebola with his weed.

    I mean...do you know anybody who smokes a lot of pot who ALSO has ebola?

    I don't!

  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    syndalis wrote: »
    So last night montel williams said trump and hillary are the same because they haven't talked about the vets and the care they need.

    https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2015/11/11/supporting-our-veterans-troops-and-their-families/

    I mean, first off...


    So not only a false equivalency but a false equivalency based on a false premise. Montel and msnbc pls.

    Sometimes I wish there was a left leaninng network that didn't run terrible segments like this all the time.

    Fusion's pretty good, and MSNBC used to be.

    The only thing MSNBC is good for is giving Rachel Maddow airtime. And it really should just be 24 hours of her.

    Chris Hayes is pretty good. Sometimes he has a Trumper on and he just gets the best wrf faces at everything they say. Also Last Word is alright, I appreciate Laurence's anger and lack of fucks to give. Oh and AM Joy is great

    Otherwise yeah the station is pretty meh.

    I'm gonna check out Fusion and see how I like it

    This is pretty much my list, too. Maddow, Kornachie or however it's spelled, Reid, O'Donnel and most of the time Hayes are pretty good. I used to like Chuck Todd, back when he was willing to do things like call the '08 race at 7 pm Eastern due to the numbers and not drag it out all night for drama, but he's pretty worthless nowadays.

    I have to admit that I miss Olbermann every once in a while.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular

    Now its not 20% too high, its 22% too high

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    jothki wrote: »
    moniker wrote: »
    TV news is useless for non-breaking stuff. Cronkite managed to express about a page and a half of the New York Times level of information in half an hour. And most TV news isn't on par with Cronkite.

    And nowadays things can break even faster on the internet. And even then, reading it is much faster. At this point, if I click a link and am taken to a video, I just hit back and look elsewhere.

    Yeah and the Internet allows easier access to primary sources other than video so you can make up your own mind rather than get it filtered

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    The Trump campaign has released a statement on the shootings.

    I really hope he at least keeps the tone of the ghost written statement.

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    I think we might need to send someone around to check on Trump. That sounds an awful lot like a Duress Code from him.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    The Trump campaign has released a statement on the shootings.

    I really hope he at least keeps the tone of the ghost written statement.

    "Two motorists" except Alton Sterling wasn't driving anywhere.

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Bullshit he wrote/said that

  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    Asharad wrote: »

    Wants to you to know he can cure ebola with his weed.

    I mean...do you know anybody who smokes a lot of pot who ALSO has ebola?

    I don't!

    Well, I'm sold.

  • cckerberoscckerberos Registered User regular
    Also, wasn't the shooting of the Dallas police officers done pretty much the opposite of "execution-style"?

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Trump's a bit of a fixer-upper

  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited July 2016
    If people are opposed to the fabled and oft-cited threat of a "race war" breaking out then Trump is probably the worst candidate you could support as he has essentially promised to use state power to abuse minorities in every avenue it is possible to abuse them

    but of course that means I await the inevitable polls showing a bump in his meager-ass favorables following these horrific events

    Also probably some alt-right, reddit-mined image RT'd on Trump's Twitter that, as he will later defend vociferously, "definitely not a noose, who would think that's a noose, it can't be a noose, it's a lasso, you know, like cowboys, it's a lasso"

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Of course Trump politicizes the shootings in a really shitty way

    Because of course he does

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    I give it about an hour until Trump says or tweets something making this all about himself

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular

    Trump's tweet is more about the vague horrors going on than anything else to me.

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    Not going to lie that statement is terrifying due especially to paragraph 2 mainly because I'm not sure I'd like how he'd want to go about restoring law and order to the streets.

    Also, yeah, clearly written by not him.

    But like nice try on using a tragedy to attempt to pivot DT.

    Sleep on
  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    Odds John Walsh gets offered a speaking spot at the RNC after last night's bullshit?

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    Odds John Walsh gets offered a speaking spot at the RNC after last night's bullshit?

    20% but only because I thought they already had the lineup.

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Sleep wrote: »
    Not going to lie that statement is terrifying due especially to paragraph 2 mainly because I'm not sure I'd like how he'd want to go about restoring law and order to the streets.
    Not sure? Trump favors brutality, no rights for non-law abiding citizens with that not being determined by the courts, and has repeatedly talked about how political correctness prevents the police from doing their job and how protesters would be beated in the good old days.

  • Giggles_FunsworthGiggles_Funsworth Blight on Discourse Bay Area SprawlRegistered User regular
    edited July 2016
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    If people are opposed to the fabled and oft-cited threat of a "race war" breaking out then Trump is probably the worst candidate you could support as he has essentially promised to use state power to abuse minorities in every avenue it is possible to abuse them

    but of course that means I await the inevitable polls showing a bump in his meager-ass favorables following these horrific events

    Also probably some alt-right, reddit-mined image RT'd on Trump's Twitter that, as he will later defend vociferously, "definitely not a noose, who would think that's a noose, it can't be a noose, it's a lasso, you know, like cowboys, it's a lasso"

    I kinda wanna mock something up and seed it now. Something like a "lasso" on a rustic western backdrop. A cross with some fire behind it. Text overlay that says "We must bring all enemies of our country to justice."

    Prolly throw in an actual sheriff star for good measure since Donald is fond of them and to hammer home that this is about cowboy justice, not a lynching.

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    Of course Trump politicizes the shootings in a really shitty way

    Because of course he does

    At least this time he isn't saying he predicted it and why won't any give him credit for it?....Of course it's still early...

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