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- nb5
After watching the speeches from both conventions, I would honestly be too embarrassed to call myself a republican.
I know there will always be the crazy nutjob supporters for both sides, and I try not to define the candidates by the idiots in the crowd who get press.
But, these aren't the weirdos on the edge, these are the fucking people on the stage! How can you watch the Republican convention speakers and relate to them? I don't understand. These people have gone off the deep end. Maybe that's why the only argument you ever hear for Trumpy is "Hillary is evil!"
Anyway, my point is that I wonder how many people I know who are in-the-closet Republicans and are going to vote for Trump (because he's the candidate and they don't have another option on their side) and they just don't want to tell anyone for fear of being shamed.
- it practically the same thing they have on trump. hillary has a big record of corruption, crime. so default.yurimon
- plus if you learned anything from elections, just because a politician has a brand image and talks in your voice. doesnt mean anything. sales for votes.yurimon
- embarrassingmonospaced
- dems just have a better scam at the moment. their policies keep working class and minorities in check while their policies are oppressing them.yurimon
- so smart people think they are smart for supporting the dems when the irony is they are not smart for supporting the dems because what is sold is not the resultyurimon
- yuri, you are so smart!monospaced
- It's not about speaking in "my" voice. You can not honestly watch these two groups of speakers and say they're comparable. It's totally nuts.nb
- its sounds good but if you fact check it doesnt add up. same with reps.yurimon
- you work in advertising right? its not that hard to make someone buy something with the proper packaging while the product is utter shit.yurimon
- I think Giuliani has lost his mind!nb
- Fuck I'm so tired of you, Puddles. All you do is try to preach to everyone about how they're stupid. You live in a fucking fantasy world.nb
- ic. i live in a fantasy world while you n your comrades conveniently cant put facts together or agree on morals and grip to political parties like sport teams.yurimon
- Hahaha, keep talking, doofus. You're proving my point for me.nb
- not proving anything. you stick to one political side regardless if its working or not. as long as you are in your middle class bubble everythin is fine. typicayurimon
- Oh, do I? Tell me more, wise one! Teach us!nb
- nb3
Trump adviser Giuliani calls for electronic 'tagging' of U.S. Muslims on fed terror watch list.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday said he would be in favor of forcing Muslims on the federal government's terrorism watch list to wear electronic monitoring tags or bracelets for authorities to track their whereabouts.
"I would think that's an excellent idea," said Giuliani, an adviser to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. "If you're on the terror watch list, I should know you're on the terror watch list. You're on there for a reason."
This is how it starts, kids!
- "Aaaamericaaaaaa!"chukkaphob
- Chris Christie looks hungry. Daydreaming of donuts.chukkaphob
- "Government should stay out of people's lives."
Better put tracking tags on some of them."nb - Christie likes standing in that spotmoldero
- he's just craving that Giuliani ManwhichRamanisky2
- They wear tracking tags but can still buy guns? Makes sense.monkeyshine
- Well, the constitution doesn't say anything about electronically tagging people who have been put on some list that is kept secret from the public.nb
- Yes it does.monospaced
- monkeyshine4
Amazing that this is over 15 years old...now I know where Trump got his platform.
- nb4
I KNOW HOW TO USE A COMPUTER. I'M THE BEST AT COMPUTERS.
- After he called for a boycott of Apple products. The. Massive. Fucking. Arsehole.face_melter
- I though the helmet boycotted Apple while wearing his expensive tailored suit that was made in China.utopian
- this is the best you got on trump. running out of content.yurimon
- Get a brain Yurimoran!moldero
- lol @ yuri ignoring the last year of trump shit and assuming this is "the best" we've "got" on the guy. so much derpmonospaced
- Deal with It, yUrineRamanisky2
- I bet he doesn't know that's apple2002
- You can see right through his fake hair to his shiny bald scalp in this lighting.monospaced
- "Ok let's see here. How do I get on the emails. Hmmmm, maybe click on... ok no that didn't work. On my phone there's a little envelope, don't see it here. Hmmm"nb
- He's reloading Twitter to see if people are liking his posts where he calls grown ups names like a petulant spoiled 12 year old child.monospaced
- hahasince1979
- ernexbcn3
I said damn!
- ernexbcn6
Obama's AMA vs. Trump's AMA
- Embarrassing.monospaced
- Obama eloquently dodges. Trump dodges... less eloquently.deathboy
- Of course with the past being the past did Obama succeed in his plan as stated?deathboy
- deathboy reads the two responses and concludes that they are more or less the same. Lulznb
- deathboy, if you knew how government works then you'd know that a president can't just make things happen without checks and balancesmonospaced
- meaning, Obama wanted all this to happen and made every effort to, but butthurt republicans worked as hard as they could to stop itmonospaced
- thats correct. neither answer really effects the corrupting influence of money in politics.deathboy
- ha i know how it works all to well. and neither party wants less money, only the one making less at the timedeathboy
- power corrupts. so if you want to see less money in politics simply take the power from the people involved. simple cause and reactiondeathboy
- and mono if obamas intentions are honorable and results dont matter, what if trumps intentions are honorable as well if results dont happen.willUthink theSame?deathboy
- Trump can't articulate his intentions and when he tries he embarrasses himself, unfortunately.monospaced
- As illustrated by this ama and the rnc contentmonospaced
- Well his intentions on the question are straight forward. more clearly wrong than obamas. how bout his intention to make america great?deathboy
- Fair enough. I agree money in politics should be scrutinized. Regarding making us great again. That's nothing more than an empty tag line.monospaced
- Personally I don't think he has it in him to see any of it through. I believe he lacks the character traits to do the job and the expeience to make good decisiomonospaced
- So regardless of his intentions, I just don't think he is the right man for the job and I don't believe he will win either.monospaced
- Well i agree with all that. I don't know what to think if he were to win. If it stays between the two im hoping for a stalemated congress for a do over in 4.deathboy
- chukkaphob-3
- And Pence lead his entire party too as Republican Conference Chairman. It's actually not that uncommon on either side for those with experience to be VP picksmonospaced
- always defending the criminals. shakehead.gifyurimon
- I am ok with this.2002
- yuri I'm not defending it, just discussing it. holy shit you are triggeredmonospaced
- #nottriggered, #yurimon
- damn. Trump's going to have a field day with this onesince1979
- Can't wait for the tweets, the rants, the rabid fans and the butt hurt desperation trying to convince people that coincidence is conspiracy. So much fun!monospaced
- deathboy4
a little more airtime
- terry_cloth-5
- the very last point is a bit silly, anyone care to debunk any of these other pointsterry_cloth
- The first point is definitely false. http://www.snopes.co…nb
- The 2nd point is also false. http://www.snopes.co…nb
- Shall I keep going? Would you like to take 2 minutes to factcheck this nonsense before you post it?nb
- Or, from now on should we just assume everything you post is bullshit?nb
- bustedmoldero
- nb, did you read the link past the red false stamp. that is exactly why she was fired, it says so in the link you posted after extensive double speak and conjecterry_cloth
- -tureterry_cloth
- lol, nb, calling me out on not fact checking when he clearly didn't read his own rebuttal link. anyways, yes, please continueterry_cloth
- Did YOU read the article?nb
- "However, whatever Zeifman may have thought of Hillary and her work during the investigation, he was not her supervisor, neither he nor anyone else fired her frnb
- om her position on the Impeachment Inquiry staff (Zeifman in fact didn't have the power to fire her, even had he wanted to do so), his description of hernb
- her conduct as "unethical" and "dishonest" is his personal, highly subjective characterization, and the "facts" on which he based that characterization were onenb
- s that he contradicted himself about on multiple occasions.nb
- yup, and her boss stated the exact reasons he fired her and the dumb ass snopes.com dismisses that as 'his subjective opinion' what utter fuckery is this snopesterry_cloth
- and the second rebuttal is equally as stupid coming from the same intellectually dishonest cite. debunking a poorly worded meme instead of the facts that she isterry_cloth
- on audio recording laughing about how she knew he was guilty and that because of it she no longer has faith in polygraph tests which he had passedterry_cloth
- long story short, this snopes.com site is a pile of horse shit, debunk failure of the highest order, they figure they can baffle 90% of people with their bullsterry_cloth
- -hit. so are you a baffled dumbass or didn't you read past the second paragraph where they argue semanticsterry_cloth
- You should read it a little more closely.nb
- You're obviously missing a lot of the information that's in there.nb
- once again, utter bullshit, do you believe everything you read on this stupid as fuck snopes website, zeifman was the chief of staff for the house judiciary comterry_cloth
- -itee and was most definitely her supervisor. try again nb, and this time cross reference your lazy shitterry_cloth
- Snopes is quoting things that have been written about Zeifman. Things he said, or have been attributed to him, and in HIS books. They're not fabricating.nb
- Zeifman is even quoted as saying "If I had the power to fire her, I would have." So, he changed his story, and then back again. You still believe him?nb
- they are editorializing and while doing so contradicting the quotes they are presenting. utter garbage, i'm not interested in opinion piecesterry_cloth
- never mind the fact that they outright lie frequently while trying to minimize hillary's scum bag anticsterry_cloth
- Well, if you're going to ignore facts, I can't help you.nb
- such as saying that zeifman wasn't supervising her on the watergate investigation, outright lieterry_cloth
- you can help me plenty, just cite sources that aren't blatantly intellectually dishonest in their attempts to editorialize and misrepresentterry_cloth
- seriously, that site is utter trash, you can do betterterry_cloth
- Well, he said himself that he didn't have the authority to fire her.nb
- Look, you're obviously pre-disposed to hate Hillary and you're reaching really far to make a point. But the evidence isn't there. Sorry.nb
- right, untill the investigation was over, and then he fired her for the reasons stated, c'mon man, google is your friendterry_cloth
- well regardless of the specifics, call it a negative character witness if you would like. next pointterry_cloth
- the evidence is simply that her supervisor who was the chief of staff of the house judiciary committee says that she is, in short, a scumbag. the semantics donterry_cloth
- 't really change anything, fired her didn't fire her, doesn't change much of anything. next point nbterry_cloth
- So Zeifman didn't like her, but he's been changing his story over the years, and you believe him instead of all the people who say he's wrong and/or lying?nb
- Also, you haven't posted any evidence. You're just saying that mine isn't good enough. Your shitty jpg doesn't even have source. Lulz.nb
- that's not how debunking works pal, anyways, he's a character witness, take it for what it is. anyways, would you care to move on to the next pointterry_cloth
- nb the laziest researcher alive.. one website to debunk them all lol. geez.yurimon
- Better than Trump ;)monospaced
- yeah lets not point out here 30 years of accomplishments that significantly outnumber all this lmaoCygnusZero4
- *herCygnusZero4
- i would like you to list some of those accomplishmentsterry_cloth
- Lulz at you fucking clowns complaining that snopes isn't good enough. You haven't even posted a single source.nb
- see the way you debunking this works is that i throw things at you that i may or may not have researched and you show it to be false if you canterry_cloth
- posting the same ham-fistedly dishonest site over and over and quoting it's blatant untruths is not good enough, noterry_cloth
- terry_triggeredmonospaced
- mono_uselessterry_cloth
- that doesn't even make sensemonospaced
- you are useless and i shorten your qbn handle down to mono. any more questions sweetheartterry_cloth
- qoob5
Serious question was Bill Clinton really so bad?
Why are people so afraid of Hillary, making it sound like the world win end, when the last Clinton administration was actually pretty moderate, socially liberal, pro-business, even balanced the budget?
- bill and hillary are very different people, if people payed more attention to hillary's politics instead of her as an alternative to donny they would be more alterry_cloth
- -armed probablyterry_cloth
- Cause Obama2002
- balanced budget because of NAFTA. Slowly working poor got poorer.teh
- NAFTA made poor poorer? I didn't realize. Reputable study on this?2002
- Also, a lot of men feel threatened by a woman in power. I'm not sure why, but it's quite common.nb
- what are you basing that statement on nb? and yes, nafta screwed a lot of peopleterry_cloth
- Terry what are you basing that on?2002
- short answer, it added to our trade deficit with our neighbors, the long answer is complicated and involves talking about monocultures and mexican politicsterry_cloth
- One thing NAFTA did which conservatives should like is that it improved the Mexican economy with rising living standard.qoob
- The better Mexico do, the fewer of them will want to come here. And immigration has slowed down in recent years.qoob
- 'republicans' don't dislike mexicans, they dislike criminals. as far as nafta's effect on the mexican economy. . .terry_cloth
- http://fordhampoliti…terry_cloth
- Article written by college student?qoob
- So it hurt the U.S. or hurt Mexico? Can't both be true.qoob
- http://www.theatlant…qoob
- of course it can be true. that article talks about the crushing poverty in mexico as well. the only people who benefitted from nafta are the multinationals whoterry_cloth
- The future first lady: http://i.onionstatic…omg
- Here is what actual economists think of NAFTA http://www.igmchicag…qoob
- Tell that to the hordes of Mexican farmers and American industrial workers that lost thier livelihoods. Economists are not worries about those guys though if thterry_cloth
- -e multinationals can still keep raking it in and propping up the economy for years to come. My point is that the price of NAFTA was very highterry_cloth
- Also, I might note that I was disappointed that your link on economists turned out to be an opinion poll. Not very illuminatingterry_cloth
- It's a survey of some of the country's best economists. Liberals, conservatives, libertarians. Not a single one thought NAFTA was bad.qoob
- ^ payme lobby cash n it wont be bad. look up manufacturing jobs decline afteryurimon
- you okay yuri? Your writing is particularly bad today so maybe you're having a bad one?monospaced
- sofakingback7
DO YOU EVEN LIFT BRO?
blob:http://www.cnn.com/7d1661e7...
"Have you even read the U.S. Constitution?" Khizr Khan asks Donald Trump.
- EPIC SPEECH! Hit in the feels.teh
- do you even Uniform Resource Identifier bro?moldero
- Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?teh
- Bros, do you even meme? The bro always comes first.nb
- What's a blob? Some kind of new linking technology?qoob
- yes, works only in muricuhmoldero
- Just need to have your blob reader installed. #doyouevenblobqoob
- lol, it was on their blog, damn it. I failed, I've completely lost confidence in my ability to do anything. Im useless...sofakingback
- Hmmm interesting there is an answer for everything now
http://stackoverflow…qoob - Bro, do you even Rad?
https://www.youtube.…nb - Blob +Bro=Radteh
- remove the blob: if it's there once you pasteernexbcn
- qoob1
- BusterBoy5
Trump being torn a new one...again.
- since19795
Hillary Clinton just went for Trump's testicles.
- Im ready for the debates alreadysince1979
- I reckon he'll be a pussy and wimp out.BusterBoy
- he might get a tummy ache from bad bad mexican food2002
- she talked alot, said very little, is taking Wall Street out of politics (wtf!), a constitutional amendment for Citizens United(no way) and said we need torobotron3k
- fix all kinds of problems Obama hasn't addressed in his presidency and she has a plan to do it, but won't tell it to Obama so we can fix now...robotron3k
- robotron3k, do you think Republicans would support any of that? If not there's your answer.qoob
- Republicans so obstructionist government shut down multiple times, and now you say Obama didn't accomplish enough.qoob
- She said a hell of a lot more substance than trump has ever uttered.monospaced
- bama is rep, media support + not being rep/white guy = get away with more rep type stuffs.yurimon
- yurilogic + yurigrammar = yurifailmonospaced
- CygnusZero45
DNC slayed this week, meanwhile the RNC was a miserable hatefest.
They kept rolling out the big buns all week with stories from regular people and leaders respected all around the world, exposing Trump for who he really is, and Trump rolled out... Scott Baio.
Oh.
- Scott Baio?teh
- Donnie loves ChoachieRamanisky2
- is there any kid actors that turn out somewhat normal?moldero
- Maybe he's an avid reader of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog?Nathan_Adams
- All trump could get were his children ad done d-list actors. So fuckkng pathetic. Even his own party turned on him. Really telling.monospaced
- CygnusZero44
I dont think for one second he will pussy out of any debates, but he is going to get more and more exposed for being the reckless maniac he is, and for not really having any details about anything.
And whenever he does try and talk about serious shit off a teleprompter, he sounds like hes 12 years old or something.
- As soon as she comes at him, he is going to revert back to being his normal hot head self. You want that on the button? I sure as fuck dont.CygnusZero4
- Ill vote for her thanks. Im not a repub or dem. I hate politics. I just go with whoever seems like they arent totally fucking nuts.CygnusZero4
- < lol @ TelePrompTer thing, so truemoldero
- Can't teleprompt a debate. He's so fucked. I still bet he will "play by his own rules" and be a total pussy and my debate though.monospaced
- not debate thoughmonospaced
- CygnusZero411
I think this commercial has to be the greatest in the history of politics. Yeah its a little dramatic like omg the kids! Like kids really watch any of this and understand it, but its still so effective because Trump did say all of this shit, and its not out of context, he legit said this stuff and its as bad as it comes across in this commercial
Idk who put this together but good luck finding any political commercial stronger than this.
- the bully clip they played at the DNC tonight was pretty good toomoldero
- kids are voting now, don't you know that. weird how her videos have zero comments on them, this one is completely blank of comments.robotron3k
- Is that why you no longer work in advertising?2002
- lol, what you talking about? I got's my own office in the Mad Men building on Madison ave... I'm serious.robotron3k
- This isn't targeted at kids. To even say or think so is incredibly stupid.monospaced
- I also work on Madison Ave. ;)monospaced
- Which agency still has an office in Madison? Even y&r moved out of that area.2002
- BusterBoy4
It really is staggering that Trump is anywhere near the lead in polling, let alone leading in many. I just can't fathom there are that many people that think he is worthy of being President.
- He's the human equivalent of those spinning tassels dancers wear on their tits. Mesemerising to watch but ultimately fucking pointless.face_melter
