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What the media didn't want you to see at the DNC
- That's a riot? I've been on trains more dangerous than that.face_melter
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@Bonseff:
The Republicans/Tea-Party are going to win Congress, and win big.
Many massively rich people who donate to the Republican candidate for president every election have openly stated that they won't be giving any money to Trump. They're going to have a little extra political money kicking around. Some won't use, but many likely will. They're still interested in influencing politics, they just don't want to give it to Trump.
So where will they donate? Not to Hillary, of course, except in maybe a few rare cases. No, they're most likely going to give a good chunk of that money to various Republican/Tea Party Senators and Congressmen.
Consider, for example, a ten million dollar donation. Normally that would help a presidential candidate, but certainly not guarantee a win. Meanwhile, a hundred thousand could likely buy the election for any House/Senate candidate. So you've got to figure that a $10M savings in Trump donations could result in up to 100 senate or congress races going to Republicans/Tea Party. Now, it's likely going to be fewer than that, but you get the idea.
This is yet another reason why it's so important to vote for Hillary (as if you needed any more reasons!) No matter what happens with Trump, Congress is going to be a majority Republican/Tea Party. And you don't want to live in an America with Trump as president and a Republican/Tea Party majority in the House and Senate. It would be madness.
- From what I've read the House is going to stay in Republican hands for the near future. The Senate is likely to flip back to the Democrats this year.yuekit
- The Senate is decided by such a small number of races, you can be sure there will be huge spending on both sides.yuekit
- Yes we need more corruption n more neocon policies.yurimon
- Yurim-yawn.********
- Would you hire a bank robber to be bank manager? or you can be easily programmed out of making ethical choicesyurimon
- Better than hiring a demented clown to replace the manager, just because the bank got robbed.monospaced
- Using your analogy, that's pretty much what you're arguing here.monospaced
- Word, yuekitBonSeff
- Cmon yuri mon, don't be a yurimoron.yuekit
- More like yurimOFF am I right guys?********
- Got to rise out of that primate level mental state, achieve enlightenment and oneness with the world.yuekit
- Would love to see Paul and Rubio get kicked to the curb.BonSeff
- Trump = primate level
Not Trump = human levelyuekit - Thats your assumption, based on discriminationyurimon
- support corruption!********
- Are you suggesting that political donations from private citizens counts as corruption?********
- ^oh my naive friend how deep have you looked what info have you examined?yurimon
- condescending as fuckmonospaced
- don't you mean political donations from private well funded billionaires?********
- Condescending cause he hasnt looked deep into the clinons and talks like a leading expert of how good they are?yurimon
- no, because you are calling people naive and constantly questioning and judging people's knowledgemonospaced
- its true. he hasnt really stepped up with anything indepth for many years or more maybe few posts. high school level current eventsyurimon
- its ok he doesnt want to explore a subject deeper yet talk like he does.yurimon
- you are hilariousmonospaced
- Either no one can contribute, or everyone can. You can't single out billionaires. Although, I think there should be extreme limits on campaign donations.********
- im saying you havent done your research on her. period,yurimon
- how low mentioning her period!!!! so sexist.fadein11
- wagshaft3
Trump Love Thread material:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/…- haha the salute thing...he's got to be trolling.yuekit
- "fuck those dirty beaners, fuck that nigger, and hang the bitch" Sounds like the america I grew up in alright. God bless america indeed.sofakingback
- Make America great again. Whoo hoomonospaced
- Bennn2
this is a real ad
Americans yo so weird
- lol what a pandering douchemonospaced
- Yurimon's peepsmoldero
- you must be anti-violence********
- great...another fucking Republitard gun nututopian
- This can't be real!********
- why not nb?monospaced
- It seems so much like a skit. Do they not get that this suggest that he is willing to shoot people if necessary?********
- they don't get it... and it is very realmonospaced
- its very real and this is the american realityBennn
- This is he reality of a select minority of people living in Americas crotch who don't even realize most of the country is ashamed of themmonospaced
- you are living in Americas vagina so long that you have become a vagina. haha just kiddin. no serious. that was sarcasm. no/ yes.yurimon
- yurinemonospaced
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- this gif is half trueCygnusZero4
- yep both nutsfadein11
- lol yupmoldero
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V o t E Y u r I m ON
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**REMINDER**
Gary Johnson on CNN tonight.
Sorry. Can't find a link to a non CNN account version as of yet. Probably after it starts airing.
- nicechukkaphob
- watching these trickle downers nowmoldero
- ^ no job today?yurimon
- Who is Gary Johnson?utopian
- trickle downers? is that a reference to keynesian monetary policy. if so they are quite the opposite. the only honest and experienced people running********
- i guess you could argue hilary has experience but im not sure she has really had any positive impact. just a career salesman looking out for no1********
- ^ making bank at the expense of everything else. riding the decline.yurimon
- oh.. hmm well doesn't seem to be there intent to me. they're not very successful if that is their plan. i thought they have raised 150k.********
- think johnson bank rolled his 2012 one too it sounded like from that GQ article.********
- weld is much better at dodging the questions that need a discourse on philosophy. Johnson tries to frame it to his view to answer honestly.********
- and CNN intro VO is like a dude at a monster truck event********
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Donald Trump Is A Frightened Coward And I Bet $100,000 He Won't Fight Me
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Trump won’t say whether he’d contest election loss to Clinton, but former adviser predicts protests
- lol , march on Washington and demand what? He's not Martin Luther King ffsmonospaced
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Asch Conformity Experiment
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Hahaha ... Best Vine EVER!!!
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IM SO CONFUSED!
- Found the whole video https://www.youtube.…err
- Faux News®utopian
- When is this from?monospaced
- Well, they're students, after all. Maybe they just haven't finished learning yet.********
- But seriously, though, they're just talking like students always do. Post secondary teaches you to question things, and they're just making a point.********
- It's like that classic scene in Good Will Hunting where Damon tells the student "Now you're reading this, and next year you'll be reading that and quoting it"********
- Wait do you guys agree with fox news and think these students are crazy? Everything they are saying seems pretty correct to me.err
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- atlantic city has been on a decline. surprised its lasted this longyurimon
- True. Since Sandy it's been struggling big time.monospaced
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Trump Taj Mahal announces it will close
On April 2 1990, Trump Taj Mahal, the twelfth and largest casino in Atlantic City, opens for business. Dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world" - Donald J. Trump
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Jon Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, has reported that Republican leaders are “actively exploring” contingency plans in the event that Donald Trump drops out of the presidential race.
- I actually think this is very likely.fadein11
- His campaign denies it entirely.monospaced
- The story has been ticking over for a few days - whispers of prominent GOP nabobs trying some kind of intervention and trying to beat Trump into shape.face_melter
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I don't think he'll drop out, but it does make sense for the GOP to plan for it. Trump is unpredictable. He's a narcissist beyond anything we've ever seen in a presidential candidate, and he can't handle losing. If his numbers continue drop further than they already have, I suppose he could pull a little kid move like "OK guys the system is rigged, I'm dropping out because it's rigged."
This way he'd save himself the embarrassment of losing (in his mind, at least) and he'd be seen by his supporters as a hero who "refused to be bought by the elites" or whatever nonsense they want to tell themselves.
It could happen, but I doubt it.
First, he seems to think he's winning even when polls say he's not. So his numbers would have to drop significantly. The numbers are trending in that direction, but we're still months away.
Also, now that he KNOWS the GOP is planning a replacement for him, his dropping out wouldn't quite achieve the same effect of turning him into a hero for his supporters. Close, but not quite.
- But if I was a GOP leader, I would want a plan in place, because you never know with Trump. And it's better to have a plan than to be scrambling later.********
- They are too far down the rabbit hole to turn back - the chat is that they plan to beat him with soap in socks until he is under some kind of control.face_melter
- This is going to be part of the movie if it happens.monospaced
- He's just going to lose and that will be the end of that. The party will have 8 years to attempt an image change. I think it will be good for them.sofakingback
- ^ a reality movie showing how brilliant he's been, manipulated the media and walks away having shaken up the entire political systemformed
- I can see it happening. He could make a few hundred million, at least, much better biz decision than becoming Pres at $400k/year.formed
- Then I might actually have respect for him.formed
- Wisconsin election next week which has the possibility of unseating the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.IRNlun6
- Lots of doubt will be put on Trumps campaign because a loss for Ryan could be looked as a push away from established Republicans.IRNlun6
- Pence in favor of Ryan is just a way to maintain good relations in the event of a Trump win.IRNlun6
- But if I was a GOP leader, I would want a plan in place, because you never know with Trump. And it's better to have a plan than to be scrambling later.
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While all the rumors of Trumps campaign imploding...
DNC CEO resigns in wake of email controversy
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“Isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Stefan Zweig
