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[MHWilliams]

Bullet dodged?

 

[Oblivion]

So apparently Bams invited Colbert to his birthday party but not Larry Wilmore.

Hmm....

 

[Fragamemnon]

A non-endorsement from KissMyAssinger is nice but that Wolfowitz endorsement is the one I really wish would get rolled back.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

The saddest thing about Dole is that he'd been running for president for like forever and by the time he gets the nomination it's in the worst possible conditions imaginable to run against an incumbent.

Which is probably why he got the nomination that time around.

 

[Chichikov]

Bullet dodged?

 

[nature boy]

Priebus: Fox showing Trump’s ‘worst’ polls

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus accused Fox News of only showing the “worst” polls for Donald Trump in a segment on Friday.

When Fox anchor Melissa Francis noted Priebus’s prediction that Trump would catch Hillary Clinton at the polls by around Labor Day, Priebus pushed back.

He questioned why the network's graphic used numbers from a head-to-head matchup between Trump (R) and Clinton (D), which showed the GOP nominee down by 6, instead of the four-way race with Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, which was closer.
“Wait a second, the Fox News poll shows he was down by 3 in a four-way race,” Priebus said.

“You want to choose the worst that's available. The Fox News poll showed him down by 3, Reuters showed it even, L.A. Times had him 2 points up.”

Priebus went on to argue that polls have been trending in Trump's favor recently.

“He's either down by a couple, or even. It's exactly where we thought this thing was going,” Priebus said.

“I don't think anyone can deny the polls are narrowing, and I think the momentum is on his side.”

What a time to be alive.

 

[sphagnum]

I'm the opposite. I don't trust computers because they lack empathy which is like the most important thing in government for me.

Human beings and the economy aren't numbers

Good reason not to be capitalist then.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Good reason not to be capitalist then.

I mean I'm not sold any anything but empathetic pragmatism.

I like private control (or more accurately decentralized)that respond to market forces with government providing corrections and mitigation of asymmetric information

 

[NYCmetsfan]

This tweet is literally the worst

Gabriel Debenedetti ‏@gdebenedetti 1h1 hour ago
Clinton's FBI interview: Saturday of Fourth of July weekend.
FBI notes released: Friday of Labor Day weekend.

Nothing about the actual report, just optics.

OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS

does it matter when it releases if there's a story they're will be a story but they're giving away they don't care, they just need something to talk about and feign controvercy

 

[Debirudog]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Comey's press conference theatrics had more ammo in it than this boring ass report.

 

[thebloo]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

Isn't that what most countries are trying?

 

[NYCmetsfan]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

This is me. I'm a mixed capitalist system dude

 

[NYCmetsfan]

who's the poster that always says fuck FOIA

I think its colin powell's gaf account

 

[Owzers]

This tweet is literally the worst



Nothing about the actual report, just optics.

OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS OPTICS

does it matter when it releases if there's a story they're will be a story but they're giving away they don't care, they just need something to talk about and feign controvercy

"drip drip drip" is a media phrase i hope ends with this election.

 

[Valhelm]

Socialism doesn't mean "a state-run economy". Socialism is just an economic system where industries are run by their workers, instead of being controlled privately.

 

[Basileus777]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

bombarded? This is the standard approach most of the world has accepted.

 

[bangbang i'm a timpani]

who's the poster that always says fuck FOIA

I think its colin powell's gaf account

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXmFG3WYAAVxQz.jpg[/MG][/QUOTE]

if Matt's analysis was correct, why has she spent the last year blundering through every attempt to explain her actions

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

Imagine, for a moment, if you tested economic ideas and saw which programs reduced poverty and increased growth and which ended up bad. And then, imagine this, you followed the programs that turned out be good.

bombarded? This is the standard approach most of the world has accepted.

Libertarians and Communists make up 1.5% of the general voting public in the United States, but they are the loudest people on the internet.

Note: Libertarians are triggered by the words "climate change" and "global warming" whereas Communists dislike the words "Holodomor" and "Venezuela."

 

[CygnusXS]

maybe the answer isn't capitalism or socialism.

maybe it's a mixture of both.

*gets bombarded with reasons why I'm wrong from both sides.

I think the efficacy of either depends mostly on the beliefs of the people living inside the political-economy.

So it's not which works better or even which is more moral. But, given the context of the majority ideology, which would be accepted?

 

[Valhelm]

bombarded? This is the standard approach most of the world has accepted.

Not exactly. Somewhere like Norway isn't socialist at all, because Norwegian workers depend on capitalist employers to put food on the table.

Social democracies improve worker conditions through regulation, but keep the control of the economy in the hands of the elite.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

who's the poster that always says fuck FOIA

It's Metaphoreus. He really hates the FOIA.

 

[Debirudog]

bombarded? This is the standard approach most of the world has accepted.

I was expecting people who lean farther on either scale to tell me why their economic system is simply better than having a compromise.

 

[whyamihere]

Someone explain something to me

Did this guy do it on his own accord? Is that his "oh shit" moment?

@TheFix
This is crazy. 3 weeks after NYT publish Clinton email server story, there was a big wipe of her emails conducted

Also, Powell comes out looking really, really bad in these notes.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Anyway, here's an article estimating how horrible lead is to humans even in small quantities and why the Dems desperately need to pass a program getting lead out of America if they take back the House.

http://nber.org/papers/w22558

 

[User 463088]

if Matt's analysis was correct, why has she spent the last year blundering through every attempt to explain her actions

Because accusing a former SoS of telling you to skirt the law is a smart play.....

I've had it, officially, with "give a gud answer" on the emails.

She has. Repeatedly. She said she shouldn't have used a private server. If she had it to do over again, she wouldn't have done it. She thought it would be easier. It wasn't. There is no further answer that is needed. Nothing but her flogging herself in the middle of the street will satisfy some people.

 

[ampere]

THIS SHOULD END IT.

Nah fam the FBI is in bed with the Clintons duuuuuuh

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Jill Stein flew to the wrong city in Ohio for a rally.

Adam can you check to see if there is a Jill Stein wandering around in your yard

 

[Debirudog]

So Powell fucked up big time.

..........

 

[theultimo]

The email server was a powermac G5?

APPLE IN CAHOOTS!

 

[User 463088]

Jill Stein flew to the wrong city in Ohio for a rally.

Adam can you check to see if there is a Jill Stein wandering around in your yard

My yard isn't organic.

 

[Fenderputty]

It's Metaphoreus. He really hates the FOIA.

Ohh you. lol


Jack Remington

 

[NeoXChaos]

Kevin RobillardVerified account
‏@PoliticoKevin
New MetroNews poll of #WVGov:

Democrat Jim Justice 46%
Republican Bill Cole 32%

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[whyamihere]

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Wow.

 

[campfireweekend]

Good reason not to be capitalist then.

Capitalism has done more for the global poor than socialism could ever hope to.

In fact, attempts at socialism often have the opposite effect, but surely that's due to execution, of course.

 

[theultimo]

Jim justice is such a cool name.

 

[NeoXChaos]

 

[Hobbestetrician]

.

Jim justice is such a cool name.

You would think West Virginia would be all about that Cole.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

West Virginia started so late on the "wait, we're registered as Democrats, but we hate the Democratic Party now" thing that the Confederacy started on in 1964 that their local Dems are still winning elections.

The South actively rejecting most Democrat policies while continuing to vote for Democrats decades afterward is kind of fascinating.

 

[Crisco]

Wow, this FBI report is such total catharsis. She did literally NOTHING wrong lol

 

[campfireweekend]

Not exactly. Somewhere like Norway isn't socialist at all, because Norwegian workers depend on capitalist employers to put food on the table.

Social democracies improve worker conditions through regulation, but keep the control of the economy in the hands of the elite.

I think you once made the point in this thread that the difference between liberals and the left, is that liberals would be content with an elite still existing if said elite was representative of the diversity of the country, while the left, you included, will not abide any elite.

I agree that that is probably the distinction, though I feel you may be missing the point. If the elite are a microcosm of their larger society, doesn't that mean, by definition, that everyone has an equal chance of elevating themselves to that elite, and everyone in that elite has an equal chance of falling from that position? Isn't that fair? Why is it necessary to rid society of an elite entirely, rather than create equality of opportunity?

 

[Owzers]

Wow, this FBI report is such total catharsis. She did literally NOTHING wrong lol

Some say she's guilty as hell.

 

[TumblingHippo]

Wow, this FBI report is such total catharsis. She did literally NOTHING wrong lol

But the media will do their part and raise every little thing they can find as a major issue. Also something something drones.

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

So, far, the list of real Clinton scandals has been:

Cattle Futures
Bill Clinton is a creep
Sniper Fire

... But somehow this has made everyone think Hillary is the most untrustworthy person in the world

You'd think it would take more than two things in 25 years to be viewed as so untrustworthy.

 

[Trouble]

Some say she's guilty as hell.

Many people have said it.

 

[NeoXChaos]

Trump is going to bomb in that first debate.

 

[User 463088]

Looking at that Latino poll. Trump is so fucked. Like, so incredibly 100% fucked.

In 2012, Romney won the Cuban vote 52/48. This poll has Hillary winning Cuban voters 52/40. Like, that's not good. (And, yes, I know exit polls vs pre election polling).

Also, people that voted GOP before this election prefer Hillary 53/37.

Like, if these numbers are accurate, Florida is essentially a lost cause, unless they pay to move a few hundred thousand white people from Alabama into Pensacola.

 

[DrForester]

Priebus: Fox showing Trump’s ‘worst’ polls



What a time to be alive.

I would actually agree with him that the more appropriate poll to show would be the 4 way.

 

[Plinko]

Looking at that Latino poll. Trump is so fucked. Like, so incredibly 100% fucked.

In 2012, Romney won the Cuban vote 52/48. This poll has Hillary winning Cuban voters 52/40. Like, that's not good. (And, yes, I know exit polls vs pre election polling).

Also, people that voted GOP before this election prefer Hillary 53/37.

Like, if these numbers are accurate, Florida is essentially a lost cause, unless they pay to move a few hundred thousand white people from Alabama into Pensacola.

So with Florida gone, Trump needs all the swing states, right?

 

[Basileus777]

So with Florida gone, Trump needs all the swing states, right?

Without Florida there is no path. None. It gets into the "flipping the entire rust belt" fantasies.