I'm getting riggedy riiggedy rekt, son. The situation calls for it.
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PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic
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I'm getting riggedy riiggedy rekt, son. The situation calls for it.
It's because of a few things. One, offshoring helps undermine union power in developed nations. Two, worries about the exploitation of the workers in the countries where the jobs are being moved to. Three, the fact that it is greatly beneficial to private corporations, who are inherently seen as the enemy since the workers do not control the means of production. Four, for those who are hardcore anti-market, well, it's just making more markets.
I think what it largely boils down to is that following the collapse of the USSR the international socialist project died and socialists were forced to turn to the one thing they felt they could defend, which was home-based labor movements. In essence, they are fighting for social democracy more than international socialism, which traditionally has a strong home grown labor movement.
metalslimer
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I think that's what Trump actually thought the problem was initially which is why the locker room shit was the first response. Of course a lot of guys have used the word before.
Edit: Why the hell did I just get a message on my phone about that breitbart video? Man this is going to get ugly tonight
I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but damn, this would be poetic justice for all of their obstructionism the past 8 years.
It shows how these individuals are truly deplorable. They see absolutely nothing wrong with sexual assault. These are the people who try to legitimize it by saying that the victim asked for it.
trump is the fucking culmination of all these deplorable beliefs. What an utter disgusting and irredeemable creature that monster is.
sssssh let them stay stupid
It actually took me a while to realize that he was literally talking about grabbing women in the crotch.
Sadly unless this election weakens the republicans significantly in the next few years or os they may still be able to win the midterm election in 2018.
They know that they just like to lull themselves into a false sense of reality.
This is why Trump will never be better. Partly because this is just who he is, but his supporters don't demand that he be better. In fact they revel in this shit.
Basileus777
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Hah, Chuck Todd said that they had trouble finding people to come on TV and defend Trump other than Giuliani and Paladino.
ryutaro's mama
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But Kellyanne always wants to speak. Where was she?
Basileus777
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She canceled all her appearances and had to tweet out a photo of her with Trump to stop all the speculation that she was abandoning him.
There's not really anything in common with this election and Brexit.
titiklabingapat
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Corey got a haircut. He looks hotter when he is flustered like this. I have a strange attraction to him lol. It's probably because I dated two Republicans before that kinda resemble him.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Corey Lewandowski is a asshole.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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I love how even Jeff Sessions is uncomfortable with everything now.
Sessions is basically David Duke and even he doesn't want to defend Trump's video.
Sessions is basically David Duke and even he doesn't want to defend Trump's video.
metalslimer
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lol Corey going after Erin Burnett's friend
The CNN commentators are fucking done with people defending sexual assault. You can tell they want to try and maintain themselves, but this is too much
The CNN commentators are fucking done with people defending sexual assault. You can tell they want to try and maintain themselves, but this is too much
nature boy
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CBS/YouGov Senate races:
ryutaro's mama
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I for one am shocked she canceled all appearances.
MP. Jo cox was an Member of Parliament. PM is prime minister. But yes, cautious optimism is required after everything that's happened this year.
Dude is such an epic piece of shit
Bonen no Max'd
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Is there something uniquely terrible about Strickland or is Portman just that good of a candidate?
nature boy
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Portman is running a really professional campaign.
Hate to be picky, but she was an MP, not the PM.
What a lot of people don't understand is that free trade won. Free trade has been the norm since the end of the second world war. Compared to what came before most taxes/duties/levies/tariffs are not to protect domestic business, but to pay for the cost of doing business in the country.
When people look at these trade deals and scoff it isn't because of free trade, it's all the crazy ride along shit that goes into them that does stifle competition and allow what is seen as undue influence by multinational corporations regarding various points of sovereign interest.
Unfortunately this separation has never really caught on and we get people rallying against free trade when free trade is quite possibly one of the greatest factors to a peaceful and stable planet.
titiklabingapat
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Brexit vote was close. This one isn't going to be. The question now is how big of a win this is going to be and whether the Democrats take over both houses of Congress.
StopMakingSense
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In a sealed room with Trump's cell phone and a gun.
Got the album recently. I like it too; didn't even notice the right wing sentiment in the lyrics, but it's not like that detracts from the quality of the songs for me.
Just change Megadeth to Hillary and drop that dudes face on to Vic.
I'm on mobile so sorry of this is yugeLike the album but, it's got a lot of right wing sentiment lyrically
But man, Dave Mustaine's vocal range is just gone compared to the late 80s and early 90s stuff. It's a real shame, even if it overall works here.
metalslimer
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I can't wait until this election is over so the Trump supporters on the news can fall into a black hole and never come back.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Generally, I brush off the "This is the beginning of the end of the (insert party name here) party" stuff, but I genuinely think the republicans solidifying behind racism and sexism will signal the end of their party as we know it within 2 decades. That stuff is not going over well with younger age groups right now, and I think it is finally going to stick.
It's a well documented case, and the ousted moderate faction has an active presence online. The church itself is ignoring the charter, for now, dismissing the elders, and bringing in a pastor from Georgia -- meanwhile the pastor who helped begin this process left to Texas. The new denomination is using loaded, conservative political terms, which isn't terribly surprising given the origins of the movement.
I've long since left the church, partly because of the extremist evangelical theology percolating through the youth leaders. The further the process went on, the more you would see extremist views expressing that non-Christians, anywhere, at any time, were explicitly condemned to hell. Bleh.
Acceptance of non-celibate LBGTQ in leadership was officially a step too far for the church but things have been brewing for a long time. I suppose there's an article to be made about how a outwardly dynamic and aspirational nu-Christian scene of the 90s veered off sharply into culture wars and institutional hatred after 9/11. As an aside, the local Christian Rock station reverted to running fundamentalist sermons and bizarre anti-environmental screeds.
I think it is key for Clinton to drown out trump's populist rhetoric. She accomplished this successfully in the first debate by baiting him into showing his true repugnant and idiotic side.
The problem is that even though he sounded completely unprepared during the first 20 minutes of the last debate a lot of commentators gave him the advantage until it started to unravel. So we must prepare for the possibility of him completely sticking to talking points.
The problem is that even though he sounded completely unprepared during the first 20 minutes of the last debate a lot of commentators gave him the advantage until it started to unravel. So we must prepare for the possibility of him completely sticking to talking points.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Vile.
Good. It seems many people are just done with them. Don't know why his ass even go on there to defend that shit.
There's definitely more. People have been saying this since Friday. It's not going to come out now though. We'll see how tonight goes and see what the fallout is on Monday. I can see something else being put out late next week.
Doc Holliday
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Clinton camp needs to come up with a better response to this wikileaks thing than the ones I've seen so far.
Nazgul_Hunter
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Claire McCaskill's response to "private and public" positions and "open borders" was pitch perfect. Why haven't they distributed these talking points to people?
Lol; I assume you also saw Claire McCaskill's too? I thought it was a good explanation and putting stuff into context.
Lol; I assume you also saw Claire McCaskill's too? I thought it was a good explanation and putting stuff into context.
RastaMentality
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The week of October 24th needs to be a blitzreig.
Basileus777
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This whole thing will take another decade to shake out. At some point in the future maybe we will be able to look back at this election as the trigger for huge changes in the party.
McCaskill's explanation was pretty reasonable.
Peter Thiel on the ballot in 2020?
Like, it's even bigger than Trump himself. This fascistic, nativist white nationalism strain on the big stages needs to be dealt a blow that can't be recovered from for decades minimum. It's intolerable.
Don't think she's worried about how he reacts. She either expects him to go off or he just says sorry and moves on again.
She's not the one on defense here. He is.
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