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PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic
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Veritigo_X
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What a fucking dumbass. His real name was on the Facebook post that was going around and everything.
VendettaRed07
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But he's friends with Tom Brady. Do we have any polling on New England states? They could be in play
banefirelord
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28 Days of Donald. Believe.
BenjaminBirdie
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But that is also due to years if not decades of republican misinformation. They are the ones that have accused Obama of being a tyrant who uses executive order to subjugate the will of congress. They say it is unprecedented even when it is abundantly clear that he has used it the least of the last 3 presidents.
I think it comes down to how, as a society, we threat people who misinform. I'm all for freedom of speech and believe that people should have the right to say what they want but there must also be consequences for these words and we are not seeing them.
Quite the contrary, we have these right wing assholes who speak against being PC simply because it would open a completely new terrain to discriminate minorities without remorse or fear of losing their job.
TheLostBigBoss
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No what you're witnessing here is the eventual conclusion of what social media and the internet does to a society.
I wonder what they talk about in the locker room
BenjaminBirdie
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So not mutually exclusive, m'man
"Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom."
Big Baybee
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Did anyone else catch a bit of Morning Joe this morning? That was embarrassing.
A+ outfit.
Ignatz Mouse
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Poligaf had a mini meltdown over it. It was embarrassing.
Roland_Gunner
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The Republicans have six House seats in VA that are R+10 or less. If the Democrats can flip four of those it would be a huge help in getting the house back.
What's he saying?
As seen in many previous societies such as:
Everyone forgot about it after the NBC poll came in, though.
metalslimer
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I wonder how morning joe will spin their own poll tomorrow. I can understand watching that shit to laugh at them but why the hell do people take that terrible show seriously and value any of their opinions is beyond me.
Veritigo_X
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Bernie needs to tell Trump to keep his name out of his mouth.
Nah Morning Joe jumps from narrative to narrative quickly. They'll be all about the Civil War and Trump Imploding narratives tomorrow morning.
They take literally every position on Earth and then claim credit when one of their "predictions" pans out.
Black Mamba
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So, it's been well known I've been on record saying the GOP was going to have a reformation in 2020, basically some kind of civil war, or they would face irrelevance.
Looks like I was wrong. Trump is accelerating that by 4 years.
I hope to god this continues. I never thought it could get like this.
A complete decimation of the GOP in this election is possible. If the Dems somehow capture the House and the GOP is lost...it doesn't matter who they blame.
The country needs the GOP to lose badly in this election. Across the board. We need a functioning gov't again. We need a GOP that is willing to come to the bargaining table.
I don't know if the result would ultimately be 3 parties. Democrats, Republicans, and Deplorables in which the Democrats just control everything nationally as a result or if the GOP reforms itself en masse. But we're really close to one of these realities coming true and we need it.
BTW. The Presidential election is over, barring some black swan event. OVER. This is all about the total damage that the GOP will take, now.
Looks like I was wrong. Trump is accelerating that by 4 years.
I hope to god this continues. I never thought it could get like this.
A complete decimation of the GOP in this election is possible. If the Dems somehow capture the House and the GOP is lost...it doesn't matter who they blame.
The country needs the GOP to lose badly in this election. Across the board. We need a functioning gov't again. We need a GOP that is willing to come to the bargaining table.
I don't know if the result would ultimately be 3 parties. Democrats, Republicans, and Deplorables in which the Democrats just control everything nationally as a result or if the GOP reforms itself en masse. But we're really close to one of these realities coming true and we need it.
BTW. The Presidential election is over, barring some black swan event. OVER. This is all about the total damage that the GOP will take, now.
whyamihere
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Ken Bone will be on Kimmel tonight.
God I hope so. But 2008 was a massive landslide and I don't see this year being more than that. I mean, maybe in the EC numbers, but not nationwide in the House/Senate and local races.
It took the GOP 2 years to come back with a vengeance. Don't underestimate the fickleness of the American Voter.
StopMakingSense
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All this shit happening in real time and I have to drive across LA and back right now dammit.
Lot of good quotes in there.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/locker-room-talk-athletes-respond-trnd/index.html
I'm glad Virginia is looking out of reach because I don't have to worry about who my parents are voting for. They are good people, but they were lost to Fox news long ago. My mom is a Hillary hater, but she is no Trump fan. I'm kind of curious what she's been thinking lately, but it will be happier for everyone if we just ignore it
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Agreed.
She could have handled that so much better. "I'm sorry, if you are a racist or a sexist, you ARE deplorable, and polling shows half of Trump's voting base is such."
She shouldn't have to apologize, but people LOVED her pivot when she said her issue is with Trump.
Dubbedinenglish
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Is that the gunshow poophole?
Black Mamba
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This is nothing like 2008. 2008 was a repudiation of GWB's handing of Iraq and an economy crashing.
The GOP wasn't at civil war with itself. The GOP understood why it lost. It was an election they would have been destroyed in no matter anything they did.
This is much, much different. This is them imploding in a winnable election cycle. This is them imploding with a stacked deck. This is a huge chunk of their own party members either not voting down ballot or at the top of the ticket. This is them losing a generation of latinos and suburban women.
2008 is nothing like this.
You could post this every day.
Some incoherent garbled bullshit about how Bernie apparently thinks that open borders will destroy this country, which Bernie has never stated or implied.
This is them losing to Hillary Frickin' Clinton.
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thepotatoman
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I just hope this GOP implosion doesn't take the country down with it. Assuming they still have the house, there's a lot of worrying things their extreme brinkmanship can do.
We're going to be talking about a caucus that's going to lose a number of moderate republicans, and a constituency absolutely pissed that their biggest, most hated enemy of the last decade is in the white house. I do hope that Paul Ryan can hold his seat through that storm, because it's extremely possible a replacement would be willing to do extreme harm to the government and the economy rather than work with Hillary.
This is one thing I hope gets a bit more play and more pushback from the media. He's literally talking about jailing his political opponent because he isn't happy with the outcome.
Media needs to explain why this is dangerous.
User 463088
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So according to the NBC news poll, Hillary is winning college educated white women by 27%. That's a 33 point swing since 2012.
Resident_UA
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I see so many people saying that both candidates for president are shitty implying that Bernie would be better. I always liked Bernie, but Clinton is way more honest in comparison. She is much more realistic. Literally 90% of stuff that Bernie promised would be impossible to achieve in the next 20 years. Those things would never fly if Hillary promised them.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
These people are insane. I wouldn't be shocked at all to hear of intimidation at voting places as well as violence on election night after Trump loses.
I was always glad she said it. It needed to be said and regardless of what people said it didn't hurt her nearly as much as people claimed.
For a second I thought that said Al Bundy and was about to defend him, but then I realized it was Ted Bundy and was like "oh. OH"
Black Mamba
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Like I said, this happens IF they lose the House. Keeping it opens up the potential to extend this bufoonery.
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