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PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic
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Joy Reid on Bachmann.
So good. She just went off from the beginning and never stopped.
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Hillary just RT'd Jeb on Trump. This is all coming together so quickly.
Dubbedinenglish
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Nothing. Voting has already begun
Ballots are printed and people are voting already.
ryutaro's mama
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Joy Reid on Bachmann.
Is there a link to this?
A Link to the Past
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It would be Hillary vs. Johnson and Stein.
Yup, Trump surrogates might want to start ignoring calls and texts this week.This is how I felt after Joy Reid went off. Seems like the media aren't going to be easy on Trump surrogate on this. Good.
Nothing. He's on the ballot. Its a month out, there's no changing at this point. Especially, as others pointed out, since early voting's begun.
They can't. He's already on the ballot. Early voting has started. They are stuck with him. It's what makes this whole thing amazing. Like no one on their side knew this shit?
They didn't "vet" the man who was going to win their nomination.
People are already early voting. It's too late.
I can see how this flips the script for your average voter, who chooses the President based on feeling, but I don't see how people would make this decision based on facts. This is a person whose basic campaign policies are nonsensical at best.
- Illegal Immigration: How do these policies square with illegal immigration being a net negative for the past decade, or no legitimate evidence that immigrants steal American jobs in any large numbers.
- Law and Order Candidate: Crime has been dropping for decades and is at a near historical low, other than 2014. This point is just continuing the campaign's theme towards unjustified racial fear mongering, which brings back Nixon-era policies of mass incarceration of minorities. It's a play to rally his white base, with implicit racist connotations.
- Economics: Trump's campaign is based on manufacturing jobs continually fleeing the country and our economy in shambles. The reality is we've had 6 years of consistent job growth and record setting stock highs after, nearly, the worst recession in history in a world economy that is struggling during the same time period. Manufacturing jobs are gone due to the global economy pulling the cost down to levels the US can't possibly compete on as we moved to an service-based economy, currently trillions are fleeing China to even lower cost manufacturing.
This will also lead us down the path of deregulation of banking and other industries, continuing the economic path that lead us to the 2008 collapse and the continued moves towards a Climate Change disaster. - Taxation: Trump's tax plan is an absolute disaster. It's a continuation of the Paul Ryan and lobbyist written far-right tax policies where 99% of the tax cuts flow to the top 5% and have not been proven to induce growth both theoretically and empirically. Trump wants to reduce Government income by ~6 trillion dollars, at the same time increasing the military budget by trillions, spend hundreds of billions deporting, all while 'doubling' Hillary's 250 billion dollar infrastructure plan, which is staunchly opposed by Republicans. Again, this doesn't exist with reality.
- Terrorism: ISIS is a problem but they control a road in Syria and are constantly losing territory, more of an ideological threat than a traditional military force. How anyone can watch something like the debates or the Commander in Chief Town Hall and think this guy has any grasp on reality is beyond me.
This isn't even liberal versus conservative policies anymore, this is liberal versus a completely fabricated reality backed by policies with zero theoretical or empirical justification.
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Nothing. Voting has already begun. The presidency is lost for the GOP this cycle.
If they wanted to, their only real strategy is to denounce, disavow, and distance themselves for the remaining month and hope to salvage downticket races.
New thread worthy? aha
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Knuckle Sandwich
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I'm about to OD on schadenfreude. Watching that female Trump spokesperson on Erin Burnett was something else. "This is horrible but benghazi...."
User 463088
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Where is Kellyanne?
IMO, if the Clinton campaign has nuclear tier oppo (family ending oppo), they have an obligation to the country to publish it. Trump has brought out the worst elements of society and has damaged our political and media discourse to such an abominable level, that his utter destruction is necessary to move past this shit and to remind the country what happens to deplorables.
I've been giggly for hours. This has worked out well beyond our wildest of dreams. This was a winnable election for them, and they blew it. And it will cost them dearly.
Dubbedinenglish
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She decided to spend the campaign's last moments with her 83 cats.
metalslimer
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So this wasn't even oppo research.
Someone leaked it. Come on now. The timing is way too convenient.
Please fucking go down with this ship GOP
Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz and every single disgraceful, reprehensible, deplorable member of the Republican Party, I hope you are proud of what you have done. How you have clung to a man who has vocalised all the bitter, disgusting hatred you have hidden inside yourselves but dared not show because you thought he could win. How you put your outdated party ahead of the country. How you could not bear to admit that your party had gone so far beyond what is acceptable that they no longer deserved to hold power.
This is the reckoning you deserve. Fuck your pride, fuck your arrogance, fuck your hate.
Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz and every single disgraceful, reprehensible, deplorable member of the Republican Party, I hope you are proud of what you have done. How you have clung to a man who has vocalised all the bitter, disgusting hatred you have hidden inside yourselves but dared not show because you thought he could win. How you put your outdated party ahead of the country. How you could not bear to admit that your party had gone so far beyond what is acceptable that they no longer deserved to hold power.
This is the reckoning you deserve. Fuck your pride, fuck your arrogance, fuck your hate.
Dubbedinenglish
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Hillary has ears everywhere, the streetz is watchin'
The party cannot do anything. Trump could choose to drop out, or swap with Pence, but it's all on Trump. The RNC is powerless.
Fragamemnon
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I think I would disappear at this point. No GOP operative in the future is going to hold that against you, and she's made the case -time and time again-that she's a talented operative.
They got scooped? The fucking morons. Whoever decided to sit on this is going to be out of a job. You don't have a story like this dead to rights, sit on it, then get scooped, and expect to have a job later. This should have been the headline story the second they found it.
BronzeWolf
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They are doing trickle down trump-onomics
The Democrats aren't the party of 'family values,' burn it all down fam.
A Link to the Past
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Well, it could be one (or more) of two issues:
1. Avoiding mutually assured destruction
2. Spreading it out so that Trump never has breathing room
metalslimer
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Ivanka has no problem propping up this awful man. I wouldn't feel sorry for her. Then again, I honestly wouldn't be shocked if she was a victim of his.
Cesare Borgia
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It fell into the DNC's lap months ago.
Chelsea can help Ivanka get through whatever shit they drop.
Nah, they need to play smart. "Never put all your cards on the table", etc.
shinra-bansho
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What's this about transcripts? There's nothing on the failing NYT.
Fragamemnon
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Yeah this. They could have rebranded themselves compeltely off the back of something like this. Epic fail.
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