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PoliGAF 2016 |OT14| Attention NV shoppers, democracy is on sale in aisle 4!

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Cerium

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smurfx said:
oh in that case ill stop rooting for the cubs. only reason i wanted them to win was because ohio was slipping to trump. :p
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Here is the original New York Times story that exposed the 2012 plan.

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A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.

Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote.

The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics.

The $10 million plan, one of several being studied by Mr. Ricketts, includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting it envisions if it highlights Mr. Obama’s former ties to Mr. Wright, who espouses what is known as “black liberation theology.”

The group suggested hiring as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American” who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”

A copy of a detailed advertising plan was obtained by The New York Times through a person not connected to the proposal who was alarmed by its tone. It is titled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.”
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Gods, even a 6-6 9th inning in game 7 of the World Series is boring. This sport is irredeemable.

And now they're pulling out the tarp. Perfect.

Back to Titanfall 2.
 
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Shao Kahn on the Lawn

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Teggy said:
It sounds like the FBI is a bunch of guys who read Breitbart.
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Many of the most aggressively ignorant conservatives I've met have been employed by the government in some fashion or another their entire lives. They don't have the depth of experience to realize that the bureaucracy that they hate is more a symptom of the size of an organization than whether or not it is public or private: having worked with both, I can say without reservation that large corporations are every bit as bureaucratic and frustrating as any of the government organizations that I've worked for.
 
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That last ad by the RNC for Trump was pretty good.

EDIT: by "good", I mean, it's trash but it's more compelling than Trump's usual shit.
 
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And here are the Ricketts in 2016.

The billionaire Ricketts family plans to spend about $1 million to support Donald Trump's bid for the presidency, according to a political adviser, after trying to deny him the Republican nomination earlier this year.

The Rickettses are among the biggest and most influential conservative donors in the country, deriving their fortune from the Omaha, Nebraska-based TD Ameritrade brokerage, founded by Joseph Ricketts. Their plans for helping Trump were reported by CNN on Monday and confirmed by adviser Brian Baker on Tuesday.

Baker wouldn't discuss how the family plans to carry out the spending or whether they plan to work with Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino mogul. CNN reported that Adelson may give $5 million to a pro-Trump effort organized by the Ricketts family, and that he gave $20 million each to super political action committees supporting Republican House and Senate candidates.
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Cubs money goes straight to funding fascism.
 
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Wasn't everything in that ad completely false? There is no evidence the Clintons have taken any money for themselves out of the Foundation. And I guess there are leaks that there are investigations into the Foundation but it is technically rumor.
 
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Teggy said:
Wasn't everything in that ad completely false? There is no evidence the Clintons have taken any money for themselves out of the Foundation. And I guess there are leaks that there are investigations into the Foundation but it is technically rumor.
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Doesn't matter if people are willing to believe it about you. That's really the only difference, if people like you, they ignore it as a smear, but if they don't then it works.
 
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Kind of interesting tho - if the game had ended in regulation would that ad not have aired? Oh, maybe it was scheduled to air at the end of the 9th? What if the game ended at the top of the 9th?
 
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Consider this poll out today from Politico and Morning Consult, which asked whether respondents agreed with Donald Trump’s assertion that, as the poll read, “the issues around Clinton’s emails are worse than Watergate.” Eighty-two percent of Republicans said they agreed. Eighty-two percent.
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I know people lack perspective, but this is just awesome. Less than 3% of people could explain what the email saga was/is about, but Republicans are sure that it was worse than Watergate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ics-for-years-to-come/?utm_term=.89e8d5524c73
 
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Teggy said:
Wasn't everything in that ad completely false? There is no evidence the Clintons have taken any money for themselves out of the Foundation. And I guess there are leaks that there are investigations into the Foundation but it is technically rumor.
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What do you think drives Republicans?
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
I know people lack perspective, but this is just awesome. Less than 3% of people could explain what the email saga was/is about, but Republicans are sure that it was worse than Watergate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ics-for-years-to-come/?utm_term=.89e8d5524c73
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I'm imagining a scenario where Gohmert, Trump, and the Bundy Clan show up to Clinton's inauguration to make a citizen's arrest and are dragged off by Capitol Police while children throw dirty snowballs at them
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
I know people lack perspective, but this is just awesome. Less than 3% of people could explain what the email saga was/is about, but Republicans are sure that it was worse than Watergate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ics-for-years-to-come/?utm_term=.89e8d5524c73
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If someone actually tries to assassinate Hillary during the victory party or inauguration, I want every single one of these deplorables to be associated with whichever crazy actually tries.
 
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Cesare Borgia

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Cerium said:
Here is the original New York Times story that exposed the 2012 plan.

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But...he was already president, digging up the past doesn't work when people generally like the candidate/president. Conservatives have never been able to sell the "Obama is racist" thing to most Americans.

It's worth pointing out this hyper aggressive negative campaign is exactly what Trump has been running and it'll result in a big loss on Tuesday. This is exactly the campaign many on the far right wanted to run in 08 and 12, and they still think McCain/Romney would have won if only they attacked more. It's utter nonsense and incredibly insular. That conspiracy shit doesn't connect with regular people.
 
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I mean it sucks what the ownership of the Cubs are at the moment, but they have been a franchise for over a century and I was a fan decades ago. Of course I'm rooting for them tonight, regardless. Though I'll admit that I follow them less now than I used to in part because of that.
 
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Cesare Borgia said:
But...he was already president, digging up the past doesn't work when people generally like the candidate/president. Conservatives have never been able to sell the "Obama is racist" thing to most Americans.

It's worth pointing out this hyper aggressive negative campaign is exactly what Trump has been running and it'll result in a big loss on Tuesday. This is exactly the campaign many on the far right wanted to run in 08 and 12, and they still think McCain/Romney would have won if only they attacked more. It's utter nonsense and incredibly insular. That conspiracy shit doesn't connect with regular people.
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I'm just saying, this is what the Cubs ownership is into.

Bad hombres.
 
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Grief.exe said:
Likely to get worse over the next 5 days.
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Knock on wood but isn't it weird we had that spate of isis inspired attacks (the NY dumpster, etc.) and shootings (the mall one) and there's been almost none since. I guess there was the cop shootings yesterday.
 
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Teggy said:
Knock on wood but isn't it weird we had that spate of isis inspired attacks (the NY dumpster, etc.) and shootings (the mall one) and there's been almost none since. I guess there was the cop shootings yesterday.
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If you're talking about the one in Iowa, the culprit was a disturbed, white Trump supporter.
 
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jonjonaug said:
If you're talking about the one in Iowa, the culprit was a disturbed, white Trump supporter.
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Right - I don't know if my grammar was too clear there. The incidents that happened a couple months back were a mix of isis inspired and non-political shootings. There just seemed to be a new one every day.
 
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