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PoliGAF 2016 |OT15| Orange is the New Black

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Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I still can't believe Bill Mitchell is real. That twitter account looks like mid-tier trolling.
 

sazzy

Member
The absolute scariest thing about this: What if he ended up as president? Would he still run this as a propaganda network?

There won't be a Trump TV a la CNN, Fox, etc.

It takes way too much money to set up, he doesn't have the money, and no one is going to lend him money.
 

tedtropy

$50/hour, but no kissing on the lips and colors must be pre-separated
So now Trump just points at the media and encourages his crowds to boo at them in every rally? Were they chanting "CNN sucks"? And the Times is going out of business again.
 
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Should we outlaw stuff like votecastr that impacts turnout or just let it happen? Shit like this is gonna be everywhere by 2020 and maybe even be really accurate.
 

RoKKeR

Member
Just popping in that the bullshit artistry of Kellyanne Conway never ceases to amaze me. It is a special brand of bullshit.
 

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
Should we outlaw stuff like votecastr that impacts turnout or just let it happen? Shit like this is gonna be everywhere by 2020 and maybe even really accurate.
I'm shitting with fear

Clinton voters vote late, what if there are millions of shares and likes showing trump winning New Hampshire by 67%
 
Trying to find it online, but i just saw a hilarious Trump ad (not a super pac ad) that goes all in on the FBI Email investigation here in Colorado.


edit: Found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-n102EAYPA


There needs to be a law against airing outright falsehoods in ads like this. Or at least a law allowing stations to refuse to air it.

Is it the one to dial a number and choose (1) if she's guilty or (2) if you think she isn't? Those Trump ads get me...like I always want to dial and pick the Hillary supporting option but then I dont want to know what happens next.
 

jbug617

Banned
Trump concession speech will be about how the media is to blame for his loss and then he will offer the alternative in Trump TV where people will get the truth.
 

tedtropy

$50/hour, but no kissing on the lips and colors must be pre-separated
Pahaah, he is so sore over Jay-Z daring to back Hillary. And the language, oh my stars!
 
Can I use my phone in the booth to look up all these non marijuana props?

Do it prior and bring a sheet of paper. You can look up your ballot online and read explanations of ballots online to better get a grasp on what you're voting yes or no for since they are worded crazy at times.
 
I am taking off early tomorrow. Conveniently made my eye exam tomorrow and then going home afterwards, walking to my polling place and voting, then home again to watch the results.

Hannity's tears is what I want most tomorrow night, of course.
 

shiba5

Member
So which conservative sources are we going to be casting our ACORN branded tear catching nets over tomorrow? My current lineup is

Bill Mitchell's Twitter account
NBC/CNN/FOX depending on whichever one contains the saltiest surrogates
Freerepublic
r/don_quixote

Don't let Hannity get away!
 
So much for Trump going high at these rallies.

And as much as I hate CNN, I need to have all the Trump supporters in a room meltdown over the course of the night. It's my reward for actually watching that schlock all year
 
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This is my dream map.

I've said all along that I'm a simple man, and I just want at least 333 electoral votes for Clinton so Trump does worse what Romney. And, I want popular vote to be above 50%, but that's icing on the cake to me.

I just want Romney to do better than Trump.
 

Vestal

Junior Member
A bit of preface to the below. 4 years ago I wrote on my facebook simply stating to go out and vote, no matter your party affiliation.... It popped up on my timeline yesterday and well.. The below came out... Sorry for the wall of text.


Four years ago, I wrote a post here urging everyone regardless of party affiliation or preference in candidate to get out and vote. To do your civic duty that comes along only once every 2 years and stand in line for a few hours if necessary and cast your vote for whom ever you preferred. It is what makes our democracy great. Today I sit here behind my keyboard looking at that post and thinking how I just couldn’t write the same thing again. In that election, while I did not agree with the policies presented by Mitt Romney and I believe it would regress our country in regards to various issues, I did find comfort in knowing that at his core he was a good person that simply believed differently than I did. My conversations with republicans back then revolved around policies, and how x policy position was better than y. Where did that type of educated discussion go?
I have lived in the continental US for a total of about 8 years throughout my 38 years on this earth. I have met and spoken to people of various ideologies, religions, ethnicities, and nationalities. As all of you know I am Puerto Rican and therefore Latino. Born and raised in the island, but unlike a lot of Puerto Ricans I had access to above standard education as well as being able to travel to the continental US on various occasions on vacation or due to my father’s job. This allowed me to learn English in such a way that it truly became not just my second language but could be interchanged as my primary language. It gave me the ability to have no accent when I spoke English. It’s a little thing, right? At least it should be? Well it’s not. On countless occasions just living my normal life here in the states I have encountered the stigma of being Latino in this country. You start a conversation at a bar, they don’t know you are Latino so you talk it up for a while. Later, they ask you your name, and well you say it. Then there’s this momentary pause, a subtle tilt in some people’s demeanor that you just see and feel. Some people just look at Latinos a tad bit differently. It gets worse if you are speaking Spanish at a restaurant, or at a public location and you get some weird looks from some people. Hell, I’ve even had some drunken idiots ask me to stop speaking Spanish and speak American (is that even a language) because I am not in my banana republic. Maybe it’s because of the Puerto Rican migration to NY in the 50s, where it was lower income class workers that migrated over and didn’t set the best impression forward of what Puerto Ricans are. But like I said, I am lucky. I had a great education and Caucasian complexion that has allowed me to “conceal” that Latino heritage to move my life forward as just another American, other Latinos are not so lucky. Other Latinos struggle with that stigma daily, just like most minorities in this country do. Even with that stigma we still believe in The American Dream, the dream that if you work hard and dream big good things happen. We keep our head down, and continue to fight the good fight to move our families and our futures forward.
A little over a year ago Mr. Trump descended from his palace in Trump Tower and decided to paint with a broad brush Mexican Americans as “rapist, child molesters and drug dealers”. What Mr. Trump was too stupid to realize was that he sent out a rallying cry to what is worst in America. He just mentioned Mexicans but what he has done is throw a blanket with that statement over all Latinos. I know because I am a Latino and I felt like he was attacking me just as much as he was attacking our Mexican brothers. Maybe at the end of the day it is a good thing, maybe this is what Latino Americans needed to wake up and take notice, to unify and make our voices heard in the ballot box. We are already seeing record turnout for Latinos in the early voting, and I am a firm believer that we will deliver FL to HRC.

Now look, I understand some of you have reservations about Hillary, some of you may even believe that she is a liar, a crook, another career politician, etc… I think you are 100% wrong on the first two but to each his own. However, is that enough of a reason to hand the reigns of this country over to a man who has no policies to speak of, demeans women, the handicapped, African Americans, Latinos, gold star parents, and anyone who doesn’t agree with him? A man who believes in committing war crimes, a man that said regarding nuclear weapons “If we have them, why can't we use them?”. The list goes on and on. Seriously take a step back and simply think about this. Just give us this one and try again in 4 years. This is not the person you want to be your President. If this man is elected President we will need to explain to our children just how we let it happen. Do you think this guy is going to spend late nights going over policy briefs to better understand our nation’s problems? He boasts about not preparing for debates which are THE JOB INTERVIEW!!!!! We made the mistake of demonizing McCain and Romney to an extent (although Sarah Palin COME ON!!) and now we may have pushed the right to nominate exactly what we most feared. Don’t elect a man simply because of the fear he has pushed on you. All his campaign has been focused on fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, fear of everything. I have yet to see a single positive message come out of his campaign.

This country is built on being a melting pot of just not people but ideas. People of different backgrounds and in some cases cultures coming together under one flag to live their lives in prosperity and happiness. I am living my American Dream right now, and so are countless other Americans. Don’t let our country get pushed back decades. We want marriage equality to stay, we believe that no one should intrude into a woman’s body and make decisions for her, we believe in Freedom of the Press, we believe in separation of powers, we believe that the office of the President shouldn’t be used to punish the opposition, we believe above everything else that TRUTH should be above all else in this country. America is Great because we believe in these things. Don’t let the politics of fear sway you from this belief.

To all my Republican friends out there, I am begging you don’t drink his Kool-Aid, it’s not worth it. Take a mulligan and wait 4 more years and nominate a sane candidate and not one that is simply unfit for the highest office in this country. From your perspective Hillary at worst is 4 more years of Obama, so the world is not going to end. With Trump at worst (nuclear weapons) “If we have them, why can't we use them?”.
 
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