Hillary went to Yale. Why are people calling her a drop out??? So confusing.
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Hillary went to Yale. Why are people calling her a drop out??? So confusing.
Well you know how misinformed voters are.
Twitter thinks Hillary should go to A HBCU instead of an establishment college.
aspiegamer
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It's worse than I could have imagined. These people are serious, for one. Worse, they're of the mindset that having a larger number of tweets with your hashtag over another means you've more popular and thus automatically right. That's some Gamergate logical bullshit. "We can't be wrong! We have 10 times more tweets than the other guys! There are 10 times more of us!" would be funny were there not people willing to fight to the death based on those numbers. Similar standards of measurement-- YouTube like/dislike ratios representing what people feel is the factual accuracy of a clip; one subreddit having more subscribers than another as an accurate representation of public opinion.
Our schools have failed us if the concept of "duh?" is no longer taught. There's no way to debate these people. We can only sob into our hands.
VendettaRed07
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Yale isn't in Vermont, so..
VendettaRed07
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Have another bet going this November. Some guy who loves Trump wanted to bet 50$ to a charity of my choice that Trump would win in November. This was after he went on a rant about how Hillary is a lying witch for playing the woman card and how her feminist agenda won't work with anyone. And said "I hate paying taxes that go to useless causes so that a feminist can get a degree in "gender studies".
So now when Hillary wins in November, this guy will be sending $50 to the Feminist Majority Foundation.
So now when Hillary wins in November, this guy will be sending $50 to the Feminist Majority Foundation.
balladofwindfishes
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Every so often over the last few days, it'll come over me again that "Donald freaking Trump is the GOP nominee ahahahaha" and then a moment of dread over "what if he wins" and then a quick "nah"
You're evil, I love it!
FloydtheFathead
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I'm sure that it will be like that for me many times too.
I love that, unasked, the spokesman for both Bush, Sr. And Bush, Jr. announced they wouldn't be endorsing Trump.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bush-41-43-plan-endorse-donald-trump/story?id=38887953
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bush-41-43-plan-endorse-donald-trump/story?id=38887953
What if he wins
Every step of the way we've dismissed him until it became very clear how wrong everyone was about him.
It'd be pretty funny if they did after what Trump did to Jeb though.
Still, it's good on them for having standards I suppose.
Basileus777
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Trump shit all over the Bush family legacy, not just Jeb. They'd be crazier than McCain to support him.
shinra-bansho
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Shocking news. Trump won't self fund his GE campaign.
Won't stop people claiming that he wants to get money out of politics so Sanders supporters should vote for him though.
Thunder Monkey
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It's insane that anyone thought otherwise.
SquashMatch
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He has been stating for months that he likely would not do so in multiple media interviews. Not sure why this is a big story.
Because idiots
I said they had standards, not that they were high.
No shit. How is this news?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Unasked is damn amusing.
It's also ironic since Bush and his failure to start moving the party towards a sustainable future and his creation of the Iraq war on apparent false pretenses could be considered one of the primary reasons that Trump won the nomination.
This article goes into that idea.
balladofwindfishes
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Jr is part of the reason Trump exists. Trump should be thanking him.
shinra-bansho
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Well, I for one am completely and utterly surprised at this unexpected turn of events.
Trump is fighting for the little people.
Probably because he empathises with their hand situation.
Trump is fighting for the little people.
Probably because he empathises with their hand situation.
Outdoor Miner
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Bernie on NPR taking about how ineffective the Dems have been yada yada yada. I swear to fucking god ALL HE DOES IS ATTACK Hillary and the Dems. When is this guy going to actually start attacking the "bad" guys???
Orbis Tabula
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I just had this strange feeling that somewhere, in an alternate universe where Trump didn't win, bizzaro-Joe is cursing the Democrats for choosing to throw away the presidency by electing such a poorly liked candidate as their nominee. I really like Hillary Clinton, but boy is she unpopular. Thank God she's facing Trump.
balladofwindfishes
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To Bernie, anyone who isn't Bernie is a bad guy.
RustyNails
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But but but the PARTY
This Persona stream is killing me.
The Republican Party's Woman Problem [The Atlantic]
The Republican Party's Woman Problem [The Atlantic]
And people think Trump could win
I find this line of reasoning strange. She has over 3m more votes than her competitor, more votes than any other primary candidate in either party, has a poll with a 13-pt lead in the general when she isn't even the nominee yet...
That's a very popular unpopular person
Joe Shlabotnik
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We need an "AT LEAST TRUMP ISN'T" chalkboard with "under investigation" and "taking money from big donors" crossed out
plagiarize
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My Facebook wall is back to full on crazy. Last night on one discussion a Sanders voter questioned someone else who said something like 'Bernie wins when independants can vote, so he should be the nominiation' by saying 'wait, hasn't Hillary won more open primaries?'
He was told 'no'.
So I chimed in. Here's what happened.
If anyone is wondering why I think a percentage of Sanders supporters are maniacs, it's because of stuff like that.
He was told 'no'.
So I chimed in. Here's what happened.
If anyone is wondering why I think a percentage of Sanders supporters are maniacs, it's because of stuff like that.
TheLostBigBoss
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My Facebook wall is back to full on crazy. Last night on one discussion a Sanders voter questioned someone else who said something like 'Bernie wins when independants can vote, so he should be the nominiation' by saying 'wait, hasn't Hillary won more open primaries?'
He was told 'no'.
So I chimed in. Here's what happened.
If anyone is wondering why I think a percentage of Sanders supporters are maniacs, it's because of stuff like that.
So Ryan, why DO YOU support a known fraud and a war criminal who is being investigated by the FBI!?!??!??!
Also, did Bernie say that he would also not take large money from the DNC during the GE if he were the nominee? Was he really going to completely hamstring himself like that?
While I'm always against hyperbole, if democrats want to pretend Trump has an actual chance and freak out and stuff... sure, have at it, it will only increase the "You need to fucking vote" message.
User 463088
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The thing that offends me most about the attacks on Hillary....
If Hillary really was this evil, she-witch, war criminal, body hiding, lyin', crooked person...it sure as SHIT wouldn't be the incompetent Right Wingers in Congress who could pin anything on her. The idea that the Right is competent enough to do that is what offends me.
If Hillary really was this evil, she-witch, war criminal, body hiding, lyin', crooked person...it sure as SHIT wouldn't be the incompetent Right Wingers in Congress who could pin anything on her. The idea that the Right is competent enough to do that is what offends me.
Orbis Tabula
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Just basing it on her favorability ratings. She's definitely a beatable candidate. The GOP just decided they didn't feel like doing it.
BotoxAgent
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They can't face facts so they pivot to another debunked issue. I'm sick of bernie bros
Looking back at that funny Taiwanese video from last week--it appears as satire, but holy shit...you come to realize that the video is hardly an exaggeration
Looking back at that funny Taiwanese video from last week--it appears as satire, but holy shit...you come to realize that the video is hardly an exaggeration
plagiarize
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I hit him back with "Why do you think it's okay to vote for an isolationist who claimed women fantasize about being raped?"
And then made a point about how none of the candidates have perfect records, but that Clinton has been stronger on the issues I care about than Sanders, and directed him to find me posting anything about breaking up the banks, or taking down Wall St in the last seven years. Where as there are plenty posts from me about passing common sense gun control.
I got the usual meaningless 'BUT CLINTON SUPPORTS THE SECOND AMENDMENT' rebuke. Then he claimed that he didn't believe me that I thought gun control was more important than income inequality and breaking up the banks.
Fortunately one of the other Sanders supporters (Brandon, himself actually) and I had a really good and meaningful discussion on the issues and the selection process and I gained a Facebook friend. So at least I was reminded too that not all Sanders supporters are like Justin.
Box of Kittens
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Keep in mind the people saying he's probably going to lose include people like Sam Wang who predicted he would win the nomination. Trump could win and that's terrifying enough, but it's still a small chance.
The Bush presidency was a disaster but one of the few things they were actually smart about was recognizing that they couldn't win with just white votes any more, hence the Hispanic outreach which actually did pay dividends in 2004. The Republicans have basically spent his entire post presidency torching that bridge.
TheLostBigBoss
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There are a few things that I never will understand about the "Hillary is a right wing" shit liberals throw at her
1) Republicans absolutely hate her. If she was a secret Republican, why wouldn't they basically name her public enemy number 1/2 (Obama being #1 atm)
2) Wouldn't she try and hide her more pragmatic views from the public and try and be a fake Bernie who will give you everything you ask for, only to get into office and turn heel and do nothing she said? What's the point of offering pragmatic, realistic solutions when... that's exactly what you plan on doing?
1) Republicans absolutely hate her. If she was a secret Republican, why wouldn't they basically name her public enemy number 1/2 (Obama being #1 atm)
2) Wouldn't she try and hide her more pragmatic views from the public and try and be a fake Bernie who will give you everything you ask for, only to get into office and turn heel and do nothing she said? What's the point of offering pragmatic, realistic solutions when... that's exactly what you plan on doing?
Abinash117
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Would Trump start in a extremely disadvantage because he did not raise a lot of money during the primary to use in the election and did not build GOTV teams across the states?
cartoon_soldier
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He starts at an extreme disadvantage because he is Trump, he is nominated by the GOP and again because he is nominated by the GOP.
Demographics are Demographics. White people are dying, Black and Hispanic people are increasing.
Rentahamster
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Don't love Trump, but I put money down for him to win. The going price was pretty cheap, and I think it was undervalued. It's pretty much all my winnings from predicting that he'd win the Republican nomination back in September, so it's no big deal if he doesn't. The price is probably going to go up in the short term anyway, so if I think he's about to tank, hopefully I'll sell it off in time while I still have a profit. We'll see if it works out twice.
plagiarize
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One thing I've been thinking about, is how her biggest misstep this campaign has been to seemingly celebrate the collapse of the coal industry. Because she's such a corporate shill right? And she doesn't really care about the environment right?
Someone was pondering on my facebook feed last night 'Why would she defund the campaign finance system that got her elected?' It's so blinkered. Because it's also the campaign finance system that funded all the attack ads against her maybe?
In terms of gun control, lets say Clinton doesn't want assault rifles to be legal. And lets say this is in no small part because a big bunch of people are coming after her with assault rifles. So she picks up an assault rifle herself, to defend herself from an attack that's only legal because assault rifles are legal, and her neighbor, who the people aren't coming after calls her a hypocrite for using an assault rifle.
She wouldn't need a super pac if there weren't super pacs running attacks on her. It isn't complicated.
Any candidate is a beatable candidate if you have the right person next to them. Getting a 3rd straight term is incredibly difficult no matter what your name is.
User 463088
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No, she hasn't.
But neither has Bernie because, and this is legitimately his argument, he never mentioned her by name in any of them, ergo they're not attack/negative ads.
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