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PoliGAF 2016 |OT8| No, Donald. You don't.
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Yaaaas, Rikku. Drag ha!
Spoiled Milk
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Woah woah woah woah woah. That's probably just something he likes to say a lot. Let's not call that plagiarism.
Yeah. This one I'm happy to call a nothingburger. Honestly I'd rather the Melania thing have not happened because it overshadowed the overwhelmingly fear/lizard-brain-based appeals the rest of the night contained.
Then again, tonight was just more of that anyway. Donald Jr.'s Republican talking points address was delivered nicely, but it was just a better version of the same substance Ryan had earlier in the evening. And beyond those two? Fear, fear, fear.
The chants of "lock her up!" are banana republic bullshit, too, with no basis in any reality but the one Ben Carson dreamed up in which Clinton is allied with the devil. This whole week has been a despicable display and the less we get caught up in the dumb controversies the more we can point out the poison in the substance below them.
This is actually happening, apparently?
daveweigel
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Geert Wilders speaks at a "Twinks for Trump" party. Check out the art.
You can ban @Nero from Twitter, but you can't ban these guns
Yiannopoulous tells the Gays for Trump party that he'll be leading a gay pride parade through Muslim sections of Stockholm.
I SWEAR TO GOD
Some days I wonder if the world is real
Dubbedinenglish
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This is like some performance art installation with wax people right?
They fire everyone anyway don't they? My brother in law worked in the capital years ago and lost his job when congress changed hands. Job had literally nothing to do with either party. I thought it was just par for the course in Washington DC.
whyamihere
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Not civil servants, no.
VendettaRed07
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Really hope they are planning a show at the DNC that totally knocks it out of the park.
They need to respond to this and go in hard.
They need to respond to this and go in hard.
adamsappel
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It's still bad optics. The story is out there, some people will believe/spread it, it will be referenced in articles. It was wrong of the writer to not edit the speech after Melania's debacle.
Government employees, not campaign or administration jobs. I cannot understand why any federal employee would vote Republican. In 2002 GW Bush cancelled a promised $11B cost-of-living raise and blamed the War on Terrorism as too great a current expense to justify it. This was at the same time that the Iraq War was projected to only cost $50-60 billion. The Republican congress routinely votes down government pay raises.
neurosisxeno
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This RNC has been quite the shit show. I've been re-watching West Wing and am up to the last season with Santos vs. Vinnick. I wish we had Republicans like Vinnick in the real world--sensible stances and legitimate charisma. Alan Alda did such a good job.
I've been thanking our lucky stars that the Dems get to bat last. They get the priviledge of responding appropriately.
White supremacy and incoherent small govt jibberish is a powerful opiate.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Stavridis is from Miami Florida. He also speaks Spanish and French.
Twinks for Trump? Good. Trump can have them
There are rumors that Warren is flying to Florida on the weekend(including friday).
titiklabingapat
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I mean, I'm not really surprised, but don't they have websites that check if to see if you accidentally copy pasta'd stuff in your essays/papers? Like, this is high school level stuff.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Neither the WaPo or NYT articles today mention her name. Seems like the list is down to Vilsack, Kaine, and Stavridis.
whyamihere
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Yeah, and I don't really think Stavridis is a legitimate candidate.
She's on Colbert on Thursday night, and next she's in Orlando on Saturday, slated to address the La Raza conference at 230PM (Eastern Time).
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Stavridis is probably the best person out of that group to help her win this year, but I'm not at all comfortable with a guy who has no public record on abortion.
VendettaRed07
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Ok, I don't know who this man is.. But sure. Let's go with him. As long as it isn't Timmy
Silly Benghazi is everyday forever!
NYCmetsfan
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Btw poligaf. If you care I got the job offer!
Yep. It is pretty much dumpster tier fire. Every day is as bad as the previous day so far.This is my summary of the first two days of the 2016 RNC
I posted it earlier on GAF.
It still applies to the speeches that were after this post I made in the RNC thread yesterdat.
Sweet! We're not shocked, ha!
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I checked the drive time from Orlando to Miami: about three hours. Tight timing, unless there are last-minute plan changes.
It's a bummer if the announcement really is on Saturday. I was looking forward to the leaks starting to emerge on Thursday.
Flying every possible VP pick to Florida on Friday is going to be how Hillary avoids leaking her pick.
Congrats!
Congrats!
I hope to god the DNC does not end up a trump bash fest either, but the good thing it should focus on the issues a lot which will prevent them like mentioning trump like crazy. I think democrats now know that they should not obsessively talk about trump at their convention like the republicans are obsessively talking about Hilary at their convention after the first two days of the RNC.
NYCmetsfan
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I'm still nervous. Because I have to give references now. I mean I have 3 good ones but still I'm always nervous
I still don't know why they offered me the job then asked about references but hey
Isn't trump's speech Thursday night? you make the announcement the next morning to change the narrative.
I could see her scheduling Saturday because she fully anticipates this convention and the end point being a complete dumpster fire. If he blows, it's best to let the media talk about that all day Friday. On the other hand, if he outperforms, announce Friday morning to take the wind out of his sails.
The single greatest acceptance speech I've seen live was Obama 08 and everyone was floored and blown away, the Palin announcement the next morning took all the spotlight off Obama.
I could see her scheduling Saturday because she fully anticipates this convention and the end point being a complete dumpster fire. If he blows, it's best to let the media talk about that all day Friday. On the other hand, if he outperforms, announce Friday morning to take the wind out of his sails.
The single greatest acceptance speech I've seen live was Obama 08 and everyone was floored and blown away, the Palin announcement the next morning took all the spotlight off Obama.
That's it couldn't do it today.
I get home from work and catch up on Day 2 via my DVR. Turned this shit off during Paul Ryan's speech.
I can't even find comedy in this anymore. Hell, finding comedy in this is part of the problem.
I'm legitimately afraid for this country. And I'm legitimately afraid for Hillary Clinton. I'm trying to research a time in our modern history where a campaign ran on not just a dislike of the ideas of the other side, but a blind, unadulterated rage for the other side, focused specifically on one person.
I will be following the rest of this convention via headlines and blogs/podcasts. But I don't have the stomach to actually watch the rest of this shit actually play out.
I get home from work and catch up on Day 2 via my DVR. Turned this shit off during Paul Ryan's speech.
I can't even find comedy in this anymore. Hell, finding comedy in this is part of the problem.
I'm legitimately afraid for this country. And I'm legitimately afraid for Hillary Clinton. I'm trying to research a time in our modern history where a campaign ran on not just a dislike of the ideas of the other side, but a blind, unadulterated rage for the other side, focused specifically on one person.
I will be following the rest of this convention via headlines and blogs/podcasts. But I don't have the stomach to actually watch the rest of this shit actually play out.
I posted this is another forum, but thought I'd post it here too:
when is the last time conservatives actually put forward a conservative policy idea that passed to address a real problem (instead of the made up ones they're always tackling) and that has survived or been adopted by both parties?
I gotta go back to 1975 for the earned income tax credit. The idea of fighting poverty through tax credits instead of handouts to lower income folks.
The only other one I can think of is individual mandate, but they ran away from that.
when is the last time conservatives actually put forward a conservative policy idea that passed to address a real problem (instead of the made up ones they're always tackling) and that has survived or been adopted by both parties?
I gotta go back to 1975 for the earned income tax credit. The idea of fighting poverty through tax credits instead of handouts to lower income folks.
The only other one I can think of is individual mandate, but they ran away from that.
AntraxSuicide
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Congrats NYCMetsFan!
I never could. The modern GOP can't go one damn sentence without lying through their teeth, and it's infuriating. I'm ready for a good win in November; this country needs to tell them that this nationalist shit won't fly. Fuck the racists.
I never could. The modern GOP can't go one damn sentence without lying through their teeth, and it's infuriating. I'm ready for a good win in November; this country needs to tell them that this nationalist shit won't fly. Fuck the racists.
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VendettaRed07
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Yeah I am legitimately beginning to be worried about the fabric of the union. The code of conduct and the unwritten rules that have been in place for so long. The tone of tonight was flat out dangerous.
superdeluxe
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Stavridis home state is Florida
VendettaRed07
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I mean in terms of the anger of the opposition and the levels vilification.
And Jackson is probably the worst example. He literally defied checks and balances by ignoring the supreme court to commit genocide
What the fuck did I just read?
I really, really doubt that Trump would nominate justices like Robert Jackson or Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.
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