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PoliGAF 2016 |OT8| No, Donald. You don't.

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metalslimer

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Kristoffer said:
I wonder how Murdoch will run Fox News differently from Ailes? He has historically made friends with center left dems, including Hillary Clinton.

RE: Booker, there's no way Clinton tarnishes her image further by cozying up to big banking Booker. It won't happen. Nor will Perez, who has no experience doing anything worth talking about. Nor Warren, with whom Clinton shares no synergy.

It's crazy to me that you guys treat the vp pick as a piece of flair to show off a minority or a woman or "someone exciting" instead of treating it like The Person Who Is Pretty Much The President. You have to ask yourself if you'd vote for that person in a presidential primary.

So Booker qualifies except the optics are bad. Sherrod Brown, Tim Kaine, and Vilsack are all presidential material. I wouldn't ever vote for socialist Warren in a primary and I'd be upset if she was president.
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Warrens a socialist now? Her and Sherrod are essentially the same. Lol ok

And it's interesting you left Kaine on there who has said that regulations for banks needs to be relaxed.
 
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minor effort

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They had a plan for Warren's MA seat that Senate Dems were comfortable with in the event she were picked for VP, but do they have a viable plan for Booker's seat in NJ?
 
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thestopsign

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Booker is super personable. He has a bit of Obama's youthful charisma, maybe not quite as well polished as Obama overall though. That could seriously help Hillary's image of being a stick in the mud.
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19

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Trump's people continue racist attacks against Ted Cruz.

https://twitter.com/JonCampbellGAN/status/756223268978200578

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Iolo

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sc0la said:
Tiki Bird?...

They are trying to tell us something...
Clinton / Animatronic Macaw 2016
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It's that goddamned bird again! That's how she's getting Bernie supporters on board!

adam387 said:
Now we know why she's doing it in Florida. She's holding it at the Enchanted Tiki Room at Magic Kingdom!
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What if she enters It's a Small World by herself and emerges with her VP.
 
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Joe Shlabotnik

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Guys, you better hold onto your tickets to the Kaine train or you're gonna be disappointed.

Sure it's no frills but it'll get you to your destination and I think they have complimentary coffee.
 
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User 463088

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Coffee is gross.

Kaine is more like going out to eat and you're like....DAMN...I want a Coke. So you ask "You got Coke?" And they're like "Naw, man. Sorry." So you're like, "Well, shit, I guess a Pepsi will do." And the waiter just shakes his head real slow, "We don't serve Pepsi either, man." And, you're kinda let down, but you rationalize that RC Cola is...you know...it's not the worst soda in the world. So, you drink it, but then you're like....damn. I coulda had a Coke.
 
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Ether_Snake

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MSM is starting to talk about how Trump might start his own news network if he loses the election, now that Ailse is leaving FOX News. I've been saying for some time that it felt to me like either Trump was running because he was about to go bankrupt, or because he didn't want to win but just steal a chunk of the Republican party and start his own media platform.

He'd want to be the US' own Murdoch.
 
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Goodstyle

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I'm worried about Ivanka. Between all of Trump's Koopalings, she seems to be the only one that has inherited an ounce of charisma. Banking on another scandal to overshadow the speech she'll give today.
 
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Voysa Reezun

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Satire is nearly dead. I knew better and still thought that the image from that article from the Onion might be true, except nobody noticed until just now because they were too busy talking about all the other dumpster fires started by this convention.
 
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Spoiled Milk

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hey, guys, which publication was it that called Josh Earnest and the Obama administration "masters of the death hug"? Because that term is such bullshit.
 
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I mean, no one's going to care about Ivanka when Trump's going to go full Hitler on stage.

But she is hot. (We're supposed to say that every time we hear her name, right?)
 
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Black Mamba

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McConnell selling himself out this hard, oh man.

Assuming the GOP loses, there needs to be massive consequences with how far they were willing to sell themselves out to Trump.

But I'm not so sure it'll happen.

Come on Trump, fuck up your speech tonight. His bar is so low I'm afraid of media narratives saying he saved an awful convention.

Trump failing tonight, Obama destroying next week, followed by a disastrous debate performance in the 1st debate could seal the GOP for a while.
 
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Boke1879

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Ivanka will give a good speech. For some reason I expect that out of her.

But they may be the untold story. Everyone is there for Trump and I'm hoping he just rants. I can't imagine he won't go after Ted at some point tonight.
 
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Jarmel

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adam387 said:
Coffee is gross.

Kaine is more like going out to eat and you're like....DAMN...I want a Coke. So you ask "You got Coke?" And they're like "Naw, man. Sorry." So you're like, "Well, shit, I guess a Pepsi will do." And the waiter just shakes his head real slow, "We don't serve Pepsi either, man." And, you're kinda let down, but you rationalize that RC Cola is...you know...it's not the worst soda in the world. So, you drink it, but then you're like....damn. I coulda had a Coke.
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That might be the perfect analogy for tomorrow.
 
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Goodstyle

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Teggy said:
She's not running for president.
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Doesn't matter, what family members say about a candidate leaves an impression. My parents (who are "moderate" let's say) really loved Melania when she was up there giving the speech and seemed to be warming up to Trump before the plagiarism scandal blew up. I could see him getting normalized right in front of me.

Trump's other children, let's be honest, basically suck. They have no charisma or grace, but if Ivanka speaks and she does a decent job, people will remember it. Unless of course... Trump does indeed go full Hitler in his speech lol.
 
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Voysa Reezun

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RC Cola is so far superior to Pepsi that it's not even a question, but yeah, the analogy works otherwise.

I'm fine with Booker. Whatever. If we can rip Wall Street voters away from the GOP and Booker can be a part of that, it's worth it.
 
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Teggy

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Goodstyle said:
Doesn't matter, what family members say about a candidate leaves an impression. My parents (who are "moderate" let's say) really loved Melania when she was up there giving the speech and seemed to be warming up to Trump before the plagiarism scandal blew up. I could see him getting normalized right in front of me.

Trump's other children, let's be honest, basically suck. They have no charisma or grace, but if Ivanka speaks and she does a decent job, people will remember it. Unless of course... Trump does indeed go full Hitler in his speech lol.
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eh, unless she speaks with him every single time he opens his mouth it will be forgotten quickly.
 
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Joe Shlabotnik

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Goodstyle said:
Doesn't matter, what family members say about a candidate leaves an impression. My parents (who are "moderate" let's say) really loved Melania when she was up there giving the speech and seemed to be warming up to Trump before the plagiarism scandal blew up. I could see him getting normalized right in front of me.

Trump's other children, let's be honest, basically suck. They have no charisma or grace, but if Ivanka speaks and she does a decent job, people will remember it. Unless of course... Trump does indeed go full Hitler in his speech lol.
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Not to just "nope" this but... nope. Trump's speech tonight is all that matters.

Plus everyone already likes Ivanka. This is built in.
 
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Teggy

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Do GE voters mind that Trump uses childish name calling? It's extremely unpresidential just from an historical perspective, but I wonder how even the people who don't loathe Hillary see that.
 
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Ophelion

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adam387 said:
Coffee is gross.
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If you think so, you're drinking the wrong coffee. Come over here to Washington sometime. I shall show you the secret coffee bars that brew such coffee that even God is unfit to drink. It tastes like how sunshine feels on a perfect spring day if that sunshine was also a hug. It feels like your awareness and alertness are expanding as you sip at it. Seriously feels like someone just decided to max out my FOV slider or something.

We are spoiled here in Seattle. Also, I love coffee so I might be a touch hyperbolic about this.

But not as much as you think.
 
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jmood88

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Just realized that I posted this in the wrong thread:

It has been really irritating to see all these Trump surrogates go on tv and say some form of, "Ted lied when he took the pledge and didn't endorse Donald, and you can't lie in politics" with absolutely no pushback from the reporter they're talking to. i understand that the surrogate is going to be as disingenuous as they can but it is frustrating to see the press allow them to get away with it.
 
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User 463088

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Local Cleveland news covering the lady doing the Nazi thing. And running a story how the GOP is just the party of old, bitchy white people. And they've been talking about Cruz. Literally ZERO mention of Pence.

Also, I do like RC Cola. Especially when I'm in the South.
 
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Suikoguy

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Ophelion said:
If you think so, you're drinking the wrong coffee. Come over here to Washington sometime. I shall show you the secret coffee bars that brew such coffee that even God is unfit to drink. It tastes like how sunshine feels on a perfect spring day if that sunshine was also a hug. It feels like your awareness and alertness are expanding as you sip at it. Seriously feels like someone just decided to max out my FOV slider or something.

We are spoiled here in Seattle. Also, I love coffee so I might be a touch hyperbolic about this.

But not as much as you think.
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Can I hire you for my imaginary sales department?
 
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Voysa Reezun

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Ophelion said:
If you think so, you're drinking the wrong coffee. Come over here to Washington sometime. I shall show you the secret coffee bars that brew such coffee that even God is unfit to drink. It tastes like how sunshine feels on a perfect spring day if that sunshine was also a hug. It feels like your awareness and alertness are expanding as you sip at it. Seriously feels like someone just decided to max out my FOV slider or something.
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Stumptown = Best coffee ever.

Though Cafe Vita isn't too far behind.
 
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Ophelion said:
If you think so, you're drinking the wrong coffee. Come over here to Washington sometime. I shall show you the secret coffee bars that brew such coffee that even God is unfit to drink. It tastes like how sunshine feels on a perfect spring day if that sunshine was also a hug. It feels like your awareness and alertness are expanding as you sip at it. Seriously feels like someone just decided to max out my FOV slider or something.

We are spoiled here in Seattle. Also, I love coffee so I might be a touch hyperbolic about this.

But not as much as you think.
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This is beautiful. It's wrong. But it's beautiful. :p

I love the smell of coffee, and I don't mind coffee IN stuff.
 
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Dan

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adam387 said:
I mean, no one's going to care about Ivanka when Trump's going to go full Hitler on stage.

But she is hot. (We're supposed to say that every time we hear her name, right?)
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No, everyone needs to stop this shit. Let conservatives be the sole fucks who find value in women (or men, for that matter) based on appearances instead of substance. Even when it's an attempt at irony or satire, it contributes more to assuring its normalization and acceptability.

There's no redeeming quality to someone who stands for Trump's vision of America.
 
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CNN: Hillary Clinton VP search in final hours

Hillary Clinton's methodical search for a running mate is nearly complete, several Democrats close to the vice presidential process say, and she is planning to introduce her new political partner during a campaign rally in Miami on Saturday.

Clinton has yet to reveal her choice to her campaign, and top advisers insist she hasn't made a final conclusion, fearful of it leaking before a well-orchestrated weekend rollout is set into motion. But several longtime confidantes familiar with how she makes decisions say that by now, she has almost certainly settled on a candidate to join the Democratic ticket.

The focus of her search in the final days centers on Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, according to several Democrats close to the process, confident either contender would fit her chief criteria of being a strong governing partner and ready for the presidency.

She had not formally ruled out Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who would be the first Hispanic candidate on the party's ticket, or Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who would be the first black vice presidential nominee. Democrats close to the process said Perez and Booker had considerable strengths, far beyond their diversity, but their limited experience in national security and government made them less likely to be selected.

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Yet the Clinton campaign is watching the closing day of the Republican convention with great interest, particularly how Trump's speech is received, which could influence the timing of their own announcement. The campaign has discussed several scenarios, taking into account the Republican convention as well as a domestic or international outbreak of violence.

The most likely plan calls for Clinton to reveal her decision in a text message to supporters late Friday before appearing with her running mate Saturday at Florida International University in Miami, where the student body is more than half Hispanic.

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But a second plan calls for an accelerated announcement -- should it leak early, by design or not -- with their first joint appearance scheduled for late Friday at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, where Clinton is also scheduled to hold a campaign rally.

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The consensus, even among several Democrats close to other finalists, is that Kaine will be tapped as Clinton's vice presidential candidate. Yet other Democrats close to Clinton still cautioned in interviews Thursday against counting out Vilsack, who has the most state and federal governing experience and the longest personal relationship with Clinton.

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For her part, Clinton has intentionally not informed anyone who has gone through the vetting process of her final decision, Democrats close to the process said, in hopes of keeping her choice a secret until the last possible moment.

But two Democrats close to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and one close to Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, both of whom were on Clinton's list of contenders, said Thursday they were all but certain they had not been selected.

All the finalists have met with Clinton at different times, Democrats close to the process say, including Perez, Booker and Warren during one-on-one meetings Friday at Clinton's home in Washington. But this week, the Clinton campaign had a meeting with top Warren aides, trying to work out a surrogate schedule for her for the rest of the summer and fall, leading Warren's team to believe she had not been chosen.

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Clinton started this process before her primary fight with Bernie Sanders ended with what aides described as a "fluid" list, including several potential running mates. Several were eliminated, including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and James Stravidis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO and a retired four-star Navy admiral.
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So even if the event isn't until Saturday, we should find out who it is on Friday night.

EDIT: I keep adding more quotes as I read the rest of the article. So Warren, Brown, Hickenlooper, Castro and Stravidis have been eliminated from contention.
 
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Bowdz

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Lmao at people that don't roast their own coffee beans. Brb, Sweet Maria's sourced beans roasted about 20 seconds past second crack. Perfection for daily cappuccino.
 
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Suikoguy

I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Bowdz said:
Lmao at people that don't roast their own coffee beans. Brb, Sweet Maria's sourced beans roasted about 20 seconds past second crack. Perfection for daily cappuccino.
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From what i've read about coffee, that's the only way to truly have fresh coffee.
Once it's roasted, it's shelf life is really short.
 
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Spoiled Milk

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Dan said:
No, everyone needs to stop this shit. Let conservatives be the sole fucks who find value in women (or men, for that matter) based on appearances instead of substance. Even when it's an attempt at irony or satire, it contributes more to assuring its normalization and acceptability.

There's no redeeming quality to someone who stands for Trump's vision of America.
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Don't wake up Tarkus...

Black Mamba said:
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WOW.

No seriously, even I find this a WOW. Never did I think premiums actually went down. WOW.
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They're comparing two different things: the market average and the "second lowest silver plan" average.
 
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