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NYCmetsfan
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The new whitey tape imo.
nature boy
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And Wang agrees they should try to save Congress.
Slurpy2k20
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Uh, he was interviewed about it several times after, and each time he doubled down on the comment when given a way out, claiming over and over again that Obama "LITERALLY founded ISIS". Obviously his handlers now told him to stay it was a joke. I don't think the guy fucking understands what sarcasm actually means. He's so full of shit.
Seeing as his new tactic is to say something absurd and then come out and deny he said it or claim it was sarcasm. I can see him totally doing something that blatant to make white folks choose between what's right and what's self serving. And if he loses he can just say it was sarcasm. Shit, he can say that if he wins too.
User 463088
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Ya, the sarcasm thing is ludicrous. Hewitt basically gave him this out yesterday. He walked Trump through it, and Trump is like NOPE MEAN WHAT I SAID. Clearly, someone decided to take his phone away from him. Sad.
plagiarize
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He's flailing all over the place. With his messaging. With his tactics. I'm not ruling out him finding a message and tactic that starts getting traction but in the mean time, I've got my popcorn at the ready for another weekday and presumably another idiotic self sabotaging disaster from Donald Trump. Weekends are so dull. SAD.
NYT Upshot: How Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Differ on Taxes
It's a rundown on their tax policy proposals.
It's a rundown on their tax policy proposals.
User 463088
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Before all this, I didn't give two shits about DWS. But now I want her to win. And win bigly.
Not specifically. It was hinted that she is winning, which is not normally a reason to abandon your candidate. Clinton did meet with DWS, so maybe afterward she threatened to Vince Foster them all.
plagiarize
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Good article that doesn't get too partisan. I have shared this on my Facebook wall. I am confident it will lead to someone posting an anti Clinton meme on it, but hopefully some people will find it interesting all the same.
nature boy
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That USC/Latimes "Daybreak" poll is all kinds of FUBAR.
FloydtheFathead
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Did he hit them all? I think he did it.
He missed the Christmas card investigation.
That's not a joke.
10 days, 140 hours of testimony into Bill Clinton using Christmas cards for political purposes.
BobTheFork
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FFS, as soon as I saw the 'sarcasm' headline I had to stop reading and I just laughed. It's almost not the normal stupid fun because it's such a predictable response.
They asked him very clearly a second time if he was talking about Obama's policies and NO I mean he founded ISIS.
It's great that he's going to lose but I'm starting to just get upset by how anyone gets away with this shit. Terrified about the people that allow this as acceptable, not just people who really believe it.
They asked him very clearly a second time if he was talking about Obama's policies and NO I mean he founded ISIS.
It's great that he's going to lose but I'm starting to just get upset by how anyone gets away with this shit. Terrified about the people that allow this as acceptable, not just people who really believe it.
Mighty Chin
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When is the "Come to Jesus" meeting.
plagiarize
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The word salad people throw out without any context always makes me roll my eyes. We don't all live in anti Hillary echo chambers. I have no idea why the name Sidney Blumenthal is a reason note to vote Clinton. I have no idea what filegate, trooppergate or travelgate are. I have no idea what 'Lincoln bedroom for sale' means in relation to Clinton.
I love how they just wrote IMPEACHMENT too. Like, yes, her husband was impeached and it was ruled that he could keep on being President, and why is that any reason not to vote for Hillary?
I mean, obviously this person is a lost cause. But if they truly want to convince people not to vote for Clinton, you've got to at least explain all this shit. Most people don't have a fucking clue what Benghazi was about, because people like this just scream the name of a city and don't begin to explain what events they're actually talking about and how they even related to Hillary Clinton.
balladofwindfishes
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It's too late for a pivot. The damage has been done.
And he's not capable of pivoting.
And he's not capable of pivoting.
plagiarize
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I think we all know that.
FloydtheFathead
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Damn.. So close.
Dubbedinenglish
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I don't think Trump can actually take the pressure of the presidential stage. He is crumbling since (and during) the convention.
plagiarize
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I don't think he's crumbling. He's like an MMA fighter that's clearly starting to lose a fight but doesn't know how to get momentum back. He's at the point of the fight Connor McGregor was at in the Nick Diaz fight, when he wasn't so down on the score cards that he couldn't turn it around, but he was so clearly going to continue getting beaten up if he stuck to the gameplan, that he started trying to change tactics.
He's flailing trying to find something that works. Which makes him really vulnerable right now. But I don't think he's crumbling under pressure. It's more coming to the realization that he can't keep campaigning the way that comfortably won the previous contests. He's got to find something new, in the middle of a heated contest.
It's SC. Most people here would't know true political facts if it rolled over them with a riding lawmmower and shat all over their broken car collection in their front yards.
real talk, was there any chance of a pivot?
plagiarize
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Meanwhile on Fox news:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...tv-on-trumpclinton-coverage-report-finds.html
LOL.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...tv-on-trumpclinton-coverage-report-finds.html
LOL.
TheLostBigBoss
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There is always time for a pivot.
Now where the pivot will lead is the qustion. He had a chance to pivot to the offramp after the primaries.
Now a pivot would be driving into the guardrails and flying off a cliff
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
He pivoted already this week and it lasted literally a day and a half.
plagiarize
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It's not even about whether things are factually true or not, it's that the anti Clinton brigade are so used to being in echo chambers that when they publically try to convince people to vote for her, they don't actually provide any claims, true or otherwise. They just name things.
"How can anyone vote for Hillary Clinton what with RANDOMGATE, RANDOM PERSON, and RANDOM CITY???"
Either people are aware of the conspiracies and don't care, or they aren't aware of them at all. So maybe write out what she supposedly did in this conspiracy, what she did to this person and what she did to or in the random city.
Context free conspiracy name word salad isn't going to change any rational actor's mind. But the broad details potentially could. Like say "Clinton ignored calls for assistance and let people die". That could change someone's opinion of her. Going "BENGAHZI" does fuck all.
I'm not complaining, because, go Queen and all that. But damn if it doesn't make my eyeballs roll right out of my head.
MRC has billboards around Philly with the DNC being here. They are terrible billboards and I can't wait until they are changed
It was suppose to be his RNC speech
nature boy
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From what I saw, it wasn't a warm reception at all.
Yeah, I agree
We don't really need to see irrelevant conspiracy theorist tweets. I mean Trump's tweets are terrible too, but he's actually a major party presidential candidate so we do need to stay aware of his insanity
Oh wait he's not? lmao
plagiarize
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I just love how utterly simplistic their line of thinking is. 'There was a negative story for Clinton and a negative story for Trump so the coverage of both should be the same'. Clearly there could never be two negative stories that weren't equally news worthy. Clearly an unfortunate oversight of putting someone they didn't recognize on a stage that looked bad for Clinton was equally worth covering as Trump suggesting gun owners do something to stop Clinton picking supreme court judges if elected.
What do the billboards say out of interest?
I just scored in my false equivalency Bingo.
minor effort
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Moreover, the public perception has become that Trump is incapable of pivoting.
Any momentary restraint you see from Trump, whether it's a teleprompter speech, a tweet from an iPhone instead of Android, a press release written in full sentences, a quiet day - people are increasingly seeing these as his handlers trying to reign him in, not Trump himself becoming more presidential.
The narrative of Trump being incapable of being anything but Trump has pretty much settled.
Well that speech did represent a pivot. Not towards the general though.
I'm not so sure he's really trying anything else; it's more a matter of trying what used to work during the primaries and not comprehending why it doesn't work now. Here's another CNBC Trump quote:
To continue the sports analogy, it reads like a player on a team that's going to lose and who wants to get back to the locker room during garbage time late in the game. He's looking forward to that "very good way of life" he can get back to after his defeat rather than whatever a victory might entail.
balladofwindfishes
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I was in Ohio about a month ago, and these signs were EVERYWHERE.
plagiarize
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Speaking of Jill Stein and biased media, I found this hilarious story on that Russian news site from two days ago.
COMRADE, for some reason, people suggest that the great Jill Stein, who is most clever and in agreement with Russia on NATO, is a GLORIOUS SUPPORTER OF RUSSIA because she attended a 15th anniversary of the noble Russian news company.
The same Russian news company wants everyone to know, that these SMEARS against NOBLE DR JILL STEIN are all false, and any suggestions of bias because she was awesome enough to attend our party are UTTERLY BASELESS.
Seriously though, I don't think Stein is going to get sucked in by this Russian praise like Trump does... but you've almost got to love them for trying. Stein may not be biased towards Russia, but that Russian news site sure is biased towards her.
NB: She retweeted this story. LOL.
COMRADE, for some reason, people suggest that the great Jill Stein, who is most clever and in agreement with Russia on NATO, is a GLORIOUS SUPPORTER OF RUSSIA because she attended a 15th anniversary of the noble Russian news company.
The same Russian news company wants everyone to know, that these SMEARS against NOBLE DR JILL STEIN are all false, and any suggestions of bias because she was awesome enough to attend our party are UTTERLY BASELESS.
Seriously though, I don't think Stein is going to get sucked in by this Russian praise like Trump does... but you've almost got to love them for trying. Stein may not be biased towards Russia, but that Russian news site sure is biased towards her.
NB: She retweeted this story. LOL.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Is there any logic to which locations get the passive aggressive whining billboard or the plain aggressive whining one, or do they just randomly pick.
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