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PoliGAF 2016 |OT9| The Wrath of Khan!
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Here's a fun story: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-03/melania-trump-lucky-immigrant
Melania says she came into the US on a work visa and traveled back and forth every few months to get it stamped, as the law requires.
Except H1-B visas are generally three years in duration. You don't have to leave and return every three months.
You would have to leave and come back every three months if you were on a B-2 tourist visa. But on that visa it's illegal to work in America.
So what visa was Melania actually on?
Melania says she came into the US on a work visa and traveled back and forth every few months to get it stamped, as the law requires.
Except H1-B visas are generally three years in duration. You don't have to leave and return every three months.
You would have to leave and come back every three months if you were on a B-2 tourist visa. But on that visa it's illegal to work in America.
So what visa was Melania actually on?
Fragamemnon
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It's like he's never voted before and doesn't realize that once your sticker is off the books you don't get to vote again w/o going through a provisional. Which is then vetted and checked vs. your actual voting record.
Why is he trying to defend voter ID laws? These are things state legislatures pushed under the radar as possible for targeted disenfranchisement.
Why is he trying to defend voter ID laws? These are things state legislatures pushed under the radar as possible for targeted disenfranchisement.
StopMakingSense
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Also, this morning I was perusing the LA Times website and came across their depictions of Hillary and Trump in drawn form to get to their respective political pages. Couldn't help but lol.
edit: I'm thinking about changing my avi to one of these...
Lol Trump kinda looks like my Ashley from The Apple avatar.
Black Mamba
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So I was doing some really quick math on that Florida article re: hispanics.
If Trump gets 15% of the vote and there's a slight uptick in hispanic turnout and we assume nothing else really changes...
That's an 8-10 point swing in Florida. EIGHT TO TEN.
In order for Trump to win Fla in this scenario, he'd have to pull almost 70% of whites...
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If Trump gets 15% of the vote and there's a slight uptick in hispanic turnout and we assume nothing else really changes...
That's an 8-10 point swing in Florida. EIGHT TO TEN.
In order for Trump to win Fla in this scenario, he'd have to pull almost 70% of whites...
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Your takeaway is that you won't vote?
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Kaine could be a popular choice if these next 8 years go well
PantherLotus
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You and everyone. It's a real credit to the SS that it hasn't happened.
Here's the thing though -- when I see Trump being described as saying 'if we have nukes, why don't we use them?' and then see these heartfelt rants from people who have actually been in that chain of command talking about their base-level dependence on knowing the person making that call is fundamentally sane ... I certainly get worried about this from the other side.
We're talking extinction-level events, catastrophic nuclear war, Russian appeasement, pervasive use of torture, carpet bombing, giant diaspora campaigns, walled-off borders, entire religions being prevented from coming into the country. How many wackjobs among those potentially affected by this guy could snap? It's terrifying how that could play out.
Been preaching this. FL is the key to the campaign both short term and long term. If Dems can lock up FL long term it's over for republicans.
TheAbsolution
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Sorry to quote an old post but when I was 13, Obama had just been elected a few months prior.
User 463088
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Plz ban this child.
balladofwindfishes
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Bush was 3 years into his first term when I was 13 (2003)
Surprised Melania's story isn't that she was born in Chicago
User 463088
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Like, I know this isn't news, but Trump's speech is just insane. Seriously. He's insane.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Cruz is legit crazy. He is like the acting politician version of Sean Hannity. He truly believes everything he says.
The more he shouts about people voting 10 times, the more his base believes him that the system is rigged, the more likely it is there's screams of fraud after Hillary destroys him. He's been talking about the system being rigged the last few days, this is the same narrative from a different angle.
When I was 13... Yep. Clinton was still in the white house getting more head than me.
PantherLotus
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(100% love that discussing how millenials now include people born in 78 has spiraled into a 10 page discussion of the best super mario bros game and where you were when you were 13)
Bill Clinton was just elected to his first term, The Chronic was just released, and Seinfeld was a surprise success.
phisheep
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The only damn thing that Trump seems to have any claim to know is building and construction. So some news outlet needs to challenge him on this damn wall. How long will it take to build? How many people will need to work on it? Where are you going to get those people from? Just bash him on the quantity-surveying stuff - how much concrete, how much rock, transport costs, where to house the workers?
User 463088
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Trump is now making the argument that people tell him "I don't like you but I have to go for you." And he's arguing like this is a good thing.
Black Mamba
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I don't even understand if he means an insult to Warren or the actual Pocahontas...
PantherLotus
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Because people born in 78-79 were still kids when the internet was born and that's the fundamental demarcation of the imaginary cultural divide? Who cares, it's nonsense used to describe a certain demo.
User 463088
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HE IS DEFENDING BLOOD COMING OUT OF HER WHATEVER RIGHT NOW
Black Mamba
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CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP
Obama releasing criminals and drug users from prison!!
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nature boy
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Trump going through his controversies.
Dumpster fire!
Dumpster fire!
The WaPo transcript mentioned is here. Have a gander.
For those catching up.
P.S.: Sabato is awesome.
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My poor wife, kicked out of cool Generation X status.
User 463088
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And now he's defending making fun of the disabled....saying he spends money on ramps. I shit you not.
Black Mamba
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uh, this is required by law.
Fragamemnon
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god how hard can it be to just get this man to read the damn teleprompter.
Seriously guys on the campaign-you had one job.
Seriously guys on the campaign-you had one job.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
(thinking about how post-2016 fallout and Trump pledging to go after everyone that screwed him with PAC money could eventually unite the two parties to bring a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United)
(brb dreaming)
(brb dreaming)
User 463088
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But he spends MILLIONS on ramps. MILLIONS.
There's no way he's even a billionaire. Dude's ego is made of lies
Brawndo Addict
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Trump literally cannot let a single thing go. His anxieties and insecurities rule him with an iron fist.
BrokenFiction
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What Reagan gave Iran for zero hostages:
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/08/...nt-reagans-iran-arms-for-hostages-initiative/
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/08/...nt-reagans-iran-arms-for-hostages-initiative/
VendettaRed07
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Well that would be a logical tactic. Which is exactly why Johnson wouldn't do it.
At this point it's likely hilary does way better than GW Bush did in Florida in 04.
Bam Bam Baklava
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I think there's going to be one member of the GOP saying they will vote for Clinton for the next 90 days. Today was a former Giuliani staffer on CNN.
Joe Shlabotnik
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PantherLotus
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Great summary of GOP's options with Trump right now: http://www.vox.com/2016/8/3/12368148/trump-drop-out-republicans
Black Mamba
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