nature boy
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No outrage over Hillary's pillows? SAD!
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User 463088
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While you're absolutely right that the GOP wants these people marginalized...they still want their vote. Fox News is a good way to control these people. If they're split between Fox News and whatever Trump may or may not come up with, they now have to pander to two different groups who have proven to often be opposed, deeply, to each other. The GOP has learned this year, they're having a hell of a time getting the Trump-wing to be good and do what they're told. They cannot afford to have to fight for that group each cycle. They need them to be inline so they can make a pivot towards the middle.
gutter_trash
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I welcome Trump making his own cable channel, may it lose money and go out of business.
i fail to see how it would atract sponsors
i fail to see how it would atract sponsors
I'm still amazed at Tiffany Trump talking about her dad like he was just some rich guy who wrote her a letter of recommendation once.
no one will advertise on it and his base isn't the subscribing type
User 463088
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Well, if any of the women don't like it, they can just get another career. Or most of the women they hire will be too strong or too smart to be sexually harassed. /s
I was showing that to my mom (She's bringing me crackers and gatorade because my bf and I are sick and I'm 99% sure I'm dying....and that he's dead.) She was livid. Like she said, she's the same age as Hillary. When you're a woman of a certain age, you may need a fucking pillow because your back fucking hurts. Mess.
TheLostBigBoss
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If I were Clinton the number one thing I would do is make Trump look small, insecure, unfit.
Trump will look like a fool raging in his corner, and if she does it well enough he might just say something horrific outbif pure rage
Trump will look like a fool raging in his corner, and if she does it well enough he might just say something horrific outbif pure rage
Probably close to the truth
Captain Pants
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What's this pillow thing about?
nature boy
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It reaches new levels of stupidity, and that was after Hannity trying to imply Clinton has seizures because she was joking with reporters.
If Trump's going nastier than he's going to say this stupid shit. And the networks will actually discuss this because Trump.
Get well.
Drudge report: Clinton uses pillows at some events, must be a health issue, so something's going on!
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Hillary is dying and she is only able to sit because she's propped up by pillows. I think it's in between her having seizures and her early onset Parkinson's. One strong cough, and she'll go right over.
Thank you. I'm pretty sure I'm dying. But, we'll see.
shinra-bansho
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With all the crazy stupid things he does I had forgotten the John Barron stuff.
A major party candidate pretended to be a fake spokesman for himself for like a decade. Ludicrous.
A major party candidate pretended to be a fake spokesman for himself for like a decade. Ludicrous.
Captain Pants
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nature boy
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On a more serious note, Trump campaign adding stuff in GA:
Donald Trumps campaign is beefing up its staff in Georgia
Donald Trumps campaign is beefing up its staff in Georgia
BenjaminBirdie
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legit want to see this movie
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
That the beauty of the spot they are in. Even if somehow this 'new and improved' Trump campaign turned things around for them and made Trump a better candidate, they are still in a spot where they have to campaign in Georgia to avoid a blowout.
Basileus777
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PPP poll has Trump up just 45-42 in Missouri.
DrForester
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Listened to 10 minutes of the Colorado Springs local conservative radio host.
Few minutes complaining about Beck and Levin. Also saying if Clinton is Elected that she will bring back the fairness doctrine to silence right wing radio.
And a few minutes complaining about Gabby Douglas not putting her hand on her heart.
No mention of new Trump team.
Few minutes complaining about Beck and Levin. Also saying if Clinton is Elected that she will bring back the fairness doctrine to silence right wing radio.
And a few minutes complaining about Gabby Douglas not putting her hand on her heart.
No mention of new Trump team.
Have you tried checking at Daily Kos? I think they have a daily summarizer thing.
Fragamemnon
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The GOP wants to do to the alt-right nationalists what they did to the evangelical movement of the late 70s/80s and the Tea Party after Obama got elected: monetize them for PAC money and normalize them as an invisible part of the GOP electoral base.
They just need to buy off enough people into the establishment and it should work out OK for them.
They just need to buy off enough people into the establishment and it should work out OK for them.
PantherLotus
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I'm saying this is the first step -- tough love, forced separation, whatever you want to call it -- to making the party of "small government and low taxes" independent from racist, bigoted, poor-hating dog-whistles. How they do that I have no idea.
Maybe the GOP is more likely to fold completely than give up reliance on white southern racists. Maybe they don't really have a reason for existing or arguments that don't rely on that base fear and bigotry. Interesting times.
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When you're worried about something called the Fairness Doctrine silencing you, maybe it's time you step back and realize you're the problem.
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Shit, man. Looking at that poll and comparing it to the 2008 exits....that race could be even closer. The PPP poll is skewing old as all hell. They have 28% being older than 65. In 2008, the actual number was 13%! They have younger voters and AAs slightly undersampled too.
DrForester
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Clinton isn't really saying she'll bring it back, is she?
Not that I know of.
Fragamemnon
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Democratic presidents have bigger fish to fry than bullying the FCC to get people to stop being so mean. That's the kind of thing the thin-skinned orangeman would do.
Talked to a guy the other day who said he worked with Trump in the 70s/80s era
Said it's the most bizarre thing to see how he acts now, because he used to be a pretty reasonable guy. Apparently a lot of people close to him are really shocked with his transformation, but the guy we see on TV now is who Trump is. Not an act or anything
Said it's the most bizarre thing to see how he acts now, because he used to be a pretty reasonable guy. Apparently a lot of people close to him are really shocked with his transformation, but the guy we see on TV now is who Trump is. Not an act or anything
Common conspiracy that democrats will silence the true voices in America yadda yadda.
plagiarize
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Lots of things in politics have terrible names that don't do them any justice. Freedom of speech is one area where Clinton and I break, and I think the fairness doctrine was clearly unconstitutional and should stay dead.
You fight terrible speech with better speech. Not with government intervention, imho. And I think it's a fight that's being won. It can be a slow and painful process but it's a process I believe in. Talk radio is at worst an echo chamber. The people that buy into it, are in my opinion, looking to invest in it.
But that's just my take on it. Governments shouldn't enforce equal time rules, or fairness doctrines or any such nonsense. Again, imho, whatever they call it.
NYCmetsfan
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It comes from a former Washington Free Beacon editor who now is running a wantabee conservative click farm and is probably tongue in cheek.
You can see it if you just watch his old interviews from the 80's and 90's. He was much more soft spoken and reasonable. Something happened, either intentionally or unintentionally.
NYCmetsfan
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Lol the pillow website has Louise Mensch writing for them. Oh and its owned by News Corp.
OMG at the formatting of this interview
http://heatst.com/politics/exclusiv...ndent-candidate-interview-with-louise-mensch/
OMG at the formatting of this interview
http://heatst.com/politics/exclusiv...ndent-candidate-interview-with-louise-mensch/
plagiarize
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She has said no such thing. The only free speech related thing she's talked about is the citizen's united ruling. That doesn't concern me, because I don't believe corporations should have protected speech or religious beliefs. They aren't people. They're corporations. The bill of rights isn't meant to apply to them.
balladofwindfishes
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A party of nationalists, evangelists, bigots and gun nuts is a pretty scary block to build a voter base from. Not in the sense of being scary, politically, since it's not a massive base, but scary in how violently radicalized they could get with the right provoking.
User 463088
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I don't understand why you would have a problem with that formatting. It's
totally
just trying to present information in a unique and easily readable format.How the fuck are you even supposed to read that?
newshinycd
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-us-intelligence-briefing-227109
Trump doesn't trust US intelligence.
"Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic. And, in fact, I won't use some of the people that are sort of your standards, you know, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them, but I won't use them because they've made such bad decisions," said Trump
Can we get a title change to |OT10| I want off Mr. Trumps Wild Ride
Trump doesn't trust US intelligence.
"Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic. And, in fact, I won't use some of the people that are sort of your standards, you know, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them, but I won't use them because they've made such bad decisions," said Trump
Can we get a title change to |OT10| I want off Mr. Trumps Wild Ride
plagiarize
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I was musing on this yesterday. One constant with him seems to be the racism. Given how upset he was that black people were handling his money at one of his casinos, I think a black person being in charge of the entire country was more than he could handle. I'm not sure we saw *this* Trump before the birther thing, but I could be wrong.
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Yeah, I mean... She could win Missouri.
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New York has seen it a couple of times over the years, in housing discrimination cases, but I'm not too shocked the rest of the country hadn't seen it before the birther thing.
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The racism seems to be a constant. With the housing case etc. But other than that he was softly spoken, seemed thoughtful, took liberal positions, was pro choice, etc etc.
I think a black president pushed him over the edge into the outwardly angry conspiracy theory believing maniac we have now, but that the racism was always there. He used to share a lot of positions with Obama. Since Obama got elected President he seems to have reversed all of them.
That's my personal take on it. I think the racism was always there.
Edit: Look at it this way. The racism was always burning, but the entire dumpster didn't set on fire until Obama entered the national picture.
I'm going to go on record and stake out the position that he's not making a cable news channel. Yes, he has surrounded himself with right-wing media players, but he needs so much more than that to get a cable channel off the ground. The amount of effort, organization, planning, funding, etc. required runs completely contrary to everything we know about him being primarily in the business of licensing out his name.
If there's anything going on besides a media personality bringing the people and sorts of people he's familiar working with, it'll probably amount to little more than another alt-right news site and YouTube channel.
If there's anything going on besides a media personality bringing the people and sorts of people he's familiar working with, it'll probably amount to little more than another alt-right news site and YouTube channel.
Just woke up.
So...Trump seems to have thought that his problem was that he was being too politically correct with merely calling for Hillary's assassination?
I have to admit, this isn't the kind of pivot I was expecting.
...on the other hand, this is also EXACTLY the kind of pivot I was expecting.
So...Trump seems to have thought that his problem was that he was being too politically correct with merely calling for Hillary's assassination?
I have to admit, this isn't the kind of pivot I was expecting.
...on the other hand, this is also EXACTLY the kind of pivot I was expecting.
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