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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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That's just him making stuff up right? The Trump being part of AMBLA thing was just a joke right?
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Not as angry as the name would suggest.
From what I understand, there have been serious rape accusations against him. I'm not sure if any were underage, but I think they might have been.
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It's in reference to a lawsuit claiming that Trump sexually assaulted an underage girl four times in 1994.
No idea about the validity of the claim. There are elements that sound outlandish, but that's usually true of rape so, y'know. Not going to be the guy saying, "This totally happened," but I'm not going to be the guy saying, "Let's just dismiss the rape accusation because bitches always be lying" either.
edited 24th Aug '16 11:39:19 AM by TobiasDrake
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One poll found that Trump is one point ahead, in Missouri of all states.
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Not as angry as the name would suggest.
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Yeah, that's the one. The one with Epstein.
The fact that Epstein is currently not serving time is..
A very severe indictment of the US justice system.
Mississippi is the poorest state and has the worst education and obesity rate in the entire country. I'm not surprised.
Edit: Ugh, got Missouri confused with Mississippi!
edited 24th Aug '16 12:56:05 PM by Bat178
Your comment doesn't work whether it's Mississippi or Missouri. You missed the point, which isn't that Trump is ahead, it's just that he's barely ahead according to that poll.
edited 24th Aug '16 1:01:09 PM by LSBK
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Note that I'm only talking about Republican politicians. There are still a bunch of moderate Republican voters. It remains to be seen whether most of them are going to hold their nose and vote Democrat, hold their nose and vote Trump, or just stay home on election day — but the polling doesn't look good for Trump.
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The Tea Party as a whole was devastating for Moderates on Both Sides. The Tea Party primaried out Moderate Republicans and then won elections against Blue Dog Democrats. Only now does it seem like Moderate Republican voters have gotten fed up of the more extremist voices in the Republican Party.
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So the byline to the rape charge article has Julian Assange say that Wikileaks is "working on" obtaining and releasing Trump's tax returns, though the site itself later used the "Just Joking" Justification in regards to it.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
They're not gonna find them. They've got it out for Clinton and have said so themselves.
They support Trump over her.
Oh really when?
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Dear god they want America to burn
What do they get from that? Are American ashes valuable?
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The nambla thing is a sort of internet conspiracy to get trump to release his tax returns. If we can get actual people to accuse him of it and make it a talking point he might actually be forced to release his tax returns
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
I'm surprised a law doesn't already exist for the FEC to make that a mandatory thing, releasing tax returns...
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Fucked if I know. Assange himself is a madman who'll do anything to stick it to the US and most of the site's contributors are working on behalf of the Kremlin.
Oh really when?
And some of them have blatant ties to the far-right.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
I think we need to retire the idea that Wikileaks is trying to make America a better place. They're not Well Intentioned Extremists anymore(if they ever were). They're enemies of the state.
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It's lunatics and honest to god Russian agents. What's not to get at this point?
Oh really when?
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So what would like the US to do about Wikileaks? Basically, go to war against them, go after the people behind the site? Bring back "Extraordinary Rendition" against Wikileaks?
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No, but we could stop paying them any credence as honest purveyors of information.
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To Assange, America is the Evil Empire, and thus any and all actions against it are justified. I tend to agree on the "Empire" part (evil is pointlessly inflammatory and arbitrary though), but not on the conclusion that anything that weakens the United States necessarily leaves the world better off. Especially if you're pushing it towards fascism.
@Green, hack their sites? Arrest members in the US/friendly nations for a variety of offenses?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Colbert uses extremely scientific methods and the latest in advanced technology to examine the Clinton Foundation Email Scandal.
God, we really are going to keep hearing "Hillary Email Scandal" trumpeted out until the heat death of the universe, aren't we?
edited 24th Aug '16 11:12:29 AM by TobiasDrake
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