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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump supporter pulls a gun on 6 kids aged 12-14 he suspected of trashing his Trump sign.
Obviously kids shouldn't destroy people's property, but this makes Trump supporters look, well, immature.
Kubek said he just "wanted to scare the kids" with the gun, according to the newspaper. He had seen his house egged and his signs damaged the previous week, the News-Herald reported.
Egging houses? Yeah, that's also immature. Really annoyed at the nastiness this election is bringing out in people.
The Onion: Nate Silver Gunned Down Attempting To Cross Mexican Border With All 2016 Polling Data
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It's articles like this that Make Election 2016 Great Again.
Everybody's favourite Chinese state-run media Global Times gives an idea what the CCP think of the US presidential election.
Last night, as part of a segment about conspiracy theories
, Colbert urged people to share a story (that he made up) that the Clinton campaign secretly bought an apartment beneath Trump's campaign HQ so they could bug it.
Now, this is rather hilarious in a "make fun of the dumb conspiracy believers" sort of way, but I worry that it might actually influence some people. /sigh
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Double Post: Melania Trump's stirring speech yesterday about civility and the American dream appears to have plagiarized significant portions from Trump's second wife, Marla Maples, in a quote published by a magazine in the 90's. It was discovered by reporters searching Google. Yes, that evil liberal conspiracy that is Google.
Citation
, among many.
edited 4th Nov '16 12:39:28 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
x6 Even worse, the kids claimed they didn't vandalize anything, and the guy himself admitted he didn't actually see them do anything. They were likely just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It really seems like the GOP, Trump, and Trump supporters have all gone completely batshit crazy in the last few days. I mean they were already nuts, but now they're practically frothing at the mouth rabid.
Disgusted, but not surprisedI don't support egging houses or indeed any form of vandalism. However, if you stoke the fires of hate, don't be surprised when they burn down your own house.
edited 4th Nov '16 12:55:20 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"There's a house near where I work that has Trump - Pence signs up. Apparently they've had a similar problem with the signs being messed with, because they've nailed a banner up that reads, "LYING, CHEATING DEMOCRAT HYPOCRITES KEEP STEALING OUR SIGNS"
When I saw the article, for a second, I thought it might have been them. But no, it's in NY.
edited 4th Nov '16 12:58:59 PM by TobiasDrake
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In other words, the one who started it gets the lion's share of the blame. As it should be.
edited 4th Nov '16 1:00:43 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Yeah, China's completely unimpressed with Trump. It's even said, in response to his climate stance, that "a true leader would think that the majority of the world reaching a consensus should be taken in account to policy" or something like that.
I swear, if we end up burning every diplomatic bridge because Trump can't keep his mouth shut... People criticized Obama for doing things like bowing to the Saudi King and other crap but at least he kept most of our diplomatic relations solid.
edited 4th Nov '16 1:24:40 PM by theLibrarian
Where I live, houses with Clinton/Kaine signs have been vandalized and had their signs stolen and replaced with Trump/Pence signs. Like a bunch of kids throwing tantrums. . .
While the militias are swearing they'll be "watching" our polling locales I haven't seen much else from them yet. They are heavily harassing the local democrat offices though, approaching their employees and volunteers whenever they see them and accosting them. A local gun shop with Klan links tried to publish what they alleged was a list of names, phones numbers, and addresses of local democrat employees but they quickly took it down. They've insinuated that they've distributed it to their own, and from what I've seen through the area with their harassment seems to be something of a confirmation.
You know I was actually thinking about doing something like that, if my computer had Photoshop: Taking that political cartoon of Joseph Mc Carthy trampling people on the street while going "It's okay, we're hunting Communists!' and replacing Mc Carthy with trump and "Communists" with any number of other people he's insulted.
30 Trump voters expressing their view.
Citing Chris Rock "Keeping it real...real dumb".
edited 4th Nov '16 2:59:12 PM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesMeanwhile, in Germany.
edited 4th Nov '16 2:58:08 PM by TerminusEst
Si Vis Pacem, Para PerkeleI believe that's an article from last year, though.
I wonder if any of them have since changed their minds.
Edit: Also, Judge: NC counties must restore voters removed from rolls
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edited 4th Nov '16 3:17:34 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!You think that's stupid? There's a new conspiracy theory via Trump fans that the Hillary campaign participates in Satanic rituals.
{Reads through the last page or two of the thread.}
Just five more days. Just five more days. Just five more days...

In case you needed more motivation to get Clinton into the Oval Office, let me remind you that Trump would likely dump the Paris accords on climate change.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/trump-scrap-paris-climate-deal-1.3835616
In other words, the future of the Earth is in the hands of the American electorate this Tuesday. No pressure guys.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.