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#101052: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:06:09 AM

[up]It's probably more accurate to say that Trump failed a very long time ago.

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#101053: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:06:21 AM

We all win with Trump, he is making sure the Republicans are non votable.

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#101054: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:07:18 AM

I don't have enough confidence in that to agree and continue to fear the possibility that Trump will win the Presidency.

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#101055: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:08:45 AM

[up][up] Which is exactly why I'm hoping anyone else gets the nomination.

Leviticus 19:34
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#101056: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:14:36 AM

[up][up]With the amount of voters Trump has been able to alienate, I am sure the sizable amounts of latin americans in the US would vote democrat out of spite would outnumber the morons who think Trump's deportation policy is a good idea.

Trump and the Reps are throwing the women, blacks and latino voters right towards the Dems.

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#101057: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:15:57 AM

Relevant Trump-ish discussion from earlier today:

new girl: I don't care about the debates.

Hardcore Tea Partier: You should care, this is your future!

Me: If you're not paying attention to what's going on with politicians, even a little, you'll end up with someone who will do even worse than a Kim Kardashian presidency.

Her: I would totally vote for Kim!

Me & TPer: *exit stage right*

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#101058: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:18:01 AM

My biggest fear about Trump is that his Chewbacca Defense of a campaign will so thoroughly alienate the country that they'll scramble into a mad panic voting for anyone who isn't him, resulting in a largely divided opposition in which Trump gets, like, 20% of the votes as a result of his hardcare fanbase but beats out six other people who each got 13% or something.

We need a unifying force against Trump.

edited 17th Sep '15 9:18:44 AM by TobiasDrake

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#101059: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:26:34 AM

[up]Which is we must vote for Mickey Mouse. He can run a theme park, he can run a country.

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#101060: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:43:27 AM

...is there a rule against the President being foreign royalty, provided he was born in the U.S.?

edited 17th Sep '15 9:43:39 AM by TobiasDrake

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#101061: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:45:54 AM

The only rules on who can be President are that they must be a natural-born U.S. citizen, be at least 35 years old, and have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years.

edited 17th Sep '15 9:46:17 AM by Fighteer

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#101062: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:46:44 AM

I think there's something against accepting foreign titles and positions somewhere

Oh really when?
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#101063: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:49:03 AM

Has Donald Trump ever been corrupt? My Gym teacher said that he was the one politician he was sure was not corrupt. Trump supporters, or at least sympathizers, are real, they are at my school. THE WORLD IS GOING MAD!!!

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#101064: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:52:18 AM

[up][up]That just means they can't be president and a monarch at the same time. They can still be of royal blood.

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#101065: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:54:48 AM

[up][up]He's bankrupted numerous businesses and walked away with the profits. And if memory serves Jeb just said during the debate that Trump tried to bribe him before.

Trump's response was basically saying that if he did try to bribe him then he'd have gotten Jeb in his pocket by now.

Oh really when?
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#101066: Sep 17th 2015 at 9:57:12 AM

Dunno why we're talking about Trump still. He didn't do well at all this debate. Carson looked asleep. Huckabee was forgotten.

This was the Fiorina show with special help from Rubio and Bush.

Kasich continues to be the only one on that particular stage I would even consider electing president though.

Everyone else muddled. Not bad. Not good.

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#101068: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:06:26 AM

If Fiorina and Clinton win their respective primaries, the 2016 election will be between two female candidates.

Is it bad if I want this to happen?

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#101070: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:07:48 AM

Kasich is what the Republicans should be: someone with broadly different policy platforms who doesn't feel like they're from another reality.

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#101071: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:09:41 AM

I don't understand Carson's appeal. I kinda get why some people might like Trump, but Carson? The man has no oratory skills, no personal charisma and barely any cohesive ideas or policies, not even over-the-top crazy ones. Really, he's playing the exact same game as any desperate career politician — that of spouting vague, noncommittal right-wing jargon — except he's incredibly bad at it.

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#101072: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:11:38 AM

[up] He's the token black of the Republicans, people point to him to show they are not racist. Plus maybe he used his neurosurgeon skills to rewire the brains of some of his voters[lol]

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#101073: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:11:56 AM

He's nicer about it. He gets backing from the usual sources, but the part he's monopolizing are those who want a less antagonistic debate in the GOP.

He's the polar opposite of Cruz, presentation-wise, in short.

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#101074: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:23:39 AM

He is a neurosurgeon and dem brains be is sum impressive things by lawdy yall cant tell nyuoor-eau sur-jeen is big smarts, likea dem rockit scientists!

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101075: Sep 17th 2015 at 10:28:14 AM

What's Fiorina like? She's the only name I don't recognize.


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