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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#112776: Feb 22nd 2016 at 8:50:13 AM

I've always maintained that King of the Hill is a documentary.

Oh really when?
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#112777: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:08:28 AM

Trump is now questioning Rubio's eligibility to be president. Its generally accepted that he was born in Miami to Cuban parents (who later became American citizens) but that's not going to stop the Donald.

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35632853

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#112778: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:13:13 AM

Has Trump procured his birth certificate?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#112779: Feb 22nd 2016 at 10:20:55 AM

His mother was Scottish after all.tongue

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#112780: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:23:33 AM

Wow, Trump wants to win the nomination by default, having disqualified all the other candidates for technical reasons. He really is not used to fair fights, is he? I'm no fan of Rubio (or Cruz for that matter), but Trump is trying to poison the race in a way that I've never seen before.

edited 22nd Feb '16 11:24:21 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#112781: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:30:34 AM

I think it's all bluster. Current polling says he doesn't really need to bust down Cruz and Rubio, it just feeds into the Birther image, which is the brand that he really pushed into the spotlight in 2009, as well as the general anti-immigrant anti-hispanic line.

But Trump should come out of Super Tuesday in a very dominant position. Most of the Super Tuesday states reward delegates proportionally, so even in states where he won't win (like Texas), he'll still get more strength.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#112782: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:46:02 AM

[up][up][up][up][up] No American is 100% American unless they are a Native American. Most white Americans descended from Europeans, particularly Germans, black Americans descended from West Africans, etc.

edited 22nd Feb '16 11:58:19 AM by Bat178

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#112783: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:48:26 AM

[up]You know, I get what you're trying to say but you do realize the problems with that statement right?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#112784: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:50:30 AM

Eh, America is much more diverse than that.

Oh really when?
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#112785: Feb 22nd 2016 at 11:59:00 AM

[up]I concur, never met so many people with different backgrounds in two months living in the US than I did at my homeland in years.

[down]Go deep down long enough and everyone on Earth outside Africa are immigrants.

edited 22nd Feb '16 12:08:40 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#112786: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:03:18 PM

[up][up][up][up] The Native Americans migrated from Asia though

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#112787: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:14:08 PM

Buncha dirty Siberians, the whole lot. tongue

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#112788: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:18:45 PM

Even Africa had its own massive migration fluxes.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#112789: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:21:15 PM

We're all Africans originally. tongue

But yeah, Trump isn't trying to disqualify directly, but spread enough doubt that there's a bit too much Canadian and Cuban in Cruz and Rubio's blood that. You just can't trust them. They might not actually be legal. Best to avoid sketchy guys with funny surnames. Vote for Trump Steaks.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#112791: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:36:48 PM

About that "birther"-mongering by Trump. Based on some polls in 2009, there was a fair amount - almost half to one quarter in some surveys - of Republicans polled which believed Obama was born outside of the US. My suspicion is that the birther theory is sufficiently widespread that one could use it as a campaign topic there.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112792: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:36:58 PM

Rubio is fairly unpopular with the GOP base. He has (I think) the lowest support from Millennials out of the remaining candidates.

The GOP would lose with him as their nominee.

edited 22nd Feb '16 12:40:22 PM by SolipsistOwl

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#112793: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:44:14 PM

All I can think of with the "We're all from Africa originally" statement is that white supremacist who was told, on live TV, that he was 14% sub-Saharan African. He immediately chalked it up to "Statistical Noise", but everyone knew that was BS - the black woman seated next to him laughing her ass off is the best part of that clip.

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112794: Feb 22nd 2016 at 12:52:05 PM

even in states where [Trump] won't win (like Texas)
You sure about that? People said the same thing about New Hampshire, yet he walked away with that one.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#112795: Feb 22nd 2016 at 1:31:07 PM

Well, Ted Cruz theoretically has the home field advantage here, like supposedly everyone who goes to campaign in their state of residence. We'll see, I guess.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#112796: Feb 22nd 2016 at 2:28:50 PM

Only half of Americans believe the nation has the strongest Military on Earth. Even weirder, 2/3rd's continue to support the hegemony, this probably mean that "America Fuck Yeah" is prevalent far beyond white Southerners.

And yet more strange, more American were confident about our strength during the Bush presidency, yes even as we were globally despised and fighting a loosing war in Iraq and Afghanistan, though at least for the confidence at the end we had the fact that the US was perceived as having emerged victories after the surge.

Some of this may be recent technological advances made by Russia and China, but the article attributes it to Republicans constantly saying we are loosing, and Democrats, due to their reluctance to use force, not playing up our strength.

Hawkishness on foreign policy is where the GOP will emerge from the abyss, especially in the event of a Sanders presidency. His social and economic programs may very well succeed and be popular, but I expect Putin and Xi to run rough shot over him in ways they would never even do to Obama, who both held in contempt as a "weakling."

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A procrastination in of itself
#112797: Feb 22nd 2016 at 2:37:06 PM

Over half of Americans belive something that's factual accurate? Stop the presses.

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#112798: Feb 22nd 2016 at 2:37:39 PM

[up] For people unfamiliar with our actual military capabilities to think we don't have the most powerful? Unsurprising. We've spent the last eight years with Faux News leading a trumpet charge to play up every single failure overseas, to decry Iraq and Afghanistan as military failures surpassing Vietnam, to play Benghazi as some kind of furious Zerg Rush that flattened our brave soldiers into pavement smears. Given that one percent (barely) of the country has served in the military, why would they know that our actual capabilities in terms of ships sailing, planes flying, and guns shooting, is pretty close to the same as it was 15 years ago?

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#112799: Feb 22nd 2016 at 2:39:02 PM

They think he's not strong in the real way, huh? That's hilarious, in a very pitiful way. Doubly funny as the GOP keep screaming that he's a brutal, oppressive, fearsome tyrant. Who knows exactly what he's doing.

edited 22nd Feb '16 2:40:08 PM by TheHandle

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pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#112800: Feb 22nd 2016 at 2:44:32 PM

If Trump is still playing the "birther" card, Bill Mahr is still waiting for Trump to submit to DNA testing, to determine if he was sired by an orange-haired orangutan.

It's an old joke, I admit, but since Trump isn't getting any new material either...

edited 22nd Feb '16 2:46:20 PM by pwiegle

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