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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#115801: Mar 15th 2016 at 12:13:04 AM

A bit random, but I figured I'd share to bring some laughs:

MAKE YOUR GARAGE GREAT AGAIN!!!

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#115802: Mar 15th 2016 at 12:29:35 AM

The Clinton thing is a non-story. One racist supporting her is not the same as the Klan robocalling for Trump.

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#115803: Mar 15th 2016 at 12:47:04 AM

Kek. It's getting better.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#115804: Mar 15th 2016 at 1:12:55 AM

This is non-politics news, but the Texas Department of Transportation is shutting down I-10 at the Texas-Louisiana border due to the Sabin River flooding.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#115805: Mar 15th 2016 at 1:13:54 AM

Now all we need is a bunch of crackpot occultists and a Doctor obsessed with Twins.

FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#115806: Mar 15th 2016 at 3:03:03 AM

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to lodge a complaint about that political cartoon on the last page, Steve Bell is the best political cartoonist, not some no good jumped up colonial!

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darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#115807: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:17:27 AM

Well, got my I Voted sticker. That's the only reason I care about this stuff, you know.

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FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#115808: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:21:45 AM

you colonials get stickers for voting?

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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#115809: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:26:42 AM

[up]Gotta motivate them somehow, since for an alarming amount of Americans, the vote means jack shit.

darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#115810: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:30:49 AM

Hey, need to be so cynical about it. Stickers are great positive reinforcement and encourage others to vote by proxy. Plus, they're just neat. Who doesn't love stickers?

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FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#115811: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:53:00 AM

someone with an allergy to sticker glue?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#115812: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:23:21 AM

There are a few more primaries today if memory serves. Florida, Illinois and Ohio, yes?

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#115813: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:30:33 AM

Mostly I go so I can grab a bit of candy.

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Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#115814: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:45:33 AM

[up][up]NC as well.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#115815: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:48:47 AM

Stickers are tacky (in the taste sense).

Keep Rolling On
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#115816: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:57:20 AM

Stickers kick ass. That's why I'm going today.

Oh really when?
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#115817: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:57:27 AM

There are a few more primaries today if memory serves. Florida, Illinois and Ohio, yes?

And North Carolina, as said above. Ohio and Florida are crucial states that often determine the winner of a general election, and North Carolina has become a battleground state torn between Republicans and Democrats over the course of the last decade. So today is a really serious test for the candidates.

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Lost in Space
#115818: Mar 15th 2016 at 6:29:59 AM

I'm not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but Rachel Maddow covered last night that Rubio urged his supporters in Ohio to vote for Kasich in an attempt to freeze out Trump. If he was hoping that his rivals would return the favor with respect to Florida, he was apparently out of luck. The campaigns are pulling their ads because Trump has it solidly locked up.

edited 15th Mar '16 6:41:12 AM by Fighteer

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SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#115819: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:13:35 AM

Florida Attorney General Endorses Trump After Taking His Money and Backing Off Trump University Investigation

Donald Trump just won a key endorsement going into Tuesday’s Florida primary: the state’s attorney general, Pam Bondi.

But her bigger favor to Trump may have been her decision in 2013 not to pursue an investigation of Trump’s for-profit education chain after he made a big donation to her re-election campaign.

As Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel reported at the time, Bondi announced in September 2013 that her office was reviewing a series of complaints related to the Trump Institute of Boca Raton, a for-profit education company that is no longer in operation. Three days after the report that Bondi was considering joining other states’ attorneys general in taking action against Trump’s for-profit education chain, the real estate mogul dumped $25,000 into a committee organized for Bondi’s re-election. Bondi ended up taking no action.

The Bitter Pill #NeverTrump Is Struggling To Swallow: Supporting Hillary

For those who mean — seriously — #Never Trump, a Trump nomination gives them three options: support Clinton, pray for a third party option or sit out all together.

“For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be,” Robert Kagan, a neoconservative intellectual, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that called Trump the “GOP’s Frankenstein monster.”

Neocon defenders of George W. Bush, like Kagan, have been among the most vocal in their opposition of Trump, who used former President Bush to ruthlessly mock his brother Jeb in the 2016 race. Many of them signed a letter calling Trump “utterly unfitted” to be a commander-in-chief whose election they would work "energetically" to block. But the neocons are split when it comes to voting for Clinton to do so.

Eliot Cohen, an alum of Bush’s State Department, called Clinton “the lesser evil, by a large margin,” in an interview with Politico. He added that a Trump presidency would be an “unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy,” and that, while he was still hoping for a third candidate, he would “probably” support Clinton “if absolutely no alternative.”

Max Boot — a Republican who has advised a number of GOP presidential campaigns — told Vox that Clinton “would be vastly preferable to Trump.’”

“I'm not wild about Hillary, and I think she has a lot of weaknesses,” he said, noting that Rubio was his preference. “But at least Clinton is informed and serious on foreign policy issues.”

Some moderate Republicans have had an easier time coming to terms with the fact that they might cast a ballot in Clinton’s favor. Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman has said she will support Clinton over Trump.

“While I certainly don’t want four more years of another Clinton administration or more years of the Obama administration, I would take that over the kind of damage that I think that Donald Trump could do to this country, to its reputation, to the people of this country,” she told Bloomberg. Former Republican senator and ex-RNC chair Mel Martinez (R-FL), meanwhile, told the Wall Street Journal he could have supported a Democratic ticket led by Vice President Joe Biden over Trump, but ruled out voting for Clinton.

“If forced into a choice between Clinton and Trump, I will prefer Hillary Clinton. The future of the entire conservative movement is at stake, and a Clinton victory over Trump might be the only hope of saving it,” conservative writer Tom Nichols wrote in The Federalist.

“Conservatives can recover from four, or even eight, years of Hillary Clinton,” he continued. Pointing to the wave of legislative seats the GOP won under Obama’s two terms, he added, “We might even flourish.”

edited 15th Mar '16 7:30:33 AM by SolipsistOwl

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#115820: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:21:59 AM

[up] Florida needs a new Attorney General, fast. Before she decides to build a wall around that massive wang of a state. (No offense to anyone living in Florida - your state is a perfectly decent wang.)

Conservaties going for Clinton - funny, I just talked about how Trump indirectly yet massively helps Clinton by scaring off all the "moderate" conservatives into voting for her.

edited 15th Mar '16 7:23:03 AM by Luminosity

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#115821: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:31:54 AM

Now, as long as Democrats don't stay home/throw a fit and vote GOP to "save" their movement, we're golden. And considering the polarization in the US, that shouldn't be an issue. The biggest issue is Reagan/Blue Dog Democrats (if there are any left) going Republican if Sanders wins I think. Second biggest potential problem is Sanders voters staying home if Clinton wins.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#115822: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:45:35 AM

I got my sticker today grin

Oh really when?
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#115823: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:54:57 AM

@KKK My goodness they are trying so hard to be relevant.

@last 20 pages Yeah im not reading all of you

@ Trump Militia A LION!?!?! THERE ARENT EVEN ANY LIONS IN THE WHOLE AMERICAN CONTINENT YOU GODDAMN IDIOTS

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Lost in Space
#115824: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:56:15 AM

[up] It's okay; 90% of the content is the endless Bernie vs Hillary arguments. "We can't trust her." "He's got unrealistic ideas." "She's a tool of a corrupt system." "You're cherry-picking." "His supporters are dicks." Ad nauseam.

edited 15th Mar '16 7:57:29 AM by Fighteer

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A nice butterfly
#115825: Mar 15th 2016 at 7:58:21 AM

Sounds like average.

Anyways, today is supposed to be another sort of super tuesday, right? Later tonight we get results for more primaries, or am I greatly mistaken once again?

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