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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I can totally see Franziska von Karma doing that to a defender.
This is weird. All I hear is how Ace Attorney is inaccurate in depicting the system(justfiable because it wasn't meant to have an American system to begin with), but more and more accuracies pop up.
Forgive me, but that's not very reassuring. The prospect of getting driven further into poverty by economic sanctions because someone decided to show off is not very hopeful.
GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters
"The media has created the perception that the voters will decide the nomination," Curly Haugland said in an interview with CNBC. "That's the conflict here."
"The political parties choose their nominees, not the general public, contrary to popular belief," he added.
Haugland was then asked what the point of holding primaries is if the party can disregard the will of the voters.
"That's a very good question," he responded.
Then... what's the point of primaries at all?
Something to lighten the mood:
Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions wants Congress to declare magic a national treasure
edited 16th Mar '16 11:04:21 AM by sgamer82
Putin may flex his muscles, but Clinton is far too smart to let the nation be drawn into more proxy wars just so she can measure dicks against a tinpot dictator.
Also, if the RNC does toss out the primary vote and handpick a nominee, there will be hell to pay in the actual elections. Who do they think will vote for their candidate if they pull that kind of stunt?
edited 16th Mar '16 11:07:29 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
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They have a similar point to polls. They held the Republican leadership decide which of the candidates is the best candidate for the election, but just like polls can be wrong, they can be wrong or out of touch with the leadership. At least, that's how I'd interpret what they're saying. Really not a good idea, though.
Now that the Sanders candidacy is effectively dead I'll be curious to see what The Young Turks (lord I hate that name) and some of the other hard-left, no compromise, Internet media outfits do. They've spent months now talking about how great Sanders is, and how Clinton is nothing short of the Anti-Christ, and now they're either going to have to accept her candidacy, or be complicit in helping the Republicans win.
Could you possibly be more alarmist?
edited 16th Mar '16 11:11:28 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Solipsist, I'm tempted to thump you. Cut the hysteria, please, or go find some Tumblr hangout to spew that stuff in.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""That's a very good question," he responded.
The resolution doesn’t say what kind of magic we’re dealing with exactly, whether the rabbit-in-the-hat or dark arts variety.
The Sessions staffer explained that the resolution was requested by an apparently influential contingent of magicians back home in Texas, led by Wylie Mayor Eric Hogue, known around town as “the magic mayor.”
If Hogue is any indication, think more cards and sleight-of-hand tricks than witchcraft. Hogue, a former clown who still practices magic, is the author of Clinky The Clown and The Secret of Happyville.
And in news that probably won't surprise any of us, the biggest correlation to supporting Trump is being white, unemployed, and
living in a trailer park. Emphasis mine, full list at the link.
There are other things in common too. When the Census Bureau asks Americans about their ancestors, some respondents don’t give a standard answer like “English” or “German.” Instead, they simply answer “American.” Places where these self-described Americans reside turn out to be the same places Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has done well.
A picture of Trump’s voters as uneducated and nationalistic is taking shape. According to the article, hundreds of demographic and economic variables from census data were compared to examine what factors predict a high level of Trump support. The analysis shows Trump counties as places where white identity mixes with long-simmering economic dysfunctions.
The data reveals more specific correlations, using number one as the perfect match for Trump support. Here are a few of those correlations:
- White with no high school diploma equals correlation 0.61
- Percent reporting ancestry as “American” equals correlation 0.57
- Percent living in a mobile home equals correlation 0.54
- “Old economy” jobs including agriculture, construction, manufacturing equals correlation 0.5
While Trump also has support among the affluent and the well-educated, the data shows that support for him runs the strongest among the proportion of the white population that didn’t finish high school, working-age adults who neither have a job nor are looking for one, and people living in mobile homes. The article concludes:
“’It’s a nonurban, blue-collar and now apparently quite angry population,’ said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. ’They’re not people who have moved around a lot, and things have been changing away from them, but they live in areas that feel stagnant in a lot of ways.’”
Clinton voted for the War on Terror, yes, but that doesn't make her the devil incarnate. It's easy to judge with the benefit of hindsight, especially now that we know the whole "weapons of mass destruction" thing was BS from start to finish, but at the time it wasn't nearly as clear. She made a mistake, and I'm not saying we should ignore that, but she's also copped to it and admitted that it was a mistake and that it's something she regrets.
If you can't support a candidate because they screwed up once even though they admit the mistake and accept fault for it, then you're not looking for a candidate for office, you're looking for a figure of worship.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I'm not worried about proxy wars. I'm worried about pointless economic sanctions that do not damage him in the slightest, but happen to damage me personally. And then Putin's own "counter-sanctions" designed to do the same. Considering Clinton calls for further sanctions on Iran and her statements on Russia I linked from On The Issues.org, this particular dick-measuring contest she'll be happy to be a part of.
I don't know where you keep getting the proxy wars idea, but it's not from my mouth and I'm the only one concerned with this to begin with, apparently.
edited 16th Mar '16 11:20:18 AM by Luminosity
Florida Governor Rick Scott endorses Donald Trump.
Fox News cancels GOP debate after Trump backs out.
edited 16th Mar '16 11:19:38 AM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Clinton helped negotiate the Iranian nuclear deal that resulted in the lifting of sanctions. There's no way she'd call for them to be reapplied after winning office in the absence of some kind of crazy malfeasance on their part. Or rather, if she did, that would be so idiotic that I would be hard pressed to believe it.
As for Russia, I'm afraid, Luminosity, that dealing with Putin is the job of Russians, not Americans. It is painfully defeatist, never mind absurd, to claim that we are responsible for your problems. Oh, and it's exactly what Putin wants you to do, so there's that.
edited 16th Mar '16 11:21:37 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Clinton calls for new sanctions on Iran
Clinton on Saturday praised President Obama for securing the safe return of four U.S. citizens and implementing the Iranian nuclear deal, but warned that all concerns about Iran are not assuaged.
“Iran is still violating UN Security Council resolutions with its ballistic missile program, which should be met with new sanctions designations and firm resolve,” she said.
Hillary Clinton's Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras
Pine, who has worked for many years in Honduras, told Dennis Bernstein of KPFA radio in 2014 that the military forces that carried out the coup were trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly called the U.S. Army School of the Americas) in Fort Benning, Ga. Although the coup was supported by the United States, it was opposed by the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS). The U.N. and the OAS labeled President Manuel Zelaya's ouster a military coup.
"Hillary Clinton was probably the most important actor in supporting the coup [against the democratically elected Zelaya] in Honduras," Pine noted. It took the United States two months to even admit that Honduras had suffered a coup, and it never did admit it was a military coup. That is, most likely, because the Foreign Assistance Act prohibits the U.S. from aiding a country "whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree."
Although the U.S. government eventually cut nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras, the State Department under Clinton took pains to clarify that this was not an admission that a military coup had occurred.
"Hillary Clinton played a huge role in propping up the coup administration," Pine said. "The State Department ensured the coup administration would remain in place through negotiations that they imposed, against the OAS' wish, and through continuing to provide aid and continuing to recognize the coup administration."
"And so if it weren't for Hillary Clinton," Pine added, "basically there wouldn't be this refugee crisis from Honduras at the level that it is today. And Hondurans would be living a very different reality from the tragic one they are living right now."
Before Her Murder, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Criticism
In a video interview, given in Buenos Aires in 2014, Cáceres says it was Clinton who helped legitimate and institutionalize the coup.
The Clinton-brokered election did indeed install and legitimate a militarized regime based on repression. In the interview, Cáceres says that Clinton’s coup-government, under pressure from Washington, passed terrorist and intelligence laws that criminalized political protest.
edited 16th Mar '16 11:28:23 AM by SolipsistOwl
You keep not understanding me at all and it's frankly tiring. I do not want her to try dealing with Putin for precisely this reason. This is exactly why I favor Sanders dove strategy. Am I being clear now?
And Solipist is now accusing Hillary of murder. Nice. Borrowing tactics from the Republicans of 1990s, to attack a Democratic candidate who isn't Our Lord & Saviour, Bernie Sanders.
This is what I meant when I said that while I have nothing against Sanders, I don't like the attitudes in too much of his voter base.
@smokeycut
I should hope so. Again, my interest was less with his voters and more with the parts of the Internet media that have been so firmly behind him.
For months now I've been watching various leftist groups who I normally like (and some like TYT who I have always loathed) throw themselves behind Sanders, and ignore any and all evidence that he didn't really have a chance. The number of "This is how he can still win" vids that get recommended to me on You Tube alone are pretty serious. Now that those hopes are effectively dashed I'll be curious to see how those groups react.
edited 16th Mar '16 11:27:28 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Sanders is expected to do well in the next 7/8 states now that Clinton has run out of conservative voting areas.