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math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#116201: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:44:59 PM

Advice.

At the end of the day, they still don't set that policy - whoever becomes Clinton's foreign policy Secretary will be doing that.

This is really at the heart of the whole Presidential debate - what people tend to forget is that the election of a President is important, and they absolutely set the done for the decisions of their cabinet, but they're still part of a cabinet and a party, and still part of Congress, which is ultimately the organ that makes the decisions.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#116202: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:45:35 PM

Can you name one instance where Clinton either voted against or otherwise opposed any use of American force? I'm pretty sure she's always voted for war.

[down]Clinton's record suggests she follows conservative foreign policy advice to a tee.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:47:44 PM by SolipsistOwl

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#116203: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:46:49 PM

This may come as a shock to you, but firms often give different answers to different questions depending on who is asking.

Also getting advice from someone is not the same as heeding that advice, which if you compared the Clinton and Cruz foreign policies, you'd note they obviously have not all done. One of Clinton or Cruz clearly did not take the company's advice, otherwise their policies would be the same, which they are not.

That's a little trick the rest of us call logical deduction.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:47:21 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#116204: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:47:51 PM

[up][up]You make a claim. You prove that she never did. Burden of Proof is on you here.

"You can reply to this Message!"
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#116205: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:55:12 PM

Sanders may still win. In short, the worst, most conservative states are behind him, and lots of folks intend to vote for him on the coming states. Plus, Sanders shows electability, since independent voters chose him overwhelmingly over Clinton. Is HRC secretly an Underwood? Don't know, don't care. But she's a war hawk, and she likes designating enemies and threats. As a Middle Eastern guy, I don't like US war hawks.

Here's to hope. (suggestively eats a slice of pizza)

[down] I don't think the forum rules allow me to say where it's from.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:57:10 PM by Luminosity

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#116206: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:56:17 PM

I feel like I know your avatar from somewhere now that you mention it. But I can't quite place it.

And now I want pizza.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:56:28 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#116207: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:56:44 PM

Solipsist Owl, I'm curious.

You don't actually post on any other thread but this one and you've never edited the wiki. Mud-slinging at Clinton is literally the only thing you do on this site. Are you a Sanders propagandist? Or, alternately, for one of the Republicans?

edited 16th Mar '16 12:57:14 PM by TobiasDrake

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#116208: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:57:14 PM

Blast it, LeGarcon, I was about to say that! (That being I want pizza.) tongue

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#116209: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:58:14 PM

We should organize a TV Tropes pizza party.

That way all of us east coast tropers can judge everyone else.

And Lumin you know you can PM me if you want.

edited 16th Mar '16 12:58:40 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#116210: Mar 16th 2016 at 12:59:12 PM

[up]x5 Why aren't you allowed to mention where it's from?

Oh God! Natural light!
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#116211: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:00:01 PM

@SolipsistOwl

As many others have already said, you have a very noticeable ax to grind against Hilary Clinton. While I can not speak for anyone else, I personally gloss over anything you post when I see Clinton's name in it because, while the text may be different, they usually amount to some form of Clinton BAD and that sort of knee jerk response to anything involving a side or candidate is precisely the thing I personally loathe about politics.

You claim to be stating facts, while others note you do so in a way that still implicates Clinton of scumbaggery.

With all of that in mind, there is a question I'd like to ask you: What, in your opinion, has Hillary Rodham Clinton done right?

Someone involved in politics as long as she has can not possibly have an entirely negative track record and survive like she has. There may some logical fallacy in my reasoning, but so be it. If you genuinely want me, if not others who might be convinced, to take any Clinton posts of yours seriously, then I need to know that you aren't just "Hillary BAD"

edited 16th Mar '16 1:01:40 PM by sgamer82

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
(•̀⤙•́)
#116212: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:00:02 PM

[up][up]It's April O'Neil from TMNT but the bottom of the picture implies her shirt's raised above her breasts, so it's probably a cropped porn image.

edited 16th Mar '16 1:00:41 PM by TobiasDrake

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#116213: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:02:37 PM

[up] Ah, okay.

...Isn't that the design she has in the newest show? How old is she there, again?

Oh God! Natural light!
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
#116214: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:04:31 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]Because it is from a porn artist that really likes to push some boundaries.his name 

[down]I think I've seen a porn parody of the US elections somewhere...

Haha! I knew it! Only Huffpo to make an article about it. Hustler also made one with all Republican nominees also.

edited 16th Mar '16 1:13:40 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#116215: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:06:22 PM

Can we not talk about porn in the US politics thread?

Unless it's about a Bern/Hill/Trump: XXX Yuuuge White House Edition or something.

That totally on-topic.

Yep.

edited 16th Mar '16 1:07:27 PM by Ekuran

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#116217: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:09:32 PM

Hillary x Trump's Toupee, I ship it.

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#116218: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:16:33 PM

DID SOMEONE SAY SEXY POLITICS PORN PARODY!?

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#116219: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:17:21 PM

[up] I've been waiting for you to spawn any minute since the moment the discussion went there.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#116220: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:18:30 PM

Well, the Taiwanese animators did make this (mildly NSFW) after Nevada.

Schild und Schwert der Partei
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
#116221: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:19:07 PM

Trump and Clinton-here's the smoking gun-are both blond!
Trump's toupee is blond. I'm not sure about the man himself, seeing as how lizard people don't normally have hair of any color.
We should organize a TV Tropes pizza party.
I'm in. Anyone want to meet up and eat pizza on a San Diego beach?
Can we not talk about porn in the US politics thread?
It's like an avocado had sex with an older, uglier avocado. Not gently, either, it was like hate-fucking.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#116222: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:20:09 PM

So ho many primaries and caucuses are left now? Have Sanders' chances been sunk or not?

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#116223: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:21:06 PM

New York's is coming up. I know Hillary will win, but I'm voting for Sanders just in case.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#116224: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:21:38 PM

I would host the pizza party, but we have enough tourists coming into our state to sample our "pizza" and I refuse to be responsible for a bunch more. tongue

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#116225: Mar 16th 2016 at 1:21:57 PM

This criticism about Clinton being a war hawk is funny, because everyone from outside the United States is like

"Guys. Guys. Clinton is not a war hawk. All of you fucking are and have always fucking been and we are fucking used to it"

I've been waiting for you to spawn any minute since the moment the discussion went there.

Next thing you will accuse me of is of recognizing your avatar from the second I saw it, gosh.

edited 16th Mar '16 1:24:01 PM by Aszur

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

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