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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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"Consciously or not" yeah, right. If you go to r/Politics, and check the recent history, the last month was filled to the brim with Breitbart and Fox News articles about Benghazi, her e-mails ( dear God, her e-mails), voter fraud, Nancy Reagan or some other manufactured controversy.
And that's excluding straight-up conspiracy theories like Hillary being a George Soros shill, e.t.c.
edited 16th Mar '16 3:50:22 PM by LogoP
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.Reddit is reddit, using it (or any other social media platform) to measure what supporters of a candidate believe is madness.
That's why I keep asking for actual proof that Sanders supporters are actually doing/believing the things that it's said they're doing/believing. Because soi far it looks like a self perpetuating meme based of what some people on reddit are doing.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
don't Cruz and Kasich only have a chance because the Republican may decide Screw the Rules, I Make Them!?
Now Florida Governor and most-likely-to-win-a-Voldemort-lookalike-contest Rick Scott has endorsed Trump and does not quite disagree with Trump's "Muslims hate us"
comment and Trump is promising riots if he's not the nominee. God, just listening to recaps of what comes out of the man's mouth is making me sick.
Rick Scott isn't a Voldemort lookalike, he's Lex Luthor made into a real person.
Anyway, the CNN article didn't mention it, but he actually got kicked off
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for refusing to answer the question. The video is glorious. (Skip to about 2:05 for the relevant bit.)
I hate Rick Scott more than is probably healthy.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.![]()
Hey now, comparing Supervillain extraordinaire Lex Luthor to that ass face is uncalled for and insulting.
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Some of Bernie's fans insist the worst is behind him, now that he has cleared the most "conservative", and I can't help but not this seems to be said with a hint of elitist derision Bernie would not approve of, parts of the Democratic electorate, namely the South. Personally I say if he can't win decisively in the rust belt he can't win anywhere.
Edit: After seeing the depths of hatred that exist at my school, and around this forum for Hillary Clinton, and seeing as Donald Trump is, well Donald Trump, I predict neither candidate will be able to govern effectively. Clinton may have a few accomplishments here or their, adding some new stuff to Obama care. Most of her accomplishments will be in the field of foreign policy, something nobody gives a shit about. Hell she may have great triumphs their, but in the end she will be the same as the man her husband defeated, a person beloved by nerds unable to appeal to the common man, and only running as a connotation of a more popular President, she will only last one term.
Trump will at best be stymied at every term and make an absolute ass of himself on the world stage. He will became for us as Boris Yeltsin was for Russia. An embodiment of all of our nations worst stereotypes that will not go away. He will only last one term, ether swallowed up by an America turning to the left, or overthrown by the same wave of hate that brought him into office, replaced by somebody even crazier.
All and all it will end with the whole house of cards crashing down to lay bare the broken husk that is the US political system. I don't expect the Constitution itself to survive my lifetime, and in some ways I want it out of the way already.
edited 16th Mar '16 8:00:55 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.It's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us in Britain
Not US, but just as relevant here. The double standard the "free market" ideologues have is pretty blatant. It's almost like they're making up just-so stories.
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Speaking as someone who has no particular aversion to conservative Dems, it is factually correct that the lion's share of delegates in prior states were from ones in which the Dems are more conservative than the party at large, and that the lion's share of delegates in future states are from the ones in which the blues are very blue.
edited 16th Mar '16 8:07:09 PM by darksidevoid
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I'll vote for Hillary over the GOP nominee, but I don't blame a lot of people for not liking her. Between her spotty record and the way the DNC has been shilling for her, I get why a lot progressives are mumbling under their breath.
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged today and lowered its economic forecasts after a turbulent start to the year in financial markets and lackluster U.S. growth persuaded the central bank to reassess the timing and magnitude of its plan to raise rates.
edited 16th Mar '16 3:56:19 PM 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.