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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#119951: Apr 24th 2016 at 11:22:29 AM

Everyone else had even worse clowns running their shows.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#119952: Apr 24th 2016 at 11:22:46 AM

Short answer: Because the USSR flatly refused to believe that economics actually matters when running a superpower.

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#119953: Apr 24th 2016 at 11:26:40 AM

[up][up][up]To answer a rhetorical question:

1) North America has a lot of resources.

2) America entered both World Wars later and was never invaded during these wars, thus losing less in these wars.

3) America draws a lot of immigrants to it, and thus a lot of talented people end up in the US.

4) American entrepreneurship encourages innovation and thus better industry.

edited 24th Apr '16 11:26:58 AM by Protagonist506

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#119954: Apr 24th 2016 at 11:31:04 AM

And the US back before was not run by clowns.

Also, Fed-up GOP mega-donors sitting on their checkbooks. Apparently some of them are asking why the money they threw into pro-Bush or pro-Rubio PACs was for naught. One consequence is that Democrats - both Hillary and Sanders - have built up fundraising operations and donor lists that dwarf the Republican candidates' ones.

Obama pushes trade deal during stop in Germany. As we used to say in Germany, he's trying to peddle acid beer.

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#119955: Apr 24th 2016 at 11:52:02 AM

[up][up] America was invaded by the Japanese in WWII via the Aleutian Islands, but the Japanese were quickly defeated.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#119956: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:20:35 PM

[up] That hardly even counts as an invasion as it was one group/plane of very few people that was never even reported until years after the war was over.

[up][up] Someone finally learned that there's only so much that money can do in regards to politics. I knew the saturation effect would get discovered at some point. The question, of course, is now what are they gonna do since Trump clearly isn't going away?

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#119957: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:28:10 PM

If the theme of the GOP becomes wealthy candidates self-funding their campaigns, the donor class is going to have a collective freak-out.

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#119958: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:32:22 PM

[up][up][up][up]is that a real German phrase? cos I'm stealing it

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#119959: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:35:41 PM

The GOP donors have suddenly lost the ability to buy elections. Lulz ensue.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#119960: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:38:26 PM

"Trying to sell something like acid beer" is a German idiom that means "trying to sell something nobody wants to have".

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#119961: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:38:45 PM

[up][up]They may start continue funding Democrats who are willing to move towards the center-right, in which case one of the two remaining factions (progressive left, reactionary right) is going to become completely marginalized.

edited 24th Apr '16 12:39:14 PM by Fighteer

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#119962: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:46:38 PM

Like so? However.

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A procrastination in of itself
#119963: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:54:47 PM

If the money shifts to within the Democratic Party then we may see a shift of some other money. The big donners going to right leaning Dems may mean that left leaning donners, who previously backed right leaning Dems for reasons of practicality, would be able to shift their funding to left leaning Dems.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#119965: Apr 24th 2016 at 12:57:15 PM

I am concerned that Koch may still participate in the congressional election.

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#119966: Apr 24th 2016 at 1:01:52 PM

'course he will. The Republican Party isn't split this way downticket. (More precisely, that fight happened in 2010-2012 with the primarying.)

edited 24th Apr '16 1:07:37 PM by Ramidel

nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#119967: Apr 24th 2016 at 3:46:28 PM

So....other than being terrible human beings, what is preventing the donor class from self-funding themselves in the elections?

edited 24th Apr '16 3:46:53 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#119968: Apr 24th 2016 at 3:53:32 PM

Because they just want to make money for their hookers and blow by getting other people to do the work for them, they don't actually want to work for it.

Trump is anomaly, but he's only doing this due to his massively overinflated ego.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#119969: Apr 24th 2016 at 3:58:18 PM

[up][up]The fact that Trump is almost certain to either get shot down at the convention or flame out in the general might have something to do with it.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#119970: Apr 24th 2016 at 4:39:34 PM

I'm going ot ask a quick but dumb question: When everyone here says "downticket", does that refer to the elections below President like Congress on both national and state levels?

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#119971: Apr 24th 2016 at 4:50:57 PM

Yep.

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A procrastination in of itself
#119974: Apr 24th 2016 at 10:01:42 PM

Fascists tend to get that reaction from people.

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#119975: Apr 24th 2016 at 10:12:19 PM

Is Trump a bona-fide fascist, though? He looks more like a populist asshole to me.

edited 24th Apr '16 10:12:27 PM by desdendelle

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