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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
With regards to Hillary: Really she should probably win bar one or both of two things happening:
- She gets some actual scandal/crime exposed and or stick to her. Or you know, it's found out she killed someone with a knife.
- The economy tanks.
I think the latter is more likely at the moment the big concern.
edited 4th Jun '16 12:39:22 AM by PotatoesRock
A gun that shoots knives with Hillary Clinton fingerprints all over them. Clearly.
But in all seriousness, you'd need probably a hardcore swiftboating along the lines of, as mentioned, her Goldman Sachs transcripts proving her to be a massive bigot and faking the whole Democrat thing, or at least completely opposed to all financial/Citizens United reform.
Or you know.
She actually killed someone. Ted Cruz style.
Nice to see people so optimistic about Hillary's victory, I get the feeling that any "projection of the future" is a completely moot point. After all, one of the candidates was repeatedly considered to be a joke who could never in hell be able to be chosen by a party - and here we are. Applying "normal politics" reasonings to the Trump/Clinton duel looks outdated to me. It would be like analyzing the populist movements in Europe within the "Red Scare" mindframe, which has been replaced for a while by something different.
I am really glad that it is not my country in this situation. Although it may very well be next year if the stars are aligned like motherfuckers.
The judge should resign from my University scandal case because he's Mexican
I don't have think skin. I have very thick skin!
Oh as if I have to say, who said these things. lol
The top soldier of NATO says that Trump's comments on NATO play into Putin's hands
. Among other people NATO doesn't get along with.
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I suspect that the non-Baptist/non-denominational-evangelical WAS Ps wouldn't last that much longer under Trump either, we'd be considered traitors for supporting minority rights and not condemning people to hell.
edited 4th Jun '16 7:14:24 AM by Silasw
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Where would he go? I feel like no country would want him.
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Because the United States Presidential Election effectively only has two options. To explain, imagine if the situation was reversed... It was an actual far left Stalinist communist demagogue, one who completely fit the conservative stereotype of a liberal, who became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party while the nominee of the Republican Party ended up being Jeb Bush. Would you choose four years of Jeb Bush over someone who wants to remake the United States into the Soviet Union?
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