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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#131226: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:08:30 PM

He's probably still burning over the whole Zodiac Killer thing. That seriously got under his skin.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#131227: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:09:28 PM

[up][up]In other words he's a coward who won't risk his position by taking a stand.

[up]That, and Trump went after his wife.

edited 20th Jul '16 6:09:44 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#131228: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:25:14 PM

[up]Or he's been bullied into accepting "if you're not with us, you're with Hillary." Which is apparently what Christie was telling him (I forget if it was Politico or ABC where I saw it).

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#131229: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:32:46 PM

Cid: It's more than just four years. The next president will nominate several Supreme Court Justices. The damage they can do could take decades to reverse.

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
#131230: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:49:21 PM

Also Trump could do irreparable damage to the US's diplomatic situation. He may well withdraw from East Asia (possibly also putting South Korea's security at threat) and would likely piss Europe off so much that NATO could fall apart.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#131231: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:50:45 PM

Yep, President Trump would get to replace Scalia and Ginsberg (one of the bench's most liberal members) with god knows what kind of far-right nuts. And Bayer and Kennedy aren't young either. You could easily see 4 years of Trump giving the right a 6-3 edge in the SC.

[up]Sometimes I wonder if NORAD could survive a Trump presidency. I want to say yes but...

edited 20th Jul '16 6:51:25 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#131232: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:54:22 PM

Plus, a Republican led executive branch, judicial branch, and legislative branch would lead to a guaranteed follow through on multiple policies in the GOP's platform. You could easily see gay parents lose custody of their children, kids being put in conversion therapy, muslims and mexicans being rounded up en masse, and women and gay people and racial minorities losing the rights we've fought so hard to get over the decades.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#131233: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:58:20 PM

Cruz got booed because he at no point in his speech explicitly endorsed Trump.

edited 20th Jul '16 6:58:52 PM by AceofSpades

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#131234: Jul 20th 2016 at 6:58:55 PM

I think Manafort also worked for the Myanmar junta. Possibly al-Bashir in Sudan but i'm not sure about the last one.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#131235: Jul 20th 2016 at 7:03:10 PM

Don't panic, Captain Hairdo hasn't won the election yet. Let me gaze into my crystal ball...

...Donald Trump will take a seat behind the big desk in the Oval Office...

...However, he will quickly be apprehended by security, and returned to his tour group.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#131236: Jul 20th 2016 at 7:11:37 PM

A Trump Presidency would drive all sorts of racial nationalisms out of the woodwork. He's already done it for a certain segment of whites, and if he is elected I fully expect the more radical Black and Chicano groups to emerge from obscurity. Expect new calls for the Republic Del Norte and the Republic of New Afrika. After all who would want to be in the same country with that Orange fuckface.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#131237: Jul 20th 2016 at 7:37:38 PM

[up] stay classy

Goood,goood, let the hate flow through you

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#131238: Jul 20th 2016 at 7:48:37 PM

Let's look at the Republican's new platform:

GOP platform pushes for return of Glass-Steagall.

Republican platform labels internet pornography 'a public health crisis'.

Republican party platform disavows aggressive action on climate change and downplays renewable energy.

The platform approved by a voice vote yesterday evening doesn’t explicitly question the science behind climate change. But it calls for reduced funding for renewable energy and international adaptation programs, and it seeks an end to the global agreement reached in Paris late year to cut greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

It also opposes a carbon tax.

GOP platform includes building Trump's wall, but does not specify who will pay for it.

Republican platform claims Coal is a "clean" energy source.

There's more, and I'll get to it later.

Am I correct in thinking that Perez would be the first minority pick for VP?

That title actually goes to Herbert Hoover's Native-American VP Charles Curtis.[1]

Also Libermann was a Jew if you want to count that.

edited 20th Jul '16 10:31:44 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.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#131239: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:18:07 PM

[up]You left out how they want to let parents torture their LGBT kids.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#131240: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:34:34 PM

And the "only one mother, one father, both being the biological parents, should be allowed to have children" thing.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#131241: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:37:54 PM

Heck, if they want Glass-Steagall back, we could at least meet on one point. Although G-S is kind of obsolete in the modern banking environment, it would at least restore another bulwark against gross incompetence within the financial system.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#131242: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:45:23 PM

[up][up][up][up]Also, wasn't Goldwater (ethnically) half-Jewish?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#131243: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:48:31 PM

I saw it mentioned on another forum follow that Gingrich's planned speech was supposed to reference Cruz endorsing Trump, forcing a rewrite at the last moment. Any truth to that?

EDIT: Here we go

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/gingrich-rnc-speech-originally-referenced-cruz-endorsement-of-trump-report/

edited 20th Jul '16 8:52:10 PM by sgamer82

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#131244: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:53:47 PM

Republican Platform part 2: The Social Conservative Strikes Back

The GOP’s Platform really rails on Public Transit.

Highlights include:

  • Ending all federal funding for mass transit.

  • It encourages opening the Northeast corridor to private competition for publicly subsidized Amtrak.

  • The platform calls for the federal government to get out of “bike-share programs, sidewalks, recreational trails, landscaping, and historical renovations,” arguing that money for these things should come from “other sources.”

The new platform of the Republican Party includes language supporting the use of public-private partnerships to develop space capabilities.

The new Republican platform calls for the repeal of a half-century-old tax law prohibiting churches and tax-exempt institutions from political organizing.

Members of the GOP embraced an addition to the party’s platform that encourages public high schools to teach elective courses about the Bible.

This is a change from 2012, where platform’s only reference to the Bible was to opposing any bans on it in military forces.

The Republican platform also calls lawmakers to use religion as a guide when drafting legislation, and says "that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights."

It should be noted the RNC platform is not binding.

edited 20th Jul '16 11:46:26 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.
Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#131245: Jul 20th 2016 at 8:56:14 PM

@Rational insanity- Yes. I think the question was about Vice Presidents though. I can't find statistics on other "minority groups", but there this listing of African-American major party candidates. Due to what's almost a technicality, Frederick Douglas was a "candidate" in 1888, so he probably would win. There's also this George Edwin Taylor from 1904. In both cases, this is when parties had nominations directly on the floor of the convention, but obviously neither of them was actually on the final ticket. I'm guessing Hoover's VP would win for that.

edited 20th Jul '16 8:57:47 PM by Hodor2

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#131246: Jul 20th 2016 at 9:36:12 PM

Is it possible to convict the entire GOP on account of just being fricking nuts? Because right now, they're coocoo for cocopuffs. Heck, they're beyond coocoo for cocopuffs at this point. They're either that or straight out delusional. (Or both.) When was the last time we had a sane, rational GOP that actually made sense? Because I'd like to have two balanced sides that I could see myself swinging towards either way depending on the situation for a change; not just one side that's actually decent while the other evokes the gaping maw of Satan. Is that so wrong?

edited 20th Jul '16 9:56:43 PM by kkhohoho

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#131247: Jul 20th 2016 at 9:38:55 PM

The GOP has twisted into being the most disgustingly reactionary party imaginable. It genuinely scares me to think of what they could do to the population of our country alone if Trump wins. I'm praying Hillary crushes him in debates and advertising enough to win.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#131248: Jul 20th 2016 at 9:47:40 PM

A big chunk of their platform just makes me wonder what good they could possibly get out of it.

Like, the coal thing. I assume that West Viriginia was involved somehow, but a huge part of the reason West Virginia is in such awful shape is because their entire state is in thrall to the coal industry, which has proven over and over that it doesn't care about the effects they have. But pretending that coal energy is clean is insane! When burned, coal is highly radioactive. Like, a nuclear plant is way less radioactive.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#131249: Jul 20th 2016 at 9:49:57 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/donald-trump-issues.html

Holy fuck.

HOLY FUCK.

Not defend the Baltics?! Are you serious?! NATO would be destroyed literally, LITERALLY overnight if he does nothing.

New Survey coming this weekend!
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#131250: Jul 20th 2016 at 9:50:40 PM

I think that the first act of a Trump administration should be to change the names of all the government positions. Trump can be Supreme Leader, Gingrich can be his Vizier (a job that as the joke goes might as well have "evil" in the title) and Christie Inquisitor-General.


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