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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.
#133676: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:36:40 PM

What on earth did we do to deserve Trump?

Oh God! Natural light!
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#133677: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:39:17 PM

[up][up]Speak for yourself. I thought we got what we deserved with two terms of Dubya? Trump as prez would be more punishment than anyone deserves.

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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
#133678: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:42:29 PM

Not just in the US.

Inter arma enim silent leges
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133680: Jul 31st 2016 at 5:53:13 PM

An Idaho town up in arms about a sexual assault by refugee children. In hindsight maybe selling these people in small town Idaho was not a good idea, though I'd imagine New York wouldn't take this particularly well ether.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#133681: Jul 31st 2016 at 6:32:16 PM

[up]What troubles me here, beyond the proximity to myself in SW Idaho, is that these groups seem bound and determined to misrepresent the story as some kind of mass gang rape of a kid when the oldest person involved was twelve.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133682: Jul 31st 2016 at 6:37:39 PM

[up] Indeed.

New signs of cultural and political divide in clash between Trump and the Khans. God I just hope these people don't get destroyed by being thrown into the ring with an animal like Trump. Quite frankly I can't help but feel their too good for this country. Hopefully Hillary gets elected and I'm proved wrong in November. God I hate Trump.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#133683: Jul 31st 2016 at 7:20:42 PM

Trump's strategy has always been: when attacked, counterattack with overwhelming force. Maybe that works in the world of business (I wouldn't know). But in politics, particularly on a global scale, lashing out blindly at any threat — whether real or imagined — tends to have serious repercussions. It certainly doesn't make people view you favorably, trust you, or want to associate with you. I wouldn't want to be walking on eggshells all the time, wondering when the vial of nitro is going to blow up in my face.

edited 31st Jul '16 7:21:18 PM by pwiegle

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#133684: Jul 31st 2016 at 8:05:27 PM

The Daily Caller and Washington Times (conservative publications, both) already have editorials out against Khan.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#133685: Jul 31st 2016 at 8:07:56 PM

What do they say?

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#133686: Jul 31st 2016 at 8:11:59 PM

Blah Blah Blah politicizing tragedy. Blah Blah Blah puppets of Hillary Clinton. Blah Blah Blah viciously attacking Trump. At least that's what I assume they said.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#133687: Jul 31st 2016 at 8:19:47 PM

[up]Probably. They'll also just ignore the fact that the RNC did the same thing by bringing in that one lady to blame Clinton for her son's death.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#133688: Jul 31st 2016 at 8:58:52 PM

If Mother Jones or huffpo is feeling cheeky they could essentially reprint those articles with the name switched and the content would be the exact same.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#133689: Jul 31st 2016 at 9:31:35 PM

Open Letter to the Media from one of Clinton's supporters.

edited 31st Jul '16 9:31:45 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#133690: Jul 31st 2016 at 9:49:19 PM

Is there any particular reason why the conservative movement has spent so much time and money on a smear campaign against Clinton? My understanding is that this has been going on for a long time, but what were they hoping to gain exactly?

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#133691: Jul 31st 2016 at 9:55:15 PM

Clinton offends them both on a political and personal level. She didn't act like First Ladies before and defer to her husband, she took an ACTIVE role in the government setting a precedent for the FLOTUS to be a defacto government position. And because of that they've tried to smear her into the ground and she and her husband have always escaped, relatively mind you, unscathed.

It goes something like this: The Republicans hate the Clintons on a personal level, but their base hates them merely on ideological grounds. The Republicans hate Obama merely on ideological grounds (with some racism thrown in here and there), but their base hates Obama on a personal AND ideological level.

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GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#133692: Jul 31st 2016 at 10:00:25 PM

It's mostly because after becoming a Senator, Hillary Clinton was the logical Democratic choice for President. Bill Clinton had to leave office in 2000 and his vice-president, Al Gore ran against George W. Bush and lost. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton ran for Senator of New York and won. During the 2004 election John Kerry ran, but he was more in the later mold of Mitt Romney as being the token candidate to compete with a then-popular President. Once Dubya had to leave in 2008 and after Hillary Clinton stopped being a Senator, that was when Hillary Clinton decided to run, but Barack Obama surprised everyone and was a once-in-a-lifetime choice. So eight years of Obama, and finally, finally, Hillary Clinton was finally able to be the Democratic nominee. Once she had become a Senator, it was pretty obvious to everyone in the room that Hillary Clinton was going to try to run for President after being a Senator.

edited 31st Jul '16 10:04:15 PM by GameGuruGG

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Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#133693: Jul 31st 2016 at 10:41:40 PM

It would have been weird and probably annoying if Clinton had won in 08. We'd have gotten a back-and-forth of Bush's and Clinton's for 28 years.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#133694: Jul 31st 2016 at 10:43:51 PM

Things like that don't annoy me. I honestly never got why people go on about "political dynasties" if something like them happens to form, it's only because the people wanted it to, or at the very least wasn't opposed to it.

You should be more focused on what people actually want to do over whether or not they have the same last name as someone else who had the position.

edited 31st Jul '16 10:44:41 PM by LSBK

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#133695: Jul 31st 2016 at 10:44:50 PM

Clinton losing in 08 was the best outcome. There's no fucking way on God's green Earth Trump would be the current nominee OR would the Tea Party exist.

You want to talk about acclerationism, Obama sped up the death of the GOP at the national level by several decades.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#133696: Jul 31st 2016 at 10:48:47 PM

But the Obama presidency (which I will defend to the death as having done far more good than bad) might also give the GOP the chance to pull Taking You with Me on America or even humanity. Granted, that's not Obama's fault but Clinton probably wouldn't have unleashed the Tea Party/Trumpist wackjobs quite as much.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#133697: Jul 31st 2016 at 11:57:00 PM

What's problematic about this is that the left wing is showing its stupidity and disqualifying itself as thoroughly as possible at the exact same time that Democrats become the party of big business.

I don't mean the latter in a perjorative sense, I mean that the rich are seeing the Republican Party as a sinking ship and moving to the Democrats, confident that someone like Clinton won't do anything particularly heavy to them or resurrect the ghost of Eisenhower.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#133698: Aug 1st 2016 at 12:16:23 AM

Funny thing is...when the middle class is doing well...the rich would get even RICHER. Like, I never saw their actions out of greed, but mainly stupidity.

Like if your main goal is increasing your net wealth, then why the fuck wouldn't you advocate policies that over the long term would increase your wealth AND not have the undying hatred of the 99%?

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Izeinsummer Since: Jun, 2013
#133699: Aug 1st 2016 at 12:29:43 AM

It's the same kind of error that makes people think a household is a good analogy for a country. If you are a CEO and you manage to pay your workers a bunch less than your competitors, your company prospers, and your profits rise, because the earnings of your workforce are not any meaningful percentage of your customer base no matter how large your corporation.

If all companies keep wages down, that torpedoes sales, and heads directly into economic death-spiral country, but realizing that is very difficult for a manager, because "low wages hurt the economy" run directly against their lived experience, and realizing something which is good for you in isolation is bad for the country is difficult and unpleasant

edited 1st Aug '16 12:30:05 AM by Izeinsummer

Superdark33 The dark Mage of the playground from Playgrounds and Adventures Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
The dark Mage of the playground
#133700: Aug 1st 2016 at 12:53:55 AM

Because theyd rather die 5 mineutes after the plebs die than not die at all.


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