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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Ramidel said a few pages back that the Democrats are the party of big business and that really isn't the case still. Businesses have to distance themselves from some Republican politicians presently to avoid offending customers, but they're still very much in the tank for the GOP, especially as the Democrats are finally starting to abandon the old neoliberal consensus and start to support expanded labor rights, loosening welfare restrictions, and expanding social security.
Big business may support Clinton over Trump, but only very grudgingly because Trump's mad scheme for debt consolidation would ruin everyone.
@worldtrumps: Canada is surprisingly quiet. Despite an islamic attack on our parliament (the attacker literally could have opened a side door and assassinated the prime minister), letting in 25,000 syrian refugees (with even more private sponsors trying to get more in), and our oil rich province being in the biggest financial crisis of it's life (plus one of it's biggest citites being burnt down) there hasn't been any dipshit demagogues rising to infamy. Trudeau's numbers are still high, actually, despite not doing a whole lot with his ironclad control over the country.
@trumpthisweek: It's almost comical how bad he's been doing recently. Like even his followers are cringing at his repeated attacks on the khan family. It could have been just one more tragic speech at the DNC but he keeps bringing up and at this point the father might as well be a full time pundit on CNN.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Trump might unwittingly be instrumental in rehabilitating the honour of Muslims in the American public eye. Springtime for Hitler indeed!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.I can't tell if that's an intentional or an accidental invoking of Godwin's Law. Either way, might as well compare him now and get it over with.
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"![]()
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To be fair with Trudeau - not abusing his ironclad control over the country if he got it was basically his entire platform, and the man's mostly kept to it (To the point that the number of public consultations he's created on various issues risk making him seem inactive).
Worth pointing out that quite a few of those predate Trump. Some by quite a while Hell, Marine LePen is positively ancient, and she's following the steps of her father who founded her party (Who was IMHO even worse than she is, not that she's not terrible)
edited 3rd Aug '16 7:49:04 AM by CobraPrime
"Muslim families of fallen U.S. soldiers driven to oppose Trump" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10E1NS
Basically Muslims who would otherwise have voted Republican have had their party loyalty destroyed by Trump and are actively working to keep him out.
It seems optimistic to say so but it's looking more and more like this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
edited 3rd Aug '16 8:02:32 AM by sgamer82
Captain Khan seemed to be one of those living (pun unintended) proofs that bigotry is dumb as fuck. I thank Trump for ensuring that everyone keeps talking about him.
I wish we could get the same in France. Maybe tricking Le Pen into insulting the memory of Ahmed Merabet
or Imad Ibn Ziaten
? Sadly, I think she is too smart for that.
Trump's entire macho rhetoric means that quitting before the fight would largely destroy his business (which probably isn't at its best now that it becomes hard to hide how much of a human excrement he is). He won't. It would make him look like a loser.
edited 3rd Aug '16 8:26:27 AM by Julep
A Trump aide is now trying slander the Khans with the old Sharia law attack.
This was after he had to retract a statement that Obama was responsible for Captain Khan's death. She then blamed it on Clinton.
edited 3rd Aug '16 8:43:49 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

At this point it really seems like he's trying to throw the election without dropping out (because after all, that would make him a "loser", and Trump can't be a loser!). More and more in the GOP are getting fed up with his comments and jumping to the Democratic side, so it might be working.
In fact, while it's obviously too early to call it for Clinton, more than one news outlet has ran opinion pieces suggesting that Trump knows he's going to lose and thus is trying to shift the blame by saying things like "the election is rigged".