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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134051: Aug 3rd 2016 at 12:25:01 PM

I wonder what Trump would have said if he was handed a Prisoner of War medal instead of a Purple Heart?

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#134052: Aug 3rd 2016 at 1:00:05 PM

Somehow, I don't think he'd say "You caught me."

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#134053: Aug 3rd 2016 at 1:14:31 PM

@Ogodei: You'd be surprised. A significant chunk of big business types from Wall Street to Silicon Valleynote  are actually getting on board with things like a strong minimum wage and bank regulation, and not even out of fear of the Torches and Pitchforks this time. More like "the slow recoveries and economic chaos from the recession aren't good for business, and healthy regulations actually mean healthier businesses."

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#134054: Aug 3rd 2016 at 1:31:04 PM

[up] The Wall Street and Silicon valley types are getting on board with minimum wage increases largely because they do not employ a particularly large number of minimum wage employees, and thus are largely unaffected by it. In regards to areas of the economy where they stand to benefit from deregulation or captured regulation, they're every bit as regressive as big oil tends to be about the environment.

edited 3rd Aug '16 1:31:55 PM by CaptainCapsase

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#134055: Aug 3rd 2016 at 1:52:02 PM

Another thing is that Big Business don't want competition, so they try to increase regulations in order to protect their monopolies. They can afford to lose money, but smaller competitors can't. So, they kick down the ladder, so to speak.

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PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
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#134056: Aug 3rd 2016 at 2:00:20 PM

Perhaps mandatory minimum wage for big businesses (and crack down on loopholes allowing for unpaid interns to do a regular employee's work) and incentives if small businesses opt-in? It is often small businesses that get hurt worst by changes in minimum wage laws.

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#134057: Aug 3rd 2016 at 2:09:42 PM

@ PhiSat

Perhaps mandatory minimum wage for big businesses (and crack down on loopholes allowing for unpaid interns to do a regular employee's work) and incentives if small businesses opt-in?

No, I'm sure some Big Businesses will try to find a way around any minimum wage laws like that by using Franchises or "independent contractors" — it already happens in industries such as fast food and with the likes of Uber.

edited 3rd Aug '16 2:12:19 PM by Greenmantle

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#134058: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:10:07 PM

Apparently the birther movement has reared its ugly head again.

Because apparently proving Obama isn't actually a US citizen with three months left in his term will accomplish... something.

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#134059: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:14:07 PM

They probably think it will invalidate his endorsement of Hillary and repeated attacks against Trump.

And possibly Obamacare.

Basically, it helps the "America is a shithole that's been ruined and you should be afraid of how bad it's become!" narrative if they can convince people that the President for the last eight years has been a foreign national deliberately destabilizing us in preparation for the inevitable overthrow that only Trump can prevent.

edited 3rd Aug '16 3:15:14 PM by TobiasDrake

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#134060: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:14:29 PM

[up][up]The very picture of a misguided fanatic: someone who continues his efforts long after he has forgotten his original goal.

edited 3rd Aug '16 3:15:01 PM by pwiegle

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134061: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:20:32 PM

Interesting to see if Trump gets back on that wagon.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#134062: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:36:07 PM

As much as some people are starting to just laugh him off; thus far the polls are about what would be expected for an ordinary election, and that's in spite of him making what would be a career ending blunder for any ordinary politician.

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#134063: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:54:41 PM

[up]That is a fact. What's also a fact is that Clinton is still beating him in the polls, and if she can keep this up for the next 20-30 days, then there's a pretty decent chance she'll win the election, if most previous elections are anything to go by.

edited 3rd Aug '16 3:55:09 PM by kkhohoho

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134064: Aug 3rd 2016 at 3:56:03 PM

While the day to day stuff is mostly useless, 538 has Clinton's chances up to 73%.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

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#134067: Aug 3rd 2016 at 4:27:00 PM

It's what appears to be a news person interviewing a member of Trump's campaign/the Republican establishment and asking if Trump's favourable comments about Ryan's challenger could backfire. The guy being interviewed simply says nothing and acts like he can't hear the question, then say "I lost you there for a sec, I can hear you now" before being asked the question again and again acting as if he heard nothing.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134068: Aug 3rd 2016 at 4:39:31 PM

A Fox News poll has Clinton with a 10 point lead over Trump, mostly due to Johnson getting 12%. While this is probably an outlier its still pretty crazy.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/presidential-polls-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/index.html?sr=fbpol080316presidential-polls-hillary-clinton-donald-trump1128PMStoryLink&linkId=27260018

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fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#134069: Aug 3rd 2016 at 4:47:45 PM

O.K, pretend that I've been ignoring the news for the past year and please give me as detailed an answer as possible: Will that...scumbag win the election?

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#134070: Aug 3rd 2016 at 4:48:06 PM

[up][up]Even Fox News has to acknowledge that Clinton has a lead?

Actually, how has Fox News been treating Trump and responding to his current madness?

[up]Odds for a Trump win are looking slimmer.

From a numbers standing Clinton's gotten a much bigger bump than Trump has following the party conventions. She's also been consistently ahead of Trump even when he was close if I'm not mistaken.

From a social standpoint, Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot then shoving said foot in his mouth in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Most recently he made disparaging comments about the Muslim mother of a Muslim soldier who died in the line of duty after her husband gave an impassioned speech at the Democratic convention denouncing Trump. That seems to be hitting a bit harder than past missteps have. That lead of Clinton's has since skyrocketed to about 75% going by an earlier posted 538 poll.

Finally, his antics are driving away prominent republicans who should be firmly in his side as they either step away from the mess or even promise to support Clinton. His own VP pick went against him in supporting Paul Ryan in his reelection primary.

edited 3rd Aug '16 4:56:37 PM by sgamer82

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#134071: Aug 3rd 2016 at 4:54:38 PM

[up][up]Right now, Trump seems to be getting obliterated.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134072: Aug 3rd 2016 at 5:08:09 PM

And Trump also has funding issues (both GOP donors like the Koch bros aren't helping him and some are even backing Clinton). And his awful ground game isn't getting any better.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#134073: Aug 3rd 2016 at 5:28:54 PM

I wonder how he got 80 million. He just said he did.

Seems Khizr Khan is now a jihadist according to the uber-right (like, they make FNC look liberal).

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134074: Aug 3rd 2016 at 5:33:09 PM

I saw a post earlier this week that said that "You have sacrificed nothing and no one" might be this generation's "Have you no decency?".

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#134075: Aug 3rd 2016 at 5:59:02 PM

To most people yes. But to that, some marine apparantly wrote a letter stating that Trump didn't need to sacrifice and that Khan was dumb for saying so.

The Facebook Trumpkins are reposting it as often as they can. As with the "revelations" that he is a jihadist.


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