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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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#134826: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:24:50 PM

In apropos of nothing, remember Robert marrow? The guy who became chairman of the Republican Party of Travis County in Austin, Texas? The guy who claimed to be "Trump on steroids"? The guy who claimed that Hilary Clinton was an "angry bull dyke" and that Rick Perry was "a raging bisexual adulterer"? The guy who claimed that that Lyndon B. Johnson, with the help of the CIA, was involved in the assassination of JFK? The guy who co-authored a certain "The Clintons' War on Women"? The guy who asked Chelsea Clinton at a book signing if she was actually the daughter of Webster Hubbell, Bill Clinton's Associate Attorney General, and if Bill "also targeted teenage girls, except for sexual reasons?". (The hell is that sentence supposed to mean?)

Found his Wikipedia page and their picture has him wearing a jester's hat. As I said, in apropos of nothing but sometimes these sort of things just have to be shared. Like the name "Dragon God of Sorcery'.

edited 9th Aug '16 4:43:50 PM by fredhot16

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#134827: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:25:40 PM

Wasn't Shrkeli under investigation for something else as well? Or did he get away with that. He clearly has a rather poor moral compass (even Trump thinks he's worthless) so he's probably doing a lot of illegal things.

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#134828: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:40:01 PM

[up]Shkreli was the guy who jacked up the price on some drug 5000%, just because he could. His reasoning was equating it to an Alfa Romeo, currently being sold at bicycle prices, increased to Toyota prices. (The problem with that logic is: people don't need an Alfa Romeo to live. They do need prescription medication.)

He also has the most punchable face I've ever seen in my life.

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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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#134829: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:45:40 PM

[up]He's also a shitty League of Legends player.

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#134830: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:46:46 PM

The Welsh working class are angry and bitter towards the establishment, many are bitter enough to have voted leave out of spite against the goverment rather than any actual desire to leave the EU.

From what ethnically Welsh friends have told me, they wanted to stay in the EU, though they also want to be their own country separate from England. Unfortunately, the English population living in Wales makes that practically impossible, as they'd vote to stay.

Ethnically Welsh person right here. You're both right. You're both wrong.

The big issue was immigration - something both the poverty-stricken, disenfranchised, anti-establishment working class Welsh OAPs and the wealthy, English OAPs have in common. The other thing they have in common is that they both tend to live in the least immigration-affected areas of Wales while being the most anti-immigration voters.

So, it definitely isn't a good example of how ethnicity can sway the vote. Wales would be a better example of how both Bernie supporters and Trump supporters became so powerful at the same time in this election cycle.

edited 9th Aug '16 6:02:01 PM by Wyldchyld

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#134831: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:47:55 PM

Should be pointed out that the media mischaracterized it as an AIDS drug when really it's for treating toxoplasmosis, which is usually transmitted from cat-to-human and localizes to the brain but can become dangerous if present in a person with AIDS since their immune system can't keep it at bay. Doesn't justify what he's doing anyway, but it's not quite the same thing.

This site goes about it in more detail.

edited 9th Aug '16 4:51:02 PM by AlleyOop

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#134832: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:52:02 PM

There are a few moderate republicans left, and some of them have denounced Trump. The article I linked a few pages back has one of my state's senators, Susan Collins, publicly cut all support for Trump. My home state of Maine tends to breed moderates and centrists only nominally aligned to parties, and Collins is one of, if not the most moderate republicans left in Congress.

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#134833: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:57:13 PM

Wouldn't 15 dollars be the highest minimum wage in the world.

I think so, Australia currently has the highest at 17.70 Australian dollars, but the Australian dollar is a very weak currency and thus after conversion it's worth less. Still the push to raise the minimum wage is one that's occurring across the world, the US can in this instance be the progressive beacon that it so often claims to be.

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#134834: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:57:38 PM

Also ethnically Welsh here, will back up Wyldchyld. I know of leavers and remainers on both sides of any ethnic, linguistic, class or political divide you could think of. Post-industrial regions with high unemployment tend to blame immigration, and Wales is pretty high on that, but the rural parts of Wales also voted Leave for the most part, so it wasn't just that.

Back to 'Merica, didn't see this mentioned: Trump hints at assassination of Hillary Clinton by gun rights supporters

Donald Trump has been accused of a making an “assassination threat” against rival Hillary Clinton, plunging his presidential campaign into a fresh crisis.

The volatile Republican nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment,” said Trump, eliciting boos from the crowd.

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”

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#134835: Aug 9th 2016 at 4:59:06 PM

What's this I hear about Bernie's 600K$ third home?

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#134836: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:02:26 PM

[up][up] I already mentioned it a few pages back.

A $15/hour minimum wage may seem like a lot, but we have one of the richest economies in the world. Relative to costs of living, it's still too small by about 50% to be a functional living wage, but it's a start.

edited 9th Aug '16 5:03:01 PM by Fighteer

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#134837: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:03:54 PM

[up][up] Probably bullshit and a non-story, if you wanna provide a source we can debunk further.

[up] I thought you guys have cheep cost of living compared to the rest of the developed due to having cheep food and cheep fuel? Oh wait... Healthcare... Forgot about that...

edited 9th Aug '16 5:05:08 PM by Silasw

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#134838: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:04:05 PM

[up][up][up][up]O.K, is anybody else curious about the behind the scenes for his campaign? It's got to be worth a laugh. Depends on your sense of humor on what kind of laugh.

edited 9th Aug '16 5:04:47 PM by fredhot16

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#134839: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:05:33 PM

All evidence points to the Trump campaign being a logistical disaster.

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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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#134840: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:07:19 PM

[up] I meant on what the people are saying in his organization behind doors.

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#134841: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:08:31 PM

The words "actively suicidal" have been bandied about by Trump campaign insiders. He won't take advice and won't spend any time or energy on organization.

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#134842: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:38:35 PM

If any GOP congressman doesn't rescind their endorsement after Trump basically said it was okay for Hillary to be assassinated, then the Democrats need to blast them from the rooftops from now until forever until they get voted out of office

Fuck me why are 40% of this country so goddamn stupid and racist?

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#134843: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:40:27 PM

[up] Inbreeding and being disconnected from most of the rest of the world.

nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#134844: Aug 9th 2016 at 5:43:35 PM

[up][up]The right-wing media has been scaring the shit out of them and placing the blame of all their (very real) problems on the "others" for the last decade.

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#134846: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:02:16 PM

They will claim (and are claiming) that Trump's words are being twisted and the statement was just open ended enough to claim plausible deniability.

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

U.S. Secret Service @Secret Service The Secret Service is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#134847: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:04:51 PM

What's all this fuss about Clinton's health? Can anyone summarise that for an outsider like me?

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#134848: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:06:11 PM

It's a likely red herring proposed by someone known to be a scumbag infamous in the health care industry.

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#134849: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:08:54 PM

[up][up]It's just Martin Shkreli being Martin Shkreli.

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Perpetually Confused
#134850: Aug 9th 2016 at 6:36:25 PM

There's been a few more than that immoral asshole on the "Clinton has Parkinson's" paranoia bandwagon, based on pictures of a Secret Service guy escorting Hilary and seemingly carrying a Diazepam pen, and some out of context gifs or Hilary having funny faces.

See here

edited 9th Aug '16 6:41:12 PM by Ghilz


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