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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Honestly, I don't think anything Trump can say or do will get him below ~45% of the vote. Voting for Hillary Clinton is utterly unthinkable for a good chunk of the nation, and there's a great many of people on the left who simply won't invest the same amount of time and effort into campaigning for a bog-standard centrist candidate. They'll vote for Clinton, but they won't be dragging everyone they know with them to the polls.
edited 14th Aug '16 7:46:12 PM by CaptainCapsase
Reports of shots fired at JFK airport. Could be a false alarm though.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/jfk-terminal-evacuated/index.html?adkey=bn
edited 14th Aug '16 8:46:47 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.![]()
I know there's a lot of doomsaying in regards to Trump's chances, but what I'm seeing seems to indicate that people are actually getting quite tired of his antics. His chances of getting anywhere near half the votes may be dropping in the next three months, as he will likely continue on the path he's been on.
As an amusing sidenote on Manafort's connections to Ukraine, the story was also retweeted by former Trump campaign manager (and current "paid CNN shill") Corey Lewandowski.
Classy guys, the lot of them.
edited 14th Aug '16 11:11:40 PM by Eschaton
It might be ironic that Europe has made a hard turn to the right while the U.S. is poised for a hard turn to the left.
Wizard Needs Food BadlySo Milwaukee is currently embroiled in riots.
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Milwaukee shooting: 'Shots fired' at new protests over police killing
It appears that the officer that fired the shots was a Black African-American and the man that was shot was known to Police.
Keep Rolling On"Ivanka Trump wrote unused 'clarification' on Donald Trump's Mexico comments"
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/ivanka-trump-mexico-clarification-226980#ixzz4HP7cRbG2
My understanding: Ivanka wrote a clarification about Trump's "Mexicans are rapists" remarks from last year that never got used. This came out in a deposition during a legal proceeding with a chef who pulled out of a Trump property/property deal in response.
The clarification was apparently that the remarks weren't attack on Hispanics in general, merely in reference to illegal immigrants, which is so much better...
There's also a few stories saying Ivanka went on a trip to South America with Wendi Deng Murdoch, ex wife of Rupert Murdoch and current girlfriend of Vladimir Putin. However I haven't found this on one of the sources I've come to rely on (Reuters, AP, Politico) so I'm in "grain of salt" mode on that one.
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I'm genuinely unsure and don't know the sources I've seen the story in when I googled it. Hence "grain of salt".
Best I could find was People magazine
, which doesn't mention a Putin connection at all.
edited 15th Aug '16 6:08:44 AM by sgamer82
I'm not sure, to be honest. As I understand, the victim was a burglar who stole a firearm and 500 rounds of ammunition. He was legitimately a criminal fleeing from a crime scene, which puts his shooting a step above all the innocent folks who've been shot by cops.
However, I haven't heard of him doing anything aggressive that would warrant shooting him. From what I've heard, he was just fleeing. Police are not supposed to shoot a suspect who hasn't threatened anyone and is simply trying to run away.
If he actually was using that stolen handgun and ammunition in a threatening manner, it would be a legitimate shooting, but so far all the stories I've heard have painted the image of a black criminal being shot to death for attempting to evade police. If so, then he's supposed to be in prison, not the morgue.
He's certainly less sympathetic than other victims of police brutality on account of the fact that we know he was guilty of a crime, but he still looks like a black man crucified on the altar of trigger-happy racism in our police force and it looks like he's the straw that broke the camel's back.
edited 15th Aug '16 9:16:15 AM by TobiasDrake
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I honestly don't think Trump's cronies really care about the Russia connection. If anything, they're seen as a good model for resisting globalization in favor of revived nationalism. That they'd be a much flakier ally than Europe and that there's very little to be gained by realigning the way Trump seems to want doesn't seem to occur to them.
edited 14th Aug '16 7:39:59 PM by CaptainCapsase