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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#135501: Aug 16th 2016 at 3:50:04 PM

You know, I haven't been participating in this thread as much because the only topic is Trump, and it's so one sided that I don't feel I have anything to contribute. We should talk about Trump less.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#135502: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:08:55 PM

It's kind of hard to not talk about one of the candidates for president, so saying we should talk about Trump less is kind of... ignoring the purpose of the thread, actually. So really, not sure why you would suggest that. If you have something you want to talk about, actually post about it instead of complaining about the rest of us actually staying on topic.

edited 16th Aug '16 4:09:29 PM by AceofSpades

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#135503: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:35:39 PM

Whether Obama is viewed as incompetent or an evil mastermind depends on the person's mood.

Leviticus 19:34
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#135504: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:35:46 PM

Congress receives FBI notes from Clinton interview:

http://bigstory.ap.org/6b30df773df9496bab3c2a9e6d4a695e&utm_source=android_app&utm_medium=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=share

First two paragraphs:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress received FBI documents related to the agency's recently closed investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, lawmakers said on Tuesday.

A spokeswoman for the Republican-led House oversight panel said staff is reviewing documents that are classified as secret. Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said in a statement that the panel received "FBI witness interview reports, including that of Secretary Clinton's interview, along with other materials from the FBI's now closed investigative file."

edited 16th Aug '16 4:36:03 PM by sgamer82

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#135505: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:36:26 PM

Or make a relevant thread if the topic is not US politics.

nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#135506: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:36:32 PM

[up]x3 He's Schrodinger's Obama.

edited 16th Aug '16 4:36:50 PM by nightwyrm_zero

Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#135507: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:38:01 PM

So a cursory reading of the twentieth amendment seems to indicate that the Republicans should be so lucky to have a chain of events set in motion by President-Elect Clinton's disqualification for the office. Forgive me if this is wrong, but section 3 seems to indicate that Kaine would actually take up the office until we elected a new president. That would mean that if Trump had been proven a loser, they could publicly kick him to the curb and roll again since the dice had fallen off the table. Then again, he could parley it into a gloating spree about crooked Hillary and the rigged election.

Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

edited 16th Aug '16 4:41:06 PM by Artificius

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
Antiteilchen In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good. Since: Sep, 2013
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
#135508: Aug 16th 2016 at 4:43:33 PM

They're saying that if Clinton gets elected, Obama will release evidence to get her indicted before she's taken office, preventing her from assuming the presidency. Since Kaine will still not technically have assumed the office of vice-president, there'll be no-one next in line after Clinton, which (supposedly) gives Obama an excuse to declare a state of emergency and assume a third term in the absence of a legal successor.

Wouldn't the speaker of the house be next in line? Obama would just cease to be president and Paul Ryan would take over.

[nja]See[up]

edited 16th Aug '16 4:48:32 PM by Antiteilchen

GameGuruGG Vampire Hunter from Castlevania (Before Recorded History)
Vampire Hunter
#135509: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:06:39 PM

[up][up] You are interpreting that wrong... What that particular section means basically is that in case the President-elect is dead or incapacitated before Inauguration Day, the Vice-President-elect will become President-elect or acting President-elect until Inauguration Day in which the Vice-President-elect becomes Vice-President and thus becomes President or acting President. Basically, if Hillary Clinton is elected but cannot make it to Inauguration Day, Tim Kaine becomes President on that day.

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Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#135510: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:19:23 PM

Crossposting from the Men's Issues thread:

Actual rape advocate Roosh V is claiming that Hillary getting elected will result in a "techno-matriarchy" and ban talking to women in public. "Techno-matriarchy" sounds like a good name for a nightclub. Or an EDM project.

As to the rest:

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#135511: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:25:32 PM

I saw Trump talking in Wisconsin on CNN. I didn't listen to the actual crap, but one of the commentators said that tone doesn't matter, then started talking about how Obamacare is a failure. That somehow proves Trump is the best option.

I had a lot of hope for CNN calling Trump on his bullshit after the whole "Obama founded ISIS" thing. Then this. Do they normally do that? Circulate the baseless lies without bothering to disprove them? (Caveat: I was eating dinner and left shortly after, so it's possible they did disprove it a few minutes later. But they didn't seem to be doing that.)

edited 16th Aug '16 8:26:16 PM by Discar

Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#135512: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:27:31 PM

@Techno Matriarchy: Roosh is a disgusting sack of shit. And I'm so using that as a name for a band.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#135513: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:31:16 PM

@Techno-Matriarchy: That sounds...kind of sexy.

Also: I just laughed for like 2 or 3 minutes straight. Though, to be fair, I find the sound of my own laughter funny.

edited 16th Aug '16 8:32:40 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
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Lost in Space
#135514: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:37:23 PM

I feel that, at a certain point, you have to cut off the stupid and stop listening to it lest it infect your brain.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#135515: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:38:25 PM

[up][up][up][up]They've been in a downward spiral ever since MH370 disappeared. It's probably their way of "not editorialising". Even if it's actively harmful.

edited 16th Aug '16 8:38:52 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#135516: Aug 16th 2016 at 8:49:45 PM

Hasn't CNN been on a downward spiral since Sandy Hook? I remember y'all talking about them giving out false info just so they could be at the top of it. Or was that just the media in general at the time.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#135517: Aug 16th 2016 at 11:45:33 PM

Double post: Michael Moore said Trump only wanted to use the campaign as a negotiating tactic for getting a better deal for "The Apprentice" and is sabotaging the race deliberately.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#135518: Aug 16th 2016 at 11:47:55 PM

Eh, I'm not sure I believe that anymore. At least not the sabotaging bit.

His history proves that his white nationalism is very sincere.

edited 16th Aug '16 11:48:53 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#135519: Aug 17th 2016 at 12:09:06 AM

Trump's political career should have died long before now. If he was already a politician before running for President, it probably would have.

Do not obey in advance.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#135520: Aug 17th 2016 at 12:29:54 AM

I still can't believe that a person exists that is SO thin skinned that he will lash out at a fucking Gold Star family.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#135521: Aug 17th 2016 at 12:45:55 AM

So, ugh, voted in the Alaska Congressional and State Legislature primaries today. Did not feel happy.

The Alaska legislature is essentially noncompetitive to the point where a lot of districts are walkovers. My Senate district wasn't (in the primary), but I still had to vote with a clothespin on my nose because both candidates are equivocating about raiding the Permanent Fund (which nobody in Alaska wants, except for the legislature and the oil companies).

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#135522: Aug 17th 2016 at 12:49:11 AM

[up][up]I thought the Medal Of Honor 2010 Taliban controversy was a bit over the top, but I figured nobody would try a political attack on military families, and Gold Star ones to boot. Enter the GOP circa 2016.

There is now a Breitbart staffer running Trump's campaign. Ethical.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#135523: Aug 17th 2016 at 1:46:08 AM

Rick Perry said the Kahn's struck first blow against Trump and are not above criticism in return.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#135524: Aug 17th 2016 at 2:05:23 AM

Health insurer Aetna announced late Monday that it is dropping Obamacare insurance in 69% of the counties and 11 of 15 states where it currently offers plans.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#135525: Aug 17th 2016 at 4:41:03 AM

@Garcon: I've personally gotten the impression that Trump's gotten bored of electioneering and is just phoning it in at this point. Honestly, my impression is that he's been phoning it in since near the end of the primaries.

Which is great, because if he was taking this seriously rather than treating it like a game, I have a feeling he might actually win.

edited 17th Aug '16 4:41:32 AM by CaptainCapsase


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