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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You know what's funny? Trump can literally be baited by a tweet, a Golden Star Family, his penis size, his crowd sizes, the polls, "dishonest" media, etc...except one thing:
His Tax Returns. He's remained ironclad on that from day one.
So, whatever is in there, has to be fucking damming
New Survey coming this weekend!Reading Bloomberg's bio of Bannon, he almost sounds like someone I could respect if he weren't shilling for Trump. He must know Trump has been involved in much of the same stuff he levels at Clinton and establishment Republicans but he's made no secret of his desire to tear them down.
Guy seems dangerously smart.
"Mundane" in this case apparently means "not apocalyptic, racist, or fascist". /sigh
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-us-intelligence-briefing-227109
"Donald Trump offered a blunt explanation for why he wants retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn at his side as he gets his first classified briefing at FBI headquarters on Wednesday — he doesn't trust intelligence information coming from those currently in charge."
Why are candidates receiving their security briefings before actually winning the election? That seems bizarre.
In other news, what's Hillary up to? We spend too much talking about how Trump is doing disturbingly well despite his horrific stances. I think that's part of the reason he's doing so well; we're letting this turn into "keep Trump out" instead of "get Hillary in." That's part of how Romney lost in 2012. How are things going on Hillary's side of the fence?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff."Clinton leads Trump by six points in latest Reuters/Ipsos poll" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10R23K
Looks like Clinton recently named her transition team:
"Clinton names close confidants, Obama veterans to transition team" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10R11X
On the non-presidential side:
"Liz Cheney claims victory in Wyoming primary for U.S. House seat" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10S0F8
edited 17th Aug '16 12:49:02 PM by sgamer82
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It's so that they don't get caught with their pants down upon entering office - and from what I've gleaned, it tends to be a "broad strokes" version, rather than getting into minutiae.
As for the DNC being mundane, I think it's more that the candidate herself really didn't hold her own compared to most of the other speakers. People loved Khan's speech and no one had legitimate criticism for Michelle Obama's speech - but Clinton herself didn't make much of an impact.
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Standard procedure for presidential candidates (at the least for whoever is the two major parties') after the conventions. Intended to make sure the candidates don't end up making statements that would cause them big political problems if they win because the reality on the ground is different. (I doubt it had someone like Trump in mind, though.)
edited 17th Aug '16 12:54:25 PM by megarockman
The damned queen and the relentless knight.It was put in place by Harry Truman. After he became president after FDR's death, he didn't find out about the Manhattan Project until 12 days after he was sworn in. And even then, it looks for all the world like it was an "oops, maybe we should tell the president about this" situation where they nearly forgot entirely. He decided that was ridiculous and changed the policy for any future presidents because they should probably know at least the broad strokes of what's going on going into the final stretch.
That's why a lot of Presidential candidates tend to change part of their platform out of nowhere around this time. They got information they didn't have before that totally changes the situation.
As just one example, Obama got really quiet about his platform position of withdrawal from Middle-Eastern wars after he got his intelligence briefing.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm reminded of how Kennedy used the "missile gap" in the 1960 election to claim that the Eisenhower administration, and Nixon by association, was weak on national defense based on erroneous reports he had received from the Air Force. It wasn't until halfway through the election cycle did the president release the information briefings revealing to Kennedy that there was a missile gap, but it was in favor of the US by a large margin. Eisenhower and Nixon couldn't publicly refute Kennedy's claims though because it would have sent the Soviets into a missile building frenzy and endangered U-2 spy flights.
Thankfully, it's impossible for them to actually do that. There's no way any electoral volunteer would actually let them into the voting booths (if you're that corrupt, you may as well just let them stuff the ballot box directly). The much bigger problem is the brownshirts driving away minorities and frightening Hillary supporters into leaving.
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I do believe he was just referring to the region in general, since in general, it's pretty crappy.
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OK, I know I'm not really one to say this...but could you please watch your attitude, Jack? Like, even if I strongly disagree, I'm not going to just tell someone to shut the fuck up and then not even tell them why they might be wrong. Like, really, Jack, you seem to be constantly flip-flopping between "America is much better than the rest of the world, so stop bitching" and "We need a Chinese-style police state, NOW." Starting to wonder why you weren't sent to the pit like Nihlus.
Oh just drop it the lot of you.
Let's not go hysterical and say that the US is in the same state as Mexico or Central America, that's insulting to all regions involved.
Let's also not go insulting other tropers, even if they themselves have stepped out of line.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

Well, that's lovely. Christie helped Trump dodge taxes and now they are BFF's on the campaign trail. I wish I had a lot of money so I could trade favors with politically powerful people.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"