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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#141401: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:29:19 PM

"Dear Hillary. Let me teach you how to give zero fucks."

New Survey coming this weekend!
flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#141402: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:31:10 PM

"I'm so glad I'm going to hand the worst job in America to you."

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141403: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:44:17 PM

If the Dems take the Senate..."Get Ginsberg and Bayer to retire ASAP."

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#141404: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:44:43 PM

And Obama's letter if Trump wins?

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#141405: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:46:15 PM

"You should be dumpster-diving for ham scraps you six piece chicken mcnobody"

flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#141406: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:47:34 PM

"I'm so glad I'm going to hand the worst job in America to you."

edited 3rd Oct '16 7:47:52 PM by flameboy21th

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#141407: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:49:31 PM

Just a drawing of a middle finger.

This song needs more love.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#141408: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:50:35 PM

And Obama's letter if Trump wins?

"Please hand the attached letter to Pence".

edited 3rd Oct '16 7:51:30 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#141409: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:57:12 PM

"Good luck trying to make America great again with all the establishment despising your guts''

PS: We have already written your Impeachment request

Inter arma enim silent leges
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141410: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:00:24 PM

"I'm keeping the nuclear codes."

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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
#141411: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:02:30 PM

"You do not have the support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."

Putin just suspended a treaty with the US on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#141412: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:24:56 PM

I sometimes think Putin reads Tom Clancy novels and wants to imitate it in real life

New Survey coming this weekend!
Lennik (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#141413: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:38:14 PM

I hope the wikileaks thing isn't that Hillary likes Nickelback. I can't vote for that.

That's right, boys. Mondo cool.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#141415: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:19:54 PM

I thought that Wikileaks was supposed to be some kind of rogue outfit that punched up at the government. But that was Chelsea Manning's heroism, not Wikileaks'.

No idea why I thought that Wikileaks was some outfit of rogue outlaw antiheroes.

Do not obey in advance.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#141416: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:20:28 PM

They're just Russian puppets at this point

Oh really when?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#141417: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:21:26 PM

Regarding Putin, that's almost certainly in response to the US walking out of negotiations regarding Syria. Such are geopolitics.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141418: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:24:48 PM

[up][up][up]Manning is no hero. Her leaks revealed things like the addresses of some of the last Jews in Baghdad.

EDIT: RNC tried to go full Willie Horton on Kaine. It backfired.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/politics/tim-kaine-rnc-death-penalty-ad/index.html

edited 3rd Oct '16 9:27:50 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#141419: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:26:45 PM

[up]I'm not disagreeing with you, I just wonder why the media didn't bring that up. What the hell is wrong with them?

What would the benefit be to her or to Wikileaks to reveal that?

edited 3rd Oct '16 9:27:16 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141420: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:29:46 PM

Wikileaks are a bunch of Chaotic Stupid, anarchy-libertarians (at best) who think that the government (especially those they don't agree with) doesn't have the right to hide anything.

Unless that government is the Kremlin.

edited 3rd Oct '16 9:32:41 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#141421: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:31:15 PM

Or, to put it closer to how they see it, they believe in absolute freedom of information.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141422: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:33:26 PM

And anyone who knows a thing about how government/society works also knows that some shit is classified for a goddamn reason.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#141424: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:34:49 PM

Although again, only when it comes to America and the West. Their Russian handlers can keep all the secrets they want.

edited 3rd Oct '16 9:35:00 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#141425: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:36:59 PM

Since I started posting in this thread, I've learned a lot. Many of the things I've been told have been challenged. I don't think that's a bad thing.

This thread means a lot to me. You have no idea how much.

Do not obey in advance.

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