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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Nope, probably because there is outright criminality there. This is standard practice when running for high office, you vet yourself, ID the skeletons in your closet, and develop responses to preempt your opponents.
Granted, its really hard to counter one of the skeletons in your closet being "multiple incidents of sexual assault".
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Currently watching the Drunken Peasants make fun of Alex Jones. And it just occurred to me: he'd be far more entertaining if they set up a Jim Henson puppet version of him at his desk and he'd dub over it with his cartoonishly gruff voice. It'd get more people watching Info Wars, guaranteed.
New polls are coming out, Clinton is up the only question is how much of an edge she has over Trump.
One interesting stat is that enthusiasm among Clinton supporters is way up, to 83% (above Trump). So much for her not energizing the base, though how much of that eagerness is driven by how awful Trump is can't be said.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-presidential-polls/index.html
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Obviously, those scheming Jews running the media are playing for keeps.
edited 16th Oct '16 1:11:17 PM by nervmeister
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yes, but they play her as an evil mastermind psudo-robot, incapable of connecting to the HOO-MAN. Trump, they just play up his idiocy and/or call out his idiocy.
also, more importantly, Hillary can take a joke/doesn't have skin as thin as potato chips.
edited 16th Oct '16 1:17:32 PM by Jetyl
I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?Pence says GOP ticket will 'absolutely' accept vote outcome
. He certainly seems like he's trying to frame himself as the more reasonable of the two.
On a more serious note, North Carolina GOP headquarters firebombed
. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone was injured, but this is exactly the sort of thing we don't want happening now.
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It was more than just a firebombing. From above:
The inside of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough was severely damaged and an adjacent building was marked with spray painted graffiti reading “Nazi Republicans get out of town or else,” The Charlotte Observer reported.
Not a good sign, whoever gets attacked. How long before someone takes something out of the IRA playbook?
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Garcon, you would condone terrorist attacks on Republicans, wouldn't you?
edited 16th Oct '16 1:27:41 PM by Greenmantle
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No, I won't condone it. Laws and civility have to be enforced and as cathartic as it is stuff like this is unproductive to fixing the problems we have with Republicans and the country.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it hard to feel any real sympathy though. This election has made me real bitter.
edited 16th Oct '16 1:31:58 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?@144410
: ... I love that metaphor. Someone give a prize to whoever invented it.

Trump doesn't even let his staff research his past?
Do not obey in advance.