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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
And on another note, actually checking the contents of the emails that are so "explosive" should be a priority. The fact that Wikileaks is so determined to publish everything they get their hands on in their entirety works against their spin here, as they've provided what you need to fact check them on a plate.
Refusing to do so or running some silly search criterion and reading whatever fragments it pings and only those is playing into their hands.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotMaddowblog: The idea that this is a "change" election doesn't necessarily fit the facts.
Specifically, while as many as 70% of voters surveyed say that the country is on the "wrong track", this doesn't distinguish between people who believe this because they think Democrats are making the wrong decisions while in power or because they think that Republicans are harming the country with their obstructionism, etc. The fact that Clinton is broadly winning indicates that the majority of voters are probably satisfied with the direction Democrats have been taking the country.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Michael Moore now has his own political film against Trump
. Similar to Hillary's America, now we have TrumpLand.
To Moore, an angry white guy like Donald Trump provides a feeling of deliverance, as well as a promise: We will take it back to how it was. Moore is honest enough to see his own sensibilities reflected in the cosmic gripe of Trump supporters. They're in a rage at a lot of the same things he is: a government, and a corporate economy, that are no longer organized to take care of people. But the choice that Trump voters make is to lash out, and to back someone who pledges to destroy the status quo. As Moore testifies, Trump is likely to destroy it, all right — along with everything else. Moore is at his best mimicking the sound of male Trump supporters at rallies (a wail of fury fused with a caterwauling of pain) and calling it the sound of a dying dinosaur. Solidly, he builds the ground floor of an argument. I was eager to hear what he'd say about Trump next.
Well, that's all he has to say. As soon as Moore is done discussing the angry white male, he's finished talking about Trump as well. After half an hour (at most), he veers over to the subject of Hillary Clinton, and why Republicans hate her with such religious passion.
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Martin Van Buren was a senator, a secretary of state, a governor, an ambassador and a Vice President before becoming president. In terms of government exp he was probably the most.
Clinton and John Quincy Adams are on par with each other for second place with almost the same exp although Adams did a lot of it after being President.
edited 19th Oct '16 9:14:23 AM by Memers
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It's kinda funny since we're actually discussing this stuff in class right now.
edited 19th Oct '16 9:35:17 AM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Chris Wallace is, at least, not the most objectionable Fox anchor who could be moderating the debate, for whatever that's worth.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well that and the fact that Clinton has been in caught in so many scandals over the years.
It doesn't matter if they're manufactured, a lot of people get the idea that she's untrustworthy either way.
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It's the "spew enough bile and some is bound to stick" strategy of controlling public opinion.
Edit: In another example of Trump's campaign and Trump not talking to each other, Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, does not believe that there will be widespread voter fraud
. (Non-video story from Maddowblog)
edited 19th Oct '16 10:17:28 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Inspiration is overrated. I've seen one too many leaders who were inspiring but lived on nothing but propaganda and useful idiots defending them even though they are failures as leaders.
Better have someone who's competent and can get things done than a leader that looks good and says inspiring things but can't get anything done because those inspirational acts can't be effectively done.
Inter arma enim silent legesHow Donald Trump's claims of vote rigging could hurt him
That sentence more than halfway through the article is all that needed to be said.
ThinkProgress: Liberty University is facing increasing pressure from its student body to dissociate itself from Donald Trump, despite the vocal endorsement of its president, Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Falwell, while initially calling for tolerance for opposing points of view, quashed an article in the school paper this past week that was critical of Trump; the article was published independently by its writer and reposted by the Daily Beast
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CNN has updated its electoral map, Utah and Arizona are now considered toss ups while Florida and Nevada have shifted to leaning Clinton.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/road-to-270-electoral-college-map-5-october/index.html
Even CNN isn't willing to keep up the close race ratings stunt anymore.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.edited 19th Oct '16 10:53:44 AM by nervmeister

I wonder who the most qualified presidents were throughout US history.