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Lost in Space
#144976: Oct 19th 2016 at 11:21:33 AM

Pennsylvania has Toomey up by 4 points, which is part of why I'm volunteering to canvass before the election. Clinton winning PA is a foregone conclusion at this point but we still have a very good shot to kick out that numbskull in the Senate. His ads against McGinty have been running non-stop, though, and I haven't seen a counter-push from her camp, which worries me.

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#144977: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:02:45 PM

The Clinton campaign has found itself in deep... well...

Through the window inside O’Reilly Auto Parts, manager Mike Robins witnessed it all.

He watched Tuesday morning, about 9:30, as a big blue bus advertising Hillary Clinton’s face eased up in front of his shop and parked on the side of Grayson Highway.

He watched, according to a police report obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta, someone get off that bus and fiddle with some sort of mechanism.

And he watched — then smelled — a thick liquid pour from the bus’s belly.

[...]

The bus, one of two traveling the country for the DNC’s “Forward Together” tour, was in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville on Tuesday to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and encourage locals to vote. Just down the street, Fox 5 reported, people waited in line for early voting in Gwinnett County.

Robins called police.

“You don’t pull up and dump raw sewage on the street and in the storm drain,” he told Fox 5. “You just don’t do that.”

Left behind, according to the police report, was evidence: a hefty amount of “drying toilet paper” and a “foul smell.”

[...]

The DNC later apologized in statements to local media and USA Today, calling the bus leak an “honest” and “unacceptable” mistake.

“This was an honest mistake and we apologize to the Lawrenceville community for any harm we may have caused,” the DNC said in a statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We were unaware of any possible violations and have already taken corrective action with the charter bus company to prevent this from happening again. Furthermore, the DNC will work with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as well as local and state officials to determine the best course of corrective action.”

The driver said that the sewage tank on the bus was full and leaking, a DNC spokesperson told Fox 5, and that there was concern the spillage could put other cars at risk if the bus kept barreling down the road.

[...]

Police Captain Jeff Smith told Fox 5 that dumping the sewage did violate the city code, and Kevin Chambers, with the state agency, said the investigation will include an interview with the charter bus company to determine “what happened and why.”

how irresponsible do you have to be

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Lost in Space
#144978: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:05:55 PM

Linking that directly to Clinton is just stupid, although, due to the circumstances, it can't help but give her a bad... odor.

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NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#144979: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:07:12 PM

That joke was so bad, it killed me!

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#144980: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:07:53 PM

[up][up][up] The moral of that story? Never hire that charter bus company again.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#144981: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:18:18 PM

[up] Instead rely on the foreign multinational Corporations smile.

Keep Rolling On
Nerevarine Since: Mar, 2016
#144982: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:28:40 PM

Data leaks aren't the only leaks troubling the Clinton campaign, it seems.

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tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#144984: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:50:56 PM

wild mass guessTrump will never give a concession speech. Instead Pence will have to do it.

Trump delenda est
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#144985: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:53:03 PM

[up] And then Trump will disown Pence (if he hasn't done so by then) and the Republican Party. And then go onto say something that will land him right in prison.

edited 19th Oct '16 12:53:40 PM by Greenmantle

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#144986: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:53:46 PM

What actually happens if Trump refuses to concede?

Like do we just ignore him or is there some legal thing we gotta do or what?

Oh really when?
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A procrastination in of itself
#144987: Oct 19th 2016 at 12:57:27 PM

We ignore him, concessions are just an acknowledgment for reality, they don't effect reality at all.

It'd be the same as if Obama refused to acknowledge the result, it doesn't actually matter, the winner becomes president regardless of what anyone bar the Supreme Court thinks.

Still, odds on Trump calling to all rigged and demanding that the electors go faithless and give the election to him anyway?

edited 19th Oct '16 12:58:58 PM by Silasw

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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#144989: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:00:20 PM

[up][up]I'm not sure he even knows electors exist.

Falrinn Since: Dec, 2014
#144990: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:02:43 PM

[up]x4 I think the only legal result of Trump refusing to concede might be that he'll keep his secret service detail at least until the Electoral College votes. At that point Hillary Clinton is constitutionally the President-elect regardless of any election shenanigans that may (but almost certainly did not) of occurred.

I can imagine that if it does happen, his Secret Service detail will engage in a level of passive-aggressiveness never before achieved by mortal humans.

edited 19th Oct '16 1:08:53 PM by Falrinn

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A procrastination in of itself
#144991: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:08:03 PM

I wonder if any of his secret service people have seen him assault anyone, I wouldn't be surprised if they had.

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#144992: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:08:59 PM

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.

So Falwell Jr.'s safe space was violated? tongue

Do not obey in advance.
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#144993: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:09:39 PM

[up][up]The Secret Service protection detail is utterly sworn to secrecy about whatever they see their protectee do; anything less compromises their fundamental mission.

edited 19th Oct '16 1:10:09 PM by Fighteer

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V
#144994: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:10:05 PM

@ Silas: Just another addition to his FBI file. The Federal Government (especially Intellipedia) must have a lot of information on Trump.

[up] But I'm quite some intelligence does get leaked to the appropriate places when required.

edited 19th Oct '16 1:11:58 PM by Greenmantle

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Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#144995: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:27:16 PM

That reminds me - I believe I mentioned that someone I know who's a Trump supporter mentioned a book apparently written by a former Secret Service agent that had all sorts of dirt on the Clintons?

Anyone know what they're talking about?

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#144996: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:30:59 PM

According to the track record for such things, probably zilch and squat.

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Perpetually Confused
#144997: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:34:41 PM

The Secret Service protection detail is utterly sworn to secrecy about whatever they see their protectee do; anything less compromises their fundamental mission.

Good think they are too drunk most of the time to remember anything they saw anyway! :-P

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United Earth
#144998: Oct 19th 2016 at 1:51:31 PM

Well, in context, Clinton's statements are understandable. But, still, getting yelled at by idiots with impossible wishes is part of her job. And "get a life" is a very uncivil thing to say, by any standard.

Trump is scum, beneath rock bottom.

But, for someone who measures her words so carefully, and who is such a great technician, Hillary has a lot of room for improvement as a leader of humans. She's no Bill, and certainly no Obama.

Oh, and calling Sanders an incompetent campaigner is just plain unfair. He went much futher than anyone expected. Unlike Obama, he went with an anti-establishment platform, extremely honest admissions of his own limits, and lots of stubbornness. None of that "YES, WE CAN" and "HOPE" and "CHANGE" sweet-yet-empty slogans. He did a great job with what he had and given who he has.

Hillary may have 20 years of propaganda against her, but she also has the entire party brass on her side, as well as the support of a whole lot of her fellow wealthy people. She is, by all accounts, a very mediocre campaigner, and hates that part of her job anyway, and her advisers struggle very much to get her to listen to them.

/rant

If I were a US Citizen, I would vote Hil, no questions asked. It's no context. But I wouldn't vote with HOPE that YES, WE CAN have CHANGE in the USA.

edited 19th Oct '16 1:52:50 PM by TheHandle

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#144999: Oct 19th 2016 at 2:01:02 PM

[up]People are allowed to be uncivil in their down or private times, and if that's one of the worst things she's said (that people know of anyone) it reflects well on her. What human being is civil in regards to everything, all the time?

What, you don't think Sanders or Obama also have less than civil things to say about people sometimes? It just comes off as a weak complaint all around.

Edited by LSBK on Oct 26th 2020 at 12:00:47 PM

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#145000: Oct 19th 2016 at 2:05:26 PM

Obama did call Kanye West a jackass...

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