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#145626: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:13:56 PM

[up][up][up]Does this mean they're in league with the Troll empress?

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#145627: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:21:36 PM

It sounds like the Al Smith dinner was kind of crazy.

Giving a look at a story about it, Trump's jokes... weren't so good, while Hillary roasted his hypocritical orange ass.

edited 20th Oct '16 10:22:34 PM by BearyScary

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#145628: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:21:44 PM

The Wall Street stuff is one thing, but I'll still never get why being a career politician is supposed to be a bad thing. I guess it's just one of those jobs like lawyer were doing it automatically makes you a bad person, regardless of what you actually do, but that doesn't make it any less bewildering/frustrating.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#145629: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:27:26 PM

[up] HRC was also a lawyer too, and a 'public defender at that. So she had that going against her too. The fake scandal about her defending a rapist back in the day springs to mind.

Seriously, there is nothing in HRC's life that the right-wingers won't try to spin into a scandal.

One idiot Congressman seriously proposed punishing HRC for supposedly breaking her college honor code thanks to her use of a private email server...decades after she graduated from college.

A few weeks ago Breitbart and the Drudge Report posted an article written by an HRC critic that claimed she was a bad candidate because when she was a little girl she once punched a boy for handing over baby bunnies to a bunch of bullies. Yes, they tried to spin her being a fierce defender of baby bunnies when she was a young girl as a bad thing.

edited 20th Oct '16 10:28:13 PM by M84

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#145630: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:30:30 PM

Defending baby bunnies is definitely a pro for a presidential candidate to me. [awesome]

But what a weird election this has been if this is the kind of dirt they try to dig up on someone.

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#145631: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:35:57 PM

A few weeks ago Breitbart and the Drudge Report posted an article written by an HRC critic that claimed she was a bad candidate because when she was a little girl she once punched a boy for handing over baby bunnies to a bunch of bullies. Yes, they tried to spin her being a fierce defender of baby bunnies when she was a young girl as a bad thing.

If anything that makes me like her more.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#145632: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:38:19 PM

I mean, the fact that they apparently see the guy who was going to give bunnies to bullies as the hero of the story kind of says it all, doesn't it?

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#145633: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:41:42 PM

Sanders had broad appeal and a hell of a lot of grassroots support, but he hadn't gone in it to win it, his campaign (while much, much better than Trump's) was not nearly as organized as the Clinton war machine, and his plan had way, way too much pie in the sky and too many magic asterisks. And, of course, he faced sabotage from DWS - though there's no way that that is why Clinton won.

Could Sanders have won? I think he had a fighting chance - far more than Trump has. He could have played much better (and Clinton could have played worse) - I think that his biggest mistake was failing to get a solid organization in place to properly leverage his massive netroots support. But he was definitely the underdog from day one, and contrary to fiction, underdogs usually lose - that's why they're the underdogs.

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
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#145634: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:50:46 PM

[up]x4 Okay, I need to hear their rationale for that - how is protecting baby bunnies a bad thing.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#145635: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:54:06 PM

Presumably she should have either let them have the bunnies or solved the issue without resorting to unlady-like violence.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#145636: Oct 20th 2016 at 10:59:29 PM

The donation ticker on Trump's website is merely a looped sample file. Low energy?

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#145637: Oct 20th 2016 at 11:00:28 PM

[up][up] "or solved the issue without resorting to unlady-like violence."

That was the spin in that article. I am not linking to that article since I refuse to give Breitbart clicks.

Google "Hillary Clinton, defender of bunnies"

edited 20th Oct '16 11:05:09 PM by M84

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Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#145638: Oct 20th 2016 at 11:01:50 PM

In which case she's either a doormat or a manipulative bitch.

These people (Breitbart, not normal Republican voters) literally see her as the devil. Anything and everything she does is examined in the worst possible light, and then fed to the rest of the base.

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#145639: Oct 20th 2016 at 11:09:09 PM

I suppose the unlady-like violence matches her unlady-like refusal to stay in the kitchen, then.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#145640: Oct 20th 2016 at 11:30:06 PM

[up] That's really the core of why the GOP hates her so much. She refused to play the role of a Stay in the Kitchen Blonde Republican Sex Kitten. She left the GOP when she realized that's what they wanted her to be.

Bill and her also humiliated them by making George H.W. Bush a one-term POTUS. And all of their attempts to smear and impeach Bill backfired (his approval ratings went up) while the Clinton administration basically cleaned up the crap left behind by the previous Republican administrations.

edited 20th Oct '16 11:33:38 PM by M84

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#145641: Oct 20th 2016 at 11:57:54 PM

Yeah, Rubio is more dangerous - if he gets a little more in shape, and stops himself from chugging water, he could be something.

He's young looking, he's boyish, charming you name it. The main thing stopping Marco Rubio, however, is in fact Marco Rubio.

He's not that committed, and he's prone to letting his mouth go, whether it be to water or to bizarre jokes ala trying to play Trump's way, which just didn't work for him.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#145642: Oct 21st 2016 at 12:01:36 AM

Rubio tried to play at Trump's gutter level.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#145643: Oct 21st 2016 at 1:05:59 AM

Tried and failed, it should be noted.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
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#145645: Oct 21st 2016 at 5:30:43 AM

Bill and her also humiliated them by making George H.W. Bush a one-term POTUS.

And still, Bush says he's voting for Clinton this time. If Trump was capable of analytic thought, that should trigger some introspection in him, especially about his compatibility with the Republican party and its core values.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#145646: Oct 21st 2016 at 5:43:13 AM

Rubio needs to actually show up to Congress to be a threat. That's why he's in such a tight re-election race (despite the DSCC recently pulling their funding for his opponent to spend elsewhere). He was often a no-show as Senator and clarified a few times that he doesn't really care about the position and just wants the White House.

That and he's got his own corruption skeletons that were never seriously trotted out because he wasn't a threat last cycle.

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#145647: Oct 21st 2016 at 6:03:01 AM

That's some heavy bs. How can this guy just get away with not doing his job? And expect to become president?!

edited 21st Oct '16 6:03:29 AM by Xopher001

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#145648: Oct 21st 2016 at 6:08:57 AM

[up] probably used Trump as his excuse

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#145649: Oct 21st 2016 at 6:18:10 AM

Republicans often get rewarded for refusing to do their jobs. Chuck Grassley on the judiciary committee is probably going to be reelected handily despite the horseshit he's pulled with the Garland non-hearings.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#145650: Oct 21st 2016 at 6:52:59 AM

Sanders had broad appeal and a hell of a lot of grassroots support
Not really. His appeal was almost entirely among young people. Young people regardless of ethnicity or gender, sure, but still, the only demographic he was winning with was "people under 30". That's not "broad" by any reasonable definition of the term.

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