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thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#145726: Oct 21st 2016 at 2:55:19 PM

There is a lot to dislike about clinton but it's the difference between a hair in your soup and rat poison. At worst a clinton presidency will be mired in mediocrity and hawkish foreign policy, while a worst case scenario with trump may be an extinction level event.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#145727: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:07:29 PM

I just watched that video on the previous page that was Ezra Klein's summary of the three debates and I just noticed something.

Hillary pulled off a Red, White and Blue wardrobe. Admittedly, not in that order, but she wore the three colours of the US flag to the three debates.

edited 21st Oct '16 3:07:47 PM by Wyldchyld

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#145728: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:14:30 PM

Is it wrong if I find that kind of clever?

edited 21st Oct '16 3:16:24 PM by BearyScary

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#145729: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:20:44 PM

I don't necessarily agree with the pace or the content, but I must say this little piece left me happy with its beat and pacing. But if Bernie gets to be Hamilton, he should get to spit a few lines of endorsement and drop a few Berns on Trump's lies and horseshit. The man's got quiet; where'd he go, what's the campaign up to? The rightists are spewing contempt unto my hero all over the Facebook, too.

edited 21st Oct '16 3:21:21 PM by TheHandle

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#145730: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:25:52 PM

Hillary is Hamilton, a morally conflicted plutocrat lover and elitist who gets the job done and cares about minorities more than the more populist politicians.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#145732: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:27:54 PM

Last I heard, Bernie was campaigning for Hillary.

But yeah, I haven't heard much from him lately. No specific zingers, which is strange, because he has to have a lot to say. Maybe Hillary's campaign is advising him to keep it on the down low?

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Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#145733: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:32:25 PM

My distaste for Hilary comes entirely from her being a little further right than I'd like. She's a bit too hawkish and a bit too cozy with Wall Street for my tastes, among a few other things. But that said, I have few doubts about her integrity compared to the average politician, and none about her ability or qualifications.

Donald Trump wouldn't qualify for a driver's license in my estimation, and has shown over and over again that he has less integrity than a bridge made of balsa wood.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#145734: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:35:19 PM

Breitbart (and so far only Breitbart) is currently reporting that the Federal Election Commission is filling a lawsuit against Clinton and the DNC.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#145735: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:36:46 PM

What for?

Oh really when?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#145736: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:37:02 PM

--> <-- Witness the exact amount of fucks I give about anything Breitbart has to say.

edited 21st Oct '16 3:37:09 PM by Fighteer

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#145737: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:39:08 PM

Is it this many?

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#145738: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:39:38 PM

[up][up][up]

     The Story Itself 
WASHINGTON—In the aftermath of James O’Keefe’s videos showing Democratic operatives bragging about breaking the law and inciting violence at Donald Trump events, on Tuesday, a watchdog group filed a formal complaint against Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), alleging that Clinton’s campaign violated federal election law.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is an Indiana-based law firm that litigates ballot-box integrity lawsuits. PILF filed its complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), arguing that agents from the Democracy Partners and the Foval Group—the persons caught on O’Keefe’s explosive videos—“have engaged in public communications, campaign activity, targeted voter registration drives, and other targeted [get out the vote] activity … at the request, direction, and approval of” Hillary for America (the official name of the Clinton campaign) and the DNC.

Federal law at 52 U.S.C. § 30109(a)(2) provides that once the FEC receives a complaint, “If the Commission … has reason to believe that a person has committed, or is about to commit, a violation of [the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971—as amended by later statutes,]” the FEC “shall make an investigation of such alleged violation.”

The word “shall” is important because it is mandatory, rather than leaving the FEC the option of taking action. Consequently, when the FEC receives a complaint that is plausible on its face and has any sort of supporting evidence or corroboration—such as, for example, a video of a political operative who says he is taking orders directly from specific persons from the Clinton campaign and the national Democratic Party—federal law requires the FEC to open an investigation.

These videos fit a larger pattern of evidence of voter fraud and illegal election activity. In Virginia, a survey of only eight counties revealed hundreds of foreigners—potentially including illegal aliens—already registered to vote, which is a major focus on PILF’s litigation nationwide.

“American voter rolls are corrupted with unacceptable numbers of aliens who are illegally registered to vote,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement. “Groups should not be coordinating with campaigns and political parties to exploit vulnerabilities in our election system.”

“We hope this matter is fully investigated by the FEC and that if aliens are voting, they are prosecuted by the Justice Department,” he added. “That would mark a change in DOJ policies of the past seven years.”

Unfortunately for Trump supporters, the FEC is not required to finish an investigation and take legal enforcement action by November 8. But this legal complaint—like a second complaint later filed by O’Keefe himself—fuels media attention on the disturbingly brazen statements caught on the videos. These statements in turn advance Donald Trump’s narrative about the lawlessness and corruption of Hillary Clinton and her activities, going beyond her campaign organization to include the Clinton Foundation and pay-for-play politics.

edited 21st Oct '16 3:40:07 PM by sgamer82

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#145739: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:41:22 PM

Nothing from anything reliable, so I assume its hot air.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#145740: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:41:58 PM

Conservative activist James O’Keefe has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

O'Keefe, the "watchdog group" that filed the complaint, is the same guy who manufactured the ACORN and Planned Parenthood scandals. Glenn Beck has flat out called him a liar and faker.

edited 21st Oct '16 3:42:39 PM by Parable

Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#145741: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:44:59 PM

Regarding that Reuters article about whether people think the election is rigged or not: Remember that the Democratic voter responses are weighted by the fact that Trump is currently set to lose in a landslide. I'd question the results even if Hillary only got a narrow victory. If she actually lost, then I think people should take a very close look at what happened at polling stations with Trump's enforcers.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#145742: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:46:27 PM

If the Republicans lose the Senate, Sanders will be chairman of the Budget commitee, according to Paul Ryan.

Oh, Paul, go home and cry me a river.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#145743: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:47:32 PM

Tumblr has been losing its shit over this for days. It's the exact same reaction as the Taco Trucks thing.

A simultaneous, deafening, joyous Big "YES!"

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#145744: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:49:46 PM

On. Every. Corner.[tup][awesome]smiletonguewaiiwinkideacool

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#145745: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:50:05 PM

My own thought was that Ryan's statement was more likely to backfire

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#145746: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:50:32 PM

What exactly would that entail?

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#145747: Oct 21st 2016 at 3:58:18 PM

That people like Sanders and think that's a good thing, I figure.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#145748: Oct 21st 2016 at 4:00:37 PM

Getting the public excited about down-ticket elections? Give them that 'Look around, look around!' kind of feel?

edited 21st Oct '16 4:01:45 PM by TheHandle

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#145749: Oct 21st 2016 at 4:02:25 PM

I don't really see how. That doesn't sound connect to other elections, but just a direct consequence of the presidential one.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#145750: Oct 21st 2016 at 4:07:48 PM

@bernie committee:

[CLINTON] They are asking me to lead I am doing the best I can To get the people that I need I’m asking you to be my right hand man

[BERNIE] Treasury or State?

[CLINTON] I know it’s a lot to ask

[BERNIE] Treasury or State?

[CLINTON] To leave behind the world you know…

[BERNIE] Ma'am, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?

[CLINTON] Treasury

[BERNIE] Let’s go

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