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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
My Mom is seriously pissed because they interrupted Jeopardy! part-way through for a televised press conference about this. And all they're talking about is that there's nothing to talk about...
"We will continue to bring you live coverage of... nothing happening."
edited 28th Oct '16 4:47:33 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.Word. My one sentence sum-up of the whole thing "The FBI may have found emails that might be a problem maybe but they aren't sure."
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Something like this is very unlikely to get anyone to switch from Clinton to Trump or affect any significant number of still-undecideds - the more plausible worry is that those who would otherwise go with Clinton might pick third-party or just not vote come Nov 8.
The bigger issue is that the news media has something to latch onto to try to present a more closer election than we've seen in the past couple of weeks.
edited 28th Oct '16 4:55:23 PM by megarockman
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Has he looked in a mirror lately
- Orange skin from a bad tanning booth and racoon eyes
- 300+ pounds plus - He makes a $5000 suit look like rat feces
- Skin that looks like his face was on fire and someone put it out with an icepick
- Hair that resembles the Scarecrows from the Wizard of Oz
- And a personality that only attracts gold diggers
This is the guy who demeans other peoples looks
A great comment I saw on an article.
I thought he was "only" 240 lbs. Which still isn't within the healthy range for someone his height and age.
He does have a big, fat ass, though. It's a good thing men don't have cellulite.
It is so great that he's body positive... towards his own image.
Do not obey in advance.The very fact that this is being treated like an issue and Trump's chances didn't drop to zero after that sexual assault admission came out makes me so ashamed of my country. How quickly the deplorables can normalize sexual assault just by repeating Trump's phrase "locker room talk" over and over again and Americans still haven't completely abandoned him turns my stomach.
That's right, boys. Mondo cool.Wasn't there a "scandal" a few weeks back about new Clinton emails about Benghazi, with no indication that it was more than somebody pressing ctrl-f and "Benghazi" and saying they found something? When the news is that there's news, and nothing else, all it does is fuel preconceived notions, since it doesn't look like there's anything else to chew on.
However, I can't say I'm surprised at this development. Something was bound to happen to remind people that they don't like Clinton, but how many people are going to be swayed remains to be seen.
Maybe some good can come of this for the Republican Party. As in, maybe they'll look back and see how distorted their priorities became if they were willing to nominate Trump. Then they'll change their outlook on where the country's headed and thus refine their goals to something more......practical instead of hopelessly ideological.
edited 28th Oct '16 6:07:12 PM by nervmeister
Do yourself a favor and don't check how Fox News is spinning it. The damn network's on about 70% of the TVs at my local gym, and the stable of pundits and their totally unbiased correspondents were practically drooling.
edited 28th Oct '16 6:09:44 PM by Tacitus

He certainly has enough authority to decide on his own discretion that the country is better served if he sits on this until he has actual information to add, rather than announcing to the world that he may or may not have information to add at some indeterminate point in the future — especially if it's true that we're actually talking about a very small number of emails.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.