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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Frankly, there's probably a mountain of "locker room talk" tapes lying around in various places. And I don't mean some horrible thing he secretly said in private, I mean in the sense that like 90% of what Trump says is either nonsense or extremely offensive. If the other Republicans had actually cared during the primaries I'm pretty sure they could have sunk him based on his misogyny alone.
edited 29th Oct '16 2:06:12 PM by Draghinazzo
That will happen just as soon as the government stops using technology that would have been considered obsolete garbage in the 90's.
edited 29th Oct '16 2:26:44 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm not sure if now would be the time to drop any final bombs on Trump. News cycles are fast in the modern era and it might be best to drop anything on say the Saturday before the election. Get the news talking about it for the weekend and the papers writing about it for Monday so that it's fresh in everyone's mind for Tuesday.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran"At times, Trump seemed to make light of others’ expectations about his generosity.
In 1997, for instance, he was “principal for a day” at a public school in an impoverished area of the Bronx. The chess team was holding a bake sale, Hot & Crusty danishes and croissants. They were $5,000 short of what they needed to travel to a tournament.
Trump had brought something to wow them.
“He handed them a fake million-dollar bill,” said David Mac Enulty, a teacher and the chess team’s coach.
The team’s parent volunteers were thrilled.
Then disappointment.
Trump then gave them $200 in real money and drove away in a limousine.
Why just $200?
“I have no idea,” Mac Enulty said. “He was about the most clueless person I’ve ever seen in that regard.”
Wow he is cheaper than Mr. Krabs.
... I don't even have words to describe these pictures, just look at them.
It's a Pro-Trump thing here in Brazil.
Jill Stein doubles down on the Dangers of WiFi in a AMA on Reddit
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Looking at 538's list of national polls
the polls range from basically tied to one oddball poll that has her up a ludicrous 14 points.
One important thing to note is that if you look at the polling averages, Hillary's percentage of the popular vote hasn't actually changed all that much in the last couple weeks. What has changed is that Gary Johnson's support has started to falter and Trump seems to have picked up a point from there.
"Right, so, how accurate are those claims?"
They aren't. Wifi is just the newest in a long tradition of "new thing gives you cancer" that dates back to at least microwaves. It's closely associated with general anxiety about radiation and Electromagnetic hypersensitivity disorder. The key point is that if people were adversely effected by electromagnetic signals they would be very dead since, as you may notice, electromagnetic signals are also known as radio waves, AKA those things blanketing every single town since the 1920s.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Well, Arizona always seemed to be on the edge even as it's been leaning more towards Clinton, and Ohio struck me as the most red-leaning of the major battleground states. Hopefully, things will turn around by Election Day. We can certainly manage without them, but I'd prefer we get as much as we can.
edited 29th Oct '16 5:09:27 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Yeah, unless the dirt Clinton has on Trump is a bomb on the level of Castle Bravo, it won't have an impact. If the fact that Trump admitted to committing sexual assault on a regular basis won't ground him, few things will.
edited 29th Oct '16 6:20:06 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The timing would be suspicious to many, though.
Do not obey in advance.