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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#147526: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:49:19 PM

Yeah I'd be shocked if the Russians want a Trump win, most likely they want a close run thing so that Clinton has to spend years focused on domestic issues instead of foreign policy ones.

[up] I suspect he might have just made a tough person decision, piss of the Republicans in congress to much and they might try and get him put in jail. Piss off the Democrats to much and he'll loose his job, he can't have it both ways so he's gone for the options hat doesn't land him in prison.

edited 31st Oct '16 1:51:37 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Shippudentimes Since: Dec, 2012
#147527: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:51:00 PM

More lawsuits this time, and it's not just sexual.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/10/dozens-lawsuits-accuse-trump-not-paying-his-bills-reports-claim.html

To summarize briefly, Trump now owes over $776k in unpaid fees, fines and bills, from, according to USA TODAY, includes 200 mechanic's liens, and 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act since 2005 in refusing to pay minimum wage and overtime alone.

And, from the Fox News article, Trump's reason is that he was making withholding payment "a part of his business strategy".

And somehow he's risen to an 11% chance of victory in the New York Times' Upshot.

I can't...

I just can't....

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#147528: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:51:21 PM

@ Silas:

a habit of yours I might add

I've stopped taking things (here at least) seriously.

Keep Rolling On
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#147529: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:54:26 PM

[up] Then please stop with the posting habits that look like concern trolling. kthxbye.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#147530: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:54:37 PM

Green what I'm saying is that we can no longer sit back and allow Russian infiltration, Russian indoctrination, Russian subversion and the international Russian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Oh really when?
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#147531: Oct 31st 2016 at 1:55:36 PM

Russia doesn't need "agents on the inside", it just needs to keep playing the factions and the useful idiots against each other so we stop interfering in their ambitions. There's a fine line between rational caution and irrational paranoia and panicked declarations that they're infiltrating all the things...well we saw what that got us in the Cold War.

The info about the Russia connection Coney supposedly wanted to suppress was released anyway; all he did in effect was pointedly not sign off on it. Mostly all he achieved is looking hypocritical.

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#147532: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:04:12 PM

1. I wasn't thinking that Comey actually wants Trump to win, more that he was seeing a Clinton landslide (which prior to Thursday looked like a plausible outcome) more unacceptable.

2. Can we make it a habit of tagging sarcasm as such because of Poe's Law?

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
AzureSpiritStone Since: Aug, 2014
#147533: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:11:02 PM

[up] x6 This election is probably the single goddamn mess I have lived through. I've been doing my best to keep up, in spite of the occasional anxiety attack. That said, I'm very optimistic things will work out. Still, it's troubling to see Trump have a double-digit chance like this, considering what he preaches.

edited 31st Oct '16 2:11:21 PM by AzureSpiritStone

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#147534: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:21:48 PM

If the 2016 election was a TV show it'd be critically panned for being so unrealistic and ridiculous.

The TV Tropes page would be Trope Overdosed and the Headscratchers page would be Up To Eleven.

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EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#147535: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:22:33 PM

This is going to be either fantastic or horrible to learn about in 2-3 generations.

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#147536: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:23:19 PM

Mhm. I've always said that not only is Trump clearly a fictional character, he's not even a well-written fictional character.

Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#147537: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:24:54 PM

Now, now, don't insult actual fiction. Even darkfics have better written characters than Trump is. tongue

edited 31st Oct '16 2:25:45 PM by Irene

Shadow?
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#147538: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:26:00 PM

[up][up][up]Let's hope they learn in school, not from digging through irradiated ash.tongue

edited 31st Oct '16 2:26:33 PM by Rationalinsanity

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#147539: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:26:42 PM

Donald Trump doesn't even seem like a real person to me, with all the complex and nuance that fiction rarely (unless it's a Long Runner) capture.

He literally seems like a caricature of an 80s cartoon villain come to life.

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BestOf FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC! from Finland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
#147540: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:26:55 PM

The United States is a fictional country, and not a very well written one. (Some of you might remember that I posit this hypothesis somewhat frequently.)

In more serious news:

Hillary Clinton has held some kind of campaign event at an Arsenal fan pub in Miami. Gunner-fan Clinton confirmed? (Almost certainly not. As if she cared which English football club a particular pub is associated with.)

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#147541: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:27:50 PM

I wonder what our wiki page would look like if the election was treated like a work of fiction and if people were just as invested in it as in the real election.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#147542: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:30:00 PM

It'd be full of natter, for one thing. tongue

Shadow?
TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#147543: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:30:30 PM

What was the actual hard evidence that Russia is behind all of this? Does every single thing damaging to Hillary have to be a conspiracy?

EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#147544: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:31:52 PM

"Removed Reality Is Unrealistic: This is not reality, BleyeEpic. Stop posting this trope- there's no way something like this could actually happen. Trump is almost cartoonishly evil and there's absolutely NO way he'd garner that much support, especially after the racial equality movements in the 60s! And Russians trying to infiltrate and influence the government? That functions off of an outdated stereotype from the Cold War. And there's no way presidential candidates would actually make fun of each other on TWITTER of all things."

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#147545: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:33:48 PM

[up][up]Do you want to just come out of the Republican closet and admit to being a Trump supporter? Because you do this every time that something critical of Trump is posted. That the Russians got involved has been confirmed by every major intelligence agency. You have any reason at all why we should doubt that?

edited 31st Oct '16 2:39:19 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#147546: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:36:47 PM

I actually read last night that Americans in general tend to project bad things happening as the result of some external evil, and feel that by eliminating that external evil, everything will go back to "normal". Think Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden.

TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#147547: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:37:16 PM

And wasn't there that cringeworthy moment last election where Hermain Cain quoted from the Pokemon movie? And this election of Hillary trying to be 'current' and telling young people to Pokemon GO to the polls?

Yeah, this election has been surreal.

[up][up] Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not really a Republican. I guess you could say I'm what you would call 'far right' but I make it a point to lurk and make the occasional comment at places like this, as well at far right forums. Being in an Echo chamber is a bad idea.

edited 31st Oct '16 2:41:16 PM by TheWanted

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#147548: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:38:59 PM

[up][up]That's fairly accurate. We have trouble with the concept of complex problems. What we really want is a Sauron or Palpatine that can be defeated by a plucky band of heroes exercising their Second Amendment rights.

It's a consequence of our revolutionary culture. Much of our politics is about trying to figure out who the villain is. Is it Putin? Kim Jong-un? Various Mexicans? Which dragon needs to be slain so our economy will work?

edited 31st Oct '16 2:40:07 PM by TobiasDrake

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EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#147549: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:40:14 PM

I highly doubt that's exclusive to Americans, though.

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#147550: Oct 31st 2016 at 2:40:39 PM

What was the actual hard evidence that Russia is behind all of this?

The letter saying that it was Russian signed by basically all the big names in US intelegence agencies, which we are now learning the FBI failed to sign not because they didn't think it was Russia but because they felt saying that it was Russia would influence the election.

[up][up] Even progressives fall for it, breaking up the big banks is an idea that in part comes from a desire to see a monster slain heroically.

edited 31st Oct '16 2:41:56 PM by Silasw

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