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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
And the crazy clowns in the streets. And me selling my PS3 and forgetting the password for my American PSN account and the old email it was connected to.
edited 2nd Nov '16 10:35:24 PM by Bat178
The South Korean president being revealed to be under the control of a cult.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Semi-joking thought - could the Cubs winning the World Series mean Ohio tips to Trump becayse Cleveland fans became less happy about the world and be more inclined to vote against the incumbent party? Wasn't like there was much risk of Illinois going to Trump...
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Ohio is being predicted to go Trump's way in some models currently, however that along isn't enough for a Trump win, he needs to either somehow get Pennsylvania, run the gambit on the swing states, or almost get all the swing states and pick up Nevada instead of New Hampshire.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran@Hillary not being Liberal:
Basically the main concern is Hillary is more beholden to her Wall Street, K Street and Beltway peers, where even if she herself may hold liberal positions, she'll be less likely to act on them if her friends or major political allies give her the thumbs down, while Sanders is/was viewed as having less commitment dragging him down so he'd be less restrained from taking a hard position.
Or for example, she's very very used to squaring the circle/triangulating, which gets us her hat dancing on the Dakota pipleine
where she won't say she's against it for fear of offending the unions and Democratic business allies who are for it, but she won't say she's for it as to avoid offending Democratic allied Native Americans and Environmentalist groups.
i.e. Her positions mean squat if she's unwilling to act on them when under a large microscope for fear of offending someone.
At least that's how the argument's logic follows.
I wonder if one of the reasons Trump has been throwing out the accusations that HRC is in league with Wall Street throughout his campaign is because he's actually really envious. As Obama said in a previous rally, Trump is someone who has been trying so hard his entire life to be seen as a member of the global elite. HRC on the other hand doesn't have nearly as much capital but fits in far better with the bigshots on Wall Street because — unlike Trump — she actually understands a thing or two about the global economy.
Also about human psyche. Aside from manipulating the masses to turn them into a giant angry mob, Trump doesn't know how to relate to people without bullying them - and he can't bully the people that are richer than him.
I've said this before, but Trump has spent much of his life trying to get in with the Wall Street people, but he hasn't been able to, in part because he's just an unpleasant person, but also because he's a boor. Actually rich people appear to be able to tell he's full of crap, if only because Trump always goes for the gaudiest option possible, that tends to at the very least, look incredibly cheap. Like, those pictures of his apartment? They look like the smallest possible amount of money was spent to fake having spent a massive amount of money, but he missed the mark on both counts. Because he did spend a lot. It just looks awful.
It's a weird case of Big Money interests lining up with the interests of democracy. After all, these people didn't become successful by being bad judges of business acumen, and anyone looking with a serious eye at Donald Trump can tell how full of shit he is.
Ergo, the only reason to follow him is if you believe that his political agenda aligns with your prejudices: in other words, you don't care how much he'd wreck the economy because you want to stick it to the dirty Jews or whatever.
edited 3rd Nov '16 4:52:53 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
One of my relatives is a banker who used to work at Wall Street. She can't stand Donald Trump — his sheer idiocy is a big part of that. She knows all too well that if Trump was in charge of America's economic policies, we'd all be screwed.
Of course she hates the sexism, the racism, and the total lack of maturity and empathy too.
edited 3rd Nov '16 4:57:29 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedU.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears
... Guys, I'm seriously worried that blood will be shed before the day the voting results are announced ends. How the f*** do you leave these people freely walking around toting guns and threatening to violently clash with the government if they don't have their way?!
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

I was thinking of putting myself into a coma for the next four years.
Then I figured that if the world's going to burn, I'll get a front row seat/join the resistance.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.