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Hours Left

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Oct 26, 2017
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Dump's severe mental decline is so blatantly obvious, the fact he hasn't been removed from office solely on that factor is one of the most shocking and disgraceful failures of the US government.
 

Lo-Volt

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New Yawk City!


I don't really know what this means but people are getting riled up about it. Can anyone figure it out?


First, I wonder where the source is from. I try not to listen to political ads so it's the first I've heard that. That said.

So I'm from Brooklyn, which I don't make secret when I post! 😅 and a brother of a classmate of mine from elementary school, (the nicer sibling) volunteered after 9/11. Never thought he would: seemed very quiet, very polite. He simply did not strike me as an Army type. But he went.

I don't visit my old neighborhood anymore but I know a commemorative sign on his corner is still there. The guy never returned. I didn't even know he enlisted until I saw it or someone told me about it?

We just got some sign. And Pete Buttigieg giving us some provincialism because my claasmate's light-skinned Hispanic brother damn well didn't look like he came from South Bend.

Man. The more I hear people talk, the more I want to sit this election out.
 

Tamanon

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Oct 25, 2017
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I think Trump has a weird habit of just doing free association with any question he has no fucking clue on (most of them). Just picks out a word in it and riffs on it.

He's like a terrible improv guy.
 

chadskin

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Oct 27, 2017
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Over the last few weeks, Mr. Giuliani has spoken on the phone and held an in-person meeting, in Madrid, with a top representative of the new Ukrainian president, encouraging his government to ramp up investigations into two matters of intense interest to Mr. Trump.

One is whether Ukrainian officials took steps during the 2016 election to damage Mr. Trump's campaign. The other is whether there was anything improper about the overlap between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s diplomatic efforts in Ukraine and his son's role with a gas company there.
Mr. Giuliani said he was acting on his own as a private citizen, with the knowledge and assistance of the State Department. He would not say whether Mr. Trump approved — or is aware of — the effort.

I'm sure Trump would never approve of this.
 

DinosaurusRex

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Oct 26, 2017
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Well that's just not gonna end well.
Seems alright to me
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Kirsten. I don't know who Lizzo is.

Even Hillary knows, just saying
 

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I think Trump has a weird habit of just doing free association with any question he has no fucking clue on (most of them). Just picks out a word in it and riffs on it.

He's like a terrible improv guy.

I think it's really just classic npd. He isn't really even listening to the question and thus his answers don't really make sense. He just wants to be in front of a camera and since he has no real knowledge on virtually any subject matter he just vomits word diarrhea.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Hot take here.
I feel like Dan Crenshaw presidential talk reminds me of how people thought Scott Walker would've been a great presidential candidate in 2016. Feels like a complete paper tiger to me.
He's an awful speaker which I guess he could improve. If the Republicans put up a charismatic, good looking man, it's time to flee the country though.
 

Kusagari

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He's an awful speaker which I guess he could improve. If the Republicans put up a charismatic, good looking man, it's time to flee the country though.

I think he speaks fine technically, but he just comes off as SUCH an unlikable douchebag. He was on Joe Rogan's podcast yesterday and apparently even they hated him, because he said obvious bullshit like he could easily beat someone with an AR-15 unarmed.
 

Pedrito

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Nov 4, 2017
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He's an awful speaker which I guess he could improve. If the Republicans put up a charismatic, good looking man, it's time to flee the country though.

One of the few good things in the dumptser fire that were the later seasons of House of Cards was the republican opponent of the Underwoods. I kept thinking that the GOP could do serious damage if they found someone like that instead of their usual bozos.
 

JesseEwiak

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Oct 31, 2017
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I look forward to anti-anti-Trump Republican's being totally confused when Nikki Haley and Josh Hawley are both being blown out by Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson in Iowa in 2024.
 

UberTag

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
15,392
Kitchener, ON
Watch Forma and Biden be on different nights again.
I know the odds of this happening again are merely 50%... so why does it actually feel like a 99.9% certainty?

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about how it's seemingly impossible to have standing to hold anyone in power accountable.
When you have the right judges stationed in the right places, accountability is an inconvenience that can be handwaved away.
 

MetalGearZed

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Oct 30, 2017
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I would prefer a 5-5 or 6-6 two-night debate, but this "random draw" shit could end up making it a disaster. Like ffs just have a kids table at this point! It's what the candidates and America deserve.

The no-chancers should be happy they got the opportunity to share a stage with Biden/Sanders/Warren in the first place
 

spx54

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Mar 21, 2019
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This debate format is absolute trash. I swear to God if we get a Biden/Harris matchup again..
 

Kusagari

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Oct 25, 2017
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I look forward to a random draw 11 person debate and us ending up with:

Night 1: Biden, Harris, Castro, Steyer, Klobuchar
Night 2: Warren, Bernie, Pete, Beto, Booker, Yang
 

Tamanon

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Oct 25, 2017
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Remember when Biden and Bernie were on the same stage and it didn't matter?

I think Warren will stick to her positive debate message and let everyone else tear each other down.
 

spx54

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Mar 21, 2019
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Screaming "rigged" unfortunately gets you to a place where the DNC is hypersensitive to the concerns of a bunch of also rans. So fucking ridiculous.
 

chadskin

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Oct 27, 2017
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The communication between the chancellor and the U.S. president has been scaled back to a minimum. Whereas Merkel at times spoke with Trump predecessor Barack Obama once a week, contact with Trump has been extremely sparse. "Spontaneous phone calls are not a part of their relationship," says one U.S. diplomat. They often go for several months without speaking to each other.
Soon after, pretty much anyone with a reputation to lose began keeping their distance from Grenell. No U.S. ambassador in recent German history seems to have been so isolated. On the American side, people have noticed that Merkel's people are constantly trying to organize panel discussions with American guests at which there is no space for Grenell at the table. Sometimes, however, the Americans insist -- as happened during the Munich Security Conference in February, which U.S. Vice President Mike Pence attended. In conversation, Merkel made it clear in no uncertain terms how little regard she has for Grenell. She told Pence that the U.S. ambassador cultivates a style that "took getting used to."
Grenell has been in his posting for about one and a half years, but the chancellor still hasn't offered him a personal meeting. Merkel's people say that is not typical for a head of government to meet with an ambassador. But even German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas hasn't had a significant conversation with Grenell in almost one year. The last time they spoke in depth was at a party held by the tabloid newspaper Bild last September. Grenell didn't want to comment on this either.

Maas and the ambassador appeared to make small talk at the Bild event, but even that went awry. That same evening, Grenell said that, of all people, Maas was a fan of Kid Rock, one of the few Trump supporters in the U.S. showbusiness world. Maas had never even heard of Kid Rock. He had mentioned Pearl Jam, a left-wing grunge band.

Four more years of Trump would probably leave irreparable damage ...
 
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Ogodei

Ogodei

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Oct 25, 2017
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Coruscant

They say politics goes in cycles, with Reagan ushering in the epoch that firmly ended the New Deal coalition, he was the FDR of the current cycle, with Bush as his Truman, Clinton as his Eisenhower, Dubya as his Kennedy/Johnson (the most effective of the lot but ultimately pushed too far for middle America), Obama as his Nixon (the harbinger of things to come but congressional inertia holds them back), then yes, we're right in time for the Reagan-era Carter. Much as Carter presaged a centrist realignment for Dems, Trump too brings on an ideological realignment. Much like Carter, Trump squanders a historic opportunity to change the country due to inept leadership.

There's a galaxy of difference between them of course and I hate to insult Jimmy this way, but the parallels are there.
 
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Ogodei

Ogodei

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Coruscant


Bwahahahaha they're doubling down


I had this thought a day or so back, but if you keep having to say about someone "he doesn't mean it," then maybe he fucking does.

Just because this is the go-to excuse for everyone who thinks they can somehow save a shred of their own dignity and defend Trump's ass simultaneously. It doesn't work that way. Either you check your self-worth at the door or you get off the train.
 

Hopfrog

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Oct 27, 2017
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They say politics goes in cycles, with Reagan ushering in the epoch that firmly ended the New Deal coalition, he was the FDR of the current cycle, with Bush as his Truman, Clinton as his Eisenhower, Dubya as his Kennedy/Johnson (the most effective of the lot but ultimately pushed too far for middle America), Obama as his Nixon (the harbinger of things to come but congressional inertia holds them back), then yes, we're right in time for the Reagan-era Carter. Much as Carter presaged a centrist realignment for Dems, Trump too brings on an ideological realignment. Much like Carter, Trump squanders a historic opportunity to change the country due to inept leadership.

There's a galaxy of difference between them of course and I hate to insult Jimmy this way, but the parallels are there.


A wild Skowronek appears.
 
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