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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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No need to play dumb, its quite obvious why you posted the article, which included the numbers I cited in TFA. |
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#752 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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So maybe state wide recounts are a good idea and Jill Stein was on to something?
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#753 |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Location: Kansas City, MO
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#755 | |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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I refuse to believe Jill Stein has ever been on to anything.
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#756 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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(Shh... just play along)
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#757 |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or naive.
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#758 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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#759 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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Good. I am hoping that stuff like this coming out will make the confirmation hearings difficult and might lead to other choices in the long run. One way to ease Trump off the crazy would be if the GOP controlled Congress still forced him to compromise on some of his weirder decisions.
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#760 |
General Manager
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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I don't know if they can force him to compromise. GOP voters are much more pro-Russia/Putin these days. Imagine if Reagan were still alive to see this.
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#761 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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The ultimate result that the ends justify the means if it helps you win. There's very little in regards to a conclusion that you can come to otherwise. The rise of the controlling neo-conferderate is complete.
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#762 |
General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Ah, it's "Liberals get angry because the Electoral College doesn't flip to Hillary" Day!
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#763 |
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: On Lake Harriet
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Not really.
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#764 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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I would say that the vast majority of Americans are willing to proceed, however they do want to know what the fuck happened and how did we get here. They also want the Congressmen who spent 8 years undermining one presidency to shut the fuck up about suddenly getting slammed with the very same tactics they themselves rationalized. Furthermore, they'd really like it if it didn't look like we were intentionally covering up something that's massive implications go beyond the actual hacked emails, but drive to something much bigger.
Trump will be in the crosshairs for the next 4 years at least. He will be subject to scrutiny, ridicule and outright opposition. Get used to it. Just like my own Dad said, "this anger you have is how we felt for 8 years," well suck it up buttercup, you're about to endure the shoe on the other foot. Being the target instead of the rock is a completely different experience.
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.
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I would like to see how the people whining about the popular vote would have responded to the first 9 presidential elections in US history.
I fully expect Trump to be a train wreck of Warren G. Harding proportions, but I have no problem with how he got there. |
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#766 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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What exactly is your definition of "how he got there?" The electoral process? The actual outcome of the vote on Nov 8?
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#767 |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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I would like to see how people against slavery would have responded to the first eighty years of the USA.
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#768 |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Russia's ambassador to Turkey was shot and wounded. The Russian reaction will be worth watching.
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#769 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Except we're not all that inclined to take it with much patience after enduring the destruction & damage of the past eight years. The shoe IS on the other foot ... and I hope & pray it squashes a whole lot of fucking cockroaches.
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#770 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.
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The electoral process. I have no problem with someone losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college, even if he was a boorish, lying oaf the entire time. |
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#771 |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Update: Russian ambassador killed.
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#772 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Take it all the way back to the times when there was a quiet, repressed, conciliatory, underpaid, workforce, and a single, authoritarian leader who was responsible to make all the choices for the good of himself and those others who were worthy, such as himself? Because, the ones he was responsible for weren't (insert whatever here, smart, wealthy, genetically significant) enough? I mean, after all, they should know better.
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#773 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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I still wonder exactly what it was that was destroyed over the past eight years. Not generalities like "good sense" or "common reason," but specific examples.
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#774 |
General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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#775 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Video of the assassination itself.
Footage of the Russian Ambassador getting show, gunman clearly shouting "Allahu Akbar" - YouTube |
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#776 | |
General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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That's nuts. He was the only one behind him. He was either part of the museum security detail or the ambassador's security detail. No other way he's in that spot, is there? |
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#777 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Archduke Ferdinand unavailable for comment.
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#778 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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I just read he was off duty, he flashed his badge to get in, and the ambassador's detail was not with him. |
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#779 |
General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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No social media from Trump yet. I'm a bit surprised to be honest.
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#780 |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Supposedly the translation of his comments makes it clear he was taking action in response to the Russian abuses in Aleppo.
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#781 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Something along the lines of "You kill us in Aleppo, we kill you here. God is great."
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#782 | |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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It's not illegal if the President or his kids do it.
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#783 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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#784 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Not much on "the wall" that I've read. Wonder what is going on there, looking forward to see how Trump plans to execute this?
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#785 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Great article in the Washington Post talking about the potential future of the US, based on similar politics in Poland.
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So yeah, lots of familiarity and things to fear there. I'm not even touching on the rollbacks of equal rights for LGBT groups, the normalizing of state religion, and and state approved discrimination against other racial and sex-identity groups.
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#786 |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Gen. Flynn apparently has been meeting with the leader of the Austrian Freedom party, a white supremacist party founded by honest to God Nazis.
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#787 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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#788 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: St. Louis
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I thought and still think the Trump presidency will be a disaster (not a country destroying disaster but probably one that will make the W. Bush presidency look like a success) but the one positive is how worked up the board's resident liberals get about every single thing in the news. Oh my God racism, Russia!, oh jeez racism, the Russians, oh no racism!!!! It's like the idiots on the other side back in 2008 complaining all the time about Jeremiah Wright, the black panthers supposedly changing the elections, the end of America as we know it, Benghazi...
You screwed over a huge portion of your base with the super-delegates in the primary and then ran a shitty candidate who lost... get over it. |
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#789 |
General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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There is a difference between complaining about things that happened versus things that didn't happen.
The New Black Panthers didn't achieve anything. The Russians really did influence the election. That's not hard to figure out.
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#790 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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I'm amazed that conservatives who idolized Reagan are fine with the Russians basically pulling the strings now.
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#791 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: St. Louis
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It's now an inarguable fact they influenced the election and without their meddling Clinton would have won the election? People thought Hillary Clinton was an honest upstanding clean politician until Wikileaks (aka in CNN speak "The Russians") showed she wasn't? Give me a break. Again same garbage assuming non-liberals are incapable of making decisions without Russian meddling and/or racism. Maybe this mindset is what lost the election? I thought Clinton was a better candidate than Trump for sure but nothing realeased in the hacked emails was the least bit surprising or shocking. Last edited by panerd : 12-20-2016 at 09:57 AM. |
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#792 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: St. Louis
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The Russians are now pulling the strings? Maybe the Democrats just had a crappy candidate who lost the election. A liberal loss doesn't always have to be because of something unfair happening. |
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#793 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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If Russians didn't think that wikileaks of DNC emails wouldn't hurt the Clinton campaign why would they release them? I mean this is just Occam's razor now.
And considering how CLOSE Trump ended up winning (100,000 votes over 3 states), I think one can say that without Russian meddling there is a good chance it could have been vastly different.
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#794 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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Uh... yeah. Look who is the nominee for SecState. Look what the President-elect's policy for Syria seems to be. Look what the President-elect's policy towards Russian sanctions is. What is the President-elect's policy on NATO? Russia is getting everything it wants on the international stage.
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#795 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I'm amazed at how many liberals are clinging to this idea that Clinton was a slam-dunk without the e-mail release. She was unlikable long before that. Personally, I don't see the problem in it. She should have released all those e-mails when they were requested. If she had, no one would have ended up leaking them at such a crucial time in her campaign. Mrs. Clinton has no one to blame but herself. Do it the right way and she had a fighting chance. |
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#796 |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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People do realize that Clinton's emails from her own server weren't leaked right?
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#797 |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Freedoms that go away, like say, the freedom of press, the normalization of not releasing income tax records, the idea that the president isn't beholden to the US population in location, statements, or actions is nearly impossible to get back once it's gone.
If we allow the the highest office in the land, the most powerful person in the world, to now be allowed the freedom to operate behind the walls, or through others, while maintaining a distinct line between himself and the people. To allow him to control press by shutting down opposing voices, or by simply ignoring the voices he doesn't agree with, and allowing him the freedom to communicate through a medium that affords him protection from immediate consequences then we've lost more in that than anything that's happened in the last 40 years. We will have created the Wizard of Oz, knowing full well who he is, but choosing to accept it anyway. He will insulate and continue to insulate himself by surrounding himself with so many people that he can scapegoat that he'll never do anything wrong, because there will always be someone to blame. Building metaphorical walls will only create barriers to achievement. Trump has his twitter wall where he is free to speak whatever he feels. Everyone else argues about what he means, and what the consequences of it are, but he never has to face the music. We have walls on this board, reddit, facebook, twitter. The age of impersonal, human interactions, where we can insulate from having to actually feel empathy for anyone else is here. That is no way to conduct foreign policy. It's no way to maintain peace with allies and it sure as hell isn't the way to avoid conflict. Trump spouts off as being an isolationist where the world needs to leave us alone, but then weighs in on every single thing happening as if he's right there feeding the flames on one side or another. He's simply not smart enough to realize what the fuck he's doing, and I fear we will all pay the price, one way or another.
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#798 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: St. Louis
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I am not a Trump supporter in the least. However it's amazing you have analyzed his unsuccessful presidency after him being in office for 0 days. I thought the conservatives were fast in declaring Obama's failure about a month into his term but I will give you credit for being even faster. |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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And that ladies and gentleman is the crux for the majority of Americans who think that they were totally related. Holy shit.
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#800 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Dude, look around. He's not the first person who's ever approached world politics in this way. He's not a trailblazer. He's not setting out to change things. This is based off of his actions, his beliefs, his speeches. The way he runs his companies, his lawsuits. There's nothing here that should be shocking to anyone if you're paying attention. I sure as shit am claiming he's going to be assassinated, nor calling for it, like many did when Obama was elected. I'm not putting words or actions to him that he hasn't already done in one way or another. I'm saying that if he continues to operate that way that he always has, that this will be the result.
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