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Who do you support in the General Election?

Donald Trump (Republican Nominee)
96
32%
Hillary Clinton (Presumptive Democratic Nominee)
110
37%
None/3rd Party/Other
95
32%
 
Total votes : 301

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Postby Geilinor » Sat May 28, 2016 12:24 pm

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
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What? I am used to Trump saying things that are not true, but this time I don't even know what he's trying to say.


Trumps point was that the state might actually have ample water supplies but the state improperly uses it and causes the shortage. I can't speak for how true that claim is but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.

The state is literally dried out. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/drought/11597289/California-drought-in-pictures-US-state-running-out-of-water.html Trump must have seen it himself.
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Postby Luminesa » Sat May 28, 2016 12:30 pm

Geilinor wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Trumps point was that the state might actually have ample water supplies but the state improperly uses it and causes the shortage. I can't speak for how true that claim is but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.

The state is literally dried out. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/drought/11597289/California-drought-in-pictures-US-state-running-out-of-water.html Trump must have seen it himself.


That's a scary picture. :(
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Postby Geilinor » Sat May 28, 2016 12:36 pm

Luminesa wrote:


That's a scary picture. :(

Those pictures are from last year, it's improved slightly recently.
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Postby Republican Union of America » Sat May 28, 2016 12:37 pm

Boy did the media really get everything wrong about Trump. Described as a flash in the pan sideshow, and here we are. The man is going to be president.
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Postby New Jerzylvania » Sat May 28, 2016 6:02 pm

Republican Union of America wrote:Boy did the media really get everything wrong about Trump. Described as a flash in the pan sideshow, and here we are. The man is going to be president.


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Postby Liriena » Sat May 28, 2016 6:10 pm

Republican Union of America wrote:Boy did the media really get everything wrong about Trump. Described as a flash in the pan sideshow, and here we are. The man is going to be president.

Eeeeh, don't get so cocky just yet. He still has to beat the full power of the Clinton dynasty, and he is going to have a hard time winning if he continues to alienate women and minorities.

Also, his campaign is still a terrible, terrible sideshow. Of the mostly unfunny sort.
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Postby Gauthier » Sat May 28, 2016 6:28 pm

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Obama is Kenyan, California has no drought... What's going to be his next conspiracy theory?


I would love to make one up and get it onto his twitter feed so he can run with it.


Sad thing is, as long as it's plausibly constructed and damaging to the Democratic cause there's a damn good chance Trump would do Chariots of Fire with it.
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Postby Liriena » Sat May 28, 2016 6:31 pm

Gauthier wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:
I would love to make one up and get it onto his twitter feed so he can run with it.


Sad thing is, as long as it's plausibly constructed and damaging to the Democratic cause there's a damn good chance Trump would do Chariots of Fire with it.

By jingo, we must do this! :D
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Postby Gauthier » Sat May 28, 2016 6:34 pm

Liriena wrote:
Gauthier wrote:
Sad thing is, as long as it's plausibly constructed and damaging to the Democratic cause there's a damn good chance Trump would do Chariots of Fire with it.

By jingo, we must do this! :D


Hmmm... how about... Hillary has come to a reconciliation with Bill to where if she's elected President she gets to screw around with a bunch of younger men?
Crimes committed by Muslims will be a pan-Islamic plot and proof of Islam's inherent evil. On the other hand crimes committed by non-Muslims will merely be the acts of loners who do not represent their belief system at all.
The probability of one's participation in homosexual acts is directly proportional to one's public disdain and disgust for homosexuals.
If a political figure makes an accusation of wrongdoing without evidence, odds are probable that the accuser or an associate thereof has in fact committed the very same act, possibly to a worse degree.
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Postby Liriena » Sat May 28, 2016 6:39 pm

Gauthier wrote:
Liriena wrote:By jingo, we must do this! :D


Hmmm... how about... Hillary has come to a reconciliation with Bill to where if she's elected President she gets to screw around with a bunch of younger men?

Naaaah. Not scandalous or trashy enough. It needs to the sort of bombastic, crude, baity sort of thing that Trump would fawn over, like when he shared that fake statistics about black-on-white crime. It needs to rile up his base, yo.
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Against: Nationalism, authoritarianism, fascism, conservatism, populism, violence, ethnocentrism, racism, sexism, religious bigotry, anti-LGBT+ bigotry, death penalty, neoliberalism, tribalism,
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Postby USS Monitor » Sat May 28, 2016 7:54 pm

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I had actually forgotten about him. Brain bleach must be working. :lol:

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"I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War I would begin it myself. Mark well: That day is fast coming upon you. On the New Moon of May, I shall disappear into the Wilderness. I will return bearing Revolution, or I will not return at all."
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 8:45 pm

Donald Trump is the solution to our problems.
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Postby The Liberated Territories » Sat May 28, 2016 8:46 pm

Robert Bork wrote:Donald Trump is the solution to our problems.


Only if I decide if that people are horrible beings that do not need saving. But I haven't achieved that level of cynicism yet.
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 8:52 pm

The Liberated Territories wrote:
Robert Bork wrote:Donald Trump is the solution to our problems.


Only if I decide if that people are horrible beings that do not need saving. But I haven't achieved that level of cynicism yet.


What?
Peter Kenez, Historian wrote:"The Bolsheviks...thought of propaganda as part of education.""

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Postby Galloism » Sat May 28, 2016 8:54 pm

Robert Bork wrote:
The Liberated Territories wrote:
Only if I decide if that people are horrible beings that do not need saving. But I haven't achieved that level of cynicism yet.


What?

Essentially, it's a hell of a disease if a possible ELE is the solution.
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 8:55 pm

Galloism wrote:
Robert Bork wrote:
What?

Essentially, it's a hell of a disease if a possible ELE is the solution.


Apocalyptic pictures of Trump are no better than Apocalyptic pictures of Obama. Trump's far superior to Clinton as a candidate.
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Postby Galloism » Sat May 28, 2016 8:58 pm

Robert Bork wrote:
Galloism wrote:Essentially, it's a hell of a disease if a possible ELE is the solution.


Apocalyptic pictures of Trump are no better than Apocalyptic pictures of Obama. Trump's far superior to Clinton as a candidate.

Again, Trump has shown himself incapable of weathering criticism without lashing back reactively and instinctively without thinking about the actual results of his reaction.

And he will have access to nuclear weapons.
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 9:02 pm

Galloism wrote:
Robert Bork wrote:
Apocalyptic pictures of Trump are no better than Apocalyptic pictures of Obama. Trump's far superior to Clinton as a candidate.

Again, Trump has shown himself incapable of weathering criticism without lashing back reactively and instinctively without thinking about the actual results of his reaction.

And he will have access to nuclear weapons.


That's really the worst thing you can come up with? You don't like how he handles criticism? We have a nation where the rich basically rule our politicians. All of our problems can be tied in some way to this fundamental fact. We're going to be hampered until we solve the corrupt campaign finance system. And only Trump is in a capacity to do this.

And suggesting he would fire a nuclear weapon is silly.
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Postby Galloism » Sat May 28, 2016 9:04 pm

Robert Bork wrote:
Galloism wrote:Again, Trump has shown himself incapable of weathering criticism without lashing back reactively and instinctively without thinking about the actual results of his reaction.

And he will have access to nuclear weapons.


That's really the worst thing you can come up with? You don't like how he handles criticism? We have a nation where the rich basically rule our politicians. All of our problems can be tied in some way to this fundamental fact. We're going to be hampered until we solve the corrupt campaign finance system. And only Trump is in a capacity to do this.

I'm not concerned with his attempts at reform of the corrupt campaign finance system (something worthy of being fixed, incidentally) - if he actually does try to do so.

I'm concerned with a man who has no self-control and reacts instinctively to criticism by lashing back as commander in chief of the strongest military on earth.
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 9:06 pm

Galloism wrote:
Robert Bork wrote:
That's really the worst thing you can come up with? You don't like how he handles criticism? We have a nation where the rich basically rule our politicians. All of our problems can be tied in some way to this fundamental fact. We're going to be hampered until we solve the corrupt campaign finance system. And only Trump is in a capacity to do this.

I'm not concerned with his attempts at reform of the corrupt campaign finance system (something worthy of being fixed, incidentally) - if he actually does try to do so.

I'm concerned with a man who has no self-control and reacts instinctively to criticism by lashing back as commander in chief of the strongest military on earth.


That's really overstated. I don't think you get from silly Twitter posts to putting your finger on a the nuclear launch button.
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Postby The Liberated Territories » Sat May 28, 2016 9:29 pm

Well if he does, he'll be removed immediately from office.
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Postby Corrian » Sat May 28, 2016 9:36 pm

I love how we expect a rich douche billionaire to work on fixing our corrupt finance system. Totally expect him to go through with that *Sarcasm*
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Postby The United Territories of Providence » Sat May 28, 2016 9:53 pm

Robert Bork wrote:Donald Trump is the solution to our problems.


Some would say he probably has the...Final Solution.
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Postby Grave_n_idle » Sat May 28, 2016 9:57 pm

Robert Bork wrote:That's really the worst thing you can come up with? You don't like how he handles criticism?


It's an important consideration for the job he's going for.

Robert Bork wrote:We have a nation where the rich basically rule our politicians.


Indeed, and your solution is to appoint a corrupt millionaire to police the corrupt millionaires?
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Postby Robert Bork » Sat May 28, 2016 10:25 pm

Grave_n_idle wrote:
Robert Bork wrote:That's really the worst thing you can come up with? You don't like how he handles criticism?


It's an important consideration for the job he's going for.

Robert Bork wrote:We have a nation where the rich basically rule our politicians.


Indeed, and your solution is to appoint a corrupt millionaire to police the corrupt millionaires?


Would you rather have the dog or the guy who's pulling the leash?
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