2016 Presidential Election Thread

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by T.R, Apr 8, 2015.

  1. gul

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  2. Ramen

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    The next debate when Shillary days everybody should go and fact check via her website, Trump should say that the people should fact check her fact checkers via wikileaks.org. :diacanu:
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    Reading between the lines, Trump's staff isn't competent.
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    Liet Dr. of Horribleness, Ph.D.

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    Considering that Trump's staff consists of Trump, his kids, and a bunch of people whose only job is to hang around so they can be fired when something goes wrong, that's not exactly a surprise.
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  7. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    I cannot overstate how stupid you'd have to be to fall for that. For the perpetually stupid among us, you cannot determine from a sealed absentee ballot how the sender voted.
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  8. Ramen

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    Did it come from a military base?

    Trash it.
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    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    A postal employee would also have rip be incredibly stupid to confess to tampering with the mail on Twitter.
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    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    Interestingly, one of those accounts was created just this month, and the other has a bunch of anti-Clinton tweets further back. Hmm...
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  11. Ramen

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    Democrat criminals (thought I repeat myself) aren't usually very bright (again, I repeat myself).
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    A look at what the Clinton Foundation actually does, this time in Colombia

    The Clinton Foundation left a toxic legacy in Colombia

    Hillary Clinton has long said she is “very proud” of the Clinton Foundation’s work, but many of its beneficiaries in Colombia wonder why.

    Since Bill Clinton established the foundation in the late 1990s, with help over the years from Hillary and daughter Chelsea, the nonprofit “global philanthropic empire” has raised roughly $2 billion from foreign governments and various wealthy donors to tackle global development and health problems. While intense media scrutiny has focused on the foundation’s donations and its use of that money – partly because of the wealth of available information on its vast financial intake – little sustained attention has been dedicated to its accomplishments on the ground.​

    “They are doing nothing for workers,” one Colombian union official told us, with disgust. “I don’t even know what they are doing in this country other than exploiting poverty and extracting money.”

    Many of the Colombian “success stories” touted on the foundation’s website – the ones specific enough for us to track down – were critical about the foundation’s effect on their lives. Labor leaders and progressive activists say foundation programs caused environmental harm, displaced indigenous people, and that it concentrated a larger share of Colombia’s oil and natural gas reserves in the hands of Giustra, who was involved in a now bankrupt oil company that worked closely with the Clinton Foundation and which used the Colombian military a 1984-style surveillance program to smash a strike by its workers.​

    And it gets worse. They interviewed one of the girls who was "helped" by CGI, and she showed a picture of herself with Bill at a big roll out. They were told the Foundation would give them start up money and such, but what actually happened was that those being "helped" were encouraged to take out big bank loans for new equipment. Then they were told to sell to one of CGI's partners at greatly reduced prices. She dropped out because she would have gone out of business.

    The investigative piece is very long, and very telling.
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  13. Ramen

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    Hillary rigged her primary election against Bernie Sanders.

    You think she's going to stop rigging? :lol:
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    As I said, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to fall for it. Hence, Ramen not only posts it, but he tries a second time to claim that it's true.
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    How very binary of you. :diacanu: He doesn't like Trump either, but he's no fan of Clinton either, and the way the press is treating them is what sets him off more than anything. You'd know that if you watched more of his videos. :bergman:

    :rofl: He's a liberal, dude, he's just not a "progressive."

    Not having read the rest of this thread, I don't know if anyone's explained this to you or not, but those two gentlemen are making what is referred to as a "joke." I know this may be a difficult concept to you, but they are in fact deriving humor from the attempt at PR that Dinner is describing by using that cardboard cutout of her. :pathead:
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  16. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I was subscribed to him for 18 months.
    Both channels.
    I know the guy inside and out.
    All right?
    Drop the smugness.
    Twat.
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    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Okay, handy little computer lesson for the illiterates out there.

    "Prtscn", open paint, paste, crop.

    :async: :yes:
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    That's not how you delete classified emails at all. :bailey:
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    Then how did you miss his videos about Trump?

    Oh, and :potkettle:
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    I quit him when he started to suck.
    It became clear he was an alt-righter in sheep's clothing with mommy issues.
    :shrug:
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  23. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Bolded you're problem. You also evidently didn't read the part of the thread where Dinner tried to claim it was an example of Clinton trying to act like regular people. Dude, if you admit you're skimming, it's probably best not to be so judgemental of a conversation.
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    What, you mean like you did by pretending he thought that cardboard cutout was real? Please. :diacanu:
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    Some interesting parallels.



    I fail to see how a rich oligarch is going to save us from the oligarchy, though. About the only difference there is that he isn't a Clinton or a Bush. :shrug:
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    It seemed very much like he did. Read his post why doncha?
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    I did. Just before I got to yours. :bergman:
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    Gul has difficulty with such concepts.
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