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Post by happyhoix on Jul 21, 2016 16:36:26 GMT -5
Tonight will be:
Make America Great Again
Hillary is the anti-Christ
I'll use my best words and smart brain
Hillary is the anti-Christ
My fingers are normal sized
Hillary is the anti-Christ
Isn't my wife so very very hot
Hillary is the anti-Christ.
I would suggest a drinking game based drinking a shot glass of beer every time Trump makes a negative statement about Hillary but I have to go to work tomorrow.
So maybe we play a drinking game where we drink a shot glass of beer every time Trump states a concrete objective that he will do should he be elected POTUS. I guarantee I'll be sober at the end of the evening.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 21:55:43 GMT -5
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion based on what I posted. I simply made a statement of fact that was answering a simple question. NOT having Hillary as President would make America great again. (not having Donald as President would make it greater still...) And issues can still be talked about... problem is with both of them being such accomplished liars, whatever they discuss will be pointless because they'll do whatever makes themselves the best profit (whether that profit be in money or political gain) at the time something actually needs doing. Let's say both candidates are equally deceitful. So let's remove them both from the picture and focus on who will actually be doing the bulk of the policy making - the staffs they will bring with them to the WH and the people they appoint to the cabinet and other important offices.
Which candidate has surrounded themselves with more experienced, politically adept staff members to this point? Which campaign seems to generate the most gaffes and which seems to be running more smoothly?
keep in mind that in recent days, Trump had one staff member that enabled his wife to plagiarize a speech, a second staff member who said Hillary Clinton should face a firing squad, and multiple staff members who lied and claimed his wife's speech wasn't plagiarized at all (including his chief of staff) and Trump has refrained from firing any of these people, which sends a message to his staff that bad behavior is perfectly acceptable. Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?
Should he become POTUS, what quality of staff do you think Trump would surround himself with, compared to Clinton, based on what you've seen of his campaign?
There's a problem with your premise. The bolded will never happen. Clinton won't ever appoint anyone that isn't a "yes man/woman". Everything that CAN BE run through her WILL BE run through her. She's just as much of an egomaniac as Trump is. As far as "Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?"... yes. Yes I can. Hillary Rodham Clinton (the leader of the staff is still part of the staff, just as the head of the snake is part of the snake). Can you say the same about Trump? Has he acted illegally that anyone knows of?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 22:05:31 GMT -5
In fairness to Cruz's wife and family... and attacks against them... Lyin' Ted (or his staffers or supporters) opened the door with the salvo against nude Melania. Unless I am recalling incorrectly, Trump never attacked Cruz's family until AFTER the attack ad against Trump's wife.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 21, 2016 22:12:36 GMT -5
Let's say both candidates are equally deceitful. So let's remove them both from the picture and focus on who will actually be doing the bulk of the policy making - the staffs they will bring with them to the WH and the people they appoint to the cabinet and other important offices.
Which candidate has surrounded themselves with more experienced, politically adept staff members to this point? Which campaign seems to generate the most gaffes and which seems to be running more smoothly?
keep in mind that in recent days, Trump had one staff member that enabled his wife to plagiarize a speech, a second staff member who said Hillary Clinton should face a firing squad, and multiple staff members who lied and claimed his wife's speech wasn't plagiarized at all (including his chief of staff) and Trump has refrained from firing any of these people, which sends a message to his staff that bad behavior is perfectly acceptable. Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?
Should he become POTUS, what quality of staff do you think Trump would surround himself with, compared to Clinton, based on what you've seen of his campaign?
There's a problem with your premise. The bolded will never happen. Clinton won't ever appoint anyone that isn't a "yes man/woman". Everything that CAN BE run through her WILL BE run through her. She's just as much of an egomaniac as Trump is. As far as "Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?"... yes. Yes I can. Hillary Rodham Clinton (the leader of the staff is still part of the staff, just as the head of the snake is part of the snake). Can you say the same about Trump? Has he acted illegally that anyone knows of? Or ended up dead.
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Post by Opti on Jul 22, 2016 3:12:37 GMT -5
In fairness to Cruz's wife and family... and attacks against them... Lyin' Ted (or his staffers or supporters) opened the door with the salvo against nude Melania. Unless I am recalling incorrectly, Trump never attacked Cruz's family until AFTER the attack ad against Trump's wife. Actually it was a super PAC which may have had no connection to Cruz but did have a staffer connected to Carson.
www.factcheck.org/2016/04/make-america-awesome/
The super PAC’s founder, Liz Mair, is a Republican communications operative and strategist who served as the Republican National Committee’s online communications director during the 2008 campaign. Mair, who founded the communications and public relations firm Mair Strategies, has consulted in the past for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. In addition, she advised Carly Fiorina’s 2010 U.S. Senate bid in California, and was briefly hired to direct online communications for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential super PAC, Our American Revival, before resigning after she tweeted statements critical of the Iowa caucus.
Christopher M. Marston, who is listed as Make America Awesome’s treasurer, is a veteran Republican consultant who founded Election CFO, a campaign finance and compliance firm. Through Election CFO, Marston has served as the treasurer on record for more than 50 campaign committees, political action committees and other groups since 2012, including almost 40 that are active in the 2016 cycle. Notably, he has worked for One Vote, which supported Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign; the Red White and Blue Fund, which backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign in 2012; and the issue advocacy group American Future Fund. Marston also held top positions in the administration of President George W. Bush, as assistant secretary for management at the Education Department and chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In March, the group released a series of ads on Facebook and Instagram targeted at Mormon women in Utah before that state’s Republican caucus on March 22 (which Sen. Ted Cruz won). One of those ads featured a provocative image of Trump’s wife, Melania. Trump, without evidence, falsely accused Cruz’s campaign of buying the rights to the photo and giving it to the super PAC to use in its ads. The photographer who took the photo, Antoine Verglas, told FactCheck.org that no one contacted him to buy the rights.
Just because Donald accused Cruz of being involved does not make it true.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 3:40:01 GMT -5
In fairness to Cruz's wife and family... and attacks against them... Lyin' Ted (or his staffers or supporters) opened the door with the salvo against nude Melania. Unless I am recalling incorrectly, Trump never attacked Cruz's family until AFTER the attack ad against Trump's wife. Actually it was a super PAC which may have had no connection to Cruz but did have a staffer connected to Carson.
www.factcheck.org/2016/04/make-america-awesome/
The super PAC’s founder, Liz Mair, is a Republican communications operative and strategist who served as the Republican National Committee’s online communications director during the 2008 campaign. Mair, who founded the communications and public relations firm Mair Strategies, has consulted in the past for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. In addition, she advised Carly Fiorina’s 2010 U.S. Senate bid in California, and was briefly hired to direct online communications for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential super PAC, Our American Revival, before resigning after she tweeted statements critical of the Iowa caucus.
Christopher M. Marston, who is listed as Make America Awesome’s treasurer, is a veteran Republican consultant who founded Election CFO, a campaign finance and compliance firm. Through Election CFO, Marston has served as the treasurer on record for more than 50 campaign committees, political action committees and other groups since 2012, including almost 40 that are active in the 2016 cycle. Notably, he has worked for One Vote, which supported Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign; the Red White and Blue Fund, which backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign in 2012; and the issue advocacy group American Future Fund. Marston also held top positions in the administration of President George W. Bush, as assistant secretary for management at the Education Department and chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In March, the group released a series of ads on Facebook and Instagram targeted at Mormon women in Utah before that state’s Republican caucus on March 22 (which Sen. Ted Cruz won). One of those ads featured a provocative image of Trump’s wife, Melania. Trump, without evidence, falsely accused Cruz’s campaign of buying the rights to the photo and giving it to the super PAC to use in its ads. The photographer who took the photo, Antoine Verglas, told FactCheck.org that no one contacted him to buy the rights.
Just because Donald accused Cruz of being involved does not make it true.
Hmmm... I don't know how he could have been confused by the actual text on the ad which read: What Trump got wrong in the accusation was where he said Cruz PAID FOR THE RIGHTS. So, my assertion stands as valid and true because note the bolded in this excerpt of my post: "Make America Awesome" was definitely supporting Ted when they put his name on the ad.
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Post by Opti on Jul 22, 2016 5:35:18 GMT -5
Actually it was a super PAC which may have had no connection to Cruz but did have a staffer connected to Carson.
www.factcheck.org/2016/04/make-america-awesome/
The super PAC’s founder, Liz Mair, is a Republican communications operative and strategist who served as the Republican National Committee’s online communications director during the 2008 campaign. Mair, who founded the communications and public relations firm Mair Strategies, has consulted in the past for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. In addition, she advised Carly Fiorina’s 2010 U.S. Senate bid in California, and was briefly hired to direct online communications for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential super PAC, Our American Revival, before resigning after she tweeted statements critical of the Iowa caucus.
Christopher M. Marston, who is listed as Make America Awesome’s treasurer, is a veteran Republican consultant who founded Election CFO, a campaign finance and compliance firm. Through Election CFO, Marston has served as the treasurer on record for more than 50 campaign committees, political action committees and other groups since 2012, including almost 40 that are active in the 2016 cycle. Notably, he has worked for One Vote, which supported Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign; the Red White and Blue Fund, which backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign in 2012; and the issue advocacy group American Future Fund. Marston also held top positions in the administration of President George W. Bush, as assistant secretary for management at the Education Department and chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In March, the group released a series of ads on Facebook and Instagram targeted at Mormon women in Utah before that state’s Republican caucus on March 22 (which Sen. Ted Cruz won). One of those ads featured a provocative image of Trump’s wife, Melania. Trump, without evidence, falsely accused Cruz’s campaign of buying the rights to the photo and giving it to the super PAC to use in its ads. The photographer who took the photo, Antoine Verglas, told FactCheck.org that no one contacted him to buy the rights.
Just because Donald accused Cruz of being involved does not make it true.
Hmmm... I don't know how he could have been confused by the actual text on the ad which read: What Trump got wrong in the accusation was where he said Cruz PAID FOR THE RIGHTS. So, my assertion stands as valid and true because note the bolded in this excerpt of my post: "Make America Awesome" was definitely supporting Ted when they put his name on the ad. Right, because a line of text is absolutely proof Cruz is behind it.
No. Just no. Proof is actual proof, not some stupid assumption because the person running the PAC decided Cruz had a chance of winning. If Ted did not hire this person, he is not responsible for what they do. It was not a pro Cruz PAC, it was an anti Trump PAC. Real obvious they might try to direct votes to the candidate closest to Trump in vote totals. Does supporting Trump make the logical part of the brain fail?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 22, 2016 6:08:25 GMT -5
"Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee." is clear enough.
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Post by Opti on Jul 22, 2016 6:19:18 GMT -5
Maybe I should take out an ad that RichardinTN says Trump is a poopyhead and has small hands. If Trump attacks Richard's family it will be AOK, because I am a supporter of RichardinTN simply because I placed the ad.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 6:30:02 GMT -5
Hmmm... I don't know how he could have been confused by the actual text on the ad which read: What Trump got wrong in the accusation was where he said Cruz PAID FOR THE RIGHTS. So, my assertion stands as valid and true because note the bolded in this excerpt of my post: "Make America Awesome" was definitely supporting Ted when they put his name on the ad. Right, because a line of text is absolutely proof Cruz is behind it.
No. Just no. Proof is actual proof, not some stupid assumption because the person running the PAC decided Cruz had a chance of winning. If Ted did not hire this person, he is not responsible for what they do. It was not a pro Cruz PAC, it was an anti Trump PAC. Real obvious they might try to direct votes to the candidate closest to Trump in vote totals. Does supporting Trump make the logical part of the brain fail?
How about if I make it big and in red... will you be able to see it then? Ted's supporters opened the door. And the proof that they were Ted Cruz supporters is in the fact that they said "... Support Ted Cruz...". Or am I confused and that's really how you try and get someone to vote for Hillary... or Kasich... or Sanders... or Ryan... or any other name that's NOT Ted Cruz that I could pick out of a hat? Was Donald wrong? Sure. Was it a completely and utterly baseless leap? Nope. Ted Cruz's name was on the ad.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 22, 2016 7:28:43 GMT -5
Sit and spin, Richard. I see no reason why any of us should listen you when you think we're all "too stupid to live" unless we love and respect you. You deserve anything and everything people throw at you.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 22, 2016 8:09:22 GMT -5
Let's say both candidates are equally deceitful. So let's remove them both from the picture and focus on who will actually be doing the bulk of the policy making - the staffs they will bring with them to the WH and the people they appoint to the cabinet and other important offices.
Which candidate has surrounded themselves with more experienced, politically adept staff members to this point? Which campaign seems to generate the most gaffes and which seems to be running more smoothly?
keep in mind that in recent days, Trump had one staff member that enabled his wife to plagiarize a speech, a second staff member who said Hillary Clinton should face a firing squad, and multiple staff members who lied and claimed his wife's speech wasn't plagiarized at all (including his chief of staff) and Trump has refrained from firing any of these people, which sends a message to his staff that bad behavior is perfectly acceptable. Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?
Should he become POTUS, what quality of staff do you think Trump would surround himself with, compared to Clinton, based on what you've seen of his campaign?
There's a problem with your premise. The bolded will never happen. Clinton won't ever appoint anyone that isn't a "yes man/woman". Everything that CAN BE run through her WILL BE run through her. She's just as much of an egomaniac as Trump is. As far as "Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?"... yes. Yes I can. Hillary Rodham Clinton (the leader of the staff is still part of the staff, just as the head of the snake is part of the snake). Can you say the same about Trump? Has he acted illegally that anyone knows of?Oh please. He's got like 3000 lawsuits against him at this time. A whole stable of full time lawyers. Just this week, he violated campaign laws when it surfaced that he had one of his Trump company employees, McIver, write Melania's plagiarized speech - it's against campaign finance laws to use your company employees to work for your campaign, unless you report it. He used music during the convention without the permission of the artists. Then go ask all the vendors he's screwed over the years by short paying them and then telling them they were free to sue him if they wanted, but his staff of attorneys were paid to drag out any legal actions for as long as possible. He robbed them. Then go look at all the Trump University bullshit - another form of robbery.
Trump is a thief. A thief in $1000 suits but still a thief, no better than the guy that grabs the purse off your arm and runs down an alleyway.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Jul 22, 2016 12:42:16 GMT -5
So what I have been hearing and reading this morning is 's speech has been described as him sounding like a South American Dictator yelling at his lemmings. And there were no less than 21 fact checked proven lies in it.
No surprise! Lyin' right on cue.
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Post by sesfw on Jul 22, 2016 13:02:59 GMT -5
Trump is a thief. A thief in $1000 suits but still a thief, no better than the guy that grabs the purse off your arm and runs down an alleyway.
Not as bad as someone playing with national security
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 22, 2016 13:47:21 GMT -5
Cruz just stuck it to Trump. Dragged his speech out, and said vote for people on the ticket who support the constitution and kept a shitty grin on huis face while the crowd booed. An ass to the very end. How does that make him an ass? Either Mr. Trump supports the US Constitution, in which case the statement is an endorsement, or he doesn't support the Constitution, in which case everybody here hopefully agrees that nobody should vote for him. I do not know how it works in Canada, but here in the states, you do not go to the party celebrating the success of a person and piss in the punch bowl. No one is happy about that. If he were an honest decent human being he simply would have stood in the designated demonstration area outside the convention center, announce he could not support Trump for dissing his father and wife, and 98% of all the people in the party would say, ok, fine, we understand. Then he could sit in the street, set his hair on fire in protest and the other 2% would agree with him. The problem is he insinuated by not endorsing Trump after he said vote for someone who supports the Constitution, he is suggesting Trump will not do it. He never mentioned his wife and father at that time. As you know, I, unlike Paul always felt he was slimey and a liar.
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Post by Opti on Jul 22, 2016 13:55:00 GMT -5
Right, because a line of text is absolutely proof Cruz is behind it.
No. Just no. Proof is actual proof, not some stupid assumption because the person running the PAC decided Cruz had a chance of winning. If Ted did not hire this person, he is not responsible for what they do. It was not a pro Cruz PAC, it was an anti Trump PAC. Real obvious they might try to direct votes to the candidate closest to Trump in vote totals. Does supporting Trump make the logical part of the brain fail?
How about if I make it big and in red... will you be able to see it then? Ted's supporters opened the door. And the proof that they were Ted Cruz supporters is in the fact that they said "... Support Ted Cruz...". Or am I confused and that's really how you try and get someone to vote for Hillary... or Kasich... or Sanders... or Ryan... or any other name that's NOT Ted Cruz that I could pick out of a hat? Was Donald wrong? Sure. Was it a completely and utterly baseless leap? Nope. Ted Cruz's name was on the ad. You are exceedingly confused. Is it really hard to tell the difference between Never Trump, which espouses anyone but Trump versus PACs that are actually *gasp* for someone?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 20:45:02 GMT -5
There's a problem with your premise. The bolded will never happen. Clinton won't ever appoint anyone that isn't a "yes man/woman". Everything that CAN BE run through her WILL BE run through her. She's just as much of an egomaniac as Trump is. As far as "Can you list a Clinton campaign staff member who behaved badly or illegally and didn't get fired?"... yes. Yes I can. Hillary Rodham Clinton (the leader of the staff is still part of the staff, just as the head of the snake is part of the snake). Can you say the same about Trump? Has he acted illegally that anyone knows of?Oh please. He's got like 3000 lawsuits against him at this time. A whole stable of full time lawyers. Just this week, he violated campaign laws when it surfaced that he had one of his Trump company employees, McIver, write Melania's plagiarized speech - it's against campaign finance laws to use your company employees to work for your campaign, unless you report it. He used music during the convention without the permission of the artists. Then go ask all the vendors he's screwed over the years by short paying them and then telling them they were free to sue him if they wanted, but his staff of attorneys were paid to drag out any legal actions for as long as possible. He robbed them. Then go look at all the Trump University bullshit - another form of robbery.
Trump is a thief. A thief in $1000 suits but still a thief, no better than the guy that grabs the purse off your arm and runs down an alleyway.
He could have 3,000,000,000,000,000 lawsuits against him and they would still amount to zero LAWS broken. I don't argue about his ethics though... he's an unethical businessman. Agreed. However, Hillary is an unethical politician... so on that {quality of ethics} they are on a level playing field.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 20:48:39 GMT -5
How about if I make it big and in red... will you be able to see it then? Ted's supporters opened the door. And the proof that they were Ted Cruz supporters is in the fact that they said "... Support Ted Cruz...". Or am I confused and that's really how you try and get someone to vote for Hillary... or Kasich... or Sanders... or Ryan... or any other name that's NOT Ted Cruz that I could pick out of a hat? Was Donald wrong? Sure. Was it a completely and utterly baseless leap? Nope. Ted Cruz's name was on the ad. You are exceedingly confused. Is it really hard to tell the difference between Never Trump, which espouses anyone but Trump versus PACs that are actually *gasp* for someone?
I'm not confused in the slightest. "Support Ted Cruz" is pretty specific. "Support someone else" or actually putting the words "Support Anyone But Trump" would have been harder to pin to one specific candidate.
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Post by steff on Jul 22, 2016 21:25:27 GMT -5
so got a question I thought about Since Trump says that our allies now need to pay US for help, does this mean we'll stop sending billions to Israel and have them pay US instead? It is about time for Israel to grow up and move out of our basement. They are in their 60's now. time to start taking care of themselves don'tchathink? Things that make you go hmmmmmm
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 23, 2016 19:41:52 GMT -5
so got a question I thought about Since Trump says that our allies now need to pay US for help, does this mean we'll stop sending billions to Israel and have them pay US instead? It is about time for Israel to grow up and move out of our basement. They are in their 60's now. time to start taking care of themselves don'tchathink? Things that make you go hmmmmmm I agree. They are capable of protecting theirself. How about we and Europe stop buying Saudi oil so they cannot promote radical Islamic terrorism?
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Post by Opti on Jul 25, 2016 9:47:05 GMT -5
None of these things are true: Crime has dropped since Obama took office, the number of unauthorized immigrants has fallen, the economy is growing, and deaths from terrorism are still, thankfully, very rare in the US. And Obama is a Christian.
But as Oliver suggested, speakers seemed completely unmoved by these facts. "What is truly revealing," Oliver said of Sabato’s comments, "is that his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. Because if anything, that was the theme of the Republican convention this week. It was a four-day exercise in emphasizing feelings over facts."
There’s one big reason Republicans may not care about the facts: Despite the clear crime statistics, most Americans feel crime is up. Republican convention speakers tapped into that sentiment — on crime and other issues — to paint an America collapsing into chaos, regardless of what the empirical figures say.
www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12264838/john-oliver-trump-republican-convention-last-week-tonight/in/11938117
Sigh. Trump's emotional voters having a feel bad fest.
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 25, 2016 9:54:10 GMT -5
None of these things are true: Crime has dropped since Obama took office, the number of unauthorized immigrants has fallen, the economy is growing, and deaths from terrorism are still, thankfully, very rare in the US. And Obama is a Christian.
But as Oliver suggested, speakers seemed completely unmoved by these facts. "What is truly revealing," Oliver said of Sabato’s comments, "is that his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. Because if anything, that was the theme of the Republican convention this week. It was a four-day exercise in emphasizing feelings over facts."
There’s one big reason Republicans may not care about the facts: Despite the clear crime statistics, most Americans feel crime is up. Republican convention speakers tapped into that sentiment — on crime and other issues — to paint an America collapsing into chaos, regardless of what the empirical figures say.
www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12264838/john-oliver-trump-republican-convention-last-week-tonight/in/11938117
Sigh. Trump's emotional voters having a feel bad fest.
Who is feeling bad? Trump now leads Hillary Clinton in the fall election. And now the DNC has caught pneumonia over e-mails. I guess they learned nothing from Hillary and e-mail protocols
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Post by Opti on Jul 25, 2016 10:00:52 GMT -5
None of these things are true: Crime has dropped since Obama took office, the number of unauthorized immigrants has fallen, the economy is growing, and deaths from terrorism are still, thankfully, very rare in the US. And Obama is a Christian.
But as Oliver suggested, speakers seemed completely unmoved by these facts. "What is truly revealing," Oliver said of Sabato’s comments, "is that his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. Because if anything, that was the theme of the Republican convention this week. It was a four-day exercise in emphasizing feelings over facts."
There’s one big reason Republicans may not care about the facts: Despite the clear crime statistics, most Americans feel crime is up. Republican convention speakers tapped into that sentiment — on crime and other issues — to paint an America collapsing into chaos, regardless of what the empirical figures say.
www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12264838/john-oliver-trump-republican-convention-last-week-tonight/in/11938117
Sigh. Trump's emotional voters having a feel bad fest.
Who is feeling bad? Trump now leads Hillary Clinton in the fall election. And now the DNC has caught pneumonia over e-mails. I guess they learned nothing from Hillary and e-mail protocols I'm feeling bad and the Trump supporters are gleeful in their misery of a world worse than reality. I haven't read the emails yet, but I find it interesting that there are DNC emails leaked when the ones from the RNC on how to handle Trump had to be much worse. Where are those?
And why do you think there is a security issue necessarily? Anything can be hacked with enough time or the right tools. If its on a computer, its never really secure. Much like being in a house. Do what you want, but if someone really wanted to get in, they will.
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Post by Value Buy on Jul 25, 2016 10:14:22 GMT -5
Who is feeling bad? Trump now leads Hillary Clinton in the fall election. And now the DNC has caught pneumonia over e-mails. I guess they learned nothing from Hillary and e-mail protocols I'm feeling bad and the Trump supporters are gleeful in their misery of a world worse than reality. I haven't read the emails yet, but I find it interesting that there are DNC emails leaked when the ones from the RNC on how to handle Trump had to be much worse. Where are those?
And why do you think there is a security issue necessarily? Anything can be hacked with enough time or the right tools. If its on a computer, its never really secure. Much like being in a house. Do what you want, but if someone really wanted to get in, they will.
This is not a security issue for the DNC. It was for Hillary. The DNC'S problem was first rule of e-mail protocol is, never, and I mean never, ever, put anything in an e-mail that will not come back to bite you in the butt in the court of public opinion or a court of law. That was the first thing we were taught in our company when e-mail was invented. Lawyers find everything, never ever make it easy for them in lawsuits. I would imagine even in your field that was, and is discussed and explained to new associates. The e-mail about religion was hideous. Why is the finance chairman still there? His apology was abhorrent. So far, I have not seen any e-mails actually implicating the DNC chair. I do not know whether she was in the chain of the messages being posted. I do know there are a bunch of people there that should have been gone yesterday, and not necessarily Wasserman at this point.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 25, 2016 11:21:37 GMT -5
I'm feeling bad and the Trump supporters are gleeful in their misery of a world worse than reality. I haven't read the emails yet, but I find it interesting that there are DNC emails leaked when the ones from the RNC on how to handle Trump had to be much worse. Where are those?
And why do you think there is a security issue necessarily? Anything can be hacked with enough time or the right tools. If its on a computer, its never really secure. Much like being in a house. Do what you want, but if someone really wanted to get in, they will.
This is not a security issue for the DNC. It was for Hillary. The DNC'S problem was first rule of e-mail protocol is, never, and I mean never, ever, put anything in an e-mail that will not come back to bite you in the butt in the court of public opinion or a court of law. That was the first thing we were taught in our company when e-mail was invented. Lawyers find everything, never ever make it easy for them in lawsuits.. interesting. do you mind me asking what industry you work in?
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