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Post by happyhoix on Jun 7, 2016 16:00:54 GMT -5
I'm not even sure about the bootlegging and Kennedy's father..... However he and a business partner DID buy an alcohol distributor at the end of prohibition- legally- and made big bucks with it. (though he didn't drink) Kennedy's father was not a mobster- he was a banker originally, and the youngest bank president in the United States. But mobster is so much more exciting.
Of course, many would argue that bankers are their own class of criminal. So your not sure. The press ran with it at the time. I gave him a pass on the prostitution because quite frankly, I do not remember that. Although JFK had a penchant for mob women JFK had a penchant for pretty much ANY women.
Him and his brothers, too.
I think it was something like Mad Men, only in politics, not advertising. Good thing for the Kennedy brothers that the press usually ignored those kinds of things back then (well, except when one of the girls ended up dead.)
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I don't think a polished performance in any way, relates to IQ. Am I missing a joke with the word yuge ? Apparently. Thanks happy.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 11, 2016 9:43:01 GMT -5
The media will portray this as a typical election cycle with all the usual ups and downs, and if you're paying attention to the polls that show Crooked Hillary leading in this state, or on this or that issue, you are not going to see the Trump Tsunami coming in November. As for my incorrect call in 2012, I was not wrong about what's coming. I was wrong about the candidate, and I was wrong about the timing. Donald J. Trump is going to win in an historic landslide in November. It's going to be one for the ages. The real lurking problem for Crooked Hillary is the Monster Vote. Understand EVERY. SINGLE. PREDICTION. that TheConservativeTreeHouse has made has proven true except the final prediction. Nate Silver does insist primary turnout is not indicative of general election turnout, but let's remember: Nate Silver missed ALL of these. That means if you're a betting person, the smart money is on The Tree House over FiveThirtyEight. There's no reason to believe the Tree House has been 100% correct (actually under-calling some of the Trump numbers-- meaning they were more right than even they knew). theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/09/attn-stuart-stevens-and-the-never-trump-coalition-the-monster-vote-is-very-real/
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 11, 2016 9:47:34 GMT -5
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 11, 2016 9:48:52 GMT -5
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 11, 2016 9:50:54 GMT -5
Prediction #4: In 2008 21.9 million Republicans voted in the primary and 58.1 million voted in the general election (265% increase). In 2012 19.2 million primary -vs- 59.2 million in the general (308% increase). Barack Obama won in ’08 with 66.5 million / McCain 58.1. Barack Obama won in ’12 with 62.3 million / Romney 59.2 If the 2016 increases are even remotely maintained given the scope of the current increase in Republican Primary participation, the general election vote would be through the roof. And here is where you begin to understand the potential scope of the 2016 primary voter for the Republican nominee, Donald J Trump. This is the bottom line the media and establishment republicans do not want to see discussed. This is the potential for the “Trump Effect”. This is the Monster Vote: That’s 7.2 million more votes than Barack Obama carried in 2008, and almost 13 million more than Mitt Romney carried in 2012. That’s YUGE ! That’s the Monster Vote. That’s also a landslide victory for Donald Trump. Another way of looking at it – that Monster Vote increase is simply adding 10% of the approximately 120 million voters who never vote in elections. And those new voters are exactly what you see showing up at Donald Trump primary campaign rallies.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2016 9:55:53 GMT -5
No one really explained the maths to you have they Paul?
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 11, 2016 11:36:06 GMT -5
Still not hypnotized.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 11, 2016 17:42:41 GMT -5
No one really explained the maths to you have they Paul? All predictions have been correct except the last one.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2016 22:56:49 GMT -5
The media will portray this as a typical election cycle with all the usual ups and downs, and if you're paying attention to the polls that show Crooked Hillary leading in this state, or on this or that issue, you are not going to see the Trump Tsunami coming in November. As for my incorrect call in 2012, I was not wrong about what's coming. I was wrong about the candidate, and I was wrong about the timing. Donald J. Trump is going to win in an historic landslide in November. It's going to be one for the ages. The real lurking problem for Crooked Hillary is the Monster Vote. Understand EVERY. SINGLE. PREDICTION. that TheConservativeTreeHouse has made has proven true except the final prediction. Nate Silver does insist primary turnout is not indicative of general election turnout, but let's remember: Nate Silver missed ALL of these. That means if you're a betting person, the smart money is on The Tree House over FiveThirtyEight. There's no reason to believe the Tree House has been 100% correct (actually under-calling some of the Trump numbers-- meaning they were more right than even they knew). theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/05/09/attn-stuart-stevens-and-the-never-trump-coalition-the-monster-vote-is-very-real/this is a good example of why projections don't work.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2016 22:58:38 GMT -5
you lost me at "Democrat"
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 12, 2016 16:35:38 GMT -5
you lost me at "Democrat" Whatever.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 12, 2016 23:38:43 GMT -5
No one really explained the maths to you have they Paul? Uh oh... The New York Times Quietly Discusses Data Evidence of The Monster Vote... theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/06/09/oh-my-new-york-times-quietly-discusses-data-evidence-of-the-monster-vote/Now, we've been over this before- and the left has been denying this since 2000. In fact, it's a favorite denial: the white vote just isn't big enough to deliver a victory to the GOP. But this isn't me, it's not the GOP, it's not some right wing blog. It's the NY Times: 10 million more voters than previously thought.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 13, 2016 12:51:35 GMT -5
If you don't believe in the Monster Vote, just wait. If you don't think that the events in Orlando will have political consequences- namely that it will greatly benefit Trump as millions of Americans, especially those on the left in the LGBTQ community who now realize that the Democrats have chosen radical islam over them, you're nuts. Log cabin Republicans is going to explode.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 13, 2016 13:25:51 GMT -5
you lost me at "Democrat" Whatever. good. glad we can share how tiresome that exchange is. i was beginning to think it was just me.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 13, 2016 13:29:01 GMT -5
Hmmm. I was just reading in our local paper about an LBGT rally held in Portland last evening to express grief and solidarity with the Orlando victims.
None of the commentary reported on was about Muslim terrorists. Much of it had to do with the LBGT community being threatened and harmed though. Several politicians attended, but not one Republican. i am really looking forward to this election. edit: the "turnout" argument was how many posters here got tripped up in 2012. it is more than a little amusing that at least one of the same people is now making precisely the same argument because of .... Trump?
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 13, 2016 14:36:31 GMT -5
So I see that Trump, down in the polls slightly because he just would not let that judge issue go, is now claiming Obama is a sleeper agent for the Muslims.
This falls in line with his previous birther statements and will please the 61% of his supporters who are also birthers. But how will it play with the 80% of the general population that disagree with his birther statements?
Current Trump unfavorable rating now at 60%. Hillary unfavorable rating at 42%. Historic landslide this November? Hmm, I prefer not to bet money on it, not at this stage of the game, but if Trump can't keep his yap shut, it's looking like boring Hillary will squeak past Trump and his Amazing, Nonsensical Mouth.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 13, 2016 16:55:14 GMT -5
Unless Donald Trump agrees to step down as president if he doesn't get congress to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in his first days as president (if elected), the LGBTQ community will never, ever vote for him. As a Republican-controlled Congress will never let this happen, it is ludicrous to think the LGBTQ community would ever vote for Trump.
Log Cabin republicans have always been a small minority and will always remain a small minority within the LGBTQ community.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 13, 2016 22:00:11 GMT -5
So I see that Trump, down in the polls slightly because he just would not let that judge issue go, is now claiming Obama is a sleeper agent for the Muslims.
This falls in line with his previous birther statements and will please the 61% of his supporters who are also birthers. But how will it play with the 80% of the general population that disagree with his birther statements?
Current Trump unfavorable rating now at 60%. Hillary unfavorable rating at 42%. Historic landslide this November? Hmm, I prefer not to bet money on it, not at this stage of the game, but if Trump can't keep his yap shut, it's looking like boring Hillary will squeak past Trump and his Amazing, Nonsensical Mouth. The person with the amazing nonsensical mouth is Obama. At this point, ordinary Americans have a mystery to solve, and there are only two conclusions an unbiased party can arrive at: 1. Obama is staggeringly stupid / ignorant 2. Obama is doing this all on purpose to further some greater objective And for the record, I'm not 100% sold on the idea that he isn't stupid and/or ignorant. He's a liberal, and "diversity" for its own sake, often forced, often existing only in the mind of liberals- is liberal orthodoxy. Perhaps Obama isn't a one-man sleeper cell. Perhaps he realizes that politically, the minute he admits gays and muslims are like oil and water, it undermines standard liberal doctrine to the point where the whole multicultural, PC bullshit completely unravels? It's tempting to fall for the conspiracy theory stuff that a man raised by a genuine kook who sent him to a Madrasa in Indonesia, mentored by Marxists and especially steeped in anti-colonialist claptrap of his black liberation theology church, and Alinsky brand street rabble rousing, who once said the Muslim call to prayer is one of the most beautiful sounds on earth, and who can recite it in perfect Arabic- a man that can't seem to remember Easter, but never misses Ramadan, a man who seems to have a handler- Valerie Jarrett-- might be plotting something untoward; but Occam's Razor...it's simpler to just except that as a left wing ideologue with ZERO experience in the private sector, he's simply to naive and ill informed to be President.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 13, 2016 22:00:52 GMT -5
Hmmm. I was just reading in our local paper about an LBGT rally held in Portland last evening to express grief and solidarity with the Orlando victims.
None of the commentary reported on was about Muslim terrorists. Much of it had to do with the LBGT community being threatened and harmed though. Several politicians attended, but not one Republican. i am really looking forward to this election. edit: the "turnout" argument was how many posters here got tripped up in 2012. it is more than a little amusing that at least one of the same people is now making precisely the same argument because of .... Trump? Not wrong. Just early. America needed more Obama to wake up than we thought.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 13, 2016 22:03:38 GMT -5
Orlando boiled the election down to a very simple choice: A) More of the same Ft. Hood Chattanooga Boston Oklahoma San Bernardino Orlando... or B) TRUMP They're going to pick B. Guaranteed. Not even a question. This event is different. There's a turning of the tide against Islam. You can feel it in the air.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 13, 2016 22:29:26 GMT -5
What do you mean by Obama "never missing Ramadan?"
He doesn't eat during the day for a month? I think you're very wrong.
And "forgets Easter?"
Like having Easter egg hunts on the White House lawn? Kind of like that?
Your bent towards hyperbole is laughable. At least you're amusing.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 13, 2016 22:34:58 GMT -5
Here's the thing that you have to understand- it is a universal truth, it never changes: A confused mind always says no. Therefore, good candidates never explain. If you're explaining, you're losing.
Obama won on "Hope and Change". Mitt Romney lost explaining why he wasn't a "vulture capitalist", he was actually a "severe conservative", RomneyCare was different because "federalism", and he didn't actually cheat on his taxes. Explain, explain, explain, explain- that's why he lost.
Trump is going to win on "Make America Great Again". Nobody is interested in Hillary and her surrogates explaining anything. They understand the simple message: young male "refugees" from places where they hate us: bad idea. No convoluted explanation is going to beat: bad idea. not doing it. They understand ObamaCare sucks- they were lied to, they lost their plan after being told they could keep it; many lost coverage altogether- many of those along with their job, and/or they got part-timed, and everyone is paying more. ObamaCare: bad. It's simple. Everyone gets it. Hillary is the explainer this time. She is gonna have to explain, and explain, and explain- and that's before Trump even addresses her abject incompetence and corruption.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 14, 2016 1:04:34 GMT -5
Here's the thing that you have to understand- it is a universal truth, it never changes: A confused mind always says no. . not to you.
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Post by Opti on Jun 14, 2016 6:19:44 GMT -5
Orlando boiled the election down to a very simple choice: A) More of the same Ft. Hood Chattanooga Boston Oklahoma San Bernardino Orlando... or B) TRUMP They're going to pick B. Guaranteed. Not even a question. This event is different. There's a turning of the tide against Islam. You can feel it in the air. If you are ignorant enough to think this is about Islam, and further only about Muslims new to the country, you are stupid and do deserve Trump as President.
Boston - Immigrants who had lived here for over 10 years.
The only incident that might not have existed with Trump policies, which by the way have no guarantee of passing even a Republican congress, is the one in California. Try to focus. I wish the fear mongers would realize they are adults. There are 80 to 102 year old men & women in the subacute & assisted living facility who are braver than you.
Turning tide. Bah Humbug. More like scared people finding a target and scape goat for all their fears. Islam is not the problem. Terrorists like ISIS are a problem. Young men being stupid is a historic problem. Remember the former soldier in Washington State who decided to go on a rampage? Projecting isn't limited to Muslims.
Heck, the post above is ample proof of that!
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Post by Opti on Jun 14, 2016 6:24:31 GMT -5
Damn, Neptune is certainly in retrograde. <Walks out to get hip boots for rising BS levels.>
Here's a thing I wish you would understand. NLP, and other theories says in general we always say yes. We, and confused people choose where to focus, where to listen. If they listen to crazy ass people saying Muslims are causing all the problems in their life, yes, they are likely to say *Yes, that's true*
We are the programmers of our destiny.
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