US Politics Thread |OT| THE DARKEST TIMELINE

[Phoenix Dark]

That's an easy argument to prolong. He could bring up that fewer people are working now than under Bush, wages are down, growth is slow, etc. Not to mention the participation rate. Obviously you could counter most of these points but that's a long argument. One I have no interest in having. There are people who won't even admit we're better off now than we were in October 2008.

[Rufus]

One of your candidates for president is getting asked about whither he'd kill baby Hitler or not.  You guys should feel ashamed as a nation. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/politics/ben-carson-would-not-abort-baby-hitler/index.html

here's the REAL story

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/11/11/9709934/gop-debate-is-ben-carson-pro-hitler

He would wait until the little shit could feel true fear. Imprint the terror on his soul.

[Samson Manhug]

The easiest explanation for this paradox is that it isn’t a paradox at all: Americans are pessimistic about the economy because, for many of them, the economy hasn’t gotten better. Unemployment is down, but incomes are flat. Millions of Americans left the labor force in the recession and haven’t returned. Millions more are stuck in low-wage jobs or are working part time because they can’t find full-time work.

There's your answer, Walrus. They Administration can release rosy numbers every week but until people start seeing their wages go up and finding suitable work for their education and skills, no1curr.

[Samson Manhug]

It's not "misinformation" if someone is employed (reducing unemployment numbers) in a job not suitable to their education/skills, or if they aren't even on the books anymore because they left the workforce. Look at the median household income in Iowa, where the economy is "strong." It's the same as it was fifteen years ago. If you factor in inflation, people are still making 30% less than they were fifteen years ago—and that's in a state with "good" numbers.

[Samson Manhug]

That's politics, bruh. I saw someone on Fox News today say that the Iraq war was "won" in 2007 too until Obama ruined it. That's obviously untrue and personally insulting to me, but it's just politics.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.samuelwbennett.com/hate-by-state/

[Phoenix Dark]

Romney time? 

Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win

According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans, who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/time-for-gop-panic-establishment-worried-carson-and-trump-might-win/2015/11/12/38ea88a6-895b-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html

[tiesto]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=900931373305380

Whaa... Rubio is a Tiesto fan? Makes sense he likes EDM, considering he's from Miami. But still, I think a name change might be in order for me...

[Dennis]

Trump: Dr. Carson's anger incurable in the same way child molesters are incurable.

Shots fired.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1139513

[Samson Manhug]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=900931373305380

Whaa... Rubio is a Tiesto fan? Makes sense he likes EDM, considering he's from Miami. But still, I think a name change might be in order for me...

He gets defensive about it too!

Dumb interviewer: I have no idea who you are talking about right now
Rubio: They're DJs! They're DJs! Musicians! It's 21st century music! It's genius!

[Dennis]

Trump: Marco Rubio supports amnesty because he's Hispanic.

Trump not done for today.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1139546

[Phoenix Dark]

Dare I ask...is this the end of Trump?

[Great Rumbler]

Dare I ask...is this the end of Trump?

More like expect a 3-4 point bump in the polls.

[El Babua]

Trump cutting a promo on Carson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI279UvRK9M

[Samson Manhug]

I have to admit that EDM comment came off sincere unlike Hillary's attempts to appear human or relatable to young people.

[Phoenix Dark]

Rubio is also a 2pac stan

also Benji: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3359555/posts#comment 

[benjipwns]

Trump cutting a promo on Carson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI279UvRK9M

"I'm just trying to save you the cost of a book!"

[benjipwns]

http://theslot.jezebel.com/a-conversation-with-johari-osayi-idusuyi-the-hero-who-1742082010
HERO

[BrokenVerses]

Romney time? 

Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win

According to other Republicans, some in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting Romney — despite his insistence that he will not run again. Friends have mapped out a strategy for a late entry to pick up delegates and vie for the nomination in a convention fight, according to the Republicans, who were briefed on the talks, though Romney has shown no indication of reviving his interest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/time-for-gop-panic-establishment-worried-carson-and-trump-might-win/2015/11/12/38ea88a6-895b-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html

“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,” this strategist said. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?”

What if we're in the darkest timeline?

[Joe Molotov]

potentially?

[ToxicAdam]

It would be real easy to kneecap Trump in the general election. You just throw a bunch of money at a third party candidate that has similar interests (but seems a bit more practical and safe). He would only need to get 3-4 percent of the vote to screw over Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Johnson

[Dennis]

[Phoenix Dark]

https://instagram.com/p/-B_ci4mhdA/

[CatsCatsCats]

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Trump is King Hippo?

[Brehvolution]

[CatsCatsCats]

That shit makes me so mad, it's the response to calls for caring about the people of the nation, it's disingenuous -- and worst of all people buy it wholesale.

[Shadow Mod]

If students have free education how can we indebt them for the rest of their working career. 

[Brehvolution]

Ben Carson is saying his intelligence info is better that what POTUS has. 

[Joe Molotov]

If Mitt Romney were brought out of retirement for #OneLastRide, I don't think I could ever stop laughing.

[Madrun Badrun]

Why is this thread funnier than the outside link thread?   

[Trent Dole]

Let's bring Kerry back too while we're at it. The battle of the guys who lost because their entire platforms were basically 'not the incumbent'.

[Dennis]

Ben Carson is saying his intelligence info is better that what POTUS has. 

Ben Carson has friends in high places.

Well, mostly one friend in a very high place.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ben Carson is saying his intelligence info is better that what POTUS has. 

Ben Carson has friends in high places.

Well, mostly one friend in a very high place.

Himself? 

[Joe Molotov]

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18560/eric-cantor-zachary-werrell-john-boehner-gop

Meet the 24-Year-Old “RINO Hunter” On a Mission To Purge the GOP of Moderates

I'm glad Ron Weasley found something to do after the Harry Potter movies ended.

[Phoenix Dark]

Gotta hand it to Jeb, if anything he's quite good at punking people. His people made sure Romney didn't run, convincing everyone Jeb was the clear better choice. 

Is Jeb better at anything than Romney? 

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Is Jeb better at anything than Romney? 

not being Mormon.

[Great Rumbler]

Forty-two percent of likely GOP voters supported Trump in a five-day rolling poll released Friday by Reuters/Ipsos, up from 25 percent last week. Carson was also polling around 25 percent last week and his support among GOP voters has since dipped slightly.

[Take My Breh Away]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/552955167533174785

Asshole

[Madrun Badrun]

Jesus that's both idiot and tasteless. 

[CajoleJuice]

[Boogie]

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/552955167533174785

Asshole

Dear Donald:

Isn't it interesting that 150 people killed in gun deaths in France constitutes its worst terrorist attack in half a century.....while in America, it's called....November.

[ToxicAdam]

I haven't paid attention to the Republican race, because I assumed it would play out like 2012 (where the fire bombers get pushed to the side for a more conventional choice). But I noticed in the aggregate polling that Trump/Carson/Cruz hold 59 percent of the pie ...

[CajoleJuice]

Does no one realize that Trump tweet is from the Charlie Hebdo attack? I'm not just talking about here on The Bore, but all of Twitter is fucking RTing it. It says Jan 7th right there.

[benjipwns]

When I heard about a Trump tweet I assumed he was praising France closing their borders.

[benjipwns]

https://www.facebook.com/CarlyFiorina/posts/10156756617390206

Carly Fiorina
Yesterday at 6:19pm · Edited ·
Donald, sorry, I've got to interrupt again. You would know something about pathological. How was that meeting with Putin? Or Wharton? Or your self funded campaign? Anyone can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money in the world won't make you as smart as Ben Carson.

look at me! look at me!

I thought one of the underrated debate "impact moments" so far was when Trump crushed Carly twice over her failures in her first post-promotion debate while refusing to say she wasn't ugly, and teamed up with Christie to mock her constant interrupting. (which she still seems salty about lol) Killing her boomlet in the cradle like her daughter who died from marijuana basically led to the Carson one since there wasn't anyone else left.

Remember that meme/fantasy about "Obama going Full Bulworth" around 2012-ish that got a bunch of loins wet. Trump's campaign is a tamer probably more accurate yet inverted politically version of the one in the movie. Though I only got a few hits off it on Google.

Also, that whole meme unsettled me because like American Psycho it was the first time people other were actually talking about the movie when in the past everyone always were like "what?" to me if I ever mentioned it. (And I watched it partly because Oliver Platt was in it and it was on Cinemax one night like six months after it bombed at theaters.) Now we have 40 year old crackers for the Washington Post calling it a "GREAT Political Film*" like it's important historically. If Ravenous takes off next, I'll really be unsettled.

Worst part is nobody mentions the goofy amazing that was this:

 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

My favorite part is ODB's rip in peace pbuh verses are the only ones that have anything that could even be considered remotely similar to the plot of the movie/be said by the main character/etc.

[close]

*My Fellow Americans is actually the greatest political film of the last 20 years. Truth fact.

[benjipwns]

Another truth fact, filming Bulworth played in a role in Warren Beatty's consideration of a Presidential bid in 2000: http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/12/beatty.president.nyt/

[toku]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/time-to-ground-congress/2015/11/13/33e0fc84-8a08-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

[Shaka Khan]

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/552955167533174785

Asshole

Look at the date.

But still asshole.

[VomKriege]

Does no one realize that Trump tweet is from the Charlie Hebdo attack? I'm not just talking about here on The Bore, but all of Twitter is fucking RTing it. It says Jan 7th right there.

Totally fair. However, while he was maybe not so insensitive or stupid enough to say it again, he said it for a comparable situation (Does he still think that) and the argument is dumb as a sack of bricks.

[Steve Contra]

Debate tonight switching to terrorism and international policy.  Should be the final nail in Bernie's campaign.

[Phoenix Dark]

Debate tonight switching to terrorism and international policy.  Should be the final nail in Bernie's campaign.

Sanders aide pushes back against CBS switch to foreign policy focus for debate

    A top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., one of the three candidates, got into a lengthy dispute with executives from CBS, the network hosting the debate, during a conference call on Saturday morning. A staffer for one of the other campaigns who was also on the call described the exchange to Yahoo News as “heated” and even “bizarre,” and a second source on the call confirmed the nature of the exchange.

    The dispute centered on CBS’s decision to increase the emphasis on terrorism, foreign policy, and national security in the wake of the attacks that left more than 100 people dead in Paris on Friday night. According to the rival staffer, Sanders strategist Mark Longabaugh lit into CBS vice president and Washington bureau chief Christopher Isham when the changes to the debate were detailed on the call.

    “It was a little bit of a bizarre scene. The Sanders representative, you know, really laid into CBS and basically … kind of threw, like, a little bit of a fit and said, ‘You are trying to turn this into a foreign policy debate. That’s not what any of us agreed to. How can you change the terms of the debate, you know, on the day of the debate. That’s not right,’” the staffer recounted.

    Another person who was on the call confirmed to Yahoo News that Longabaugh had a lengthy dispute about the changed plans for the debate format during the call with CBS. The Sanders campaign declined to comment.
    The rival staffer said the CBS representatives on the call argued they were not completely switching the focus for the debate.

    “The CBS folks were like, ‘Look, we’re not turning this into a foreign policy debate. We’re going to reorder the questions so that we’re leading off with a foreign policy focus based on what happened last night,’” the rival staffer said.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/sanders-aide-pushes-back-against-cbs-switch-to-215805298.html

[Barry Egan]

yeah Bernie's aide fucked up big time and Bernie just compounded it by reverting straight to his stump speech.

[Samson Manhug]

"I'm not as socialist as Eisenhower" - Bernie

 

[Phoenix Dark]

Sanders is a weak debater imo. O'Malley is doing better lol.

[doctavius bonbon]

twitter almost justified its existence with that real time ether over the debate stage.

[Phoenix Dark]

twitter almost justified its existence with that real time ether over the debate stage.

that shit was beautiful

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/14/mizzou-protesters-black-lives-matter-complain-pari/

[Rufus]

"We found the shrillest voices in a protest movement. Please share this on Facebook."

[jakefromstatefarm]

twitter almost justified its existence with that real time ether over the debate stage.

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wtf? what did she say?

[doctavius bonbon]

http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/cbs-news-democratic-debate-pt-4/

4:40~ in she makes a rebuttal and goes full Giuliani.