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[Phoenix Dark]

Rubio would lambast Kemp as a big government, corporate welfare republican. Gotta say I'm impressed by Rubio's ability to do nothing and yet inspire people on every side of the right to declare him a winner. His shelf must be full of participation trophies by now. I wonder which Great Republican Leader he'll be compared to next.

This shit reminds me of New York rap fans who are always trying to convince themselves that some sub par punchline rapper is the next Nas/Jay-Z. 

[benjipwns]

Rubio's pick for 2015 Book of the Year:

Marco Rubio on Jack Kemp

In December 2012, I gave an address in Washington at the annual Jack Kemp Foundation dinner about what I believe conservatism should represent in the 21st century: ideas, optimism and opportunity for every American. The venue for my speech was far from incidental. I’ve always been fascinated and inspired by the life of Jack Kemp. He was a pro-football quarterback, a nine-term congressman, a major influence on the Reagan Revolution, a housing secretary under President George H.W. Bush and a vice-presidential candidate. Most important, he was an idea man. He believed that the conservative movement was more than just a crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors; he believed it was a creative force that could renew itself over and over again through the power of ideas and in doing so could renew the promise of America for each generation. In “Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America,” Morton Kondracke and Fred Barnes trace the extraordinary achievements of this conservative visionary, and they remind us of the great potential—and the great responsibility—of the modern conservative movement to inspire, uplift and restore opportunity to all.

[Boogie]

I'd probably pay any amount of money to get an octagon match with this fuck:

After a 20 second look at his twitter profile pic, mhy $20 goes to him.

[benjipwns]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/18/usa_todays_paul_singer_contested_convention_may_result_in_street_clash_between_black_lives_matter_and_trump_protestors.html

"Imagine for the Democrats watching this, imagine there is a challenge to Donald Trump and then you have the Trump voters in the streets around the convention kicking up dust, and then you have the Black Lives Matter, who you know will be in Cleveland, because they're there any way, kicking up dust."

"You have this clash in the streets," Singer said.

Host Chris Matthews was perplexed by the situation Singer predicted.

"You are an imaginative guy. I never thought about that," a baffled Matthews said.

"It's going to be like the Seattle trade protests all again with the anarchists coming in. It's going to be insane," Jay Newton Small of TIME chimed in.

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~50 seconds "it's like the X-Men against each other"

paul singer stealth promoting brian singer's new movie

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[Joe Molotov]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/18/usa_todays_paul_singer_contested_convention_may_result_in_street_clash_between_black_lives_matter_and_trump_protestors.html

"Imagine for the Democrats watching this, imagine there is a challenge to Donald Trump and then you have the Trump voters in the streets around the convention kicking up dust, and then you have the Black Lives Matter, who you know will be in Cleveland, because they're there any way, kicking up dust."

"You have this clash in the streets," Singer said.

Host Chris Matthews was perplexed by the situation Singer predicted.

"You are an imaginative guy. I never thought about that," a baffled Matthews said.

"It's going to be like the Seattle trade protests all again with the anarchists coming in. It's going to be insane," Jay Newton Small of TIME chimed in.

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~50 seconds "it's like the X-Men against each other"

paul singer stealth promoting brian singer's new movie

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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/11/heres-why-paul-singers-endorsement-of-rubio-matters/

[VomKriege]

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/11/heres-why-paul-singers-endorsement-of-rubio-matters/

he listened to an 11th-hour appeal from the Bush campaign for support

Jeb ! staff should maybe have had the same dedication in convincing voters.

[benjipwns]

New York street performer dressed as Donald Trump lets you punch him for $5, pee on him for $300

[benjipwns]

A uniter, not a divider:

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump
While I have never met @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times, I consider him one of the dumbest of all pundits- he has no sense of the real world!
12:11 AM - 19 Mar 2016

Donald J. Trump ✔ ‎@realDonaldTrump
Reading @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times is a total waste of time, he is a clown with no awareness of the world around him- dummy!
12:25 AM - 19 Mar 2016

[Phoenix Dark]

Can't wait for Brooks' next article about Obama calling to see if he was ok after the Trump texts.

[TakingBackSunday]

I agree with trump, yikes

[Stoney Mason]

The only and I mean ONLY fun thing about Trump is his trashing of certain sacred cows. I also love when he goes at Megyn Kelly who deserves a shellacking.

[thisismyusername]

New York street performer dressed as Donald Trump lets you punch him for $5, pee on him for $300

Well, hello there link to give to a performance artist I know.

[benjipwns]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273626-the-chaos-scenario-for-democrats

It’s the scenario that Republicans dream of and Democrats believe is all but impossible: Hillary Clinton being forced to drop out of the presidential race due to criminal charges over her email server.

Any bombshell findings in the FBI’s investigation of Clinton could plunge the Democratic race into chaos.

Bernie Sanders could stand to gain. As the only other candidate in the Democratic race, the party could quickly coalesce around him in an effort to halt the bedlam. But that’s far from a sure thing, with many in the party fearful he would be a weak general election candidate.

Unlike the Republican Party, which binds most of its delegates to candidates regardless of delegates’ personal preferences, Democratic candidates have input on who represents them on the convention floor.

“There are no Clinton-bound delegates who would prefer voting for Sanders, for example,” delegate expert and University of Georgia professor Josh Putnam, told The Hill.

“Those folks are essentially hand-picked to be loyal. They are unlikely to stray.”

Then there are the superdelegates, the 712 Democratic Party leaders, including members of Congress, who have the freedom to support any candidate at the convention.

The superdelegates are supporting Clinton in droves right now — 95 percent of those who have expressed a preference have chosen Clinton. But they could desert Clinton just as emphatically if her candidacy came to the brink of imploding, some say.

“The superdelegates would flee first because they are politicians,” said one Democratic strategist who has worked on presidential campaigns.

“They are most likely to feel the pressure not to cast their ballots in favor of a nominee under indictment.”

If enough pledged Clinton delegates and superdelegates went to Sanders and delivered him 2,383 delegates, he would win the nomination.

But delegates could also coalesce around a new candidate not in the race. One likely fallback would be Vice President Biden, who came very close to running for president last year.

But denying Sanders the nomination could come with a heavy price, potentially alienating the millions of Democrats who cast ballots for him in the primary process.

“Most of these other politicians and political leaders in the community, they don’t really know Bernie Sanders because he’s never been a national Democrat,” the Democratic strategist said.

“They know Joe [Biden], they know John Kerry. It’s completely conceivable that they would turn from somebody they know and respect — Hillary — to somebody else they know and respect and bypass Sanders.”

So if the Democratic race ends up with its own contested convention, all bets are off on how it would conclude, since the final decision ultimately rests on the whims of the 4,765 delegates.

“It would be a s--tshow of the first order,” the Democratic strategist said.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://i.imgur.com/z3Nn3hy.jpg

[benjipwns]

http://i.imgur.com/z3Nn3hy.jpg

My favorite version of that:

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

https://www.change.org/p/fec-open-an-investigation-into-hillary-clinton-for-electronic-voter-fraud

Finally, somebody is doing something about this.

[benjipwns]

[seagrams hotsauce]

Is that recent? I thought he disavowed that artist when it came out he was a white supremicist

[helios]

[brawndolicious]

When even your blind supporters wish you'd toned it down. I feel like the GE is going to be a landslide now even if the GOP makes him the nominee.

[curly]

I thought he disavowed that artist when it came out he was a white supremicist

It's alarming how many times I've heard variations of this phrase this election cycle

[thisismyusername]

http://i.imgur.com/z3Nn3hy.jpg

MakingUpAUsernameIsTerrifying 498 points : 3 replies : 2 days ago reply
"Oh God, Bill." "Not the first time I've heard that. Weird it isn't screamed, though."

TheeHofer 12 points : 2 days ago reply
"And that's when I said, 'she's great on the piano, but sucks on the organ'."

[Brehvolution]

[james]

It has begun.

Results from the Democrats Abroad primary show the Vermont senator cruising to a big win over Hillary Clinton among ex-pats, taking 69 percent of the vote to her 31. Nearly 35,000 Americans overseas cast ballots, a 50 percent increase over the 2008 total.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/democrats-abroad-bernie-sanders/474642/

These are the margins that Hillarybots have said would be impossible to reach.

[Brehvolution]

Here's one for the anger addicts;


 

[Tasty]

Donated a buck to Hillary last Thursday, let's go gurl. 

[Phoenix Dark]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?postshare=9101458598184502&tid=ss_tw

Ladies and gentlemen, the republican nominee for president of the United States.

[Sausage]

Donald Trump is by far the most reasonable candidate on Israel-Palestine. What a world.

[Joe Molotov]

I’m not a bad person. I’m just doing my thing – I’m, you know, running

 

[benjipwns]

One of Trump's foreign policy advisers:


 

[Phoenix Dark]

Who better to rid us of foreign entanglements than our man in the U.N.

 

[Human Snorenado]

Guys. Guys, we're gonna be ok.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273727-poll-over-half-want-to-punch-trumps-face

[Sausage]

[Madrun Badrun]

Id vote for it

[benjipwns]

Got sent these facts:



Vote Trump 2016!

[VomKriege]

Love the last two cells for Hillary 

Isn't legalizing marijuana the same as authorizing medical cannabis ? Unless that means having cannabis taken charge of by medical insurances ?

[benjipwns]

No, it's a lower level of decriminalization. You can get marijuana but only for valid medical reasons and you have to have a license and so on.

In reality, most idiots can find a doctor to sign off on it, or get the license to be a grower, etc. (My cousins and uncle managed all this. And they continue to live in Flint.) So it becomes a sort of de facto decriminalization.

One of the things Washington and Colorado had were the medipot people fighting against the larger decriminalization because it would hurt their bottom line.

Also, Opposes War on Drugs and Decriminalize Drugs is listed on there as two seperate entries too.

[Tasty]

Lol I really hope that's some GOPer trolling /r/S4P or something.

Pretty sure the following (at the very, very least) are bald-facedly wrong for Hillary:

Expand Social Security

- Fight any effort to privatize or weaken Medicare and Social Security, and expand Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest to contribute more.

- Expand Social Security for those who need it most and who are treated unfairly by the current system—including women who are widows and those who took significant time out of the paid workforce to take care of their children, aging parents, or ailing family members. Social Security works well, but it should work better. Hillary will fight to expand Social Security for those who need it most and who are treated unfairly today.

Raise Taxes on the Wealthy

Reform our tax code so the wealthiest pay their fair share. Hillary supports ending the “carried interest” loophole, enacting the “Buffett Rule” that ensures no millionaire pays a lower effective tax rate than their secretary, and closing tax loopholes and expenditures that benefit the wealthiest taxpayers to pay for her plan to make college affordable and refinance student debt.

Student Loan Reform

- Ensure no student has to borrow to pay for tuition, books, or fees to attend a four-year public college in their state.

- Enable Americans with existing student loan debt to refinance at current rates.

- Hold colleges and universities accountable for controlling costs and making tuition affordable.

Switch to Renewable Energy

- Set national goals to have 500 million solar panels installed; generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America; cut energy waste in homes, schools, and hospitals by a third; and reduce American oil consumption by a third.

- Lead the world in the fight against climate change by bringing greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below what they were in 2005 within the next decade—and keep going.

Tax Wall Street Speculation

- Impose a risk fee on the largest financial institutions. Banks and financial companies would be required to pay a fee based on their size and their risk of contributing to another financial crisis.

- Impose a tax on high-frequency trading. The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily placed stress on our markets, created instability, and enabled unfair and abusive trading strategies. Hillary would impose a tax on harmful high-frequency trading and reform rules to make our stock markets fairer, more open, and transparent.

Opposes the War on Drugs

- Criminal justice reform. Her plan will prioritize rehabilitation and treatment over prison for low-level and nonviolent drug offenses, and work to end the era of mass incarceration. Additionally, it focuses on fostering more collaboration and coordination between public health and criminal justice to ensure continuity of care for those who suffer from substance use disorders.

Reform Wall Street

- Close the Volcker Rule’s hedge fund loophole. The Volcker Rule prohibits banks from making risky trading bets with taxpayer-backed money—one of the core protections of the post-financial crisis Wall Street reforms. However, under current law these banks can still invest billions through hedge funds, which are exempt from this rule. Hillary would close that loophole and strengthen the law.

- Discourage excessive risk-taking by making senior bankers accountable. Senior managers should lose some or all of their bonus compensation when a large bank suffers losses that threaten its overall financial health.

- Make sure no firm is ever too big and too risky to be managed effectively. Hillary’s plan would give regulators more authority to force overly complex or risky firms to reorganize, downsize, or break apart.

- Tackle financial dangers of the “shadow banking” system. Hillary’s plan will enhance transparency and reduce volatility in the “shadow banking system,” which includes certain activities of hedge funds, investment banks, and other non-bank financial companies.

- Prosecuting individuals when they break the law. Hillary would extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting major financial frauds, enhance whistleblower rewards, and provide the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission more resources to prosecute wrongdoing.

- Holding executives accountable when they are responsible for their subordinates’ misconduct. Hillary believes that when corporations pay large fines to the government for violating the law, those fines should cut into the bonuses of the executives who were responsible for or should have caught the problem. And when egregious misconduct happens on an executive’s watch, that executive should lose his or her job.

- Holding corporations accountable when they break the law. As she enhances individual accountability, Hillary will make sure that corporations don’t treat penalties for breaking the law as merely a cost of doing business, so that we can put an end to the patterns of corporate wrongdoing that we see too often today.

Like, it isn't difficult to look this stuff up. But hey it's from her own site and everything she says is a lie so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #WhichHillary #WitchHillary

Where's the box for "Opposes Gun Control" because that'd be an accurate "Yes" for Bernie.




That's right sluts, you got a Hillary shill on the board now. Time to rise up and end the patriarchy!

[benjipwns]

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  39m39 minutes ago
Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels wss. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!

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[Cerveza mas fina]

At least he used the correct spelling of Brussel.

[benjipwns]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Uuuh like Europeans wanting Trump?

[Human Snorenado]

Uuuh like Europeans wanting Trump?

We'll make you a very good deal for him. Can we just get a six pack of something?

[octopushover]

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/712086034834694144


 

tastes like desperation

[CatsCatsCats]

Can we talk about Clinton positioning herself to the right of Trump on Israel?

[VomKriege]

Uuuh like Europeans wanting Trump?

We'll make you a very good deal for him. Can we just get a six pack of something?

Sure, take six of our Le Pen or Wilders for your Trump.

[Human Snorenado]

Uuuh like Europeans wanting Trump?

We'll make you a very good deal for him. Can we just get a six pack of something?

Sure, take six of our Le Pen or Wilders for your Trump.

They can't legally run for President over here so...

[benjipwns]

Can we talk about Clinton positioning herself to the right of Trump on Israel?

I have been assured that she's only saying that because of the election and that everyone else does it too.

[Madrun Badrun]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

I did my part and reported two brown men and a menacing looking boy to homeland security today.  How did you help the homefront today?

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry brown men sounds racist.  I meant two Trojan horses and a thug. 

[tiesto]

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump  39m39 minutes ago
Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels wss. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!

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Looks like a horror out of SMT...

[Boogie]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

I did my part and reported two brown men and a menacing looking boy to homeland security today.  How did you help the homefront today?

You reported two brown men and a boy in Toronto to U.S. Homeland Security?   

[benjipwns]

What better way to get them droned?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

I did my part and reported two brown men and a menacing looking boy to homeland security today.  How did you help the homefront today?

You reported two brown men and a boy in Toronto to U.S. Homeland Security?   

    And   

He doesn't get out much.

[benjipwns]

America's Mayor with a yuuuge endorsement, sorta, maybe, kinda:

“The way I look at it, there really are only three people who will be the next president of the United States. One’s Hillary Clinton, the other’s Donald Trump, and the third is Ted Cruz,” he said at a Monday night event hosted by the Columbia University College Republicans on campus.

“So I’ll choose between those three," he said. "I’ll give you a hint: it won’t be Hillary Clinton. I seriously doubt it will be Ted Cruz. But I just want to think about it a little bit more before I do anything formally."

"I think that you gotta pick," he said. "This is the hand you’re dealt, and you’ve gotta work with it. You’ve gotta pick one of those three."

[Joe Molotov]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

I did my part and reported two brown men and a menacing looking boy to homeland security today.  How did you help the homefront today?

You reported two brown men and a boy in Toronto to U.S. Homeland Security?   

They were getting too close.

[benjipwns]

https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/at-the-flick-of-a-switch/

[VomKriege]

https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/at-the-flick-of-a-switch/

...

 

Also, not that anyone is unaware of this, your election cycle is way too long.

[Madrun Badrun]

There's a decent number of "Europe needs you!" type responses. So that's fun.

I did my part and reported two brown men and a menacing looking boy to homeland security today.  How did you help the homefront today?

You reported two brown men and a boy in Toronto to U.S. Homeland Security?   

I like to pretend I'm American on the internet!