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[recursivelyenumerable]

Having actually had a job that involved sifting through captured institutional email archives, I'm just impressed there wasn't a ton of disgusting porn being passed around.

[Phoenix Dark]

"President Trump"

Better get used to hearing that for the next eight years.

Definitely my least favorite nudemacusers quote

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.


As the great prophet Nudemacusers once said "if you ever find yourself hanging uncomfortably left in public then pivot, avoid eye contact, and move right as required."

[TakingBackSunday]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.

Hmmmm

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.

Hmmmm

If you don't think that party of full of "better than you" people then you really should start that expedition to Peru next week. I mean c'mon man, are you even listening to them?

[benjipwns]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents

That was months ago:

[benjipwns]

btw, PD, he's from Howell

he ran for my House seat in 2014

running for Livingston County Sheriff this year

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents

That was months ago:
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He has more rhythm than most white people. What is his name? Will write him in.

Many thanks.

btw, PD, he's from Howell

he ran for my House seat in 2014

running for Livingston County Sheriff this year

I'll alert my people to fund thus vote

[benjipwns]

http://www.weeksforsheriff.com/



https://www.facebook.com/weeksforsheriff/

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Has anyone actually been swayed to vote for someone based on a celebrity endorsement?

http://www.weeksforsheriff.com/

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https://www.facebook.com/weeksforsheriff/

"ENDORESEMENTS"

[Phoenix Dark]

Don't get caught with weed in Livingston County, brehs. I know someone who had less than an ounce and got a year probation plus 3k fine. And she's white.

Perhaps Mr. Weeks can do something about this, Benji.

[TakingBackSunday]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.

Hmmmm

If you don't think that party of full of "better than you" people then you really should start that expedition to Peru next week. I mean c'mon man, are you even listening to them?

The hypocrisy is so fucking rich . 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.

Hmmmm

If you don't think that party of full of "better than you" people then you really should start that expedition to Peru next week. I mean c'mon man, are you even listening to them?

The hypocrisy is so fucking rich .

Unlike....well....you :umad

[TakingBackSunday]

Do you not understand how insane you sound?  You claim the Democratic party preaches a "better than you" mentality (which is true, there are a lot of holier than thous in it) yet on the SAME FUCKING PAGE you brag about being rich and holding it against me for not.

You're right, I am mad that you're a walking moronic contradiction.

I'm out of this thread, I don't need to be reminded that someone like you exists on a daily basis.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Holy shit, what a shitshow

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Do you not understand how insane you sound?  You claim the Democratic party preaches a "better than you" mentality (which is true, there are a lot of holier than thous in it) yet on the SAME FUCKING PAGE you brag about being rich and holding it against me for not.

You're right, I am mad that you're a walking moronic contradiction.

I'm out of this thread, I don't need to be reminded that someone like you exists on a daily basis.

So mad. It's a politics thread, this stays here. Unless you want to make it personal. Which is silly because I don't know you.

https://m.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Holy shit, what a shitshow

I mean I've scripted better excuses for being late for my wife (who is always late) with 3 friends in 45 second in the car. This is a travesty and gotta put trump in the whitehouse. Thanks, assholes....

[Phoenix Dark]

If you don't like Michelle Obama I can't fuck with you

[Madrun Badrun]

Why does Sarah keep making a sexy face into the camera?  I mean I like it but its odd. 

[Am_I_Anonymous]

If you don't like Michelle Obama I can't fuck with you

Go up and respect my video apology to BrandNew. And nah dude, she's as fraud as dollar hot dogs quality my mans.

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[Great Rumbler]

MICHELLE OBAMA

YASSSSS QUEEEN

[Am_I_Anonymous]

"Kid who look to us for who and what they should be!"

Michelle Obama.


Are you even fucking serious here?

[Tasty]

And nah dude, she's as fraud as dollar hot dogs quality my mans.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Just saying, she if she said it was raining I'd stick my hand out the window.

[Great Rumbler]

Just saying, she if she said it was raining I'd stick my hand out the window.

[Great Rumbler]

The best thing about Trump winning will be seeing him get beat to a pulp in 2020 by Warren.

[Tasty]

Just saying, she if she said it was raining I'd stick my hand out the window.

I have a better suggestion for where you should stick it.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

The best thing about Trump winning will be seeing him get beat to a pulp in 2020 by Warren.

At this Point I tend to think Warren/Obama in any order  would be unbeatable. For Sure.

[benjipwns]

Are they waiting until Bernie falls asleep?

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Are they waiting until Bernie falls asleep?

Not a big fan of the guy but he's got more energy than most 20 year olds. He will be fine.

Still wondering if he goes off the rails.

[Great Rumbler]

Still wondering if he goes off the rails.

I doubt it. He spent most of the first day trying to douse the flames caused by his rowdier fans.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Still wondering if he goes off the rails.

I doubt it. He spent most of the first day trying to douse the flames caused by his rowdier fans.

Yeah but dude knows how to play the game. This will be a fun watch.

[Great Rumbler]

If you're expecting him to pull a Ted Cruz, I think you're going to be disappointing.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

If you're expecting him to pull a Ted Cruz, I think you're going to be disappointing.

I can hope though. It would turn that motherfucker right out too.

[Great Rumbler]

Dude's 74. I really doubt he wants his last meaningful contribution to Presidential politics to be the election of Trump.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Dude's 75. I really doubt he wants his last meaningful contribution to Presidential politics to be the election of Trump.

Like supporting a Clinton gets your a gold button or something. I believe he disagrees with her more than hairmop.

[Great Rumbler]

I believe he disagrees with her more than hairmop.

I strongly doubt that.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

[Great Rumbler]

[Am_I_Anonymous]

There isn't a person there that would shed a tear for Hillary. Not a good look.

[Samson Manhug]

I love this guy. "If you think you can sit [this election] out, think about the Supreme Court justices"

[Tasty]

Dude's 75. I really doubt he wants his last meaningful contribution to Presidential politics to be the election of Trump.

Like supporting a Clinton gets your a gold button or something. I believe he disagrees with her more than hairmop.

NYT: Hillary and Bernie voted the same way 93% of the time when they were both in the Senate.

They'd probably be even closer today.

But sure, he agrees more with a racist, conservative, authoritarian baffoon who literally disagrees with him on basically every point of his policies than Hillary. OK.

And you want to be taken seriously in political discussions?

[jakefromstatefarm]

SUPER GLASS-STEAGALL

[Great Rumbler]

Did AIA already go to sleep?

[benjipwns]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/public-editor/liz-spayd-the-new-york-times-public-editor.html

Emails like these stream into this office every day. A perception that The Times is biased prompts some of the most frequent complaints from readers. Only they arrive so frequently, and have for so long, that the objections no longer land with much heft.

Like the tiresome bore at a party, I went around asking several journalists in the newsroom about these claims that The Times sways to the left. Mostly I was met with a roll of the eyes. All sides hate us, they said. We’re tough on everyone. That’s nothing new here.

How about all the reader comments attached to political articles? On most days, conservatives occupy just a few back-row seats in this giant liberal echo chamber, not because Republicans are screened out by editors but because they don’t show up in the first place. Bassey Etim, who oversees the comments forum, makes a point of salting conservative voices into the week’s list of top commenters. “It just makes the conversation more dynamic and interesting,” he says.

na here 1 day ago
I think the Times' coverage is not liberal, but neo-liberal. Consider:

1. Soft handling of illegal immigration with a blanket refusal to consider the cost to our society. Or, that the scale of it represents corporate welfare
2. No coverage of the lack of stable living-wage jobs in large swaths of the country due to outsourcing and immigration (legal and illegal). Particularly, the effect on the most vulnerable citizens, including African-Americans.
3. Inadequate and biased coverage of the Bernie Sanders campaign
4. No hard-hitting reporting of Wall Street excesses - either before or after the 2008 crash. The same goes for Silicon Valley and its excesses.
5. Promotion of diversity that borders on fostering divisiveness (I am not white)
6. No critical treatment of trade deals, particularly with China.

What draws me to the NYT is not so much the reporting and certainly not the op-ed pages. Rather, it is the comments sections which are thoughtful and thought-provoking, and illuminate and inform better than the comment sections of any other newspaper or magazine.

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Jeo New York City 1 day ago
The new Public Editor claims to be drawing no conclusions, just making a preliminary investigation into why the NYT is "seen as liberal".

She should be aware that in fact to an entire segment of the population, most visible in opinions voiced online in the liberal and progressive blogosphere, the NYT is in fact seen as conservative. The presence of conservative voices like Ross Douthat, David Brooks, and Frank Bruni, among others, outnumbering the smattering of unabashedly liberal voices like Paul Krugman may provide a clue as to why.

The news that the editors "salt" the top comments with cherry picked conservatives is revealing. So not only does the NYT spend decades hiring conservative columnists until they outnumber the liberals in a quest to get the likes of Rush Limbaugh to stop complaining (good luck), it actually gives preference to conservative commenters and essentially falsifies its "sampling" of opinions, to appease the right wing critics.

After all that, it hires a public editor who looks at what it has wrought and says you know, maybe we *are* just too darn liberal! And thus surrenders once and for all to the fear of talk radio and FOX News calling it names.

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Erika Atlanta, GA 1 day ago
Oh, goodness gracious, Ms. Spayd. (And when I use that phrase, please feel free to translate it into something much more profane.) Let's just call a spade a Spayd: I will say right now - like Ms. Tyra Banks: I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you! But here you go and talk about what others have described so well as false equivalency: The NYT opinion page.

The NYT has taken great care in the past decade or more (have you been reading it?) to include conservative voices, most notably Mr. Brooks, Mr. Douthat, and Mr. Bruni. Others have also come and gone. Unlike your faulty hypothesis they have been given undue influence in this country. The people who run this country read those folks. And what has that accomplished for this country? The rise of Donald J. Trump and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell; and the rise of John Roberts and Samuel Alito, who along with Clarence Thomas may be the downfall of this country. And you're sitting here writing: "A paper whose journalism appeals to only half the country has a dangerously severed public mission. And a news organization trying to survive off revenue from readers shouldn’t erase American conservatives from its list of prospects."

No. NO. NO. It's Sunday, but the fictional Sunday morning truce on "The Wire" is off today for me. You are playing the role of a cigarette lighter to some dry brush in California. Your "broad slice of readers" would happily hang half the people in this country if they had a choice.

Stop it.

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[Phoenix Dark]

If you don't like Michelle Obama I can't fuck with you

Go up and respect my video apology to BrandNew. And nah dude, she's as fraud as dollar hot dogs quality my mans.

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[Madrun Badrun]

why is 2pac masturbating behind a cop?

[Trent Dole]

You have to wonder if this is the first election some Bernie stans have participated in.

He's very popular with college-age folks, so yes.

[Trent Dole]

I gotta tell ya. Watching your smug fucktard party and their equally stupid constituents out themselves on live TV isn't as tasty as I thought it would be. Damnit.

Sorry you guys I can't even rip you as this shit is all that need be said.

Hmmmm

If you don't think that party of full of "better than you" people then you really should start that expedition to Peru next week. I mean c'mon man, are you even listening to them?

You're the smuggest fucktard here, nicca.

[Human Snorenado]

Did AIA already go to sleep?

It stopped being fun for him when good speakers came out, I guess. Sad!

[Madrun Badrun]

Old people need to go to bed early too.

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Why you still up Human?

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[Human Snorenado]

I've been dead inside for like 10 years, no need to sleep

[benjipwns]

Dinesh D'Souza with hard hitting convention analysis on Hannity

[benjipwns]

It'd be hard to have him on talking about Hillary without saying something like "Dinesh, you have experience with the criminal justice system, where do Hillary's crimes stand?"

[benjipwns]

I was watching MSNBC last week and they were telling me about how Ted Cruz showed that no party has ever been divided as much as the GOP.

Now I'm watching FOX and they're telling me how no party has ever been divided and how this convention is actually making the Democrats more divided.

American politics is so complex in its nuances and details.

[benjipwns]

One clear takeaway from our post convention polling is that Trump's family may be the best surrogates he has. Trump's children get a collective 51/21 favorability rating from voters in Ohio, and voters appear to be pretty nonplussed by Melania's plagiarism scandal as she comes in at 43/30 favorability. Among the political figures who spoke at the convention Ben Carson (49/34 favorability) and Rudy Giuliani (45/33) fare well with Ohioans while Newt Gingrich (38/42) and Chris Christie (32/46) don't do as hot.

The biggest loser from the convention is Ted Cruz though. He has an 18/65 favorability rating with Ohio voters, making him by far and away the least popular figure in our poll. Even among Republicans he's at just 23/61. We asked GOP voters who they would support in a hypothetical primary contest between Trump and Cruz, and Trump wins out 61-19.

Mike Pence didn't make a strong impression on voters in Ohio one way or another. A 40% plurality came out of the convention with no opinion. Among those who do have one, 33% see him favorably to 27% with a negative view. 53% of voters say Pence's selection has no bearing on their likelihood to vote for Trump one way or another, with 21% saying Pence makes them more likely to vote for Trump and 22% less likely. That just makes Pence normal in the pantheon of Vice Presidential selections, which rarely have much impact on the race.

One of the defining memories of the Republican convention will be the chants of 'Lock Her Up' and that mantra represents the thinking of the overwhelming majority of Trump voters. 74% of them think Clinton should be in prison, to only 11% who say that they disagree with that sentiment. A plurality of Trump voters- 38%- also agree with Carson's assertion that Clinton has ties to Lucifer compared to just 35% who think that's not the case. And only 47% of Trump voters disavow Steve King's claim that white people have contributed more to civilization than any other subgroup with 23% outright agreeing with that line of thought.

How can 35% of Trump voters be so ignorant about Hillary?

[Madrun Badrun]

That's not really a 'I actually believe she has ties to Lucifer' and more like 'I don't like her therefor I'll say yes'. 

[Madrun Badrun]

O wait you were making a joke.

I'm getting old and going to bed. 

[mormapope]

[chronovore]

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It's sad, because you know we all just want:
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