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[Cerveza mas fina]

Maybe because Russia is utter scum

You think the Cold War ended because the Soviet Union fell apart?  This wasn't the end of history, just a new chapter in the same old story.

The aspirations of the Russian elite transcend political structure and such definitions. Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia, Putins Russia. It's all the fucking same.

[VomKriege]

I'm a NATO supporter, believe that European countries are indeed "freeloading" and should meet their (IIRC) 2% GNP defence budgets and that Central European (& Baltic) members should be vehemently defended against any Russian encroachment.


The point isn't to assume a benevolent Russia, it's that US intelligence has an history of overestimating their capabilities and Western media a tendency to dumb down political motives to cartoonish simplifications.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Well my country is doing its part.

Sure the media dumbs down Russias actions all the time but they do that for every issue.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/790904200863617024

[I'm a Puppy!]

Brutal

[Rufus]

Predictable jeering from Trumpeteers.

OHIOTRUMPTRAIN 🚂 💨
‏@Agamewillwin1
@asamjulian @HillaryClinton And more divisive race tactics.  Shameful. And she calls Trump racist?? Please!! @sianetta @Mjhall412 @kch7

[Mandark]

It's interesting how badly the other Republican candidates whiffed on going negative on Trump.  Half of it was just bad strategy, gunning for each other while assuming Trump would fade on his own like Carson did.

But also lots of the attacks on Trump (ie he's racist and sexist) just weren't going to resonate all that much with the GOP primary electorate.

[Phoenix Dark]

It's interesting how badly the other Republican candidates whiffed on going negative on Trump.  Half of it was just bad strategy, gunning for each other while assuming Trump would fade on his own like Carson did.

But also lots of the attacks on Trump (ie he's racist and sexist) just weren't going to resonate all that much with the GOP primary electorate.

Exactly. But even the non racist/sexist stuff didn't hurt him. Rubio slammed him on Trump university scams, Cruz slammed him on not paying contractors, Bush slammed him on nuclear weapons. And everyone slammed his comments on prisoners of war/McCain. Nothing stuck.

Really highlights how much immigration drove the primary process. I can't think of anything that would have stopped him in the primary. Even if the Access Hollywood video came out, would it have stopped him from sweeping southern states? I seriously doubt it.

[tiesto]

Is it too late to move to Long Island?

Moving TO Long Island? That's a new one...

[zomgee]

They have eagles

Lots of eagles

[Syph]

nasty birds

[Joe Molotov]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152204980091/twitter-and-periscope-shadowban-update

As I said before, if Twitter is suppressing my political speech, I consider it moral treason against the people of the United States even if it is allowed under their terms of service, and even though it is technically legal. I hope I’m wrong, and that my problems are simply technical in nature. Because if Twitter is doing what people say they are doing, and suppressing certain types of speech, the company needs to die for the good of the Republic.

People are saying things and we need to shut this whole thing down until we figure out what's going on.

[Trent Dole]

Yes Twitter is an oppressive hell hole now that you can't endlessly tweet photos of harambe at mediocre black comedians anymore.

[chronovore]

I remember liking Dilbert in college and my first decade or so in tech. I miss those halcyon days of blissful ignorance. Is this what Trump supporters are lamenting, in desiring to return to the Good Old Days?

[chronovore]

http://imgur.com/gallery/aV9xe

:phone_drop

[Madrun Badrun]

[Tasty]

http://imgur.com/gallery/aV9xe

:phone_drop

[Atramental]

 

[Boredfrom]

Scott Adams is kind of a big idiot douchebag but why the hell The Guardian needs to report a shitty deluded blogpost as worth being in election news live feed?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/oct/25/us-elections-live-trump-clinton-news

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/791090355248762880

whew

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/791022440377782272

WHEW

[benjipwns]

Maybe because Russia is utter scum

You think the Cold War ended because the Soviet Union fell apart? 

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152204980091/twitter-and-periscope-shadowban-update

As I said before, if Twitter is suppressing my political speech, I consider it moral treason against the people of the United States even if it is allowed under their terms of service, and even though it is technically legal. I hope I’m wrong, and that my problems are simply technical in nature. Because if Twitter is doing what people say they are doing, and suppressing certain types of speech, the company needs to die for the good of the Republic.

People are saying things and we need to shut this whole thing down until we figure out what's going on.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/791022440377782272

Scott Adams
‏@ScottAdamsSays
If there are no sponsored terror attacks before Election Day, it means ISIS prefers Clinton. They have the means. Think about it. #Trump
2:03 PM - 25 Oct 2016

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  5h5 hours ago
A Clinton bully attacks the messenger and the audience. See the pattern?

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  5h5 hours ago
Clinton bullies always attack the messenger and his day job.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  5h5 hours ago
See the pattern. Clinton bullies attack the messenger.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  4h4 hours ago
We also learned that Clinton bullies like you attack the messenger, not the message.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  4h4 hours ago
See the coordinated Twitter attacks on my sanity. All the same message. Means I hit a nerve.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  4h4 hours ago
See how similar the Clinton bullies are? All coincidentally attacking my "sanity" at the same time.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  4h4 hours ago
Coordinated: Clinton bullies attacking my sanity. Is this the world you want?

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  4h4 hours ago
In phase 2 of the attack they intentionally misinterpret me and attack their own hallucination.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  3h3 hours ago
One gets this sort of response to a tweet when people agree with the point but need to hallucinate me as crazy to rationalize it away.

Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays  2h2 hours ago
Watch the Clinton bullies misinterpret my tweet so they can attack their hallucination and blame me for all of it.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/791022440377782272

WHEW

great, another job stolen by a darkie because i bothered to put together a proper post with his follow ups

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/791090355248762880

whew

she's not fascinated by sex 

[Joe Molotov]

I remember liking Dilbert in college my first decade or so in

read this as...

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/791090355248762880

whew

Newt spent all of his political capital trying to destroy Bill and he couldn't do it, ended up losing his own job instead. Now, he's mad triggered because Trump is imploding and Bill's going back to the White House.

[benjipwns]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/25/how-angry-does-donald-trump-make-me-angry-enough-to-steal-40-trump-signs/

[Mandark]

Wow, the economic anxiety is just palpable there.

[benjipwns]

"Keep your weapons nice and tight," Captain Pain orders. I am traveling light. Unlike the others, I don't view southern Arizona as a war zone, so I didn't put steel plates in my chest rig. Next to everyone else's commando-style AR-15s, my Ruger Mini-14 with a wood stock is slightly out of place. But everything else is square—I'm wearing a MultiCam uniform, desert tan combat boots, and a radio on my shoulder. I fit in just fine.

We are in a Walmart parking lot in Nogales. Captain Pain and a couple of others go into the store to get supplies. In Pain's absence, Showtime is our commanding officer. He is a Marine special­-ops veteran who did three tours in Afghan­istan. He has camo paint on his face and a yeti beard. He gets in the cab to check Facebook on his phone while Destroyer, Jaeger, Spartan, and I stand with our backs to the truck, rifles in hand, keeping watch for anything suspicious. The Mexican border is three miles away.

"There you go," Jaeger says, looking across the lot. "Camaro with rims."

I would play through this Call of Duty campaign

[Tasty]

Captain Pain

[benjipwns]

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/justin-timberlake-breaks-law-by-taking-selfie-while-voting-w446596

According to TMZ, Timberlake is in the clear after snapping a selfie while voting early. The site reports that although the D.A. was made aware of the photo, a formal complaint was never filed.

The Shelby County District Attorney's Office communications director Vince Higgins tells Us Weekly that the department "was made aware of a possible violation of election law. The matter is under review by the D.A.'s office." Violators can face a 30-day jail sentence and a fine not to exceed $50 for taking photos at polling stations in Tennessee.

proof it's rigged, r.i.p. democracy 

[benjipwns]

The catalyst for that idea was Mitchell Schultz, a former New Yorker who is now a “space tourism consultant” in Florida. Schultz tells Fusion he knew Trump Magazine’s publisher, Michael Jacobson, and had met Trump at a party through their mutual friend. Schultz remembers telling Jacobson that “the way to create immortality for Donald Trump is through the youth of America.” (Jacobson did not respond to requests for comment.)

Schultz imagined a show tentatively called Trump Takeover. Plotlines—which Schultz developed with the help of a writer friend, Louis Cimino—were prescient. They imagined an episode in which America would be “in a state of virtual collapse,” according to draft materials for the show.

Trump and his team—including characters from The Apprentice—would “go to Washington to take over!” In another episode, Trump and team would seize control of the stock market to save the world:

Save it from what? “A global financial conspiracy,” according to the show notes:

“We wrote some stories—’SuperTrump,’ that kind of thing,” Cimino recalls. “I wrote the stories—‘[Trump] solves the gang problem in New York and fights the aliens,’ stuff like that. I just remember the gist. He saves the city; he saves the Yankees. I wrote whole episodes with the dialogue.” Cimino says he “did it as a goof. I did it for fun.”

Jacobson, the Trump Magazine publisher, loved the concept so much that he paid Schultz for the rights to develop it, Schultz says. They turned to another illustrator to create a pilot for the TV show. That artist—Elizabeth Koshy of California—in turn hired artists in her home country, India.

“He came to us because we were giving the competitive pricing that no one else could give, because it’s outsourcing,” Koshy tells Fusion.

“They wanted to project Donald Trump as a superhero who does all the right things, and he is saving everyone,” Koshy recalls. Her animators designed a Trump with “a magical halo around him,” and started on a TV pilot.But, like so many contractors who’ve done work for Trump, Koshy says she was stiffed on the pay. She said she had to pester Jacobson for payment, and only got $6,000—two-thirds of what she was owed—after threatening to go public with her allegations of non-payment. Unfortunately, she says, neither she nor her colleagues in India kept copies of their drawings.

[benjipwns]

For Syph:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/democrats-marco-rubio-florida-senate-230298

Tensions are flaring at the highest rungs of the Democratic Party over its decision to pull out of the Florida Senate race, with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Florida donors pressing to go all out to unseat Marco Rubio in the final days of the campaign, but New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and the party’s Senate campaign arm arguing it’s not feasible because of budget constraints.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — under the direction of Schumer and its chairman, Montana Sen. Jon Tester — has redirected millions of dollars from Florida to North Carolina, Missouri and Indiana. They reason that those states are both much cheaper to advertise in and offer a more promising path to the Senate majority than Florida, where Rubio has long been favored to defeat Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy.

But Reid and other Democrats believe that defeating Rubio would be the ultimate Election Day trophy for Democrats, given his national stature and the reelection threat he could post to a potential President Hillary Clinton in 2020.

Reid is advocating that the party make an eleventh-hour re-entry into Florida, Democratic sources said. Barack Obama has also taken a keen interest in the race, traveling to Florida to knock Rubio last week. He’ll return Friday to visit Orlando.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) has been pleading with former President Bill Clinton to get Democrats more interested in the Florida contest, sources familiar with the matter said. Bill Clinton himself believes Democrats gave up on the race prematurely and is urging Florida donors to support Murphy.

These Democrats argue that someone — anyone — in the party needs to come through with a few million dollars, perhaps targeting black and Hispanic media, to tip the scales in Murphy’s favor. They believe that Rubio, already wounded from losing his home-state Republican presidential primary, is beatable. Polling on the race has varied but generally shown Rubio with a narrow lead.

The urgency among many Democrats is heightened by Rubio’s status as a rising star in the Republican Party with unquestioned national ambitions. Many Democrats believe the next few days is the best chance to finish him off.

“I understand it’s not Chuck Schumer’s job to worry about presidential politics,” said Steve Schale, who managed Obama’s 2008 campaign in Florida. But “we’re all going to look a little dumb if Rubio wins by 80,000 votes and announces for president in two years.”

In theory, Schumer could transfer more money to the DSCC; he had $20 million in his campaign coffers at the start of October. But he’s currently spending on ads in his own reelection campaign in the pricey New York market

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA turned some of its ad reservations in the presidential race into hits on Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. But there are currently no plans to do the same to Rubio.

Tensions are exacerbated by the fact that Murphy’s father, Tom Murphy, gave $2 million to Senate Majority PAC, the top outside group to elect Senate Democrats, which then bailed on the race. (It spent $3 million in Florida earlier this year.) One top fundraiser in Florida said Washington Democrats are holding Murphy’s father’s wealth against him.

“We complain and it doesn’t take long for [national Democrats] to finally say that Patrick’s dad is going to pay for it,” the fundraiser said. “Papa Murphy probably isn’t going to stroke too many more checks. So now the hope is that Mama Clinton can drag him across the finish line.”

[benjipwns]

democrats am cry

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hillary-has-abnormal-eye-movements-say-majority-of-doctors-surveyed-reports-aaps-300350768.html

She presented her ability to survive 4-and-a-half hours on a stage with Donald Trump as proof of sufficient stamina to serve as commander-in-chief.

"She evidently intended this as a joke, although I suspect our combat veterans would not be amused," states AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D.

Videos are, however, circulating on the internet, from her rather brief and rare appearances in public, which are purported to show pathological eye movements.

"These are quick, episodic, and inconsistent," states Dr. Orient, who is an internist. "So we decided to ask doctors on our email list to have a look at one of the videos. A helpful tool is to paste the URL into http://RowVid.com and watch it at half or quarter speed."

Nearly two-thirds of respondents said they saw abnormal movements. Only 15% did not, and 21% were unsure. There are long segments in which the eye movements appear normal.

About 60% of those who saw abnormal movements thought "the cause could be a potentially disabling neurological condition," and none of them were willing to say that it isn't.

"As Hillary revealed to the public, perhaps illegally, the President may have only four minutes to respond to a nuclear threat," said Dr. Orient. "The public needs to know whether she is concealing a serious, progressive illness that may impair memory, reasoning, alertness, or ability to think quickly at a critical time."

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/trump-track-win-black-votes-gop-candidate-since-1960/

At the beginning of October 9% of African Americans supported Trump.

Black Likely Voters for TRUMP @Rasmussen_Poll
Oct 3 – 9%
Oct 6 – 12%
Oct 7 – 13%
Oct 10 – 14%
Oct 11 – 19%
Oct 12 – 19%
Oct 13 – 24% !

— Ted Carroll (@mediainvestors) October 13, 2016

The number doubled and has leveled off at 16% support for Donald Trump.

Black Likely Voters for TRUMP @Rasmussen_Poll
Oct 17 – 17%
Oct 18 – 19%
Oct 19 – 18%
Oct 20 – 15%
Oct 21 – 16%
Oct 24 – 15%
Oct 25 – 16%

— Ted Carroll (@mediainvestors) October 25, 2016

If Trump skims 25% of black voters from the Democratic Party he would win the 2016 election in a landslide.

The last Republican to win over 25 percent of the non-white vote was Richard Nixon in 1960.
Nixon won 32% of non-white voters to Kennedy’s 68%.

The black community in America has been in decline ever since.

[Syph]

gracias benji
first off rubio hasn't been trailing in florida in, well, forever
so i can see why they'd want to divert assets
but of course it is puzzling that they wouldnt fight tooth and nail to win this race this time around, since we all know rubio is just biding time for 2020 or 2024
(i still dream of a rubio/haley or rubio/gowdy ticket)

their (democracts) decision may be related to today's revelation though:
Despite denials of business ties, Democrat Patrick Murphy's dad was pictured with Trump at groundbreaking

it's the dumbest story i know, but it will have an effect because murphy (rubio's opponent for those that don't know) has repeatedly denied his family has done any business with trump

[benjipwns]

but of course it is puzzling that they wouldnt fight tooth and nail to win this race this time around, since we all know rubio is just biding time for 2020 or 2024

but but he promised:

"First of all, because I've said it. Not only am I going to serve for six years, I've been honest with people, the things I want to achieve, some may take longer than six years to achieve. So that's what my focus is on, 100%," Rubio said.

"If I wanted to run for something else, I wouldn't have run for Senate," Rubio continued. "My opponent keeps saying I'm gonna run for president. If I wanted to run for president in four years, I would have just stayed out of this race and started running on November the 9, which a lot of other people are going to do. I wouldn't have run for re-election at the last minute in the toughest swing state in the country, in a year as uncertain as this one."

[benjipwns]

http://deadline.com/2016/10/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-video-1201842969/

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Donald Trump’s star on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame was destroyed early Wednesday morning by a man dressed as a city construction worker wielding a sledgehammer and pick-ax. The man, who told Deadline his name was Jamie Otis, said he was trying to extract the star to auction it off and raise funds for the women who have come forward to accuse Trump of sexually assaulting them over the decades.

The incident occurred around 5:45 AM with a few bystanders stopping to watch. An LAPD police cruiser showed up around 6:15, but Otis had already left the scene.
...
Trump’s star has had its share of attention since he announced his White House bid in 2005, including a reverse swastika spray-painted over it in January, and a mute sign painted over it in June. Later in the summer, an L.A. artist erected a small razor-wire-topped wall around the star, a knock on Trump’s plans to build a wall on the Mexico border.

from the inside out is maybe not the best way to try and extract it

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/791090355248762880

whew

Beauty is only skin deep. Megyn Kelly is ugly as hell on the inside.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 26, 2016

Lets get this straight...Megyn Kelly isn't for all women...she hates Trump, so she's only for those so called victims! NEVER for me!
— PJGirlie (@ThePaulaJones) October 26, 2016

Jones also called Kelly a “nasty heifer” in a tweet that was later deleted.

Like, I get that they hate Bill, and maybe have a very good reason for it, but... 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/791090355248762880

whew

lol at how this is being treated (Newt dominating the Clinton supporter) on conservative blogs/sites/media

edit: fuck


for that, suffer:

Megyn Exposed: Bench-Pressed by Newt

Gingrich: ‘You Are Fascinated With Sex and You Don’t Care About Public Policy’

Fox News Host Floats Republican Nominee as ‘Sexual Predator’

…SHE DEFENDS BILL: ‘HE’S NOT ON TICKET’…

…NEWT TELLS HER TO SAY ‘BILL CLINTON SEXUAL PREDATOR’…

…WAT? SHE DEFENDS HILLARY ON CORRUPTION…

…SHE SEZ FMR SPEAKER HAZ ‘ANGER ISSUES’…

…MEGYN PART OF ‘ESTABLISHMENT’

WOW!
Anyone who has watched FOX News in the last year knows that Megyn Kelly supports Hillary Clinton and HATES Donald Trump.

Tonight Megyn Kelly took that hatred a step further and accused Donald Trump of being a “sexual predator” during an interview with former Speaker Newt Gingrich!

UNREAL!
NEWT UNLOADED!

Doc T • 12 hours ago
Newt spanked her like a petulant brat. And she knew it.

She's the laughingstock of the Internet tonight.

aceydoozy  Alti • 2 hours ago
She's an Obama-class, narcissistic slut without principle; like Newt said, she doesn't care about policy.

Daniel  Doc T • 9 hours ago
She is high on the list of people who need to disappear in disgrace after this election.

The huge reality is that Hillary is a high criminal who *IS* currently selling out the USA and the free world. That's the plain fact.

That Megyn Kelly when challenged would not say "Bill Clinton Sexual Predator" is exactly the same as Obama and Hillary not saying Radical Islamic Terror. Their respective masters will not let them say those words and it's very, very telling.

The Prisoner  Daniel • 5 hours ago
In recent years Fox has pulled a bait & switch on the viewers. After solidifying support from conservatives, they began a war on conservatism. It is similar to what the republican party in congress has done.

EisenhowerConservative • 12 hours ago
I'm so glad Newt blasted Megyn Kelly for her bias. Blondie is so unhinged in her hatred of Trump that she's become deranged. She's a radical feminist who despises alpha males like Trump because that's what her ex-husband was. This leg crosser would sell her soul to advance her career. She is only praised by the mainstream media because she constantly trashes Trump on a nightly basis.

aljanet  Tex (Palm trees for Trump) • 12 hours ago
She is a POS mother f....er. She is a f...ing w....re. And I don't care if they delete my comment, I am just telling the truth. I wonder how many executives she had to f...k to get this job???

Freedom59  Lyn Portello • 10 hours ago
She does her best work on her knees

S. Hall  Kenny_Bunkport • 10 hours ago
This woman is in her mid to late 40's isn't it time she wore a jacket. I never know if she going to moderate a news story or sing LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU.

[Great Rumbler]

UNREAL!

[Joe Molotov]

Captain, we've got an an Obama-class, narcissistic slut decloaking off the port bow! Scanners show that it has no principles and doesn't care about policy.

[benjipwns]

do you think they'res referring to the narcissism or the sluttery as Obama-class

[Great Rumbler]

do you think they'res referring to the narcissism or the sluttery as Obama-class

[I'm a Puppy!]

I....I can't....

[Joe Molotov]

do you think they'res referring to the narcissism or the sluttery as Obama-class

whynotboth.gif

[benjipwns]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152293480726/the-bully-party

As I often say, I don’t know who has the best policies. I don’t know the best way to fight ISIS and I don’t know how to fix healthcare or trade deals. I don’t know which tax policies are best to lift the economy. I don’t know the best way to handle any of that stuff. (And neither do you.) But I do have a bad reaction to bullies. And I’ve reached my limit.

I hope you have too. Therefore…

I endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States because I oppose bullying in all its forms.

[benjipwns]

a pro-Chris Christie protest? weird

[Madrun Badrun]

why is half this thread about what the creator of dilbert says,  Benji.

[benjipwns]

why is half this thread about what the creator of dilbert says,  Benji.

The bullies are welcome to drown in their own bile while those of us who want a better world do what we’ve been doing for hundreds of years: Work to make it better while others complain about how we’re doing it.

Today I put Trump’s odds of winning in a landslide back to 98%. Remember, I told you a few weeks ago that Trump couldn’t win unless “something changed.”

Something just changed.

—

You might like my book because Clinton’s bullies have been giving it one-star reviews on Amazon to punish me for blogging about Trump’s persuasion skills.

[Tasty]

The bullies are welcome to drown in their own bile while those of us who want a better world do what we’ve been doing for hundreds of years: Work to make it better while others complain about how we’re doing it.

Scott Adams and I agree here, at least.

Today I put Trump’s odds of winning in a landslide back to 98%. Remember, I told you a few weeks ago that Trump couldn’t win unless “something changed.”

Something just changed.

He's so delusional he thinks his endorsement just won it (in a landslide, no less) for Trump.

[benjipwns]

no the Clinton campaign got exposed as bullies for challenging his ISIS tweet

plus other evils:

Yesterday, by no coincidence, Huffington Post, Salon, and Daily Kos all published similar-sounding hit pieces on me, presumably to lower my influence. (That reason, plus jealousy, are the only reasons writers write about other writers.)

Joe Biden said he wanted to take Trump behind the bleachers and beat him up. No one on Clinton’s side disavowed that call to violence because, I assume, they consider it justified hyperbole.

Team Clinton has succeeded in perpetuating one of the greatest evils I have seen in my lifetime. Her side has branded Trump supporters (40%+ of voters) as Nazis, sexists, homophobes, racists, and a few other fighting words. Their argument is built on confirmation bias and persuasion. But facts don’t matter because facts never matter in politics. What matters is that Clinton’s framing of Trump provides moral cover for any bullying behavior online or in person. No one can be a bad person for opposing Hitler, right?

Some Trump supporters online have suggested that people who intend to vote for Trump should wear their Trump hats on election day. That is a dangerous idea, and I strongly discourage it. There would be riots in the streets because we already know the bullies would attack. But on election day, inviting those attacks is an extra-dangerous idea. Violence is bad on any day, but on election day, Republicans are far more likely to unholster in an effort to protect their voting rights. Things will get wet fast.

[Joe Molotov]

So has he said if he's still voting Hillary to avoid getting beat up, or is he just going to sneak in a Trump vote while the Black Panthers aren't looking?

[benjipwns]

[Syph]

but of course it is puzzling that they wouldnt fight tooth and nail to win this race this time around, since we all know rubio is just biding time for 2020 or 2024

but but he promised:

"First of all, because I've said it. Not only am I going to serve for six years, I've been honest with people, the things I want to achieve, some may take longer than six years to achieve. So that's what my focus is on, 100%," Rubio said.

"If I wanted to run for something else, I wouldn't have run for Senate," Rubio continued. "My opponent keeps saying I'm gonna run for president. If I wanted to run for president in four years, I would have just stayed out of this race and started running on November the 9, which a lot of other people are going to do. I wouldn't have run for re-election at the last minute in the toughest swing state in the country, in a year as uncertain as this one."

shhhh that's why i said 2024

spoiler (click to show/hide)

only to cover my own ass lol

[close]

[Samson Manhug]

Does anyone else notice Green Shinobi's writing style in Scott Adams' posts or am I imagining it?

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/the-city-of-brotherly-love-has-little-for-trump/505343/
 

I'm doing this if anyone comes knocking lmao

[Great Rumbler]

“Michael” told the New Times that he is supporting Trump in part out of his loathing for Clinton.

"One reason is because Hillary's last name is Rodham, and their family members are Rothschilds, who enslaved 13,000 slaves as collateral," he said.

 

[Madrun Badrun]

54%

[benjipwns]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/opinion/the-epidemic-of-worry.html

The Epidemic of Worry
David Brooks OCT. 25, 2016

We’ve had a tutorial on worry this year. The election campaign isn’t really about policy proposals, issue solutions or even hope. It’s led by two candidates who arouse gargantuan anxieties, fear and hatred in their opponents.

Worry, like drama, is all about the self. As O’Gorman puts it, the worrier is the opposite of a lighthouse: “He doesn’t give out energy for the benefit of others. He absorbs energy at others’ cost.”

If you’re worrying, you’re spiraling into your own narcissistic pool. But concrete plans and actions thrust us into the daily fact of other people’s lives. This campaign will soon be over, and governing, thank God, will soon return.

Hakuna matata.

i'm worried

[Syph]

“Michael” told the New Times that he is supporting Trump in part out of his loathing for Clinton.

"One reason is because Hillary's last name is Rodham, and their family members are Rothschilds, who enslaved 13,000 slaves as collateral," he said.

 

i actually lold

[Mandark]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvt3VxJVYAABo0U.jpg
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/the-city-of-brotherly-love-has-little-for-trump/505343/
 

I'm doing this if anyone comes knocking lmao

Black and brown women been treated like shit forever and still gonna save this country from its dumbass self.