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These email leaks really aren't contributing much of value, just a lot of noise. Mass dumps of irrelevant information without context is the opposite of how you'd want to reveal useful information. People have all lost their sense of what is news, including media organizations. Two dumbass headlines I've seen in the past 10 minutes: "New York Times contacted Clinton before writing stories about her" "Emails reveal highly scripted nature of a presidential campaign" The first one is basic journalistic ethics! (Granted it was an Infowars guy I saw tweeting this but still." They also contacted Trump before writing stories about his sexual assault allegations. Bias. The second one... ummm no s***? The Patriots offense is also very rehearsed and the coaches do a lot of advance preparation. But many people are actually reading into all this nonsense.

If Democrats are capable of rigging elections, they have a really strange strategy I don't understand, because they allowed their asses to be kicked in 2010, 2014, and in most state houses during Obama's presidency.

I got my ballot today and I always manually research the judges - they are supposed to be non-political so it's hard since I'm not in lawyer circles locally. But since the other two voting-age people in my house use my ballot to vote, and my vote pretty much counts like it's 3 votes, I make sure it's right. The ballots are pretty long in presidential years.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 15, 2016 -> 02:38 PM) Don't get mad at me for merely pointing out we could be hearing something outlandish each day about the Clintons if the media wanted to go there. They don't ... at this time. My educated guess is they will probably a year into her presidency for about 18 months before gearing up to support her re-election bid. Like Trump, Clintons have a lot of red flags had the media chosen to go that way. Since the FBI decided to save her, it's been all Trump all the time. Neither Hillary nor Bill Clinton has ever done or said anything even remotely equivalent to this.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 14, 2016 -> 07:13 PM) I'm obviously a DEM, but is it fair to even call it the Republican campaign anymore? Obviously that's what is on the ticket, but it's basically DEM's vs. Breitbart at this point. It's insane. The disguised anti-Semitic rhetoric is definitely Breitbart. The GOP wouldn't dare.

Until a couple of years ago, Hillary Clinton was recognized by most people as an ordinary Democratic politician with pretty standard Democratic positions on most issues, and a public voting record that backs this up. The criticism of her from the left was mainly her hawkishness on foreign policy (the main reason she lost the primary to Obama) and some black liberals had started going after her for 90s era "tough on crime" laws that significantly increased the prison population, and some hard feelings from how she ran her campaign against Obama in 2008. Again, this is pretty ordinary politician stuff. The vast majority of the right's criticism of her was nonsensical conspiracy theories that nobody took seriously outside of talk radio and some Fox News pundits. Then she announced she was running for president (actually very low key, she just released a video where she was barely even the focus) and this started to change. The left's criticism of her got really exaggerated and she turned into this red-handed racist Lady Macbeth who is the most corrupt political figure in American history, who is eager to sell everyone out to the banks and send every black person to prison. Bernie Sanders started gaining momentum on her and then because they really wanted to grasp onto any reason to vote against her, many of his supporters started co-opting right-wing talking points against her, so for the first time you had liberals talking about Benghazi, Vince Foster, murder conspiracies, other fake scandals, and obsessed with e-mails. The Wikileaks stuff just makes it worse, because almost nobody ever actually reads those in full context, so they will see whatever they want to see in them. That's how we got to where we are now. I'm really tired of hearing about it, honestly. I'm tired of false equivalences made between Clinton and Trump. Clinton has thousands and thousands of words about policy you're free to scrutinize but are otherwise serious policy proposals, Trump might be the single worst presidential nominee this country has ever produced who doesn't even have actual plans for the very little policy he actually DOES propose. They're not the same. The choice isn't hard. Your choices are a run-of-the-mill Democrat and an insane person.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 14, 2016 -> 10:40 AM) The most surprising thing I've read all year, nay my whole life, is that Glenn Beck is openly in favor of BLM and actually trying to change people's minds. When Glenn Beck worked for CNN, he was a reasonable, thoughtful guy I thought, I actually liked him even if I disagreed with most of what he said. Then Obama won the election in a huge tidal wave and Dems had a House majority and a supermajority in the Senate (even if only functional for a few weeks and mostly a mirage), and he went over to Fox and made a s***load of money selling fear and paranoia. It eventually got to be too much even for Fox but his media company still lived. Most of that s*** he does is just an act.

Limbaugh was so, SO close to being right. Of course non-consensual sex is rape! What's confusing about this? So 5 people are in a consensual gang-bang? Ok, so? What business is this of yours?

Michelle Obama is actually a better, more effective public speaker than her husband. It's just that it's rare that we actually see her doing it.

I don't actively moderate this forum anymore but that post didn't violate any rules. I don't like to over-moderate, so that one falls in the "don't post here if you're thin-skinned" category.

We don't deserve a oresident to rally around. That isn't a thing. We don't want one. Why should we get one?

Trump's speeches are cribbing heavily from Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Talking about world domination by bankers and such, that was the basis of modern anti-Semitism. These are Nazi themes. Not hyperbole.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 09:58 PM) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...x-talk-scandal/ "Liberals understand definition of word, correctly implement concept"

If we're gonna keep it 100, women don't f*** Trump because he's good looking, either.

Trump's letter to the NYT looked like it was written by his doctor.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 01:36 PM) Trump's in full-blown conspiracy paranoia land right now. (((Globalists))), (((banks))), and the media are all conspiring to stop him from making America great again. If this is true, thank you Illuminati for ensuring that the fascist orange baby man does not become President. He's also smearing his accusers in a way that can be perceived as a threat against anyone else coming forward. His supporters online aren't as subtle, they just say "Jews"

And people wonder why women aren't always willing to come forward with allegations.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 11:22 AM) Herding happens, and so does some pollsters knowing they have crap methodology that will show big swings or outliers that will get media coverage, but when it's literally every single poll, state and national, versus one with a new and questionable methodology that can be significantly impacted by a single respondent and which even that one had it tied yesterday, things aren't exactly looking good. This happened to Gallup in 2012, they failed so bad they got out of the horse-race polling business altogether.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 10:34 AM) Does he? One of my twitter followers whose head is completely up Trump's ass just tried to lecture me about this.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 13, 2016 -> 10:27 AM) Not all conservative evangelical christians are on board with selling out to Trump. Liberty University students protest association with Trump Fallwell's response to that: “I am not ‘touring the country’ or associating Liberty University with any candidate,” Falwell Jr. told the Post. “I am only fulfilling my obligation as a citizen to ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s’ by expressing my personal opinion about who I believe is best suited to lead our nation in a time of crisis. This student statement seems to ignore the teachings of Jesus not to judge others but they are young and still learning.” That's... not what "render unto Caesar" means. Of course, he knows that...

"Why didn't they come out with this stuff earlier" is a pretty predictable response, but really the fact is Trump completely did this to himself by trying to turn around criticism of his own behavior and project it onto Bill Clinton. Now he is fair game, too. Trump's going scorched earth, but there is a reason you don't go scorched earth unless you're desperate or just don't care. You make the land unsuitable for your enemy, but also for yourself.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2016 -> 03:36 PM) Some fun info about that 'experimental' LA Times tracking poll that swings somewhat wildly but has been very favorable to Trump: How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages The one Trump supporting 18-21 year old black male who earns 75-100k and counts for 25x normal weight did not take the poll this week, so the percentage of black support for Trump went from 14 to 5%. That's why that poll should be ignored. lol, that explains why the LA Times poll shows ridiculous s*** like 20% black support for Trump.

I'm not too fond of Andrew Johnson either. (this is why I always roll my eyes at people when they try to tell me about Dems and the KKK. I learned this stuff 20 years ago.)

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 12, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) Which makes it funnier that they were going to take Hamilton off the $10 before Jackson off the $20. Another aspect is how if the Federalists didn't sink with Hamilton's death, they might have been able to get a standing army and national bank in place for Madison's presidency. The US probably wins the War of 1812 without a razed Washington and probably annexes Canada. History is fun. Yeah I didn't really understand that either. If you want me to take a person off a bill, it's gonna be Jackson 10x out of 10.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 12, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) Whenever I hear "Aaron Burr," I always picture that 90's Got Milk? commercial with the guy eating a peanut butter sandwich and trying to call into some radio contest. Effective advertising, I guess. I think we all do.