HIRALLY CLIMPS FOR PRESIDETN • US presidential elections part VII

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thread title is also good by default inasmuch as anything else you could imagine the usual suspects coming up with would have been much worse

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/756492146484580352

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:56 AM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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true enough xp

That Manson excerpt is brilliant.

The purpose of that might be more to subtly make her look populist (see, a $138 dress from Macy's, not like that Clinton with her Armani!) than to get paid clicks.

naw if we know one thing abt the trump family business strategy its that its all penny ante

oh wait nm I see it's an Ivanka Trump BRAND dress, durr.

missed that

“They have a picture, an old picture, having breakfast with Lee Harvey Oswald. Now, I’m not saying anything. They said — and here’s how the press takes this story. So this has nothing to do with me. Except I may have pointed it out. But it had nothing to do with me! I have no control over anything! I might have pointed it out. But they never denied it. Did anybody even deny it was the father? Did anybody ever say, ‘oh, that’s not really my father’? That’s a little hard to do because it looks like him. So here’s the story. The press takes that and says, Donald Trump and his conspiracy theories. He went out and said his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald and he assassinated the president. What did I do?” “I know nothing about his father. I knew nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald. But there was a picture on the front page of the National Enquirer which does have credibility, and they’re not going to do pictures like that, because they get sued for a lot of money if things are wrong. Okay? A lot of money. And there’s a picture. And that’s the only thing I know.”

Amazing.

oh wait nm I see it's an Ivanka Trump BRAND dress, durr.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, July 22, 2016 12:01 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol shes double dipping

Amazing.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 22, 2016 12:02 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

twitter link i posted upthread is a video of this, really worth watching hes one loony ass ham

Possibly involved in double-murder.

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wtf is going on with trump's eyebrows there

this is the worst thread title.

he had them gelled

in 2016 the gop presidential candidate for president will defend the journalistic integrity of the national enquirer

i have seen that style of groomed eyebrow on buffoonish rich men a few times

trump must have been so pissed about having to wait 36 hours to bash ted cruz

it was killing him def

kinda amazing he didnt ad lib something during his keynote

wld be cool if cruz continued to antagonize trump for the rest of the campaign

Taking a break from Trump for a couple of seconds, Evan Bayh and Russ Feingold - how common is it for senators or congressmen to quit for a few years, and then return (I presume well-rested and enriched)? Are there others this cycle getting back into the game?

fiengold didnt quit he lost

the ornaldo thread title was also the worst.

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, July 22, 2016 10:50 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the fuck. you think you know a guy, and then...

xpost Yeah, but then he declined to run again, no?

he took that ilx meme down hardcore

Oh, wait, I see what I thought. He lost, but then declined various calls for him to run for other stuff - gov, press, etc. He lost in 2010, so I guess this is just his first op to run for senate again?

Anyway, back to Trump. I hope he spends the rest of his days on earth ripping on Cruz. Like, no one will tell him he's lost, or what month/year/day it is. He'll just keep going and going until he dies.

so since open bigotry is now mainstream, david duke is crawling back up out of the mouth of hell to run for US senate as a republican.

is it too much to ask that a meteor collide with earth in late october and end all of this?

his first attempt at election in ~20 years and one federal prison stint. what a time to be alive

did not watch a second of this, but followed dutifully along on twitter. sounded like a true moment of political vertigo, unprecedented. i've been meaning to pull up the cspan youtubes and see how much i can stand but idk

two minor weird, dumb things on my mind:

weird: one of trump's hand gesture tics, the "a-ok" circle w/ 3 fingers up, has become a kind of "gang sign" among far right dudes.

dumb: tech/media people trying to figure out why right-libertarian weirdo gay billionaire peter thiel is such a trump fan. he HATES IMMIGRATION. it's right in front of us. duh. the blindness about it seems like a retread of the early primaries where the media couldn't get a handle on trump's support. IMMIGRATION. DUH.

Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates will appear on the same ballot, regardless of party and voters may vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote during the primary election, a runoff election will be held on December 3 between the top two candidates in the primary. Louisiana is the only state that has a jungle primary system (California and Washington have a similar "top two primary" system).

Jungle primary!

possible thread title

jungle primary is just "no primary with a 2-way runoff if necessary", right?

dumb: tech/media people trying to figure out why right-libertarian weirdo gay billionaire peter thiel is such a trump fan. he HATES IMMIGRATION. it's right in front of us. duh. the blindness about it seems like a retread of the early primaries where the media couldn't get a handle on trump's support. IMMIGRATION. DUH.

ugh didn't he say his parents came to the us when he was one? fuck these people. they all get successful then want to pull the ladder up behind them so nobody else can.

LOVE this thread title, let's keep it until the election

weird: one of trump's hand gesture tics, the "a-ok" circle w/ 3 fingers up, has become a kind of "gang sign" among far right dudes.

It always looks like he is pulling an imaginary zipper up and down to me

looking forward to facebook et al finally distancing themselves from thiel on grounds of technical details of H-1B policy, not that he's a nihilist crank who rolls with fascists

I wonder if Mike Pence literally prayed about his potential VP role and then, confident in God's vision, joined the ticket blind, without even meeting Trump. And now that he's hitched to the Trump train, he's privately reevaluating his relationship with God. I mean, his reported Trumpdar sounded more than a little like Bush's looking into Putin's eyes and seeing his good soul.

ugh didn't he say his parents came to the us when he was one? fuck these people. they all get successful then want to pull the ladder up behind them so nobody else can.

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:43 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

peter thiel, and presumably his parents, are white

"The Night I Fired Donald Trump"

I run over. He’s up there again! I go (gives the come here gesture). We go into the hallway. I said, “Donald. You lied. You broke your promise. One of two things is going to happen. You’re going to leave the building and, at 6:40, The Rolling Stones are going to speak on CBS News, or you’re not going to leave the building and I’m going to go on and do an interview to explain to the world why the pay-per-view was canceled. I know it’s your building and…” – and in my head I’m going, this is so crazy, right? I’m trying to throw Donald Trump out of his own building.

But, anyway, the bottom line is I look at Donald and said, “You and Marla (Maples) have to go. You’re fired.” He looks at me and goes berserk.

“You don’t know anything! Your guys suck! I promote Mike Tyson! I promote heavyweight fights!” And I notice the three shtarkers he’s with, in trench coats, two of them are putting on gloves and the other one is putting on brass knuckles. I go on the walkie-talkie and I call for Jim Callahan, who was head of our security, and I go, “Jim, I think I’m in a bit of trouble.” And he says, “Just turn around.”

I turn around. He’s got 40 of the crew with tire irons and hockey sticks and screwdrivers.

“And now, are you gonna go, Donald?”

And off he went.

And that was the night I fired Donald Trump.

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=819781

the most interesting thing i heard trump say last night was something about tearing up trade deals or whatever, deals that were thousands of pages long and no one in this country understands. we're idiots, i get that, but still that's a little insulting!

Over at his blog, The Resurgent, RedState.com founder Erick Erickson wrote that "Cheeto Jesus" effectively killed the "spirit of entrepreneurship" and American exceptionalism in his speech accepting the GOP nomination.

"I’m sure in the original German the speech had some nuances that were commendable," he wrote. "The Republican Party is officially now the party of Trump. Instead of happy warriors, they are angry, bitter bigots...That anger is not going to attract anyone, so they will bully and browbeat."

ok fuck erick son of erick forever but "cheeto jesus" is hilarious.

Cruz's thing about Trump disrespecting his wife and father gives Cruz a (fleeting) Gary Cooper gravitas, and leaves Trump looking like Jack Elam.

― woke newt (stevie), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:52 AM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont know who any of those ppl are are they canadian politicians?

― lag∞n

ok you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBBemS-HRk

anybody want to place odds on whether pence will make it on the ticket until november?

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trump doing romney numbers

does that count online streaming?

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-when-one-poll-makes-a-big-difference/

explaining the dip in hillary's 538 forecasthe

forecast*

it's hard to imagine that the poll isn't an outlier. what could possibly have happened over the last week that moved the electorate so significantly? maybe the new clinton foundation revelations? but are enough people really paying attention to that story to move all those voters over? (could be, i'm continually surprised by how much americans care about email servers.) you'd think ppl most likely to follow the 'scandal' and make a decision based on it already did so a long time ago.

Someone start a new thread this one is almost at 6000 posts already and I'm ashamed of my title.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

i care about outliving you, amateurfuck

this was a great thread title, silbs

agreed

I liked it too.

YOU GUYS HEY HEY HEY YOU GUYS

The Trump-NAMBLA thing (which many, many people have been talking about) just got a serious real-life shot in the arm. I'm watching the Maddow show right now, and they're talking about how yeah, Clinton had Dad Mateen sitting right behind her and therefore in most shots. Right-wingers were all like "nice vetting there lol, clearly she likes homophobic terrorist-breeders."

Okay, but at Trump's rally today? Who is in the shot but Mark Foley.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291061-former-florida-rep-mark-foley-seated-behind-trump-at

the trump-nambla thing is, if possible, even dumber and more self-satisfied than the drumpf thing

also there's a new thread

self-satisfied? Hil supporters?

careful there

Stress Over Family Finances Propelled Hillary Clinton Into Corporate World

this is like if they got one of the "What You Get For $2 million" authors to write a piece about Hillary Clinton's terrible struggles

Even some of Mrs. Clinton’s allies privately say they are mystified by her choice to make the Wall Street speeches, given the likelihood that they would become an issue in a presidential campaign. And to some of them, her financial moves clash with the selfless Methodist credo to do good for others that she so often says guided her toward a life of public service.

But her longtime friends say the contradiction is rooted in Mrs. Clinton’s practicality and the boom-and-bust cycles that have characterized her life with Bill Clinton.

At no time did those stresses fall more squarely on Mrs. Clinton’s shoulders than in the difficult two-year period in Arkansas when she and her husband found themselves cast out of office, financially strained and deeply uncertain about the future. And the memory of that time shaped her desire to be free from financial burden.

“Hillary had a couple years of the taste of what it means to be a working mother, without any help, to have to take care of a small baby and care for your job,” said James B. Blair, a close Clinton friend and lawyer who offered Mrs. Clinton investment advice in the 1970s.

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It was one of the smallest houses on the block in Little Rock’s Hillcrest section, and Mrs. Clinton largely bought it with her own money, the month after that devastating 1980 election loss.

omg, poor hillary. what a DUMP

The Clintons had stretched their finances to afford the $112,000 home, which was down the hill from the city’s old-money mansions. The sprawling estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, the celebrated former governor, was so close that it practically cast a shadow on the Clintons’ grassy backyard.

aww man they had to live next to a mansion? it must have been so embarrassing to live next to an estate of a former governor, how did they do it?!

Mr. Clinton had turned down out-of-state job offers in academia and Democratic politics, and instead took the only offer he had in Arkansas, to serve “of counsel” for $55,000 a year at the Wright, Lindsey & Jennings law firm, where Mr. Clinton’s longtime adviser Bruce R. Lindsey was a partner.

But he spent most of his time on the road, often accompanied by Mr. Lindsey, trying to win back the hearts of voters.

i don't know how he did it. 55K a year in 1980, and all you do all day is travel around talking to people? fuck and gameboy wasn't even around, wtf, i take back everything i ever said about the clintons

Mrs. Clinton had become a partner at the Rose Law Firm in 1979, and during these lean years

i'll never forget my own lean years when i was having all of those tedious discussions about where my last name would be placed in my law firm's name. i mean i understand the argument for seniority but i was bringing in so many clients, i really should have been listed 2nd if not first. at any rate i sympathize with hillary here

“I’m not sure she ever planned to be a corporate lawyer,” said Lissa Muscatine, a friend and former chief speechwriter to Mrs. Clinton. But she did the work because “she had the earning capacity that he didn’t have as governor.”

i know the purple heart isn't traditionally given to civilians who were not wounded in combat, but can we make an exception here and give it to hillary clinton because i cannot believe these sacrifices

Two years later, the state increased the governor’s term to four years, and the Clintons’ finances appeared more stable. Mrs. Clinton went on to join the board of Walmart, and she continued to work at the Rose Law Firm. By the time Mr. Clinton was running for president, they reported $297,177 in total income on their 1992 tax returns, a sum that would put most Americans in the upper income tier but seemed meager compared with the wealth of his opponents, George Bush and Ross Perot.

(Adagio for Strings plays in the background)

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Trump: "President Obama -- he is the founder of ISIS. He is the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder. he founded ISIS"

oops, didn't see there was a new thread. that post took me over 2 minutes to put together so i should probably go ahead and post it again there, everyone will love that

i care about outliving you, amateurfuck

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 10, 2016 7:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you have a lower setting?

^^^ Lock thread. (no seriously...)

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