Elections 2016 Presidential Election General Discussion v2

[Fawlty]

Jesus, the scumbag meter just went up again. Hope they fry his ass on this one.

 

[7437]

I wasn't tying them together, they're obviously very well acquainted and being disenfranchised with the klu Klux Klan hardly makes one a model citizen but if the Klu Klux Klan is your thing then that is your issue.

Byrd was disenfranchised with the KKK? is that all that happened? I feel like there was something else. Can you remember what it was?

 

[Deleted member 502383]

Byrd was disenfranchised with the KKK? is that all that happened? I feel like there was something else. Can you remember what it was?

He said he became "disinterested". Regressives seem to be the creepiest people in modern civilisation, they call you racist if you expect your immigration system to be harnessed but fraternising with the KKK ex or current, that's fine. Have you ever seen the racist bile ethnic conservatives suffer at the hands of regressives?

 

[7437]

He said he became "disinterested". Regressives seem to be the creepiest people in modern civilisation, they call you racist if you expect your immigration system to be harnessed but fraternising with the KKK ex or current, that's fine. Have you ever seen the racist bile ethnic conservatives suffer at the hands of regressives?

Ah, i see. Byrd is a modern regressive?

 

[Deleted member 502383]

Ah, i see. Byrd is a modern regressive?

He's a fascist pig. That's about it.

 

[Sycho Sid]

Trump's staff seriously need to remove twitter from his phone, and change his password.

What a disgusting person.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

ISIS extremists rooting for Trump to win presidential election

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric makes him “the perfect enemy,” a former ISIS fighter told the magazine.


“I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump,” an ISIS spokesman wrote last week on an ISIS-affiliated outlet.


Another extremist posted on various ISIS social media channels that “The ‘facilitation’ of Trump’s arrival in the White House must be a priority for jihadists at any costs!” the magazine reported.

The jihadists interviewed by Foreign Affairs cited several reasons for their support of Trump — but mainly they felt the Republican’s anti-Muslim rhetoric would be great for recruitment.

ISIS organizers also said Trump’s extreme views would help radicalize more Muslims in the U.S. and Europe as well as inspire them to commit “lone-wolf attacks,” the magazine reported.


As for Clinton, she doesn’t appear in ISIS propaganda and recruitment videos, said an ex-fighter named Adel, because “she never says anything bad about Muslims.”

He noted that it was much harder to use Clinton as a recruitment tool because she always said “Islam is not our adversary" and "Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people.”

Several former ISIS fighters said Muslims in the Middle East already believe the West is against them — but the beauty of Trump is that he is an “incubator” for homegrown terrorists.

The general perception of him is that he must be “insane or crazy,” the magazine added.

“He must be smoking bad hashish to say such crazy things,” one ex-fighter said.

Jihadists also like what they see when it comes to Trump’s loose-lipped, shoot-from-the-hip decision-making.

He’s viewed by ISIS members as “an unstable and irrational leader whose impulsive decision-making” will hurt the U.S., Foreign Affairs found.

Jihadists are also thrilled at his flame-throwing style of handling international relations, with one ex-fighter saying Trump “talks like a crazy person — not just about Muslims but about U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia.”

An ISIS spokesman recently declared on one of its online portals that a Trump presidency would be a boon for terrorists because it will “cause trouble with Arab despots ... especially in the Gulf. Trump’s reign in America will unsettle (Gulf) rulers and make them vulnerable. The religious clerics of these rulers will not be able to defend them, and large numbers of people will join jihad,” the magazine reported.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

A nice summary of Trump's platform.

In no particular order, Trump has shifted his position on raising the federal minimum wage (against it, for it, get rid of it, leave it to the states, put it at $10 an hour); on fighting the Islamic State (bomb the “hell out of them” and take the oil fields, let our regional allies take the lead, declare war and send in troops, let Russia take care of it); on taxes for the wealthy (increase them, cut them dramatically, make the wealthy pay more, make everyone pay less); on his Muslim ban (exclude all Muslims, keep Muslims out except for members of the military and current residents, it was “just a suggestion,” ban Muslims from countries with a history of terrorism, impose “extreme vetting”); on the national debt (eliminate it in eight years, prioritize massive infrastructure spending, renegotiate debt with creditors, just “print the money”).

Now, concerning his defining promise to round up and deport 11 million undocumented men, women and children, Trump is undergoing a rapid, convulsive transition from Mr. Hyde into Dr. Jekyll. In the movies, this role would require hours in the chair of a highly skilled makeup artist. Trump has Sean Hannity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-card-c:homepage/story&utm_term=.b364f7d21d18

 

[Deleted member 429137]

Some anti-Trump ads are going to hit the airwaves soon -- paid for by Republicans.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/anti-trump-republicans-ad-buy-227469
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/anti-trump-republicans-ad-buy-227469

Anti-Trump Republicans are preparing to launch a broadcast TV ad in a handful of swing-state suburbs urging Donald Trump to quit the presidential race so the party can replace him with a more electable nominee.

The ad, titled "Keep Your Word," features footage of Trump during the Republican primary in which he suggested he'd drop out if he saw his poll numbers decline.

The 30-second spot is marked for a limited run on broadcast networks in suburban Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Michigan, according to Regina Thomson, a Colorado Republican activist and leader of Free the Delegates, the organization that failed to stop Trump's nomination at last month's national convention. All four states are central to Trump's path to the White House, though he's trailing in most polls of those states.

The ad is backed by a five-figure buy, according to Thomson, but the group hopes to eventually expand its run to Fox News Channel. It's initially set to air on broadcast news channels beginning Tuesday. It's marked for the four states' suburban media markets, according to Free the Delegates, because they're areas that typically lean Republican but appear to be tilting in Hillary Clinton's favor this year.

the most amazing thing is that this election has been so crazy that it now seems perfectly normal for the Republican party to takeout attack ads against their own candidate. I remember how stunned I was, and what a significant moment in modern politics it was, when Republicans were considering voting for Hillary.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

As I was telling Hans in another thread, Trump's great speech on race was just saying what white Republicans wanted to hear. It made no attempt to communicate with blacks whatsoever. I think it's symbolic of this campaign that Trump supporters heard that speech and thought it was a turning point in his ability to sound presidential and lead a nation, while non-Trump supporters thought he sounded as niche-focused as ever, but without his usual insanity.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who's chairing Donald Trump's transition team, on Sunday defended the Republican presidential nominee's description of African-Americans' lives as marked by poverty and violence.

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Many black voters did not recognize themselves in Trump's description and found it offensive, journalist Martha Raddatz said in posing the question to Christie.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/christie-trump-african-americans-227478

 

[bad seed]

 

[K1levelgrappler]

They had a cheeseburger and soda party in Jersey and they didn't even invite Chris Christie

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-debates-while-clinton-does-her-homework.html

Trump, on the other hand, has no official debate team, and is apparently skipping the policy prep and rehearsals so he can rely on his natural talents and showmanship. What preparation he is doing, at least right now, consists of hosting Sunday get-togethers with friends, advisors, and family to test pitches and zingers over cheeseburgers and soda. Among those who attended last week’s meeting at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, according to the Post, were former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Fox News chair Roger Ailes, and conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham, as well as Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, plus campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, campaign chief executive Stephen Bannon, and communications advisor Jason Miller. The group apparently strategized with Trump “as he read print-outs of news articles and monitored television news.”

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Personal preference aside, who is the favorite based on polls and scientific projections of the election?

I hate to reference Bryan Callen (and Chael Sonnen and Schaub) but his reasoning stuck with me and makes me think that Trump isn't the clear favorite as I used to think.

 

[Lead]

Personal preference aside, who is the favorite based on polls and scientific projections of the election?

I hate to reference Bryan Callen (and Chael Sonnen and Schaub) but his reasoning stuck with me and makes me think that Trump isn't the clear favorite as I used to think.

Umm look anywhere through the thread. He isn't.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Personal preference aside, who is the favorite based on polls and scientific projections of the election?

I hate to reference Bryan Callen (and Chael Sonnen and Schaub) but his reasoning stuck with me and makes me think that Trump isn't the clear favorite as I used to think.

According to polls, if you put faith in them, Trump is going to lose/get fairly well crushed out.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

Personal preference aside, who is the favorite based on polls and scientific projections of the election?

I hate to reference Bryan Callen (and Chael Sonnen and Schaub) but his reasoning stuck with me and makes me think that Trump isn't the clear favorite as I used to think.

Lol why did you think he was the clear favourite?

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Lol why did you think he was the clear favourite?

I have seen early surveys making him out to win by a clear margin against anyone (HC included), but this was before his "I'll build a wall" policy came out.

 

[Deleted member 429137]

I have seen early surveys making him out to win by a clear margin against anyone (HC included), but this was before his "I'll build a wall" policy came out.

Man, that was a long time ago. There have been one or two things he's done since then that have been somewhat strange.

 

[bad seed]

I have seen early surveys making him out to win by a clear margin against anyone (HC included), but this was before his "I'll build a wall" policy came out.

He was never the favorite. There were polls a few months back where he briefly spiked above Hillary, but thats just a national popularity poll. If you look at the electoral map, he has no pathway to win. In fact, he is set to lose the swing states that Romney won- and he got destroyed.

This is why the Trumpcucks in this forum are so obsessed with a Hillary indictment- that hail Mary is literally the only chance Trump has.

 

[ucunc156]

He was never the favorite. There were polls a few months back where he briefly spiked above Hillary, but thats just a national popularity poll. If you look at the electoral map, he has no pathway to win. In fact, he is set to lose the swing states that Romney won- and he got destroyed.

This is why the Trumpcucks in this forum are so obsessed with a Hillary indictment- that hail Mary is literally the only chance Trump has.

And even then, if she's removed and a new person runs, they will beat trump by even more. Just like hillary would face a tougher challenge by any non trump republican at this point (who would look completely sane and unite the base damn near instantly).