2016 US Presidential Race

sandokhan · « **Reply #960 on:** July 13, 2016, 07:56:03 AM »

You must have misplaced your quotes.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Confucius

sandokhan · « **Reply #961 on:** July 13, 2016, 10:45:14 AM »

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7337/exclusive-dump-trump-rnc-delegate-leader-we-have-daily-wire

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7246/effort-unbind-delegates-rnc-getting-closer-drawing-hank-berrien

Rushy · « **Reply #962 on:** July 13, 2016, 12:16:21 PM »

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/

Looks like Hillary's week is getting worse.

Rama Set · « **Reply #963 on:** July 13, 2016, 12:19:50 PM »

I am seriously excited for the first debate.

Rushy · « **Reply #964 on:** July 13, 2016, 11:06:25 PM »

CNN suddenly loses connection with a reporter that started spilling the beans about her support of the Crime Control Act of 1994. We definitely can't afford to accidentally inform people as to why the US incarceration rates are so high!

beardo · « **Reply #965 on:** July 14, 2016, 12:03:33 AM »

Holy shit

garygreen · « **Reply #966 on:** July 14, 2016, 01:13:03 AM »

it definitely makes sense that anyone at cnn would think that cutting off a reporter, during one interview, after the interviewer already mentions the thing she's apparently not supposed to mention, is going to keep anyone from becoming aware of one of bill clinton's most significant pieces of legislation. a ton of sense.

hey can you think of anything that happened around 1970 that may have contributed to the increase in incarceration rates? haha yeah me neither.

NINJA EDIT: clinton's crime act is a giant piece of dogshit legislation. it's awful, and they should both be ashamed to have supported it. but it probably wasn't so terrible that it caused an increase in incarceration rates 25 years before its passage.

George · « **Reply #967 on:** July 14, 2016, 01:36:51 AM »

If that isn't "conspiratard-level nonsense," I don't know what is. Also, they must not have clued in their colleagues running CNN's online news. Here they are spilling the beans:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/bill-clinton-1994-crime-bill/

Rushy · « **Reply #968 on:** July 14, 2016, 01:57:39 AM »

Quote from: garygreen on July 14, 2016, 01:13:03 AM

it definitely makes sense that anyone at cnn would think that cutting off a reporter, during one interview, after the interviewer already mentions the thing she's apparently not supposed to mention, is going to keep anyone from becoming aware of one of bill clinton's most significant pieces of legislation. a ton of sense.

hey can you think of anything that happened around 1970 that may have contributed to the increase in incarceration rates? haha yeah me neither.

NINJA EDIT: clinton's crime act is a giant piece of dogshit legislation. it's awful, and they should both be ashamed to have supported it. but it probably wasn't so terrible that it caused an increase in incarceration rates 25 years before its passage.

You seemed to be under the inclination that I said the 1994 crime act is the only thing that increased incarceration rates, friendo.

In other news: Trump will announce his VP pick on Friday, July 15 @11AM Eastern time. I hope it's Sarah Palin! Love you, gurl!

sandokhan · « **Reply #969 on:** July 14, 2016, 07:40:53 AM »

It always helps to be able to pick a VP from one's next of kin.

Both Christie and Gingrich are Trump's cousins (Christie, 6th cousin of Donald Trump through the paternal line of his Scottish born great-grandfather, James H. Christie; Newt Gingrich's real name is Newton McPherson).

Even better, now we have two cousins having been nominated by their own respective parties:

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/25/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-are-related-genealogy/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3210778/Donald-Trump-Hillary-Clinton-revealed-distant-cousins-family-trees-share-set-royal-ancestors.html

sandokhan · « **Reply #970 on:** July 14, 2016, 04:41:26 PM »

The latest news from the Rules Committee meeting:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437848/priebus-meets-privately-mike-lee-never-trump-leaders-discuss-procedural-compromise

sandokhan · « **Reply #971 on:** July 15, 2016, 05:14:15 AM »

Minute by minute account of what happened in the Rules Committee:

https://twitter.com/@TimAlberta

As evidenced by the images above, what the public will get is another set of staged debates, everything has been planned long ahead of time.

Someone tell me how Priebus still has a job. The entire primary and selection process was an absolute cluster with absolutely no leadership or strategic thought behind it. Romney ran a campaign destined to lose, Priebus was the party lead and yet Priebus still remains. This speaks volumes about the absolute lack of any leadership in the Republican party. Its frankly mind boggling that the Dems were nominating such a flawed candidate and yet the Republican leadership and establishment has no forethought into how to manage the nomination process. It's ironic that the very people like Priebus whose negligence lead to Trump's ascension may be plotting an even more disastrous coup for the convention. I do not blame Trump, he did what he needed to do.

Rushy · « **Reply #972 on:** July 15, 2016, 12:08:11 PM »

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-republican-convention-rules-20160714-story.html

The "never Trump" movement is once again dead on arrival.

sandokhan · « **Reply #973 on:** July 15, 2016, 01:36:53 PM »

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=43292 (Anyone trashing Bernie today needs to wake up and respect the masterful chess move he just made)

Priebus & co. were able to defeat the "free the delegates" movement, not the nevertrump faction.

There will be one last chance for this faction on Monday, when the amendments passed late Thursday will be voted upon by all the delegates.

In Paris, a truck loaded with explosives was stopped at the last moment by the DGSI before it had a chance to reach the Eiffel Tower.

http://stateofthenation2012.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/zzzzScreen-Shot-2016-07-14-at-5.03.22-PM-696x450.png

sandokhan · « **Reply #974 on:** July 15, 2016, 07:45:08 PM »

http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/07/15/senator-mike-lee-warns-revolt-following-rncs-defeat-free-delegates-movement/

Lord Dave · « **Reply #975 on:** July 16, 2016, 02:23:34 PM »

And Trump has selected his running mate: Mike Pence.

Lord Dave · « **Reply #976 on:** July 17, 2016, 06:04:28 AM »

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/07/16/trumps-logo-failed-so-miserably-he-removed-all-trace-of-it-after-only-one-day-of-mockery/

That didn't last long. Kinda funny though that it got through. Bet someone was fired for that blunder.

Rushy · « **Reply #977 on:** July 17, 2016, 02:42:55 PM »

Aww I thought it was pretty funny.

sandokhan · « **Reply #978 on:** July 18, 2016, 02:52:35 PM »

The best analysis of the entire 2016 presidential election process:

http://thesaker.is/inside-the-secret-super-majority-that-decide-election-2016-war-with-russia/

Lord Dave · « **Reply #979 on:** July 18, 2016, 07:01:46 PM »

So, apparently Steven Colbert has done something silly at the convention, which started today.

I'm not shocked he did it, but shocked they took so long to take him off stage.

Rama Set

George