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Exactly none of that is from The_Donald. They specialize in meme magic, not inside information and coherent analyses.
07-20-2017 02:23 PM
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LOL |
07-20-2017 11:46 PM
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07-21-2017 08:35 AM
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07-21-2017 10:07 AM
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07-21-2017 10:44 AM
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Nice, now we're getting somewhere. | |
Last edited by boost; 07-21-2017 at 10:54 AM. | |
07-21-2017 10:55 AM
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Well, you both seem to be pretty well informed when it comes to crass things that Donald Trump says. So I'm kinda surprised here. |
07-21-2017 11:06 AM
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Last edited by OngBonga; 07-21-2017 at 11:10 AM. | |
07-21-2017 11:06 AM
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'the fuck are you talking about? | |
07-21-2017 11:09 AM
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haha | |
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07-21-2017 11:24 AM
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Last edited by BananaStand; 07-21-2017 at 11:27 AM. | |
07-21-2017 12:50 PM
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To clarify, I know who the historical Pocahontas was, I just didn't know who you were referring to as her | |
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07-21-2017 01:14 PM
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I don't mean to suggest entertainers are some stalwart example of skin in the game. In private industry, they're probably among the worst. |
07-21-2017 01:17 PM
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07-21-2017 01:26 PM
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The most important metrics are showing that if the election was held today, Trump would win by even more. Those metrics are changes in registration and some economy stuff. |
07-21-2017 01:34 PM
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I'm gonna disagree on this. Pocahontas has real appeal to people who eschew economics, and there are a lot of those. Crooked did not have that appeal in a strong way. Pocahontas would galvanize the Democrat base. I was saying years ago that Crooked would lose the general because she inspires nobody. Pocahontas inspires. |
07-21-2017 01:41 PM
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Only on the extreme left. Those on the right find her repulsive. And from what I see and hear, those in the middle, lean away from her more so than they lean toward her. |
07-21-2017 01:53 PM
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she would beat Trump. I suspect she may not even run simply because she doesn't wanna go through the Hell that is fighting the Master Brander. Also the Midwest isn't as conservative as people think right now. Part of it is the home of progressive views. Trump won it where other Republicans failed because of his focus on labor, strength, and order. Crooked was the first Democrat to eschew those rhetorically. |
07-21-2017 01:57 PM
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If Crooked had run a competent campaign, I think she would have beaten Trump. She did virtually everything wrong. And we underestimate how successful Fake News was at hypnotizing the majority of voters into thinking Trump hated them and would destroy things. |
07-21-2017 02:08 PM
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07-21-2017 02:18 PM
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Obama was deeply progressive, though not perfectly progressive. |
07-21-2017 02:23 PM
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Sadly, that is true. They want government in charge of healthcare, not government regulating profit-oriented healthcare. What they don't know is that as bad as the latter is, the former is even worse. But I guess that's to be expected of people who grow up in an education system that doesn't teach relevant history and economics. |
07-21-2017 02:30 PM
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Actually I'm not sure if it's a problem that formal education can fix. There is a real problem of skin in the game in academics. It's not a coincidence that many of the worst ideas are very popular among academics and very unpopular among producers. |
07-21-2017 07:29 PM
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This is why I think you talk nonsense a lot of the time. It isn't because you aren't a smart guy it's because you go here is a reason that something could happen therefore it happens and that is it. We are all bias of this but I think you do it to the extreme at times or at least you don't hide it enough. |
Last edited by Savy; 07-21-2017 at 07:38 PM. | |
07-21-2017 07:35 PM
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What do you think Hillary did correctly? I started the whole thing thinking Trump lulz and Hillary is normal. I have a bias source on US politics somewhat (here and the BBC which some would argue was a lot more Hilllary skewed, I don't). Of the debates I watched I thought Hillary won (I think I watched most of 1 bits of the others). |
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07-21-2017 10:03 PM
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07-21-2017 10:31 PM
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Do you mean incorrectly? If you mean correctly, then what she did correctly that others do incorrectly is, well, I can't think of anything. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 07-21-2017 at 10:39 PM. | |
07-22-2017 07:55 AM
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I meant correctly. |
07-22-2017 11:50 AM
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If you can play the "everything he does is a masterful stroke of genius in a game of 3D chess" then I'm going to go ahead and point out that the same can apply to losers if we accept that real life is not chess, with the whole board being visible, but closer to poker with a fog of war-- with uncertainty in the mix everything becomes probabilistic, and through this lens it's possible to interpret Hilary's play at a national campaign as opposed to an electoral one as a roll of the dice, with a low, but higher than otherwise, probability of going bust, but a greatly increased chance of hitting it big with a mandate via a popular vote landslide victory. Without a mandate and a high likelihood of a republican congress, she would have been a side lined president, much like Obama for most of his presidency, but less popular, and with no argument to justify the full use of executive powers. | |
Last edited by boost; 07-22-2017 at 11:53 AM. | |
07-22-2017 11:57 AM
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07-22-2017 12:12 PM
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That's probably part of the influence for why to have elements of a national campaign while running. Obama had success with it, but also he had smart advisers and he spent a great deal of time campaigning in the most important states. |
07-22-2017 12:35 PM
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Was looking over the numbers. A popular Midwestern Democrat could probably beat Trump 2020. Trump won Florida and North Carolina more by gaining votes than by depressing the Democrat vote. But in the Midwest, the story is more about a falloff in Democrat enthusiasm. Granted some of that is that Trump's falloff in Republican enthusiasm in the Midwest was probably higher than elsewhere and the switch from Democrat to Republican was also probably higher. Regardless, a popular Midwest Democrat might be able to take back Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, resulting in defeat of Trump. |
07-22-2017 12:42 PM
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A new set of blue states is forming for the time being. Colorado is swiftly becoming California. It's one of the only states since the election to see a large increase in net D registrations. Most of the others are moving R. Virginia also appears lost to R's as long as the party embraces a streak of "government isn't the solution to every problem imaginable and unelected intel agencies shouldn't have unlimited power". The bloat of DC and in-migration of its employees to Northern Virginia has totally flipped how the state votes. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 07-22-2017 at 12:45 PM. | |
07-22-2017 01:52 PM
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You have not addressed any, much less the central point being made. I guess I can chalk that up to my inability to form tight sentences this am :-\ | |
07-22-2017 02:14 PM
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My analysis is the same as it was before the election. Maybe I didn't post it thoroughly enough on this board for it to be remembered. |
07-22-2017 04:55 PM
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Yeah, no, I don't think you can know what you claim to know and had known. | |
Last edited by boost; 07-22-2017 at 04:58 PM. | |
07-23-2017 12:55 AM
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You're making smart points. Points I'm not sure were at the forefront of her team. |
07-24-2017 10:49 AM
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Again, if I can borrow a play from your book: It's important that her image is not that of a master manipulator. On the contrary, that is a central selling point for Trump. So if she is playing the game well, it would only make sense that you and, probably more importantly, her supporters don't see her and her team as being players on that level. | |
07-24-2017 11:47 AM
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That could be the case. There is certainly confirmation bias on my part (as there is for everybody). Example: I think she was a drunk (probably still is). Do I know she is a drunk? No. But I saw enough circumstantial evidence and reports to satisfy me. So, when she spent little time campaigning, one of my explanations is "of course, you don't campaign when you're already celebrating the victory with champagne." |
07-24-2017 12:22 PM
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kid rock leading stabenow by 4 points already. lolpocalypse |
07-24-2017 02:12 PM
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07-24-2017 04:33 PM
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Fun fact: Because he's running, I've deliberately listened to a few Kid Rock songs for the first time in my life. |
07-25-2017 10:13 AM
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If Trump gets impeached, dies, or otherwise is incapable of running next term-- | |
07-25-2017 01:37 PM
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08-03-2017 12:58 PM
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08-03-2017 01:12 PM
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There certainly is a dumb echo chamber of Trump supporters. That is one reason why I don't think the Trump movement is a revolution. Political factions are still cordoning off into echo chambers while each believes they are the only faction that is not an echo chamber. |
08-03-2017 01:22 PM
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08-04-2017 10:44 AM
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08-06-2017 04:15 PM
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08-07-2017 10:36 AM
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So Trump said.... |
08-07-2017 11:41 AM
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This is some of the best fan fiction ever written: | |
08-07-2017 11:42 AM
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08-07-2017 11:51 AM
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I'll be honest I considered the possibility of the time machine hypothesis being true for a couple seconds when I first heard it. |
08-07-2017 01:43 PM
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08-07-2017 01:54 PM
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Government monopolizing law with few limits and one of the heads of government's public statements are not in the same ballpark. |
08-07-2017 02:14 PM
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Regarding what you're saying is shady, that's the media-Democrat complex's faults. Trump hasn't hidden anything he has done (at least not anymore than is standard). Yet he has gotten the media-Democrat complex to chase the cheese in the maze every day instead of paying attention to what he's actually doing. Pretty much the only places I have found detailing what Trump has been doing are not coincidentally the places that know the tactic he uses to counter the media-Democrat complex. |
08-07-2017 07:32 PM
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08-07-2017 07:37 PM
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08-08-2017 11:27 AM
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08-08-2017 11:30 AM
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The shitposting thread is ------>>> way | |
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08-08-2017 11:36 AM
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OH shit I forgot there is a shitposting thread. lol |
08-08-2017 11:37 AM
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i think i quit using it because the redcoats used it to talk cricket or some other blowsy rubbish |
08-08-2017 11:57 AM
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This just made me check as I wanted to talk about cricket, not on the last two pages at least. |
08-08-2017 12:50 PM
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We need to find three players by the time the series in Australia comes along. If we can do it, we've got a great chance of stuffing them. As things stand, I think it's finely balanced. They probably edge it with home advantage. | |
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08-08-2017 01:55 PM
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Basher: That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial feed to batten the main line, have they? Instead they've gone and nosed up the backup grid, nosed it right up! | |
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08-08-2017 03:46 PM
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for fucks sake |
08-08-2017 03:49 PM
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08-08-2017 05:19 PM
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08-08-2017 05:21 PM
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08-08-2017 05:35 PM
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08-08-2017 05:36 PM
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did i just call cricket a sport? i guess that means im taking the piss. |
08-08-2017 05:41 PM
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I'm excited about the potential that the Korean War may finally come to an end soon (ish). Hopefully it won't require military action, but it may. |
08-09-2017 01:10 AM
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08-09-2017 02:33 AM
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08-16-2017 11:54 AM
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I HATE CNN | |
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08-16-2017 01:38 PM
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Ugh... I think his press conference is terrible for the country, and likely for him too. However, I hate that we can't talk about these things with nuance. Of course he's terrible at talking about nuanced issues, so that didn't help, but the idea that the counter protestors are blameless should be seen as inane on its face. Was it a good time to make this point, with the sole fatality on the one side? Probably not. I hate the tone he uses, I hate how terrible he is at conveying the point, but I also hate the idea that there's no nuance in where the blame lies. | |