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Cool... Hilary is like Princess Leia now .... what a hilarious meme.. they made Trump to be like Jabba!
Brilliant.
Just one question though.. following this genius star wars analogy.. who is the rebel alliance that Hilary is feeding information to?
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Election Thread 2016:
Cool... Hilary is like Princess Leia now .... what a hilarious meme.. they made Trump to be like Jabba!
Brilliant.
Just one question though.. following this genius star wars analogy.. who is the rebel alliance that Hilary is feeding information to?
At least you made it to the end of an entire post
On a serious note, I thought this from the Economist was interesting. The GOP are already looking ahead to a better-packaged version of Trump's populism for 2020 in the form of a 39-yo Harvard-lawyer McKinsey-consultant junior senator who also toured Iraq/Afghan after 9/11, Tom Cotton:
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Growing Cotton in IowaAn ambitious young senator offers a revealing glimpse of a post-Trump Republican Party
Oct 15th 2016 | From the print editionAS THE election of 2016 lurches to an unmourned end, it feels cruel to report that the presidential race of 2020 is already under way. This haste makes sense, at least on the Republican side. If voters on November 8th consign Donald Trump to a life of brooding defeat, filled with cable TV interviews, restless travel and insomniac tweeting, he will leave a party primed for civil strife. For a tough dilemma confronts Republicans. Full-blown Trumpism—a retro creed that blends America First nationalism, paranoia worthy of Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace-style nativism and Hugh Hefner-ish lechery—is a recipe for losing a national election. Yet without those voters who hear and see a champion in Mr Trump, Republicans will struggle to win most other elections, whether to Congress or at state level.
Mr Trump has revealed that, for many, conservatism is as much an identity as a set of principles. Mr Trump could not care less about shrink-the-government orthodoxy. He blithely opposes moves to reform federal aid for the old, despite its spiralling costs. He promises such expensive schemes as a federal deportation force targeting “criminal aliens”. Mr Trump doubts that American leadership is needed to keep the world safe, questions alliances like NATO, denounces George W. Bush for invading Iraq and praises Russia’s autocratic president, Vladimir Putin. His threat to slap tariffs on Chinese or Mexican imports mocks Republican leaders who back free trade.
On October 8th Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a 39-year-old star of the doctrinaire right, arrived in Iowa for a four-day visit. In theory, Mr Cotton was in Iowa to campaign for Republicans who, unlike him, are up for re-election this year. But politicians do not visit Iowa by accident. Its caucuses are the first winnowing contest of the presidential primary season. Those with White House ambitions must spend months wooing the state’s farmers at county fairs, and its evangelical Christians at church pancake breakfasts. While in Iowa Mr Cotton addressed two party fundraising dinners whose previous speakers include most major Republican presidential candidates of the past decade.
On paper, Mr Cotton is an unlikely figure to reconcile Mr Trump’s burn-it-all-down followers with conventional conservatives. The son of a cattle farmer, he is a beakily intense six-foot-five-inch Harvard law graduate and former McKinsey consultant, who enlisted in the army in 2004 and served as an infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was elected to the Senate in 2014, after a brief stint in the House of Representatives, with the help of two distinct bands of admirers. First, anti-government groups such as the Club for Growth, who hail his willingness to vote against disaster-relief funds or food stamps (Mr Cotton talked of recipients with new cars and “steak in their baskets”). Second, foreign-policy hawks, who cheered when, two months after entering the Senate, he wrote to Iran’s leaders, warning them that any nuclear agreement they struck with President Barack Obama might be overturned by Congress—a letter that made Senate veterans wince, though 46 other senators eventually signed it.
Mr Cotton is a hardliner on law and order, too. This year he helped block a bipartisan criminal-justice bill that would give judges more flexibility when sentencing, among other reforms meant to address decades of soaring jail populations (America, with less than 5% of the world’s population, accounts for almost 25% of the world’s prisoners). Mr Cotton argued in May that because most crimes go unpunished, “if anything, we have an under-incarceration problem”.
Interviewed before addressing the Reagan dinner of the Iowa Republican Party in Des Moines, the senator played down differences between his interventionist views, Mr Trump’s scorn for nation-building and public opinion. Detached from its roots in 1940s pacifism, the slogan America First “makes a lot of sense” to voters, Mr Cotton says. He thinks Mr Trump is wrong to question the wisdom of overthrowing Saddam Hussein, arguing that the Iraq war made Americans safer, and so put America first. Chiding the Bush administration for years of drift before the Iraq troop surge of 2007, and accusing Mr Obama of allowing the rise of Islamic State, Mr Cotton says the American people are not fundamentally anti-war, just “fundamentally opposed to losing wars.”
If Harvard did populism
Elections turn on many issues, he goes on, but the one issue on which Mr Trump differed from almost every Republican he beat in the 2016 primary was immigration. Mr Cotton supports Mr Trump and is sure that a key to navigating an era of “populist insurgencies”, from Britain to continental Europe and America, lies in acknowledging the “reasonable, legitimate concerns” of working families about low-skilled migration and its effects on society and on wages—even if a “transnational cosmopolitan elite” is left unscathed by them.Addressing the party faithful, moments later, Mr Cotton presented himself as a member of the generation moved by the patriotic spirit that America showed after the September 2001 terror attacks, leaving civilian careers to join the army and learn a “warrior ethos”. He combines that pitch with Trumpian vows to secure the border and reject a “new normal” that, he says, sees riots on the streets and “cops assassinated on the beat”, while sneering liberal elites “live behind high walls with armed guards”.
After the speech Jeff Kauffman, chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, reported praise from the party faithful for Mr Cotton’s “freshness”. The challenge for his party, whatever the result in November, is to keep the new voters brought in by Mr Trump and to capture his populism, “but package it so it is more mainstream”, Mr Kauffman says. Between now and 2020, expect to hear more about Tom Cotton—and about other, rival Republicans with schemes to make American populism mainstream again. Even in defeat, Mr Trump will shape the party’s future.
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Looks a neo-con free trade advocate to me.
Of course the corrupt Republican establishment will love him. (fuck poor people and lets have more wars)The world has changed and Trump voters have woken up to the treachery of their own party.
All in all a condescending article written by someone who thinks Trump voters are stupid and don't know what they want. They will not come meekly back into the fold if Trump loses.
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Interesting all these women coming out now claiming Trump touched them and so on....
I wonder what Trump thought of Bill Cosby?
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
The Wikileaks revelations are basically being blacked-out while the Trump allegations get maximum airtime.
Or, as Wikileaks noted, the lighter leaks are given airtime while the more serious ones are ignored.
Sick.I'm guessing most people hear the name Wikileaks and switch off, a group of scumbags run by an "alleged" sex offender supporting the campaign of pussy grabbing Trump is hardly going to gain much traction .
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@jegga I think you are right. Trump is living by the sword of public distrust .. so he is suffering form it also.
People simply dont believe the media, and they dont believe wikileaks much either.
I think hacked emails for political gain are rat shit. I am not going to change that stance. Privacy is privacy unless something illegal is happening.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback I can only like that once unfortunately . I remember reading how Assange had to be talked out of leaking the names of the interpreters who worked for the US in Afghanistan . His attitude was basically "they worked for the US, they deserve it"
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@jegga said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback I can only like that once unfortunately . I remember reading how Assange had to be talked out of leaking the names of the interpreters who worked for the US in Afghanistan . His attitude was basically "they worked for the US, they deserve it"
Jeez, that sort of attitude definitely deserves a drone strike!
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
Looks a neo-con free trade advocate to me.
Of course the corrupt Republican establishment will love him. (fuck poor people and lets have more wars)The world has changed and Trump voters have woken up to the treachery of their own party.
All in all a condescending article written by someone who thinks Trump voters are stupid and don't know what they want. They will not come meekly back into the fold if Trump loses.
Do you see being a free trade advocate as a bad thing?
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...."There is nothing that the political establishment wil not do; no lie they will not tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense... and that's what's been happening. The Washington establishment - and the financial and media corporations that fund it - exists for one thing only... to protect and enrich itself.".... -
= TRUTHBOMB !!!!!!
One comment - "Trump is the most transformational candidate of our lifetimes. A paradigm shifter. His campaign is focused on exposing the corrupt power structures that rule over the "free world". People are starting to wake up. 90% of the media, both "news" and "entertainment" is owned by just 6 mega corporations. America is an Orwellian propaganda state where the "journalists", "entertainers", "comedians" and "universities" all promulgate the same pro-establishment narratives. The oligarchs and deep state rule over America like a third world banana republic."
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
One comment - "Trump is the most transformational candidate of our lifetimes. A paradigm shifter. His campaign is focused on exposing the corrupt power structures that rule over the "free world". People are starting to wake up. 90% of the media, both "news" and "entertainment" is owned by just 6 mega corporations. America is an Orwellian propaganda state where the "journalists", "entertainers", "comedians" and "universities" all promulgate the same pro-establishment narratives. The oligarchs and deep state rule over America like a third world banana republic."
Yes, when I want a lucid credible breakdown of current events the youtube comments section is the first place I look. It holds even more weight if the commenter has taken the time to post in caps or bold font.
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@Wairau said in US Election Thread 2016:
...."There is nothing that the political establishment wil not do; no lie they will not tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense... and that's what's been happening. The Washington establishment - and the financial and media corporations that fund it - exists for one thing only... to protect and enrich itself."....
unlike Donald, right? He brings truth and justice!
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@NTA I think the Don is and has always been an opportunist. Look at his life, his business moves, his foray into the USFL, the way he has constantly tried to build a cult of personality, the Apprentice, he is a consummate self promoter. Look at his stance on any issue, he has changed his position to suit the mood of the day (and denied he ever took the opposite position). He has captured a strong sense of disillusionment from a significant bloc of the GOP and the country and he is running with it. That other stuff about trying to expose the corrupt shadow structures that rule the free world is rubbish, pure TV stuff
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@NTA said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Wairau said in US Election Thread 2016:
...."There is nothing that the political establishment wil not do; no lie they will not tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense... and that's what's been happening. The Washington establishment - and the financial and media corporations that fund it - exists for one thing only... to protect and enrich itself."....
unlike Donald, right? He brings truth and justice!
A couple of years ago I read the story of Atlantic city , it was by the researcher for Boardwalk empire . Anyway it was written before the gropenfuhrer decided to run, Donald screwed that city over , the people that worked at the casinos and the tradespeople that worked on them were continually fucked over while the buildings got run down through lack of basic maintaince . How anyone could convince themselves he's looking out for the little guy is a mystery to me.
This gives you an idea of what he did there https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/summer-of-trump-ac/
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