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@jegga Yep Jegga, I'm the same. It may look unseemly that people who work in government become lobbyists but honestly does anyone think banning it will make any difference to the influence that the NRA, NAACP, AARP and all the rest have?
If I were him
I'd kill myselfI'd be careful of unintended consequences as well, because I reckon there would be a few, such as only people rich enough to take the risk of not getting work for five years after leaving going into public service. That's sure to get rid of the Washington elite -
@NTA said in US Election Thread 2016:
Its interesting Trump has a policy about lobbying given the prima facie nature of his business enterprises.
@NTA Nick, come over here... [Whisper : Mate, lobbying isn't to do with hotel lobbies, it's, oh never mind /Whisper]
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@Tim said in US Election Thread 2016:
State of Ohio to Investigate Satirical Tweet That Fooled Drudge and Limbaugh
LOL
"It's as rad as hell"
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@booboo said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Tim said in US Election Thread 2016:
State of Ohio to Investigate Satirical Tweet That Fooled Drudge and Limbaugh
LOL
"It's as rad as hell"
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That line cracked me up. Quality trolling.
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@jegga said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Frank it gets a big " so what" from me. It's pretty obvious some of our journos are close to politicians and support them if they can. I doubt it's different in the states .
Why don't we demand higher standards of the press?
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@Frank most of us here want better news service judging by the stuff thread but how do we get that exactly? What's shit to you might be great to someone else, I still can't believe anyone actually wanted Campbell live to stay on air but lots of people seemed to.
Btw I didn't watch the Judge Jeanine clip, apparently she was the republican candidate who lost to Hillary Clinton in the senate election . It would be very hard to find someone truly neutral to report on an election I would have thought .
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Catogrande said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback Yeah, you make a valid point Baron, but we've all know some guy who just talks bollocks all the time and it gets to the stage where you really don't want to listen to his load of bollocks again and avoid him. There must surely come a time when it is valid to criticise something due to the source because that is evidential?
It is evidence that he talks a lot of crap, not that he is always wrong. If the 'bullshit talker' said 2 + 2 = 4.. and the response by anther retard was.. nah it doesn't because you believe in chem trails, homeopathy and clairvoyance ... which one is the retard? Both?
Well seeing as you have already labelled them both retards, quite likely. But another way of looking at it is that the first idiot that eventually comes up with 2+2=4 is still an idiot who just happened to get something right. The second person who ridicules an obviously correct statement due to the idiot's previos history is just being lazy. However if the first idiot said something other than2+2=4 that seems highly speculative and stupid then it is quite rational for the second person to dismiss this. The alternative is we continue to give proven idiots airtime.
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I am quite surprised no one has commented on the James O'Keefe undercover video.
(DNC purposely contracting various groups incited violence at Trump rallies all through the year to give the impression that Trump supporters were violent)This is corrupt as shit isn't it?
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From 9:13 - these are the current allegation/revelations from Wikileaks. (and granted this is Fox) leveled at Clinton. They are all newsworthy. Instead we get virtually 24/7 calculated smearing of Trump. And it is calculated.
If Trump had these - would they be ignored by the mainstream press outside of Fox
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@Frank not exactly earth shattering. Leftards and union types always seem to be able to get a braying mob together at short notice to rant aggressively about shit they know next to nothing about. See the anti tppa fucktards as a local example of this.
The reason people on the other side of politics are less prone to such behaviour is the fact that we have jobs and subsidise the existence of those workshy ferals.
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o'keefe is a political activist, with a record of secretly recording and selectively editing video of employees to pursue an agenda or try to entrap people. he's not a journalist.
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
I am quite surprised no one has commented on the James O'Keefe undercover video.
Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?The problem is O'Keefe is dirty, and a proven liar, who has manipulated video in the past & got caught.
A few years back he had this great video of a charity doing shadey shit, the charity (to help low income people) had its funding pulled, went under, there was a major investigation to go after the charity, which then discovered that O'Keefe had doctored everything, cut the video etc.. and not one person at the charity had done anything.
So O'Keefe got famous as an investigative journo crusader (helped by.. of all people Andrew Brietbart) & a year later when it was revelaled he lied no one cared. Apart from all the low income families that had lost the support of the charity, or the workers that had been fired & spent a year under investigation.
So, shockingly, O'Keefe reveals are not treated with quite the respect you'd hope...
I liked trhis one tho -
In August 2014, O'Keefe dressed up as Osama bin Laden and crossed the U.S-Mexico border in Texas in both directions to "show that our elected officials were lying to the American people" about the border being secure. He was later cited by U.S. Senator John McCain in Congressional hearings
He's basically Borat.
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