Hal9000
5602
Glenn Beck is starving now.
Nesrie
5603
Are we sure this doesn’t work when there are two of them? I mean Trump is an extreme right and I suppose Bernie is the other extreme. If you have two extremes, who wins? Just a hypothetical, no idea who will succeed on the Clinton/Sanders side but I am not seeing how Trump can lose his side. He can literally do anything, actually kill someone, and his people would stay with him.
Canuck
5604
LOL. He obviously didn’t fast hard enough.
Academically?
To prostitute yourself, it’s to sell your body. To whore yourself is to sell your honor.
ShivaX
5606
The same reason calling someone a Dick or Prick is an insult? It just kind of is. Both are gendered insults, but no one wigs out when someone says them. I get where people are coming from, but I also get where Timex is coming from. At the end of the day insults are insults and they tend to be gendered. Idiot isn’t a very strong insult, whereas say “cocksucker” is, even though most people don’t associate it with actual sucking of cocks. I would never call a gay person a cocksucker because they’re gay, but because they’re complete pricks regardless of sexual orientation. At the same time, you don’t call women cocksuckers or dicks or the like. Hell, you don’t even call them assholes, though it should be an ungendered insult, it isn’t really. You call men that.
Again, I get what people are saying, but at the same time I see Timex’s angle as well. Most insults don’t have any real connection to their original intents. Idiot used to be a medical term, but no one thinks calling someone an idiot or moron is degrading people with mental disabilities, even if that is the actual origin.
The commissars have turned up to police Timex’s vocabulary and at the same time scratch their heads in puzzlement about the rise in Trumps popularity.
Shut the fuck up you asshole. How’s that?
Sadly i think the fact that Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming President of the most powerful country in the world, well that is doing bad things to americans in general, smart people becoming potty mouthed crazies etc. It ‘might’ be the sign of end times.
Menzo
5610
Clinton’s slogan against Trump should be: “The only thing that will stop a bad person with a vote is a good person with a vote. Get out there and VOTE, or we may just end up with Donald Trump as our President! That should scare you and every American.”
End Times?
Trumps primary business is tourism and entertainment. He isn’t going to bankrupt the Trump Organisation and Trump Entertainment Resorts in order to keep his word, especially as his word is little more than selling himself to a market he has identified as being good for votes. I am certain he knows this market is not good for profit.
If Trumps business was defence and resources fears might be more relevant.
Sure, just like it was going to be a close race in Britain last year. I’ll take a British Persons elections forecast with a big grain of salt.
I have faith in a Hillary victory for a number of reasons. First, just like Reverend Wright was a big deal during the primary, but not during the general, I don’t believe there is a lot of ammunition left for the Republicans to use against Hillary. Journalists hate rehashing old stories, especially if they came out in recent history (example of Wright above) so anything that Hillary has had to deal with now and still win the primaries is unlike to have a big impact during the general. Second, she will have a canned response to those issues, just like Obama did further taking the sting out of them. You can believe that Hillary did her opposition research on herself and knows her pit falls and crafted responses.
Finally, she is competent. Very much so.
Menzo
5613
Why would you assume this? She has utterly failed to deal with the email issue and has had to deal with the constant drip of new information for months. There is every indication that she was completely blindsided by the drama, which, like setting up that server in the first place, is super dumb.
And I’m a democrat and likely Clinton voter.
Somewhat cynically, I’m guessing it’s because the Clinton camp has decided it doesn’t matter. Anti-Hillary types are voting against her no matter what. Anti-GOP, Anti-Trump, and all forms of Dems pretty much are voting for her anyhow if that’s how the nomination shakes out. So, why waste time fighting the email or Benghazi battles when no one is changing their mind based on the results?
I don’t think she failed to deal with the email issue, although it may come back to bite her.
The fact is that nobody cares about it because it looks like republicans are trying to nail her for a technicality. It may still be illegal in the end, but you aren’t going to get anyone condemning her just for that.
It also helps that it is in many peoples’ minds linked to the very obvious Benghazi witch hunt. This leads to people just (perhaps incorrectly) dismissing it as yet another Republican smear campaign.
I think Hillary will win because Republicans secretly enjoy having a Democrat in the White House that they can beat on and complain about.
She’s not going to be much different from what we’ve had the last 16 years, so it’s no skin off my back. The worst part would be having to listen to the sound bites of her speaking. Ugh.
This is my impression as well. I think that Clinton’s campaign looked at the issue and had two paths to go down: Acknowledge that it was a major error and apologize for it, or utterly ignore the accusations whenever possible.
If they had done the former, then it would have given more teeth to any investigations and/or charges that followed. By doing the latter, they are hoping that (a) the US populace doesn’t understand and/or care about the issue, (b) that the GOP will over-reach like they did with Benghazi, and © there isn’t enough evidence of wrongdoing to result in an indictment.
(a) and (b) seem to have met their expectations. © is still up in the air, but I wouldn’t bet on an indictment, personally.
CraigM
5618
Yes, this meshes with my read as well. Though it would be nice if people hammered the ‘what about Bush’s SoS and the RNC e-mail servers they deleted’ angle a bit more. Drag the hypocrisy into the light.
Looks like Clinton is reviving the public option as a policy position (Politico). She proposes uses the waivers in Obamacare (that come into effect next year) to end-run the congress and allow states to work with the federal government adopt a public option choice. Seems like a pretty sensible plan. Potentially good for blue states of course, but no help for those in red states with governors and legislatures that won’t even allow the Medicare expansion.
Hahaha, from my favorite political Twitter feed.
who knew the takes could get dumber
Have seen it said many times over: 30 years of Republican attacks on Hillary Clinton have probably landed more punches on her with Democrats than with Republican. Here’s exhibit A.
