I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

there are definitely some little pockets around here and there. like the time i was out in the field for work around Ramsey,nj and saw an older man jogging while carrying a yuge Trump flag through the middle of a neighborhood.

love how the media is taking trump's bait and reporting on the pneumonia as if it is somehow revelatory of a "tranparency" problem on the part of clinton. great job.

if yr a radiologist then pneumonia really IS a transparency problem

After years of successfully holding off Democratic gains in this rapidly changing state, Republicans are scrambling to pour new resources into North Carolina in the face of unexpectedly close contests in the presidential and Senate races.

Republicans here are increasingly nervous about the prospects in November for both presidential nominee Donald Trump, who held a rally in Asheville on Monday evening, and Sen. Richard Burr, who is in a tight race with a relatively unknown Democratic opponent. The state’s Republican governor, Pat McCrory, also is in danger of losing his reelection bid.

It’s a dramatic change in fortune for a party that had reasserted control of North Carolina after President Obama narrowly won the state in 2008. Republicans enacted a wave of conservative policies, including imposing new voting restrictions and overruling protections for gay and transgender people. The rightward shift was particularly notable in a state that is gaining Hispanics and young white professionals at a rapid pace, following in the wake of its neighbor to the north, Virginia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/worried-republicans-are-pouring-resources-into-north-carolina/2016/09/12/124c69d6-76da-11e6-b786-19d0cb1ed06c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_northcarolina-730p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

The current shitness of the media might be the only thing Trump and I agree on.

lol gbx

Yeah what the fuck, I'm trying to think of any NJ town near NYC that would be "Trump Country."

That would be Staten Island.

Oh for sure. Parts of southern Brooklyn too if we're talking about the boroughs. Middle class white areas where cops and firefighters live. AM radio listening conservatives who are not evangelical and hate "elites" and mistrust minorities and don't give a flying fuck about "conservative principles" as espoused by the national review but want lower taxes.

yeah, and don't forget about Long Island either

Yeah, also parts of Eastern Queens not too far from me that kind of bleed into Long Island. He also has some support among the Russians in my neighborhood.

whatever it's called, it's a place that so-called "moderate" republican voters should visit in order to learn what kind of movement they will be endorsing if they vote trump in november.

r/EnoughTrumpSpam is as good as the_donald is bad

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p160x160/14344197_10157339365660304_2719185726199452916_n.jpg?oh=64e4e539b7833ce41d54e684d88d269e&oe=5876D6BE

the Wit and Wisdom of Bill Kristol

On the other hand Kristol's a dumbshit motherfucker

Facetiousness aside, Clinton is much closer to the neocon foreign policy agenda than Trump.

TBH I'm not sure there is much separation between her foreign policy agenda and the neocon foreign policy agenda.

Before Frederik B tarzans into the thread again, I'm not saying that makes Trump "better" than her.

what is Trump's foreign policy agenda? nukes? take the oil? bullets dipped in pig's blood? kill the family of enemy combatants?

TBH I'm not sure there is much separation between her foreign policy agenda and the neocon foreign policy agenda.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive),

Let's say that the neocon agenda is closer to hers than Trump's.

since MSM is treating Trump like a normal person and nothing means anything anymore Clinton should just start going ham. WGAF. neither candidate is going to budge any voters at this point.

unless the MSM can scare some wavering idiot into thinking HRC is just so very frail

Though if some very smart, beautiful people start talking about the wisdom of neocon foreign policy that might not be the case anymore.

A president Trump would probably have the foreign policy agenda of whoever butters his ego the best.

we had this discussion on the what is fascism and is trump one thread, I think

Thread of What Is Fascism And Is Donald Trump A Fascist

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I think the "whomever butters his ego the best" is astute, sadly. And it also means he'll walk right into rope-a-dope maneuvers by any regime with a nickel's worth of statecraft knowhow

eisenhower smoked 4 packs a day!

Also said to have slept with his secretary, nbd

roosevelt was banging his secretary the whole time too. he left her in his fucking will.

the "banging" was the wheelchair against the wall iirc

A president Trump would probably have the foreign policy agenda of whoever butters his ego the best.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:54 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Best but also last and also loudest. Someone may stroke his ego just right and get him to sway in a particular direction but then someone else may do the same later and get him to sway in a whole new direction but then he may walk in front of a crowd baying for blood and get a rush from agreeing that bloodletting is a good idea.

Ok can someone please explain: did Pepe actually become "almost exclusively" a symbol of the alt-right some time in the last year without me noticing or is this just the Clinton campaign not really getting how the internet works?

the latter is true generally but it's the former mostly

That's fucking weird. I thought it was just a general symbol of internet loserdom.

That is not a contradiction

incel uprising innit

it makes sense to me that internet losers and white supremacists have some overlap and might use the same memes. It doesn't make sense to me that white supremacists somehow "co-opted" pepe into an exclusively white supremacist symbol, which is what the Clinton campaign claims.

4chan types just happen to be both loser nerds and white supremacists at the same time

I'm just finding it hard to see any angle from which the Clinton campaign going after pepe the frog does anything other than make them look really silly.

Like this whole "trust us, it may seem like a cartoon but it's actually really disturbing that Donald Trump retweeted an image of pepe the frog" even if that was true it's never going to sound anything but laughable or at best baffling to most people.

most people have never heard of pepe the frog, and trump has spent a year retweeting weird alt-right stuff, so it's possible a lot of people won't look into it much more than that. it's also not likely to make the slightest difference in the outcome of the election.

if anything the fact that fucking milo is on it is more significant and he's an actual awful human being

I keep picturing some retired couple at the kitchen table being like "What, he 're-tweeted' an image of 'Pepe Frog'?! Huh?!"

"Well my question is, how can a bird explain what a pet frog even looks like, much less twice?"

james fallows wrote a pretty good (and long) preview of what to expect in the debates http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/who-will-win/497561/

breaking: Dat Boi just endorsed Hillary

oh shit

http://i.imgur.com/sYKkgOz.png

what the fuck does the obama administration think it's doing? don't they know this is extraordinarily inconvenient for a lot of ppl's political beliefs??

sorry big

image posted bigly

only 58% approval rating too . what a loser. sad!

50% iirc

up to 58 percent in the poll I saw yesterday: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/12/barack-obamas-soaring-approval-numbers-are-very-good-news-for-hillary-clinton/