I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

someone was paid to build that poll which is the thing and probably also someone else was paid to sign off on it

Yeah, but it obviously exists solely to harvest contact info to ask for donations.

^^^^

Well, the answers probably sift respondents into different tiers of credulousness.

Or a free month on a new News Network!

they could do it easier by having a one question survey that said "DO u want to give me money? Yes/definitely/Uh huh"

looking forward to this

Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights. Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.

Full Employment immediately!

the test will be administered by moderators of /r/the_donald

Well, the answers probably sift respondents into different tiers of credulousness.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, August 15, 2016 11:41 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If the options are 'Trump utilized forethought and careful planning and intelligence in making this decision and has strategic plans for moving forward' and 'Trump just kinda pulled something out of his ass and has no idea what his next step is', always always always employ Occam's razor.

The finest trick that the devil ever played was convincing anyone that he wasn't a drooling idiot.

Counterpoint: Occam's razor def. favours "People around Trump are on the make, can spot marks in the wild".

In the corral, I mean.

People around Trump are too busy fabricating the last several months of their resume to care about anything else.

September 2015 - November 2016: In a coma

Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights. Through questionnaires, searching social media, interviewing friends and family or other means, applicants would be vetted to see whether they support American values like tolerance and pluralism.

Can we make this test retroactive to people who are already here?

nothing says tolerance and pluralism like "ideological test for admission to the country"

also apparently a pillar of trump's domestic anti-terorrism platform is the honor system

Yeah, that's the most obvious WTF out of this steaming pile of WTF. But I guess we're living on Bizarro Earth now and Trump supporters probably consider themselves hugely tolerant and engaged in fervent celebration of all peoples.

xpost

Although, yes, honor system is pretty glaringly WTF.

All potential immigrants will be fitted with a mood ring which will determine their love of American values.

that questionnaire is on about the same level as some of the push polls done by partisan groups close to election time

I put a valid email in, but used the gmail trick where you can add a + and additional text to your address. Curious what kind of spam the Trump campaign will sell my address to.

(for anyone wanting to do something similar on any site, you do myaddress+whatever @ gmail dot com)

nothing says tolerance and pluralism like "ideological test for admission to the country"

― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, August 15, 2016 1:23 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really expanding upon with this oldie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tykzAyISnNk

why not just make up a fake email? xp

dammit

https://youtu.be/tykzAyISnNk

huh, this sounds familiar... wonder where i've heard it before?

The last month or so of Trump-Hillary coverage may have been the worst stretch of pure journo-shilling we've seen since the run-up to the Iraq war. In terms of political media, there’s basically nothing left on the air except Trump-bashing or Hillary-bashing.

because I want to see who Trump's campaign is selling addresses to, and when?

xp

I think he means a secondary email address. Assuming you don't want fundraising emails from Omarosa and the UFC promotional department going to your primary email address.

xp how are you going to know tho? i guess i'm asking - what does adding the + sign do if it isn't just a way of avoiding getting spammed?

Trump Steaks 4ev

oh nevermind i understand. it'll come in with the + sign so you can trace the sale. got it.

I honestly try to not wish ill on others, but I genuinely hope I live to see Trump reduced to like Grey Gardens status.

I wonder what it's like to listen to Ivanka and Wendi

i've been on trumpmail for a month now. not getting any other weird spam yet... somehow got signed up for some rural north carolina republican newspaper, maybe related

Aside from the murmuring about the Clinton Foundation, I honestly don't think I've been aware of a single news story about Clinton from like the past two weeks. Trump is SO BAD at this.

@jessicaschulb
Rudy Giuliani: Before Obama came along we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States."

maybe he means 'before obama was born'

damn we should be talking about Giuliani's health not Hillary's, tf is wrong with his brain

rudy giuliani forgetting 9/11 has got to be the sound of one of the seals opening

haha

also just apparently forgot what state he was in

Aside from the murmuring about the Clinton Foundation, I honestly don't think I've been aware of a single news story about Clinton from like the past two weeks.

Crooked Hillary in cahoots w/Crooked Media! Sad! Not A Fan! Crooked!

rudy giuliani forgetting 9/11 has got to be the sound of one of the seals opening

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, August 15, 2016 1:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of surprised he didn't just vaporize into mist and float into nothing on the wind the moment the words were uttered tbh

Why hasn't someone hacked his phone and like disabled his "r" key or something subtle yet?

re this whole 'the polls are wrong' meme - every time i try to think of difficult to quantify elements that might mean the polls are off, they're always in hillary's favor. the shy trump theory is dubious. polling could be undercounting spanish speaking voters and youth voters but those are both non-trump constituencies. third party candidates might be skewing the results, but from what i've seen they're taking more from hillary than from trump. likely voters model could be underestimating ppl's motivations to get out and vote, but that works at the very least both ways (and also probably more in anti-trump's favor). i don't see how any intelligent person could think that the polls are systemically undercounting trump's support. i guess 'intelligent person' is the operative phrase there.

Referring to Trump tweeting

xp

is rudy trying to get with katrina pierson or something

Laura Ingraham

*cringe*

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