GOP Convention

[FuzzyLumpkins]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqeTINXEAUri4d.jpg

That is Chair Priebus opening the convention.

Such a turnout is sure to lead to the bounce GOPotards were hoping for. :lmao

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Rocky opening for GOP convention as Cruz forces clash with team Trump

The Republican convention appears to be facing a rocky opening both inside and outside the arena – inside, from forces loyal to Ted Cruz mulling a procedural fight and outside, from anti-Trump protesters testing the demonstration rules set by the city.

Party Chairman Reince Priebus formally kicked off the convention Monday afternoon, setting in motion a packed day of speeches and official party business including the platform itself.

But on the sidelines, multiple high-level GOP sources in Cleveland told Fox News that officials loyal to Cruz – led by former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah – have been bargaining with the Republican National Committee and Donald Trump campaign over procedural changes they failed to secure in last week’s Rules Committee sessions.

Coming as some anti-Trump delegates still are trying to mount a rebellion on the floor, the Cruz camp is seeking its own changes.

Those forces want to revise the rules that will reward states with closed primaries -- and for the RNC and Trump camp to allow Cruz’s name to be placed in nomination from the convention floor.

For the latter to occur requires certain numbers of delegates from eight states, written signatures and more – and the Trump campaign can move to frustrate that effort if they wish.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/18/rocky-opening-for-gop-convention-as-cruz-forces-clash-with-team-trump.html

[hitmanyr2k]

I'm watching the "stop Trump" movement protest rather loudly. It makes me wonder how many actual Trump supporters are in the building at the moment.

[ducks]

cruz is a disgrace

[TheGreatYacht]

When you nominate a clown, you get a circus :lmao

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[CosmicCowboy]

I'm sure Bernie's minions will show impeccable decorum next week and gratefully kiss Hillary's ass.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'm sure Bernie's minions will show impeccable decorum next week and gratefully kiss Hillary's ass.

Even if that is the case they are likely to de in the convention rather than kept outside. There are more people outside protesting Trump then there are inside the building right now.

He was touting it as being a showbiz convention. Seems like the release for The Last Airbender.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Chaos erupts on GOP convention floor after voice vote shuts down Never Trump forces

CLEVELAND — Chaos broke out at the Republican National Convention after Republican leaders blocked a full floor vote on the convention rules.
Critics of Donald Trump had attempted to force the vote and submitted the signatures they believed were necessary to do so, but after holding a voice vote on the rules, Rep. Steve Womack declared the rules approved and moved on.

Womack left the stage amid an uproar, only to return to the stage moments later for a second voice vote. He again declared that the 'ayes' had won, again to protests from the crowd.

Forcing a roll call vote requires support from the majorities of seven delegations. Anti-Trump delegates submitted what they said were a majority of signatures from at least 9: Colorado, Washington state, Utah, Minnesota, Wyoming, Maine, Iowa, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The also claimed that Alaska had provided signatures as well.
But Womack, after the second quote, claimed three states had withdrawn, against blocking a roll call vote.

The anti-Trump delegates opposed the rules and hoped to vote them down in the roll call vote. Their ultimate goal is to get a new set of rules that allow delegates to vote against Trump even if they are pledged to him based on the results of their state's primary or caucus rules, though they appear unlikely to have the votes to do either.

Forcing a vote on the rules would have temporarily thrown the convention into a lobbying frenzy, with delegates hoping to deny Trump the nomination work to convince a majority of the convention’s 2,472 delegates to reject the party’s rules and adopt new language that would help them sideline Trump.

Even if they'd likely have lost, the Never Trump delegates wanted a vote to display the lingering anti-Trump sentiment in the party — likely from hundreds of delegates — at a time GOP leaders and the Trump campaign are struggling to project unity.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/never-trump-delegates-have-support-needed-to-force-rules-vote-225716#ixzz4EnLUtfTu

[InRareForm]

lol repubs

[TheSanityAnnex]

scanner traffic reporting two men with rifles spotted on a roof

[FuzzyLumpkins]

scanner traffic reporting two men with rifles spotted on a roof

At this point, dimwit, you should realize that such claims from you should come with a link or nobody will really buy it. Not saying its untrue but youre notoriously stupid and unreliable.

[TheSanityAnnex]

At this point, dimwit, you should realize that such claims from you should come with a link or nobody will really buy it. Not saying its untrue but youre notoriously stupid and unreliable.

link

[TheSanityAnnex]

Two white males probably not law enforcement... we need to confirm if they are spotters or snipers
Looking with infrared and can't see them
They have binos
They are under the bridge

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/23204

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So now we see that dimwit has no credible source. Typical.

[TheSanityAnnex]

10 anarchists with gas masks putting on packs

[TheSanityAnnex]

more here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GOPConventionScanner/

[FuzzyLumpkins]

TSA gets his news from random facebook accounts and blog radio. How droll. You can practically see dimwit hoping that something goes down.

Meanwhile,


CLEVELAND — Donald Trump’s team came to Ohio and declared war on Gov. John Kasich — an approach top-ranking state GOP officials say hurts Trump's chances of beating Hillary Clinton in this crucial swing state in November.

Kasich, a Republican and Trump’s former presidential rival, has steadfastly refused to endorse the real estate mogul, even as the Republican National Convention kicks off in his state. Monday morning, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort accused Kasich of “embarrassing his state” for declining to get behind Trump, making that charge on MSNBC and reiterating his criticism on several other morning shows.

In an interview with POLITICO, Ohio GOP Chairman Matt Borges sharply rebuked Manafort, suggesting that such comments make it less likely that Trump will carry Ohio, a critical swing state where Trump's contest with Clinton is very tight so far, according to the polling averages.

“He’ll need to do better if we’re going to carry Ohio in the fall,” Borges said.

Ohio is one of the few bright spots for Trump on the battleground map, and Trump is heavily reliant on the Kasich-aligned state GOP for a ground game operation here, making an open war between the two camps even more problematic.

But on Monday, tensions boiled over into the open.

“All along, we’ve been looking for a more unifying message coming from the Trump campaign," said Borges, a close ally of Kasich’s. "And then he came to Cleveland this morning as we’re lifting the curtain on one of the crown jewels of the Republican Party and the effort we had in Ohio to bring this convention here, he decided to go in a direction that was obviously calculated — he did it on all the shows — and he’s factually incorrect.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/ohio-gop-chair-trump-john-kasich-225702#ixzz4EniKa0JQ

[Splits]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-578d17b2/turbine/la-1468864689-snap-photo

[Splits]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnra_saXYAAhLkZ.jpg

[TheSanityAnnex]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-578d17b2/turbine/la-1468864689-snap-photo

:lmao

[TheSanityAnnex]

Four gas masks, slingshot and a knife taken from anarchists :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The insurgents had the states to roll call the vote but Priebus and co lobbied a few states to get them to withdraw.

The dems superdelegates system is certainly undemocratic but GOP leadership has a stranglehold. They cannot even get rid of Priebus and he's been chair for decades at this point.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diaCHYO7haY

[TheSanityAnnex]

the famous triglypuff has made it to the convention

[FuzzyLumpkins]

When the Republican National Convention officially gavels into order Monday, some major GOP leaders will be conspicuously absent.

The remaining former GOP presidents and the party's past two Republican nominees are not coming to Cleveland. Neither are some former 2016 GOP presidential candidates. More than 20 senators and several House members, along with a half-dozen Republican governors, won't be here either.

There are various excuses and reasons politicians have given. Many do legitimately need to worry about their own re-election prospects in a year when control of the Senate also hangs in the balance. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is recovering from major burns after an accident.

But many have been blatant about the reason they won't be in Ohio: They still do not support Donald Trump, who will become the party's official nominee this week.

"Sen. [Ben] Sasse will not be attending the convention and will instead take his kids to watch some dumpster fires across the state, all of which enjoy more popularity than the current front-runners," a spokesman for the Nebraska Republican and frequent Trump critic told The Hill.

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who clashed with Trump in his attempt to mend fences with congressional Republicans earlier this month, has said he will be "mowing my lawn," according to the New York Times. Montana Sen. Steve Daines also told the paper he'll literally be gone fishing (fly fishing, that is).

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a former Trump rival who hasn't endorsed him yet, will not even attend the RNC in his home state. He will be in Cleveland, but attending breakfasts for several state delegations and speaking to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Some lawmakers have planned foreign trips in lieu of the trek to Cleveland.

Perhaps most noticeably, past Republican presidents and nominees are taking a hard pass. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush will not attend and are not supporting Trump — not surprising since Trump viciously attacked Jeb, their son and brother respectively, during the primary.

Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, isn't coming either. He has been vocally opposed to Trump, blasting him in a speech earlier this year as a "fraud" and a "phony." Arizona Sen. John McCain, who was the party's 2008 nominee, is skipping as well. He has endorsed Trump but needs to focus on his own competitive re-election — one that's been made more difficult by some of Trump's incendiary comments about Hispanics in the heavily Latino state.

The only living GOP nominee who will be attending is Bob Dole, who failed to defeat President Bill Clinton in 1996. The 92-year-old former Senate majority leader is not listed as a speaker.

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/18/486398726/dumpster-fires-fishing-and-travel-these-republicans-are-sitting-out-the-rnc

[hitmanyr2k]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-578d17b2/turbine/la-1468864689-snap-photo

First thing that popped into my head when I saw this pic was the Ghostbusters theme.

[Reck]

This is pathetic. Using a tragedy for political gain.

Dont care if you hate Hillary but to say she's to blame for the death of some guy is pretty stupid.

[Splits]

:lmao Charles in Charge

[djohn2oo8]

:lol is this the best they can do?

[TheGreatYacht]

This is pathetic. Using a tragedy for political gain.

Dont care if you hate Hillary but to say she's to blame for the death of some guy is pretty stupid.
It's the only dirt they can find on her. You expect repugs to criticize her political views?

They can't even use the war on Iraq vote against her anymore, check this out :lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxbpP45Mzw&feature=share

[djohn2oo8]

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[djohn2oo8]

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:lol sheer lunacy

[Pelicans78]

I'm waiting for the next speaker to be someone who was shot by a black man.

[djohn2oo8]

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[Pelicans78]

Nevermind, they have this Uncle Tom up there speaking.

[Pelicans78]

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I expected a pic of him chowing down on a hot dog.

[ducks]

Sheriff Clarke is telling like it is
Blue lives matter

[djohn2oo8]

Sheriff Clarke is telling like it is
Blue lives matter
There are no blue lives.

[TheGreatYacht]

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[Reck]

So many old fucking people in this shit. :lol

[Reck]

There are no blue lives.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/6c0f38d27b3394adea62c540f2be13a1/tumblr_mh5b8fC1jN1qh90fbo1_250.gif

[djohn2oo8]

https://66.media.tumblr.com/6c0f38d27b3394adea62c540f2be13a1/tumblr_mh5b8fC1jN1qh90fbo1_250.gif
:lmao

[TheGreatYacht]

Old republicans: :cry black lives matter? What about all other lives? So racist #AllLivesMatter :cry

same Old republicans: Blue lives matter!

[spurraider21]

that was the most rehearsed, vomit-inducing shit i've seen in some time

[Splits]

Make America Safe Again

https://i.imgur.com/sNGCCvV.png

[spurraider21]

its 2014? :wow

[Splits]

its 2014? :wow

Latest data published by the FBI.

Your supposition is that 2015 and to-date '16 have spiked?

[spurraider21]

Latest data published by the FBI.

Your supposition is that 2015 and to-date '16 have spiked?
i don't have the data to say either way

[TheGreatYacht]

Make America Safe Again

https://i.imgur.com/sNGCCvV.png
Obama actually made America safer. Stay woke, repugs.

[TheGreatYacht]

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Getting paid to keep motherfuckers awake :lol props

[ducks]

Everyone make 4K less since 1999

We are on right track ask Clinton!!!!!

[Reck]

i don't have the data to say either way

The graph thrend is on a downward expiral. Whatever spike there was from 2015 to right now it's not going to be a significant either way so you can safety say that the thrend remains on the low side.

[DMX7]

What a speech by Rudy!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

What a speech by Rudy!

:lol BENGHAZI!!!

[Reck]

Rudy has become a crazy old shouting man. :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

What a speech by Rudy!
Rudy: ARE WE CRAZY?
Crowd: Yeah! Shit. Wait.....

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

You should love Trump for all the things you don't know about!

[DMX7]

We are the champions!

[DMX7]

Melania for President!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You have to think what all the inbreds think of this Eastern European. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.

[TheGreatYacht]

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Holy shit :lmao /convention

[FuzzyLumpkins]

She's hard to pay attention to. Anyone believe she really understand "the hardships of day to day life" since going from Milan to Paris to NY?

[ElNono]

Can we have subtitles while this broad speaks, please?

[Splits]

Haven't seen that much hate with niggas on stage since Michael Vick's last underground event. I thought the cunt wife was going to sprout wings and start spitting fire. Pretty sure the only job Rudy is fit for is an undertaker.

Also :lol more blacks speaking than in the audience

[Reck]

Can we have subtitles while this broad speaks, please?

:lol

Trump is showing us the paf to unity.

[Splits]

Can we have subtitles while this broad speaks, please?

They should just show us the teleprompter she's trying to read from.

[Reck]

755223154168066050

Holy shit :lmao /convention

Burn motherfucker, burn. :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'm not worried about her language skills. A lot of ESOL types struggle with verb conjugation. The English language blows. She basically said nothing but cheap platitudes. Idiocracy may finally be here.

[DarrinS]

Lol, people watching this -- especially people that hate the GOP

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Lol, people watching this -- especially people that hate the GOP

LOL dipshits that are spoonfed their politics and what to think. Hearing only what you want to hear is at the core of confirmation bias, dipshit.

[ElNono]

Lol, people watching this -- especially people that hate the GOP

Isn't it what this is all about? showbiz? :lol

I'm actually doing work in the background here...

[ElNono]

I guess if you don't watch you're a low-iq voter that didn't inform themselves...

[TheGreatYacht]

While repugs have some gold digging broad and the Duck Dynasty dude speaking for their candidate... Others are hitting it out of the park! Can't wait for next week :tu

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

The crowd is leaving before it's over.

When people walk out of movies what does showbiz make of it?

[DarrinS]

LOL dipshits that are spoonfed their politics and what to think. Hearing only what you want to hear is at the core of confirmation bias, dipshit.

I've noticed that people who disagree with you can't form their own opinions. Good thing you're here to set the record straight. So smart.

[Trainwreck2100]

Donald fucking trump conned his way into being one of the last 2 remaining people eligible to be leader of the free world. You souls be watching this is historic shit

[DarrinS]

While repugs have some gold digging broad and the Duck Dynasty dude speaking for their candidate... Others are hitting it out of the park! Can't wait for next week :tu

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Hands up -- don't shoot. So credible. false narratives kill cops.

[DMX7]

DNC Convention is going to destroy this...

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I've noticed that people who disagree with you can't form their own opinions. Good thing you're here to set the record straight. So smart.

I challenge your opinions and call you out on untruths. I don't prevent you from forming them but there is an objective reality. Your disposition is that of a coward: "Fuzzy won't let me have an opinion! :cry"

[spurraider21]

Rudy's speech was perfect for his audience. this lieutenant general is the worst speaker in the history of language

[DarrinS]

I challenge your opinions and call you out on untruths. I don't prevent you from forming them but there is an objective reality. Your disposition is that of a coward: "Fuzzy won't let me have an opinion! :cry"


Calling people out on the Internet. So brave.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Calling people out on the Internet. So brave.

Hypocrisy comes so easily to you. What do you think youre doing right now to me, dipshit?

The only courage you can have on the interwebs is of the intellectual sort. You clearly lack it.

[DarrinS]

DNC Convention is going to destroy this...


Just don't make nodding a drinking game, or you'll die


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iYjcbr1ClI

[DarrinS]

Hypocrisy comes so easily to you. What do you think youre doing right now to me, dipshit?

The only courage you can have on the interwebs is of the intellectual sort. You clearly lack it.


The smartest people I know never have to tell anyone how smart they are -- and how dumb others are. You've always struck me as highly insecure, but I could be wrong.

[Reck]

DNC Convention is going to destroy this...

How so?

[baseline bum]

So many old fucking people in this shit. :lol

Next thing they'll start playing beisbol at the RNC, Christie could make a good first baseman.

[DarrinS]

I'm not noting for either of these assholes.

Deez Nuts still running?

[ElNono]

Wonder if the place is empty due to security clearance concerns?

[Reck]

Lol, people watching this -- especially people that hate the GOP

What are you saying? That non republicans shouldn't be watching this? What kind of dumb logic is this?

There are plenty of undecided voters that are either democrats or independents that want to hear this side of things.

[pgardn]

The purpose of this site is to be as critical as possible. (I can't imagine a bunch of ST posters actually solving a problem)
The Republicans will get their chance to be derogatory.

This just happens to be a really easy year to decree major suckage.

[Harry Callahan]

Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton need to be in the old folks home eating pudding. Mrs. Clinton has had multiple TIAs and needs blood thinners. Bernie has that look of eternal constipation. What a couple of great Americans those two are.

The bar has definitely been lowered in donkeyland.

[DarrinS]

What are you saying? That non republicans shouldn't be watching this? What kind of dumb logic is this?

There are plenty of undecided voters that are either democrats or independents that want to hear this side of things.


Good point. I'm just saying there are some people watching just to bash it. And they would bash it regardless of what they heard.

[ElNono]

Also, 90% of the speeches seem to be about war, vets or the military... I don't get how that's supposed to inspire independents? I guess Ryan will eventually make an appearance and talks some fiscal conservatism...

[Trainwreck2100]

Next thing they'll start playing beisbol at the RNC, Christie could make a good first baseman.

A man that skinny belongs in the outfield

[ElNono]

Next thing they'll start playing beisbol at the RNC, Christie could make a good first baseman.

:lol

[Trainwreck2100]

Also, 90% of the speeches seem to be about war, vets or the military... I don't get how that's supposed to inspire independents? I guess Ryan will eventually make an appearance and talks some fiscal conservatism...

I'm so.fucking tired of hearing about benghazi people died, but that's what happens in muslim land move the fuck on already

[TheGreatYacht]

Next thing they'll start playing beisbol at the RNC, Christie could make a good first baseman.
:lmao

[ElNono]

I saw a young guy in the crowd... we can put the old people only myth to rest.

[ElNono]

DNC Convention is going to destroy this...

How so? Shillary is such a terrible candidate. I mean, I think 3/4 of these guys are nuts, but they look 250x more credible than Clinton or Trump.

[DarrinS]

I saw a young guy in the crowd... we can put the old people only myth to rest.

How the hell did he get in? It was supposed to be only straight white Christian males over the age of 60.

[baseline bum]

Also, 90% of the speeches seem to be about war, vets or the military... I don't get how that's supposed to inspire independents? I guess Ryan will eventually make an appearance and talks some fiscal conservatism...

Did I miss Netenyahu's speech?

[ElNono]

Did I miss Netenyahu's speech?

lol, waiting for Putin to speak, tbh...

[HI-FI]

cool to see GE Smith in the background, wondering what that nig was up to.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Everyone make 4K less since 1999

We are on right track ask Clinton!!!!!

I make at least 40k more since 1999. What's your point

[Oh, Gee!!]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnqeTINXEAUri4d.jpg


Is that the RNC or opening night for Ghostbusters 2K16?

[Pelicans78]

Theme of the RNC Convention: The Master Race.

[hitmanyr2k]

Oh boy :lol

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[angrydude]

Also, 90% of the speeches seem to be about war, vets or the military... I don't get how that's supposed to inspire independents? I guess Ryan will eventually make an appearance and talks some fiscal conservatism...

Because the theme of today is Make America safe again.

Tomorrow it is going to be about something else.

[angrydude]

Oh boy :lol

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In her defense, she probably didn't write her own speech and had never heard it before. Some lazy ass speech writer just got fired.

[angrydude]

Theme of the RNC Convention: The Master Race.

That's an insult to people in this world who actually do suffer racism.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The smartest people I know never have to tell anyone how smart they are -- and how dumb others are. You've always struck me as highly insecure, but I could be wrong.

Bertrand Russell used to do it all the time as did Einstein. Where do you think his quote about people repeating themselves was getting at?

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

Here's one that reminds me of you and WC quite often:

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
-Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
-Bertrand Russell

Here's another one I take to heart:

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

I don't comment on how smart I am either. People take multisyllables to mean that but that doesn't make it true.

It's been noted that you just dropped your rank hypocrisy about coming in here and calling people only to whine about being called out in your own right.

[ElNono]

Because the theme of today is Make America safe again.

Tomorrow it is going to be about something else.

Didn't know that. Thanks!

[spurraider21]

Everyone make 4K less since 1999

We are on right track ask Clinton!!!!!
so things are usually good during clinton presidencies?

[ElNono]

That Luttrell guy always looked like that, or is that what war does to you? He looks like he could snap any minute and do a murder-suicide...

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Is that the RNC or opening night for Ghostbusters 2K16?

The Gamergate misogyny has gotten old. The movie opened its first week #1 at $46m. It's certainly not a blockbuster but for all the vitriol it's hardly a failure like this convention's attendance.

[spurraider21]

Didn't know that. Thanks!
:rollin

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Good point. I'm just saying there are some people watching just to bash it. And they would bash it regardless of what they heard.

I actually wanted to hear Melania as other than quotes I hadn't really heard her. You should speak for yourself, dimwit.

[ElNono]

:rollin

:lol srsly, I had no idea that was the theme

[Wild Cobra]

Everyone make 4K less since 1999

We are on right track ask Clinton!!!!!

I'm making about $30k less, without the inflation effects.

[Wild Cobra]

I make at least 40k more since 1999. What's your point

Depending on your staring wages in 1999, that sound like normal inflation to me. Making six figures in 1999 to 2001, 40k would be about right for me now.

[Reck]

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:lmao

[DarrinS]

Oh boy :lol

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Just words


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc

[DarrinS]

I won't even go into Biden ::lol

[Reck]

Just words


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc


This plays into the narrative that Trump and his campaign do not know what they're doing.

The saddest part about this is that Melania had no clue about what she was even speaking. :lol

[Splits]

I guess Ryan will eventually make an appearance and talks some fiscal conservatism...

:lmao you mean "grandma eats cat food and the billionaires buy more yachts"? Can't believe you fall for this fraudster. He's worse than Trump.

[spurraider21]

props to giuliani for getting through all that without ever uttering 9/11

[Splits]

Just words


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc

:lmao only a fuckwad like you could try to compare using the same 2 words while quoting MLK to 2 entire plagiarized paragraphs

[Splits]

First noticed by Jarrett Hill (https://twitter.com/JarrettHill/status/755242423991709697), here is the relevant segment of Melania Trump's remarks:


From a young age my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life. That your work is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise. That you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son, and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. I am fortunate for my heritage but also for where it brought me today.



And here's an excerpt of Michelle Obama's "One Nation" speech from 2008:


And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them. And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and to pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

[hitmanyr2k]

Just words


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc

Deval Patrick and Obama actually collaborated on this during the 2008 primary. He sent the language to Obama's speech writers. I doubt Melania and Michelle were doing the same.

[ElNono]

:lmao you mean "grandma eats cat food and the billionaires buy more yachts"? Can't believe you fall for this fraudster. He's worse than Trump.

:lol Oh, I don't like him at all. I thought he was a terrible pick for VP too. I'm just saying, today was kinda like "I'm gonna double-down on the previous speaker and spook you all some more"...

[ElNono]

props to giuliani for getting through all that without ever uttering 9/11

:lol

[ElNono]

and about the plagiarism, I kinda feel bad for her, tbh, I'm sure she already had a hard time reciting what they prepared for her... it's pathetic, but I don't know there should be a lot of outrage when today's politicos basically repeat the same shit over and over...

"Jesus picked me himself to lead the nation!", "Benghazi!", "Hillary untrustworthy!", "Donald Hitler!", "blah blah blah Black Lives Matter blah blah blah", "Person X is is unqualified for position Y".... you could go on and on...

[Splits]

The plagiarism is probably the best news from day 1 of the RNC. If you listen to the rest of the speeches, it was about as hateful, cruel, divisive, and racist as could be devised.

Plagiarism is a good distraction. Lesser of 17 evils.

[Reck]

and about the plagiarism, I kinda feel bad for her, tbh, I'm sure she already had a hard time reciting what they prepared for her... it's pathetic, but I don't know there should be a lot of outrage when today's politicos basically repeat the same shit over and over...

"Jesus picked me himself to lead the nation!", "Benghazi!", "Hillary untrustworthy!", "Donald Hitler!", "blah blah blah Black Lives Matter blah blah blah", "Person X is is unqualified for position Y".... you could go on and on...

I think the part where people are coming down on her is because she said she wrote the speech herself. Obviously that's not true.

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Pretty much a shot by self situation here.

[spurraider21]

the black sheriff dude is a registered democrat? :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

The speech writer even put a Rick Roll line in there :lmao

Said it before and I'll say it again. When you nominate a clown, you get a circus :lmao

Just wait until Hillary debates this cuck 1 on 1 lmao.

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[boutons_deux]

i don't have the data to say either way

and your emotional positions don't GAF about data and facts, anyway

[boutons_deux]

Nobody Showed Up To The “Women For Trump” Event


http://www.viralwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screenshot-66-15.png

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Laurie-Penny/141910495879521?source=whfrt&position=1009&trqid=6308987138484333133

[cd021]

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[djohn2oo8]

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[pgardn]

I think the part where people are coming down on her is because she said she wrote the speech herself. Obviously that's not true.

755255314107162624

Pretty much a shot by self situation here.

She married Donald F'N Trump. There is a certain amount of depth one has to lack to do something like marry Donald Trump.

[CosmicCowboy]

It's obvious the speech was plagiarized. The only logical explanation is the speech writer ws planted and intentionally sabotaged her. Shows again how Trumps lack of a back room organization to support the campaign is going to hurt him between now and the election. Hillary has him out matched 100-1 in staff and organization since she has been running for office for 25 years.

[Reck]

It's obvious the speech was plagiarized. The only logical explanation is the speech writer ws planted and intentionally sabotaged her. Shows again how Trumps lack of a back room organization to support the campaign is going to hurt him between now and the election. Hillary has him out matched 100-1 in staff and organization since she has been running for office for 25 years.

:lol

How do you explain the fact that Melania said she wrote the speech herself then?

She comes off as a liar out of this.

[Th'Pusher]

It's obvious the speech was plagiarized. The only logical explanation is the speech writer ws planted and intentionally sabotaged her. Shows again how Trumps lack of a back room organization to support the campaign is going to hurt him between now and the election. Hillary has him out matched 100-1 in staff and organization since she has been running for office for 25 years.

Not sure if serious.

I think it might have been intentional to dominate the news cycle. With the exception of the never trump protest to start of the convention, God knows there was nothing else newsworthy that was said...

[CosmicCowboy]

:lol

How do you explain the fact that Melania said she wrote the speech herself then?

She comes off as a liar out of this.

You come off as an idiot.

You honestly think she intentionally reproduced the speech word for word?

I realize you are a die hard mamas boy liberal that is predisposed to think anyone more conservative that you is stupid, but your prejudice is clouding your logic.

[CosmicCowboy]

Not sure if serious.

I think it might have been intentional to dominate the news cycle. With the exception of the never trump protest to start of the convention, God knows there was nothing else newsworthy that was said...

Thats just dumb.

She and the family are the most favorable things Trump had going for him. They wouldn't have intentionally tarnished that image with this.

[Reck]

You come off as an idiot.

You honestly think she intentionally reproduced the speech word for word?

I realize you are a die hard mamas boy liberal that is predisposed to think anyone more conservative that you is stupid, but your prejudice is clouding your logic.

:lmao

Defeated your shitty retort in one post and you immediately lash out in anger. :lmao

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

Defeated your shitty retort in one post and you immediately lash out in anger. :lmao

You didn't defeat shit mamas boy. Your ignorance is showing.

[boutons_deux]

Benghazi! Hillary murdered my son!

immigrants killing everybody!

"law and order" (on the blacks, browns only)

God loves only Repug and guns, hates gays

Same as lies from Repugs for years and years.

https://www.gop.com/platform/

[boutons_deux]

Steve King (Iowa! :lol ) goes full, explicit Euro-white Christian supremacy.

Steve King raises eyebrows with racially charged comments

Steve King of Iowa on Monday questioned where “any other subgroup of people” contributed more to society than in Western civilization.

“This ‘old, white people’ business does get a little tired,” King said on MSNBC Monday, hours before the first speaker would take the stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

“I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about – where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”

he believes the greatest contributions of civilization have come from “Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Unites States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world.”

the Republican Party has a demographic problem: in a country of increasing racial and ethnic diversity, the GOP relies overwhelmingly on older, white voters. Asked to reflect on his party’s challenge, Steve King told a national television audience that white people are awesome.

GOP presidential candidates, eager to do well in the first caucus state, treated the far-right lawmaker as a perfectly credible figure, worthy of respect.

And this goes beyond just the campaign trail. As recently as two years ago, House Republican leaders, unable to govern themselves, effectively handed King control (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-poised-let-steve-king-win) over the congressional GOP’s immigration policy.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/steve-king-raises-eyebrows-racially-charged-comments?cid=sm_fb_maddow

King, like Trash, making explicit what the Repugs have been saying 50+ years.

[FromWayDowntown]

I understand a primary goal of any convention to be to keep eyes on the convention while it's in progress and to ensure as many people as possible hear its message free of extraneous distractions.

I'd say the GOP got that one 100% right on Day 1 this year.

[Pelicans78]

Another example of Trump running a sloppy campaign. Not gonna be the Clinton machine with all of these little mistakes.

[hater]

Trump making this the most exciting and watched convention in history of the human world!!!

Amazing stuff. America truly can be great again under him.

I will be there front row at his inaguration in the national mall :cry

[hater]

:lmao Shillary and her "look at me speeches and tweets" :lmao

She's beyond pathetic at this point.

[TheGreatYacht]

I will be there front row at his inaguration in the national mall :cry hater just won Hillary the election? :wow

[hater]

hater just won Hillary the election? :wow

I was right about Trump all along so far.

I also did say only reason he would lose is if a bullet or projectile ends his run or if a massive smear campaign by the MIC, Wall Street and the thugs derails him.

Other than that Trump will anihilate Shillary.

[boutons_deux]

Poll: AMERICANS WORRIED ABOUT KEEPING FAMILIES SAFE FROM RUDY GIULIANI


http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Borowitz-Giuliani-1200.jpg


CLEVELAND — In what promises to be a key issue in the 2016 general election, a majority of Americans now say that they want a President who can keep their families safe from Rudy Giuliani, a new poll finds.

According to the poll, which was conducted on Monday night by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, an unprovoked attack by Giuliani now rivals immigration, terrorism, and the economy as a top concern of likely voters.

In interviews across the country, voters expressed dismay that neither of the major political parties’ presumptive nominees had offered a coherent plan to prevent the former mayor of New York from harming them or their families in a sudden fit of rage.

“He clearly could go off at any moment, and no one is talking about how to stop him,”

Carol Foyler, a mother of two from suburban San Jose, said.

“I feel less safe from Rudy Giuliani than I did one night ago.”

Harland Dorrinson, a father of three in Toledo, shared her concerns.

“When I put my kids to bed last night, I told them, ‘Don’t worry, the bad man on TV can’t hurt you,’ ” he said. “I wish I could believe that. I really do.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/poll-americans-worried-about-keeping-families-safe-from-rudy-giuliani?mbid=nl_071916%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20 (1)&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9223449&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961510919&spReportId=OTYxNTEwOTE5S0 (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/poll-americans-worried-about-keeping-families-safe-from-rudy-giuliani?mbid=nl_071916%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20 (1)&CNDID=43758549&spMailingID=9223449&spUserID=MTQzNTk4MTA2MDYxS0&spJobID=961510919&spReportId=OTYxNTEwOTE5S0)

[TheGreatYacht]

I was right about Trump all along so far.

I also did say only reason he would lose is if a bullet or projectile ends his run or if a massive smear campaign by the MIC, Wall Street and the thugs derails him.

Other than that Trump will anihilate Shillary.
Ma nig making sure the raza don't get deported :toast

[RandomGuy]

Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton need to be in the old folks home eating pudding. Mrs. Clinton has had multiple TIAs and needs blood thinners. Bernie has that look of eternal constipation. What a couple of great Americans those two are.

The bar has definitely been lowered in donkeyland.

The bar was pretty much removed in elephantland.

[boutons_deux]

RNC manipulates the pain of a grieving mother for partisan gain

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/fullsizerender55.jpeg?itok=Cx-CesMd

This (http://www.nbcnews.com/card/mother-benghazi-victim-blames-clinton-sons-death-n612051) was probably the lowest point a party has reached in my lifetime.


The mother of an American killed in the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, said she personally blames Hillary Clinton for her son’s death.

“She deserves to be in stripes,” [Pat] Smith said of Clinton…. “I personally blame Hillary Clinton for the death of my son,” Smith said while fighting back tears.


The convention soon after turned over the stage to two veterans who proceeded to blatantly lie about assorted Benghazi conspiracy theories – each of which contradicted the findings of the Republicans’ own investigations.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rnc-manipulates-the-pain-grieving-mother-partisan-gain?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Repugs! shitbags

Repug supporters! ignorant, dupes fuckoffs screwing themselves

[spurraider21]

As if Democrats never politicize loss? Both sides do it and then both sides criticize the other side for doing it.

Time and time again.

[boutons_deux]

As if Democrats never politicize loss? Both sides do it and then both sides criticize the other side for doing it.

Time and time again.

Link?

[Splits]

Remember all those 2004 DNC speeches from 9/11 widows blaming Bush?

[spurraider21]

Link?
Calling for gun control day after Orlando shooting, etc.

Not even saying I disagree with the policy. But it's politicizing tragedy nonetheless. Same with police shootings prior to Dallas, etc

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Link?

They have Martin, Brown, et al mothers coming on for the DNC convention. Do you really need a link for that?

[pgardn]

Remember all those 2004 DNC speeches from 9/11 widows blaming Bush?

Because it happened early in his presidency and many of the Democrats walked right into the war with him. The Democrats would have if they could. Add to that the same group had already committed terrorist acts at the WTC under Bill Clinton.

Oh and we got the Giants of Democrats on this board who do, Nbdan and Cosmofruitbat.

[pgardn]

Link?

Seriously boots?

[boutons_deux]

Remember all those 2004 DNC speeches from 9/11 widows blaming Bush?

They were true, the repugs did fuckup on WTC

Hillary murdering Benghazi staff is a lie

[pgardn]

They were true, the repugs did fuckup on WTC

Hillary murdering Benghazi staff is a lie


Then so did Bill Clinton and the Democrats. He should have stopped Bin Laden first (a Republican might say)

[TheGreatYacht]

Why is half the place empty? :lol Is there WWE or NASCAR on right now?

[Reck]

Then so did Bill Clinton and the Democrats. He should have stopped Bin Laden first (a Republican might say)

?

No one that I can remember personally blamed Bush of killing American soldiers.

This lady got made to come to stage to basically call Hillary a murderer which crosses the line.

I had no problem with her speech before the end where she went on a crazy tangent about Hillary killing her son and blaming her personally like she shot him himself.

[Th'Pusher]

Thats just dumb.

She and the family are the most favorable things Trump had going for him. They wouldn't have intentionally tarnished that image with this.

Fair enough.

So you were being serious when you said, "The only logical explanation is the speech writer ws planted and intentionally sabotaged her."?

Honest question

[pgardn]

?

No one that I can remember personally blamed Bush of killing American soldiers.

This lady got made to come to stage to basically call Hillary a murderer which crosses the line.

I had no problem with her speech before the end where she went on a crazy tangent about Hillary killing her son and blaming her personally like she shot him himself.

This is in response to Boots stating the Republicans fd up on the WTC.

[TeyshaBlue]

They have Martin, Brown, et al mothers coming on for the DNC convention. Do you really need a link for that?

Maddow hasn't told him how to respond. Be patient.

[DarrinS]

Why is half the place empty? :lol Is there WWE or NASCAR on right now?


KKK rally, tbh.

[djohn2oo8]

:lol Alaska rejecting the ruling

[Reck]

GOP cheating Alaska out and not giving two fucks about it. :lmao

[djohn2oo8]

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[boutons_deux]

Why is half the place empty?


TCM has Fistful of Dollars.

[pgardn]

TCM has Fistful of Dollars.

I would switch from any convention for that flick.

[hater]

Im amazed :wow

What leadership!

Donald Trump will be the greatest leader in history of humankind. Book it

[ElNono]

Why is half the place empty? :lol Is there WWE or NASCAR on right now?

WWE is actually happening in there...

[Reck]

This the RNC convention or the Hillary convention?

Holy shit.

[djohn2oo8]

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[djohn2oo8]

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[hater]

:lmao Shillary with the "look at me" shit while the world watches the GOP convention.

Crazy bitch :lol

[InRareForm]

Hater you are annoying AF in this thread

[TheGreatYacht]

:lmao Shillary with the "look at me" shit while the world watches the GOP convention.

Crazy bitch :lol
RNC mentioning Hillary more than Cuckald :lmao

[TheGreatYacht]

WWE is actually happening in there...

KKK rally, tbh.
:lol

[Splits]

UFC is actually happening in there...

fixed

xhpd_EcCz78

:lol Dana White as a featured speaker

[ElNono]

^ :lol

[ElNono]

There's Paul Ryan...

[hater]

Hater you are annoying AF in this thread

Not as much as Shillary tbh

"look at me!"

[ElNono]

http://bucket3.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/elecciones-en-eeuu-2016-2238285w640.jpg

:lol

[baseline bum]

http://bucket3.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/elecciones-en-eeuu-2016-2238285w640.jpg

:lol

:lmao

[Reck]

The theme of this night is Put America to work.

Instead they spend the entire night role playing and playing court justice and indicting Hillary. :lmao

[DarrinS]

The theme of this night is Put America to work.

Instead they spend the entire night role playing and playing court justice and indicting Hillary. :lmao


There's so much material tho

[djohn2oo8]

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[ElNono]

The theme of this night is Put America to work.

Instead they spend the entire night role playing and playing court justice and indicting Hillary. :lmao

:lol

At least this fat fuck isn't here in Jersey, tbh... the GOP can borrow him for as long as they need

[hater]

:lmao Christie Soprano decapitating and quartering Shilary :lol

First Rubio, now shillary... Fat boy got more skins than Tonto :lol

[DarrinS]

fixed

xhpd_EcCz78

:lol Dana White as a featured speaker


Can't wait for DNC to get hijacked by BLM. :lol

[djohn2oo8]

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:lol

[Reck]

:lmao Christie Soprano decapitating and quartering Shilary :lol

First Rubio, now shillary... Fat boy got more skins than Tonto :lol


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:lol

Dealt with one tweet. :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Can't wait for DNC to get hijacked by BLM. :lol
What's wrong with BLM?

[ElNono]

:lmao this is Make America Work Again?

[hater]

Can't wait for DNC to get hijacked by BLM. :lol

:lmao

That shit is gonna be epic and hilarious. Maybe the cops will walk out :lol

[Splits]

What's wrong with BLM?

It's racist, singles out a single group for special treatment

:cry Blue Lives Matter :cry

[TheGreatYacht]

This cocksucker's got Trump's gobble chin :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

It's racist, singles out a single group for special treatment

:cry Blue Lives Matter :cry
:lol

Cucks love their bacon

[TheGreatYacht]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqGdSGvLfY&feature=share

[spurraider21]

:lmao this is Make America Work Again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRzJURUOxJo

[rmt]

Donald Trump Jr. is EXACTLY RIGHT with what he says about our public schools, school choice and teachers' unions.

[spurraider21]

Donald Trump Jr. is EXACTLY RIGHT with what he says about our public schools, school choice and teachers' unions.
https://media.giphy.com/media/JPAUQVIxCoEKY/200.gif

[Spurminator]

It's funny watching people try to talk themselves into the idea that this isn't the worst spectacle in the history of American politics.

[ElNono]

he kinda overdid the orange... looks more like brown

[ducks]

Trump Jr. is a great speaker
Wish he would run for office

[Spurminator]

Trump Jr. is a great speaker
Wish he would run for office

You have high standards.

[TheGreatYacht]

Mentioning Lucifer infront of a bunch of bible huggers, :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

This D-List celebrity plugging her businesses, :lol

[FkLA]

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:lol

"I'm the biggest crook out there but he's a crook too so he can't talk!!!"

Jesus christ, I really hope this crooked bitch is assassinated.

[spurraider21]

"I'm the biggest crook out there but he's a crook too so he can't talk!!!"

Jesus christ, I really hope this crooked bitch is assassinated.
with bernie as VP tbh

[Reck]

"I'm the biggest crook out there but he's a crook too so he can't talk!!!"

Jesus christ, I really hope this crooked bitch is assassinated.

Rich coming from someone from the most corrupt country in the world. :lol Vicente Fox

[ElNono]

What I learned from Ben Carson tonight is that his god is a bitch diva... "if you stop paying attention to him, he's gonna leave you!"

[FkLA]

Rich coming from someone from the most corrupt country in the world. :lol Vicente Fox

"You were born in a corrupt country so you can't criticize my corrupt Shillary." :madrun

[Reck]

What I learned from Ben Carson tonight is that his god is a bitch diva... "if you stop paying attention to him, he's gonna leave you!"

I give Ben lots of credits. Guy can read a teleprompter with his eyes close. :lol

[pgardn]

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Damn that's a whole lot of old.

[hater]

Amazing group of people rallying around Trump :wow

Christie for secretary of state. Junior for secretary of education. Melania for secretary of health and human resources.

Please do it Donald. Great stuff...

[Reck]

Nate Silver (http://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/nate-silver/) 10:33 PM
Just got a transcript of tonight’s remarks. The scoreboard: “Clinton” was mentioned 79 times and “Trump” 61 times. Variations on “work” or “working,” the alleged theme of the evening, were mentioned 48 times.

:lol

[pgardn]

Amazing group of people rallying around Trump :wow

Christie for secretary of state. Junior for secretary of education. Melania for secretary of health and human resources.

Please do it Donald. Great stuff...

Your trolling is legendarily pitiful.

[hater]

As I said months ago, Trumps right hand woman from his Apprentice show should be chief of staff. Bitch would be the greatest chief of staff in history.

Amarosa for special envoy to the Russian Federation.

[Splits]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqGdSGvLfY&feature=share

Thought that was a real beisb:loll game until I read the title of the vid. Kristy & Fielder would make a mean 3/4 cleanup duo.

[TheGreatYacht]

Thought that was a real beisb:loll game until I read the title of the vid. Kristy & Fielder would make a mean 3/4 cleanup duo.
But he runs a good 40! - Mid :lol

[Splits]

But he runs a good 40! - Mid :lol

18mph! He could win the decathlon in Rio!

[TheGreatYacht]

18mph! He could win the decathlon in Rio!
:lmao

[spurraider21]

18mph! He could win the decathlon in Rio!
:lol mid
:lol prince fielder faster than ronaldo

[boutons_deux]

:lmao this is Make America Work Again?

yeah, Repugs, over dubya's 8 years, were the worst job creators since WWII.

Obama and ACA destroyed the economy, moving unemployment from dubya's 10% to under 5% now.

[hater]

Junior Trump for 2024

16 years of Trump presidency awaits us. Calling it right now fellas.

[140]

Thought that was a real beisb:loll game until I read the title of the vid. Kristy & Fielder would make a mean 3/4 cleanup duo.


But he runs a good 40! - Mid :lol


18mph! He could win the decathlon in Rio!


:lol mid
:lol prince fielder faster than ronaldo
:lmao:lmao:lmao

[djohn2oo8]

Trump Jr with another plagiarized speech lol

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/donald-trump-jr-frank-buckley/index.html

[rmt]

Trump Jr with another plagiarized speech lol

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/donald-trump-jr-frank-buckley/index.html

How can it be plagiarism if the the speech writer who helped Trump Jr. write it used his own words?

But Buckley quickly responded: "Except it wasn't stealing ... "

He then told CNN: "I was a principal speechwriter for the speech. So it's not an issue."

[boutons_deux]

It's almost if somebody meant to sabotage the plastic bitch and Trash by inserting Michelle's words

Breaking: Plagiarized Parts of Melania Trump’s Speech Not in Speechwriter’s Draft

Hallie Jackson of NBC News just revealed (http://www.salon.com/2016/07/19/breaking_plagiarized_portions_of_melania_trumps_rn c_speech_not_in_speechwriters_draft_nbc_reports/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow) that the plagiarized bits of Melania Trump’s keynote speech last night were not written by the Trump campaign’s professional speechwriter, Matt Scully.

Jackson reported that the stolen parts were added after Scully had handed in his draft. The New York Times reported (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/us/politics/melania-trump-speech.html)that Scully sent his version to the campaign about a month ago, and that he was unaware of the changes until he himself watched Trump deliver the speech last night.

"probably an unfortunate oversight,” :lol

While physics professors and linguists have determine (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288403-the-1-in-87-billion-chance-it-wasnt-plagiarism)d that there is a 1 in 87 billion chance (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/288403-the-1-in-87-billion-chance-it-wasnt-plagiarism) that Melania Trump accidentally chose the same ordering of observations as Mrs. Obama,

RNC Chief Strategist Sean Spicer was clumsier with his defense of Mrs. Trump, attempting to use portions of children’s TV show “My Little Pony” (http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/sean-spicer-melania-trump-my-little-pony/) to explain the similarities while speaking with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

http://usuncut.com/news/melania-trump-speechwriter/

Trash is as sloppy running his campaign, having "hired the best people", as he was ignorantly, incompetently bankrupting his casinos while paying his grifter self $160M (and while other casinos stayed solvent)

[boutons_deux]

Ben Carson brings ‘Lucifer’ into the political conversation

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/afp_8h4qy_0.jpg?itok=AfCcJDgu

Inviting Ben Carson to give a high-profile speech at the Republican National Convention may have seemed like a good idea to party officials and organizers. The retired physician may have failed badly as a presidential candidate, but he remains popular with the GOP base, and his speeches tend to be well received.

Sure, Carson has struggled badly (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/friends-ben-carson-who-needs-enemies) at times as a surrogate for Donald Trump’s campaign, but how bad could he be in Cleveland? After all, the party would review his prepared remarks in advance.

Of course, that only works out when Carson actually sticks to the script. Last night, he didn’t (http://www.nbcnews.com/card/ben-carson-goes-way-script-n612936).

Ben Carson went off script during his convention address Tuesday night, linking frequent conservative target Saul Alinsky – and Lucifer – to Hillary Clinton.

“One of the things I have learned about Hillary Clinton is that one of her heroes is Saul Alinsky,” Carson said.

Alinsky has been a popular target for the right and his ideas have been tied to President Obama and Clinton. Carson said Alinsky acknowledged Lucifer in one of his books.


Straying from his prepared text, Carson posed a hypothetical question to his audience: “This is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill in our wallet says in ‘In God We Trust.’ So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-brings-lucifer-the-political-conversation?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Holy shit, Tabliban Christianity really, really fucks up people's brains, making less human, incapable of using rationality.

[hater]

Junior is one of the most beautiful beings on earth. I'll gladly vote for him after Trump

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Chris Christie turns convention into Kangaroo Court

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--3-2--1_5x-1245x830/public/ap_491748095945.jpg?itok=k5H_xUlx

By any fair measure, no major-party presidential nominee has ever gone quite this far in offering public praise for dictatorships, and it’s one of the more unsettling elements of Trash’s candidacy.

But this dynamic is made vastly more serious when the signature phrase of Trump’s nominating convention is “Lock her up! (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rnc-lock-her-up_us_578ed8a4e4b0f180da6397a7)” being chanted by an arena full of enraged Republicans.

The toxicity of the combination matters. As we talked about (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-gops-preoccupation-imprisoning-clinton-isnt-normal) yesterday, the United States is not some banana republic, where one party vows to lock up the leaders of the other. And yet, against the backdrop of a GOP nominee who has a creepy affinity for authoritarian politics, we’re witnessing a national convention in which Republicans appear eager to grab some pitchforks and make a citizens’ arrest.

And as of last night, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) positioned himself as the mob’s ringleader.Slate’s Michelle Goldberg captured the scene (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/chris_christie_and_his_hateful_lock_her_up_mob.htm l):


Christie began by criticizing the Obama administration for failing to hold Clinton accountable for her “dismal record” as secretary of state.

“Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character,” said Christie.

The crowd erupted in chants of “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!” while Christie smiled and nodded.

“Give me a few more minutes, we’ll get there,” he continued.

“Here’s what we’re going to do. We’re gonna present the facts to you, you, tonight, sitting as a jury of her peers, both in this hall and in your living rooms around our nation.”


A series of charges followed. Some, like Clinton’s mishandling of Libya, were at least partly legitimate. Others were bizarre.

At one point, Christie faulted Clinton’s response to the mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria, which happened after she left office.

After each accusation, he asked, “Is she guilty or not guilty?” Each time, the crowd roared, “Guilty!”


July 19, 2016: the day the Republican National Convention became a Kangaroo Court.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/chris-christie-turns-convention-kangaroo-court?cid=sm_fb_maddow

Godwin alert!

The Repug convention, the shitbag nominee, and speakers, sound exactly like Germany in the 1930s.

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lol kangaroo court

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S2nciZQWFE

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Republican convention forgets its economic focus

Last night, however, offered the party an opportunity to share its economic message – which as Vox’s Matt Yglesias explained (http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12232428/make-america-work-again), also doesn’t exist.


On their “Make America Work Again” evening dedicated to jobs and the economy, Republicans needed to connect with Americans’ still-very-real economic pain without falling into the trap of painting an excessively dark and unrecognizable situation.

Instead of rising to that challenge, they talked about Benghazi. ( convicting Hillary to jail! :lol )

On the economic troubles afflicting the American middle class, they have nothing to say.


Who cares about job creation when there are Benghazi conspiracy theories to share?

The broader problem, of course, extends beyond convention rhetoric.

Republicans have controlled Congress for a year and a half, but they’ve demonstrated no real interest in economic policy.

GOP lawmakers have controlled the House since early 2011, and while they’ve prioritized “Obamacare” repeal votes, debt-ceiling crises, and government-shutdown gambits, they haven’t gotten around to creating a jobs plan.

Republicans no longer seem especially interested in the economy or making it better.

This may be a consequence of circumstance –

with the unemployment rate dropping from 10% to under 5% under President Obama, “Make America Work Again” was going to be a tough sell

– but for voters who still care about economic growth, the Republican Party’s indifference to the issue should matter on Election Day.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-convention-forgets-its-economic-focus?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[CosmicCowboy]

5% unemployment

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

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5% unemployment

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

what's your unemployment number, LGBT hater?