"A nasty woman"

[Sportcamper]

I never understood the bizarre theory that dinosaurs never existed…I grew up in religious schools in LA & we took field trips to the La Brea tar pits every year to check out the preserved skeletons…

[Sportcamper]

I didn't watch the video but isn't that Triceratops hoax older than Trump's presidential campaign?
Did it just get repackaged?

I think the humor is that one can go to Venice or Santa Monica Cali & interview same of the dumbest most gullible people on the planet…The video is worth watching…The Trump brothers also killed an endangered Saber tooth tiger…

[baseline bum]

I think Cruz would have won, which is why I was happy Trump beat him. He would have invigorated much more of the evangelical vote that has been put off by Trump, and I think he would have done a better job of making Clinton's scandals a problem for her.

What evangelical vote has Trump lost? He's got Falwell Jr fellating him and evangelicals seem to support him in great numbers. Evangelicals are pretty often straight ticket voters because of abortion.

[spurraider21]

No matter the outcome of the Senate this year, the fillibuster is dead, tbh.


And rightfully so. the Dakotas, Idaho, and other sucking holes overriding NY, Cali, and Texas.

unless trump wins the election somehow... then the filibuster will be alive and well

[baseline bum]

Also Cruz looks horrible on TV. He gives off this creepy uncle vibe. I know he is an extremely skilled debater but that did all for him in the Republican debates when no one stays on topic, and no one stays on topic in the general election debates either. Cruz is too religious, that wouldn't fly well today either.

[spurraider21]

Evangelicals are pretty often straight ticket voters because of abortion.

fitting that they're rallying behind an abortion of a candidate

[baseline bum]

No matter the outcome of the Senate this year, the fillibuster is dead, tbh.


And rightfully so. the Dakotas, Idaho, and other sucking holes overriding NY, Cali, and Texas.

What makes you say that? There is zero chance a party controls 60+ senate seats.

[baseline bum]

No way Jeb or Cruz would have gotten destroyed by Hillary especially compared to Trump who was the worst candidate to beat Hillary. Jeb would have gotten alot of mainstream/moderate Republicans plus has a really good record with Hispanics. Don't forget his brother won two terms as well and Jeb would have a had a ton of money to spend on against Hillary. Cruz would have had a tougher time, but he still had better a higher favorable opinion compared to Hillary. Hillary is such a bad candidate that it took the worst candidate ever for her to win.

The country wasn't anywhere near as polarized in 2000 as it is now. I don't buy Jeb could pull the hispanic vote his brother did, I think you're really overrating him. Kasich, Ryan, and Rubio are probably their best chances for the white house. The Bush name is the entire reason the Democrats won all three houses in 2008 and the only demographic too young to remember the Bush years went strongly to Bernie, no way they're voting for Jeb.

[spurraider21]

jeb... i hae NO clue how anybody thought he had a remote chance

[baseline bum]

Perot nearly 20 million votes. Clinton got 5 more than Bush. Perot was easily drawing 80 - 90% of his support from conservatives/Republicans. If Perot isn't in the race, then Bush wins. If Nader, on the other hand, isn't running in '99, Al Gore Wins (or Clinton wins his 2nd)

Fivethirtyeight.com had a video about Perot the other day claiming exit polls from Perot voters had them split at 38% Bush, 38% Clinton, and 24% no one had Perot not been in the race.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...ss-perot-myth/

[Splits]

What makes you say that? There is zero chance a party controls 60+ senate seats.

Because the party that controls the Senate can abolish the fillibuster with a simple majority. Dems already did it with non-SC judicial appointees. It's just a matter of time.

[Splits]

unless trump wins the election somehow... then the filibuster will be alive and well

Well of course the opposing party wouldn't abolish it if they don't hold the WH.


If Trump wins and the Senate remains R, the first order of business in the Senate is to drown the fillibuster in the bathtub. Same thing if the opposite holds true.

[Spurminator]

What evangelical vote has Trump lost? He's got Falwell Jr fellating him and evangelicals seem to support him in great numbers. Evangelicals are pretty often straight ticket voters because of abortion.

He has a few of the fraud Evangelical leaders in his tank but we'll see if the voters turn out. Anecdotal, but many of the usual Christian Republican die-hards I know have said they'd rather stay home than vote for either Clinton or Trump.

That wouldn't be an issue for Cruz, he'd make them believe Jesus was calling them to the polls to defeat Hillary.

[Pelicans78]

Evangelicals are strongly in favor with Trump. They're the biggest reason he won the Southern states. And they all hate Hillary because of her Pro-choice stance.

[PublicOption]

She better be a nasty woman. She will establish a no fly zone over Syria. She is pissed at Assad and he is gonna pay.

[ElNono]

I feel like a lot of people have no idea what the candidate is running on, their platform. They instead vote for things like skin color, gender, age, fashion sense, physical appearance, speaking prowess... charisma and such. I cannot count the number of people who say they voted for X because they just seemed like a better person.

It's a personality contest, tbh.... not new either, probably a big reason a guy like Reagan won too...

[Winehole23]

1% GDP with zero interest rates and hanging on by a thread is not exactly anything to celebrate. Stock market PE is a joke. With 5 quarters in a row of down earnings an economic downturn is inevitable. The only question is what will trigger it.

so much for your predictions of hyperinflation

[ducks]

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/w...obama-economy/
WikiLeaks: Donna Brazile Shreds Obama Economy

[rmt]

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/w...obama-economy/
WikiLeaks: Donna Brazile Shreds Obama Economy

They frame/word what's put out there in the best of terms to make it seem that everything's rosy - e.g. enrollment in Obamacare care is up 9% and not highlighting that by June it's down by 17%. SS benefits go up $4/month but that's not what I'm seeing at the grocery store - this is not even touching on the cost of housing. They tout 5% unemployment, but 94 million adults are not in the labor force.

ducks, thanks for all your work on the emails.

[CosmicCowboy]

so much for your predictions of hyperinflation

way to be snarky.

If I absolutely predicted hyperinflation please provide the post.

[Splits]

ducks, thanks for all your work on the emails.

[Winehole23]

way to be snarky.

If I absolutely predicted hyperinflation please provide the post.

In 2012 you said 10% inflation wasn't out of the question:http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post5641099

[Winehole23]

In 2013 you suggested hyperinflation was an inevitability, and claimed to have staked your financial life on it: http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post6190117

[CosmicCowboy]

In 2012 you said 10% inflation wasn't out of the question:http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post5641099

10% inflation is still not out of the question and that is FAR from hyperinflation.

[Winehole23]

another suggestion of inevitability here:

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post6190894