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Nice find. Only 'strange bedfellows' though to folks who think 'conspiracy theorist' is a pejorative, and/or is ignorant to just how evil Clinton is.

Well there's an article with some serious stinkypoo in it. I wonder if Liel actually believes his BS or if he's just spouting what was conjured up by/with his bosses in the IDF. If many folks at AIPAC walk out, they will have shot themselves in the foot with a very loud powerful round. Most people are ignorant to AIPAC and what it does. It serves AIPAC to stay under the radar. Staging a walkout will put them on the radar in a way that will not serve them. I think it will be exceptionally unwise of them to stage a walkout, and I don't think it will happen as these folks are usually exceptionally smart at the PR game (ie: Lieb's article is more than likely just some Israeli psyop stuff). That said, this speech is definitely one to watch. Trump is very smart and plays the PR game quite well himself. He knows who he is talking to there, and how dangerous it potentially is for him. It will be interesting to see what he says, and doesn't. Because for the more astute the sincerity of his anti-establishment image could cement into a reality or go poof all together.

Two of my all time favorite folks songs. Moving songs about true tragedies, haunting and beautiful.

Understatement of the year, dude doesn't have a single fan outside the USA. Well, the international propaganda machine (aka 'mainstream media'; largely owned by the same folks worldwide) is going out of it's way to demonize him and show that people in other nations (as well as within the U.S.) hate him, so one might think that, but it wouldn't be true. Fortunately it doesn't matter much what people outside the U.S. think when it comes to U.S. politics (other than the fact that our current system allows foreigners to purchase our politicians/government, which is a tinsy problem, but I think we're talking about average Joe foreigner, not their overlord, so anon on that). In addition to Average Joe foreigner's opinion being of little to no consequence, is the fact that the propagation of such an unfact, that all foreigners hate Trump, is like to sway more Americans to vote for Trump than against him. Certainly many of the folks who so far plan to vote for him will love him even more if it rankles some foreigners. Hell, the propagation of such an unfact even has myself considering just for a moment of switching my so far planned vote for Mickey to Donald. Not that I'm happy about rankling foreigners (I really don't care either way), it's that the full court press by the mainstream media on an international level against Trump is a huge positive for him in my book, given that said propaganda machine more often describes blue skies as storms and spades as waffledonkeys than tell it like it is, especially when they're trying hard to convince the populace at large of something. In other words, what evil murderous lying MFers consider an enemy, I might just consider a friend. So far I'm sticking with Mickey though.

I can't read what the cartoon says, but knowing what I know of Japanese pop culture and cartoons, that cartoon very well might be one friendly to Trump. Japanese cartoons and pop culture can be a tad weird by most western standards if you haven't noticed. If anyone here can do it though, a legit translation would no doubt be amusing.

That's somewhat of a meaningless poll, even if accurate, which it more than likely isn't. It's also somewhat misleading (as many polls are). Here's the data: http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/16/Trump-poll.pdf (interesting how it's named 'Trump-poll'). That first poll isn't talking about military support for the candidates. Here's how the military currently sees the candidates.

I'm curious. Did you play any of the preceding 7? 8 was actually the last one I played all the way through. Having played 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and FFTactics, I rank 8 last amongst the FFs I've played. Still a good game overall though. You should play Planescape Torment. Edit: Talking about FFVIII reminded me to listen to a great song I hadn't heard in a long time. Final Fantasies always had great music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQv3leISYU

There's actually not a single Protestant on the court.... It's currently 5 Catholics and 3 Jews. Before Scalia shuffled off the mortal coiil it was 6 Catholics and 3 Jews. Obama wants to make it 5 Catholics and 4 Jews, in a nation founded by almost exclusively by Protestants. It's worth noting that every single member of the current SCOTUS, including the late Scalia, replaced a Protestant.

Garland isn't a 'moderate' by any means. He's only being packaged that way to sell him. Hillary's nominees aren't like to be any worse than Obama's (you really can't get much worse than Garland (if you're going to go the modern traditional route and nominate a Federal Judge that is)), even if she herself is worse than he. The whole 'we gotta get someone in there before Hillary gives us someone worse' argument is total BS false dichotomy designed to get Obama's creature in there. That said, the Republicans are decently likely to ultimately approve him Hillary or no, as the 'leadership' is anything but leadership, and the average Republican on the hill may as well be a Democrat. Almost all of them are spineless shill sellouts. That the people who have voted for them by and large feel unrepresented is arguably reason #1 why Trump is as popular as he is to begin with (and on the flip side of the aisle, also arguably the #1 reason Sanders is as popular as he is to begin with). I will sincerely and probably pleasantly be surprised if the Republicans (and perhaps even some Dems) hold out on approving a new member of the SCOTUS until after a new president is in office.

I think Nate Silver is wrong. Here are MY odds: 10 percent chance of President Hillary with Democratic Senate 5 percent chance of President Hillary with Republican Senate 84.5 Percent chance of President Trump with Republican Senate 0.5 Percent chance of some other republican Nah. Nate's made me some decent money in fantasy baseball and Vegas in general. I'll go with his picks. They aren't his picks (or at least he didn't come up with the numbers himself). They're from a site called predictwise, which less than two months ago was predicting Rubio had a 55% chance to win the nomination. It's a totally BS fluff site that lacks credible use. As Nate is citing it as if it's credible, he is a moron. Nate isn't really known for making money on fantasy baseball or Vegas, he's known for selling people on his BS that he can make them money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94dY-QxjDiE

Does that mean the load times won't be painful ? Load times on PoE are fine. Either you need a new computer or are far too lost down the instagratify me road.

What a surprise! The SPLC forgot to put themselves on the map. Whodathunkit?

An incomplete proven Evil Scale of Americans: 11- Hillary Clinton, Georges Bush, Johns and David Rockefeller 10 - Harry Reid, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton 9 - Mitch McConnell, CIA/NSA/FBI bigwigs (known and unknown) 8 - Cthulhu (Note that the epitome of evil doesn't top the list, true evil usually disguises itself to at least some degree, and Mr. Cthulhu generally doesn't disguise well at all), also john Roberts 7- Most of the SCOTUS members in the 20th/21st centuries, your average congressman/senator (Rubio falls here), your average governor (Kasich falls here) 6 - Ted Cruz, Most of the folks in mainstream media, be it FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, the 'Big Three', Comedy Central, Big Hollywood Studios, etc. 5 - Bernie Sanders, The more zealous of the idiots who fall hook, line, and sinker for what thef olks on the scale 6 or above feeds them, ie: SJWs, 'Black Lives' Matter', 'American Sniper' lovers, other typical 'hate groups'. People who in another time and place 'just follow orders'. 4 - Most of the idiots who fall hook, line, and sinker for what the folks on the scale 6 or above feeds them in regards to the way the world works (you need to be a degree of corrupt (willfully ignorant) to believe the malecowpoo) 3 - Average Joe/Jane American 2 - Average Joe/Jane American 1 - Truly Good People 0 - Unicorns Where does Trump fall? As much as Donald Trump has been in the public eye, he's actually somewhat of an unknown in the evil department. He's somewhere in the 3-6 range from my estimation, possibly more, but likely no more than 7 (8 and above is pretty much pure evil territory, and nothing I've ever seen Trump say or do so far indicates he'll go there (that said, every human on earth has that potential)). I'm waiting to see who his running mate is, as that will be a very big indicator of what's really to come, and I might be able to better place him on the scale when that is known.

No, the Cubans in the United States are here legally. The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 confers on them refugee status. Right. My apologies, I worded that one wrong. The it doesn't matter how they got here 'amnesty' situation is known to me, though I forgot the name of the act. It's why the Cuban vote is a serious thing to contend with as quite a few of them have come here, many if not most through means other than normal (for most folks in the world) legal entry, and they generally get the right to vote much quicker than most immigrants as a result. Which is what I was getting at, but that was a minor point. Anon.

I'd take that bet. Cruz has burnt away a lot of his support this election. Though he's not as spent as Rubio, much of his political capital is gone. He's pissed off way too many of the people ('tea party' type folks in particular) who got him to where he is to begin with and are (or in more and more cases were) his political base. Unlike Democrats, Republicans generally can't so easily get away with pooping on the folks who put them in office. Cruz may pick up some extra votes in a state like California, but nationally, he's not going to get much. Trump is going to coast snowball style from here on in, even in the face of the full stop attempts by the mainstream media and 'establishment' Republican Party folks to smear him. In fact, those attempts are only going to make him stronger as the disgust for mainstream media and establishment politicians has grown to unprecedented proportions in the U.S. and all signs indicate a continuation of this trend. Only an assassination is going to stop him at this point.

He's not worthy of any pity, even the tongue in cheek kind. He's the worst kind of politician. In my estimation only Hillary a worse candidate. He wasn't ever going to win Florida, nor would he ever be re-elected to the Senate seat he didn't run for. He knew that, and so like many politicians who have burnt bridges in their own backyard he opted to run for a promotion (President) rather than a re-election he could not win (this is a strat that often succeeds at the local and state level). Nationally, due to propaganda in the mainstream media, it was generally perceived that he's well liked in his home state. He's not (he was before it was clear the kind of politician he was), but he's the darling of the powers that be, and exactly what people who are voting Sanders and especially Trump (as well as who put Rubio in the Senate office in the first place) generally can't stand. The dislike for Rubio in Florida is very strong and has been for a few years now. Note the polling map results. Rubio doesn't win a single county other than the notoriously corrupt Dade, where he's from, and no doubt do to the large Cuban population there, many of which initially got here illegally. Rubio's days as a politician at the national level are over unless he switches parties (possible but unlikely) carpet bags in the future (not remotely as easy to do for a Republican as it is for a Democrat such as Hillary), or runs for congress representing Dade (unlikely)) He might disappear to the behind the scenes of lobbyland or RNC power all together, but we'll more likely see him as a talking head representing the RINO faction of the RNC for some time to come methinks.

Likely just cocaine. Then, where are the hookers? Can't have one without the other. I thought it went without saying that a campaign office was full of prostitutes, albeit well dressed ones.

Likely just cocaine.

Just the kind of gunk which has more and more people flocking to Trump.

So I posted this in the Music thread already but I thought it deserved to be posted here too, as the video can be interpreted as an amusing and somewhat accurate, yet surreal, visual allegory on the state of American politics. I figure the red guy as a Republican and the blue as a Democrat. Use your imagination to determine what everyone/everything else in the video represents. It's quite rich with symbolism methinks. Enjoy!

That's good for Vaeliorin. As in your perfect world there'd be a tribunal set up to determine if he'd be financially punished or sent off to the gulags if you were offended...

Great tune! With a few lines like that one that Bruce should take to heart:

However, he's a communist, even if he doesn't realize it, so he get's it wrong even when he's on to something. Here's the correct way to do it: She is smoking hot ....Vampire cult sign me up I'd give it all up in my last heartbeat to go down on 1996 Salma, and never regret. Easily one of the hottest women, in one of the hottest scenes in 100+ years of cinema. #VampSalma4eva! See! We can agree on at least one thing BruceVC.