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oneofthem
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Plansix
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DarkPlasmaBall
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Everyone everyone everyone: go to loser.com right now. You're welcome. Frivolous lawsuit incoming? | ||
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ticklishmusic
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On March 04 2016 22:58 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Relevant to U.S. politics: Everyone everyone everyone: go to loser.com right now. You're welcome. Frivolous lawsuit incoming? it used to direct to the whitehouse.gov page when we had dubya, that was waaaay back in the day though. nettles, why dont you dump your life savings in the russian markets (bonds or equities, idc)? ought to make a killing if theyre doing so well  | ||
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oneofthem
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frazzle
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On March 04 2016 18:33 Danglars wrote: The things you recall, what stuck out to you that made the country amazing, those feelings are feeding his slogan: Make America Great Again. You picked three examples, his supporters have dozens more. There's this general feeling of what's been lost. What an amazing country that did all these things, except, we're now a country that doesn't win anymore. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We don't beat ISIS. We don't do anything. We're not good. We're just not the same place. We are going to win, so much This is such baloney. Just as the US went to the moon, we were embroiled in and losing a war that sucked our energy for a generation, not to mention the race riots we had just experienced and the trauma and triumph of the Civil Rights movement. Prior to that we lost ally Cuba and saw Hungary fall behind the Iron Curtain. The 70's saw the oil embargo and stagflation. The 80's saw Iran-Contra, a skyrocketing deficit and national debt, and AIDS. This idea that the US "loses" now and didn't a generation ago is just total BS. For the last 25 years the US has been boss of the world in a greater sense than we ever were prior to that. I mean, if you want to be selfish, you can look to the recent financial crisis and see that the US is really the only nation to come out of it by now in an advantageous position. Edit:- my apologies if your post was a tongue-in-cheek mockery of Trump and I just missed it | ||
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ragz_gt
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It's bullshit, but normal bullshit. | ||
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Plansix
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People want to be exceptional, but our leaders don't want to tell them the cost. | ||
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LegalLord
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On March 04 2016 23:56 Mohdoo wrote: This was the first debate I felt like I could genuinely see Trump's numbers going down. That was so brutal. I will be shocked if he stays steady in the following primaries. Sure, they got him a few times. But did anyone actually make a case for themselves? Rubio looked pretty bad today and Kasich is mostly a sideshow at this point. Cruz might go up, but he's probably less likable than Trump is. The problem with attacking someone is that you end up looking bad as well. At this point Trump has firmly established himself as the "candidate to beat" and so most of the attention, good or bad, is on him. | ||
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On March 04 2016 23:24 oneofthem wrote: idk i consider it a win if you have ivanka as a daughter. the model friends I hear Trump would date and marry them, if they weren't his daughter's friends. | ||
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Doodsmack
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And lol @ xDaunt's claim that some people don't have a "working" understanding of the Trump phenomenon. Because it's so complicated. | ||
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kwizach
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On March 04 2016 23:56 Mohdoo wrote: This was the first debate I felt like I could genuinely see Trump's numbers going down. That was so brutal. I will be shocked if he stays steady in the following primaries. Agreed about the possibility of this affecting his numbers slightly, although I don't think they'll go down by much. But the man simply has no chance in a general election. | ||
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kwizach
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Republican Voters Kind Of Hate All Their Choices Trump does not just divide rank-and-file voters from Republican poo-bahs. He’s also extremely divisive among Republican voters, much more so than a typical front-runner. In exit polls so far, only 49 percent of Republican voters say they would be satisfied with Trump as their nominee — remarkable considering Trump’s lead in votes and delegates. But compounding the GOP’s problems, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would leave only slightly more Republican voters happy. The exit polls have asked Republican voters in seven states — here’s Tennessee, for example — whether they’d be satisfied if each of Cruz, Rubio and Trump won the nomination. Remember, these are actual voters — voters who gave Trump a win in six of the seven states where the exit poll asked this question — and not some hypothetical universe of “likely voters.” On average, just 49 percent of these actual Republican voters said they’d be satisfied with Trump. The numbers for the other two candidates were better, but not by much: 53 percent of voters said they’d be satisfied with Rubio, and 51 percent with Cruz. Source | ||
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