US Politics Mega-thread - Page 5161

On September 27 2016 06:29 Nebuchad wrote:
I'll have some sleep. On behalf of the world, please don't make Trump your president while I'm gone.

On September 27 2016 06:37 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Also don't forget that there are three debates. Obama had one disaster vs Romney, still won!

On September 27 2016 06:37 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Also don't forget that there are three debates. Obama had one disaster vs Romney, still won!

On September 27 2016 06:50 Mohdoo wrote:


I would argue that character and image are such enormous parts of this campaign that a single nosedive could kill the whole thing.

On September 27 2016 06:59 farvacola wrote:
Trump plans to appoint a climate science denier as head of the EPA.

lol

Police escorted Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein off Hofstra University’s campus this afternoon before tonight’s first presidential debate.

Authorities encountered Stein on the college campus in Hempstead, New York, and asked the third party candidate, who has not garnered enough support to participate in the debates, to show the proper credentials, which she could not do, police said.

She was “nicely escorted” off the grounds around 2:30 p.m. ET, a Nassau County Police Department spokesman told ABC News.

Stein also tweeted about the incident, saying she was on campus “doing an interview” when police put her and her team “in a van” and escorted them out. Earlier, Stein’s campaign said she had obtained a credential to come in and do interviews at the media filing center in the early afternoon.



Stein had planned to challenge her exclusion from tonight’s event by hosting a rally outside the secured perimeter of the debate hall beginning around 5 p.m. ET. She said she will be live on Twitter’s Periscope app answering the same questions as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump on the debate stage.

Stein’s campaign said she will not “risk arrest” this time, because there is an outstanding warrant for her arrest over her involvement in a recent protest against a controversial pipeline project in North Dakota. Still, her campaign spokeswoman Meleiza Figueroa said they will attempt to get the “spirited demonstration … as close to the gates as possible."

In 2012, Stein and her running mate were arrested outside Hofstra University when they tried entering the premises during a presidential debate between President Obama and then-Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

On September 27 2016 07:43 Lord Tolkien wrote:
As the debates are about to start, I am going to end my self-imposed exile in this thread.

I hope the debate inspires us to discuss policy issues instead of whatever outrageous thing said by one candidate or another or, by cursory glance, a 30(?) page discussion on if a poster is racist or not (even if it turns out to be true it's still toxic to read).

On September 27 2016 07:41 zeo wrote:
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/780526355242848256

Is this for real?

On September 27 2016 07:46 a_flayer wrote:


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA