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HagridOfTheDeep
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« on: July 18, 2016, 03:20:06 PM »
w00t

Ladies and gentleman, a major political party in what is supposed to be the world's foremost democracy. Cheesy How can anyone be a Republican?
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2016, 07:23:49 PM »
Quote from: Brown Line on July 18, 2016, 07:19:58 PM
Quote from: IceSpear on July 18, 2016, 07:15:49 PM
Quote from: Brown Line on July 18, 2016, 07:10:06 PM
This entire day has been such a turnoff for any reasonably educated and decent Republican.  Can they try any harder to appeal to the uneducated, xenophobic southern hicks?!  Seriously why the heck is some duck dynasty bum on stage?  He needs to take a shower.

Here's a solution if you want to stop being embarrassed (justifiably so):



If people like me leave the party, that just gives them even more power.

The party has already left you, friend. What we are seeing this week is the Republican Party. Its biggest factions are now Trumpites and Cruzians—if you're okay with that reality, stay. But moderates aren't going anywhere among the GOP's ranks. Not anymore.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2016, 08:31:38 PM »
« Edited: July 18, 2016, 08:33:41 PM by HagridOfTheDeep »
I don't believe I've actually used this word yet during the 2016, but this is just fascism. Plain and simple.

It's scary. The crowd is scary. The words people are saying are scary.

All I've heard is basically a thin defense of why we should deliberately ignore the words of black people and, in fact, push back. What is this disgusting bullsh-t that America has become?
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2016, 10:05:27 PM »
This is actually disgusting. Appeals to the worst of humankind.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2016, 10:23:56 PM »
Quote from: bronz4141 on July 18, 2016, 10:06:51 PM
Quote from: HagridOfTheDeep on July 18, 2016, 10:05:27 PM
This is actually disgusting. Appeals to the worst of humankind.

Yes, it is disgusting. However, we don't know what we'll see next week at the DNC. Will they attack police officers? We don't know. Both parties are crazy.

You would have to actually be an idiot to believe the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same level of crazy.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,738
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2016, 10:34:13 PM »
Quote from: Seriously? on July 18, 2016, 10:32:34 PM
Quote from: Negusa Nagast 🚀 on July 18, 2016, 10:27:32 PM
lol @ the teenagers in this thread who think they know more about criminal law than the fbi. don't let facts pierce your bubble and disarm your biases; that would be so terrible.

re. convention

this is literally a convention of hate: that ~40%< of voters will cast their ballot for trump is a sad sign of how far we have to go as a country
Are you sure that you are a Republican?

I know, right? To be a Republican in 2016 you have to be stupid and hapless.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 08:59:34 PM »
Christie's speech was one of the most dishonest things I've ever heard.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2016, 12:39:33 PM »
Quote from: Likely Voter on July 20, 2016, 12:35:41 PM
a GOP convention, and especially this one, is to unify the support for the nominee. The idea is to basically get at least everyone who voted Romney and/or McCain on board.   There have been two weak ares for them, real Christian conservatives (the Ted Cruz wing) and educated  semi-moderates (the Kasich/Romney wing). The idea being they have a lot of time to go beyond that to reach swing voters, especially with the debates.

However, are they really using the right tactics to unify Republicans and R-leaning voters? They seem to have decided that they can use Hillary hate to unify, but is focusing on the Fox News/Right Wing radio themes of Behghazi, Hillary for Jail, etc. really helping with their weak areas? It seems to me that it is mostly just throwing emotional red meat at the core demo of angry white working class voters that Trump already has in his back pocket.

And that it could indeed turn off the semi-educateds who are scared of the turns the Republican Party has taken. Visceral hatred can only appeal to so many people before it becomes scary.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2016, 05:17:28 PM »
JCL continues to be a gigantic idiot, I see.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2016, 09:09:29 PM »
This is great. If the GOP does actually put up Cruz against Clinton in 2020, her re-election is in the bag too!
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,738
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2016, 07:35:28 PM »
I can see why Trump would have leaked the speech. It reads way better on paper than it will coming out of his big fat mouth. The resistant Bernie folks—internet lemmings—can now read his speech in 15 minutes rather than listen to Trump over the course of an hour. They'll like it because they'll have the chance to disassociate it from the actual Donald Trump.

I think it was a smart move to put it out there.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,738
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2016, 09:13:38 PM »
Seems like Ivanka is just inserting policies into Trump's campaign platform that he has never once even mentioned. It's gross.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2016, 09:52:58 PM »
What a flat and unexceptional speech.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2016, 09:57:49 PM »
It's like Trump has never seen those initials before in his life.
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HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 8,738
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Political Matrix
E: -6.19, S: -4.35
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2016, 10:28:53 PM »
Trump is sweating like a pig! SAD!
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