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BurtReynolds wrote: Both sides have their share of idiots, racists, etc. so that argument is nonsense. One can always find the worst aspects of a political philosophy (or even just unrelated idiots) and pretend that they represent it. It's a political tactic as old as time.

And generally politicians on the right and left couldn't care less about poor people except as a gullible voting poll to be pandered to and a cheap labor force, hence massive support for immigration from both teams. Who else is going to clean their pools?
I agree about the cheap labour remark.

What's interesting to me about the US is that when it comes to racism in the past it wasn't something exclusive to one party by any stretch of the imagination yet it's the part of the electorate only the right is pursuing just like it happens in Europe where it was always a thing of the right.
I'm referring to strategies more to philosophies here.
I find it deplorable to use that to gain votes. It always brings the whole package of crazy ideologies along. I'm hearing antisemitism around Europe is rising which is crazy.
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Have they called Missouri yet for either party?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Have they called Missouri yet for either party?
I don't think so; I imagine they're taking their time and getting everything in order, because the 2nd-place finishers (probably Cruz and Sanders) both have a right to ask for a recount if the margin of victory is below 1%, and I feel like both of them have reason to.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... ignId=5247

I don't know how to link an instagram link from within an article, so I'm just including the whole thing.


It boggles the mind. I mean, compare this to Bush's masterful wolves commerical.

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Trump gonna Trump.
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Ironically Trump is far from being convincingly tough himself.
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Holy shit that's a long URL, Stip.
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you know what they say about the size of a man's url...
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You could have chopped off everything from the ? on.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:You could have chopped off everything from the ? on.
Yup, that's just the man collecting data on us.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:You could have chopped off everything from the ? on.
Are we still talking about stip's penis?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Have they called Missouri yet for either party?

We call it the Missouri Compromise.
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that's not a bad name for a penis
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton/index.html?sr=fbpol031716sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton1047PMStoryLink&linkId=22404712
This site is telling me the delegates are proportional, so it seems to me that cable networks are begging for a "winner" and a "loser".
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Green Habit wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton/index.html?sr=fbpol031716sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton1047PMStoryLink&linkId=22404712
This site is telling me the delegates are proportional, so it seems to me that cable networks are begging for a "winner" and a "loser".
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Green Habit wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/politics/sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton/index.html?sr=fbpol031716sanders-concedes-missouri-to-clinton1047PMStoryLink&linkId=22404712
This site is telling me the delegates are proportional, so it seems to me that cable networks are begging for a "winner" and a "loser".
I forgot about this earlier in the thread when I said Sanders could benefit from a recount. I'm surprised Cruz hasn't called for one, thought, since it's clear he wants to keep every single delegate he can out of Trump's hands and he's a slime-faced lizard man.
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I'm not clicking any link that contains the name "Alex Jones" in it.
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