Politics And Current Events

Postby **shmenguin** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:21 pm

Colorado tap water spiked with THC

http://boingboing.net/2016/07/22/colora ... -with.html

Shocking that it was fox that jumped on this non story.

Postby **Avyran** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:47 pm

https://twitter.com/Boston_Bias_22/stat ... 7756563458
Interesting look into the strategy, whatever the case.

Postby **NTP66** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:51 pm

In other news, today is Saturday.

Postby **Willie Kool** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:09 pm

Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess...

It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together.

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11056

Postby **Troy Loney** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 6:30 pm

Crazy that democrats would try to get out the Latino vote for this election.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:08 pm

Of course the Dems only care about Latino votes. I'm sure the Republicans are the same damn way

Is anyone actually surprised by this? Breaking news: the major political parties are giant scumfactories

Postby **Kaiser** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:28 pm

the R's have painted themselves into a corner on that one. saying "look, we aren't racist" because they have Marco Rubio isn't going to do s*** for them. I picture the Dems with that leaked Zuckerberg quote: "I cant believe they keep voting for us!"

Postby **columbia** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:33 pm

The bizarre element was/is elements of the GOP thinking that people from El Salvador, Mexico, etc. would identify with Cuban-American politicians. Yeah......no.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:40 pm

https://twitter.com/Allen_Clifton/statu ... 6935977984

Yep.

Postby **columbia** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:50 pm

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:12 pm

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/756942100940353537

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:27 pm

"Things are not as bad as they seem"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_iHK8XwWc

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:12 pm

Obviously, the DNC leaks confirm what we all knew. Hillary and her surrogates had pretty much taken over the committee (with DWS at the helm) from the start, and Sanders never had a chance. The DNC and their friends in the media were in close conspiracy to elevate her to the nomination.

I'm not expecting Bernie Sanders to ever support Trump, despite Trump's sympathetic

pleas to him and his voters. However, how in the world can he go out after all of this and actively endorse her? It would be embarrassing and, IMO, would kill his reputation/legacy among his legions of loyalists. If nothing else, for the millions of young Bernie voters that are undoubtedly all over this story, I would think it would have a sizable impact on the percentage of Bernie supporters that go out and vote for her in November.

No shocker here, but Twitter tried to quietly suppress the #DNCleaks hashtag, but thought better of it after social media exploded in outrage.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/twitt ... le/2597460

Postby **columbia** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:16 pm

Sanders is a Socialist, not a Democrat.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:40 pm

Sanders is a Socialist, not a Democrat.

100% agree, but it's one thing to know the DNC is going to actively work against him, but it's another for a huge email leak to be made public like that. That stuff is going to piss off legions of Sanders voters that will likely go for Stein or Johnson now instead of her.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:42 pm

Since all attacks like this should be big news (IMO), an absolutely horrible Islamic State attack in Kabul today:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... n-40818599

The Afghan Interior Ministry said that 81 people had been killed and 231 wounded in the bombing. The ministry's deputy spokesman, Najib Danish, said the blast was the biggest in Afghanistan since 2001, when the Taliban launched their brutal insurgency after they were toppled by the 2001 U.S. invasion.

According to the presidential spokesman, Chakhansuri, the organizers of the march had been warned of the possibility of an attack. "We had intelligence over recent days and it was shared with the demonstration organizers, we shared our concerns because we knew that terrorists wanted to bring sectarianism to our community," he said.

Postby **columbia** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:52 pm

Sanders is a Socialist, not a Democrat.
100% agree, but it's one thing to know the DNC is going to actively work against him, but it's another for a huge email leak to be made public like that. That stuff is going to piss off legions of Sanders voters that will likely go for Stein or Johnson now instead of her.

You (meaning a party) can't worry about the long tail people.

Aside: you know the Republicans are in trouble, if they can't attract someone who (like me) who wants to see all business taxes eliminated.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 10:59 pm

Aside: you know the Republicans are in trouble, if they can't attract someone who (like me) who wants to see all business taxes eliminated.

Yup. What a missed opportunity this year.

Postby **Kaiser** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:08 am

I'm just going to vote for Ronald Reagan. they all seem to think he was some brilliant genius architect of American prosperity, and his brains were scrambled while he was in office. its got to be worth at least as much as voting for Clump

Postby **NTP66** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:25 am

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/757085393992974336

Is 'NTP66' still censored?

Edit: Yes, yes it is.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:21 am

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/7 ... 8192939008

Postby **Troy Loney** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 8:31 am

No Dave, you are clearly not the only one that prefers Donald trump's ramblings.

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:09 am

Reports say Trump is now willing to donate 20 million of his own money to create super PAC's willing to derail the political careers of Cruz and Kasich.

Postby **columbia** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:01 am

In a surprising moment of honest, Brit Hume acknowledged that:

1. The DNC, naturally, would want to nominate a Democrat
2. Sanders isn't a Democrat

If only the GOP had been so disciplined.

Postby **columbia** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:13 am

Trump's revised plan on not letting anyone from certain countries into the US could really score votes in November. It's not an irrational idea....