OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Acadiafall said:
Has that FBI fellah been on any TV news yet to explain why he clearly is trying to influence the election?

This will be made into a film in the future, however it would be impossible to get this much 'theatre' into the average length of time of a film.
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the A.G. need to fire Comey, today!!
 
So, is the Republican candidate developing a full blown cult of personality and the GoP getting taken over by Neo-Nazis the most consequential thing to happen in American politics in the last 100 years?
 
Kerouac said:
Two fascinating articles I've read today, the latter courtesy of our own: @mosiddiqi

https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/his...ext-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.5r8ouimw1
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that article is what i've been saying, not as elloquently, but saying just the same. i don't like hillary, nor do i trust her very much. but i'm voting for her in an effort to block trump. hillary has been in the whitehouse, for 8 years and has been sec-state also. she, at least, knows the rules and how the big things are run and managed. and i trust that she will not launch us into more wars, or worse, a nuclear one, and certainly not as a knee jerk reaction to something she doesn't like or feels offended by. i believe trump would.

and then there is the SCOTUS issue. one seat is open now, and there is a reasonable likelyhood that another will become vacant in the next 4 years.
i would MUCH rather those vacancies be filled with, at the very least, centrist judges and maybe even a bit more liberal than that. i certainly do not want to see those seats filled with the kind of GOP wingnuts that have been prevalent recently during the primary cycle.

IMO.
 
VoidTerraFirma said:
So, is the Republican candidate developing a full blown cult of personality and the GoP getting taken over by Neo-Nazis the most consequential thing to happen in American politics in the last 100 years?
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If you meant Richard Nixon using angry Dixiecrats and fundamentalists to take over the GOP and set it on a path of radicalization, then, yes.
 
gtrjunior said:
I think on some level, at least at the beginning this is why many people were drawn to Trump. He seemed un-buyable. He since has been digging his own grave but that's another story.
Today's politicians are easily bought. If I were a politician and had big dollars being thrown at me, would I do it any different....honestly idk.
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To the "he can't be bribed" folks, I use the following examples:
  • How rich was Martha Stewart when she committed securities fraud? She was worth around a billion dollars, and the amount she "saved" by her insider trading was approximately $60,000, or about 1/14,000th of her net worth. It was a paltry amount to her, and she was already rich beyond the dreams of avarice. That's like if you were worth 250,000 and committing a felony and going to jail over $17. Doesn't seem like something you'd do, does it? And yet here's this super rich lady royally fucking up over a drop in the bucket.
  • (Possibly apocryphal, but widely accepted) John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in history, worth about $340 billion in today's dollars when he died in 1937. He was asked by an interviewer "Mr. Rockefeller, how much money is enough?" to which he reportedly replied "Just a few dollars more."
Avarice has no upper and lower limits.
 
GDSmithTX said:
To the "he can't be bribed" folks, I use the following examples:
  • How rich was Martha Stewart when she committed securities fraud? She was worth around a billion dollars, and the amount she "saved" by her insider trading was approximately $60,000, or about 1/14,000th of her net worth. It was a paltry amount to her, and she was already rich beyond the dreams of avarice. That's like if you were worth 250,000 and committing a felony and going to jail over $17. Doesn't seem like something you'd do, does it? And yet here's this super rich lady royally fucking up over a drop in the bucket.
  • (Possibly apocryphal, but widely accepted) John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in history, worth about $340 billion in today's dollars when he died in 1937. He was asked by an interviewer "Mr. Rockefeller, how much money is enough?" to which he reportedly replied "Just a few dollars more."
Avarice has no upper and lower limits.
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i personally believe that wealth well into the billions is an actual mental disorder. enough is never enough. they gotta have more. and they will, often times, do anything to get 'just a few dollars more'.
it's got to be related to OCD.
 
mongooz said:
i personally believe that wealth well into the billions is an actual mental disorder. enough is never enough. they gotta have more. and they will, often times, do anything to get 'just a few dollars more'.
it's got to be related to OCD.
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More likely it's just human nature.

GDSmithTX said:
You cannot do that. It would absolutely be blown up into being a "Saturday Night Massacre" type scandal by the right.
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Agreed. 100%. Can't do anything until after the election, regardless of the result.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
It absolutely justifies his removal. But don't do it before the election unless you want the Republicans to spin it in their favor.
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alright, then suspension from duties, pending results of investigation.
his waiting until now, 10 days before the election, definitely smacks of "election tampering".
 
Agree that he has to stay until 11/9, despite deserving to be kicked to the curb.



Did I read correctly that the found 650k emails on weiners laptop?

Wonder if he stole those from his wife in case he needed to use them as a bargaining chip? Think he will end up being charged for taking them without consent?
 
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