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03 Jul 16 - 08:39 PM (#3798917) Subject: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Donuel I'm looking forward to the TRUMPNIFICENT SHILLERIFIC ENGORGERAMA of the REPUBLICKER CONTENTION. INCLUDING runner up miss Americas , Mormon tapurknuckle choir, bob jones all male gospill singers, Sarah Payless, League of legal haters, Game of Throwns throwing contest, Oxytocin open bar and special guest stars; Vladassmear Putin, George Zimmerman, David Duke, Cersei and introducing Tina Mousselini with Monsters of Ceremony GIANTS like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levine, Michael Savage and Glen Speck. In actuality the US is not going to have a Trump Presidency unless there is a record setting voter turnout like there was in 1860. |
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04 Jul 16 - 04:03 AM (#3798937) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Mr Red I hope so, I dearly hope you are correct, and from where I sit it is the most likely outcome. But then I thought the UK General Election and the neverendum would turn out a different way. Didn't see the Arab Spring, nor the turmoil. Nor the Peace Dividend from the Cold War would be Ethnic Cleansing. Had I , I would be the harbinger of doom. Oh dear, I think I must be! These are time of turmoil. My current ability to see the future is out of whack, and I suspect I am one of a majority on that particular subject at least! |
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04 Jul 16 - 09:58 AM (#3798974) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: frogprince And, under the 2nd post, at least on my 'puter... Jesus's Lost Words This Weird Protocol Was Banned From The Bible; It May Change Everything Must check that out; I'm sure it will be of life-changing significance!!... As for the Repug convention, I must admit that I'm torn between revulsion and morbid curiosity as to what the train wreck will actually look like. |
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04 Jul 16 - 12:28 PM (#3798989) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: robomatic Mefears: we're one reichstag fire away from a Trump election. |
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04 Jul 16 - 12:36 PM (#3798992) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Joe Offer For the most part, the Conventional Wisdom is that high voter turnout helps Democratic candidates. Now people are saying that a high turnout will benefit Trump. I don't think so. I have more faith than that in the American electorate. Sure hope I'm not wrong. -Joe- |
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04 Jul 16 - 02:11 PM (#3799005) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Donuel The old time republican party line was that the republic needed a select voter base to keep the rabble out. To get the "little people's vote" Patriotism, religious values and family values has succeeded until Clinton. Bush II only succeeded in disillusioning the Christian right. Obama inspired the greatest gun sales this country has ever seen by the scared and bigoted. Sometimes you make a new friend from shared dislikes. You assume the shared likes and loves would match but that's an assumption. Shared hatred trumps shared loves. If America has more recently destitute unemployed people full of rage and hatreds who registered to vote, then actually I believe Trump gets an advantage ONLY if the turnout exceeds 72% The anti government crowd will believe anything. The educated believe in conventional wisdom. Voter suppression is in play in a big way. The conventions are more meaningful and the turn out decides the game. |
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04 Jul 16 - 05:12 PM (#3799030) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Greg F. I have more faith than that in the American electorate. I very much fear, Joe, that your faith is misplaced. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. -H.L. Mencken |
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04 Jul 16 - 06:10 PM (#3799039) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: Amos It is a great danger, to be sure, but one still of low probability. On the other hand I never would have believed the American people would be idiotic enough to elect W. for a second term. I look forward to the two conventions providing dramatic entertainment. A |
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04 Jul 16 - 06:40 PM (#3799042) Subject: RE: BS: Be assuaged America be very assuaged From: keberoxu We live in "interesting times" all right, like the ominous wish says. |