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[Tasty]

Trump Said He’d Throw Orlando Shooter’s Dad, A US Citizen, Out Of Country

“I'd throw him out,” Trump said of Mateen, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen. “If you look at him, I'd throw him out.”

Trump did not clarify where those identified as “extreme” would be sent, but said “racial profiling” was necessary to root out people who might pose a threat to national security.

Christ.

[Human Snorenado]

Come on baby, feel the Jillmentum

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/green-partys-jill-stein-tied-with-dead-gorilla-harambe-and-losing-to-deez-nuts-in-texas-poll/

The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that a Public Policy Polling survey of Texas voters showed Stein and Harambe winning less than two percent of registered voters, while “Deez Nuts” — a creation of Iowa teen Brady Olson — garnered 3 percent of voters.

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

These two questions back to back were funny seeing "serious candidate version" Stein try to fight through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJhUNxKQhl8#t=29m19s

Her VP is way cooler but from what I understand also one of Shao Khan's Outworld minions and I'm not sure I can support his policy on slaughtering all the souls on Earth or not based on the results of a fighting tournament with unclear rules and guidelines.

[Mandark]

Her VP apparently doubled down on calling Obama an Uncle Tom, so I guess their target demographic isn't all Bernie voters, but just the worst stereotypes of them.

[benjipwns]

The powerful donor network helmed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is canceling more than half a million dollars in Florida advertising designed to help Republican Marco Rubio in his Senate race, according to Koch network spokesman James Davis.

guess they think he's safe

RCP updated their Senate map to be 50-50 with Bayh now winning Indiana. So it'd be a VP tiebreaker for control. (Though Hassan's lead in NH isn't too strong (one point) but neither is Heck's in NV. McGinty's lead has slipped a little in PA but isn't back down to where it was a few months back.)

[Joe Molotov]

I'm troubled by the characterization of  Brady Olson as the "creator" of Deez Nuts. smh journalism

[brob]

the discourse 

[Phoenix Dark]

You know there's a problem when Ben Shapiro is the voice of reason*.

also lol @ Shapiro arguing Andrew Breitbart loathed racism. Breitbart was one of the biggest proponents of the idea that racism is dead but, like Candy Man, can be resurrected if you dare utter a phrase like "racial inequality" into the mirror three times. He all all aboard the reverse racism movement, the Obama=racist shit, etc etc.

I suppose I'll personally give Shapiro some dap for not being a racist pos like say...Milo, but at least Milo is entertaining.

[Rufus]

Speaking of Milo:
https://np.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4y8rb2/the_donald_monderator_breitbart_editor_and_trump/

The former director of the Privilege Grant (see link below) alludes to the fact that Milo wired the money to his personal account at Silicon Valley Bank. Caligula Limited was active until May 2016 for "grant donations", then, before having the chance to award grant money in the summer, this company was dissolved and the money seems to have dissolved with it (note again the the grant was set up in Feb 2016). In fact, the former director of the Grant has a copy of his wiring instructions - implying that there was a transfer to Milo's personal banking accounts.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://theweek.com/articles/642568/biggest-crime-waves-america-isnt-what-think

[I'm a Puppy!]

 Corporate theft

[Rufus]

https://theweek.com/articles/642568/biggest-crime-waves-america-isnt-what-think

The Department of Labor only has 1,000 to 1,100 staff members looking into violations of wage and hour laws for the entire country. The Obama administration has requested an increase in funding for enforcement at least three times, but Congress has denied them.

Of course.

[benjipwns]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breitbart-editor-planned-secret-anti-trump-campaign-to-take-down-reporter-215500960.html

After former Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields turned against the right-wing news site in May, the site’s Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle had an idea.

Breitbart has been a major booster of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the media company’s chairman, Steve Bannon, became the chief executive of Trump’s campaign on Wednesday. Since Bannon joined Trump’s team, it has been rumored Boyle might follow him to the campaign.

However, Boyle was apparently willing to work with progressive activists to insult Trump if it might cost Fields her new job at the left-leaning Huffington Post, which hired her to cover Trump.

Yahoo News has obtained a copy of an email Boyle sent to a progressive activist on May 26, four days after Fields announced her new position with the Huffington Post. It was apparently meant to be an open letter from progressives to the Huffington Post complaining that Fields wouldn’t be aggressive enough against Trump.

Boyle’s message contained an open letter attacking Fields that he hoped the activist would encourage other progressives and union groups to sign. According to the source who provided the letter to Yahoo News, Boyle claimed he personally wrote the letter. Boyle’s letter described Trump and his policies as “dangerous” and implied that, as a conservative who “considered supporting and voting for Donald Trump,” Fields was not up to the task of covering his campaign and should be removed from her job by the Huffington Post.

Boyle clearly hoped the letter would not be linked to him. The subject line on his email to the progressive activist was written in all capital letters, “OFF RECORD — YOU DID NOT GET FROM ME.” Boyle’s message, which was sent from his personal Google email account, contained nothing other than the letter, which was titled, “An Open Letter To The Huffington Post From The Progressive Community.” Before criticizing Fields, Boyle’s letter cast Trump as a serious threat to the country.

“Donald Trump is a force to be reckoned with. He breezed through the Republican Primary to become that party’s presumptive presidential nominee by name-calling and insult-hurling, while putting forth a policy agenda we consider to be dangerous. His immigration plan would see millions of undocumented workers deported, families torn apart, and he literally campaigned on a plan to ban an entire religion from coming to the United States. He did so with minimal vetting, including of his personal finances. He continues to refuse to release his tax returns,” Boyle’s letter said.

The anti-Trump sentiments in Boyle’s letter stand in stark contrast to Breitbart’s coverage of the candidate.

“Do you really think Michelle Fields will do serious investigative reporting on Donald Trump’s tax returns? What about on his decades of dealings with mafia mobsters or on his scores of bad real estate deals?” Boyle’s letter said. “Do you think Ms. Fields can handle aggressive investigations into Trump University or reporting on Donald Trump’s demagoguery of women, immigrants, Muslims and African Americans. Stop kidding yourselves. The world is laughing at you.”

The open letter Boyle hoped progressives would send referred to the incident between Fields and Lewandowski as “entertaining” as it urged the Huffington Post to “change course” in its decision to hire Fields. Boyle’s letter also repeatedly praised the Huffington Post for regularly “trolling” Trump.

“Given the severity of the situation, which we have been pleased that until now you took seriously, we were disappointed to see your hiring of Michelle Fields as a Trump campaign reporter,” the Boyle letter said. “While Ms. Fields’ interaction with the Trump campaign was certainly entertaining, and we appreciated all the good laughs we had as Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski struggled through a media and legal minefield on this matter, we feel as though it is your responsibility as the leading progressive news source in the world to step up your game in vetting Trump.”

[Phoenix Dark]

[VomKriege]

https://theweek.com/articles/642568/biggest-crime-waves-america-isnt-what-think

The Department of Labor only has 1,000 to 1,100 staff members looking into violations of wage and hour laws for the entire country. The Obama administration has requested an increase in funding for enforcement at least three times, but Congress has denied them.

Of course.

Any Western country would probably have less trouble collecting taxes if they hired a few thousands of those and tax inspector.

[Kara]

https://theweek.com/articles/642568/biggest-crime-waves-america-isnt-what-think

The Department of Labor only has 1,000 to 1,100 staff members looking into violations of wage and hour laws for the entire country. The Obama administration has requested an increase in funding for enforcement at least three times, but Congress has denied them.

Of course.

Any Western country would probably have less trouble collecting taxes if they hired a few thousands of those and tax inspector.

Or not arbitrarily limiting its income streams for ideological reasons draped in the guise of specious economics. If government should be run like a business, why is that business just randomly deciding to not make money?

[benjipwns]

queen katrina yaaasss queen

[benjipwns]

god, she's amazing




in response to this one:

Katrina Pierson ✔ @KatrinaPierson
For the record, audio disruptions and echos should be fixed immediately. Especially when you say it out loud on the air. @CNN
3:24 PM - 13 Aug 2016

[benjipwns]

Accidentally clicked on the wrong page and hadn't seen this but I love taking dumb online tests:

http://chartsme.com/

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (38%)
Liberal (62%)

Probably bogus in many many ways but whatever.

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (19%)
Liberal (81%)

i wish you had got 50/50 stoney

[Trent Dole]

My brain is 55% Republican. TFW fascist.

[benjipwns]

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/291659-obamas-foreign-policy-worsened-eastern-european-chaos

When most Americans think about Barack Obama’s foreign policy, the terms Benghazi, Arab Spring, ISIS, Cuba rapprochement and the Russian Re-set Button quickly come to mind.
 
Yet those aren’t his only embarrassing failures.
 
Obama’s global influence, or lack thereof, also led to a spike in chaos and corruption throughout Eastern Europe, harming American interests. I’ve personally seen this on recent think tank trips, speaking and touring for a collective three months in 12 European countries to include 7 former Soviet Republics and several satellite states.

wow, good thing Trump will make us great again

[archie4208]

Accidentally clicked on the wrong page and hadn't seen this but I love taking dumb online tests:

http://chartsme.com/

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (38%)
Liberal (62%)

Probably bogus in many many ways but whatever.

Your brain is a Democrat

Conservative (19%)
Liberal (81%)

i wish you had got 50/50 stoney

>Don't want to touch a dead body
>This makes me a Republican

[Brehvolution]

  http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-manafort-resigns-campaign-manager

[brob]

tfw ur emotional spectrum is validated #representationmatters

[benjipwns]

all according to keikaku

[I'm a Puppy!]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-manafort-resigns-campaign-manager

And we're still two months away from an October surprise

[Tasty]

[Great Rumbler]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-manafort-resigns-campaign-manager

The dumpster fire that keeps on giving.

[benjipwns]

[Joe Molotov]

Sad!

[Atramental]

My dad is starting to self identify as a libertarian now. I... I don't know how to feel about this. 

At least he isn't wearing a trilby and smoking from a vape rig. Yet. 

[benjipwns]

MAKE HIM TAKE THE TEST: http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi

What Your Score Means

0 points: You are not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination. You are probably not even a liberal or a conservative. Just some Nazi nut, I guess.

1-5 points: You have a few libertarian notions, but overall you're a statist.

6-15 points: You are starting to have libertarian leanings. Explore them.

16-30 points: You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure.

31-50 points: Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on.

51-90 points: You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much.

91-130 points: You have entered the heady realm of hard-core libertarianism. Now doesn't that make you feel worse that you didn't get a perfect score?

131-159 points: You are nearly a perfect libertarian, with a tiny number of blind spots. Think about them, then take the test over again. On the other hand, if you scored this high, you probably have a good libertarian objection to my suggested libertarian answer. :-)

160 points: Perfect! The world needs more like you.

[Trent Dole]

34. Some of those ideas are insane.

[Brehvolution]

I got a 19

[Rufus]

I got a 19

Same

[Atramental]

18

16-30 points: You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure.

Gross.

[benjipwns]

I filled it out as Trump and got 26.

[Tasty]

18

16-30 points: You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure.

Gross.

Pure-blooded hard... things

[helios]

I got 15. I can only live in benji's shadow.

[Joe Molotov]

One of my high school teachers was a Libertarian, but he was a cool guy and I think he just wanted to smoke pot (he never talked about pot to us students, but I get the impression that he wasn't opposed to 420blazeit). He spent most of his 20's hitchhiking across Mexico, prolly did all kinds of wild shit, and then he married a mamacita and came back to the US to teach Spanish. He made being a Libertarian seem really cool when I was 16.

[benjipwns]

Jeb! Bush was one of your high school teachers?

[tiesto]

Got 21 with that quiz.

[benjipwns]

18

16-30 points: You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure.

Gross.

[Great Rumbler]

I got 10. 

[chronovore]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breitbart-editor-planned-secret-anti-trump-campaign-to-take-down-reporter-215500960.html

After former Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields turned against the right-wing news site in May, the site’s Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle had an idea.

Breitbart has been a major booster of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the media company’s chairman, Steve Bannon, became the chief executive of Trump’s campaign on Wednesday. Since Bannon joined Trump’s team, it has been rumored Boyle might follow him to the campaign.

However, Boyle was apparently willing to work with progressive activists to insult Trump if it might cost Fields her new job at the left-leaning Huffington Post, which hired her to cover Trump.

Yahoo News has obtained a copy of an email Boyle sent to a progressive activist on May 26, four days after Fields announced her new position with the Huffington Post. It was apparently meant to be an open letter from progressives to the Huffington Post complaining that Fields wouldn’t be aggressive enough against Trump.

Boyle’s message contained an open letter attacking Fields that he hoped the activist would encourage other progressives and union groups to sign. According to the source who provided the letter to Yahoo News, Boyle claimed he personally wrote the letter. Boyle’s letter described Trump and his policies as “dangerous” and implied that, as a conservative who “considered supporting and voting for Donald Trump,” Fields was not up to the task of covering his campaign and should be removed from her job by the Huffington Post.

Boyle clearly hoped the letter would not be linked to him. The subject line on his email to the progressive activist was written in all capital letters, “OFF RECORD — YOU DID NOT GET FROM ME.” Boyle’s message, which was sent from his personal Google email account, contained nothing other than the letter, which was titled, “An Open Letter To The Huffington Post From The Progressive Community.” Before criticizing Fields, Boyle’s letter cast Trump as a serious threat to the country.

“Donald Trump is a force to be reckoned with. He breezed through the Republican Primary to become that party’s presumptive presidential nominee by name-calling and insult-hurling, while putting forth a policy agenda we consider to be dangerous. His immigration plan would see millions of undocumented workers deported, families torn apart, and he literally campaigned on a plan to ban an entire religion from coming to the United States. He did so with minimal vetting, including of his personal finances. He continues to refuse to release his tax returns,” Boyle’s letter said.

The anti-Trump sentiments in Boyle’s letter stand in stark contrast to Breitbart’s coverage of the candidate.

“Do you really think Michelle Fields will do serious investigative reporting on Donald Trump’s tax returns? What about on his decades of dealings with mafia mobsters or on his scores of bad real estate deals?” Boyle’s letter said. “Do you think Ms. Fields can handle aggressive investigations into Trump University or reporting on Donald Trump’s demagoguery of women, immigrants, Muslims and African Americans. Stop kidding yourselves. The world is laughing at you.”

The open letter Boyle hoped progressives would send referred to the incident between Fields and Lewandowski as “entertaining” as it urged the Huffington Post to “change course” in its decision to hire Fields. Boyle’s letter also repeatedly praised the Huffington Post for regularly “trolling” Trump.

“Given the severity of the situation, which we have been pleased that until now you took seriously, we were disappointed to see your hiring of Michelle Fields as a Trump campaign reporter,” the Boyle letter said. “While Ms. Fields’ interaction with the Trump campaign was certainly entertaining, and we appreciated all the good laughs we had as Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski struggled through a media and legal minefield on this matter, we feel as though it is your responsibility as the leading progressive news source in the world to step up your game in vetting Trump.”

Ah, that joyous moment when a trash news related person realizes that their own trash news tactics can just as easily be used against them.

[El Babua]

I got 10. 

Same. I must harden and become pure.

[CatsCatsCats]

I got 16. Lol and I once supported Ron Paul, boy has my mind changed

[benjipwns]

http://radaronline.com/videos/malia-obama-smoking-pot-claims-twerking-video-dad-barack-reaction/

The party’s over for Malia Obama! After RadarOnline.com released the shocking video of an eyewitness accusing President Obama‘s 18-year-old daughter of smoking pot, furious Barack confronted the teen on their summer vacation, said a source.

The source said that Barack went into crisis mode after the “First Wild Child” had to be hauled out of a house party on Martha’s Vineyard — just before local cops went in for a raid!

Sgt. Skip Manter with the West Tisbury Police Department confirmed that neighbors “complained about noise.”

Malia, 18, was hurried out of the rowdy bash by Secret Service right before police arrived.

“This is the president’s worst nightmare!” a source told Radar. “The end of his term is in sight — and the carefully crafted image of a world-beating family is unraveling right before his eyes!

“I’m sure he had some choice words for his daughter during that walk they took” after the party, said the source.

As Radar previously reported, a series of bombshell photos and videos surfaced after Malia was caught partying it up at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago on July 31.

The shocking images showed Malia, who is currently taking a “gap year” before entering Harvard in 2017, smoking a suspicious cigarette, exposing herself and twerking.

[Madrun Badrun]

http://radaronline.com/videos/malia-obama-butt-dancing-lollapalooza-raw-unedited-video/

damn

[I'm a Puppy!]

Butt Dancing? Looks like you can take the girl out of the white house, but you can't take the white house out of the girl.

[recursivelyenumerable]

It would def be cool if people were buildings and vice versa. Let's make it happen.

[Kara]

78% liberal, when can I start destroying the family unit, religion, and arbitrary privileges in the name of consuming the planet's human and ecological resources to make a few bucks?

Oh it's not that kind of liberal.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or is it.

[close]

[Joe Molotov]

It would def be cool if people were buildings and vice versa. Let's make it happen.

Ow, she's a brick da dun dun dun house.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-advisor-maybe-backdrop-of-a-burning-car-would-reach-black-voters-better/

He’s saying, ‘You know what? I’m interested, I went to Milwaukee, I’m here tonight, I want to talk to you,'” he said. At his speech in the Milwaukee suburbs, Trump slammed the black protesters in Milwaukee protesting in the streets.

Keilar jumped in, “I have to stop you because you said he’s going there. He’s not, he’s in Diamondale, which is 93 percent white. When he was in Milwaukee the other day, it was part of Milwaukee that wasn’t dealing — I mean he, it’s almost completely white”

“Well yeah, but Brianna he went,” Kingston began to say over her. “I mean, maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car, but the reality is—”

Keilar cut him off, “No no no no no, I’m not talking about a burning car. I’m talking about meeting with black voters.”

lmao 

[Great Rumbler]

 

[benjipwns]

That nickname for Obama is a swing and a miss. Take another roll on that one Donald.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.mediaite.com/election-2016/trump-campaign-manager-defends-black-community-remarks-by-saying-im-white-i-was-moved/
 

I'm all for democrats being held accountable on "black issues" and issues surrounding pandering for votes but jesus. Not from you fuckers.

[Great Rumbler]

It's been said multiple times elsewhere, but basically those comments weren't meant for black people. They were meant to make white conservatives feel good.

[Phoenix Dark]

welcome back kara
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/767440409077354497