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[Dennis]

[Dennis]

Should have voted for Bernie when you had the chance.

[VomKriege]

Another issue is one of honesty. Candidates are expected to be open about their health (they rarely are though...).

Kinda ridiculous because IIRC Trump never did publicize his taxes but heh what can you do...

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Video of Hillary fainting.

https://twitter.com/zgazda66/status/774993814025011200/video/1

 

No spinning that one

Here's an even worse one.  I don't like the source but the video doesn't lie: https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/775000466304315393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[TakingBackSunday]

Oy vey.  If this becomes swiftboat i swear to god

[CatsCatsCats]

Welp, time to spend the next few months reinforcing the bunker. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

[Dennis]

Dehydrate in 80 degree weather, brehs.

[TakingBackSunday]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

[headwalk]

i'm going to make a hilary clinton push puppet, put it up on etsy, tweet it to trump and look for a mansion to put a bid in for.

[Samson Manhug]

(Liberal) military twitter has been talking about how often super fit 20 year old guys faint from dehydration. She should have drank water.

It is so common you wait for it long change of command ceremonies:

[Human Snorenado]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

The ability to get an engineering degree does not make one smart.

[Joe Molotov]

Dick Cheney's been on death's door for decades, with his Stark Industry's bionic heart, but yet he's still he's still alive to annoy everyone with his occasional Op-Eds.

[Phoenix Dark]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

The ability to get an engineering degree does not make one smart.

He also has a master's degree. Maybe he's right.

[benjipwns]

Now would be a decent time for Gary to go climb a mountain or two and bike through the Rockies on camera 

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Weld can take over the interviews while he's doing that.

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[I'm a Puppy!]

Video of Hillary fainting.

https://twitter.com/zgazda66/status/774993814025011200/video/1

 

No spinning that one

Here's an even worse one.  I don't like the source but the video doesn't lie: https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/775000466304315393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Is it bad that I want to loop that and set the background music to mambo no. 5 so it looks like she's just getting down a white grandma?

[Syph]

hillary probably got overheated thinking about the american lives she cost on this day a few years ago

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BENGHAZI

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hillarys overheating cant melt steel beams


ok thats all i got

[Human Snorenado]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

The ability to get an engineering degree does not make one smart.

He also has a master's degree. Maybe he's right.

In political science? Plus, his history of shitposting in this thread says otherwise. He's rarely right.

Then again, look who I'm talking to about rarely being right in a political thread...

[TakingBackSunday]

Now now children

[Dennis]

Apparently Hillary has pneumonia.

Or so they want you to believe 

[Phoenix Dark]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

The ability to get an engineering degree does not make one smart.

He also has a master's degree. Maybe he's right.

In political science? Plus, his history of shitposting in this thread says otherwise. He's rarely right.

Then again, look who I'm talking to about rarely being right in a political thread...

I'm legit rustled you fell for this
 

[Boogie]

This is pretty much the end of the election unless someone like Biden or Kaine takes over.

Oh ffs no it's not 

For someone as smart as you are, the amount of concern trolling you've done is ridiculous.

The ability to get an engineering degree does not make one smart.

He also has a master's degree. Maybe he's right.

In political science? Plus, his history of shitposting in this thread says otherwise. He's rarely right.

Then again, look who I'm talking to about rarely being right in a political thread...

I'm legit rustled you fell for this
 

Seriously.  What is this, 2010?

[Human Snorenado]

In my defense, I had been daydrinking and was in yell at everything mode

[Boogie]

In my defense, I had been daydrinking and was in yell at everything mode

But when are you not in yell at everything mode? 

[Human Snorenado]

In my defense, I had been daydrinking and was in yell at everything mode

But when are you not in yell at everything mode? 

Sometimes I'm too tired to yell

[benjipwns]

http://shareblue.com/hillary-clintons-feat-of-strength-obliterates-months-of-health-conspiracies/

[brawndolicious]

I once went through finals week with a lung infection. Sucked worse than Ms. Lewinsky.

But I didn't faint. 

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[bluemax]

http://shareblue.com/hillary-clintons-feat-of-strength-obliterates-months-of-health-conspiracies/

Who was more courageous this week, Apple or Hillary?

[Syph]

http://shareblue.com/hillary-clintons-feat-of-strength-obliterates-months-of-health-conspiracies/

Who was more courageous this week, Apple or Hillary?

Caitlyn Jenner

[VomKriege]

http://shareblue.com/hillary-clintons-feat-of-strength-obliterates-months-of-health-conspiracies/

R.I.P. Political Journalism (1440-2016)
The unrelentingly hostile coverage of Hillary Clinton has dealt a potentially fatal blow to the corporate media's credibility.

http://shareblue.com/r-i-p-political-journalism/

H. A. Goodman ‏@HAGOODMANAUTHOR
Hillary Clinton was kind enough to hug a little child EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS PNEUMONIA! Wow, what a great person. Very human. Loves hot sauce

[Great Rumbler]

For all the talk of national unity and a new sense of purpose, the terror attacks did nothing to bring together the country. America after September 11th was like a couch potato who survives a heart attack, vows to start a strict regimen of diet and exercise, and after a few weeks still finds himself camped out in the living room.

[benjipwns]

EVERYBODY PANIC

http://www.mediaite.com/online/cokie-roberts-floats-that-dems-are-nervously-whispering-about-clinton-stepping-aside/

This morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, journalist and author Cokie Roberts indicated that many of the establishment Democrats may be getting antsy over the renewed speculation of Hillary Clinton‘s health.

Roberts’ comments come just a day after the former Secretary of State was forced to leave a 9/11 remembrance ceremony early due to an illness, amid reports from her campaign that she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
 
“It’s taking her off of the campaign trail,” said Roberts Monday morning, indicating that the pneumonia has forced Clinton to cancel her upcoming trip to California. But as for members of the Democratic party, “It has them very nervously beginning to whisper about her stepping aside and finding another candidate.”

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/150264994381/the-race-for-president-is-probably-over

If humans were rational creatures, the time and place of Clinton’s “overheating” wouldn’t matter at all. But when it comes to American psychology, there is no more powerful symbol of terrorism and fear than 9-11 . When a would-be Commander-in-Chief withers – literally – in front of our most emotional reminder of an attack on the homeland, we feel unsafe. And safety is our first priority.

Hillary Clinton just became unelectable.

The mainstream media might not interpret today’s events as a big deal. After all, it was only a little episode of overheating. And they will continue covering the play-by-play action until election day. But unless Trump actually does shoot someone on 5th Avenue, he’s running unopposed.

http://theweek.com/articles/648141/why-did-hillary-clinton-lie-about-health

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign just made a massive error. We'll know within the next few weeks if the error will prove to be catastrophic.

But if she doesn't recover quickly? If she appears weak and frail for more than a few days? Then, yes, she'll face perfectly reasonable questions about whether she's physically up to serving as president. But worse, she'll confront lingering doubts about what, precisely, is ailing her. "It's pneumonia," the campaign will proclaim over and over again. To which a skeptical America will justifiably reply, "Yes, we can tell that you'd like us to think so. But we have no reason to trust that's true."

Political trust is a fragile thing. Once it's gone, it's exceedingly difficult to get back — and without it, there's no basis on which to dismiss conspiracy theories that even normally level-headed observers will begin, for perfectly understandable reasons, to entertain.

Like so many of the scandals and pseudo-scandals that have dogged Hillary Clinton and her husband through the years, this one needs to be recognized as entirely self-inflicted. The campaign now has to live with the consequences of having chosen to lie to get out of a problem.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/11/media/hillary-clinton-health-protective-pool/

Hillary Clinton's stumble highlights campaign transparency problems

For the reporters who cover her, there was also frustration.

With less than sixty days until the election, neither Clinton nor Donald Trump has allowed for what's known as a "protective pool," a rotating group of reporters that travel with a candidate in order to provide a minute-to-minute account of their activities.

Without a protective pool, Clinton was able to leave the memorial site without reporters, travel to her daughter Chelsea Clinton's apartment without reporters, and leave New York City for her home in Chappaqua, New York, without reporters. That left Clinton's press pool scrambling to follow her around Manhattan and up to Chappaqua, always a step behind.

"Sunday's events at the Sept. 11 memorial show the importance of having a group of reporters on standby, and close at hand, to cover the potential next president of the United States," Anne Gearan, the Washington Post political reporter and current chair of the Clinton press pool, told CNNMoney.

"It also shows what happens when the Clinton campaign fails to treat those reporters as a true protective pool, which would travel in the same Secret Service protected-motorcade to every place the candidate goes," Gearan said. "The pool was left behind when she abruptly left the memorial, and was not kept apprised of what was happening in real time."

Gearan said the pool did not believe that Trump's lack of a protective pool "should have bearing on Clinton."

Still, the lack of a protective pool for either candidate highlights the degree to which both Clinton and Trump have been able to keep reporters at bay and exercise greater control over media access than previous nominees. Indeed, Trump did not even announce in advance that he would attend the memorial.

It is rare for presidential candidates to get to September of an election year without a protective pool. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama agreed to a protective pool in June, just weeks after he had secured the Democratic nomination. His opponent, Sen. John McCain, waited until the end of July.

In 2012, Mitt Romney waited until August, earning criticism from political reporters and the Obama campaign.

[Brehvolution]

Lol that dilbert dude has been all in for trump since the beginning. He was even on Bill Maher's show a while back talking about it.

[TakingBackSunday]

Also why the fuck should we listen to cokie roberts

[VomKriege]

Scott Adams is bordeline crackpot

Note: I endorsed Hillary Clinton for president – for my personal safety – because I live in California and it isn’t safe to be seen as a Trump supporter here.

[Great Rumbler]

Lol that dilbert dude has been all in for trump since the beginning. He was even on Bill Maher's show a while back talking about it.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=39503.msg2135549#msg2135549

[Joe Molotov]

That Dilbert guy really loves to talk about how smart he is and how he's got it all figured out

Personally, I find his demeaning attitude towards job creators to be toxic and gross.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Scott Adams is bordeline crackpot

Note: I endorsed Hillary Clinton for president – for my personal safety – because I live in California and it isn’t safe to be seen as a Trump supporter here.

Ah, so he's stupid AND a coward. I see.

[headwalk]

been interesting comparing and contrasting how you lot go about your elections with us in england. here, to the average bod, every choice is poisoned chalice and it's approached with all the joy of picking a holey umbrella to keep the rain of shit off you.

but you fellas pick a side, slam your foot on the accelerator and go for broke. glib disenfranchisement is exchanged for partisan evangelism and any sense of self awareness goes up in smoke.

is that the american can do attitude in action? if i spaz out on the internet enough maybe i can make a difference come polling day?

i can appreciate that the prospect of prez trump is a wholly horrific one, but manic wagon circling around his opponent doesn't seem like confidence to anyone on the outside. more a cult like desire to exorcise any doubts that you might harbour. vocalised thought cleansing.

all that said, it's been great banter. shame this place is as close to a neutral venue to enjoy the circus that i can find.

[brawndolicious]

I never understood how British people always criticized other countries for having a cult of personality around leaders and yet they always love the royal family more than their PMs.

[Yeti]

lol, brexit

[Steve Contra]

but you fellas pick a side, slam your foot on the accelerator and go for broke. glib disenfranchisement is exchanged for partisan evangelism and any sense of self awareness goes up in smoke.

You guys just voted to leave the EU because of immigrants

[headwalk]

I never understood how British people always criticized other countries for having a cult of personality around leaders and yet they always love the royal family more than their PMs.

i advise every country to pour all and any patriotic affection into a long since castrated tourist trap with zero say in how the country is run on any practical level.

[Phoenix Dark]

but you fellas pick a side, slam your foot on the accelerator and go for broke. glib disenfranchisement is exchanged for partisan evangelism and any sense of self awareness goes up in smoke.

You guys just voted to leave the EU because of immigrants

Remember when they laughed at us over W Bush. Look at em now.


Black president, gay marriage, Trump bout to get sonned, soon to be first female president, economy looking solid. If not for police killing black people and shitty superhero films we'd get an A+. 

[headwalk]

bit rich having a go at the bloke in the pyongyang thread. at least he got a plastic bag full of pirate DVDs out of it.

[Rufus]

i can appreciate that the prospect of prez trump is a wholly horrific one, but manic wagon circling around his opponent doesn't seem like confidence to anyone on the outside. more a cult like desire to exorcise any doubts that you might harbour. vocalised thought cleansing.

I think the prospect of President Trump directly correlates to any nakedly desperate support for Hillary you see. At least in older people. The younger generations are just approaching it the way they've learned to on the internet.

[Syph]

but you fellas pick a side, slam your foot on the accelerator and go for broke. glib disenfranchisement is exchanged for partisan evangelism and any sense of self awareness goes up in smoke.

You guys just voted to leave the EU because of immigrants

Remember when they laughed at us over W Bush. Look at em now.
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Black president, gay marriage, Trump bout to get sonned, soon to be first female president, economy looking solid. If not for police killing black people and shitty superhero films we'd get an A+. 

i read this as "soon to be female president" and got real confused

[chronovore]

Any Libertarian really loves to talk about how smart he is and how he's got it all figured out

FTFY

[chronovore]

but you fellas pick a side, slam your foot on the accelerator and go for broke. glib disenfranchisement is exchanged for partisan evangelism and any sense of self awareness goes up in smoke.

You guys just voted to leave the EU because of immigrants

Remember when they laughed at us over W Bush. Look at em now.
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Black president, gay marriage, Trump bout to get sonned, soon to be first female president, economy looking solid. If not for police killing black people and shitty superhero films we'd get an A+. 

I'd include our continued fucked up foreign policy in central and south america, and our more recent and continuing idiocy in the middle east on that list. Hell, I'd put it before the shitty superhero films.

Can we send Zack Snyder to North Korea?

[Madrun Badrun]

If not for police killing black people and shitty superhero films we'd get an A+. 

Umm please qualify this because clearly there are those that deserve everything coming to them and then are the good ones like Marvel's. 

[benjipwns]

all that said, it's been great banter. shame this place is as close to a neutral venue to enjoy the circus that i can find.

we made it

[benjipwns]

This has become my new favorite site: http://shareblue.com/odonnell-delivers-the-most-epic-rant-on-news-media-of-2016/

Now, Lawrence O’Donnell channels the outrage of people across America, with a righteous rant that lays out the case against the corporate political media.

O’Donnell isn’t alone. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has her own version:

The 2016 campaign is in its closing weeks, and the corporate media are redoubling their efforts to tip the scales in Trump’s favor. It is encouraging to see that some journalists refuse to go along.

Attack corporate media for pro-Trump bias, post a video each from CNN and MSNBC as support for argument.

My favorite part is how they quote their own tweets in articles:

Melissa McEwan @Shakestweetz
When @andersoncooper asked abt "transparency" re disclosing pneumonia, @HillaryClinton's epic eyeroll was powered by our collective disdain.
9:28 PM - 12 Sep 2016

Peter Daou @peterdaou
Wow. @andersoncooper makes his bones as a reporter by aggressively grilling a woman with pneumonia about her cough. Unreal.
9:09 PM - 12 Sep 2016

[tiesto]

This has become my new favorite site: http://shareblue.com/odonnell-delivers-the-most-epic-rant-on-news-media-of-2016/

Now, Lawrence O’Donnell channels the outrage of people across America, with a righteous rant that lays out the case against the corporate political media.

O’Donnell isn’t alone. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has her own version:

The 2016 campaign is in its closing weeks, and the corporate media are redoubling their efforts to tip the scales in Trump’s favor. It is encouraging to see that some journalists refuse to go along.

Attack corporate media for pro-Trump bias, post a video each from CNN and MSNBC as support for argument.

My favorite part is how they quote their own tweets in articles:

Melissa McEwan @Shakestweetz
When @andersoncooper asked abt "transparency" re disclosing pneumonia, @HillaryClinton's epic eyeroll was powered by our collective disdain.
9:28 PM - 12 Sep 2016

Peter Daou @peterdaou
Wow. @andersoncooper makes his bones as a reporter by aggressively grilling a woman with pneumonia about her cough. Unreal.
9:09 PM - 12 Sep 2016

Today I learned that Peter Daou the political blogger/advisor is the same Peter Daou that was a fairly famous 90's house music producer.

[benjipwns]

"I believe this book could change the course of political history." - Michael Savage on his humble expectations

[Syph]

This has become my new favorite site: http://shareblue.com/odonnell-delivers-the-most-epic-rant-on-news-media-of-2016/

Now, Lawrence O’Donnell channels the outrage of people across America, with a righteous rant that lays out the case against the corporate political media.

O’Donnell isn’t alone. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has her own version:

The 2016 campaign is in its closing weeks, and the corporate media are redoubling their efforts to tip the scales in Trump’s favor. It is encouraging to see that some journalists refuse to go along.

Attack corporate media for pro-Trump bias, post a video each from CNN and MSNBC as support for argument.

My favorite part is how they quote their own tweets in articles:

Melissa McEwan @Shakestweetz
When @andersoncooper asked abt "transparency" re disclosing pneumonia, @HillaryClinton's epic eyeroll was powered by our collective disdain.
9:28 PM - 12 Sep 2016

Peter Daou @peterdaou
Wow. @andersoncooper makes his bones as a reporter by aggressively grilling a woman with pneumonia about her cough. Unreal.
9:09 PM - 12 Sep 2016

anything said to a woman that i perceive as negative is sexist!!11!1!

[Mupepe]

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"I believe this book could change the course of political history." - Michael Savage on his humble expectations

God, I can't wait to read this.

[benjipwns]

I hope these traitors get their wish:

Two major liberal outside groups have endorsed Republicans in Senate races, frustrating Democrats who see the majority as within their grasp.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which advocates for LGBT rights, and Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), which supports stronger gun control laws, are typically aligned with the Democratic Party.

But they crossed party lines this year to reward vulnerable Republican senators who have fought for their issues. Both groups endorsed Sen. Mark Kirk (Ill.), and ARS additionally backed Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.).

Liberal critics of those endorsements question why the groups would help any Republican senators, given that the GOP majority has been opposed to their policy goals.

“The first votes that Mark Kirk or Pat Toomey would cast if they’re reelected would be to make [Sen.] Mitch McConnell [R-Ky.] majority leader of the Senate once again,” said David Nir, the political director for the liberal Daily Kos blog.

“Parties govern, not individuals, so endorsing a Republican senator is the same as endorsing Republican control of the entire Senate — and if groups like these don’t understand that, they’re committing political malpractice.”

The HRC jumped first  in March by endorsing Kirk. In response to pushback from liberals, group President Chad Griffin wrote in an op-ed, “We simply cannot ask members of Congress to vote with us, and then turn around and try to kick them out of office.”

ARS came to Toomey’s defense last month, despite him touting his A rating from the National Rifle Association on the trail this year. His opponent, Democrat Katie McGinty, is a vocal supporter of stronger gun control.

The group also endorsed Kirk, and both he and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, have made gun control a central issue for their campaigns.

In a statement to The Hill, ARS spokesman Mark Prentice praised McGinty as “a passionate and strong voice for gun violence prevention.” But he stressed that the group needs to support Republicans who go against the grain.

“Our country needs more Republican elected officials to stand with the vocal majority of Americans who support steps that help keep guns out of the wrong hands and prevent gun tragedies,” he said.

“In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook School, Senator Toomey stood up to the gun lobby and stood up to many in his own party. While he has not backed every proposal we have supported, as advocates for gun safety laws and safer communities, we’re grateful for Senator Toomey’s leadership.”

An ARS source added that the long-term path toward enacting tougher gun safety laws has to go through both parties in order to overcome a filibuster, so groups have to be open to backing likeminded Republicans.

It'll teach them not to sacrifice the cause to their petty interests.

[benjipwns]

[TakingBackSunday]

Could you just stop

[Madrun Badrun]

He'll stop when Hilary stops her unamerican murder spree.