*2016 US Presidential Elections* - Candidates, Statistics, Campaign Timelines, Debates

[Mayhem]

OK, seriously, it can't be just me that knew, word for word, what that post was going to be. Hence my very relevant point. [pat-myself-on-the-back emoji needed]

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

OK, seriously, it can't be just me that knew, word for word, what that post was going to be. Hence my very relevant point. [pat-myself-on-the-back emoji needed]

Yes, of course, you know everything and any conservative is just an inbred, pig fucking uneducated shit-for-brains.

 

[Supafly]

Yes, of course, you know everything and any conservative is just an inbred, pig fucking uneducated shit-for-brains.

You forgot th money-whores.

By the way:

Why are no republicans runnung on the great efforts made by the governour that saved some tax dollars by selling out the water sstem to that led-pipe-citizen-extermination-program?

Running in year three, it all goes so well

 

[Johan]

Trump is spamming Scottish MPs with fundraising emails — which isn’t even legal


Scottish member of parliament couldn’t resist sending a sharp reply in response to fundraising messages sent by GOP candidate Donald Trump and his son, the Scotsman reports.

Real estate mogul Trump sent the emails to Scottish MPs last week, prompting Glasgow parliamentarian Natalie McGarry to question whether his campaign bought emailing lists, calling it “bizarre for a grassroots campaign.”

The Scotsman reports the donation requests went largely ignored — until McGarry fired off her response, which came after a follow-up plea from Trump’s son.

“Quite why you think it appropriate to write emails to UK parliamentarians with a begging bowl for your father’s repugnant campaign is completely beyond me,” she responded. “Given his rhetoric on migrants, refugees and immigration, it seems quite extraordinary that he would be asking foreign nationals for money; especially people who view his dangerous divisiveness with horror.”

McGarry then said American elections are for the American people to decide — but she hoped voters would reject him come November.

“The thought of his reactionary type of politics and apparent ignorance of world affairs having access to a seat at the world table is both surreal, and terrifying,” she wrote. “The above is a long way to say No, and do not contact me again.”

Further, it is illegal for Trump to both solicit and take campaign contributions from foreign nations.

“The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.”

Scottish National Party staffer Christopher Mullins-Silverstein told Fusion that Scottish lawmakers have been getting the solicitations since Trump arrived.

Mullins-Silverstein said he filed a complaint with the FEC.

“You should know who you’re asking these questions to,” he said.

Trump made a controversial trip to Scotland on the heels of the Brexit vote to promote his locally-unpopular golf course there.

He was criticized for praising the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union, with some noting he made his comments in Scotland, which voted by a wide margin to stay in.

So, to every conservatives on this board I say this : Do not EVER again tell me to "mind my own fucked up country", 'cause your candidate wants us, europeans, to mind about yours.

 

[The Yak]

So, to every conservatives on this board I say this : Do not EVER again tell me to "mind my own fucked up country", 'cause your candidate wants us, europeans, to mind about yours.

I don't think that is going to stop them.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

So, to every conservatives on this board I say this : Do not EVER again tell me to "mind my own fucked up country", 'cause your candidate wants us, europeans, to mind about yours.

Uhh, excuse me? I have cousins in Europe, my ancestors were European, and I'm European-American. So with all due respect, piss off.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

<coming to the defense of the Commander-in-Chief> how has he authorized drone strikes "indistcriminately"?

Unless you're privy to other information, all we've heard is that (insert taliban or al-qaeda leader or someone of consequence in their sphere) has been taken out by a drone strike. How is that indiscriminate? Barring a rifle sight with a laser pointer on a forehead, that's about as targeted as you can get. Or are you suggesting Obama is guilty of war crimes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...9cbe78-3a81-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.c...ad-as-obamas-drone-campaign-marks-five-years/
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012/06/06/ex-cia-official-slams-obamas-indiscriminate-use-drones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/questions-drones-obama-resolve
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-bachman/trust-reality-rather-than_b_6536010.html

 

[sean miguel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...9cbe78-3a81-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.c...ad-as-obamas-drone-campaign-marks-five-years/
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012/06/06/ex-cia-official-slams-obamas-indiscriminate-use-drones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/questions-drones-obama-resolve
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-bachman/trust-reality-rather-than_b_6536010.html

from the burueainvestigates.com link:

Lethal strikes
Across Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the Obama administration has launched more than 390 drone strikes in the five years since the first attack that injured Qureshi – eight times as many as were launched in the entire Bush presidency. These strikes have killed more than 2,400 people, at least 273 of them reportedly civilians.

273 civilians out of 2,400 people killed seems like a remarkably low ratio considering. Of course it's no consolation to those innocents killed and their families.

Civilian casualties are going to be inevitable when you drop a Hellfire onto a house and mistakes will be made, but drone striking "indiscriminately," as you put it, would've led to far more civilian deaths. Indiscriminate would be carpet bombing (a term Ted Cruz liked to use) all of Waziristan.

So I ask you, is President Obama guilty of war crimes, and if so, should he be prosecuted and immediately impeached? In the post I replied to, you wished Obama would stop drone striking indiscriminately but otherwise think he's ok? That's how it came off as. As if it were some character flaw or a mere annoyance. If you believe he's a war criminal, it should stop right there.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

from the burueainvestigates.com link:



273 civilians out of 2,400 people killed seems like a remarkably low ratio considering. Of course it's no consolation to those innocents killed and their families.

Civilian casualties are going to be inevitable when you drop a Hellfire onto a house and mistakes will be made, but drone striking "indiscriminately," as you put it, would've led to far more civilian deaths. Indiscriminate would be carpet bombing (a term Ted Cruz liked to use) all of Waziristan.

So I ask you, is President Obama guilty of war crimes, and if so, should he be prosecuted and immediately impeached? In the post I replied to, you wished Obama would stop drone striking indiscriminately but otherwise think he's ok? That's how it came off as. As if it were some character flaw or a mere annoyance. If you believe he's a war criminal, it should stop right there.

Do I think President Obama is a war criminal? No.

 

[pool_hustler]

273 civilians out of 2,400 people killed seems like a remarkably low ratio considering.

It is.

Civilian casualties are going to be inevitable when you drop a Hellfire onto a house and mistakes will be made, but drone striking "indiscriminately," as you put it, would've led to far more civilian deaths

Indeed it would have.

I think we've done a pretty good job with this program, all things considered. Obviously not perfect - that was never an attainable goal.

There is ongoing debate over the death of 6 (as I recall) U.S. citizens among those dead...a couple of them accidental, the rest targeted.

 

[Johan]

And then, when their houses is in ruin and most of thir families are dead, those who remain alive join ISIS to get revenge otthose damn yankees who killed their failies, their friends, their neighbors...

 

[pool_hustler]

And then, when their houses is in ruin and most of thir families are dead, those who remain alive join ISIS to get revenge otthose damn yankees who killed their failies, their friends, their neighbors...

Yep. That's always going to be an issue and a concern
But it's actually one of the considerations for using drones, being as we're talking about 273 civilian deaths in the "drone era" as opposed to tens of thousands of them when we invaded/occupied Iraq.

 

[Johan]

This Ronald Reagan billboard outside the Republican convention is going to infuriate conservatives


Former President Ronald Reagan’s son and namesake Ron Reagan is literally the poster-person against religion. While the younger Reagan has been doing ads on news channels for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, it will be his father’s words that will hover over the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July.

“We establish no religion in this country… Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” the billboard will read.

The quote is part of a longer statement Reagan made in 1984 to Temple Hillel and Community Leaders in Valley Stream. “We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs,” Reagan said. “And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Annie Laurie Gaylor, said in a statement that this particular message was important at this point in history.

“The RNC needs to be reminded that our nation is predicated on a godless and entirely secular Constitution,” she said. “The fate of our Establishment Clause hangs in the balance of the election. We’re not voting for the next president — we’re voting for the next Supreme Court justice.”

The local chapter director, Marni Huebner-Tiborsky, agreed that the message is an important one for Republican leaders to remember. “This billboard couldn’t be any more timely, and is definitely needed to remind our political leaders and the public that political campaigns should stick to a secular platform, where real change can happen,” she says.

Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump met with religious leaders last week and unveiled his evangelical advisory committee with former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Trump does not have an extensive track record with religion other than to attack others for their beliefs. Though this was enough for evangelical James Dobson to call Trump a “baby Christian.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/th...nvention-is-going-to-infuriate-conservatives/


:troll2:

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

I am pretty sure that a president Trump won't be confused as a King Richard the 1st type religious zealot.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Islam is more than a religion. It was entirely built upon hate...and murder...and totalitarianism.


https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/10-reasons-not-peace.aspx

 

[Jagger69]

Oh FFS...as if every leftist dingleberry isn't the EXACT SAME WAY...so fuck off, with all due respect.


Liberals, always the self-righteous, condescending, arrogant little arseholes, to the end of time. Always know what's best for everyone. Two can play that game, so don't sit there and act like you (and your ilk) are above such stances/standards.


You guys just play around so much like the children you are, it's hard not to let your child's play, bullshit/lies and temper tantrums get to the point were you have to lash out. Nothing but lies and propaganda comes out of a (very left, at least, not necessarily all left-wingers) mouths/fingertips.

I'm a social liberal and take great offense to your generalizations about entire groups of people without considering them each as the individuals they are. It's the very definition of bigotry. I thought we were friends, Scott, but that just that can't be true since I'm nothing but a "self-righteous, condescending, arrogant little arsehole" according to you. That's a shame since I was hoping we had more in common than what separates us. I guess that's not the case?

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I'd like to take a moment to say FUCK YOU to @Hillarysmen for ruining my Daenerys fantasies. Cersei the Mad Queen would have been a more apt characterization.

 

[Johan]

I'd like to take a moment to say FUCK YOU to @Hillarysmen for ruining my Daenerys fantasies. Cersei the Mad Queen would have been a more apt characterization.

Littlefinger's grin at 1'04" is priceless
To Trump supporters : You might enjoy the end, the part about water-boarding and the Battle of the Blackwater

 

[Mayhem]

Trump tweet attacking Clinton employs image of Jewish star

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0ZI0UY

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted an image of rival Hillary Clinton alongside hundred-dollar bills and a Jewish star bearing the words "most corrupt candidate ever!", prompting outrage and bafflement on social media.

Two hours after his initial tweet, Trump tweeted a similar image in which the six-pointed Star of David - which appears on Israel's flag and which Jews were forced to wear on their clothing by the Nazis during the Holocaust - was replaced by a circle. The original tweet was deleted.

Critics said the image featuring the star harkened back to centuries-old anti-Semitic stereotypes, such as the belief that Jews are greedy.

"Just saw #DonaldTrump's Star of David tweet. I'm impressed by his ability to find a way to insult literally every kind of human being," screenwriter Cole Haddon wrote on Twitter.

"A Star of David, a pile of cash, and suggestions of corruption. Donald Trump again plays to the white supremacists," wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative radio host who has been critical of Trump.

The tweets originated from Trump's account, @realDonaldTrump, and no other users were mentioned in them. It was not clear whether someone inside Trump's campaign made the image or whether he found it somewhere else. Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, did not respond to a request for comment.

The presumptive Republican nominee has been trying to assuage fears within his own party that he is alienating potential voters with offensive statements about Muslims, Latinos and women. Last month, Trump fired his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and began delivering speeches using a teleprompter, an abrupt change in style that was seen as an attempt to appear more presidential ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

Saturday's tweet was a reminder of the unrestrained side of Trump. The candidate has mocked a disabled newspaper reporter, referred to undocumented immigrants from Mexico as "rapists" and recently pointed to a black man in the crowd at one of his rallies and called him "my African-American."

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

#Triggered