2016 elections - because it's never too early

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Eddie Teach

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Syt

Quote from: garbon on October 05, 2016, 08:04:31 AM
I don't really know what that means looking from 2016.

Even looking three years into the future can be difficult. Look at the first couple of pages of this thread.
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celedhring

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You'll be amazed about the cred Al Gore has in that crowd, actually. One of the professors I work with has a lecture based on Gore's "The Future" book and is far and away one of the uni's most popular lectures. They eat it up.

CountDeMoney

Unfortunately, Big Al is as politically toxic as Hillary;  an entire generation has had ZOMG SEZ HE INVENTED TEH INTRAWEBZ and ZOMG HE WULDA SURRENDERED TO AL QAEDA ON 9/11 drilled into its head by the Fox/Rush/Palin/What Climate Change?-Industrial Complex.

celedhring

Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 05, 2016, 02:53:49 PM
Unfortunately, Big Al is as politically toxic as Hillary;  an entire generation has had ZOMG SEZ HE INVENTED TEH INTRAWEBZ and ZOMG HE WULDA SURRENDERED TO AL QAEDA ON 9/11 drilled into its head by the Fox/Rush/Palin/What Climate Change?-Industrial Complex.

A lot of that makes him popular around Millennials, precisely  :D

I'm not saying they go around with Al Gore shirts or anything, it's just that he is seen in a much better light around that crowd that around people our generation(s).

And no, I don't think he's going to make that much of a difference, before the "Trump campaign will collapse now" crowd jumps at me.

garbon

Quote from: celedhring on October 05, 2016, 03:02:41 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 05, 2016, 02:53:49 PM
Unfortunately, Big Al is as politically toxic as Hillary;  an entire generation has had ZOMG SEZ HE INVENTED TEH INTRAWEBZ and ZOMG HE WULDA SURRENDERED TO AL QAEDA ON 9/11 drilled into its head by the Fox/Rush/Palin/What Climate Change?-Industrial Complex.

A lot of that makes him popular around Millennials, precisely  :D

I'm not saying they go around with Al Gore shirts or anything, it's just that he is seen in a much better light around that crowd that around people our generation(s).

And no, I don't think he's going to make that much of a difference, before the "Trump campaign will collapse now" crowd jumps at me.

As a millennial, I don't know anyone who is all that positive about him. His PowerPoint about climate change was award winning but too bad he did it all while on a private jet and living in mega homes.
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Savonarola

I saw the highlights of the debate this morning.  Every time Kaine spoke I kept thinking:



Which became funny as some of the pundits who tried to put a happy face on Kaine's performance called him the attack dog Clinton needs.  Why she needs an attack Yorkie is a mystery to me.
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CountDeMoney

 :lol:  the whole thing kind of reminded me of shadow boxing.

Savonarola

Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 05, 2016, 08:07:16 AM
Hillary already has an ad out contrasting Pence's denails

KATHERINE:  Tim, tu as été aux États-Unis, et tu parles bien le langage.

TIM:  Un peu, madame.

KATHERINE:  Je te prie, m'enseignez. Il faut que j'apprenne à parler.
Comment appelez-vous les ongles en anglais?


TIM:  Les ongles? Nous les appelons "de nails."

;)


In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock


Savonarola

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

derspiess

Quote from: celedhring on October 05, 2016, 03:02:41 PM
And no, I don't think he's going to make that much of a difference, before the "Trump campaign will collapse now" crowd jumps at me.

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Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?