2016 elections - because it's never too early

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jimmy olsen

#2385
October 08, 2015, 02:28:35 AM
Yeah, that and the fact that she's attacking Bernie from the left on guns (being from Vermont he has a rather pro-gun record) shows that she's concerned with him.

Demographically she should be fine, Bernie might win New Hampshire and Iowa, but shouldn't win many other states. However, that's in a vacuum. Actually losing the first two states would cause a media firestorm and give Bernie a lot of momentum. Would it be enough to help him over come, probably not, but it might be close and I'm sure she'd rather not experience another long drawn out primary season when she could be wacking the GOP pinata instead.
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KRonn

#2386
October 08, 2015, 08:17:12 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 07, 2015, 05:34:21 PM
Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

That would be another flip flop...   ;)

HisMajestyBOB

#2387
October 08, 2015, 11:52:26 AM
BREAKING NEWS!
The House Freedom Caucus has taken the House Speaker election hostage and is threatening to kill a candidate every twenty-four hours until their demands are met! They're already released footage of them beheading McCarthy!
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Savonarola

#2388
October 08, 2015, 12:29:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 07, 2015, 05:34:21 PM
Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

"Wow! That's a reversal!," -Martin O'Malley

http://www.latintimes.com/bernie-sanders-welcomes-hillary-clinton-trans-pacific-partnership-bandwagon-martin-345851

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garbon

#2389
October 08, 2015, 01:11:08 PM
Why is O'Malley still running?
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DGuller

#2390
October 08, 2015, 01:25:03 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 08, 2015, 11:52:26 AM
BREAKING NEWS!
The House Freedom Caucus has taken the House Speaker election hostage and is threatening to kill a candidate every twenty-four hours until their demands are met! They're already released footage of them beheading McCarthy!
Gift-wrapping the whole Benghazi thing to Hillary didn't do wonders for the integrity of his neck, I'm sure.

Savonarola

#2391
October 08, 2015, 01:32:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2015, 01:11:08 PM
Why is O'Malley still running?

It's that or it's back to the Celtic Rock Band:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WipzhNU6ucQ
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

Razgovory

#2392
October 08, 2015, 01:58:37 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2015, 01:25:03 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 08, 2015, 11:52:26 AM
BREAKING NEWS!
The House Freedom Caucus has taken the House Speaker election hostage and is threatening to kill a candidate every twenty-four hours until their demands are met! They're already released footage of them beheading McCarthy!
Gift-wrapping the whole Benghazi thing to Hillary didn't do wonders for the integrity of his neck, I'm sure.

I wonder if he managed to fatally wound that committee.
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Phillip V

#2393
October 08, 2015, 09:04:09 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2015, 01:11:08 PM
Why is O'Malley still running?
Waiting for the first Democratic Presidential debate. I expect him and Webb to rise in the polls once people see them on stage and realize they exist.

Capetan Mihali

#2394
October 08, 2015, 09:31:57 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 08, 2015, 02:28:35 AM
(being from Vermont he has a rather pro-gun record)

Hey mister, carrying a loaded long-gun in the passenger compartment of a car is a Fish & Wildlife offense, I'll have you know. :mad:  Other than that, as far as Vermont gun laws go, um... :unsure:
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mongers

#2396
October 09, 2015, 01:52:36 PM
Would you file this under seven kinds of stupid:


QuoteBen Carson says guns may have stopped Holocaust
9 October 2015

US Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has sparked controversy after suggesting the Holocaust may have been avoided if people had been armed.

"The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," he told CNN on Thursday.

An anti-Semitism monitoring group says linking US gun control to the Holocaust is "historically inaccurate".

Mr Carson is polling second in the Republican race behind Donald Trump.

The retired neurosurgeon drew condemnation last month for saying a Muslim should not run for president because Islam was inconsistent with the US constitution.
Gun control laws

During the CNN interview, Mr Carson was asked about part of his new book, A More Perfect Union, where he wrote "through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance".

He was then asked by CNN presenter Wolf Blitzer: "Just clarify, if there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would six million Jews have been slaughtered?"

Mr Carson said he doubted Hitler would have been able to achieve his goals if Germans had been armed at that time.

"I'm telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first," he added.

The Anti-Defamation League, an anti-Semitism monitoring group, has previously said that drawing comparisons between the gun control debate in the US and the Holocaust was "historically inaccurate and offensive", especially to Holocaust survivors and their families.

In 1943, armed Jews in the Warsaw ghetto fought the Nazis. Jews killed about 20 Nazis, but about 13,000 Jews died in the uprising.

Ben Carson's comments come days after a mass shooting at a college in the US state of Oregon, in which nine people were killed.

Speaking after the attack, Mr Carson said: "I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, hey, guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can't get us all."

Survivors and relatives of gun attacks in the US have described his comments as insensitive.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34485358

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Valmy

#2397
October 09, 2015, 01:56:26 PM
Yes that has been passed around in those pro-gun memes forever.

Mao and Hitler and Stalin all took the guns. The only thing protecting you from being in a dictatorship is your guns. Guns have never existed in a dictatorship etc etc. So long as we all have guns the government will be good.

Of course every farmer in pre-invasion Iraq had an AK-47 but that is neither here nor there.
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Razgovory

#2398
October 09, 2015, 01:58:54 PM
If only the Polish army was equipped with guns, instead of lances, this whole thing could have been stopped. :(
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#2399
October 09, 2015, 02:02:50 PM
It blows my mind that so many people got hammered to death.
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