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Trump pays his supporters, he's really, really rich!

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I was surprised to find out just how many of the things I am still using.

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That ad actually got me so pissed off that I told my local-net DNS server that it was authoritative for that domain (grabass media, or something like that), and that its IP address was 127.0.0.1.

Because that's seriously rude behavior, and any asshole who distributes an ad like that deserves a redirect to localhost (meaning the ad company, not the Divine Mother of Our Lady Donna of the Rose).

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Could we go back to this Huma Abedin thing? That has a lot of national security implications. Oh, and pics or GTFO.

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Nope. He lost Florida when he made up to the Florida sugar daddies. Outside of that he wins without all the argument. It's a (similar) regular mistake. The other part you're right. TN was meaningless and expected.

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There's some disturbing stuff on OHJB, prolly as a consequence of the people talking him up:

http://www.slate.com/articl...

Short version: on issues that both Sanders and Clinton are running against, the whole law-and-order drug-war thing, Biden was one of the backers, twenty and more years ago. I hate knowing about it. It tarnishes him, in my mind, in the same way that learning about O'Malley's actual policies as Mayor of Baltimore tarnished (even disqualified?) him.

Possibly that article is a hack job, but I can't see it; it seems to be based on public policy stuff, and the policy in question is pretty unpleasant. He could repudiate it, though, and I'd like to see that.

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Who stoled the Wonkette comments section and replaced it with one from Huffington Post?

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Gods, the thing that scares me the most about the Chinese-initiated economic shit is that poor economic stuff almost always ends with the president coming from a different party. Coat-tails keep the Senate, and gerrymandering from 2010 keeps the House. That's frightening.

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Oh, fuck that noise. Gore lost because he was a (cardboard cutout of a) jackass, and because Jeb and his machine were busy stealing shit. If Nader hadn't been there, they would've had to be (slightly) more obvious about stealing. No big.

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Bernie's getting the coverage you get when the media are trying to predict a horse race. They think he has no shot, given the reality that TV money wins races, and that only the most motivated voters will even have heard of him by the primaries. Even if CNN, et. al., were covering him more extensively, it wouldn't matter because most voters are tuned out at this point.

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My parents are deceased and I've lived abroad previously so know the drill. I would not have moved back to U.S. if not for my husband's job. Fortunately he hates it here as much as I do and is lined up for transfer to EU country where I hold citizenship. Btw, you're completely incorrect about U.S. citizenship. A U.S. citizen is free to renounce their U.S. citizenship whenever they like. Just make a formal request at any U.S. diplomatic office or U.S. embassy. Take an oath renunciating U.S. citizenship, as well as sign a document. I never said I had any intention of renouncing my citizenship so I don't know why you bothered to mention it. My comment was clear. When I live abroad I don't follow U.S. politics. I don't vote. Believe it or not, the U.S. is not the center of the universe.

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Ah...a shattered idealist. I feel for you...it's a sad place to be. I'm not a true idealist...too pragmatic and hard hearted. But reddick, just be strong and vote anyway. Like Candide, if we all tend our own garden we change the world.

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Ok well Hillsy will have to do it without my helping her. I gave her a chance to prove herself when she was Senator of NY but she didn't do anything to help women, children, African Americans, Latinos, Asians. She didn't even attempt to change the minimum-mandatory sentencing laws which were created by her husband's crime bill which has had a tragic affect on minority and poor communities, specifically African American. She voted for war, TARP, and a lot of other bills she should have said no to. I don't believe the email crap is a real scandal. GOP will hone in on anything she does that they don't like and use it to their advantage, or at least attempt to use it against her. I don't believe the email diversion will amount to much. Her downfall will be "donations" accepted by the Clinton Initiative and her ties to Wall St.

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You do know Mrs.Clinton voted for war right?

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Yet you fail to understand that both Clintons have supported and passed bills and laws, supported wars, etc...which have negatively impacted the lives of millions of Americans? Especially people of color, women, and poor Americans.

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