DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Everything Else... Election Thread #13: November 8th needs to just arrive already

While true, the problem is he's taking a lot of people with him.

I'm wondering how many republican politicians who in all honesty did nothing wrong are about to sink with trump for no other reason than they share the same letter.

Michelle is absolute gold. I hope she stays in the public eye after Jan. Did you see her on James Cordan's "Carpool Karaoke"? Superb!

Disgusting, despicable and everything our country and any Democracy should stand united against. I agree with the person in the article who termed it "Political Terrorism".

This is absolutely disgusting and inexcusable.

I wonder if Trump will accuse Chris Wallace of bias.

The dagger to Trump's campaign has always been Trump. No Republican ever really had a chance, but Trump just made it boat race. It's been over for awhile now.

I am shocked that Some idiots have not started claiming that it's Trumps fault yet

Wouldn't put it past Trump to have it bombed then blame it on Hillary and her people... And sure enough, like clock work, he blamed her.

Also wouldn't put it past Hillary to have it blown up..

What a couple of idiots we have to chose from

Nah that will never happen... he's a victim of U.S. voters

Given his Method of Operation, what's so unbelievable about him having it bombed so he could blame it on Hillary? I mean, he turned around and blamed her right away.

Having said that, I really wouldn't put it past Hillary to blow it up.

We have two complete wingnuts to chose from. Both are the bottom of the barrel to me.

AWFUL CHOICES IMO.

I know Donald got accused again this morning of grabbing.....



Donald Trump grabbed me.

Some positive news, Iraq's army is finally ready to charge at Mosul (ISIS stronghold). We can then focus on Raqqah.

I'll be curious if the DNC advises Hillary to do a tour through Texas. Texas will obviously turn red, but in the future it could certainly turn blue with changining demographics and immigration. Dems would have an electoral map fortress with Texas, New York, Illinois and California.

Agreed. Violence has no part in our society and especially our voting process.

Some REAL news 98 percent of Americans don't know the difference between Mosul and Raggah, AND they don't care

So anyways,

Depending on what polls you want to use, Clinton is up with Latinos over trump by 50 points.

Ouch.

Also, kaine just delivered an entire speech in Spanish at a Miami church.

I'm still waiting on trump to deliver an entire speech in proper English.

Trump speaks and writes English very well. What are you talking about?

I swear the way some people talk about Trump's intelligence, he has to be the luckiest guy in the history of the world. I don't know how a stupid person could have such success in so many different fields. It is perplexing.

Early voting started here and the line is five hours long.

You're the one thinking he's stupid. I never said he was stupid. Confirmation bias?

But when I watch him speak at rallies, it leaves very much to be desired.

So anyways,

Fox News anchor Sheppard smith had came out gay for a while now, but apparently conservatives didn't get that memo.

Some very nasty comments about the guy. Sucks.

I've seen the sentiment thrown around on here enough to know what you were getting at. And he does speak well, we can disagree about the content of the messages but he isn't the type of guy to say "we was" and that kind of thing.

I didn't see the thing about the Fox News anchor. About Trump, remember that he is the one who pledged his support to the LGBTQ community and received a standing ovation and massive applause at the Republican National Convention.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37680411

Assange cut off from internet

Long arms of the clinton tentacles. Oh wait, we don't know for sure. :-)

Donald Trump talks like a sports announcer. It's not very insightful or perceptive, however it is descriptive and tonal. I'm not sure if I'd constitute that as speaking well.

But 49 percent of those are Illegal immigrants so who gives a crap what they think

Yeah that is an interesting situation. Conspiracy theories abound. I don't really know what to think about it other than to say that what he has done over the last 10 years or so is dangerous and he obviously knows it.

Isn't that where the bar scene was in Star Wars?

I was to hammered in those days to remember

Another distasteful comment. You're on a roll today.

I am on a roll every day

I have no doubt Clinton and Obama want to stop the leaks, too late. These leaks are not getting proper coverage during the Trump Campaign destruction that is going on in the MSM.

Any other time against any other candidate and she would be in seriously deep crap right now. I'm sure Obama is a little worried what else is going to come out too.

And yes I know the compared to Trump this is nothing line, BLAH BLAH... I don't care about that comparison, I want them each held FULLY accountable.

Thanks I really try bro.

The leaks are not getting the proper attention they deserve largely because media itself is implicated in them. Some of the leaks (Podesta emails in particular) show an extremely cozy relationship and extensive collusion between the Democratic party and almost all mainstream media outlets.

The people who always gripe about biased media may not even fully realize just how right they are.

Here's what I've noticed. People don't really care about corruption and shady dealings. It often involves subjects that are boring and somewhat complicated. I've tried to post various emails and such and it really doesn't get talked about much. The same thing happens on a bigger scale. Wikileaks and other groups have released a lot of crooked dealings but in terms of actual effect on the election, the leaks have been a total flop.

If you can't get something into an easily digestible 30 second sound bite or video, it just doesn't really matter. In this crazy ass world we live in, a lewd but edited 11 year old audio recording of a private conversation means more than 11 years of deep corruption. Sad but true.

Probabaly not. I disagree with that mostly.

But when it comes to shadiness, you're right:

John McCain: Republicans will block anyone Clinton names to the Supreme Court


https://thinkprogress.org/john-mccain-re...=yfp#.1k342plm5

Almost immediately after news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death broke, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proclaimed that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.” And, with rare exception, this has been the Senate GOP’s message since Scalia’s seat became vacant — let the election happen first, and whoever wins that election gets to pick the next justice.
Nevertheless, in a Monday interview with a Philadelphia radio host, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) admitted that Republicans will continue to block anyone the next president nominates to the Supreme Court — at least if that president is Hillary Clinton.
“I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.”
“The strongest argument I can make” for why Pennsylvania voters should reelect Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, is that a Republican Senate can “ensure that there is not three places on the United States Supreme Court that will change this country for decades.”
After host Dom Giordano pressed McCain on how he can promise that Republicans will block Clinton’s appointees when they did not block President Obama’s appointment of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, McCain noted that a handful of Republicans did support Sotomayor. This time around, however, he says things will be different.
“I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up,” McCain told Giordano. He added that “this is why we need the majority.

The tactic that McCain is proposing is nothing less than an existential threat to the Supreme Court itself. Unlike elected officials, who wield legitimate power because they were elected by the people, federal judges cannot claim democratic legitimacy. Their legitimacy flows from their obedience to a written text and the knowledge that they were selected in a fair and constitutional process.
McCain, however, is effectively proposing that only Republicans should be allowed to choose Supreme Court justices. And, as McCain notes, two or even three more vacancies could open up on the Court during the next president’s term, as three current justices are quite elderly.
If those justices are replaced through the same legitimate process that every other justice has endured, then the Supreme Court retains the same legitimacy that it enjoyed before Scalia’s seat became vacant. But imagine a world where Scalia’s seat — and two others — remain vacant for five years because a Republican Senate refuses to confirm anyone named by the president.
Then imagine that all three of these seats are filled five or nine or thirteen years from today, when Republicans finally manage to gain control of both the White House and the Senate.
What reason would Democratic governors have to obey the decisions of such a court? What reason, for that matter, would a future Democratic president have to obey that court’s decisions? It’s one thing to ask the people’s elected leaders to bow to the decisions of unelected officials chosen in a fair process. It’s another thing altogether to ask them to bend to the will of a rigged bench.
McCain, in other words, is threatening a very dark future if Republicans keep their Senate majority. He is threatening to intentionally trigger a constitutional crisis where a bench stripped of its legitimate authority tempts defiance from elected officials who’ve been empowered by the electorate to govern.
That is a dangerous future because the judiciary, for all of its many flaws, plays an essential role in ensuring that elected officials respect the rule of law and the rights enshrined in the Constitution. But it can only play that role if the Senate does not rob it of its rightful claim to authority.
UPDATE: Hours after McCain’s comments kicked off a firestorm online, his spokesperson walked back his comments in a statement first obtained by Talking Points Memo:
“Senator McCain believes you can only judge people by their record and Hillary Clinton has a clear record of supporting liberal judicial nominees,” communications director Rachael Dean told TPM in a statement. “That being said, Senator McCain will, of course, thoroughly examine the record of any Supreme Court nominee put before the Senate and vote for or against that individual based on their qualifications as he has done throughout his career.”

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The GOP continues to prove to the American people that the biggest problem isn't trump, it's themselves. Trumps is nothing more than a grand display of the GOP.

Worthless.

I've said this over and over on the board.

The Dems give you guys ammo, yet instead, you decide to use that ammo to shoot yourselves in the foot.

It's like the GOP is in a one up competition within themselves. I really don't get it.

The only time I saw Kaine speak was during the vice presidential debate when he was a blithering idiot who had nothing to contribute and that was in English.

Dude's performance was just- painful to watch.

They want to try and cockblock a SCOTUS pick for 4 years? Prepare to have it returned Republicans or have Hillary pull something shady.