2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Tyrath]

What did Ted say that has them all rustled?

Nothing, he just didn't endorse Trump. From the parts I saw, he didn't talk about Trump at all. He talked shit about Hillary and Obama. Then he just talked about conservative principals and told people to vote their conscience.

[Quicklet]

"Vote your conscience" is essentially code for "I'm not endorsing Trump and I want him to lose in November."

Meanwhile Trump just did a new interview where he says he's not sure if the US would come to the defense of a NATO country if it were invaded by Russia.

Honestly it's still plausible Trump is actively trying to sabotage his own campaign so that he doesn't actually have to be president. It's really hard to come up with other explanations for the incompetence of his campaign.

[Psion]

hes just using what scientists recently studied and discovered: when faced with overwhelming evidence (such as global warming, vaccines and autism, GMOs, etc) many people will naturally veer to opposition of said evidence. apparently there actually is such thing as too much proof.

the evidence for his craziness is so overwhelming that people naturally veer toward thinking he's the opposite.

[Minions]

(CNN)The US Secret Service is investigating an informal adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after he called for Hillary Clinton's execution.
Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative, told radio host Jeff Kuhner Tuesday that Clinton "should be put in the firing line and shot for treason."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politi...son/index.html

[6souls]

Day 4:

• Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel. According to member station KQED, Thiel is expected to tell delegates that he is "proud to be gay." The convention approved a socially conservative platform earlier this week that decried same-sex marriage.
• Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin
• Republican Party Chair Reince Priebus
• Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., an early Trump endorser
• Donald Trump

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486870...ns-final-night

[Day]

Jerry Falwell FUCKIN LOL

[Day]

incase people forgot about this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/276677.stm

[Krandor]

To be fair, that's his son (hence the Jr). The article you're linking is his father, who died in 2007

[Qalbert]

Jr. has claimed Trump is a man of great Christian faith. not as crazy as Pat Robertson having a 'vision of Trump seated at the right hand of God' but still pretty fucking lolworthy, especially with how quickly he abandoned the Cruz bandwagon when Trump started performing well.

[Minions]

[Krandor]

Jr. has claimed Trump is a man of great Christian faith. not as crazy as Pat Robertson having a 'vision of Trump seated at the right hand of God' but still pretty fucking lolworthy, especially with how quickly he abandoned the Cruz bandwagon when Trump started performing well.

I'm not saying Jr. isn't crazy, he just isn't at the level of his father.

[Olo401]

Spoiler: show

This photo is just astonishing. I think this is the third time I'm saying the phrase "they're not even hiding the fascism anymore".

[Dotsudoku]

pull yourself together, he's clearly waving

[Krandor]

Here's a photo of Hillary giving a Nazi salute, let's all overreact to out of context images.

[Dotsudoku]

honestly though. There's so many reasons to hate these people. Stick to the real ones.

[Day]

To be fair, that's his son (hence the Jr). The article you're linking is his father, who died in 2007

oh good

[6souls]

[Quicklet]

Word is that Trump's speech tonight is going to be super nationalistic/apocalyptic. I guess 250 years was a nice run for this country.

[Belmoth]

It's going to be the greatest, most presidential speech anyone has ever heard.

[Aerin]

Roger Ailes is officially gone from Fox News.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/21/medi...ews/index.html