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  1. BlueMouse

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    You misspelled "so damn awesome".
     
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    You're in awe of Bernie?

    Must be those free drugs

    :poke: :duck:
     
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    if he was so damn awesome why did the dnc railroad him in favor of hillary?
    bernie would have probably beaten trump
    but the libs wanted their bitch in the white house -- and trump getting in there is as much on them as anyone who voted for him
     
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    I really don't believe he could have won a general election. His economics are too far left. He did well among Democratic primary voters because they usually skew toward the liberal/activist side of the party. His "free shit for everyone!" appealed to the younger generation, but that also most likely wouldn't have translated to a general election win.

    I know there are polls out there that say he would have beat Trump (just like the ones that said Hillary would beat Trump) but just don't see how Bernie would have survived a general election cycle against the Republican attack machine.
     
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    Although a Bernie vs Trump election would have been gold.

    Battle of the septogenarian Demagogues. Two men enter. We all lose.
     
    TAFNAC, Feb 8, 2017
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    i didn't see those
    most of the pre-polls i saw had trump beating her but losing to bernie
    i agree that his socialist views probably wouldn't have played well in the ge
    but no one (or certainly not as many) would have voted for trump just because they hated bernie
    and that was clearly the case with hillary
    she never said/promised anything of substance
    just a bunch of "this is great for women", "this is our time" bullshit rhetoric

    that happened anyway
    the less ugly one won
     
    irish, Feb 8, 2017
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    Hillary has told us all today : "I have seen the future, and it is female"....
    Wow...I guess we are missing some good shit by her being buried in the election fail...
    Can you imagine if Rodney, Richard, and George were alive...what they could do with that?
     
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    Richard: "That's OK, man...long as it doesn't motherfuckin' look like her"...
    Carlin: " There go all the urinals....the ultimate feminization...we'll have to sit down to take a piss then"...
    Rodney: " What? I told my psychiatrist that makes me feel suicidal...he told me I have to pay in advance"...
     
    Bluezoo, Feb 8, 2017
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    Kinda feels like this part too
     
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    Bernie is awesome, but that doesn't mean he would have made a better president than Hillary. And it's possible that's what the DNC was thinking. Ultimately, Hillary was also supposed to beat Trump according to polls, plus (to Craig's point) I'm not sure I would trust the polls on a Bernie presidential run. Hindsight is 20/20

    Speaking of 2020... Hickenlooper/Brown?
     
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    I don't like Hillary, but I think she understands economics, foreign policy and government very well.
    And she had Wall St. and the Tech Industry in her back pocket.
    Bernie doesn't have any of those things.
    You can look at the Bernie vs. Ted Cruz debate from the other night for what would have happened during the general election.

    Although not sure any of that would have mattered in this election.
     
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    Fauxcahontas seems to be positioning herself for a run.
     
    TAFNAC, Feb 8, 2017
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    Might be funny to have a movie where these 3 appear together played by modern funnymen telling new jokes but in the style of the character their playing.
    I would enjoy to here some new Rodney jokes by someone doing a Rodney.
    A movie of these 3 guys where the actors never repeat an old classic joke.
    They dont have to ape the 3 icons exactly either, the point would be the type of jokes and the content of their stories.
     
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    again
    there were a lot of polls saying exactly the opposite
     
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    I was out of the country at the time, but I thought the vast majority of the polls had Clinton winning right up until the election.
    But admittedly I was out of touch.

    Edit: I don't know if you guys read fivethirtyeight, but it's a really good site with statistical analysis of lots of topics (sports and politics among them). They do some really interesting analysis of polls and composite poll data...and they totally got the election wrong:
    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
     
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    I can't help but feel like Elizabeth Warren would suffer the same fate as Hillary. She's in the spotlight too much, and people tend to vote against people more than they vote for them. They need someone who's laying low.
     
    BlueMouse, Feb 8, 2017
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    She says too many dumb things. She's really effective as a sort of gadfly for the left, but I think she'd get killed as a mainstream candidate.
    She's also probably too old. She'll be 71 in 2020.
    But then again, Trump and Sanders are about that age or older. And no one seems to care about their senility.
     
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    I know we all have our favorite pet issues, but here's something that people really should be protesting in the streets about, because it's related to government overreach that can directly affect your everyday lives: civil asset forfeiture. Basically: the government can steal your stuff if they think you've committed a crime. The standard for "think you've committed a crime" is incredibly low. They don't require a search warrant. You don't have to be convicted.


    https://www.thenewamerican.com/usne...ivil-asset-forfeiture-even-without-conviction

    More on CAF:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States
    https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/asset-forfeiture-abuse
    http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/09/trump-does-not-know-what-civil-forfeitur
     
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    this has been going on for quite awhile
    as long as we have had a government actually
    and "the think you committed a crime" thing has gotten really fucked up
    drive anywhere w a couple of empty red bulls in your car and depending on the district they can use that as a right to search you and your car
    if you have any amount of cash on you its going to get seized under suspicion of drug running
    good luck trying to get it back because while not impossible its a simple cost issue and they know it
    people have been killed when the government wants your land
    bottom line is if they want what you have they're going to take it period
    even the best lawyers won't take up the fight most of the time unless you can bankroll it cause its a million to one shot
    i hate the fact it can happen but i've hated that for a very long time
    long before this guy became president just saying
     
    LAdiablo, Feb 11, 2017
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