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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1640728)

with regard to the media hating trump... it's 100% true. i've never seen both right and left wing media work together to undermine a single candidate's campaign to the extent that they have with trump. especially with said candidate enjoying such success as he has. they continue to pretend he's just like any other flash in the pan like we had during the last republican primaries with perry, cain, bachman, gingrich, etc. very different situation with trump... none of them enjoyed the same kind of clear lead in the polls for as long as he has. not even close. doesn't mean he will win, of course. but it's clear they don't want him to. imo it's cause he poses more of a threat to the current establishment than any other candidate, including bernie sanders and including ron paul or ralph nader or ross perot or any other outsider type candidate that enjoyed any marginal amount of success in any presidential campaign in recent history. that's why they hate him so much, cause he is indirectly calling into question the influence the media is capable of exerting over american politics. i've never seen their smear tactics fall flat as often as they have with trump. it's been a pretty entertaining watch tbh.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1640740)

i said it's funny how it's more or less been assumed from the get go he has no chance regardless of how popular he is. that's simply a delusional media narrative driven primarily by liberal disdain for his politics and conservative fear that he could actually hijack the republican nomination. ironically enough the same media are fueling his popularity by trying so hard to discredit him and covering him endlessly - albeit with a negative tone. your average trump voter has no respect for the mainstream media so that's a bit like a white nationalist group trying to preach to the ferguson rioters.

I agree completely.

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Originally Posted by Josef K (Post 1640717)

Oh, and none of the three are going to win the nomination and every serious journalist knows it.

How does crow taste?

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Originally Posted by Dr_Rez (Post 1367858)

In voting for Hilary because i want all my rights and privileges taken away since I am far to stupid to have them. Also I make far to much money than I need so I would like jobless drunks and drug addicts who make kids in their free time to take some of it off my hands.

:laughing: Yes.

With regard to the validity of our voting process -

I don't know how I've just seen this testimony for the first time, but here is programmer Clint Curtis testifying under oath that Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Florida) asked his then-employer to write software to alter votes on electronic voting machines for the 2001 Bush election.

The code swings votes 51-49 for a candidate, ensures votes match between the master tally and the individual machines, and can "eat itself" to be undetectable.

If this is true... what the hell hope do we have?

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 1701663)

If this is true... what the hell hope do we have?

There is no hope in politicians. Never has been.

The entire voting process is all about the illusion of choice that you are making a difference but you aren't really when it comes to the National stage. Vote in your local elections though, those are usually super close and you can see the direct impact almost right away based on who gets voted in as say a mayor or city council member position.

Thats a frigging politburo...what you just described Dre.

Its where the hand behind the two parties wheels out your 2 choices to pick from when they have the same agenda...Soviet system of voting. It worked so well in Russia we thought wed try it here.

Don't act like it hasn't been like that since the beginning.