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SP33Demon

Lifer
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Yawn. Wake me when "interest over time" becomes action, will ya?

Right after you can show that the interest comes from Dems.

It's what we call bullshit, good sir. Thanks for trolling by.
The google search results don't lie, there's been a spike in Change Early Vote. What do you want me to tell you besides you have small cahones? Take it up with google, brah
 

Jhhnn

IN MEMORIAM
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The google search results don't lie, there's been a spike in Change Early Vote. What do you want me to tell you besides you have small cahones? Take it up with google, brah

I love the coy innocence of deliberately obtuse trolls. Trump goes on about how people can change their vote so people run a search to see if it's really true or not. Real time fact checking the Donald is nearly impossible, of course, but attempts are always being made. Too bad Trumpsters don't do it more often.
 

SP33Demon

Lifer
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Trump has to take North Carolina. It's a must. He could win every other battle ground state and if he doesn't take NC he will still come up short.

The thing is Clinton is doing quite well in NC and has a nice lead going into the final weekend.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/politics/north-carolina-clinton-trump-2016/index.html
Your link only quotes one poll as a source. Trump leads all averaged polling in NC.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...arolina_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson-5951.html
 

SP33Demon

Lifer
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I love the coy innocence of deliberately obtuse trolls. Trump goes on about how people can change their vote so people run a search to see if it's really true or not. Real time fact checking the Donald is nearly impossible, of course, but attempts are always being made. Too bad Trumpsters don't do it more often.
So more Trump supporters use google than Democrats? Ok dude. Most people who are searching for Change Early Vote are probably people who have already voted. But sure, all these early voters are going to switch from trump to clinton because trump hasn't been polling well lately. Not.
 

Jhhnn

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So more Trump supporters use google than Democrats? Ok dude. Most people who are searching for Change Early Vote are probably people who have already voted. But sure, all these early voters are going to switch from trump to clinton because trump hasn't been polling well lately. Not.

Heh. If you & your friends can spread any particular bit of bullshit well enough it'll become a blip in google trends, no doubt.

Your supposition as to who is running such searches is clearly agenda rather than fact driven. The notion that it's really about voter remorse among any segment is truly unfounded.
 

SP33Demon

Lifer
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Heh. If you & your friends can spread any particular bit of bullshit well enough it'll become a blip in google trends, no doubt.

Your supposition as to who is running such searches is clearly agenda rather than fact driven. The notion that it's really about voter remorse among any segment is truly unfounded.
Yes, I cannot prove who is running the searches but many searches were run. It *could* be something big, especially since it was run after the FBI's bombshell.
 

Vic

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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
 
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Jhhnn

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Yes, I cannot prove who is running the searches but many searches were run. It *could* be something big, especially since it was run after the FBI's bombshell.

In the meanwhile, it's just agenda driven bullshit.
 

nickqt

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If third party support drops off, as it very well may once someone gets into the voting booth and realizes that voting for Mickey Mouse/Elmer Fudd really is just a wasted vote in a first-past-the-post electoral college system, I can see it defaulting more to Clinton than Trump, all things being equal.

Take a look at where Johnson and Stein have been polling over the past 2-3 weeks. If they're losing support, they are essentially collapsing as "alternative" choices as the reality that November 9th really is happening.
 

jman19

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The google search results don't lie, there's been a spike in Change Early Vote. What do you want me to tell you besides you have small cahones? Take it up with google, brah

"Brah"

Something you'll be wearing after those roids cause a case of man boobs.
 

shortylickens

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The big election is only a matter of days away. We are going to pick the next POTUS. He or she could positively or negatively affect our country for generations to come.

No.

He or she will only negatively affect our country for generations to come.
The question is: How badly?
 

cytg111

Lifer
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The big election is only a matter of days away. We are going to pick the next POTUS. He or she could positively or negatively affect our country for generations to come.

The rest of the world have been nervous for some time now.
 

cytg111

Lifer
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No.

He or she will only negatively affect our country for generations to come.
The question is: How badly?

But why would one willingly and by democratic process vote a psychopath - an ignorant psycopath for king? What the hell is going on? This is something only Americans understand, none of your allies do, trust me.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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The google search results don't lie, there's been a spike in Change Early Vote. What do you want me to tell you besides you have small cahones? Take it up with google, brah

wow, the google search results have told you that this is actually happening? You are a real genius there, sp33dy.

You know that we use HCG for stimulating follicle development in female ovaries, right? You should probably stop injecting that into your ass for your "T boosts." It's shrinking your balls and drying up your neurons.
 

sportage

Lifer
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Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) if you didn't see it, Bill had a terribly sobering show Friday night 11/4.
Walking up to the camera face filling the screen, with Maher warning what a Trump presidency would actually mean to America as we know it.
And the forever damage this would cause to American institutions.
This was not some liberal vs conservative political speech from Bill, this was a warning of down right survival.

Then I thought, well frankly... the damage has already been done.
Whether Trump wins or not, the damage has already concluded.
The simple fact that Trump could even get this far, and the number of people i.e. movement that Trump suckered i.e. has brought with him, that damage consisting of millions and millions of Americans, is now set in stone.
The damage can not be repaired regardless which side wins or loses.
Yes, the damage has been done.
No matter who wins, the damage is here to stay. Forever more.

So just a little wakeup call to everyone that cares or would bother to care.....
This type of self inflected wound has aways ended with war.
And we're talking WW III.
A people that have lost their way to this extent, incapable of finding the way back, their eventuality has always been earth shattering blood spilling war on a global scale.
Only because this is America, leader of the free world, any internal war of this scale would eventually become global war.

Planet earth has went through this before, lastly being with Nazi Germany.
But this time the inevitable conclusion would be much greater.
This would boil down to mass extermination and probable extinction.
This time the eventuality will be much different than that of 1933.
Because..... this time the world has nuclear weapons.
There will be no survivors to crawl out of the ashes.

Again, whenever any society has lost their way to this extent, war has always been their only and eventual conclusion.
Is it over? Yes it is.
We are now in that waiting period, that span of silence that comes just before the storm.
We as a nation have lost our way. Our core has eroded. Our institutions have been dismantled then tossed aside.
Our morals have been compromised.
Our belief in God as a society has been ripped then traded away for the sake of political gain.

Trump just might become the next president, or maybe not.
That will not matter.
Regardless of which one wins, internal war is inevitable, spilling out onto every nation on earth.
We have lost our way and our institutions as we build them exist no more.
We have nothing remaining of our foundation.
Everything was compromised for political gain at the expense of morality and unity.
And war on a scale never before imagined is our only eventuality. We have lost all ability to unite and survive as one, and we will self-destruct.
It has already happened.
 
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Jhhnn

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No.

He or she will only negatively affect our country for generations to come.
The question is: How badly?

I'll give you half right. The non-Trump half is just the usual right wing negativity & whining.

The world has changed, largely due to the very success of financialized multinational capitalism. They rule, other than what little interference govt offers. The 99% need new strategies to cope with that or just endure what FUGM attitudes at the top will allow us.

Gubmint dependency? It's that or Jerb Creator dependency with the latter becoming increasingly unreliable. They don't give a fuck about America. If they did, things would obviously be different.
 
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Jaskalas

Lifer
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Jerb Creator dependency

Used to be that didn't just mean Wall Street or Multinational Corps. But as giants like Walmart have devoured the "little guy" it's no longer opportunistic Americans offering fellow Americans a leg up in the world. Predatory vultures have swooped in and replaced opportunity with exploitation. Labor is not what it used to be, and American anger is rising until we have a political revolution.

The founding pillars of my current economic theory are threefold.
  • Stimulus has proven its worth. Who argues against it now? I can no longer. Economy needs liquidity.
  • Robert Reich and Inequality for All hit home hard. Put facts to a truth long known about our decline from the mid 1900s.
  • Labor is being crushed, we need a safety net to rival automation. Only basic income will suffice.

IMO, action on this is not optional. Either it'll happen, or the angry voters will elect someone even worse than Trump.
A pressure cooker does not heat forever, America is set to explode under lost labor.
 

SP33Demon

Lifer
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I'll give you half right. The non-Trump half is just the usual right wing negativity & whining.

The world has changed, largely due to the very success of financialized multinational capitalism. They rule, other than what little interference govt offers. The 99% need new strategies to cope with that or just endure what FUGM attitudes at the top will allow us.

Gubmint dependency? It's that or Jerb Creator dependency with the latter becoming increasingly unreliable. They don't give a fuck about America. If they did, things would obviously be different.
I actually mainly agree with you on this. To your last point, ever notice that more often than not when a company goes public, its product goes to shit? This is pretty evident with fast food. Chic Fil A is crushing it while the other public companies' burgers keep getting smaller, cheaper, and using shittier chemicals/ingredients. With these companies' quarterly earnings to worry about, it behooves them to keep wages as low as possible. So yes, with automation right around the corner (see Elon Musk's thoughts on that from yesterday), I see less jobs being created and more gubmint dependency. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing if we lived 200 years in the future where we can do anything we want with our lives since everything is provided for us (Bernie ran a millenium too early). However, we still have to get to that utopian future and in order to build that tech, innovation needs to be the focus. And gubmint dependency stifles competition and innovation. After the replicator is created, I'm all for a gubmint dependency argument.