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Old May 12, 2020 | 10:45 AM
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HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE FACT THAT I TOOK POLITICAL PARTY TALKING POINTS AND RUMORS AS FACTS WITH ZERO INVESTIGATION!
Old May 12, 2020 | 10:59 AM
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HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE FACT THAT I TOOK POLITICAL PARTY TALKING POINTS AND RUMORS AS FACTS WITH ZERO INVESTIGATION!
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Old May 12, 2020 | 01:38 PM
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Old May 12, 2020 | 01:51 PM
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Well that's depressing. Looks like government indoctrination centers public schools have done their job with regards to trusting the government.
Old May 12, 2020 | 02:56 PM
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Old May 12, 2020 | 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by chiefmg
Have we really arrived at the point of lumping in C-SPAN with for-profit run network TV just because they air the President's press conferences? Their slogan is literally "Your unfiltered view of government"
Old May 12, 2020 | 03:24 PM
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Old May 12, 2020 | 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Polls summarized by that one stick-figure cartoon
Here's an unsupported opinion - only extremists and narcissists answer pollsters. Also, the further away you get from major population centers, the fewer people (as a percentage of the population) answer polls. Because rural America is a decent place to be an extremist, but a terrible place to be a narcissist.

I suspect there is no way to prove this, because the same people who refuse to participate in polls would refuse to participate in studies about polls.

Edit: Can you seriously imagine being asked about whether or not you have a favorable impression of Tom Hanks, by a stranger, in public, and thinking, "Obviously the world needs to know my opinion on this," rather than looking at the pollster like he used to be the kid in school who licked windows?



Old May 12, 2020 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dann0
I suspect there is no way to prove this, because the same people who refuse to participate in polls would refuse to participate in studies about polls.
I propose that the Pew Research Center form a partnership with Blackwater. They will kidnap a genuinely random cross-section of Americans from all regions and demographic groups, and force them (under torture, if necessary) to participate in a study about polls.
Old May 12, 2020 | 04:49 PM
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Old May 12, 2020 | 10:44 PM
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So how hyped are we for Obamagate?
Old May 12, 2020 | 11:25 PM
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Did we just go from polls to trolls?
Old May 12, 2020 | 11:37 PM
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This is the politics thread. It's at least 50% trolling by weight. (Contents may settle in shipping.)

My first instinct was to ban him, but then I saw he's been lurking for nearly a year. So I'm gonna allow this (for now) and see if he goes anywhere intelligent with it.


Bajingo, what is Obamagate? The only search results I'm getting are from sites with names like "Conservapedia: The Trustworthy Encyclopedia." In my experience, if you have to tell people that you are trustworthy, well... you're not.


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Could be a Brain alias, planted for later use.
Old May 12, 2020 | 11:41 PM
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Yep I lurk.

i was just curious if anyone else was as excited for the glorious **** show that's about to spring up from this. Not a terribly intelligent thought but should be entertaining.
Old May 12, 2020 | 11:50 PM
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Obamagate, Obama himself might have been in on the setup of Flynn, spying on Trump, the **** dossier, and the Russian collusion stupidity.


Trump keeps tweeting it.
Old May 13, 2020 | 12:01 AM
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I haven't hit on Joe's key word search yet, but I'm getting closer...

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=gross+meat&t=i
Old May 13, 2020 | 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
Trump keeps tweeting it.
Trump has also tweeted his opposition to the First Amendment, Title 4 of the United States Flag Code, and the Boy Scouts of America, all in a single sentence:




There are a number of good reasons not to put too much faith in anything which comes out of his Twitter account.


I will say this: if I am ever elected to any public office, one of my first acts will be to hire a staff to moderate any social media / internet forum accounts which I have. I will be able to say / post literally nothing without their review. I won't even know the passwords to my own accounts.






Old May 13, 2020 | 07:30 AM
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You'd be better off using it to post your random cooked animal pics.
Old May 13, 2020 | 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
So how hyped are we for Obamagate?
I wouldn't know, social media comglomarants are silently deleting references to it -- all part of the plan, i guess.

Repulbicans are too spineless to do anything.


It's funny because I've been saying this from day one, but I'm the crazy one, now the left-winged propaganda machine is picking it up and talking about it...

So many boners the day flynn was arrested, and now look. I suspect all the convictions from the Mueller coup investigation will be overturned shortly.



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