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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by glynch, Jul 18, 2016.

  1. Kam

    Kam Contributing Member

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    This right here. I'm in for lulz. But this is damn near terrifying.
     
  2. FTW Rockets FTW

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    This is pathetic. Low quality talks projecting a lack of education. No charisma, No personality. This is a train wreck. God Bless Murica.

    One thing though. It's great entertainment for a Monday night.
     
  3. jsingles

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    Giuliani gone full blown. Gets on stage in Cleveland and the first thing he says "Thank you New York" Jesus
     
  4. RocketsLegend

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    RUDY RUDY RUDY
     
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    Say it with me obama. ISLAMIC EXTREMIST TERRORISM!
     
  6. rocketsjudoka

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    I'm not surprised but these people seem to forget that even the House Committee on Benghazi that was admitted by a member out to get Hillary Clinton couldn't prove any wrong doing.
     
  7. el gnomo

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    Leading off with 'we are going to win so big' lololololololololol... can't make this stuff up.

    How do people supporting him not realize he's just a 33rd degree level master troll? I think he's hilarious.
     
  8. percicles

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    Low energy. Perry should've donned his milkman outfit and pumped the crowd up.
     
  9. durvasa

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    I haven't been following this.

    Is it 100% set in stone that Trump will be the Republican nominee? I guess so since he has his VP pick, but just confirming.
     
  10. El_Conquistador

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    Obama's former Director of Intelligence is absolutely trashing him right now for his failed leadership and weakness on foreign policy. Think about that -- a member of Obama's administration who has watched him with a front row seat, has these horrible things to say about his leadership. No matter what side of the aisle you are on, it is truly impossible to say that Obama has been a success on foreign policy. Literally everything he has touched has been a colossal failure -- Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia, the list goes on and on.

    This is a historically significant, stunning rebuke by General Flynn.
     
  11. dandorotik

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    Allow me to retort:

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    Obama's former Director of Intelligence is absolutely trashing him right now for his failed leadership and weakness on foreign policy at the Republican Convention. Think about that -- a member of Obama's administration who has watched him with a front row seat, has these horrible things to say about his leadership at the Republican Convention....

    This is a historically significant, stunning rebuke by General Flynn at the Republican Convention.
     
  12. dandorotik

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    Absolutely the perfect example of why you can never take Trader Jorge seriously for anything he ever posts at all for the entire time he has been on ClutchFans. Many on the left think Obama can do no wrong. Many on the right think Obama can do no right. All the rest rate him somewhere in between, some a little more negative, some a little more positive.

    Ultimately, that is where the truth lies. Trader Jorge is, again, a perfect example of how someone tries in vain to pose rhetoric as truth. It's the Declaration of Independence rhetorical technique- don't admit anything good about Britain, make it seem as if everything they did was bad, and personalize it by attacking King George III rather than England itself. The Declaration of Independence was successful for that very reason, not because it was an accurate statement.
     
  13. Mr.Scarface

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    The guy was escorted out of the building and job. Was barely allowed to collect his belongings. Obama felt he wasnt even worth meeting with because he could get his information from OTHERS...higher up on the food chain. Flynn is worthless.
     
  14. CometsWin

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    Considering he never met with Obama, I guess you could say Flynn had a front row seat in every room Obama wasn't in at the time. Scandalous!
     
  15. dandorotik

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ers-say-hillary-clinton-said-about-the-video/

    Every person we interviewed appeared sincere about recounting what they remember they had heard.

    Even with the sharply different versions, one can see that elements of the recollections overlap. Someone — the Libyan ambassador or Clinton or both — said the people responsible would be prosecuted. Clinton spoke about conditions in Africa, but in one instance the memory is more directly related to the attack.

    Clinton says that in speaking with the families, she did not blame the Benghazi attacks on the video. Most participants we interviewed (four out of six) back up her version, saying they do not recall her mentioning a video.

    Perhaps it all started with a comment made by Rice (who two days later would famously go on national television and make a direct link between the video and the attack, thus spoiling her chance to become secretary of state). Perhaps the question of who said what at what moment got jumbled over time. Or perhaps Clinton mentioned the video privately to just two people — and not to others.

    Clearly we cannot come to a resolution that would be beyond dispute. Readers will have to come to their own conclusions based on the evidence we have assembled. (Any family members who could not be located are welcome to contact The Fact Checker, and we will update with their recollections.)

    And make no mistake- this is all about politics- no one brings up the Secretary of State when talking about Iraq- it's all "Bush ..." or "Cheney..." It is ALL partisan politics.
     
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    CLAIM (Rudy Giuliani): "Hillary Clinton's answer to Congress about the death of these four brave Americans [in Benghazi] because of her failures as Secretary of State was 'what difference at this point does it make?' Watch the video for yourself and see the arrogant disregard for American lives lost unnecessarily. Make up your own mind."

    THE FACTS: According to the video of Clinton's congressional testimony, Clinton's "what difference at this point does it make" was over whether the violence in Benghazi was inspired by anti-Islam video or not. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they'd they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."

    CLAIM (Melania Trump): "Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims, it includes Hispanics and African Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle class."

    THE FACTS: In addition to the temporary Muslim travel ban that Trump first proposed in Dec. 2015, Trump has once talked about a "Muslim problem" in a 2011 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody.

    "Bill O'Reilly asked me is there a Muslim problem? And I said absolutely, yes. In fact I went a step further. I said I didn't see Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center," he said.

    On the Koran, Trump added: "A lot of people say it teaches love and there is a very big group of people who really understand the Koran far better than I do. I'm certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. But there's something there that teaches some very negative vibe. I mean things are happening, when you look at people blowing up all over the streets that are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There's a lot of hatred there that's some place."

    CLAIM (Rudy Giuliani): "This includes undoing one of the worst deals America ever made - Obama's Nuclear Agreement with Iran that will eventually let them become a nuclear power and put billions of dollars back into a country that the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism. Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran. "

    THE FACTS: The Iran Deal requires that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency continuously monitor Iran's nuclear sites to verify that Tehran is keeping its enrichment activities within limits set out in the deal and that none of the fissile material is being moved to covertly build a bomb. It also requires that Iran shut down or transform some of its reactors to be used for science and energy purposes, rather than to enrich weapons-grade material, and it caps Iran's nuclear stockpiles at levels considered insufficient to build a bomb. Many of those restrictions are in place for 15 years, which the White House hopes will be sufficient time to normalize relations with Iran so in the case the nation does continue to move towards becoming a nuclear power, it's not seen as such a significant threat.

    An Associated Press report out this week did reveal, however, that many of the restrictions, which were set to end in 15 years, actually conclude in a little over a decade, potentially reducing the amount of time Tehran would need to build a bomb to just six months.

    CLAIM (Jeff Sessions): "Understand this. From 2000 to 2014, while our existing population increased by millions, the number of jobs held by Americans actually declined. Amazingly, all the net job growth during that period went to immigrants."

    THE FACTS: Sessions is citing the research of the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors far lower immigration numbers and produces research to further those views. PolitiFact has checked out claims made from this study before and found that this reading of the data is misleading. The organization found that the study looks at jobs for workers 16-65, ignoring the gains for workers over age 65 that existed and ignoring the recession, which had a strong affect on net job gains over those 14 years. After the recovery began in 2010, foreign-born workers saw 43% of job gains, the study notes.

    CLAIM (Darryl Glenn, Colorado Senate candidate): "Neighborhoods have become more dangerous under [Obama's] watch"

    THE FACTS: While there is some evidence of an increase in violent crime in some large American cities in the last few years, the national trend shows overall crime going down. From the AP: "According to FBI data, the national violent crime rate last peaked in 1991 at 758 reported violent crimes per 100,000 people. In 2014, the latest year for which full data is available, the rate was 366 per 100,000 people."

    Donald Trump (in an interview with Bill O'Reilly live during the RNC proceedings): "I wanted [the convention] to be here and we had lots of choices. I wanted it to be in Ohio, I recommended Ohio, and people fought very hard that it be in Ohio."

    The Facts: The Republican National Committee's Site Selection Committee announced in July 2014 its recommendation of Cleveland, Ohio, as the site of the convention. Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president nearly a year later, in June 2015.
     
  17. BigDog63

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    Ivanka would indeed be the highlight, as they've been divorced for a couple decades now, so that would be quite the stir.
     
  18. Nook

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    There is no reason for the mom of Michael Brown to speak at the DNC.
     
  19. bingsha10

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    You're right. The parents of dead people Hillary Clinton lied to have no business speaking out about Hillary Clinton.
     
  20. bingsha10

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    Sure there is. The Democratic party is positioning itself as the party of f*** the police.
     
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