Bucky wrote:

td11 wrote:Thought this was a cool visualization:
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/67 ... 89952?s=09

i don't understand the graph?

td11 wrote:sorry pals, was posting from mobile so i didn't post the gif directly

Monkeyboy wrote:Trump has one skill: Self promotion. He's a master at it.

smitty wrote:How come no one has questioned Cruz's plan to "carpet bomb" the Isis? We don't carpet bomb. It's old school and it doesn't work. We use precision guided bombs nowadays. It hits the target and reduces collateral damage. Carpet bombing would kill innocent Muslims and just radicalize more of them. A guy running for president should know that.

Thirteen women took the stand and told strikingly similar stories — Holtzclaw coerced them into having sex after threatening to arrest them on outstanding warrants or for possessing drug paraphernalia.

Most didn't dare report what allegedly happened to them to police. "I didn't think anyone would believe me," one woman testified. "I'm a black female."

It wasn't until a black woman in her 50s — identified in court papers as J.L. — came forward and told police what allegedly happened after Holtzclaw stopped her on June 18, 2014, that an investigation was launched.

Holtzclaw was fired before the trial began. The Oklahoma City Police Department said in a statement after the guilty verdicts were reached that it "is pleased with the jury's decision."

Brantt wrote:Good for Ben Carson!

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/b ... ost-216674

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Brantt wrote:Good for Ben Carson!

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/b ... ost-216674

Why good for Ben Carson?

He's throwing a hissy fit over a reasonable discussion in which party officials were discussing how to deal with a real problem in this day and age. A brokered convention isn't stealing the nomination... it's the inevitable result of a primary season that does not result in a clear winner, especially when you have candidates who would be highly unlikely to compromise.

Brantt wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Brantt wrote:Good for Ben Carson!

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/b ... ost-216674

Why good for Ben Carson?

He's throwing a hissy fit over a reasonable discussion in which party officials were discussing how to deal with a real problem in this day and age. A brokered convention isn't stealing the nomination... it's the inevitable result of a primary season that does not result in a clear winner, especially when you have candidates who would be highly unlikely to compromise.

If the Republicans nominate any candidate other than the one who has won the most delegates, whether that be Trump or anyone else, the party is finished. Done. Would be 100x worse than any blowback from Trump or Cruz being the nominee.

Problem is you have a bunch of billionaires and millionaires who are scared they aren't going to be able to buy the nominee and scheming to get one of their personal property candidates in the spot. Only reason Jeb is hanging around.

Brantt wrote:If the Republicans nominate any candidate other than the one who has won the most delegates, whether that be Trump or anyone else, the party is finished. Done. Would be 100x worse than any blowback from Trump or Cruz being the nominee.

pacino wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Soren wrote:

smitty wrote:How come no one has questioned Cruz's plan to "carpet bomb" the Isis? We don't carpet bomb. It's old school and it doesn't work. We use precision guided bombs nowadays. It hits the target and reduces collateral damage. Carpet bombing would kill innocent Muslims and just radicalize more of them. A guy running for president should know that.

He probably does but Cruz is also a sleazy say anything panderer.

He's saying it because it sounds tougher/cooler, not because he means that from a military tactic standpoint.

Cruz is crazy, but he's an incredibly smart guy and very good at rhetoric. He always knows exactly what he's saying.

it's weird though...he called a gun a machine gun when it wasn't and says stuff like this (inept military strategy we don't do) that if a Democrat said it the Republican base would be laughing and rolling down the aisles at how little they know about real man things. Cruz gets away with it for whatever reason.

Brantt wrote:
Problem is you have a bunch of billionaires and millionaires who are scared they aren't going to be able to buy the nominee and scheming to get one of their personal property candidates in the spot. Only reason Jeb is hanging around.

Trump’s misinformation may be “strategic,” said Jeffery Hemsley, an assistant professor in the school of information studies at Syracuse University. “Each candidate isn’t talking to the public as a whole — they are talking to their base and to those they might be able to persuade into voting for them,” he said. “So for many centrists and those on the left, Trump seems crazy. But for a segment of those on the right, Trump speaks to them. If Trump is using poor sources for his information, that isn’t really a problem for his audience. That is where they are getting their information, too.”