Political Conventions (and everything else) Open Thread
You don’t have to confine your comments to the conventions, as this space is often off-topic. But it does seem to be what’s on our minds right now.
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dewired4u July 25th, 2016 at 17:51
Trump on DNC email hack: “China, Russia or one of our many, many ‘friends’ came in and hacked the hell out of us” pic.twitter.com/lxQYZbCb4o
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 25, 2016
Budda July 25th, 2016 at 18:29
Back from the woods…..in Vegas awaiting flight out
William July 26th, 2016 at 15:37
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1049346541800965
William July 26th, 2016 at 15:43
…https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1049346541800965
StoneyCurtisll July 26th, 2016 at 19:46
Roger Ailes out at Fox “news” for sexual harassment, now working for Trump as an advisor…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTY4ahsc3MM
William July 26th, 2016 at 22:29
Congrats Hillary https://www.facebook.com/Fctry/videos/10154392963167053/
dewired4u July 27th, 2016 at 01:59
How donald does it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aFo_BV-UzI
StoneyCurtisll July 31st, 2016 at 11:51
Excellent link~!…
Thank you~!
William July 27th, 2016 at 08:12
I hardly recognized Howard Dean. https://www.facebook.com/TheOnion/videos/10154479887869497/
burqa July 27th, 2016 at 18:32
Well well well, now-former FoxNews honcho Roger Ailes has entered a rather dubious little fraternity: Republicans whose careers went down in flames following a sex scandal in which they did not manage to actually have the sex. My personal favorite is Rep. Jack Ryan, whose sexless sex scandal was with his wife.
Among those whose careers were ruined by a sex scandal in which they failed to get across the finish line are:
* Senator Bob Packwood
* Senator John Tower
* Representative Mark Foley
* Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias
* Representative Jack Ryan
* State Senator Bob Allen
* Senator “Wide Stance” Larry Craig
* Representative Chris Lee
* FoxNews honcho Roger Ailes
The Original Just Me July 28th, 2016 at 00:53
OOPs. I skipped over it Sorry. :+)
bpollen July 28th, 2016 at 03:00
My wife and I took my grandson to a local buffet-style restaurant, and was quite surprised to see a celebrity there:
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Larry Schmitt July 28th, 2016 at 20:01
Is that a blowfish?
dewired4u July 28th, 2016 at 21:43
a bottom feeder for sure.
bpollen July 29th, 2016 at 04:18
Maybe after a little wine, a swim along the beach…
Larry Schmitt July 29th, 2016 at 07:06
I knew someone would go there. I was thinking more along the lines of hot air, blowhard.
bpollen July 29th, 2016 at 15:18
Sorry… But it was such a great set-up….
StoneyCurtisll July 31st, 2016 at 11:47
The elusive Trump fish~!
bpollen July 31st, 2016 at 21:00
Strangely enough, that fish has a better grasp of foreign policy than Trump.
StoneyCurtisll July 31st, 2016 at 21:18
Absolutely !
William July 28th, 2016 at 09:02
I’m very worried about this election. With top talent like this rendering explosive musical endorsements , it could very well put Trump over the top. https://www.facebook.com/godlessengineering/videos/925517994236803/
oldfart July 28th, 2016 at 12:05
Lay an audio track with dogs howling in the back ground…
It’ll go viral !!!
William July 28th, 2016 at 13:10
High Five.
whatthe46 July 30th, 2016 at 01:21
that’s funny.
Larry Schmitt July 28th, 2016 at 20:00
He reminds me of that SNL skit with the husband and wife team of Jr. high teachers, who sang at the student assemblies.
dewired4u July 28th, 2016 at 21:42
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s misreading of Iran deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump entertained an Iowa audience Thursday
with an animated account of how he would have wrung a better nuclear
deal out of Iran if he’d been president when it was negotiated. But
there was more fable than fact in his soliloquy.
It was one of a number of swings and misses from the Republican
presidential candidate in a speech delivered hours before his Democratic
opponent, Hillary Clinton, was taking the stage in Philadelphia to
accept her party’s nomination.
A look at some of the claims from the political maelstrom Thursday:
TRUMP, boasting about how he would have conducted talks with Iran
over reducing its nuclear weapons capabilities: “I would have said
sorry, we can’t give you the $150 billion back. We want to give you the
money back, but we don’t have it. It’s not there.”
THE FACTS: The Iranians immediately would have called Trump’s bluff.
That’s because the U.S. never had $150 billion to give back in the first
place.
Iran had foreign assets spread across numerous banks and countries
before it struck a deal with the U.S. and other countries to limit its
nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
The sanctions meant Tehran couldn’t access these funds abroad. But
Iran’s government knew very well where its money was.
Much of the revenue came from Iran’s oil sales to China, India, Japan
and South Korea. These countries were able to purchase Iranian
petroleum before the July 2015 nuclear agreement, but U.S. financial
restrictions made it all but impossible to facilitate payments. So the
money mainly sat in escrow in those countries, instead. These were not
funds within the grasp of a U.S. president.
Trump’s comment also doesn’t reflect how banks work. Money is
fungible. If you have a bank account, it doesn’t mean specific bills of
currency or bars of gold are sitting in a box waiting for you to pick
them up. The can’t-find-your-money argument doesn’t work.
Trump got the sum wrong, too. Iranian and U.S. officials agree that the amount of frozen funds totaled about $100 billion.
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TRUMP: “We pick up 73 percent of the cost of NATO. We’re paying to
protect them. Wouldn’t it be nice if people would pay, and we could do
things properly? … That’s got to change.”
THE FACTS: No, the U.S. picks up just over 22 percent of the cost of
NATO operations, based on last year’s figures. Trump’s figure of 73
percent is based on the U.S. share of overall military spending by NATO
member countries, not of the money devoted to the alliance.
Because of high spending and unique military resources possessed by
the U.S., the alliance acknowledges that it is over-reliant on
Washington in areas such as intelligence, surveillance, in-flight
refueling, ballistic missile defense and airborne electronic warfare.
NATO asks member nations to spend at least 2 percent of their gross
domestic product on defense. Of the 28 NATO nations, only five — the
U.S., Britain, Estonia, Greece and Poland — meet or exceed that
percentage.
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TRUMP: “We’re fighting in Yemen.”
THE FACTS: Only a small number of U.S. special operations troops are
in Yemen and they’ve not been near the fighting. In Yemen, Houthi rebels
backed by Iran are fighting government forces backed by Saudi Arabia.
The United States has provided logistical and intelligence support to
longtime ally Saudi Arabia. Separately, the Pentagon has provided
military support, intelligence, ships and a small contingent of special
operations forces to help fight al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as
part of the ongoing counter-terrorism fight.
U.S. officials have acknowledged that U.S. special operations forces
have advised the Yemeni and Emirati forces in the region, but they are
working at the headquarters level, not near the conflict.
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TRUMP: “We’re right now the highest-taxed nation in the world.” He
acknowledged his numerous past assertions of this have been questioned,
and added, “OK, we’re one of the highest taxed.”
THE FACTS: Closer, but still wrong. The U.S. tax burden is actually
one of the lowest among the 34 developed and large emerging-market
economies that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development. Taxes made up 26 percent of the total U.S. economy in 2014,
according to the OECD. That’s far below Sweden’s tax burden of 42.7
percent, Britain’s 32.6 percent or Germany’s 36.1 percent. Only three
OECD members had a lower tax bite than the U.S.: Chile, South Korea and
Mexico.
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Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor, Deb Riechmann and Jim Drinkard contributed to this report.
EDITOR’S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures
eyelashviper July 29th, 2016 at 11:21
Trump’s view of reality boils down to several tactics:
Rant, rave, pound chest, don’t pay bills, make fun of others, bully those weaker, and treat all negotiations like a cheap used car salesman.
whatthe46 July 30th, 2016 at 01:21
and whine at the grave site of his mammy that people are being mean to him.
oldfart July 29th, 2016 at 00:40
Happy Friday everybody !
oldfart July 29th, 2016 at 02:12
Finally saw her speech…I just might be able to vote…this time…
Without holding my nose… this time around. :)
eyelashviper July 29th, 2016 at 11:19
The speeches of regular folk, and representatives from the military and Leo’s were really inspiring and powerful.
whatthe46 July 30th, 2016 at 01:20
she’s a representative of all of us. not just old white guys too fat to fit their sheets over their big fat asses. we saw someone from every walk of life represented on that stage. we sure as hell can’t say the same for tRump.
William July 30th, 2016 at 01:16
AND SO IT BEGINS https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1214819295226812
whatthe46 July 30th, 2016 at 01:18
what is or was it? the page won’t open.
William July 30th, 2016 at 01:19
DAMMIT
dewired4u July 30th, 2016 at 01:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLkbx5U7EVU
Candide Gunn July 30th, 2016 at 08:20
https://youtu.be/_i4Z7Wcd6Nw
There was no unity at the Democratic convention, nothing but manipulation by the media and Clinton campaign.
Buford2k11 July 30th, 2016 at 09:43
ummmm….ok…thanks for checking in…
Candide Gunn July 30th, 2016 at 10:20
All those lies and corruption and election fraud don’t bother you?
CHOCOL8MILK July 30th, 2016 at 15:38
Very cool:
“Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.
The finding is reported in the July 29 issue of Science and was funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. A provisional patent application has been filed.
Unlike conventional solar cells, which convert sunlight into electricity that must be stored in heavy batteries, the new device essentially does the work of plants, converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into fuel, solving two crucial problems at once. A solar farm of such “artificial leaves” could remove significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and produce energy-dense fuel efficiently.”
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-breakthrough-solar-cell-captures-carbon.html
Hirightnow July 30th, 2016 at 22:36
Okay,ID2, the day we make sequels;just a comment or two:
1) GODDAMMIT, YOU CAN’T JAM THAT MUCH ELAPSED TIME INTO A FILM WITHOUT AT LEAST NOTING THE PASSAGE OF SAID TIME! ALIEN TECHNOLOGY BE DAMNED!!!
2) ALIENS DON’T NEED OUR PLANET! NOT FOR RESOURCES, NOT FOR REVENGE, NOT FOR ANYTHING!!!
3} Judd Hirsch should have died.
4) QUIT TRYING TO JAM A 12 HOUR CONCEPT INTO 2 HOURS! IF YOUR STORY HAS MERIT, MAKE IT INTO PARTS! DON’T JUST EDIT THE HELL OUT OF IT!
unghhh unghhh ungghhhh excuse me unghhhh unghhh need to {GASP} catch breath…
William July 31st, 2016 at 08:57
…. https://www.facebook.com/theadvocatebr/videos/10155670578877524/