Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread

Now I could ignore how shady that is and just comment that “it’s legal”, which is the only standard we’ve come to expect from this campaign.

So we can conclude from the above that Trump and all his little Trumpsters are ethically challenged and have a hard time staying on the right side of the law. Who knew? :smiley:

Well, some of them may feel that corporations are making too much profit because of government interference (e.g. regulations for introducing new medicines, telcos being granted monopolies in certain cases, etc). And others are probably just idiots who don’t understand what Libertarians stand for.

This is consistent with my experience. When I first attempted to donate on line to the Clinton campaign from an ISP in Indonesia, I was told they could not take my money until I showed proof of US citizenship. I had to send them a scan of my passport before they would take my money.

I have been tempted to try to donate a teensy amount to the Trump campaign just to see if they are on the ball and do the same thing, but I can’t bear to do anything that might start a flood of emails from the Trump campaign begging me for money.

I am astonished that his legal team thought “damn, someone got to the domain before we even thought to…let’s threaten to sue!”

This happens sometimes - the smartest way to handle it is to try and buy the domain, but I am guessing the owner really doesn’t want to sue.

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Well if we can’t trust an anonymous person who scraped up the bucks to register a domain name then I don’t know whom we can.

Huh, it’s almost like I should have said “allegedly” or something like that…
My main point was that Trump didn’t get the domain, and absolutely could have.

This is most of it: They can’t claim that American free market enterprise is perfect, so they have a go-to explanation for literally every failure every free market enterprise experiences, which is “Regulatory Capture”, which is, as they understand it, government meddling in the free market. Don’t try to explain most of the failures in terms of the real-world definition of regulatory capture, because that isn’t what they mean when they use the term. They use it to mean “Literally every time a market failure occurs, it’s the government’s fault” and it’s an article of faith.

They know it means Legal Weed.

That’s what Spam Gourmet is made for: Simple, one-off email addresses you can use for specific purposes and then forget about entirely. Prevents spam runs like that entirely, no matter who the Trump Campaign sells your email address to.

Sure. If the caricature of libertarianism was the reality of libertarianism you’d be correct. But how many ideologies are actually 100% pure?

Perhaps one last opening for Trump. Not the best day for Democrats:

No one who is voting for Clinton thinks Trump could solve problems like this. Those who just want* something different* are already in his camp. It would take something quite a bit more dramatic to shift the landscape now.

I can too easily picture Eric changing jackets while singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”.

Jesse Benton apparently did Trump’s bidding for foreign contributions and access – on tape.

From the link.

So much for GOP worship of the military.

That’s not what happened. Feel free to read my more accurate summary above. :wink:

Indeed I did – nice work.:cool:

No way the soldier bonus blows up on Hillary. First, she had nothing to do with it and there’s no way Congress will let it happen. They’ll pass a law forgiving the debt.

The insurance premium increases are a) only on the exchanges, b) won’t hit most until after the election and c) largely matched by increased subsidies. This isn’t nearly the problem conservatives will make it out to be. Prices will still be roughly in line with original forecasts. The people who will care about this are already in Trump’s camp.

They already decided it cost too much.