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Trump walks in a room.

1. Moshe123 shoots at him because he is pure evil, 2. ilherman+hachover jump in front of the bullets because Trump is our savior. 3. aygart tackles Moshe123 because Trump is better than HRC, 4. but Baruch can't stand Trump so he tells aygart he's crazy and Trump is a madman. 5. ExGingi would like to point out that who cares what he is, all that matters is the supreme court nominations. 6. Dan and others aren't really sure how this makes them feel plus they don't really want to drink poison. 7. Spoiler alert: Moshe123's gun was empty, it was just a blank.

And Freddie is in the back of the room just cooking his cholent. Until he announces that there are TWO menu choices, Pareve Cholent or Vegetable Lasagna. While etech0 figured out that they are both poisoned.


Repeat x100.

And then Hilary walks into the room with the most confidence a candidate has had in recent history. She is so confident that she eats both the Pareve Cholent and Vegetable Lasagna. Everyone is the room is aghast, they don't know how this happened, could it be Comey is behind this poisoning or was it that her Obamacare premiums were to high to get her the help she needed.

Everyone stared as she choked and was cast into oblivion on November, 8, 2016 the last day she was heard from in the public eye.

Moshe123, ilherman, hachover, Baruch, ExGingi, Dan, Freddie, etech0, and the rest of America are in total shock and hope that so long as Trump doesn't eat any Pareve Cholent and Vegetable Lasagna and stays true to his supreme court nominees this may be the greatest thing to happen since the CSR and GC's.

But remember this may be the beginning of the end...

P.S. Thanks to cognitive dissonance aygart, Michael Moore, and Scott Adams knew the whole time that Trump could win, unfortunately for JTZ he may be off DDF for the next 4 years due to his mandatory 3 times daily consumption of CROW!

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Sub notes:

Nov 8 : Time to edit the wiki. Biggest upset in American History according to Michael Isikoff.


http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=57647.0

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en
http://blog.dilbert.com/
http://fivethirtyeight.com/
All Political Ads - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuOH0oJFwElBgRKz-eMlLw

As things turns out, the most prescient view on this election was that of Michael Moore! Though Scott Adams is also claiming a high view level of prescience.


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Author Topic: US Politics/2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread  (Read 3770167 times)

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2000 on: August 11, 2016, 08:20:53 PM »

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Steve Krakauer Retweeted Elizabeth Warren

Hey media, can we decode and debunk this? Did GOP senators decide to sell weapons to ISIS or not? cc @brianstelter

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Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren
.@ChrisMurphyCT said it right: The @SenateGOP have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2001 on: August 11, 2016, 10:43:07 PM »
Agree
 This is where noone besides Adams hives trump enough credit for. He frames the context of the conversation and media bites every time. I'm not sure if he doesn't naturally or intentionally but it works though it may backfire because he's too extreme
James Taranto@jamestaranto   2h2 hours ago   Trump induces Obama-friendly Daily Beast to publish harsh critique of Obama. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/11/trump-s-new-conspiracy-spew-obama-founded-isis.html
         
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2002 on: August 11, 2016, 11:22:14 PM »
Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays 55m55 minutes ago

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Trump makes us think past the sale (again). Is Clinton a co-founder of ISIS or just one cause? Sale made. Discuss.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/258584864163500033
If you don't care why would you comment?
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2003 on: August 12, 2016, 12:54:51 AM »
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/258584864163500033

That tweet you linked to is actually a relief. I see that it's from 4 years ago. He's always been like this!

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2004 on: August 12, 2016, 01:05:01 AM »
Doesn't the President call it ISIL? What kind of founder is that??

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2005 on: August 12, 2016, 07:42:22 AM »
Doesn't the President call it ISIL? What kind of founder is that??

As I've mentioned before, he does that to show chavivus for the group. Why should they limit themselves to just Syria? Kinderlach, set your sights higher, have the whole Levant
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2006 on: August 12, 2016, 08:06:48 AM »
As I've mentioned before, he does that to show chavivus for the group. Why should they limit themselves to just Syria? Kinderlach, set your sights higher, have the whole Levant
But while the rest of the world still calls them DAESH which is the Arabic equivalent of ISIL, they have shortened it to Dawla Islamiya which is simply Islamic State (not limiting themselves to the Levant). BHO might have a problem with calling them by that name (though many news organizations are calling them such) as it would be an acknowledgement of the global problem of Islam (read the Hamas Doctrine to get a glimpse of what it's about - and I haven't seen any Islamic scholars deny any of it).
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2007 on: August 12, 2016, 08:22:59 AM »
But while the rest of the world still calls them DAESH which is the Arabic equivalent of ISIL, they have shortened it to Dawla Isalamiya which is simply Islamic State (not limiting themselves to the Levant). BHO might have a problem with calling them by that name (though many news organizations are calling them such) as it would be an acknowledgement of the global problem of Islam (read the Hamas Doctrine to get a glimpse of what it's about - and I haven't seen any Islamic scholars deny any of it).

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2008 on: August 12, 2016, 08:59:14 AM »
"ISIL" like Yankel. Lashon chavivus....

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2009 on: August 12, 2016, 10:21:32 AM »
"ISIL" like Yankel. Lashon chavivus....
Then it should have been ISILe like Yankele....
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2010 on: August 12, 2016, 11:09:34 AM »
 I don't care how many times he reiterated that he meant that Obama actually founded ISIS, did the media really think he meant that Obama actually founded ISIS??
If you don't care why would you comment?
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2011 on: August 12, 2016, 12:43:01 PM »
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/12/hillary-says-she-gets-tired-collapses-audio
This is almost as ridiculous as the way the MSM interprets Trump. She can't collapse into bed?
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2012 on: August 12, 2016, 12:51:47 PM »
This entire Trump "Obama founded ISIS" thing reminds me of the famous Bill Clinton line "it depends what the meaning of IS, is". WJC was given a lot more slack for what he said than DJT is being given.
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2013 on: August 12, 2016, 02:18:57 PM »
The Greatest Cognitive Dissonance Trap of All Time Posted August  12th, 2016 @ 1:00pm in #trump #clinton
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Here’s the set-up:
1. The mainstream media knows they are smarter than Donald Trump. They see evidence of this truth all the time, although much of that evidence is confirmation bias.
Then…
2. Trump does something smart – accusing Obama and Clinton of being “founders” of ISIS. This is a clever way to get the world to debate Clinton and Obama’s ineffectiveness during a time when ISIS expanded. In other words, it is brilliant media manipulation, and it worked.
3. CNN and other Clinton supporters interpret Trump’s statement about ISIS as absurd and uninformed because they can’t imagine a scenario in which Trump does something brilliant. Trump being brilliant isn’t one of the options, as far as they know.
The reality of Trump’s clever persuasion is crystal-clear to anyone who thinks Trump is smart. Trump was clearly joking about the “founder” part to get people squawking, and it worked. Total success. Brilliant technique.
Now the media has a big problem. They can’t admit that they were extraordinarily dumb in this situation and Trump was brilliant. That reality is invisible to them because it doesn’t fit their worldview.
So…cognitive dissonance happens.
This is a textbook set-up for cognitive dissonance. The facts we observe (Trump is smart, the media is gullible) is opposite of the media’s worldview in which they are smart and Trump is uninformed. So what do they do?
They act as if Trump is the dumb one in this situation. Because that fits their worldview.
And…they…fact-check his claim.
Meanwhile, the unhypnotized laugh themselves into a stupor watching this spectacle of cognitive dissonance. Humor aside, it is a marvelous and incredible thing to behold.
One of my smartest friends just emailed me to say he thinks Trump really believes that Obama and Clinton “founded” ISIS. My friend has a very high IQ and he’s well-informed. But cognitive dissonance isn’t influenced by intelligence. He believes whatever fits his worldview. Just like the rest of us.
The fun part is that we can see cognitive dissonance when it happens to others – such as with my friend, and CNN – but we can’t see it when it happens to us. So don’t get too smug about this. You’re probably next.
I think this story will end up in psychology textbooks. You rarely see such a clean example of cognitive dissonance in public.
Oh, and Trump hates babies, and he also wants a 2nd amendment supporter to assassinate his opponent. As long as the media is being dumbasses, they might as well fact-check that stuff too.
I have never been so entertained.

The trap here is that there is a decent chance that many will realize that much of the indignation over Trump comments is CD and will then bundle all together and think that everything he has said which they made a fuss over is the same even if really is something to fuss over.
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2014 on: August 12, 2016, 02:49:29 PM »
Looks like Trump will persevere longer than many others.

For good or for bad he will become a subject of many textbooks: psychology, politics, business, just to name a few.
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2017 on: August 15, 2016, 10:21:17 AM »
Time for you to come straight out and say you support Hillary. Any and every anti-trump article gets you going but we never see that passion about Hillary's downsides.

I support Trump but believe that this is a good and fair article. He better shape up

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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2018 on: August 15, 2016, 10:50:51 AM »
Time for you to come straight out and say you support Hillary. Any and every anti-trump article gets you going but we never see that passion about Hillary's downsides.
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Re: 2016 Election Pick Your Poison Master Thread
« Reply #2019 on: August 15, 2016, 12:08:35 PM »
WHen Breitbart and Scott Adams are saying that Trump isn't trying to win you know he'd better shape up.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/15/dilberts-scott-adams-breitbart-trump-not-trying-win-moment/
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