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Quasar FunkBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:52am
I get their point, but I don’t care, cognitive dissonance is fucking delicious.
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  Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Quasar Funk
  8/05/16 7:54am
  I don’t get their point. Hillary Clinton doesn’t control a single slaughterhouse. She can’t stop a single hunter from firing a gun. She can’t prevent a single supermarket from selling ground chuck. That would also be true if she were president.
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  Quasar FunkFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
  8/05/16 7:57am
  Oh I definitely don’t get that point. I just mean the overall message of animal rights.
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Endless Supply of CynicismBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:50am
Why protest at a Hillary rally when Trump’s sons literally shoot endangered species for fun and post pics to the internet?
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  Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Endless Supply of Cynicism
  8/05/16 7:53am
  Always let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That way you’ll always have a reason to protest.
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  bumpdatEndless Supply of Cynicism
  8/05/16 7:54am
  Yes. And her husband has been an excellent ambassador for the vegetarian diet. I’m definitely down with animal rights, but like any movement, some people within it seem to not understand how to not look loony.
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Armageddon T. ThunderbirdBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:48am
Animals should be free.

Seriously, have you seen the price of beef recently?
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  kamla deviArmageddon T. Thunderbird
  8/05/16 7:57am
  boom.
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  Armageddon T. Thunderbirdkamla devi
  8/05/16 8:00am
  Tip your waiters. Try the veal.
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99Telep☺dpr☹blemsBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:54am
Can we start by releasing all captive tigers into the next Trump rally? Thanks!
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  TwoFairy99Telep☺dpr☹blems
  8/05/16 7:57am
  Elephants. For the humor value.
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  99Telep☺dpr☹blemsTwoFairy
  8/05/16 8:05am
  Much better! All the trampling to death would have such a sweet metaphorical layer.
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Cylontater: Genital WhispererBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:55am
For a second I thought the guy holding the phone was playing Pokemon Go.
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  99Telep☺dpr☹blemsCylontater: Genital Whisperer
  8/05/16 7:59am
  Free the Squirtles!
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  MajorBurn99Telep☺dpr☹blems
  8/05/16 8:18am
  Free Diglett!
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Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Brendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:48am
These people make a very good point and are there for a very good reason.

The Constitution clearly says the president has the power to stop all people everywhere even trying to eat meat.

Fact.
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  WhimsicalEthnographiesFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
  8/05/16 7:57am
  Right after she takes our guns!!!11!!1one!!1!!
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FionaAnneBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:59am
The footage of Secretary Clinton’s Secret Service agent (I’m assuming he’s her lead agent) calming her down? When he reassured here that they were “not going anywhere”? That was cool.

And I liked the calm manner in which she took in the situation and didn’t escalate things. Also her comment, about Trumps kids killing animals: way to bring it back to being a campaign!
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  flamingolingoFionaAnne
  8/05/16 10:25am
  People who say Clinton is a bad politician must not be paying attention. She’s really quick on her feet.
  
  I was at the campaign’s first rally after the DNC and there was a protestor who yelled at her while she was talking about the party. She smoothly ad libbed a line about how Democrats like to engage in raucous debate as the guy was being escorted out.
  
  Most people wouldn’t be able to recover quickly from something like that, let alone while onstage with dozens of cameras pointed in their direction. I mean, I frustratingly can only seem to think of the perfect snappy comeback hours after someone is rude to me.
  
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LindaBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 8:43am
The video of the agents running up to the stage surrounding her was amazing, in a scary, yet damn these guys are good kinda way.

They told her “keep talking we aren’t going anywhere”.
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  PoimanentlyPuckeredLinda
  8/05/16 10:12am
  Her hot mic picked it up, we weren’t supposed to hear that. For an instant, we were all insiders!
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  flamingolingoLinda
  8/05/16 10:20am
  She was so calm throughout the incident. Big contrast to how Trump reacted to a protestor disruption at one of his rallies.
  
  Two for flinching!
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Dorothy in the Streets Blanche in the SheetsBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 8:08am
Ahem:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump…

Most presidential campaigns spend their time and money appealing to people who vote regularly in elections. Not Donald Trump.

I have BEEN saying this. A “risky strategy” indeed. You can get the press, even come close (ish) in the polls, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into votes. ESPECIALLY among people (straight white Christian males) who are less likely to be organizing and protesting— because they, historically, have has less need to. What, you mean the voting wagon doesn’t just come to me?

I’m not getting complacent yet, but allllll I hear when I listen to vocal Trump enthusiasts are “MORE asbestos!”-chanting Bart Simpson supporters who will be out munching cupcakes while Martin and Wendell clinch the Prince victory.

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  flamingolingoDorothy in the Streets Blanche in the Sheets
  8/05/16 10:44am
  Trump’s winning electoral strategy:
  
  spend next to nothing on ad buys
  have a skeleton crew for a campaign team
  excoriate the party establishment you expect to do most of the heavy organizational lifting for your campaign
  alienate every demographic except non-college-educated white males
  campaign in solidly blue states
  undermine your own convention bounce
  and now they’re trying to turn out people who are unlikely to vote
  
  Again, if Trump were trying to lose, what would he be doing differently?
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Alaska FrambopolousBrendan O'Connor
8/05/16 7:51am
There was a time when this sort of a movement was necessary, and I supported it pretty hard back then. But, we don’t need animal activists anymore. The numbers prove it too.

Since Obama came to office over 67% of the endangered species list is no longer endangered. Total game changer.

And if you are concerned about too much meat or fur being harvested from animals you should probably understand that the processes we have these days to procure meat and fur are not only totally, totally humane but they are sustainable. The mink population is actually three times what it should be and you can thank the fur industry for that.

These people are just Negative Nancies.
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  PoodletimeAlaska Frambopolous
  8/05/16 8:14am
  Dude, you are operating outside a fact-based paradigm!
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  Alaska FrambopolousPoodletime
  8/05/16 8:26am
  But well within the science-based paradigm :)
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