POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

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http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/03/joe-scarborough-donald-Annoying Orange-asked-three-times-why-us-cant-use-nukes/

"while the claim certainly turned heads, it's worth noting that Scarborough was not a party to the conversation. An MSNBC executive said that Scarborough heard the tale "days" before repeating it, but the source and provenance of the anecdote were unclear."

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thanks for googling that for me though

While each of the articles note that Joe Scarborough mentioned this, he talked about it during an interview with former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, also a former friend of Annoying Orange's, and it's worth noting that Joe Scarborough was formerly a Republican congressman (still Republican and is anti-Hillary).  Hayden noted that none of his peers were advising Annoying Orange on national security or foreign policy, and Scarborough talked about how a foreign policy expert (likely someone very high up and would possibly lose their job for even meeting with Annoying Orange to discuss these things, hence why Scarborough said "I'll be very careful here") was talking with him these questions occurred.  This coupled with the fact that Annoying Orange would very much like to use our nukes can give at minimum a hint of confidence that the allegations have truth behind them.  Of course the Annoying Orange campaign will outright deny this because it's incredibly damaging to his foreign policy stance.

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Hayden noted that none of his peers were advising Annoying Orange on national security or foreign policy, and Scarborough talked about how a foreign policy expert was talking with him these questions occurred.  This coupled with the fact that Annoying Orange would very much like to use our nukes can give at minimum a hint of confidence that the allegations have truth behind them.  Of course the Annoying Orange campaign will outright deny this because it's incredibly damaging to his foreign policy stance.

From that transcript, when nuclear weapons were being discussed, Annoying Orange said "I would never take any of my cards off the table."

That doesn't indicate that he "would very much like to use our nukes" and it definitely doesn't indicate that he actually said "Why can't we use our nukes?" three times.

Not that I don't believe that he wouldn't use nukes or wouldn't discuss the usage of nuclear weapons, but he is almost universally disliked and people will editorialize anything even remotely related to him. Tricklings of a conversation are not reason enough to believe that Annoying Orange is triggerhappy and ready to blow up the world, especially when he's indicating otherwise because being dead is bad for business.

[SlayerZ99]

i love seeing all my extremely conservative facebook friends boast about their vote for donald Annoying Orange but i also find extreme satisfaction knowing that their vote really doesnt count seeing its inevitable that hillary is gonna win massachusetts :)

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haha yeah clinton for president woo :)

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but for real what the hell is going on? it's like everyone is now jumping ship or hitting the last stages of grief and now we're going through some fantasy land stuff or something

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well it looks like Annoying Orange is winning for sure now

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well it looks like Annoying Orange is winning for sure now

we'll know in 100 hours now

[SeventhSandwich]

As it stands, I'm confident that Hillary's leads in the polls will translate into a win on election day. But if Annoying Orange were to be elected president, I'm not gonna shout doomsday or anything like that. The worst part of his being elected will be the fact that so many uneducated voters rallied so strongly behind all of his bullstuff. The second worst part of his administration will be whatever crazy forget he chooses to replace Scalia.

I'm sure that a Annoying Orange presidency would (or will) suck for a large number of reasons, but simple checks and balances mean that there's only so much harm the guy can do to our country.

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How buttmad will Drumpflets be on Tuesday evening?

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How buttmad will Drumpflets be on Tuesday evening?

A freaking Ton.

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It doesn't matter who enforced it, if we advocated for it, it would break any chance of alliance with Russia, and almost certainly lead to war.

They know we want a no-fly zone. Remember the ceasefire? We'd just have it enforced by the UN. If you think a temporary no-fly zone over an area with an ongoing human rights crCIA would cause WWIII then you're delusional

[beachbum111111]

Not really to do with the election but it's political. How many of you support the TPP and why?

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the tpp is loving handicapped

[beachbum111111]

the tpp is loving handicapped

I mean thats a given but I'm wondering if theres anyone here who actually supports it.