a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

Who do you vote into the office of USA President?


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GasBandit

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Ok, i'm not much of an expert, but don't most trucks needs roads...
Much of the american southwest near the border is as pictured above - hardscrabble packed sand and dirt with little vegetation with dirt roads leading up to the border on both sides. While not exactly a 5 lane highway, it's entirely navigable by a good sized diesel truck with appropriate tires. (Something along the lines of a civilian Deuce and a Half)


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Much of the american southwest near the border is as pictured above - hardscrabble packed sand and dirt with little vegetation with dirt roads leading up to the border on both sides. While not exactly a 5 lane highway, it's entirely navigable by a good sized diesel truck with appropriate tires. (Something along the lines of a civilian Deuce and a Half)
Dirt roads aren't that easy to make they they'd escape notice, and those smalls hills in the picture aren't naturally navigable.

Oh, and wouldn't a backpack be enough for the radioactive material that would be used for a dirty bomb, while the explosives could just be done in the US?
 

GasBandit

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Around 2012 it suddenly got to be a super popular meme on the internet again somehow, telling a long rambling story (especially in 4chan greentexts) that ended with "And right about then I noticed she wasn't no girl but instead a 500 foot crustacean from the paleolithic era. And I said GOD DAMMIT LOCH NESS MONSTER YOU TRICKED ME AGAIN! I ain't givin you no tree fiddy!"

Naturally, it continues (and continues to defy explanation for its popularity) to this day.[DOUBLEPOST=1478897853,1478897652][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dirt roads aren't that easy to make they they'd escape notice, and those smalls hills in the picture aren't naturally navigable.

Oh, and wouldn't a backpack be enough for the radioactive material that would be used for a dirty bomb, while the explosives could just be done in the US?
The needles hide in a stack of needles. There's dirt tracks all over, and really, they're not even entirely 100% necessary. Seriously, a lot of that area the sand might as well just be really dusty tarmac. Trust me, I lived much of my life in that area, there's ways through those hills, and also notice there's basically a road running alongside both sides of the border.

As for the backpack radioactives, I guess it depends on how much you want to move and how much you care if you get cancer or not.
 
Around 2012 it suddenly got to be a super popular meme on the internet again somehow ...
Naturally, it continues (and continues to defy explanation for its popularity) to this day.

Well, it's not like those type of "stories" weren't around before the SP episode. It just became the most common reference because SP is likely the most well known pop culture example.
 
The needles hide in a stack of needles. There's dirt tracks all over, and really, they're not even entirely 100% necessary. Seriously, a lot of that area the sand might as well just be really dusty tarmac. Trust me, I lived much of my life in that area, there's ways through those hills, and also notice there's basically a road running alongside both sides of the border.

As for the backpack radioactives, I guess it depends on how much you want to move and how much you care if you get cancer or not.
I think there is a broader point to make. Spending a billion dollars on a wall simply shifts terrorist (and illegal immigration) strategies to other methods that may as well be equally easy and much less predictable. After which, we are out a billion dollars of taxpayer money and not really any physically or economically safer.
 

GasBandit

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I think there is a broader point to make. Spending a billion dollars on a wall simply shifts terrorist (and illegal immigration) strategies to other methods that may as well be equally easy and much less predictable. After which, we are out a billion dollars of taxpayer money and not really any physically or economically safer.
That could be entirely true. My point was that the border fence resolution was passed and paid for in 2006, and never got built. We're already out the billion dollars ($1.2 billion actually), who knows where it went.
 
The needles hide in a stack of needles. There's dirt tracks all over, and really, they're not even entirely 100% necessary. Seriously, a lot of that area the sand might as well just be really dusty tarmac. Trust me, I lived much of my life in that area, there's ways through those hills, and also notice there's basically a road running alongside both sides of the border.
That road was not something they put up in a day.

But i'm sure there are places where they could off road easier.

But they're pretty easily identifiable, and you could just build walls (or some of those WW2 Normandy spikes) only in those places.

Not that it will matter, without supervision even concrete can be torn down pretty fast with the right tools.


As for the backpack radioactives, I guess it depends on how much you want to move and how much you care if you get cancer or not.
Well you did say jihadists... so i'm assuming they'd be 72 virgining themselves.
 

GasBandit

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That road was not something they put up in a day.

But i'm sure there are places where they could off road easier.

But they're pretty easily identifiable, and you could just build walls (or some of those WW2 Normandy spikes) only in those places.

Not that it will matter, without supervision even concrete can be torn down pretty fast with the right tools.
Maybe a large trench full of tank traps (those Normandy spikes you refer to) would work better.




Well you did say jihadists... so i'm assuming they'd be 72 virgining themselves.
Cancer/radiation sickness is an awful slow and painful way to martyr yourself.
 

GasBandit

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I think the implication was that the martyring would happen more quickly, you know, before radiation sickness or cancer could take hold.
Cancer might take years, true... but radiation sickness not so much. And that's not a timer that starts ticking at the border. It's quite a schlep through the southwestern desert on foot, already dehydrating enough without radiation sickness. I suppose they could swap off like some kind of relay race as each carrier drops, but why bother when you can just put it in a shielded container and drive a truck across?
 
That's not the propaganda. That's the ongoing deception to reinforce the lie that "no, the Niagara River isn't a moat, what are you talking about?" while we dig out the trench along the 49th - but I've said too much.

Oh shit, I hear the NHL at the door.
The only point of Southern Ontario is to have somewhere to drink legally at 19 anyways. At least, that's what three summers working tolls at the Peace Bridge taught me.
 

GasBandit

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The only point of Southern Ontario is to have somewhere to drink legally at 19 anyways. At least, that's what three summers working tolls at the Peace Bridge taught me.
My flaky friend Adam went to college at Rochester, and corroborates your assertion - along with a dash of stripper-turned-prostitute stories.
 

GasBandit

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Which college in Rochester? Because I too went to college in Rochester.
He went to the University of Rochester for his BS, graduating in 2001, then went to Ohio and got his law degree at the University of Akron School of Law in 2005.
 
He went to the University of Rochester for his BS, graduating in 2001, then went to Ohio and got his law degree at the University of Akron School of Law in 2005.
Ah, I went to the other Rochester college, the one with the hockey team. [emoji14]
 
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I don't know who Cory Booker is, but I'd have been happy to vote for Biden, Warren, or Sanders, rather than just jumping for the not-Trump.

There's talk on tumblr now about how teh Donald is going to be so miserable once the reality sets in that he'll actually have to put in the work. How he's going to have to sit through stacks of meetings and briefings. How he's going to have a WH staff that isn't going to take him seriously. How he's not going to be able to just go throw red meat to a gym full of howling fans every night.

If he'd lost, he could have played the martyr and yelled "rigged" on Fox Noise every night for the next four years and collected a fat paycheck for doing so. But no. Somehow he won, and very soon he will find out that this is not what he signed up for.
Dave probably put in "resign" as an option for his gambling thread for this very reason.
 
...very soon he will find out that this is not what he signed up for.
Do these tumblr folk really believe he didn't do meetings all day and deal with a wide variety of people handling his business, who sometimes disagreed or opposed him?

It sounds like people want to keep underestimating him.
 
Do these tumblr folk really believe he didn't do meetings all day and deal with a wide variety of people handling his business, who sometimes disagreed or opposed him?

It sounds like people want to keep underestimating him.
It should be pointed out that this neither originated from Tumblr, nor is Tumblr the only place it's being said. His lawsuits will be put on pause, but he's swapping one type of boring meeting about things he doesn't understand for another type. That said, Pence will likely be doing the work. We'll see if Trump takes more vacation days than George W Bush, who IIRC currently holds the record.

But no, he's no stranger to long meetings that didn't interest him, if anyone's watched a few minutes of his lawsuit dispositions.
 
Cancer might take years, true... but radiation sickness not so much. And that's not a timer that starts ticking at the border. It's quite a schlep through the southwestern desert on foot, already dehydrating enough without radiation sickness. I suppose they could swap off like some kind of relay race as each carrier drops, but why bother when you can just put it in a shielded container and drive a truck across?
A shielded container that would need a truck would stop any effect of the radiation, while i'm pretty sure you could shield it well enough so it doesn't kill the person until they can carry out an attack.

I mean look at this, the people that died had it on them or actually ate it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident#Theft_of_the_source


Do these tumblr folk really believe he didn't do meetings all day and deal with a wide variety of people handling his business, who sometimes disagreed or opposed him?

It sounds like people want to keep underestimating him.
Pretty sure we heard from some of those people, and they kind of said he wasn't exactly presidential when those type of meetings happened.

Also, i think one of his architects said something about him only coming in when he felt like it etc.

Which is all fine and dandy when you're in charge of your own business, not so much when you're in charge of a whole country.
 
He was told in meetings with Republican leaders shortly after the primaries that he needed to start acting more presidential. So that's sort of progress for him?
 
The only point of Southern Ontario is to have somewhere to drink legally at 19 anyways. At least, that's what three summers working tolls at the Peace Bridge taught me.
See, y'all did it wrong. In Quebec, the drinking age is 18.


(I'm also trying real hard not to get offended by this, since I live in Southern Ontario along with half the population of Canada.)
 
See, y'all did it wrong. In Quebec, the drinking age is 18.


(I'm also trying real hard not to get offended by this, since I live in Southern Ontario along with half the population of Canada.)
I spent a week in Montreal as my 18 birthday/graduation gift. But for most things, the drive wasn't worth it. I also don't really drink very often.
 
I'm guessing someone noted to Trump that his cabinet was all white guys and he might want to mix it up a little. That's the only reason I can see Palin and Carson being potential cabinet members.
 
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