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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 05:51 PM) He got taken out of his own suite last night because his donors didn't want him there. Do you have a source on this one? All I can find is him being blocked from entering Sheldon Adelson's suite. Adelson didn't back Cruz.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 06:51 PM) His base has abandoned him. I've talked to lots of Cruz delegates and his biggest donors last night. They are no longer on board. Damn. It really is partisanship above all else these days, huh?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 21, 2016 -> 06:22 PM) Or committing political suicide. How so? Ted Cruz' base is the supremely devout - to religion and to conservatism. Knocking Donald Trump, who is basically a fraud in both those areas, doesn't hurt him with that base. Despite Trump's recent bumps in polling (which are really more Hillary drops), he's still unlikely to win, which means Cruz in 2020 can work the "Trump was a POS and we lost because of it. You should have picked me" narrative. The guys who fell in line behind this insanity won't be able to make that argument.

Ted Cruz, making first claim at 2020 GOP nominee

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 20, 2016 -> 04:31 PM) I would also love to hear the kayfabe explanations from the GM's and Commissioners on why they didn't draft Bayley, Nakamura, Joe and Asuka but whatever. Kayfabe explanations of many of the picks would be impossible.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 06:58 AM) It's actually easier that way. You can easily gain XP for fighting the gyms, assuming you have something strong enough to beat at least one Pokemon at the gym. Don't you only get 100 XP for beating 1 pokemon at a gym? That's the same as catching a Pidgey

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 05:31 PM) Any TV show that talks politics would be unbearable. It already is now and he's just the nominee. edit: they all find the smallest thing to b**** about, just like this speech issue. Yes, it was dumb, yes, it was lazy speech writing. But i'm confident if you go back and reread/watch speeches you'll find Obama and Hillary and everyone else using similar platitudes. This was just slightly more egregious than normal. Yeah, the speech plagiarism it's a relatively small, stupid thing. It's the response that's so amusing. Any other campaign would have passed the blame on some schmuck staffer and moved along. The Trump campaign is telling everyone that the thing right in front of all our faces doesn't even exist. It's like someone bumping into you on the sidewalk. You expect an "oops, sorry 'bout that", but instead it's "I never bumped into you! That's totally ludicrous! And you're a jerk for saying I did."

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 05:28 PM) Congrats on open misogyny. Someone's on the rag...

Option 1: Melania really liked Michelle's speech and accidentally drew too much from it. Apologies. Option 2: Idiot speechwriter screwed up. We fired him/her. Option 3: It's not plagiarism at all! Why does Hillary hate women?!?

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 19, 2016 -> 03:09 AM) Who let fathom ref the main event?!? And they reverse the decision on the network afterwards?!? LOL. If they were planning on putting Rollins and Ambrose on separate shows in the draft tonight, then the "controversial finish" might have made some sense, giving each guy one of the big titles in the split. But the post-show reversal that most people aren't even going to see ruins that.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 17, 2016 -> 07:00 PM) I own guns and generally support the right for most people to own them, but I find it completely f***ed up how easy it is to purchase an assault rifle. There is absolutely no practical purpose for them unless you want your people armed to help deter the threat of a foreign invasion. Pretty crazy that an everyday Joe can pretty easily outgun local law enforcement. We need these weapons to protect ourselves from all the other people who already have them.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 16, 2016 -> 01:07 AM) Listening to the radio on the way home, apparently the Turkish constitution has a clause that gives the military the responsibility to ensure that Islam doesn't infect the government and that's the basis of the coup. If true, given how the country is becoming more tyrannical and Islamic, kinda puts the US in a tough spot. It's still not clear who led the coup. It certainly doesn't seem to be the whole military, just a small faction. The Gulen people (if it's them) is also Islamic, rather than secular.

Reports of large explosions in Istanbul now Eesh

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 06:04 PM) Is this the ISlamic ISIS or the non-ISlamic ISIS that our President is "fighting"? While this guy was probably an Islamic extremist sympathetic to ISIS' views, there's no indication at this point that ISIS had any actual involvement. Moreover, a single guy using a rental truck to run people over doesn't require any level of resources or coordination, which is why your "har har JV team" snark was so stupid.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 02:50 AM) Not a zinger. Just parroting my commander in chief. You're a class act.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jul 15, 2016 -> 12:39 AM) Well the JV team strikes again. At least they are on the run though. 70 PEOPLE DEAD, BETTER MAKE A ZINGER ON OBAMA LOLOL

If the Libertarian Party could turn their libertarian-ness down from like an 8 to a 4, they'd actually be relevant. Their top-level message sounds really appealing and then once you dig into the party platform, you find all sorts of garbage. That being said, they have a decent chance of getting my protest vote again (bleh). If my state looks like Trump has a shot to win, I'll have to vote Hillary.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jul 14, 2016 -> 06:39 PM) Trump should have definitely chose a person of color to be his VP. Old white guys for the win I suppose. GOP is throwing this election again. That should be a f***ing crime. What are you talking about? Mike Pence will attract many young people, women, and minorities to the Trump ticket.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 13, 2016 -> 05:10 PM) All I'm doing is collecting. No clue what else I'm suppose t do. It seems like gyms are only friendly to hardcore players now. Tons of super high level Pokemon. Focus on collecting and finding new cool Pokemon

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 08:06 PM) Bernie should have gone independent. He's a sell out for backing a corporate/Wall Street puppet like Hillary, the exact type of politician/Washington insider he was campaigning against. Especially in an election like this, where the threat of Trump actually winning is incredibly low. Hillary doesn't need his support and he didn't need to give it to her. If Bernie ran 3rd party, wouldn't the risk of Trump winning increase dramatically?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 07:36 PM) Not obeying isn't a part of the Democratic code. Either you fall into line or you get kicked out the club. It is what it is. The Republicans actually tolerate more open thinking in that respect. The GOP is far more driven by ideological purity than the DNC. Republican politicians who step a foot outside of party lines are quickly declared RINOs, and every time the GOP starts losing elections, the explanation is "the candidate wasn't conservative (pure) enough".

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 03:41 PM) It has only happened to me pre "gotcha". So I'm losing the catch and the ball I can always tell by watching the background, it always freezes before the ball stops moving Weird, it's actually the opposite for me. I can still see leaves moving in the background trees, but the pokeball is frozen.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Jul 12, 2016 -> 05:21 AM) Check your Pokemon, you should have still captured it. Happened to me a few times too. Yeah, be glad you're getting the freeze AFTER the stars/gotcha. It happens a lot pre-gotcha and that's maddening.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 09:15 PM) I enjoy college sports, but man I can't help to feel weird about two grown men hugging and smiling over where a high school kid decides to go to college. Same. It's like "hell yeah, improved job security and making money off this kid".

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 07:55 PM) lol i just turned my app on while driving to work for a 5KM walk You must have a rough commute. The eggs don't count distance traveled unless it's at a slow speed.