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BAN ALL GUESTS AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS FROM DEBATES.

 

i definitely do not want to have to deal with palin tonight

 

trumps front row of guests

 

WTF did I just watch and hear.

 

Barkley also assaulted a guy
Barkley Throws Man Through Bar Window

 

Barkley is a douche, not surprised.

 

Oh god, I had forgotten about this, it was so long ago:

O’Keefe’s brand of performance activism first made national headlines in 2009, with the release of several heavily edited videos that O’Keefe said showed staff from the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) engaging in criminal behavior. In the videos, O’Keefe and an associate are portrayed as if they had dressed as a “pimp” and a “prostitute” attempting to elicit help from ACORN staff in eight offices across several cities in supposedly setting up a child prostitution ring. It was later discovered that, among other misrepresentations in the edited videos, O’Keefe and his associate were not, in fact, dressed flamboyantly during their secretly recorded meetings at ACORN offices, and the audio of ACORN workers was muted and edited. An independent investigation, state-led investigations in California and New York, and a federal investigation through the Government Accountability Office all found no evidence of illegal activity from ACORN staff, and a Congressional Research Service report found no instances of ACORN violating the terms of its federal funding, but it did note that O’Keefe and his associates may have violated state bans on secret recording in California and Maryland. The California attorney general concluded that O’Keefe had engaged in “highly selective editing of reality.” An ACORN employee who was terminated because of the videos subsequently sued O’Keefe and his associate Hannah Giles, and O’Keefe had to settle the case and issue a public apology.

And:

In August 2014, O’Keefe released a video in which he purportedly crossed the Rio Grande River while wearing an Osama Bin Laden costume, a stunt meant to suggest that terrorists could easily enter the U.S. at the Mexican border. Gawker immediately debunked the video in a post titled, “James O’Keefe Is Getting Desperate as Hell, Part MCMXVII,” pointing to evidence O’Keefe grossly misrepresented the area he repeatedly crossed in his video. Even Fox News host Eric Bolling couldn’t defend O’Keefe’s antics, saying the video was “not helpful,” and that O’Keefe ought to “give it a rest.”

I hate this election so much. I need to go grab beer for tonight.

 

I never got why people praised that TNT show. It's unwatchable.

 

The Constitution Leaves No Room for Secret Law

 

Given the biographies and various insights into the lives of NBA players and their romantic exploits, I do reckon he has heard many a bawdy tale. And, while I have never heard anyone in my high school locker room or any other ultra-male setting talk about sexual assault, that certainly wasn't the case with regard to sexually and personally explicit accounts of sexual encounters.

Also, I've done things in a locker room I wouldn't want broadcasted. I don't think that's particularly controversial.

Between people today calling Hayden Panettiere annoying, Charles Barkley a douche, and Batman Donald Trump....I just don't know anymore.

 

Sidebar: Not sure I like the idea that personal conversations are now fodder for being put online / used in an election / "journalistic" at all ... like, that's where we're at now? Ugh.

 

Uhhhh

 

i mean the entire thing is about trump bragging about sexual assault, not consensual sexual exploits. thats what everyone, including barkley, is missing when they say "oh yeah ive heard dirty talk in the locker room or wherever." a lot of what barkley says there seems to brush it off and excuse it without being able to draw a difference between what hes said/heard and what trump said. thats dangerous.

 

barkley can fuck off

 

http://n.pr/2dqLbkK

This is a pretty cool look at how voting patterns in the south are influenced by prehistoric plankton lol

 

Let's no longer televise debates. Let's have the candidates describe their policy towards an issue and why it will work, allow for rebuttal, and then move on to the next issue. If any position can be summed up in a tweet, that candidate is disqualified from holding office and is exiled from the country for 10 years, Athens style. The moderator will be a computer that signals the end of a candidate's speaking time with a foghorn.

 

WHY IS SHE BACK IN OUR LIVES?! GOD DAMNIT.

Is Trump literally announcing the first line-up of Trump TV tonight or something?

 

Each Charles Barkley is awful.

 

the more i think about it the more i realize how massive of a problem it is that bragging about sexual assault just sounds like regular sex talk to a lot of guys. like, thats disturbing.

 

I agree. Barkley also isn't the most nuanced person and (I'm presuming) is confusing the issue with just being vulgar in personal spaces and not wanting one's personal life to be politicized-- his was overreported a great deal during his NBA career, leading to his infamous "I'm not a role model" quote.

 

i dont even get the significance of inviting her? like who's gonna be shook because sarah palin showed up?

 

The American public.