Still better than whatever Trump has.

think drumpf has whatever the opposite of scurvy is

All I can see on it is speculation from people based on seeing videotape.

Getting back to the pensions issue, IL looks a mess. A lot of other Northeastern states look bad, problems mostly stem from how generous the plans were starting in the 70's and 80's.

How do you fix this? If there is any type of prolonged recession, aren't these states in big trouble? I guess they just continue to raise contribution amounts from current workers, but you can only do that so much.

They are ****ed. There are two options. Federal bailout or gg pension beneficiaries.

I think like MA can maybe fade it because you got a lot of $ coming in with how educated the workforce is. VC $, rich Chinese, knowledge economy industry but a state like CT which basically just has rich olds from NY seems a little more ****ed.

CT or NJ tries to raise taxes on those folks and they will just move to FL or something.

Just found out Obama founded ISIS. Thanks, Donald Trump!

Obama is the founder of ISIS is a piping hot take.

edit: it's not showing up for me, so I'll just link to the original: https://twitter.com/MrGeorgeWallace/...53170131869696

Well, if your goal is to get people to stop talking about you suggesting assassinating Hillary...

So I guess Trump's first act as President will be a drone strike on Obama.

well actually in IL on the state level, those pensions get paid first via state constitution (it's absurd they got that in there) so actually things like education, police, fire, or anything else the state pays for gets ****ed.

It's about time he completely loses it. The old one-two punch of insinuating the other candidate could be assassinated and insisting the sitting President is the founder of today's most notorious terrorist organization, well, that's how you declare to the country, "HERE I AM AMERICA! AND I HAVE LOST MY ****!"

I'm still laughing a little at Trump's "Obama founded ISIS" nonsense. Where does he go next?

"Many people don't know I can fly. I, DONALD TRUMP, CAN FLY IN THE AIR LIKE A BIRD, INCREDIBLE. I HAD ALL THE IDEAS FOR STAR WARS, AND INDIANA JONES."

Trump attacks Hillary because Omar Mateen's father sat behind her, while Mark Foley is sitting behind him

Oops.

Is he trying to tank? He has to be.

I don't get it. I dunno what is going on.

People falling for the Hillary parody account thing are a symptom of the "but hey let's hear both sides! Both sides have merit!" bull****ocracy that exists in American politics

It's such a hard choice because they both suck lololol

SMOD2016

Suck my own dick 2016?

Sure Donald Trump says some things that aren't "politically correct", but Hillary is such a liar! Gosh I don't know what to do!

I'm trying to, I'm really trying to, but I'm not seeing the equivalence between a gay ex-politician who resigned in 2006 and the father of a mass murderer in 2016. I mean, I could see it if Dylann Roof's father was standing behind Trump at a rally in SC. That'd definitely be a front page story in the New York Times, that Dylann Roof's father was supporting Donald Trump. It'd probably lead a few nightly news shows too. I'm pretty sure it would get more than 1 minute and 36 seconds.


On a lighter note, I'd like to propose a hypothetical. How much money (tax-free) would it take to get the Presidential candidates to drop out? If I had to set a line, I'd say that anything over 75 million would get Trump to drop out, but Clinton would require at least 150 million. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein would probably take 5 million combined. To be quite honest that'd probably be the best 225 million we could spend this year. I agree with schu, SMOD in 2016.

Cruz move not to endorse Trump looking better by the day. Once this **** ends, everyone in the GOP is going to throw each other under the bus and he is going to emerge from the rubble.

I don't think Trump or Clinton is dropping for less than 200M straight cash homie, both are already rich and all their monetary needs were satisfied a long time ago.

A few other guesses:

* Obama accused me of founding ISIS.

* Every fireman should be jailed.

* Obama is Bin Laden--same person.

* Hillary Clinton is the devil.

* Many people are saying Tim Kaine is a child molester.