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Octafish

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7. To mess with voters' minds.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 08:16 PM

Oct 2015

"Hmm. I wonder what...O'Malley/Trump...Clinton/Trump...Webb/Trump...Sanders/Trump...Chaffee/Trump would say?

Saves Trumps a lot of time talking, not that he ever says anything worth knowing, it's just that now we ASSOCIATE his blinking name with the DEM candidates and dilute their messages.

We live in MOCKINGBIRD times.

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Why are CNN and GEM$NBComcast injecting Trump into the Democratic Party [View all] malaise Oct 2015 OP

For the same reason people in infomercials are always dropping things. rug Oct 2015 #1

Who knows? femmocrat Oct 2015 #2

The sell drama not information underpants Oct 2015 #3

Because they are the lowest form of infotainment a person can find on 500 channels. Rex Oct 2015 #4

Thomas Roberts was gushing about Trump going on redstateblues Oct 2015 #5

Because it's CrapNotNews. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #6

To mess with voters' minds. Octafish Oct 2015 #7

well Robbins Oct 2015 #9

The question is, why do people watch this bullshit? Seriously. Stop Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2015 #8