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Gosh, 2015 was a bang up year for mass shooting enthusiasts, racists, Islamists, and conservatives of all stripes! It was also not a bad year for homosexuals, people who thought the 2016 election couldn’t be as good as 2012, and people who like keeping the lights on in the US government. Will 2016 be better? Well, it is a leap year, a Summer Olympics year, and best of all, a presidential election year, so things are surely going to look 114th Congress Bingo Card As we end the first year of the 114th Congress, it’s time to take stock and see what they’ve achieved recently, and what they’ll get done next year!
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Good Riddance 2015 Now to await 2016 with a mix of optimism and dread
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:02 |
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If I'm grateful to Trump for one thing, it's that I don't have to hear all those dumb "Jurassic Park is popular, Bush vs Clinton is happening, are we in the 90s again?" memes.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:03 |
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greetings uspol from the future
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:04 |
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This year is going to blow
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:04 |
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Ohtsam posted:Now to await 2016 with a mix of optimism and dread A much more fitting thread title.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:05 |
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Welcome to the final year of the United States of America, people.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:07 |
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:This year is going to blow Impossible, there's a non-zero chance reince Pribus kills himself on stage at the convention.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:07 |
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Trump 2016
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:08 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Impossible, there's a non-zero chance reince Pribus kills himself on stage at the convention. Gun in the mouth or ritual seppuku?
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:12 |
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Crain posted:Gun in the mouth or ritual seppuku? Hooks up an IV bag of ethanol and experiences bliss before dying.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:14 |
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I just want to say I think it's hilarious that Carson was trying to spin having a whole bunch of senior staffers quit as Actually Good For Carson.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:15 |
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fishmech posted:I just want to say I think it's hilarious that Carson was trying to spin having a whole bunch of senior staffers quit as Actually Good For Carson. It is though! Clears the payroll of dead weight that's not helping the business.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:16 |
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Gonna be a good year... For me, a lot of you all are probably boned.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:17 |
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You guys are all sounding like Trump is going to beat Clinton/Sanders in November.
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Grouchio posted:You guys are all sounding like Trump is going to beat Clinton/Sanders in November. America elected George W Bush twice.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:21 |
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what happened posted:America elected Barrack Obama twice.
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what happened posted:America elected George W Bush twice. Debatable.
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Joementum posted:Debatable. Empty quoting this. Keep your powder dry for the inevitable Trump landslide victory after he calls Hillary a oval office during one of their debates.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:29 |
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Over/under on the first mass shooting in the US?
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:30 |
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fknlo posted:Keep your powder dry for the inevitable Trump landslide victory after he calls Hillary a oval office during one of their debates. Trump's "ex"-staffer Roger Stone is waaay ahead of you on this.
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Over/under on the first mass shooting in the US? 18.5
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Over/under on the first mass shooting in the US?
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:36 |
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leftover churchchat from the last thread, relevance having been the whitest denomination u'know having its BLM banners vandalized but admittedly diverged from thatRon Jeremy posted:This is exactly what I was looking for when my wife and I went. Maybe I just went to the wrong one or on the wrong day. We went to the one in aptos. Maybe san jose? I'm in the midwest and don't know much about the California UU congregations but there's definitely a lot of variation from one congregation to the next anywhere you go. UUism as a whole is run from the bottom up, with most decisions made democratically at the mostly autonomous congregational level, so if you have a congregation whose focus is humanism and social justice, they're going to choose a minister who feels similarly and prioritize those things in their activities, whereas others might call a Christian deist UU minister to their congregation and put all their efforts into more spiritual Sunday services, and still others might care more about their music program than anything else (church choirs are big and it's a democratic process, so...). Large congregations (for UUs, "large" is more than 400 or so) might have a couple of different interest groups like this, which can make for interesting and sometimes ugly congregational politics. So yeah, definitely shop around and absolutely go on different days. Most churches have lay led services interspersed with the minister led ones, and you can get all kinds of weird things if you happen to show up on one of those days that might not (or might better, depending) give you a good idea of what the congregation is like as a whole. Also, many UU congregations have a rather weird tradition of taking the summer off, meaning the minister goes on some kind of sabbatical and the congregation has reduced (and frequently dull) programming with much less turnout during the summer months, so keep that in mind as well (ours doesn't do this and I'm glad because I found it kind of annoying at the other one I attended).
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Grouchio posted:You guys are all sounding like Trump is going to beat Clinton/Sanders in November. They're alcoholics with a predisposition towards clinical depression.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:37 |
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There's really nothing quite like starting off January 1 with your dad going off on how the Burj Khalifa didn't collapse despite being on fire and that vindicates Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth or whatever. Happy New Year, D&D.
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's really nothing quite like starting off January 1 with your dad going off on how the Burj Khalifa didn't collapse despite being on fire and that vindicates Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth or whatever. It's like a logic puzzle Jet fuel, steel beams melt No jet fuel, steel beams do not melt Therefore jet fuel can't melt steel beams
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's really nothing quite like starting off January 1 with your dad going off on how the Burj Khalifa didn't collapse despite being on fire and that vindicates Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth or whatever. i've been posting this on facebook all day it's been great
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Over/under on the first mass shooting in the US? Before it is 2016 in all of the US
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RZA Encryption posted:Before it is 2016 in all of the US lol
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"At this point, I think his campaign is finished. He has money, but deflated staff and poll numbers" How many candidates does this apply to? I can think of at least three Dusty Baker 2 posted:Over/under on the first mass shooting in the US? Isn't mass in, like, 3 days or so?
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:55 |
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op failed to mention Paul Ryan's conversion to Islam
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:56 |
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I completely missed Bevin lowering the minimum wage in Kentucky, which would be hilariously ridiculous if it didn't affect a lot of people.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:57 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I completely missed Bevin lowering the minimum wage in Kentucky, which would be hilariously ridiculous if it didn't affect a lot of people. Coal don't mine itself, especially now that the Chinese don't want none. Can't save the coal industry if ya don't slash wages
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:59 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Isn't mass in, like, 3 days or so? It's customary in Catholicism to attend mass on New Year's Eve and/or Jan 1.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 07:01 |
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I know this isn't the media thread but, is there anyway we could start adding good news sources to stay caught up with politics and US bullshit in the OP? I'm thinking just having a list like the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the WSJ, the NYT, National Review (gives a good look into conservatism), or other actual "good" news sources. We could add things like media matters, politifact, 503, zero hedge, or any of the other alternative news sources or new media.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 07:01 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Impossible, there's a non-zero chance reince Pribus kills himself on stage at the convention. At the very least, he's showing up wasted. FlamingLiberal posted:I completely missed Bevin lowering the minimum wage in Kentucky, which would be hilariously ridiculous if it didn't affect a lot of people. Wait, what? I heard that 14 states were raising it, but KY is lowering it?
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Riosan posted:At the very least, he's showing up wasted. Yes, that's what they elected him to do.
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Riosan posted:Wait, what? I heard that 14 states were raising it, but KY is lowering it?
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