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*ahem* :Mr Obama, I have ten simple questions. Why was the State Department unwilling to provide the requested level of security to Benghazi in the summer of 2012? Did President Obama’s daily intelligence briefings in the run-up to September 11, 2012 support the assertion that there was no credible threat of a coordinated terrorist attack on Benghazi during this time? And if so, why does the White House not declassify and release the briefings, as President George Bush did his pre-September 11, 2001 briefings? Why did we not anticipate the need to have military assets at the ready in the region on the anniversary of September 11, of all days? Did President Obama sleep the night of September 11, 2012? Did Secretary Clinton? When was President Obama told about the murder of our ambassador? If the secretary of defense thought there was “no question” this was a coordinated terrorist attack, why did Ambassador Susan Rice, Secretary Clinton, and President Obama all tell the American people that the cause was a “spontaneous demonstration” about an internet video? Why did former deputy CIA director Mike Morell edit the intelligence community talking points to delete the references to “Islamic extremists” and “al-Quaeda”? Why did the FBI release pictures of militants taken the day of the attack only eight months after the fact? Why not immediately, as proved so effective after the Boston bombing? Why was Secretary Clinton not interviewed for the ARB report? And if all relevant questions were answered in the ARB report, why did the State Department’s own inspector-general office open a probe into the methods of that very report? Why have none of the terrorists who attacked in Benghazi been captured or killed? What additional evidence that the White House engaged in a political campaign to blame the Benghazi attack on the internet video is contained in the additional emails requested by JudicialWatch but withheld by the White House on the grounds that it would put a “chill” on internal deliberations? This poo poo is beyond loving parody. I cannot believe that he in all seriousness asked half those questions.
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Can we get a trigger warning ITT for closeups of Ted Cruz's face I'm Literally Shaking
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Jagchosis posted:Can we get a trigger warning ITT for closeups of Ted Cruz's face I'm Literally Shaking thanks Obama
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Ted Cruz is more laughable than punchable to me. Eric Cantor on the other hand I have no idea how he made it to adulthood.
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Two Finger posted:Why did we not anticipate the need to have military assets at the ready in the region on the anniversary of September 11, of all days? Two Finger posted:Did President Obama sleep the night of September 11, 2012? Did Secretary Clinton? 
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I find it odd that Ambassador Stevens was the one and only one person in Obama's entire administration who Republicans just absolutely adore. Hillary? Nope. Holder? Nope. Sebellius? Nope. I guess this is all just a happy coincidence.
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May 14, 2014 11:17
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Two Finger posted:This poo poo is beyond loving parody. I cannot believe that he in all seriousness asked half those questions. Ted Cruz's purpose is clearly to appeal to the mentally challenged.
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May 14, 2014 11:28
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FAUXTON posted:I wonder why (civil, aeronautical, etc) engineers don't consider the looming mortality of their field more often. They've always been the lawyers between the laws of nature and the litigants of design. The problem is that actual law is highly analog while poo poo like physics can and will eventually be computerized to such a degree that many engineering fields will just be rendered obsolete by increasingly capable CAD suites and environmental modeling. Lawyers(at least, most of the analysts at Big Law firms) will be replaced by NLP algorithms before engineers are. Of course, those engineers will be replaced by their Indian and Chinese counterparts as big firms move their R&D overseas, so it's not like they really make out any better.
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May 14, 2014 11:37
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Two Finger posted:Why did the FBI release pictures of militants taken the day of the attack only eight months after the fact? Why not immediately, as proved so effective after the Boston bombing? Love this one. Its like asking why hasn't Flight MH370 been found when the survivors of the Titanic were found within hours.
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comes along bort posted:Ted Cruz is more laughable than punchable to me. Eric Cantor on the other hand I have no idea how he made it to adulthood.
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People keep saying that Cruz is some kind of Harvard genius but he's really going out of his way to try and prove otherwise.
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Radish posted:People keep saying that Cruz is some kind of Harvard genius but he's really going out of his way to try and prove otherwise. That's what really threw me. His schooling speaks to someone very intelligent but reading those questions, when so many of them are clearly doublethink, I just have to believe he's playing a game. But the flipside of that, well, if it walks like a duck...
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The Insect Court posted:Lawyers(at least, most of the analysts at Big Law firms) will be replaced by NLP algorithms before engineers are. And then on shore engineers get to be paid double as consultants brought in to fix the broken stuff that comes back!
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happyhippy posted:Love this one. Its like asking why hasn't Flight MH370 been found when the survivors of the Titanic were found within hours. I hope he's not referring to the Boston Bombing photos that Reddit crawled over, identifying an innocent 20 something as the bomber for looking not-quite-white whose body was later found in a river.
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nutranurse posted:I can see why you'd think that, but you don't actually need for minorities to be around in order to otherize the gently caress out of them. Actually, it helps a ton when your only working examples come from mainstream media and your own racist family members. I lived in Idaho, I can assure you racial issues and dog whistles ("Welfare Queens" et all) were not a significant part of the rhetoric. Mostly it was "Get the [federal but occasionally state] government out of our business and let us do what we've been doing successfully forever". Like I'm not saying it was a secretly chill place or whatever (we literally read Ayn Rand inspired propaganda for middle school) but it just didn't focus on race that much. computer parts fucked around with this message at 13:58 on May 14, 2014 |
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Jagchosis posted:Can we get a trigger warning ITT for closeups of Ted Cruz's face I'm Literally Shaking This is my favorite 
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SedanChair posted:This is my favorite I might actually go print this out huge and tape it to my boxing bag.
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SedanChair posted:This is my favorite Did someone take Joseph Gordon Levitt's head and stretch it out horizontally?
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Ted Cruz's punchable face posted:Why was the State Department unwilling to provide the requested level of security to Benghazi in the summer of 2012? Because you fuckers CUT funding for embassy security DESPITE the Secretary of State's objections, you goddamn loving moron.
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Alter Ego posted:Because you fuckers CUT funding for embassy security DESPITE the Secretary of State's objections, you goddamn loving moron. Excuse me sir, my question was directed at the President, perhaps he'd care to answer?? 
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I find it very interesting that we are this far into the obama administration and there have not been any significant scandals. Beyond Benghazi and that company that went bankrupt after getting a fair amount of Department of Energy loans, there has not been anything on the level of yellow cake or the endless 'scandals' of the Clinton administration.
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:I feel like I am not understanding the cultural dynamics in deep red states, having never lived in one. What kind of satisfaction are people there deriving from extremely conservative policies? Which deep red states? There are two major regions of deep red - the South where yeah it's racism and the West where it's the "we built this" pioneer myth. Then you get the rest of the country which is only red or blue based on the proportion of population that's urbanized. nutranurse posted:I can see why you'd think that, but you don't actually need for minorities to be around in order to otherize the gently caress out of them. Actually, it helps a ton when your only working examples come from mainstream media and your own racist family members. For example, Cliven Bundy. Man's probably never met a black person in his life, but he knows all about the welfare-takin' baby-killin' lazy surly Negro who needs to pick cotton. On the other hand, he's probably worked with Mexican laborers for decades and he'll tell you that the average Mexican is more hard working and moral than whites.
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comes along bort posted:Ted Cruz is more laughable than punchable to me. Eric Cantor on the other hand I have no idea how he made it to adulthood. I'm with you here. I have yet to see a picture of the man where he's not sneering.
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Cimber posted:I find it very interesting that we are this far into the obama administration and there have not been any significant scandals. Beyond Benghazi and that company that went bankrupt after getting a fair amount of Department of Energy loans, there has not been anything on the level of yellow cake or the endless 'scandals' of the Clinton administration. The NSA scandal is pretty significant and still ongoing.
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haveblue posted:The NSA scandal is pretty significant and still ongoing. Yes,but thats not a scandal being investigated by another branch of the gov't. No way the Republicans are going to make any serious political hay out of that.
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haveblue posted:The NSA scandal is pretty significant and still ongoing. Is it really a scandal if most people don't give a gently caress?
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Ben Sasse wins the Nebraska primaryquote:Republican Ben Sasse comfortably won his party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Nebraska Tuesday, handing the national tea party groups that backed him a much-needed victory headed into the heart of a congressional primary season offering few opportunities for success. Also of note quote:GOP attention now shifts to next Tuesday, a day that has long been circled on Republican calendars because of the number of contested primaries being held. Tea party candidates face an uphill climb that day. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/13/tea-party-backed-ben-sasse-wins-nebraska-primary-for-u-s-senate/
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Ben Sasse has been successful at branding himself a Tea Party radical, but he's really a straightforward dogmatic Republican ex-Bush administration official. He may display differences with the Republican Senate caucus in terms of tactics, but as far as policy goes Nebraskans won't notice much of a difference between him and Johanns.
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Joementum posted:Ben Sasse has been successful at branding himself a Tea Party radical, but he's really a straightforward dogmatic Republican ex-Bush administration official. He may display differences with the Republican Senate caucus in terms of tactics, but as far as policy goes Nebraskans won't notice much of a difference between him and Johanns. That's like saying Ayman al-Zawahiri was the moderate member of al-Qaeda leadership. As a person who waves the banner of conservativism he still operates on a policy of punishment and cruelty and would rather see Americans dead by the scores in the street than feel his ideals weren't catered to in full.
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Living in a lily white place growing up, my little brother's friend was shocked to see his cut hand one time. He was told that black people bled blue....so there's that...
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VitalSigns posted:VVVVVV This is not true for my corner of North Austin. Plenty of people who commute from their giant houses further north are all about the "fat slobs getting welfare". Course, apathy still reigns supreme.
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Shageletic posted:Ben Sasse wins the Nebraska primary I was seriously considering changing my registration to republican so I can vote against Mitch twice in one year.
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Shageletic posted:Living in a lily white place growing up, my little brother's friend was shocked to see his cut hand one time. He was told that black people bled blue....so there's that... Vulcans bleed green due to copper instead of iron as the oxygen carrier. What metal would be blue? Hmmmmmm
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DemeaninDemon posted:Vulcans bleed green due to copper instead of iron as the oxygen carrier. What metal would be blue? Hmmmmmm
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Cobalt would also work.
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Mitsuo posted:This is not true for my corner of North Austin. Plenty of people who commute from their giant houses further north are all about the "fat slobs getting welfare". Course, apathy still reigns supreme. The Texas exurb regions are uniformly terrible like that regardless of whether they are Cedar Park, Sugar Land, or Frisco. Fishmech pointed out in another thread that it is these suburb republicans, not the vast rural areas, that gently caress over Texas and are what make the glorious gerrymandering possible. Radish posted:People keep saying that Cruz is some kind of Harvard genius but he's really going out of his way to try and prove otherwise. I have no doubt he's very intelligent, but he apparently is a self-absorbed rear end in a top hat. Everything I have read about Cruz is that his main quality is that he constantly will take an opposing position to pick an argument and that he never ever drops an argument unless he wins. Facts don't matter, logical arguments don't matter, and tactics don't matter; winning is all that matters and he will accept his opponent throwing their hands up and yelling "gently caress this" as a win.
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Shifty Pony posted:The Texas exurb regions are uniformly terrible like that regardless of whether they are Cedar Park, Sugar Land, or Frisco. Fishmech pointed out in another thread that it is these suburb republicans, not the vast rural areas, that gently caress over Texas and are what make the glorious gerrymandering possible. So he's a regular contributor to DD?
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Was anybody here's reaction to seeing Ted Cruz's face for the first time not "Wanna punch that face?" It's like, I didn't even have to think about it.
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