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That's kind of my point, any left wing militia would be quashed very quickly as a terrorist organization in today's political climate.
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rscott posted:That's kind of my point, any left wing militia would be quashed very quickly as a terrorist organization in today's political climate. To be fair, if the Bundy people started following the police around while armed, they'd (finally) get the same response.
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Obama is said to have offered Julian Castro a cabinet post, which he's inclined to accept. OMB would seem to be the likeliest with Burwell moving to HHS.
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Joementum posted:Obama is said to have offered Julian Castro a cabinet post, which he's inclined to accept. OMB would seem to be the likeliest with Burwell moving to HHS. I kinda don't want either Castro to leave Texas though. 
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Joementum posted:Obama is said to have offered Julian Castro a cabinet post, which he's inclined to accept. OMB would seem to be the likeliest with Burwell moving to HHS. So all I really know of this guy is he gave a solid speech at the convention. Is he actually good, or more like Booker?
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Joementum posted:Obama is said to have offered Julian Castro a cabinet post, which he's inclined to accept. OMB would seem to be the likeliest with Burwell moving to HHS. I'm guessing Education. Duncan's been there since the beginning, and both the end (and continue) of segregation and testing have been heavily in the news.
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1stGear posted:I kinda don't want either Castro to leave Texas though. He has to
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Stoic Madman posted:I think it would be hilarious if someone made an serious attempt to organize a left-wing milita. Have a platform of income equality, worker's rights, universal health care, privacy rights, etc. Watch the Republicans trip all over themselves shutting that down. But then I realize it would probably end up with one or more of them getting shot by a loony. 
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SubponticatePoster posted:I like to think if I won the lottery I'd find a bunch of people that give the right fits (gays, PoC, etc) and pay them to show up at a bunch of these rallies armed with AR-15's. Then tell all the crackpots that they agree with them about the federal government and gun laws just to see their reactions. It wouldn't work anyway, they'd just take it as proof that liberals are the real racists/homophobes/whatever and try to get them all speaking gigs at future rallies.
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According to the Post, Castro's getting HUD, with Donovan possibly moving to OMB.
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Joementum posted:According to the Post, Castro's getting HUD, with Donovan possibly moving to OMB. NYT is also reporting this. Not sure how I feel about this.
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Is he a good fit for the post?
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Joementum posted:Obama is said to have offered Julian Castro a cabinet post, which he's inclined to accept. OMB would seem to be the likeliest with Burwell moving to HHS. I can only imagine the insanity that Fox will stir among their brain damaged base by announcing that Obama's working closely with  a Castro brother (no relation to the ones running Cuba(?)).
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Redeye Flight posted:Is he a good fit for the post? San Antonio's done some absolutely groundbreaking work in its own social services and so on, so my only concern would be how adaptable its lessons are to an immediate jump to the national scale. Assuming they're pretty adaptable, Julian Castro is a fantastic fit.
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Oh man, I bet Obama was laughing to himself as he made a perfectly reasonable choice for a cabinet member that he knew would be opposed for completely racist reasons. Gonna be fun watching conservatives fall all over themselves criticizing it for totally not racist reasons.
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If it has to go to Senate confirmation, is there a possibility the Republicans just hold it up?
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The Democrats changed the rules in the Senate last year so that executive appointments only require a 50 vote threshold. The Republicans can delay it for a few days and eat up time in the Senate, but they can't block it.
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Warchicken posted:Oh man, I bet Obama was laughing to himself as he made a perfectly reasonable choice for a cabinet member that he knew would be opposed for completely racist reasons. Gonna be fun watching conservatives fall all over themselves criticizing it for totally not racist reasons. The most common reason will probably be "we don't want him to get experience so he can be a presidential candidate".
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I know the weekend is typically slow for news, but there's a new book coming out on our favorite billionaires, the Koch Brothers:The Huffington Post posted:WASHINGTON -- Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense sums to influence politics. Best known for bankrolling the tea party movement, the fiercely private Koch family has achieved a quasi-mythical status in political circles. Yet they remain an enigma to most Americans. I was going to bold portions of the article but the entire thing is really worth a read. So here we have brothers raised by a sociopath who admired Nazi Germany, forced his children to abuse each other for his amusement and fostered a belief in Social Darwinism and more than likely eugenics. A father who, after having a gay son, was extremely harsh on Charles Koch. For a man that made his children beat each other with polo sticks and attack each other with swords, God knows how this manifested. This resulted in Charles Koch using his brother Fredrick's homosexuality as blackmail material to get him to sell his portion of the business. Charles, who believes that the only function of government is to make sure no one interferes with supply and demand (basically the function of a third world banana republic). It reads like a tragedy if it didn't affect this country so much. Charles and David always pining for the love of their twisted, cold, psychopath father and becoming like him in the process. Bill, being jealous of the two, trying to wrest control of the business from the others. And ostracized Fredrick, who wants nothing to do with the rest of the family (basically the best and most tragic of the Koch brothers). Besides Fredrick, this family is literally a cancer in America. If there was any justice in the world, these sick fucks would be cut out with a rusty scalpel. Dapper Dan fucked around with this message at 20:22 on May 17, 2014 |
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drat, how do you even beat people to death with a belt? That's thirsty work right there.
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SedanChair posted:There's no need to support any anti-gun agenda, and even these death threats won't generate any organized or intelligent opposition. Now once an open carry group decides to just mow down a gathering of Moms Against Bad Guns or whatever, that might do some damage. Here's the thing, that might actually happen. These people are crazy and getting crazier, and eventually one or more will snap. Of course, if they didn't have guns and American gun culture, we wouldn't have that risk. Miltank posted:We are living in post-Sandy Hook America. What event could possibly make anyone change their stance on gun control that hasn't happened already? The Dems burned away all their goodwill by tolerating polarizing figures like Fienstein(spelling?) and pushing through obviously useless legislation such as the assault weapon ban. As it stands now democrats stand to lose absolutely from ignoring guns the same way that they ignore every other issue that the two party system allows them to. Nothing will change that. There will be no meaningful gun legislation for a generation. Someone shooting up a Moms Against Guns rally at a small-town elementary school. That's what event.
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Dapper Dan posted:I know the weekend is typically slow for news, but there's a new book coming out on our favorite billionaires, the Koch Brothers: So now two sociopaths objectivist twins have half the right wing wrapped around their finger. They are willing to flush this country down the shitter so they can make a couple billion. And whats worse is they are practically felicitated by people like bachmen and the religious right. you would think bachmen would have read Parable of the Rich Fool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Rich_Fool
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The Warszawa posted:Hey, there are parts of the south that are raising taxes on themselves to fund public services! Excuse me, but the very highly rated comment from a man forced by his evil liberal mother to send his white bigoted rear end to Malcom X Highschool ruined his life because he had no white friends to insult the loving n- Liberals are evil. Also every racist literally says, "Call me a racist, but it's the truth, and thus not racist!" Nonsense fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 17, 2014 |
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SedanChair posted:drat, how do you even beat people to death with a belt? That's thirsty work right there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtdBLAY7OlM
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pengun101 posted:So now two sociopaths objectivist twins have half the right wing wrapped around their finger. They are willing to flush this country down the shitter so they can make a couple billion. And whats worse is they are practically felicitated by people like bachmen and the religious right. you would think bachmen would have read Parable of the Rich Fool. It seems that the Koch brothers are True Believers™ thanks to their daddy issues. They aren't cynics, prostituting themselves for whatever cause is popular at the moment. This is what they actually believe, which is why the Republican establishment was/is terrified of the tea party. While the establishment was happy with right wing welfare and not really intending to do anything serious about what the nutters cared about, the tea party libertarians are perfectly happy to burn everything to the ground. One part of the problem is that the religious right and most born-agains don't really go for the whole 'biblical literacy' thing. (On a side note, anyone remotely curious about biblical literacy should buy an Oxford Annotated Bible, which is a study bible). The other, bigger part, is that most of these movements are based on the disgusting notion of Prosperity Theology. In a nutshell, the rich are wealthy because they are blessed by God and deserve it, while the poor are in dire financial straits because they are being punished for some sin or don't worship him enough. This is the only way that those who have the mega-churches and rake in the millions/billions can still be viewed as 'holy men'. It is pretty disgusting. Never mind that Jesus hated usury, said that the rich would basically never go to heaven and the best way to worship was to be a humble ascetic and not a braggart. True Christianity would cut too much into their profit margins. This is a major reason why the loathe the current Pope, because Jesuits don't believe or tolerate the notion of Prosperity Theology. Dapper Dan fucked around with this message at 21:26 on May 17, 2014 |
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Miss Beazley (pictured here with Barney) died today after suffering from lymphoma. RIP.  
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Joementum posted:Miss Beazley (pictured here with Barney) died today after suffering from lymphoma. RIP. The end of an era
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Those Scottish terriers and the cat were the best part of the Bush administration.
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hobbesmaster posted:Those Scottish terriers and the cat were the best part of the Bush administration. They are now all dead 
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Dramatic political shootings of gun control figures is the only thing that I imagine could change the paradigm over the gun debate. Once the more unstable gun collecting types start using their guns for concerted political violence and not just, "I am a crazy person, I think I shall go shoot up a kindergarten today," type incidents will people be forced to put a clamp on the issue.
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You donate one time... ONE TIME to the DNC and you get over a thousand pictures of Bo and Sunny, yet I have never seen Debbie Wasserman-Schulz dogs. What are you hiding DNC? #doghazi
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Joementum posted:Miss Beazley (pictured here with Barney) died today after suffering from lymphoma. RIP. 
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Best Presidential pet was obviously the Coolidges pet raccoons Rebecca and Horace. They were given to the President as a Thanksgiving gift from the Mississippi delegation who intended them to be eaten (of course), but Calvin kept them as pets instead. They also had pet lion cubs, a donkey, a goose, a bobcat, a pygmy hippo, and a wallaby.
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Sounds like a  presidency. We really need cooler pets in the White House again.
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Joementum posted:Best Presidential pet was obviously the Coolidges pet raccoons Rebecca and Horace. They were given to the President as a Thanksgiving gift from the Mississippi delegation who intended them to be eaten (of course), but Calvin kept them as pets instead. I love America. I mean, it sucks in so many ways, but just the fact that a delegation from Mississippi gave the president raccoons as food ... I don't know. 
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Berke Negri posted:Dramatic political shootings of gun control figures is the only thing that I imagine could change the paradigm over the gun debate. Once the more unstable gun collecting types start using their guns for concerted political violence and not just, "I am a crazy person, I think I shall go shoot up a kindergarten today," type incidents will people be forced to put a clamp on the issue.
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I will base my next presidential vote on which candidate has the best pets.
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BUSH 2112 posted:I love America. I mean, it sucks in so many ways, but just the fact that a delegation from Mississippi gave the president raccoons as food ... I don't know. I think I'd put raccoons up there with opossums and muskrats for poo poo that I'd only eat if I was dying and had no other choice.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I think I'd put raccoons up there with opossums and muskrats for poo poo that I'd only eat if I was dying and had no other choice. Which is a pretty good idea, because raccoons are pretty much loaded to the gills with some nasty parasites that cooking doesn't really get rid of.
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