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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Checks out. You say that like being an rear end in a top hat is a bad thing. You can't do something without being an rear end in a top hat to somebody.
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Mitt Romney posted:Romney appeared a lot more quick-witted and on his game than Obama. Obama appeared disinterested and in addition Romney surprised Obama by blatantly flipping his positions from the primary (which he was barely called out for). This is a pretty good article on the first debate disaster and really explains how much Obama didn't think that people would buy Romney's poo poo and that he could coast to a win even if he didn't win a single debate. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113287/obamas-denver-debate-choke-inside-debate-prep
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Mike Pence posted:Asked again, he said, "Look, the issue here is still is tolerance a two-way street or not." Literally the "Be tolerant of my intolerance" defense 
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A Winner is Jew posted:This is a pretty good article on the first debate disaster and really explains how much Obama didn't think that people would buy Romney's poo poo and that he could coast to a win even if he didn't win a single debate. poor obama, constantly overestimating the american electorate
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PupsOfWar posted:poor obama, constantly overestimating the american electorate We overestimated him and he overestimated us. It's kind of sweet. He still loves us though.
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William Bear posted:
And I'll take Southern Indiana people over North/Northeast Indiana people any day of the week. At least the southern ones have the ability to let something that they don't like roll off their back. Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Fried Chicken posted:God no. I think people are grossly underestimating how much popular support this law has here. I live in Fort Wayne and may have to go to the Seattle area soon for a funeral. I'm tempted to stay out there if I do end up going. Meaty Ore fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Mar 29, 2015 21:42
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William Bear posted:From http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pence-effort-clarify-religious-objections-law-underway-29984447?singlePage=true
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What's the best thread for TPP chat? I'm reading that apparently a recently leaked and still-classified section will permit corporations to sue governments for impinging on profitability which is pretty nuts: Article: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter From: Wikileaks Date: March 25, 2015 quote:WikiLeaks releases today the "Investment Chapter" from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November 2013) and the Environment (January 2014).
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Accretionist posted:What's the best thread for TPP chat? I'm reading that apparently a recently leaked and still-classified section will permit corporations to sue governments for impinging on profitability which is pretty nuts: If this is true all I can say is this is why I feel totalitarianism is fine in the defense of democratic values. If you really do advocate such insanity as this you really do deserve a decade or two behind bars, no questions asked.
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That's loving outrageous. Isn't this something Obama is pushing too?
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site posted:That's loving outrageous. Isn't this something Obama is pushing too? And folks in here usually think teapartiers are crazy when they say Obama is ceding American sovreignity.
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Maybe this is why Continuum almost didn't get renewed.
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I either need more money or more alcohol, because we're on track for an unironic version of that speech from Network.
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As long as we're posting old conspiracies, can we do the one where Bank of America was going to bankrupt the FDIC in an insurance scam?
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Accretionist posted:What's the best thread for TPP chat? I'm reading that apparently a recently leaked and still-classified section will permit corporations to sue governments for impinging on profitability which is pretty nuts:
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site posted:That's loving outrageous. Isn't this something Obama is pushing too? Horrible pro-Corporation Free Trade deals are one of the few genuinely bi-partisan policies out there.
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JT Jag posted:If you watch This Week Tonight this isn't news. This is not a new thing, a bunch of existing treaties have these investor-state dispute agreements. They are generally accepted to be really bad for everybody except multinational corporations. (Indeed, when the Economist is saying your policy is too much in favor of big companies, you know things are really hosed.)
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It now dawns on me that maybe Last Week Tonight might be around since it's only once a week. Really sucks that it's on HBO.
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Mike Pence flailing around like a goddamn idiot on Stephanopoulos was one of the most satisfying things I've seen this week. edit: this is the 3rd major PR fiasco Pence has had and his term isn't even up yet. His first was only a few months into office, when he sided with the state's Department of Natural Resources on wanting to euthanize a baby deer that some police officer had rescued (and to charge the officer for illegally keeping wildlife). That one blew up in his face and the charges were dropped. Second was the "Pravda on the Plains" disaster when it got leaked that the governor's office was planning to build a state-run media service, and now this. He's such a complete loving amateur that its amazing he ever had delusions of sitting in the Oval Office in the first place. Vernii fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 02:31
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He'll be re-elected with at least 55% of the vote and frontrunner in 2020.
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Vernii posted:Mike Pence flailing around like a goddamn idiot on Stephanopoulos was one of the most satisfying things I've seen this week. Are there any current (or recently current) republican governors who don't have presidential aspirations?
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Are there any current (or recently current)
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Are there any current (or recently current) republican governors who don't have presidential aspirations? dave heineman dude's popular enough that nebraskans would probably elect him New Jesus if he asked, but he seems content to ride off into the sunset world of academia bill haslem, though he's stronger than most of these midwesterners everybody from the Deep South who knows he is nonviable on the national stage PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Ralepozozaxe posted:Are there any current (or recently current) republican governors who don't have presidential aspirations? I would enjoy watching a Paul LePage Presidential campaign 
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Quote of the day, "Unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate." ~ Ted Cruz.
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Those goddamn community organizers! 
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Mar 30, 2015 02:55
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how the hell does Maine work anyway is it like a Reverse West Virginia
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, "Unlike Barack Obama, I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate." ~ Ted Cruz. Yeah I was a Harvard lawyer unlike that loser obummer
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PupsOfWar posted:how the hell does Maine work anyway No, they've just had a third party spoiler candidate, Eliot Cutler, run in the last two elections, tipping the result to LePage. Cutler seemed to realize that this was going to happen again in 2014 and tried to kind-of-sort-of quit at the 11th hour, but it was too late. Cutler got 10% of the vote and LePage won by a point.
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Temporary Dictatorship sounds pretty nice right about now. (I Volunteered in Michaud's Campaign and THIS STILL HAPPENED I CANT) 
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My Imaginary GF posted:That's the same problem I have with Hoosiers. They'll play civil to your face and talk poo poo behind your back. We don't got time for that bullshit in a real city, we're man enough to talk poo poo and take poo poo so long as we know where we stand. And for that, we get called assholes. Well, guess what? Auntie May down in Indy gonna bless your heart, and soon as you leave her kitchen, hope you die. Auntie Inga in the cities gonna do the same, inbetween a screed on Somali immigrants and native welfare queens. This, and all the other posts about how people who live in <poster's city> are more straightforward and easy to deal with than people in <other place> are hilarious. I can guarantee, if the two places are close to one another, then you will find both groups saying that same poo poo about each other. I wish people were more cognizant of their own ingroup/outgroup bias. MIGF is probably a lost cause on that front, though.
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PupsOfWar posted:dave heineman The uproar when he applied to be president of the University of Nebraska system was pretty great. Didn't even make the final list.
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site posted:Those goddamn community organizers! I never got why "community organizer" was a punchline. Is it an issue of suburban dwellers not having any experience with that concept outside like the PTA or what?
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Kellsterik posted:I never got why "community organizer" was a punchline. Is it an issue of suburban dwellers not having any experience with that concept outside like the PTA or what? They want to say communist but they know they would get called on it...
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Kellsterik posted:I never got why "community organizer" was a punchline. Is it an issue of suburban dwellers not having any experience with that concept outside like the PTA or what? I too am curious about it. Obviously the right-wing was able to turn it into a perjorative, but what are people thinking about when they use it? is it "College kid poverty-tourist joke job that only an idiot would cite as real Experience" or is it "sinister agent of the corrupt Chicago electioneering apparatus"? Neither? Both all at once?
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PupsOfWar posted:I too am curious about it. It works for both things which is why it sticks around.
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PupsOfWar posted:I too am curious about it. For a lot of people, it doesn't sound like a real job, so they mock it.
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