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ShutteredIn posted:The Keep the Promise network sounds like social media for evangelical teenagers. Like a Purity Ring, Rand Paul says he'll wait until he is President to tell us how he would replace Obamacare.
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Spaceman Future! posted:Riding the train is awesome, the problem here has been completely misidentified. Trains dont necessarily need to get to their destination faster, they just need to get there more comfortably and cheaper. Recent trends have been about buckling down on train travel since the primary management in the industry are gigantic fuckwits who think their trains are ground airplanes so ripping out luxuries and adding more seats is the only way to fix their hemorrhaging business model. If your seats are cheaper and people can go get ripped in your bar car and then pass out on a leather couch or play some pinball next to a jukebox while making their trip for cheaper than a flight would be you will book every single train. People already have a soft spot for the idea of taking a train trip, but the price and dinginess of the current state of the industry makes dealing with an airplane a no brainer. Are you talking about the UK or something? Regional commuter rail operators haven't "ripped out luxuries" in the US, if anything some of them have added them back in when they finally got new train cars in after decades of having to refurbish the same old cars they inherited in the 70s/80s mass nationalization of rail passenger travel. And Amtrak hasn't cut back on "luxuries" either. In fact the experience's better than ever.
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Joementum posted:
Sort of reads like some of the main donators want to run the PAC themselves but use the same infrastructure as the main pac. So they just made more PACs and all use the same infrastructure and logistics.
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“Every PAC in the Keep the Promise network will fully comply with all disclosure and recordkeeping obligations set forth in federal law. The use of multiple PACS, however, will allow Keep the Promise to uniquely and flexibly tailor its activities in support of Senator Cruz and afford donors greater control over PAC operations.”
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Stand with Rand Day 1: Alienating the press http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/rand-paul-savannah-guthrie-fight-116757.html quote:“You have had views on foreign policy in the past that were somewhat unorthodox, but you seem to have changed over the years,” Guthrie told the Kentucky Republican, who was appearing via satellite from Nashua, New Hampshire. “You once said Iran was not a threat, now you say it is. You once proposed ending foreign aid to Israel, now you support it, at least for the time being, and you once offered to drastically cut … defense spending.”
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Stand with Rand Day 1: Alienating the press List of things Rand Paul doesn't understand: Inherent delays in satellite interviews.
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Of course Rand is an anti-vaxxer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlWcDDZ1w38
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Josh Lyman posted:Of course Rand is an anti-vaxxer: Old news. What made it funnier was when he said this when called out: quote:“I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related – I did not allege causation,” Paul said in a statement. “I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated. In fact today, I received the booster shot for the vaccines I got when I went to Guatemala last year.”
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Josh Lyman posted:Of course Rand is an anti-vaxxer: Solution 1: make all vaccines intra-vaginal. Solution 2: Give everyone vaginas.
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Badger of Basra posted:Why are they split up like that? Getting around donation limits? Probably like gavelkind. You have three people that you want to provide for, so you each give them one piece. And the advisor that wouldn't say how great you are gets nothing.
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The $30,000,000+ figure for PAC donations thing could actually be a surprisingly smart campaign move by Cruz's associates, even though it's grounded in nonsense. He's able to take some focus from Paul (although neither of them are on the Drudge frontpage at the moment, so maybe it doesn't matter anyway), and make it seem like he's really a top-tier candidate. They also don't have to disclose how many people gave that much money to the PACs until June, right? So, even though it's probably only three or four really rich people who donated the majority of that haul, that news won't come out until later when he's hoping his polling bump won't be gone (that's where the could -be-smart thing comes in, because I doubt he'll still be above ten percent in Iowa by then), if it even comes out, and the donations weren't spread across a bunch of shells like the smart oligarchs like doing. So who are the big donors this time around, and which ones would actually give Cruz money? Have Friess or Adelson made up their minds yet, because isn't it probably one or both of them?
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Gravel Gravy posted:Solution 1: make all vaccines intra-vaginal.  "hey babe, ready to get vaccinated?"
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Adelson seems like he could get behind Walker if Walker shows he won't wilt under the spotlight. Cruz definitely seems like he's courting Friess so far, there's a solid chance he'll land him.
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mooyashi posted:wait what is the wrong way App-ah-lay-sha is the incorrect way to say it. App-a-LATCH-a is the correct way to say it. See this. Her point at the end of the vid is lol for Rand Paul Tommah fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:Are you talking about the UK or something? Regional commuter rail operators haven't "ripped out luxuries" in the US, if anything some of them have added them back in when they finally got new train cars in after decades of having to refurbish the same old cars they inherited in the 70s/80s mass nationalization of rail passenger travel. And Amtrak hasn't cut back on "luxuries" either. In fact the experience's better than ever. The NSA gave Biden Fishmech's password, I suppose it was inevitable.
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Spaceman Future! posted:The NSA gave Biden Fishmech's password, I suppose it was inevitable. No seriously, what the hell are you talking about? There hasn't been any removal of luxuries from any of the commuter rail agencies, and there hasn't been any over at Amtrak either.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Stand with Rand Day 1: Alienating the press Came to post this. Dude has the same problem all libertarians seem to, they get all pissed when someone questions their perfect idea for the world since they've never bother to question themselves. He should probably learn not to act like this with reporters, though. edit In other 2016 news: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121480/carly-fiorina-new-sarah-palin  
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Stand with Rand Day 1: Alienating the press Oh, and it didn't stop there: he got into an argument over his votes on abortion bans just a few hours later. quote:Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spent the day following the launch of his presidential campaign getting into a series of tiffs with reporters.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/07/rand-pauls-campaign-already-a-glorious-trainwreck-and-its-only-been-one-day/ Nice summary of a lot of the idiotic design decisions on Rand's announcement.
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Josh Lyman posted:Of course Rand is an anti-vaxxer:
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Carly Fuorina, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz's tell all campaign dirt sheet that releases sometime in 2017 are each going to be fuckin amazing.
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Comparing Fiorina to Sarah Palin is some base sexist bullshit. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is their gender and party affiliation.
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Sir Tonk posted:Came to post this. Dude has the same problem all libertarians seem to, they get all pissed when someone questions their perfect idea for the world since they've never bother to question themselves. She's Sarah Palin with less political experience. Has Fiorina EVER held elected office?
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Pinterest Mom posted:Comparing Fiorina to Sarah Palin is some base sexist bullshit. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is their gender and party affiliation. After all, Plain quits her job. Fiorina gets fired.
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Nintendo Kid posted:No seriously, what the hell are you talking about? There hasn't been any removal of luxuries from any of the commuter rail agencies, and there hasn't been any over at Amtrak either. Bar cars are gone on NJ transit, Metra, MTA and every other train Ive ridden. 
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Pinterest Mom posted:Comparing Fiorina to Sarah Palin is some base sexist bullshit. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is their gender and party affiliation. They're both incompetent in their chosen professions, so there's that.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Comparing Fiorina to Sarah Palin is some base sexist bullshit. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is their gender and party affiliation. They're both huge dumb shits.
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If "running the government like a business" meant anything akin to how Fiorina ran HP, then gently caress that poo poo.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:If "running the government like a business" meant anything akin to how Fiorina ran HP, then gently caress that poo poo. I am 100% for our all-printer currency conversion.
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Nonsense posted:They're both huge dumb shits. In a field of huge dumb shits, Carly Fiorina is the only one who gets compared to Sarah Palin. I wonder why! (Seriously, compare that headline to Mother Jones calling Ted Cruz the "Republican Barack Obama", it's seriously gross.)
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:If "running the government like a business" meant anything akin to how Fiorina ran HP, then gently caress that poo poo. well the running strategy for both is mostly "into the ground" if you're a republican so she would fit right in. Also, her only political claims are working for a losing campaign and losing a campaign so badly she managed to sacrifice a chunk of her own money in the process. This is not the horse to back GOP.
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Nonsense posted:Hillary gets compared to loving Machiavelli and you're mad a dumb poo poo is compared to another vacuous dumb poo poo? Sexism isn't okay just because it's targeted at a Republican.
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Nonsense posted:Hillary gets compared to loving Machiavelli I know, it's nice when a candidate gets such sweet compliments.
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Spaceman Future! posted:Bar cars are gone on NJ transit, Metra, MTA and every other train Ive ridden. Bar cars haven't run on NJ Transit since the 90s at absolute latest, because the only ones they had were old pre-80s stock and in terrible condition. MTA Metro-North bar cars had to be discontinued because no one submitted a valid bid to build ones compatible with the new rolling stock (which I might add, does have better seating and poo poo than the old ones, and the hvac works right). And in general bar cars are something of a liability. Describing it as taking away luxury is asinine, especially since it's done in tandem with actually improving the main fleet. Not to mention that when systems ran them, they were only on a few lines at a few runs of the day, iirc the last decade the MTA bar cars ran it was two trains a day or something equally insignificant when they have dozens if not hundreds of trains a day.
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Hillary is very smart from her hard work, I don't think she likes being compared to some idiot writing things Kings wanted to hear.
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Carly F didn't already crater? What's the standard there now? An actual physical bowl carved into the earth from your spectacular failure?
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Nintendo Kid posted:Bar cars haven't run on NJ Transit since the 90s at absolute latest, because the only ones they had were old pre-80s stock and in terrible condition. MTA Metro-North bar cars had to be discontinued because no one submitted a valid bid to build ones compatible with the new rolling stock (which I might add, does have better seating and poo poo than the old ones, and the hvac works right). And in general bar cars are something of a liability. I ride a train to work that regularly has poop on the floor. This is my frame of reference.
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Reminder Fiorina is one of the worst CEOs of all time. Worse than DeLorean.
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Spaceman Future! posted:He loving better be, thats enough cash for some real grade A mudslinging, you can just ask all sorts of questions about the foregone establichment nominations then. He has the ability to drag this whole drat thing into loony right territory and anyone who doesent follow is going to get loving annihilated in the primaries. This is gonna produce some amazing soundbites. There's a line about being king of the ashes that I think is apropos.
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