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IBT posted:Bush’s campaign did not respond to International Business Times’ questions about the Florida licenses issued to the hijackers while he was governor.  Jeb!
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MSNBC's source is a guy from the national fireman's union who said Biden told him he was gonna run.
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Oct 19, 2015 16:52
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't it the case that gerrymandering is a significant barrier to winning state-level offices even if the Democrats wanted to? In some/many states, but simultaneously the only way to undo the gerrymander (or prevent it from happening again in 2020-2022) is to win those races. And in many states it's going to be a multi-cycle battle. Here in VA we need to pick up like 16 or 17 seats in the House of Delegates, so the hope is to pick up a few this year, more in 2017, and then the last few in 2019. We can't pick up 17 seats in just one cycle. gradenko_2000 posted:Also, I'd question the utility of having more Democrats win downticket races if they're just there to fill the seat with a D. Blue Dogs are at least marginally superior to Republicans policy-wise. Not much, but a little bit. Also, just having incumbents is great because they can help raise money and recruit volunteers. I mean not nearly as effectively as an actual running campaign, but it helps. And it's useful to have electeds who can serve as surrogates for your candidates. The other nice thing is that it's easier to defend incumbents' seats than it is to take seats back. Every marginal seat you hold is a seat the Republicans have to spend more money trying to re-take. Even just recruiting candidates in non-battleground races is important - running against the "safe" Republicans scares them and prevents them from helping as significantly in the more swing districts.
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zoux posted:Captain America has been black for a while, but he has a new enemy. Fox and Friends. They are just the biggest babies, my god Any slight against Conservatives (or "Average Americans") can not be brooked, even if it happens in a fuckin' comic book.
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You guys remember three or four years ago when we were like "Nothing could possibly top this election cycle"?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't it the case that gerrymandering is a significant barrier to winning state-level offices even if the Democrats wanted to? Blue Dogs vote for districting plans that favor Democrats and against ones that favor Republicans. That vote alone, even if they then vote with Republicans 99% of the time, is worth supporting them against a Republican.
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zoux posted:You guys remember three or four years ago when we were like "Nothing could possibly top this election cycle"? The thing was we simply couldn't comprehend the heights (or depths) 2015 would go, and we're not even into 2016 yet. I no longer doubt that the 2019/2020 election will try to top this, but how? Will Donald Trump run again and somehow dismantle Cheney and Halliburton after taking out the Bush's last election?
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Monkey Fracas posted:They are just the biggest babies, my god
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Jackson Taus posted:The other nice thing is that it's easier to defend incumbents' seats than it is to take seats back. Every marginal seat you hold is a seat the Republicans have to spend more money trying to re-take. Even just recruiting candidates in non-battleground races is important - running against the "safe" Republicans scares them and prevents them from helping as significantly in the more swing districts. You mean the 50 State Strategy was actually worth it?! But Howard Dean made a funny noise on tv once!
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Alkydere posted:The thing was we simply couldn't comprehend the heights (or depths) 2015 would go, and we're not even into 2016 yet. Lindsey Lohan and Kanye are running 2020
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Alkydere posted:The thing was we simply couldn't comprehend the heights (or depths) 2015 would go, and we're not even into 2016 yet. Robo-Trump 9000 will do glorious mechanized battle live on stage with CruzBot XT97A during the first debate Steve Doocy will get his head vaporized by an errant battle laser emission
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Matt Yglesias's Newsletter posted:Lots of talk about the Nordic social model. I used to be a huge enthusiast for "America should be more like foreign county x"-style arguments but the more I actually learned about foreign countries the more I've come to think this kind of thing is politically and analytically weak. Life is complicated and while there are certainly things we can and should learn from foreign countries, nobody succeeds by "becoming like" some other countries. Countries improve by becoming more like themselves. Rather than look to the best parts of Europe for inspiration we should look to the best parts of America. Here is Yglesias's newsletter for the day, in case you wanted more of his ideas about how to make America awesome. Did you know that if you got everyone to agree to a bunch of things they perceive to be against their interests (and are in some cases!) we could do some real good for this country?
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Oct 19, 2015 17:25
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perhaps george did keep america safe while Jeb could not or did not.
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It's pretty disappointing that something like that could happen in Bloomington, but I'm not surprised the cop didn't go full Rambo. There's tons of Muslim students here and families living in the community, and IU is king in this town so you know the police are getting hippie liberal sensitivity training. Also, it sounds like the dude had some serious loving issues: quote:“If I see one more, not so subtly, racist post shared from some random conservative page, my brain is going to explode,” Bickford posted July 19 on Facebook. quote:“If someone flew a Nazi flag and claimed it was about their heritage and not their bigotry, would you believe them?” Bickford posted June 23, punctuated by the shrug emoticon. quote:He frequently posted articles supporting Sanders and the candidate’s economic positions, and Bickford also complained on social media about racist and anti-LGBT conservatives. Also, new contender for most punchable face? 
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Oct 19, 2015 17:34
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Can you just pretend you've hit the middle of your career and push the barrel of a shotgun in your mouth? Thanks in advance.
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zoux posted:
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Whoopsiequote:House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account constituted a security breach.
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Jackson Taus posted:In some/many states, but simultaneously the only way to undo the gerrymander (or prevent it from happening again in 2020-2022) is to win those races. And in many states it's going to be a multi-cycle battle. Here in VA we need to pick up like 16 or 17 seats in the House of Delegates, so the hope is to pick up a few this year, more in 2017, and then the last few in 2019. We can't pick up 17 seats in just one cycle. There is a way to fight Gerry Mandering though that actually I think Florida is regretting. If a state has a State Constitution system like Florida's you can get the votes to add it to the states constitution. http://www.vox.com/2015/7/9/8922811/florida-gerrymandering-supreme-court That's kind of what happened: quote:Congressional districts or districting plans may not be drawn to favor or disfavor an incumbent or political party. Districts shall not be drawn to deny racial or language minorities the equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect representatives of their choice. Districts must be contiguous. Unless otherwise required, districts must be compact, as equal in population as feasible, and where feasible must make use of existing city, county and geographical boundaries.[27] That's the text of the amendment. Now if more states had this as part of their constitution we may see less Gerry Mandering. Personally I think this is what progressives should be campaigning for in states where it is applicable. I mean this would really release some of the strangle holds in Congress.
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Rygar201 posted:Here is Yglesias's newsletter for the day, in case you wanted more of his ideas about how to make America awesome. Did you know that if you got everyone to agree to a bunch of things they perceive to be against their interests (and are in some cases!) we could do some real good for this country? Political pundits really are the loving worst. "Hey I think it's intellectually lazy to say we should be more like Denmark. Instead, let's look at California, which has a bunch of policies similar to Denmark!" Yeah, real valuable insight there.
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I'm not a very good person, and I'm not that lucky. I don't know how Donald's campaign came into my life, but if I were the praying sort I'd pray daily for him to keep trolling all Republicans forever.
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If I read this right, this is a name that the CIA doesn't consider confidential, which undermines the "Hillary had secret information in her private emails!" angle, so the only reason to redact them was to pretend that this is super secret information, except they hosed up the redaction.
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Antti posted:If I read this right, this is a name that the CIA doesn't consider confidential, which undermines the "Hillary had secret information in her private emails!" angle, so the only reason to redact them was to pretend that this is super secret information, except they hosed up the redaction. Right, because it was common knowledge the guy was cooperating with US intelligence. Gowdy was keeping the name secret so that nobody could confirm, and hosed it up so now everyone can go "yep, there sure were news stories at the time about how everyone knew". evilweasel fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time.quote:“I would say in some ways these have been among the worst weeks of my life. Attacks on your character, attacks on your motives, are 1,000-times worse than anything you can do to anybody physically — at least it is for me.”
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zoux posted:You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time. thats why i chair a committee my colleagues have admitted exists only to slander someone's character, because we're not allowed to actually physically attack hillary even though we so want to
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Oct 19, 2015 18:15
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All this and Benjamin Ghazee is still at large.
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zoux posted:You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time. i'm going to give him an indian burn
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zoux posted:You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time. I hope he gets hit by a car and has to do the entire Clinton inquisition in a bodycast.
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Oct 19, 2015 18:21
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gradenko_2000 posted:Any day now!!! Maybe he'll run if someone sends him a delicious pizza.
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zoux posted:You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time. Oh my god, the Irony meter is approaching 9000!!
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Oct 19, 2015 18:22
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zoux posted:You guys need to lay of Gowdy, he's been having a rough time. So he's basically saying, feel free to punch me in the face, it won't bother me at all. Good to know!
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Oct 19, 2015 18:29
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Sticks and stones can't break by bones, but questions about how I do my job as a politician are worse than death. Well I guess it's hard to empathize if you've literally never suffered criticism, so that explains a lot.
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It's chill because Issa had done such a lovely job of hiding their motives that they got Trey "Good Hair" Gowdy to run it to give it the veneer of rigor and objectivity, and it's just been the same old poo poo.
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Isn't captain American not being happy with modern America part of the plots of the movies as well. I didn't see winter soldier.
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euphronius posted:Isn't captain American not being happy with modern America part of the plots of the movies as well. I didn't see winter soldier. It's been a part of the character off and on since he threw the Cap costume in the trash and went around as a different hero after Watergate.
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euphronius posted:Isn't captain American not being happy with modern America part of the plots of the movies as well. I didn't see winter soldier. The movies have been pretty apolitical and it will be interesting to see if the next one actually has social commentary because that's supposedly part of the plot. If it does expect fox news to crow hard about it.
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