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Joementum posted:I'd assumed we were talking about federal House districts. Obviously it's true that Congress can't do poo poo about state legislatures. Well, if they get a big enough majority they could enact some creative funding requirements. Like all states with an F in their name can only get transportation funds if their governor doesn't look like a serial killer.
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Gyges posted:Well, if they get a big enough majority they could enact some creative funding requirements. Like all states with an F in their name can only get transportation funds if their governor doesn't look like a serial killer. Eh, there's a solid case to be made that he looks like a reptoid in lovely human disguise rather than a serial killer.
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Oct 29, 2015 05:04
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You know, there are surprisingly few states whose names contain the letter F.
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Oct 29, 2015 05:07
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Man, everyone is gonna get a bump from this. Conservative and liberal initial reactions to this debate is not about the candidates, but just how terrible CNBC blundered on handling this. When CNBC is accused of being liberal, you know they hosed up.
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Oct 29, 2015 05:14
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How did Rubio own JEB!? I was only half watching while working. I liked the part where Kasich basically called half the field a bunch of dumbass clowns E: was there anything worth watching from the babby debate? I have it sitting on me DVR
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:How did Rubio own JEB!? I was only half watching while working. Jeb thought following the "lazy/skips votes/hates being a Senator" line of attack was a good idea. Rubio shut him down by pointing out that McCain, Obama, and Kerry had all missed more votes during their campaigns and turned it against Jeb by essentially painting Jeb as being in the pocket of the liberal media.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:How did Rubio own JEB!? I was only half watching while working. Jeb tried to pile on the BS about Rubio needs to resign for missing votes, and Rubio called him out for supporting other people that did less than him in the senate while campaigning like John McCain. Then he said he's not going to attack anyone and he understands that Bush is only attacking him because of his own floundering numbers.
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Zoran posted:Jeb thought following the "lazy/skips votes/hates being a Senator" line of attack was a good idea. Rubio shut him down by pointing out that McCain, Obama, and Kerry had all missed more votes during their campaigns and turned it against Jeb by essentially painting Jeb as being in the pocket of the liberal media. Oh yeah I saw that part. I just assumed he was full of poo poo. Lol at JEB! tho
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30.5 Days posted:In other news, it's incredible how the republican primary process now fails at providing even the most basic benefits of a primary process. Does anyone feel as though Carson has been inoculated against the quackery attacks that would no doubt come his way in the general? He was and that's why he now takes that wonder drug every day that he endorses but does not endorse which cures autism.
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Joementum posted:The problem wasn't the times. The problem was that the candidates' tax plans are mathematically impossible and even the most in-the-bag-for-capitalism network pointed that out, so they had to resort to attacking Rick Santelli as a Communist. Sounds like somebody hasn't read The Secret.
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Oct 29, 2015 05:37
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I still can't believe Jeb! offered me a warm kiss.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Eh, there's a solid case to be made that he looks like a reptoid in lovely human disguise rather than a serial killer. lol fishmech
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JonathonSpectre posted:I'm a political junkie that spends hours every day reading about this poo poo and I could not stomach more than half an hour of the fantasy-land fairy-tale horseshit being flung around that stage. I had to turn it off because I felt physically ill. That's not hyperbole, I genuinely felt sick to my stomach at what I was seeing. That anyone takes any of these snake-oil selling hucksters seriously is an unbelievable indictment of the Republican party. None of these lying mediocrities is fit to run a local animal control department, much less the entire United States of America.
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That was a weird off handed comment toward the French for no reason by JEB! . Just weird now that I am reading a news story " French Work Week". That sounds amazing.
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Hollismason posted:That was a weird off handed comment toward the French for no reason by JEB! . Just weird now that I am reading a news story " French Work Week". That sounds amazing. Where've you been? Republicans have been hating on the French for no reason for years.
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Yeah it's just weird though it's not something a Presidential candidate should be saying considering part of his job may in fact him being involved in some sort of venture with the French government.
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Hollismason posted:Yeah it's just weird though it's not something a Presidential candidate should be saying considering part of his job may in fact him being involved in some sort of venture with the French government. Lol have you heard about the way they talk about our largest trading partners?
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i still completely love how like every candidate gets so much traction out of the blistering paradox of "government can't do anything right and ruins everything it touches"/"place me in charge of the government so i can enact a wide sweeping agenda that will make your life wonderful" this seems dangerous, like eventually they pound this message home and GOP voters just stop voting because why bother
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Mr. Nice! posted:We don't have to worry until he starts calling himself PDR. Physician's Desk Reference? Mr. Nice! posted:Rafael Edward Cruz doesn't go by any of his names. He's like John Ellis Bush in that regard. If you think about it, calling him Jeb! Bush is like calling it an ATM! Machine, isn't it?
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Fiorina railing about stagnant wages at the beginning of the debate was glorious. You know, since that's Reagan's fault and all.
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JonathonSpectre posted:I'm a political junkie that spends hours every day reading about this poo poo and I could not stomach more than half an hour of the fantasy-land fairy-tale horseshit being flung around that stage. I had to turn it off because I felt physically ill. That's not hyperbole, I genuinely felt sick to my stomach at what I was seeing. That anyone takes any of these snake-oil selling hucksters seriously is an unbelievable indictment of the Republican party. None of these lying mediocrities is fit to run a local animal control department, much less the entire United States of America. I'm pretty sure someone in IRC put it best: Kasich was up there and it was like he suddenly realized he's the only sane person there. "You can't just make a bunch of empty promises I mean come on!" I'd swear Kasich was about 2 minutes for quoting this word for word as his closing statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE "It's crazy! It's like everything everywhere is going crazy!"
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bobjr posted:Honestly the only way to fix moderating at this point is to cut off mikes, but I really doubt candidates will agree to that. Nah, the republicans would probably have a knife fight over who would get to be first to drop a reference to "I paid for that microphone" when they got cut off. My takeaway is Bush bragged about his fantasy team because that has been his only source of joy this fall.
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Gyges posted:For all the problems of the Senate, you can't gerrymander it. Sure you can, they are trying to do just that with the "5 state solution" to take out California. Or denying statehood to Puerto Rico and DC
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Reposting from the RSF Republican threadquote:Debate recap/summary I probably missed a bunch, but so much of this debate just bled together into one hazy disgusting mess.
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I'm inclined to guess Rubio will get a boost (press induced ala Fiorina if nothing else) I just don't know where his support will come from. Trump/Carson/Cruz supporters won't leave them and there isn't enough to gobble from the others to make much of a wave.
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Neeksy posted:Reposting from the RSF Republican thread -cruz wants to reinstate the gold standard -fiorina argued that corporate mergers happen because of socialist overregulation, and if only regulations were eliminated, then there would be an explosion of hundreds if not thousands of competitors in every concievable industry -kasich was governor of ohio, and he is very proud to be from his home state, ohio, located in the american midwest. a proud state. ohio
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Popular Thug Drink posted:-cruz wants to reinstate the gold standard Ohio: The Tire Fire State.
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The last time Ohio was culturally relevant on a national scale was when the Ohio Hopewell were a thing, in the Middle Woodland Period, 2000 years ago.
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KiteAuraan posted:The last time Ohio was culturally relevant on a national scale was when the Ohio Hopewell were a thing, in the Middle Woodland Period, 2000 years ago. I actually think it was when the Drew Carey Show was popular, so probably a few years after that.
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Neeksy posted:Reposting from the RSF Republican thread Kasich saying Ohio State University "shouldn't be in the dining hall business or the dorm business or the parking lot business" so that college is more affordable was up there too
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PupsOfWar posted:I'll bet Jeb don't even know poo poo about football It's where his brother danced at half time.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:Kasich saying Ohio State University "shouldn't be in the dining hall business or the dorm business or the parking lot business" so that college is more affordable was up there too Oh yeah that fun plan of driving down the costs of tuition by privatizing university revenue generators haha
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pathetic little tramp posted:
So was this anything or nah?
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Joementum posted:I'd assumed we were talking about federal House districts. Obviously it's true that Congress can't do poo poo about state legislatures. Unfuck the Federal level and then have the US Congress pass bills that give the DoJ a shitload of resources to go after voter suppression and then reauthorize the VRA with things like preclearance being made a nationwide standard, or go the drinking age route of simply withholding a bit of Federal funds for any State that doesn't use a means of drawing districts like California does. It'd take far more will than any US Congress would ever have, but they could definitely make Gerrymandering of state legislatures too painful to do.
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Fried Chicken posted:I'm inclined to guess Rubio will get a boost (press induced ala Fiorina if nothing else) I just don't know where his support will come from. Trump/Carson/Cruz supporters won't leave them and there isn't enough to gobble from the others to make much of a wave. He'll get Bush's nickel when he drops out. I mean, he's done right? He's quickly becoming a punchline and everyone's gleefully shoveling dirt on his grave. He looks like he's been running on fumes for a while now and wants this to be over with.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:He'll get Bush's nickel when he drops out. I mean, he's done right? He's quickly becoming a punchline and everyone's gleefully shoveling dirt on his grave. He looks like he's been running on fumes for a while now and wants this to be over with. He's pursuing a March-April ground-game strategy, so I think that he'll at least wait until the results are in for the early states. Unless he completely loses ground, which he hasn't, he's going to keep waiting until the front-runners also have a campaign operation to match their polls. Trump and Carson might be convinced that cable news coverage is all you need to win an election, but I think the veterans aren't going to believe that until they at least see some primary results come in. Kaal fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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