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pathetic little tramp posted:"Suspect is surrendering, throwing his guns out the window where of course they are firing rounds as they impact on the ground." This guy is a genius. This is unreal. 
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Boon posted:I get that, but what I'm saying is that this is all known. The conversation can't end at "we need populist candidates" without also acknowledging that there is no currently viable way for that to successfully occur. The conversation has to focus on: A) We need candidates who are willing to try to enact economic policies that appeal to people who don't own a McMansion. We only NEED a populist candidate if it is impossible for mainstream ones to do that because they are bought and sold with truckloads of PAC money. B) If the above is true it becomes viable when enough people are miserable that they care more about the platform of the hypothetical demagogue than social wedge issues their opponents are fighting over. There is no way to forecast when these things happen and typically in American history when the political landscape gets that hairy one or both of the parties will throw folks a bone and adopt a little piece of the platform to calm everyone down.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:38
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Oh rad, my friend's sheltered in place so she doesn't get gunned down by this retard, thanks America
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Nov 4, 2015 20:38
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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't know why you think the GOP will die with old people. Meet the littlest xenophobe. Eh, when I was a kid I thought Ross Perot was the bee's knees. Kids are dumb.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:41
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Maarek posted:A) We need candidates who are willing to try to enact economic policies that appeal to people who don't own a McMansion. We only NEED a populist candidate if it is impossible for mainstream ones to do that because they are bought and sold with truckloads of PAC money. The reason this keeps failing is because conservatives, and even some liberals, won't vote for those policies because they'd rather refuse any kind of help if poor minorities will get the same help.
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At a Q&A in New Hampshire today, Rubio was asked, "Who would you like to have a beer with who is not a politician?” His answer? Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and noted Muslim teenager 
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Nov 4, 2015 20:43
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Maarek posted:A) We need candidates who are willing to try to enact economic policies that appeal to people who don't own a McMansion. Of course, all three of the Democratic nominees for president meet this criteria.... In so much as there are many many poor people, who find their economic policies appealing and...in their own self-interest too!
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Nov 4, 2015 20:45
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MariusLecter posted:This is unreal. The news feed has a picture of a speed limit sign that has a sticker or some other defacement on it... it is really cracking me up. That is their picture while they talk in the background.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:45
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My Cool Uncle Rubio is totally gonna buy us beer for the party! An attempt to connect with under-21 voters?
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Nov 4, 2015 20:45
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Mr Jaunts posted:At a Q&A in New Hampshire today, Rubio was asked, "Who would you like to have a beer with who is not a politician?” His answer? No Rubio, that's an answer for the general not the primary! Marco? MARCOOOOOOO!!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHoS_C5Quc
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Nov 4, 2015 20:47
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Konservative Kids konvert all the time once they become teenagers and get sick of their parents poo poo. Like the kid who spoke at C-Pac and had a Republican book deal became a moderate Obama supporter basically the second he could grow a mustache.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:48
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Right now in Europe there are tons of political parties that run on a platform of expanding the welfare state, kicking out immigrants, all while being very socially conservative. They are gaining popularity in places as disparate as Scandanavia and the Balkans. One just won an election in Poland and will be taking power there. That was essentially the role of the Democratic party in our not-too-distant past.
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Mr Jaunts posted:At a Q&A in New Hampshire today, Rubio was asked, "Who would you like to have a beer with who is not a politician?” His answer? its dumb on a few levels, but at least his heart maybe in the right place. she is an actual hero and admirable person. but at least he is sorta of trying and i assume those mistakes were not intentional. Monkey Fracas posted:My Cool Uncle Rubio is totally gonna buy us beer for the party! probably that and Muslim outreach. so far rubio has been the only one to try any outreach to non wasps.
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Maarek posted:Right now in Europe there are tons of political parties that run on a platform of expanding the welfare state, kicking out immigrants, all while being very socially conservative. They are gaining popularity in places as disparate as Scandanavia and the Balkans. One just won an election in Poland and will be taking power there. That was essentially the role of the Democratic party in our not-to-distant past. Then the Democrats made a deal with the black devil, which allowed Republicans to wedge conservatives away from the party and cement the "Democrats == Liberals, Republicans == Conservatives" that hadn't existed in the past. So now you have a majoritarian Democratic party that's the center and leftward and a Republican party that is in an ideological purity phase occupying center-right and rightward. Either the Republican moderates regain control (heh), the Republicans use every trick in the book to defeat democracy, or the Democratic party becomes a majority again, eventually splintering as the left demands ideological purity and the cycle begins anew.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:53
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Dapper_Swindler posted:its dumb on a few levels, but at least his heart maybe in the right place. she is an actual hero and admirable person. but at least he is sorta of trying and i assume those mistakes were not intentional. Oh no doubt, the sentiment is good, it's just a boneheaded answer that he clearly didn't think through. In other news, Jeb! spoke with some middle schoolers today, how did that go? quote:Another boy asked whether Bush would govern similarly to his brother, President George W. Bush.  Jeb! can't even keep his cool around actual children, no wonder he's floundering
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Nov 4, 2015 21:02
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Mr Jaunts posted:Oh no doubt, the sentiment is good, it's just a boneheaded answer that he clearly didn't think through. I just buy all the same brands of clothes, eat at all the same places, date all the same girls and pray to the same God.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:04
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So Jeb! is saying he wouldn't keep us safe? 
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eviltastic posted:So Jeb! is saying he wouldn't keep us safe? 9/11 would be the only day free of terrorist attacks.
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Mr Jaunts posted:At a Q&A in New Hampshire today, Rubio was asked, "Who would you like to have a beer with who is not a politician?” His answer? Rubio really is Jeb!'s protege, this is an amazing answer holy poo poo Who would you like to have a beer with? AN UNDERAGE MUSLIM GIRL, PLEASE
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Nov 4, 2015 21:06
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In North Carolina, every county is required to have at least one in-person Early Voting location which is open for 12 whole days before Election Day. You don't have to provide a reason or anything. It's loving awesome and there is absolutely no reason not to make this standard unless you don't want people to vote.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:07
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RuanGacho posted:I just buy all the same brands of clothes, eat at all the same places, date all the same girls and pray to the same God.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:08
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quote:Bush started the event with his standard talking points from the trail, but it became clear pretty early that his wonkier lines might be over his audience’s head. After he answered a boy’s question about border security with a detailed prescription of surveillance drones, GPS technology, and an improved entry-exit visa system a girl stood up to ask a follow up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYJGGPBkgs
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Nov 4, 2015 21:08
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I am having such a wonderful time watching Jeb!'s campaign slowly implode. Simply wonderful.
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showbiz_liz posted:In North Carolina, every county is required to have at least one in-person Early Voting location which is open for 12 whole days before Election Day. You don't have to provide a reason or anything. It's loving awesome and there is absolutely no reason not to make this standard unless you don't want people to vote. Luckily, you can just stick the one location in an Ag extension, far away from buses and with limited parking! quote:First they were supposed to vote early -- in a nightclub. Then students, employees, and faculty at North Carolina's Appalachian State University were supposed to vote early a mile from the farthest edge of campus, in a county building that had little parking. Then, after students filed a lawsuit, a state judge intervened, saying that the county board of election's decision to end early voting in the on-campus student union -- after eight years of allowing it -- could have no purpose but to disenfranchise students and was unconstitutional. That decision, however, was not the final word. It was put on hold by an appeals court, and then the North Carolina Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/10/blocking-the-youth-vote-in-the-south.html
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That Jeb thing honestly doesn't sound all that off to me in isolation. Judging by the article, it sounds like he did an okay job of engaging with a bunch of kids relaying whatever ideas they'd gotten from their parents. The hilarious part is that it shows his camp still has no idea how to distance him from all the baggage of his brother. Even a kid is going to know that that was a cute non-answer.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:13
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zoux posted:Slowly? In that it was something I saw as doomed from the start and continues to be worse every day. A slow death march accompanied by a droning funeral dirge towards failure.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:14
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After McCain in 2008 I guess it's dangerous to count someone out so early but can you possible imagine a human being saying to you "I am very excited about Jeb Bush!" without dripping with sarcasm?
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Trabisnikof posted:Luckily, you can just stick the one location in an Ag extension, far away from buses and with limited parking! Ugh, fuckers. When I went to UNC the early voting station was right off the main campus quad, and WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT, the whole county went for Obama in 2008 by literally 72%.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:17
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Kraft Heinz is firing 2500 workers in North America and moving their meat product (Oscar Mayer) HQ to Chicago. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-kraft-heinz-oscar-mayer-hq-1105-biz-20151104-story.html
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Nov 4, 2015 21:19
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This will forever be the greatest interaction between children and a Presidential Candidate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/22/ted-cruz-told-a-3-year-old-her-world-is-on-fire-her-mom-joined-his-campaign/
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Maarek posted:After McCain in 2008 I guess it's dangerous to count someone out so early but can you possible imagine a human being saying to you "I am very excited about Jeb Bush!" without dripping with sarcasm? Today's GOP is completely different now that the animals run the zoo. I have my doubts the establishment can reign in a candidate that's not crazy or bag of wet newspaper.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Kraft Heinz is firing 2500 workers in North America and moving their meat product (Oscar Mayer) HQ to Chicago. From wisconsin to Illinois, no less. Good thing Walker dropped out when he did (not that doing so will help him any).
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Nov 4, 2015 21:26
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theblackw0lf posted:This makes a compelling, and highly depressing case that we're in a feedback loop where increased income inequality leads to further republican rule locally and nationally, which leads to more income inequality, which leads to more Republican rule, etc... Oh hey that Petr guy sure is dumb for being worried.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:28
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Hollismason posted:This will forever be the greatest interaction between children and a Presidential Candidate. This is amazing quote:Cruz, speaking in Barrington, N.H., said President Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's foreign policy had set the world on fire. Some children just want to watch the world burn, and I guess roast some marshmallows while it happens.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:30
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Petr posted:Oh hey that Petr guy sure is dumb for being worried.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:30
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Hey as long as we're having a little bit of San Diego in the national news, the deaf guy who ran down a bunch of zombie walkers at comic-con last year has been found guilty. Awww.
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Petr posted:Oh hey that Petr guy sure is dumb for being worried. Do you really want to be the next  ?No one ever saved the world out of panic, fear maybe with the bay of pigs, but never panic.
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I don't know if it was itt or in dadchat that i mentioned it, but here's the piece about the Democrats forming plans to reassert themselves at the state and national level: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...thing-about-it/ And other one that tell you to calm the gently caress down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/11/04/how-badly-has-the-obama-era-damaged-the-democratic-party/ The Brownstein article he links to is also really good.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't know why you think the GOP will die with old people. Meet the littlest xenophobe. Jesus, this is the saddest loving thing I've read all day. That poor kid.
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