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Nessus posted:As best as I can tell this is the actual message being transmitted. The genius of American politics is the ability to hold two seemingly contradictory views without being incorrect. We institutionalize hypocracy and make it a virtue; we don't want no government nicers taking that away from us.
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LowellDND posted:edit: Look up pictures or information on Angola Prison sometime, you'll get a kick out of how we still have literal plantations. Look up their loving rodeo. It's something else. I watched a dozen dudes who've never ridden anything in their lives try to stay on a bull so they'd have a shot at the big $50 prize. I thought it was going to be some kind of rehabilitative thing where the convicts learned how to ride horses and do barrel racing and poo poo as therapy, but no it's pretty much just a bunch of dangerous stunts by untrained prisoners. Yes, the convicts played Cowboy Poker.
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This is a bit of a tangent but I wanted to ask: how did America's election process become so insanely long?
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PostNouveau posted:Look up their loving rodeo. It's something else. I watched a dozen dudes who've never ridden anything in their lives try to stay on a bull so they'd have a shot at the big $50 prize. I thought it was going to be some kind of rehabilitative thing where the convicts learned how to ride horses and do barrel racing and poo poo as therapy, but no it's pretty much just a bunch of dangerous stunts by untrained prisoners. That I hadn't come across. To add to the hilarity, check out 'California inmate firefighters', its everything you'd expect. edit: Jesus christ the rodeo is worse than I expected. Goddamn. Loel fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 12:35
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A good book about prison life in the US is "Life Sentences: Rage and survival behind bars", a collection of articles published in The Angolite, a magazine by Angola prisoners. Got it because of that prison thread years ago.
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Nov 19, 2015 12:43
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William Bear posted:He kind of evaded the question. Just redirected it to "defining what we're fighting". i mean wouldn't it be more accurate to say radical Wahhabi-ism because that's where the majority of Islamic terrorism calls its home theologically.
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Nov 19, 2015 13:19
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UrbicaMortis posted:This is a bit of a tangent but I wanted to ask: how did America's election process become so insanely long? Death of the machines and the rise of television.
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Also, its a bit of a bias'd question, since you're asking an election forum why there exists so much information on elections.
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Nov 19, 2015 13:41
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It's the eye of the tig...quote:A member of the rock band Survivor is suing Mike Huckabee for copyright infringement over the use of the group’s ubiquitous “Rocky III” hit song, “Eye of the Tiger.” http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/mike-huckabee-kim-davis-216033
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SnakePlissken posted:And what do you get when you click the link in that picture?
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Joementum posted:Also because it's a good workout. He's lost 15lbs from shouting! For shame Joe, how could you not quote from that lovely little article. quote:As for those who do succumb to weight gain on the campaign trail? Trump says he can guess the reason. Hmm, who could Donald be talking about? It's a mystery...
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UrbicaMortis posted:This is a bit of a tangent but I wanted to ask: how did America's election process become so insanely long? Well, filing to be on a ballot is usually about 2 or 3 months before election day, and for a primary election that means you're officially a candidate a long time before the election. In many places, the primary is basically the election, so the mayor of Philadelphia (a city where democrats outnumber republicans 7 to 1) basically starts campaigning in July of the previous year, has the real election in May and then the formality of the general election the following November. Even our local candidates for small races like city council in towns with less than 100,000 people take 6-8 months of campaigning. Our elections days are almost always set in stone, our politicians don't call for elections whenever they feel like it, which is how I assume it works in parliament systems, so candidates and political parties work around that schedule, and for bigger races you need to spend time as much time fundraising as you do meeting with voters. When you get to senators and governors who represent millions, there's alot of hands to kiss, babies to shake and checks to cash. Elections are very much about name recognition so the longer you're out there, the better your chances will be. To most Americans, myself included, it's crazy to think that some countries take 4 or 5 weeks to decide who is going to lead their entire country.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:10
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UrbicaMortis posted:This is a bit of a tangent but I wanted to ask: how did America's election process become so insanely long? Capitalist Nightmare. The presidential election generates ratings, so there's more of an impetus to start reporting on it the second people start rumbling about it. EDIT: And no one's watching cable so they're taking the things that still work and squeezing them for all they're worth.
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PPP National. Trump 26 Friend Ben 19 Cruz 14 Rubio 13 Jeb! 5 Fiorina/Huckabee 4 Christie/Kasich 3 Paul 2 Graham/Pataki 1 Clinton 59 Sanders 26 O'Malley 7
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AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Nov 19, 2015 15:59
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We also have Bloomberg National Trump 24 Carson 20 Rubio 12 Cruz 9 Not Sure 7 Jeb! 6 Uncommitted 5 Christie 4 Fiorina/Huckabee/Christie 3 Graham/Pataki/Santorum 1
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Nov 19, 2015 16:02
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Holy poo poo Jeb! is rising!
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Nov 19, 2015 16:04
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So is Cruz/Rubio or Rubio/Cruz a possibility or has Cruz alienated the RNC too much for that? Who could Cruz pick for veep that'd make his melting-wax-sculpture-of-Joe-McCarthy looks appear attractive in comparison?
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Nov 19, 2015 16:05
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If Cruz agrees to become Trump's VP then the Republican primary will be OVER.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:05
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Donald Trump will be president.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:07
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Cruz has helped fund primary campaigns against his Senate GOP colleagues, called his party's Senate leader a liar on the floor, and is hated by his own colleague from Texas. He's this cycle's version of Newt Gingrich: he can do well for a time because he knows how to work the media and be bombastic in debates, but if he starts doing too well his own party will be all-too-happy to tear him apart. In the last weeks before the Iowa Caucuses, Romney had a crew for a half dozen of Newt's former House colleagues going around the state telling people what an awful person Newt is.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:10
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Cruz is a massive piece of loving poo poo
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Nov 19, 2015 16:10
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^^^ That's the truth. I imagine him practicing orating in a mirror and rolling his r's. sharkbomb posted:If Cruz agrees to become Trump's VP then the Republican primary will be OVER.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:11
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Joementum posted:Cruz has helped fund primary campaigns against his Senate GOP colleagues, called his party's Senate leader a liar on the floor, and is hated by his own colleague from Texas. He's this cycle's version of Newt Gingrich: he can do well for a time because he knows how to work the media and be bombastic in debates, but if he starts doing too well his own party will be all-too-happy to tear him apart. Stil not sure who the GOP hates more; Trump or Cruz?
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Joementum posted:Cruz has helped fund primary campaigns against his Senate GOP colleagues, called his party's Senate leader a liar on the floor, and is hated by his own colleague from Texas. He's this cycle's version of Newt Gingrich: he can do well for a time because he knows how to work the media and be bombastic in debates, but if he starts doing too well his own party will be all-too-happy to tear him apart. Say what you want about Romney, but at least he had enough energy to go after his unworthy opponents.
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When does Rubio get involved in this election? Is he hoping to emerge from his cocoon a couple weeks before voting begins as the acceptable GOP butterfly?
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They're probably more scared of the optics of a Trump nomination. But I doubt they want Cruz to ever have the satisfaction of the nom either.
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I used to think Kasich was approaching acceptable but that "Judeo-Christian values propaganda" proposal tipped it for me.
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Zas posted:God the CA prison industrial complex is a loving nightmare. How the gently caress did we get here? California's death row count is so high because they ain't executed a guy since 2006, but kept sentencing more people to death until 2014 when a federal court ruled that the current death penalty system there is unconstitutional. Since 1978 when California reinstated the death penalty, only 14 of the people sentenced to the death penalty in California have actually been executed (one of them in a different state). 57 of them died of natural causes waiting to be executed, 20 committed suicide, and 6 died of other causes. In essence, the death penalty in California is "life imprisonment with a 1.5% chance to actually be executed". UrbicaMortis posted:This is a bit of a tangent but I wanted to ask: how did America's election process become so insanely long? The primary cause is the shift starting in the 70s from most of the Presidential primary being conducted by party bigwigs with no outside influence, to being almost entirely conducted by public primary elections, which increasingly forced candidates to spend more time on the campaign trail, and do so earlier and earlier.
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Here are all of Trump's new radio ads: http://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/category/ads
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sharkbomb posted:When does Rubio get involved in this election? Is he hoping to emerge from his cocoon a couple weeks before voting begins as the acceptable GOP butterfly?
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"I HEAR VOICES IN MY HEAD, THEY TELL ME RUN FOR PRESIDENT, PLEASE VOTE FOR MEEEEEEE" - Rand Orton
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Nov 19, 2015 16:38
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Guy who got thrown out of the Trump rally in Worcester was a goon, thought I recognized him.
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quote:Yahoo News has reported that about half of the approximately 2,000 refugees from Syria who have come to the U.S. so far have been children. Another quarter are more than 60 years old. The Obama administration has maintained that the extensive screening process for these refugees makes the program safe to maintain — not to mention a reflection of America’s core values. https://www.yahoo.com/politics/donald-trump-has-big-plans-1303117537878070.html
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Nov 19, 2015 16:51
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Joementum posted:Quote of the night, "I mention food stamps, and that guy who's seriously overweight goes crazy" ~ Trump, to a protester at his rally. Montasque posted:So far two protestor disruptions. Cops just lead a very large man out. Tanith posted:Guy who got thrown out of the Trump rally in Worcester was a goon, thought I recognized him. Checks out.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:54
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Montasque posted:This making the rounds: "If I were Commander-In-Chief or if I were elected President..." Look out, he's planning a coup!
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Nov 19, 2015 16:55
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Perhaps a tattoo, or a patch.. anything that'll help identify them when they're in public would be nice!
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hey yall, big cruz fan here.... i like how his face always looks like he just pissed his pants
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Ben Carson clarification is not winning with Schaivos quote:I know all too well how mainstream media can distort and misrepresent good faith remarks," Bobby Schindler wrote in an e-mail to LifeSiteNews. "Still, Dr. Carson's explanation leaves the impression that he remains confused about key aspects of Terri's situation." https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/terri-schiavos-family-pro-life-leaders-not-completely-convinced-by-ben-cars
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