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CheesyDog posted:In Tennessee news, Governor Haslam continues to push outsourcing of facilities management for all state properties, despite the numbers clearly not adding up: He sleeping with a higher up?
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I'm just glad the FBI is dropping the hammer on Bundy after two years. Long overdue.
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Meanwhile in other Republican Ran States: WV playing catch up and now introducing an odious Voter ID Law: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160210/wv-house-advances-voter-id-bill-on-party-line-vote Also all three Dem Candidates for Governor have came out against a proposed cut in the coal severance tax, including Billionaire coal magnate Jim Justice who released the following statement: Jim Justice posted:] The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has also passed the Senate and is headed for a veto. No word on when they're going to bother fix the state budget though!
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Feb 11, 2016 14:26
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Budgets don't matter when there's gays, women, and minorities to bash. Or people to bomb.
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vorebane posted:So midnight thought, you're not going to get around America's hard work fetish. But maybe 'America you're not getting what you deserve for your hard work' could have traction especially backed up by easily digestible facts like, iirc, comparing increases in production to the increasing lack of compensation to the middle and lower class, and the old chestnut about the disparity between what Americans think the division of wealth in America is and what it actually is and further the downright commie division of wealth Americans think America should have. This is exactly what is happening, economic populism is being constantly mentioned by both sides. Just a couple days ago in his day before NH speech Trump guaranteed free health care for anyone who couldn't afford it and got a massive crowd of republicans to cheer for it, could you imagine that happening 10 years ago? Pretty much every major candidate in the race has made some mention of how americans are working harder and not getting enough for it.
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:This is exactly what is happening, economic populism is being constantly mentioned by both sides. Just a couple days ago in his day before NH speech Trump guaranteed free health care for anyone who couldn't afford it and got a massive crowd of republicans to cheer for it, could you imagine that happening 10 years ago? Pretty much every major candidate in the race has made some mention of how americans are working harder and not getting enough for it. I alluded to this earlier: Trump is doing it via vicious nationalism. That's very very bad.
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Feb 11, 2016 14:32
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DemeaninDemon posted:I alluded to this earlier: Trump is doing it via vicious nationalism. That's very very bad. it is in fact the same way another angry, loud mouthed man did it about 80 years ago!
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Feb 11, 2016 14:33
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:This is exactly what is happening, economic populism is being constantly mentioned by both sides. Just a couple days ago in his day before NH speech Trump guaranteed free health care for anyone who couldn't afford it and got a massive crowd of republicans to cheer for it, could you imagine that happening 10 years ago? Pretty much every major candidate in the race has made some mention of how americans are working harder and not getting enough for it. Is Jeb!'s stance still "we need to work more!" or was that Walker?
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axeil posted:it is in fact the same way another angry, loud mouthed man did it about 80 years ago! Isn't even hyperbole. Trumps even doing a few things wrong!
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Feb 11, 2016 14:41
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Just a couple days ago in his day before NH speech Trump guaranteed free health care for anyone who couldn't afford it and got a massive crowd of republicans to cheer for it, could you imagine that happening 10 years ago? I couldn't imagine it happening four years ago, what with the Tea Party/GOP's anti-ObamaCare stuff turning into the "just let him die" rhetoric.
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Feb 11, 2016 14:52
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axeil posted:I believe so yes. Or at least I haven't heard anything about it. I can think of about a million problems with this system. Frankly, this reads like one of those "the singularity will save the world" fever dreams that white, middle-class nerds like to rave about.
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axeil posted:... Finally the future of Johnnycab is becoming real
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Litany Unheard posted:I can think of about a million problems with this system. edit: when I was a kid I dreamed of societal stuff all changing at once and not being an constant patchwork of old and new, but then I grew up. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Self-driving cars will start moving right when the light turns green instead of staring at their phone for 5-10 seconds so I figure cumulatively that alone will solve most of our problems as a nation.
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We're going to have to figure out what to do about the millions of jobs that selfdriving cars would obviate, which also goes towards the earlier conversation about how our work culture requires everyone to have full time employment. Eventually we're just going to have to admit that we don't have enough jobs to justify total full time employment and go to a 20 hour workweek or something.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:29
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zoux posted:We're going to have to figure out what to do about the millions of jobs that selfdriving cars would obviate, which also goes towards the earlier conversation about how our work culture requires everyone to have full time employment. Eventually we're just going to have to admit that we don't have enough jobs to justify total full time employment and go to a 20 hour workweek or something. That only works if you have a strong enough social net for people who work 20/hr a week to live comfortably.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:That only works if you have a strong enough social net for people who work 20/hr a week to live comfortably. Oh it would take a top to bottom transformation of our entire culture, but at some point we're going to have to recognize that it isn't 1950 any more. Also the media really is trying to resurrect the candidacy of Jeb Bush.
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zoux posted:Oh it would take a top to bottom transformation of our entire culture, but at some point we're going to have to recognize that it isn't 1950 any more. Well, you see, if we just close our borders and cancel all the trade agreements and,
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Feb 11, 2016 15:32
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Here's Marco Rubio doing his best to combat the Robio meme.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:34
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has also passed the Senate and is headed for a veto. Our glorious assembly of republican assholes has not yet passed the RFRA bill out of either chamber. It is up for a full house vote today, though, and is likely to pass. Any amendments offered to blunt it were shot down with incredibly facile reasoning yesterday. quote:http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160210/religious-freedom-bill-advances-to-vote-on-thursday Basically anything that blunted the intended effect of the bill was shot down as unrelated. Absolute bullshit and they know it. God help us once this passes both chambers all we have is Gov. Tomblin and a thin hope there isn't enough support to override his veto (hint: there probably is).
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Guy Montag posted:Our glorious assembly of republican assholes has not yet passed the RFRA bill out of either chamber. It is up for a full house vote today, though, and is likely to pass. Any amendments offered to blunt it were shot down with incredibly facile reasoning yesterday. Oh I thought it had gone through yesterday. It's incredibly disheartening.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Oh I thought it had gone through yesterday. Our new republican overlords are making up for lost time this session for sure. RFRA, right to work, common core repeal, 2nd trimester abortion ban, tax cuts, they've got it all in process one way or another. e: If you can get down to the Capitol and get a meeting with your Delegates/Senators and let them know what you think, it can make a difference. Seemed to help when I did it last year. I can't make it down this session or I would be there pounding on the door of my Delegate who is one of the looniest. Guy Montag fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Feb 11, 2016 |
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Guy Montag posted:Our new republican overlords are making up for lost time this session for sure. RFRA, right to work, common core repeal, 2nd trimester abortion ban, tax cuts, they've got it all in process one way or another. They tried most of those last year too, but yeah feels like they're making more progress this time around. Pleased my cousin (who is a senator) is at least on the correct side of all of these issues.
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Georgia has a slew of 'religious freedom' bills like that on the docket this session of the state legislature as well. Key point seems to be that you can refuse to serve/sell goods to people if they're same-sex.quote:House Bill 756 would allow business owners to cite religious beliefs in refusing goods or services for a “matrimonial ceremony” — a blunt assessment of conservatives’ outrage after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June state prohibitions on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional. Still waiting on the upcoming bill that disallows divorced Catholics from shopping at the Gap if the general manager is devout.
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Jagchosis posted:Cliven Bundy got picked up by the FBI after deplaning in Oregon. So what you are telling me is he is occupying a new federal building: a jail cell
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zoux posted:Here's Marco Rubio doing his best to combat the Robio meme. Sorry rubio, presidents need at least 99.5% efficiency and you're at 99.375.
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In an depressing article about the US inability to protect young children of abuse, this jumped out at me.quote:In 1971, Congress considered the Comprehensive Child Development Act, a last piece of Great Society legislation, an entitlement program providing for universal preschool education (referred to, during congressional debate, as “developmental day care”), with tuition scaled to a family’s ability to pay. The bill’s lead sponsor was Walter Mondale, a senator with Presidential aspirations who was the chair of the Subcommittee on Children and Youth and who had drafted childcare legislation as early as 1961. Supporters of the Child Development Act cast childcare as a civil-rights measure. Not since the 1964 Civil Rights Act had a bill been subject to more intense lobbying. The bipartisan vote in the Senate was an overwhelming 63–17; the victory in the House was razor-thin, 186–183. In December, 1971, Nixon, who was running for reëlection on the back of a strategy that involved an appeal to conservatives, vetoed the bill. Pat Buchanan drafted Nixon’s veto message, in which Nixon said that “for the Federal Government to plunge headlong financially into supporting child development would commit the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of communal approaches to child rearing.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/01/baby-doe You can never tell people who think Nixon was liberal to gently caress off enouigh.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Sorry rubio, presidents need at least 99.5% efficiency and you're at 99.375. It's easier but thems the breaks when you campaign via scantron.
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Guy Montag posted:e: If you can get down to the Capitol and get a meeting with your Delegates/Senators and let them know what you think, it can make a difference. Seemed to help when I did it last year. I can't make it down this session or I would be there pounding on the door of my Delegate who is one of the looniest. I had like a 30 email exchange last year with lead sponsor of the education reform bill, which was actually pretty civil. I think it helps that my last name is one that they have actually heard of. I live in Mon County so the persuadable ones are already against them, and my home county's Delegate and Senator (my cousin) are against all this poo poo too. If I get a chance this weekend though, gonna write a Letter to the Editor to send out.
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e: ^^^^^Keep up the good fight. 2016 election can't come soon enough.zoux posted:Here's Marco Rubio doing his best to combat the Robio meme.  2.0
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Guy Montag posted:e: ^^^^^Keep up the good fight. 2016 election can't come soon enough. There was much hooting and hollering among people I know when Joe Statler, who was BoE President for years, sponsored a charter school bill that talked about how we have failed our children. And I don't know why Pasdon resigned, but I can't say I am sad about it. Hope we can get those seats back.
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Can someone explain to me what the hell superdelegates are and why Hillary's apparently got more of them or something despite losing New Hampshire?
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zoux posted:Here's Marco Rubio doing his best to combat the Robio meme. AP reporting today that the Rubio path for the nomination is probably a brokered convention. That's per the campaign manager. http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:41b348ce4b6c4841a95a4aefdc2ca9f3 
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Coohoolin posted:Can someone explain to me what the hell superdelegates are and why Hillary's apparently got more of them or something despite losing New Hampshire? In the Dem Primary process, they are essentially elected dem officials, state office holders, and state party officials. As Hillary has virtually the entire Democratic party endorsing her, she has them "soft" locked. They are free to choose who to vote for and are not bound. There is virtually no way that the DNC would let super delegates decide the primary.
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Fried Chicken posted:AP reporting today that the Rubio path for the nomination is probably a brokered convention. I have never seen goalposts moved faster. What happened to 3, 2, 1? Coohoolin posted:Can someone explain to me what the hell superdelegates are and why Hillary's apparently got more of them or something despite losing New Hampshire? They are basically sitting congresspeople and party muckety mucks. They get extra votes in order to do exactly what they are doing now, protect the establishment candidate from an upstart challenger.
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Coohoolin posted:Can someone explain to me what the hell superdelegates are and why Hillary's apparently got more of them or something despite losing New Hampshire? Well, Wikipedia does a good job. Basically they're 'unbound' convention delegates, usually current or former party bigwigs, who can throw their support to a candidate of their choosing.Normal convention delegates must vote the way of their state primary (or partially depending on the state etc). Basically the superdelegates are a way of weighing the primaries in favour of 'establishment' candidates. Hence Clinton.
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Fried Chicken posted:AP reporting today that the Rubio path for the nomination is probably a brokered convention. Translation: PLEASE MAKE KASICH AND BUSH GO AWAY
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RevKrule posted:Democrats may get an easy pickup in the Senate in a seat that seemed otherwise secure. I can almost guarantee this will not be a significant issue. Deferments as being anything important died with Dan Rather, if not Clinton a decade before.
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