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McAlister posted:I'm in awe that he found a black woman scotus nominee that Paul Ryan will go to the mat for. Course given the way things have been going he's probably sick of his party right now. There's almost certainly at least one person in the White House whose job involves picking up on minor matters like Paul Ryan wildly praising a prominent black judge and sticking them in the Supreme Court Ammo file.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Source: D.C. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Vetted for Scalia Seat Called it on Obama nominating a black woman to replace Scalia. Makes for some great loving general election optics to drive up turnout if Senate R's attempt to block the nomination. Makes sense that Senate R's would be given the go-ahead to break from leadership and attack Trump; Trump could paint himself as the candidate with the best racial justice policies, which just don't play with McConnell. Holding hearigs for a black woman SCOTUS nominee and building the wall while kicking illegals out: the racial justice policies of our time.
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McAlister posted:I'm in awe that he found a black woman scotus nominee that Paul Ryan will go to the mat for. Course given the way things have been going he's probably sick of his party right now. Paul Ryan is going to not going to touch this topic with a 10ft pole and if someone manages to trap him and ask questions he's going to deflect as hard as he can.
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http://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11126096/muslim-fort-wayne-execution-murders Well last time this happened it was just a parking dispute, so I'm sure there's nothing going on here at all.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Called it on Obama nominating a black woman to replace Scalia. Makes for some great loving general election optics to drive up turnout if Senate R's attempt to block the nomination. Why would that drive up turnout at all?
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Feb 27, 2016 21:39
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I was really hoping for a black woman to be nominated when instead we got Kagan. I really really want to break the notion that Thomas is the current occupant of the sole "black seat."
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computer parts posted:http://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11126096/muslim-fort-wayne-execution-murders I'm a state level delegate and I was already making the rounds on the need for us to add something welcoming about Muslims to the platform; with the argument being human decency, distancing ourselves from the horrid national rhetoric, and pushing back on Pence's attack on refugees. Now we really need to make a push on this poo poo. gently caress, I hear about the murders, not the larger context. gently caress.
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Feb 27, 2016 21:47
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zoux posted:The French nationalist racist?
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Republicans posted:He looks like a bad guy from a Shrek movie. He also looks like the good guy from a Shrek movie.
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Feb 27, 2016 21:49
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cops...quote:On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both.
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quote:“Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.” I think we've hit peak cowardly shitbag cops.
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shrike82 posted:cops... sounds like an airtight case!!
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computer parts posted:http://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11126096/muslim-fort-wayne-execution-murders quote:More isolated acts of violence — what we might call "lone wolf" attacks had the religions of the shooter and victim been reversed — have been so frequent they are difficult to track. I think they got their wires crossed a little here. They're already labeled lone wolf attacks, it'd be an indictment on Islam if you reversed the religions of the shooter and victim. Lessail fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 21:59
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Pretty awesome, I'd change two of them though. The Cruz: A gallon of loving rat poison. The Rubio: A glass that looks like it's full of delicious drink but when you tilt it up it's completely empty.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:09
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Rubio: the same bottle of water, served 4 times over 5 minutes.
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Wait, can a situation get more "de-escalated" than the suspects being asleep?
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SedanChair posted:Wait, can a situation get more "de-escalated" than the suspects being asleep? Glamour them into clean cut, upright white men?
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SedanChair posted:Wait, can a situation get more "de-escalated" than the suspects being asleep? if they were already dead?
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computer parts posted:http://www.vox.com/2016/2/27/11126096/muslim-fort-wayne-execution-murders It's Indiana so it'll probably be ruled a suicide
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So I know this isn't the primary thread, but it's sufficiently big news that it's probably relevant here? If not I'll remove it. Sanders' campaign got caught committing truly hilarious fraud (PDF warning). Donations from unregistered PACs, foreign nationals, and one special lady who donated 35,000 to his campaign. Based on this complaint, I'm guessing they haven't been careful about segregating primary/general funds, but I'm not sure if I'm up for sorting that much data.
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shrike82 posted:cops... So the cops showed while the couple was awake and demanded the couple exit the vehicle. Then the couple responded by going to sleep?
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shrike82 posted:cops... Can I get a link to this?
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SedanChair posted:Wait, can a situation get more "de-escalated" than the suspects being asleep? Sleeping is a form of passive non-compliance. If they didn't want to get shot, they should have decided to wake up.
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Zeroisanumber posted:And yet we're hearing that the GOP hasn't done their Oppo research because they assumed that Trump would be another flash in the pan candidate. Because Trump has followed such an unconventional path to his (eventual) nomination, he caught his opponents by surprise. I think it's more every GOP candidate other than Trump is pretty much the definition of an empty suit.
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Boon posted:I've noticed that for whatever reason Vice has a bad rap around D&D. Which is perplexing because their HBO series is some of the best consolidated reporting/documentary I've seen. It's residual "Vice=hipsters and hipsters=bad" held over from the '00s when most goons were still teenage nerds who felt threatened by poo poo like popular youth culture. Nelson Mandingo posted:Yeah I wonder how much it was the financial meltdown and how much it was republicans screaming SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST during the 2008 and 2012 elections and then promptly america not ending that changed peoples minds and accepting toward an actually self-described socialist candidate. Both probably have a hand in it but a lot of it has honestly been slow and steady demographic/cultural change. The Counterculture was simultaneously ages and not that long ago and terms like "Socialist" or "Atheist" don't nearly have the venom that they had when we were balls deep in the Cold War. Art and media changed a poo poo ton when the kids of the '60s got jobs, and now several generations of youth raised after that break have grown up to vote. Where pop culture aimed at kids once trumpeted strong Judeo-Christian values and "the American Way of Life" as a counterpoint to the godless Soviets, the last, like, four and a half decades have often openly encouraged us to question those trappings. At the same time, the technological growth of the last few decades and its resulting globalization have made youth more comfortable with alternative lifestyles and forms of governance. A kid raised in the '80s might have a much different opinion of a socialist France or gay people than his 'born in the '50s' dad. And a '90s kid who met some gay French people in an AOL chat room might feel his own way. Now kids can plug 'Gay...French...Porn' into their smartphones in between posts on r/socialism and have themselves a clandestine wank whenever they want so I'm sure their future politics will be fascinating. The times have always been a' changin'. At the same time, a lot of the old guard are still around- albeit in smaller numbers than before. A lot of the same Perot or Bush voters that the Simpsons mocked back in '92 will be pulling levers for Cruz or Trump come Tuesday. But they're no longer the voice of America in the way that they might have felt like they were 20-30 years ago or even during the Bush II years...or even the Nixon years and beyond. The same can be said about questions like "do you think BLM is too extreme?" Hip-hop has been a dominant cultural force in the American mainstream since the late '70s- about 40 years. In that time, issues of police brutality, resource inequality, and institutional racism have been regular fodder. If you truly vibed to NWA back in '89- or Run DMC in '85- or Jay-Z in '98- or Yeezy in '04- then you probably weren't shocked at all by BLM's platform. If, on the other hand, your opinion of Ice Cube was that he was a terrible influence who ought to be locked up for 'promoting gangsterism' and threatening to kill law enforcement officers, then you probably weren't going to be receptive to #BlackLivesMatter two and a half decades later. There's a reason why there's a huge age break on poll responses to that question in the '45-48' range (also because of the history of the civil rights movement and groups like the Black Panthers and their place in the social consciousness).
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Epic High Five posted:It's Indiana so it'll probably be ruled a suicide There was also that bizarre attack a couple of months ago in Bloomington. Not a great time to be a Hoosier. A mildly interesting fact that I learned from dating someone from Fort Wayne: there's a suprisingly large Burmese population there.
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Trabisnikof posted:Sleeping is a form of passive non-compliance. If they didn't want to get shot, they should have decided to wake up. Is it sad I had to double take which poster said this so I could rest assured this was in fact sarcasm?
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And in other news, someone got stabbed "in self-defense" by a KKK member at a rally in Anaheim. 3 stabbed in all.
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JonathonSpectre posted:Pretty awesome, I'd change two of them though. It's faaaar too nice to Kasich too.
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Jesus Christ. I thought that story Wendell Pierce tells about almost getting shot took the award for most cowardly police officer. I was loving wrong.
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Hello Towel posted:There was also that bizarre attack a couple of months ago in Bloomington. Not a great time to be a Hoosier. I live in Bloomington now and the kid that was responsible for that actually faced a lot of charges and got expelled. There was a big outcry and a huge show of support for the woman here. It's a pretty liberal town but it's just a matter of time until another nutjob right wing bubble kid sees a hijab and goes on a killing spree. quote:Police on Monday did not identify the woman, but said that she had been dining in a Bloomington, Indiana, restaurant's outdoor seating area Saturday night with her 9-year-old daughter when she was approached by 19-year-old Triceten Bickford. Police said the woman claimed Bickford was yelling things like "white power," "kill the police" and derogatory statements about black people. The reason I'm so pessimistic is that Indiana doesn't even HAVE a hate crime statute, so there's zero percent chance anybody will get charged with one in either case unless the Feds come in and specifically make it one. Luigi Thirty posted:And in other news, someone got stabbed "in self-defense" by a KKK member at a rally in Anaheim. 3 stabbed in all. Pft what are they, Hell's Angels
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Taerkar posted:It's faaaar too nice to Kasich too. *only served in gentlemen's clubs that don't allow women.
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DemeaninDemon posted:*only served in gentlemen's clubs that don't allow women. "Looks decent, smells alright, same bad taste."
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white dude from poo poo hole doesn't get how baby made. Water wet and poo poo stinks. Hope this is the right thread.
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Fried Chicken posted:loving LOL Wow, you know things are hosed up over there when they're desperately hoping for an endorsement for Rubio, from Mitt Romney 
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The Iron Rose posted:So I know this isn't the primary thread, but it's sufficiently big news It is, but not for the reasons you think. Sanders getting foreign donations isn't the thing here. In the modern online day, it happens. The right did the same  Bought by foreign interests! stuff you are falling for here about Obama in '08 and '12. Remember that James O'Keefe tried to ratfuck the Clinton campaign with this and got caught at it a few months ago. I mean, there is a reason that the Heritage Foundation's "independent newspaper" is your source here. The Sanders campaign isn't actively soliciting and trying to bury or obscure the sources so it is sloppy but it definitely isn't fraud - the FEC found it by looking at the campaign's own reports. Like you I'd have to dig through to see if there is co-mingling going on and I haven't done that yet; that would be a bigger problem but I haven't looked yet.The big problem here is that these donations aren't getting flagged and rejected. All the online donation and store stuff the democrats do goes through ActBlue. Which should be doing the address and total amount validation before it processes - that's part of its job. Hillary's campaign has their own massive data operation which will be doubling up on the inspection (they match the donor information into their systems, so they can build their data set, part of that will be looking to see what you have already done and can reject), so I'd expect her's will have fewer discrepancies. But Bernie is just using ActBlue to do his online donations, and relying on their protection layer. Which is clearly failing. So the real problem here is that same failing validation layer is what most candidates and organizations are relying on. So if it is dropping the ball for him it stands to be dropping it for a lot of other groups and people. Even worse it probably isn't just that process failing, but something in the deeper system, which would put more things at risk. This would be the 3rd or 4th major fuckup from ActBlue in 18 months. Christ what a poo poo show. Fried Chicken fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 28, 2016 |
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