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Probably a deal they cut to get him out front as a GOP sponsor?
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Chantilly Say posted:And Rama IX is 88, and the currently longest-serving head of state having ruled for 69 years. nice
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:45 |
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Playing the long con here. His not 100% dickholery will score a primary challenger that's batshit like that Sarah O'Donnel witch. Or bearded man governor of Idaho candidate.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:49 |
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DemeaninDemon posted:Playing the long con here. His not 100% dickholery will score a primary challenger that's batshit like that Sarah O'Donnel witch. Or bearded man governor of Idaho candidate. Christine O'Donnell. They played the "I'm not a witch" audio on NPR a couple weeks ago and I was wracked by nostalgia.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:52 |
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Right. Sarah O'Donnel is the fusion of her and Palin in America's worst nightmare.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:55 |
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DemeaninDemon posted:Right. Sarah O'Donnel is the fusion of her and Palin in America's worst nightmare. I mean, you're basically describing anencephaly here, so I don't know if she would actually be a threat.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:57 |
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It's not like their endorsement is gonna save Kirk anyway, he's as good as doomed in November.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:59 |
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I must have missed this but since when is John McCain at risk of losing his senate seat?
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 04:59 |
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:I must have missed this but since when is John McCain at risk of losing his senate seat? I think it's because Trump hates him and he'll tell his followers to vote Democrat in the Arizona Senate election or something.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:02 |
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:I must have missed this but since when is John McCain at risk of losing his senate seat? computer parts posted:I think it's because Trump hates him and he'll tell his followers to vote Democrat in the Arizona Senate election or something. His approval ratings are really low but it's just that the tea party / trumpist wings of the party hate him, which artificially deflates his political viability. Kirkpatrick is a good candidate though, I'm hoping she can keep it close enough to maybe swing a house race or two but I'm not familiar enough with AZ districting to know what's feasible.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:08 |
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:I must have missed this but since when is John McCain at risk of losing his senate seat? https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/710552711838769152
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:10 |
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"It'll be good for him, he deserves a break. Maybe he can retire to a cage somewhere since he enjoys getting captured so much. Bye bye!" - Trump
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:12 |
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Epic High Five posted:"Point to Afghanistan please" I was making small talk with a guy in a restaurant a few months back and he thought Israel was somewhere over by France. I'm not kidding.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:14 |
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Holy poo poo I'm pretty tuned in to political news and that Trump supporter decking then kicking the poo poo out of that protester didn't even come on my radar. This poo poo is so commonplace now the media doesn't even cover it.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:16 |
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She just doesn't stand up for our veterans. vOv
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:29 |
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UrbicaMortis posted:Why is it that you have some courts covering a tiny amount of space and others responsible for like a third of the US? The circuits as shown on the map were mostly organized as of 1891. There were originally 9 circuits and each SCOTUS justice was responsible for supporting one of them. Due to population growth and demographic changes, the 8th Circuit was halved (which formed the 10th) and the 5th circuit was halved (which formed the 11th). The 9th circuit is the one most in need of realignment at the moment, but the majority of the 9th's work is from California, and they don't want to split the state.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:41 |
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Additionally, while more of them are liberal than eight years ago (including the 4th, previously one of the most conservative and still among the more important thanks to taking cases from the DC suburbs of NOVA, thanks Obama) there are still some notable holdouts, including the notorious 5th, and I want to say the 10th?
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 05:56 |
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clockworkjoe posted:Trump is calling out camera operators at his rallies now: http://theconservativetreehouse.com...show-the-crowd/ Between this, the time he yelled at the audio guy, and the recent thing with the lights going out, I wonder how much of this is becoming a "thing". Stagehands are a surly, protective, and vindictive lot, and IATSE is about as blue as an organization can get. I think it would be hilarious to watch as nothing at his events goes right because he's constantly threatening to not pay the event staff.
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Bushiz posted:Between this, the time he yelled at the audio guy, and the recent thing with the lights going out, I wonder how much of this is becoming a "thing". Stagehands are a surly, protective, and vindictive lot, and IATSE is about as blue as an organization can get. I think it would be hilarious to watch as nothing at his events goes right because he's constantly threatening to not pay the event staff. As we get further into 'center cannot hold, slouching toward Gomorrah' territory, you got to expect things to get a little glitchy now and again. Don't kill the messenger, you dickhead. Unless you are a plant working for the opposition, in which case carry on.
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Seriously, you treat staff like your personal whipping boy at your own risk. You keep that poo poo in the bedroom, you wannabee Putin.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 07:43 |
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He's just working in some Vince Offer style pitchmanship to encourage us to try his style of government. "You know the Germans make great stuff."
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 07:57 |
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Very, very detailed analysis of the Democratic party, the changes that have taken place over the years in terms of policy, focus and demographic aims, with Thomas Frank. Views on trade deals and decision making and how it all seems to be coming to a quite head, as well as the changing language of political labels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwHXhr0MWoo Just a warning, there's ads in there, some quite annoying, but the material is good. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Foppery posted:It's not like their endorsement is gonna save Kirk anyway, he's as good as doomed in November. Really? As a liberal, I love Duckworth, but I thought Kirk still had pretty good support? He's certainly much more palatable than most of the Republican members of Congress.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 08:43 |
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Unzip and Attack posted:Holy poo poo I'm pretty tuned in to political news and that Trump supporter decking then kicking the poo poo out of that protester didn't even come on my radar. This poo poo is so commonplace now the media doesn't even cover it. Your radar must be broken because it was the main headline on NBC News and CNN for over 24 hours. It has since been replaced by Obama's Cuba trip but it was covered pretty extensively. And every single left leaning site had it too, for example Huffington Post had it front and center poorly formatted text and all. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Mar 21, 2016 |
# ? Mar 21, 2016 08:45 |
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As expected Hillary and the entire Democratic establishment is laying the groundwork for an all out campaign of attack against Trump. Obviously they are going to say the right things while being interviewed but it is comforting that they seem to be leaving literally no stone unturned, whether his financial and business dealings to his horrifically racist rhetoric. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a7b7_story.html quote:Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies have begun preparing a playbook to defeat Donald Trump in a general-election matchup that will attempt to do what his Republican opponents couldn’t: show that his business dealings and impolitic statements make him unfit to be commander in chief.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 08:57 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:As expected Hillary and the entire Democratic establishment is laying the groundwork for an all out campaign of attack against Trump. Obviously they are going to say the right things while being interviewed but it is comforting that they seem to be leaving literally no stone unturned, whether his financial and business dealings to his horrifically racist rhetoric. gonna be a fun year
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 09:25 |
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GOP 100 day strategy to stop Trumpquote:But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election, to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Trump’s hard-edged populism. They described their plans in interviews after Trump’s victories Tuesday in Florida and three other states
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 09:27 |
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There's something beautiful about Trump literally kicking the Republican establishment out of their party and forcing a establishment republican to run as an independent.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 09:38 |
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DeepDickPizza posted:Really? As a liberal, I love Duckworth, but I thought Kirk still had pretty good support? He's certainly much more palatable than most of the Republican members of Congress. It's a presidential election year so turnout will be much higher than back in 2010 when Kirk won his seat also, Duckworth is a fairly strong candidate and he is in all likelihood going to be sharing his ticket with Donald Trump, so prospects don't look good
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 09:44 |
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lol yeah run Coburn that'll do it!
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 09:59 |
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What about Jindal? He can run or be a solid VP pick!
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 10:28 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:As expected Hillary and the entire Democratic establishment is laying the groundwork for an all out campaign of attack against Trump. Obviously they are going to say the right things while being interviewed but it is comforting that they seem to be leaving literally no stone unturned, whether his financial and business dealings to his horrifically racist rhetoric. I really think it may be worthwhile to create a separate thread for the - purely hypothetical, obviously - Clinton-vs.-Trump GE match. Otherwise, there are still several months until the conventions when news and op-eds like this will be scattered around the Dem/Repub/USPol threads.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:As expected Hillary and the entire Democratic establishment is laying the groundwork for an all out campaign of attack against Trump. Obviously they are going to say the right things while being interviewed but it is comforting that they seem to be leaving literally no stone unturned, whether his financial and business dealings to his horrifically racist rhetoric. I really think it may be worthwhile to create a separate thread for the - purely hypothetical, obviously - Clinton-vs.-Trump GE match. Otherwise, there are still several months until the conventions when news and op-eds like this will be scattered around the Dem/Repub/USPol threads.
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DeepDickPizza posted:Really? As a liberal, I love Duckworth, but I thought Kirk still had pretty good support? He's certainly much more palatable than most of the Republican members of Congress. He is an Illinois Senator so he has to be, but he's absolutely frothing at the mouth insane on Iran. http://www.salon.com/2013/11/21/exclusive_gop_senator_unloads_in_private_call/ quote:“Now I know exactly what Galileo felt like when he was dragged before the papal court,” Kirk said. Real prima donna.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 12:08 |
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"We're gonna run three candidates. Tom Coburn, Rick Perry, and, uh..... Oops."
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 13:21 |
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In the event that they nominate a not-Trump at the convention and Trump goes third party, there's a good chance the republican party splinters. If Trump gets the nomination and they run an establishment republican as a third party spoiler, there is no loving way the republican party recovers from that.
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UV_Catastrophe posted:In the event that they nominate a not-Trump at the convention and Trump goes third party, there's a good chance the republican party splinters. So while I think the Republican Party is in worse shape now that it ever has been, don't forget that in 1980 John Anderson (R-IL) ran as a third party 'establishment' candidate when moderates freaked out over Reagan getting the nomination. And Anderson took 7% of the vote, so it's not like it had no impact.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 14:25 |
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https://twitter.com/BKcolin/status/711896154087227392 Happy Western Tuesday Eve everyone.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/BKcolin/status/711896154087227392 That's it.
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The fact that they didn't try to call it Super Tuesday 4 is the height of journalistic restraint.
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