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EwokEntourage posted:Are you being willfully dense? It not tossing words, it was called lynching less than a year ago. it was called that in the past (not today) in california alone. as someone who understands the common colloquial definition of lynching instead of the obscure use of lynching in california state law it's a really jarring word choice that is deliberate and inappropriate they might as well have mentioned that it's illegal for her to tie a giraffe to a lamp post as well so long as we're just digging up legal quirks and throwing them out there to get clicks
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Cassandra Quin Butts unexpectedly died on May 26, 2016 at only 50 years old of acute leukemia. She spent the last 2 years of her life waiting for confirmation for the position of ambassador to the Bahamas, which had gone without an ambassador for the past 4 and a half years, solely because Senator Tom Cotton knew that she was a friend of the president and saw blocking her confirmation in particular, in his words, as a way to inflict special pain on the president. The confirmation blocks and resulting diplomatic limbo states aren't anything new, but I appreciate the opportunity to think about the situation from a more human perspective.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The GOP has finally unveiled its plan to oh go gently caress yourselves what the gently caress PONZI SCHEMES ARE BACK IN A BIG WAY, BABY - modern GOP
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DC is also a very segregated and racist place. Not that Chicago isn't, but the southern charm of DC's racism seems to be particularly galling to Michelle.
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Necc0 posted:oh go gently caress yourselves what the gently caress the GOP's complete unwillingness to ever acknowledge the possibility that someone can ever act in bad faith or just be plain dumb and hurt others in the process knows no bounds. i know this is nothing new but ENTIRELY removing the ability to label ANY financial instrument as abusive? really?
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Necc0 posted:the GOP's complete unwillingness to ever acknowledge the possibility that someone can ever act in bad faith or just be plain dumb and hurt others in the process knows no bounds. i know this is nothing new but ENTIRELY removing the ability to label ANY financial instrument as abusive? really? Look, if it's really abusive, the free market will decide and people will steer clear (after a bunch of people lose their life's savings)
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Evil Fluffy posted:Followed by the Anti-Arzy Election Map: Is there a map like this, but where the opposite happens (Hillary +5%, Trump -5%)?
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Look, if it's really abusive, the free market will decide and people will steer clear (after a bunch of people lose their life's savings) If those dirty poors had money they wouldn't need pay day loans. Meanwhile, the GOP wants to deregulate them by including a silicone fist rammed up one's rear end at first payment.
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FAUXTON posted:I wonder how tightly married folks are to their audit the fed stuff. The ones that really believe in it are pretty married to it, but the problem with is that you can get a boatload of other people to sign off on it because it sounds "reasonable." It's a really bad idea, though. It seems like most economists often aren't thrilled with the Fed, but I doubt even the economists that are most critical of the Fed would be happier with it being used as a political football in congress even more than it already is. Congress can barely keep the executive branch going.
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Barbe Rouge posted:Is there a map like this, but where the opposite happens (Hillary +5%, Trump -5%)? http://www.270towin.com/maps/5B4Q7 
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VitalSigns posted:I think they're referring to Adam Shephard's book Scratch Beginnings Thanks for the link. It's frustrating how the guy actually did it for 10 months and then ran into a hurdle he couldn't jump over and still remained convinced that he was right. BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:http://www.270towin.com/maps/5B4Q7 Thanks. I checked the 270towin site, but didn't know where to set the +/- 5% settings. Looking through wikipedia, that would be the biggest Dem win since LBJ. I don't know how the hell the Republicans managed to get those huge Nixon/Reagan wins, that kind of thing seems impossible today.
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JohnnySavs posted:What exactly is so horrible about living in DC that being POTUS/FLOTUS doesn't alleviate it? People fixate over DC but I suspect the bigger issue is that being perceived as having power over others is really uncomfortable for most people. Imagine how many people seek her out purely to gain something from association with her now. Having people be obsequious at you is super irritating. Having people be angry at you for things a family member did that you have no control over is also very frustrating.
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Barbe Rouge posted:Thanks for the link. Yeah it's amazing how he learned nothing when he had to stop the experiment early because of an unexpected illness in the family that made it impossible for him to continue. I succeeded after months on food stamps and in homeless shelters and no one helped me! Sure I quit early because I had a bit of unforeseen bad luck, so that part doesn't count but anyone else can totally make it on their own just like I did! Anyway, I'm off back to my family support network and connections now.
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Necc0 posted:the GOP's complete unwillingness to ever acknowledge the possibility that someone can ever act in bad faith or just be plain dumb and hurt others in the process knows no bounds.
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Bushiz posted:Audit the Fed has managed to be the Republican Youth Outreach Program somehow. I guess it's to keep the three kids in bowties who show up at the convention happy GOP Maintains Solid Hold on Youth That Already Look Like Old Men
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The GOP has finally unveiled its plan to I hope Hillary burns the entire GOP to the ground. It's better than they deserve.
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McAlister posted:People fixate over DC but I suspect the bigger issue is that being perceived as having power over others is really uncomfortable for most people. I wouldn't be surprised if the Obamas didn't have any domestic "help" until the inauguration; I at least would feel very uncomfortable living in a huge mansion with staff crawling everywhere and doing everything for you. It's just not a lifestyle some people can adjust to, especially if they weren't born with a silver spoon up their rear end. You gotta remember how meteoric Obama's rise to the White House was.
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Barbe Rouge posted:Thanks for the link. Nixon would be something similar to a situation in which the GOP gave the nomination to someone like Cruz or Jeb! at the convention. Democrats ended up nominating Hubert Humphrey in 1968 despite the popularity of a somewhat insurgent anti-war candidate named Eugene McCarthy, and the death of Bobby Kennedy. Humphrey hadn't campaigned in the primary but did some back channel poo poo with movers and shakers and managed to cobble together a delegate majority. Reagan is a little different. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Even if I was a billionaire I'd probably only have a chef and a really sassy/smartass guy/gal to answer the door because that's the bare minimum I expect a really rich person to have
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Epic High Five posted:Even if I was a billionaire I'd probably only have a chef and a really sassy/smartass guy/gal to answer the door because that's the bare minimum I expect a really rich person to have You'd make a lovely job creator.
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DemeaninDemon posted:You'd make a lovely job creator. They'd be very well compensated. If I was really that rich I'd probably have a bunch of modest homes with 3-4 people in them year round that I would keep on constant fear of my visiting and busting whatever meth or prostitution ring they've got going on, but otherwise they'd have a pretty sweet gig going I'd still be a better job creator than Romney, and they'd be better jobs than any Trump has ever created for regular assholes Vote EHF 2016
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I'd vote for you.
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Epic High Five posted:Even if I was a billionaire I'd probably only have a chef and a really sassy/smartass guy/gal to answer the door because that's the bare minimum I expect a really rich person to have I'd have a sassy butler who can keep trading barbs with my business partner and a nanny to look after the kids who I can fall in love with when my wife dies. Now that I'm more familiar with human trafficking, Nanny is actually kinda creepy with the employer/employee dynamic.
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Yall fronting like you wouldn't have 50+ highly-trained ballwashers on shifts. booj fantasizing is counterrevolutionary
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moller posted:Yall fronting like you wouldn't have 50+ highly-trained ballwashers on shifts. srry i don't like golf it's probably why I'll never be rich 
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I think golf's dumb and there are far more fun recreational sports to play. Namely, beer league softball.
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this is excellent news!!! for donald!!! Dick Morris Is in Talks to Join the Trump Campaign
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Epic High Five posted:This guy listens to Common People and doesn't realize Shatner is making fun of him, smdh Wait. Shatner?
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DemeaninDemon posted:I think golf's dumb and there are far more fun recreational sports to play. Namely, beer league softball. MMA. Imagine a world where it's fashionable for the ultra rich to beat the poo poo out of eachother on TV.
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Rubber Tucky posted:Wait. William Shatner did a spoken word cover of Common People, and some people's pop culture experiences are incredibly sad
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Blue Footed Booby posted:MMA. Imagine a world where it's fashionable for the ultra rich to beat the poo poo out of eachother on TV. I think we called that the middle ages. Those tourneys were brutal.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:MMA. Imagine a world where it's fashionable for the ultra rich to beat the poo poo out of eachother on TV. Bring back dueling.
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Epic High Five posted:srry i don't like golf I was thinking of an entirely different kind of ballwasher
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theflyingorc posted:William Shatner did a spoken word cover of Common People, and some people's pop culture experiences are incredibly sad Leaving this here for Epic High Five so he can experience Common People the way Jarvis Cocker intended and also hopefully fall down a Pulp wormhole. I'm a little jealous he's hearing this for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:this is excellent news!!! for donald!!! Kristol is wrong, every time, but in a sort of clean way that you might call mathematically or fundamentally wrong. Morris is the kind of wrong that Thompson would have written pages about. Wrong on the math and the fundamentals but wrong in how he frames his assumptions and wrong in how he presents his wrong predictions. He's viscerally wrong, he looks wrong and sounds wrong. The only thing that isn't wrong about him is his kink but there's no right or wrong with that as long as it's consensual so it isn't really on the binary scale. He's wrong in every way one can intellectually be wrong.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Slate has an article about the probable loss of former Tea Party darling/now "big government liberal" Rep. Renee Ellmers (because she didn't vote to block the debt ceiling hikes and stripped a provision which would have required women to file rape reports with the police in order to get the dispensation for rape victims to have an abortion after 20 weeks) From a couple pages back but Bouie got this one wrong. Ellmers' only real competitor Holding is about as establishment as it gets; he's challenging her because his district got sent to the other side of the state. The district itself is largely white flight suburbs around Raleigh full of northern transplants, hardly a tea party hotbed. They tried the RINO stuff against her in 2014 and it didn't work.
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Rubber Tucky posted:Leaving this here for Epic High Five so he can experience Common People the way Jarvis Cocker intended and also hopefully fall down a Pulp wormhole. I'm a little jealous he's hearing this for the first time. I've heard both of these, the Shatner cover after I heard the Pulp version and I -still- prefer the former over the latter. It's like how Johnny Cash took Hurt from Trent Reznor.
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citybeatnik posted:I've heard both of these, the Shatner cover after I heard the Pulp version and I -still- prefer the former over the latter. Speaking of, http://www.avclub.com/article/guy-fieri-eating-hurt-johnny-cash-emotional-experi-237784
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