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Pakled posted:Picking a sitting Senator for VP seems like a risky move for Hillary. Kaine and Warren's seats both go up for election in 2018. The Democrats have a decent chance of flipping the Senate this year, but likely only by a razor-thin margin, and if her VP's former seat goes Republican in 2018 that could spoil everything. Kaine's seat is likely safe and Warren's is too (the only problem for Warren is losing her seat for five months while we wait to replace her) FlamingLiberal posted:Pelosi is House Minority Leader. Current Senate Minority Leader is Harry Reid who is retiring. Most are expecting that Chuck Schumer will take over come 2017. Schumer has been named as heir.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Pelosi is House Minority Leader. Current Senate Minority Leader is Harry Reid who is retiring. Most are expecting that Chuck Schumer will take over come 2017. highme posted:What does Pelosi retiring have to do with Warren becoming Dem Senate leader? I'm dumb. I meant Harry Reid.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 21:51 |
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Dexo posted:Doesn't Mississippi still exist? Mississippi is probably still the worst state in terms of useful metrics that I know of, but over the course of the next decade, Kansas will likely handily surpass it and may end up in such dire condition that it does some fairly unique things for a state (default, become a federal protectorate, who even knows?)
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 21:54 |
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Are all of you going to finally admit that you've been buying the anime girl avatars for yourselves, a secret sign of your support for Trump? We all know the score.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 21:55 |
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After seeing the no-protest zone around the RNC (larger than the green zone) I think that Cleveland won't get exciting because the media is too lazy to walk that far.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 21:57 |
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I don't like no-protest zones anywhere. What's their Constitutional justification? I assume they were run by the SCOTUS at some point. I get that it's only "freedom of assembly in this specific location" rather than any freedom to assemble at all, but still, I'm not a big fan. Even if it opens us up for Westboro Baptist-style abuses to have no fetters on them.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:00 |
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Those russian hackers are at it again:quote:The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was among the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. political apparatus ahead of the November election, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:04 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I don't like no-protest zones anywhere. What's their Constitutional justification? I assume they were run by the SCOTUS at some point. I get that it's only "freedom of assembly in this specific location" rather than any freedom to assemble at all, but still, I'm not a big fan. Even if it opens us up for Westboro Baptist-style abuses to have no fetters on them. Ugh, reminded me of the "Free Speech Zones" during the bush administration.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:05 |
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Those russian hackers are at it again: Well no, that doesn't actually imply anything about the data security of her email servers from four years ago.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:06 |
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Hah, looks like I'm not the only one thinking Trump will quit. http://gawker.com/how-is-donald-trump-going-to-quit-1782312998
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quote:An Oklahoma lawmaker personally propagated an article over the weekend calling for a “final solution” regarding “radical Islam,” arguing that the 1,400-year-old faith is not a religion and should not be protected under the first amendment of the Constitution. quote:Radical Islam - the Final Solution Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:09 |
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Well no, that doesn't actually imply anything about the data security of her email servers from four years ago. No one said it did? Besides a single line from the article that mentions concerns about the investigation, the meat of the article is about this attack and the russian attack that resulted in the DNC oppo information as well as donor information stolen from the DNC, which was recent.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:11 |
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:No one said it did? Besides a single line from the article that mentions concerns about the investigation, the meat of the article is about this attack and the russian attack that resulted in the DNC oppo information as well as donor information stolen from the DNC, which was recent. I was refuting the paragraph that you selectively quoted that did say that.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:15 |
CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. Holy loving batshit. I can't believe I read most of that. Those are a lot of for advocating deporting every Muslim to some Middle Eastern country and then murdering them. How would they decide where to send white and black Muslims that converted and aren't of Middle East descent?
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CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. So I guess this time they're just skipping over trying to ship them to Madagascar first
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CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. Well of course the first ammendment isn't a suicide pact: everyone knows that's the second
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:39 |
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Holy loving batshit. I can't believe I read most of that. Those are a lot of for advocating deporting every Muslim to some Middle Eastern country and then murdering them. How would they decide where to send white and black Muslims that converted and aren't of Middle East descent? Those don't exist, don't be silly.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:41 |
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So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:54 |
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Ego-bot posted:So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:59 |
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Ego-bot posted:So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer? That doesn't tell you enough?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:59 |
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Ego-bot posted:So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer? You know how everyone accuses Hillary of being entirely bought and paid for by wall st. with there being basically no evidence to back it up other than feelings? Chuck Schumer is entirely bought and paid for by wall st. and there is a literal mountain of evidence to support this.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:01 |
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Ego-bot posted:So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer? Imagine Joe Liebermann with slightly less lovely opinions and friendlier to wall street.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:04 |
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A Winner is Jew posted:You know how everyone accuses Hillary of being entirely bought and paid for by wall st. with there being basically no evidence to back it up other than feelings? I'm pretty sure we have the receipt around here somewhere.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:05 |
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CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. quote:Accordingly, the first step in coming to grips with the Islamic threat is to officially declassify Islam as a protected religion in the hearts and minds of western populations. Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists, and Presbyterians do not stone women to death; they do not behead those who are of a different faith; they do not throw homosexuals from tall buildings; they do not place their enemies in steel cages and lower them into tanks of water, or spray them with gasoline and burn them alive; they do not capture large numbers of women and young girls and sell them into sex slavery; and they do not sexually assault women and girls in public places because they think their style of dress is an open invitation. No, these are atrocities that are unique to the Muslim world. They are not, and can never be, protected religious practices by anyone’s standard. https://twitter.com/jackshahine/status/724600179270275072 https://twitter.com/EzidiPress/status/737735027069440001 https://twitter.com/EzidiPress/status/739223323041800192 While this rear end in a top hat has been sitting and writing a Nazi paper about how evil Muslims are, a bunch of various Muslim and non-Muslim forces have been busy saving Yazidis in any way they can.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:07 |
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The funny thing is that he talked to and bragged about the endorsement of a bunch of fundamentalists today that are doing exactly that right here on US soil edit - I said it was funny but now I'm sad. I just rope-a-doped myself CommieGIR posted:Fine Ol' Solution, ya'll. Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Got the reference, eh?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:20 |
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CommieGIR posted:Got the reference, eh? I love that show and people shame me for it, but that doesn't work because I exist in a SHAME FREE BUBBLE
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:22 |
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Ego-bot posted:So other than having his soul owned by AIPAC, how is Chuck Schumer? The most dangerous place in Washington is between Schumer and a camera. (He is thoroughly pro Israel and pro finance industry. He's mostly liberal but unarguably not a progressive. He is also a complete and utter whore for attention.)
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:36 |
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Steve King gonna Steve King https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/745382598931800065
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:38 |
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How much sway does the president, or presumptive nominee as leader of the national party have over decisions like that? Makes the idea of Sanders getting anything through congress were he elected an even more difficult task if that's something he could not change if he had won the primary.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:39 |
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GalacticAcid posted:Holy poo poo lol American history since 1960's for 300 Alex?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:39 |
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Wow that dude really went full Hitler.
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rscott posted:How much sway does the president, or presumptive nominee as leader of the national party have over decisions like that? Makes the idea of Sanders getting anything through congress were he elected an even more difficult task if that's something he could not change if he had won the primary. In theory none - it's entirely a vote of the Senate Democratic Caucus. In reality it depends on (a) how good he is at convincing Senate Dems to do stuff for him and (b) how appealing his proposed alternative is. EDIT: The other Sanders factor is that a President has carrots and sticks, but how likely is someone who is "politically pure" or whatever to go in hard on them? Like is Sanders really gonna hand out appointments to Senators' buddies or something, or would he be unwilling to do that? Jackson Taus fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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Things are really getting off to a great start for the Olympic Games http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brazil-jaguar-olympics_us_5769a0a9e4b09926ce5ce33e?section= quote:RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers, an army statement said.
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Joementum posted:Steve King gonna Steve King I love how they specifically mention that there was no explicit reason (other than the obvious) given for it and that there hasn't been any comment.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 23:58 |
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The End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act of 2016 just failed in the House 207-143. It needed a 2/3rds majority to pass under suspension of the rules.
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SgtScruffy posted:I love how they specifically mention that there was no explicit reason (other than the obvious) given for it and that there hasn't been any comment. I hope his loving district floods like a motherfucker again, Harriet Tubman was a stone cold badass and ought to be on a bill that features her leading the Combahee Raid. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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SgtScruffy posted:I love how they specifically mention that there was no explicit reason (other than the obvious) given for it and that there hasn't been any comment. Must congressmen really supply a reason for every little thing they do?
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Joementum posted:Steve King gonna Steve King Boy, he really wants RaHoWa, and he wants it now.
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The US constitution does place the power to coin money fully in the legislature, but interesting how Mr. King became so suddenly interested in regulating this.
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