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radical meme posted:It did at first. There was a telecom explosion, hundreds of new startups in every state, that rushed into the market. Few of them ever gained enough strength to survive, some were even con games that didn't survive. But yeah, it did do some good. Then, slowly regulations were relaxed and the monopolies took over again. There was no follow through by government. Aren't most of the baby bells owned by att (again) or Verizon now? Just like how all the standard oil spin offs eventually merged into chevron and Exxon
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:There were plenty of people on this very forum and probably in this very thread who believed during the primaries that Trump was going to be able to ride his success into the general election because "the rules don't apply to him so we have no idea what might happen." Turns out they do apply to him and always did you idiots. I thought he was turning the election into a referendum on islam, making islam the new right-wing abortion wedge issue. I was wrong; Donald Trump has turned himself into the wedge issue.
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yessss, PM if you want an av cert or something.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:36
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Lets talk about how good my President's mixtape is(especially the nighttime one.) https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/763744742072913920 Like this dude ends the playlist with "Say Yes". It must go down in the Oval Office.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:There were plenty of people on this very forum and probably in this very thread who believed during the primaries that Trump was going to be able to ride his success into the general election because "the rules don't apply to him so we have no idea what might happen." Turns out they do apply to him and always did you idiots. It's not so much that the rules of electoral reality don't apply to Trump, but that the media really doesn't want those rules to apply (consciously or not). If he can avoid publicly making GBS threads himself for 24 straight hours, much of the media feels compelled to take him seriously. If he were to stay on message for a whole week, you better believe cable news pundits and anchors not named Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes will be treating him like a normal candidate whose ideas have just as much merit as Clinton's. Of course, he's not going to stay on message for a whole week, so we don't really have to worry about that ever happening. And he's still not going to win even if it did.
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tumblr hype man posted:yessss, PM if you want an av cert or something. That's a loving great av.
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I missed it if this was posted. Breakdown of actual Trump tweets vs campaign staff using the account, since they appear to be using different phones: http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/ Looks like some Trump staff are getting Androids in the near future.
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So the Florida officer who shot the woman during the training exercise the other day was fired from a previous dept for letting his K9 maul a cyclist.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:So the Florida officer who shot the woman during the training exercise the other day was fired from a previous dept for letting his K9 maul a cyclist. well yeah, we don't want to allow this idiot to damage police property biting a bicycle frame by accident
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poor life choice posted:H. A. Goodman hasn't written an article about just that on Huffington Post in the last week ... is he okay? lol how have I never heard of this guy before today
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Harrow posted:If he were to stay on message for a whole week, you better believe cable news pundits and anchors not named Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes will be treating him like a normal candidate whose ideas have just as much merit as Clinton's. Trump's convention speech more or less called for a thousand years of blood, but because he didn't go off on an insane tangent, the media treated it seriously.
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Trump won the GOP primary because 45% of the 15% of eligible voters who participated in the GOP primary were primed to vote for whoever the most openly hateful loving bastard available happened to be. Beyond being a 6' high bleached anus, Trump has no political talent whatsoever. Every time the news cycle looked to be turning against Clinton, he found a way to beat himself even more. Emanuel Collective posted:Trump's convention speech more or less called for a thousand years of blood, but because he didn't go off on an insane tangent, the media treated it seriously. I just heard NPR talk about his economic speech seriously this morning.  Luckily Trump has shown no sign of being able to sustain even that level of "sanity" for any amount of time.
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Pleasing Shape posted:https://twitter.com/thebillywest/status/763507071689949184 Truly, we live in the best of all possible worlds.
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sean10mm posted:I just heard NPR talk about his economic speech seriously this morning. During the speech he managed to sound like a typical Republican. 'Cut taxes, slash regulations,' the things we're all so used to hearing they're part of accepted political discourse.
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sean10mm posted:I just heard NPR talk about his economic speech seriously this morning. Was it Cokie Roberts? She's all about taking Trump seriously because journalists shouldn't have public political opinions or something.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:There were plenty of people on this very forum and probably in this very thread who believed during the primaries that Trump was going to be able to ride his success into the general election because "the rules don't apply to him so we have no idea what might happen." Turns out they do apply to him and always did you idiots. The rules, in fact, don't apply to him. The past two weeks would have completely and utterly murdered any candidate's campaign who isn't Trump. Instead we're waiting for him to stop making GBS threads himself long enough for people to go "Well, sure, he hasn't said anything obscene in three days so I guess he's all better now." Remember that Romney's 47% comment haunted his entire drat campaign. Trump has worse daily.
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Harrow posted:Was it Cokie Roberts? She's all about taking Trump seriously because journalists shouldn't have public political opinions or something. No, it was some guy whose name escapes me. One of the Morning Edition regulars IIRC. Not describing actual reality in the name of "neutrality" is the dumbest loving thing the "respectable" news media does.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:57
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NPR is good for what it's good for but its pretty much CNN tier when it comes to politics. Nice Polite Republicans
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Epic High Five posted:NPR is good for what it's good for but its pretty much CNN tier when it comes to politics. They have to be or they would get all of their funding cut, and do you want to listen to pledge drives every week when you're just trying to listen to Car Talk?
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Dexo posted:Lets talk about how good my President's mixtape is(especially the nighttime one.) He had me at Sara Bareilles and Janelle Monae.  #RepealThe22nd
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ImpAtom posted:The rules, in fact, don't apply to him. The past two weeks would have completely and utterly murdered any candidate's campaign who isn't Trump. Instead we're waiting for him to stop making GBS threads himself long enough for people to go "Well, sure, he hasn't said anything obscene in three days so I guess he's all better now." Romney's 47% fit into the narrative of out-of-touch weird rich man with special underpants. How the gently caress can you form a narrative around a man who is the campaign equivolent of a coked-up schizophrenic on speed?
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The blandest, most unflavored yoghurt of candidates could be running a better campaign than Trump right now by just listening to the people hired to keep things on track. I can't imagine anybody else doing such a poor job.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Romney's 47% fit into the narrative of out-of-touch weird rich man with special underpants. The bold is the narrative, sweetums.
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pacerhimself posted:The blandest, most unflavored yoghurt of candidates could be running a better campaign than Trump right now by just listening to the people hired to keep things on track. I can't imagine anybody else doing such a poor job. The blandest, most unflavored yoghurt of candidates is running a better campaign than Trump right now by just listening to the people hired to keep things on track.
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Has this been brought up yet? quote:WBTV’s Nick Ochsner posted the first page of Bordini’s complaint on Twitter. The incident took place in Phillip’s Jeep in February of this year, reportedly, when Phillip “produced a pistol, put his right index finger on the trigger, and drove the barrel into Vincent’s knee cap.” 
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This might be this thread's jam: Best of Enemies, a documentary released last year about the Vidal vs. Buckley debates of 1968, is on Netflix.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Has this been brought up yet? Because of course
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ImpAtom posted:The rules, in fact, don't apply to him. The past two weeks would have completely and utterly murdered any candidate's campaign who isn't Trump. Instead we're waiting for him to stop making GBS threads himself long enough for people to go "Well, sure, he hasn't said anything obscene in three days so I guess he's all better now." Romney never got down like Trump is, to be fair.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Has this been brought up yet? My first move would have been to call the police, not people higher up in the campaign, but that's just me maybe
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:The bold is the narrative, sweetums. It's too hard a sell in all three parts. First, what schizophrenic is rich enough to be coked up 24/7? Second, if mental healthcare were so abysmal in the united states, how can a coked-up schizophrenic acquire speed? Third, holy poo poo look at that dumpster on fire and NOW THEY'RE TAKING A poo poo ON THE FIRE YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT TRUMP DID NEXT! CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE ONLY ON #CNN (uncensored on #HuffPo)
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pacerhimself posted:The blandest, most unflavored yoghurt of candidates could be running a better campaign than Trump right now by just listening to the people hired to keep things on track. I can't imagine anybody else doing such a poor job. Hillary doesn't have to do poo poo. Like her team and campaign strategists have to spend p much zero goddamn time thinking of ways to attack him or thinking about Narratives they need to push and attack him on. Just lay low and let him keep talking. She's probably saving so much money that's going to be so useful to downticket Democrats.
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Epic High Five posted:Because of course Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Romney never got down like Trump is, to be fair. Hence the special underpants jab I just posted.
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EwokEntourage posted:Aren't most of the baby bells owned by att (again) or Verizon now? Just like how all the standard oil spin offs eventually merged into chevron and Exxon There were originally Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, and US West. Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX in 1997 and GTE in 2000 to become Verizon. Southwestern Bell bought Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, its old parent AT&T, and BellSouth. It's now AT&T. (US West was bought by Qwest who were bought by CenturyLink.)
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ReidRansom posted:My first move would have been to call the police, not people higher up in the campaign, but that's just me maybe You know what they say about snitches, right? They get their knees blown out by a .45
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My Imaginary GF posted:It's too hard a sell in all three parts. First, what schizophrenic is rich enough to be coked up 24/7? Second, if mental healthcare were so abysmal in the united states, how can a coked-up schizophrenic acquire speed? Third, holy poo poo look at that dumpster on fire and NOW THEY'RE TAKING A poo poo ON THE FIRE YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT TRUMP DID NEXT! CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE ONLY ON #CNN Given his polling, it's apparently not a very hard sell.
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Luigi Thirty posted:There were originally Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, and US West. 
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Dexo posted:Lets talk about how good my President's mixtape is(especially the nighttime one.) Gonna need a Spotify playlist of these ASAP.
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