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Nov 16, 2016 05:07
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Like the GOP is more powerful than it's been in almost a century and it looks like this might end up crescendoing into the greatest self-own in US history since Fort Sumter
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Nov 16, 2016 05:07
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Fojar38 posted:Like the GOP is more powerful than it's been in almost a century and it looks like this might end up crescendoing into the greatest self-own in US history since Fort Sumter From the ashes, a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed!
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Nov 16, 2016 05:08
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Fojar38 posted:Like the GOP is more powerful than it's been in almost a century and it looks like this might end up crescendoing into the greatest self-own in US history since Fort Sumter Don't count on them self owning themselves out of power. We all gotta reach out and grab it while they're busy pulling knives out of their backs.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:12
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Fojar38 posted:Like the GOP is more powerful than it's been in almost a century and it looks like this might end up crescendoing into the greatest self-own in US history since Fort Sumter I wish I had your optimism
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Nov 16, 2016 05:12
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Mustached Demon posted:Don't count on them self owning themselves out of power. We all gotta reach out and grab it while they're busy pulling knives out of their backs. Oh yeah, I'm assuming (hoping) all this dysfunction coincides with guerrilla warfare from the Democrats.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:13
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I wish I had your optimism No poo poo. Gross incompetence from an administration that rode into power by blaming minorities seems like an amazing recipe for heinous crimes against humanity.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:14
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Fojar38 posted:Like the GOP is more powerful than it's been in almost a century and it looks like this might end up crescendoing into the greatest self-own in US history since Fort Sumter I mean probably but that self-own took like 4 years a war to finish followed by the most corrupt presidencies this country has seen. Why the gently caress can't they cob alone and drinking vodka from the bottle like the common man?
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Nov 16, 2016 05:14
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Mustached Demon posted:Don't count on them self owning themselves out of power. We all gotta reach out and grab it while they're busy pulling knives out of their backs. Yeah I am fairly sure the point of hoping they stab the poo poo out of themselves is so we can run up and twist that poo poo while screaming at them.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:15
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PerniciousKnid posted:It's easier to agree on blowing everything up than it is to agree on building a new health care system. Republican coalitions have entropy on their side. Sure but on unraveling Obamacare or cutting Medicare, that's not a 'do nothing' stance, they have to get people on board.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:15
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It is not impossible, however unlikely that Trump becomes Toxic enough that the GOP decides to behave toward him like they did Obama, but for economic reasons. Given the current tone of the thread, this idea amuses me.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:17
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Grognan posted:I guess I can see why pluralism-only advocates are really afraid that they'd be ignored if another cause that wasn't theirs worked enough that a Democratic ticket might win again. They've been seeing the history of the class advocates getting their poo poo sold down the drain and derided as bad things as soon as it was feasible. Neoliberals think we're the same as them. It's kind of a fairytale for them. " Everyone is just as dishonest as I am."
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Nov 16, 2016 05:19
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Spaced God posted:Ted Cruz ran on wanting to prosecute Planned Parenthood for murder. Let him try. SCOTUS won't even hear the case, unless Trump lucks out and manages to stack it with his appointees in the next year.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:19
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menino posted:Sure but on unraveling Obamacare or cutting Medicare, that's not a 'do nothing' stance, they have to get people on board. Medicare one's a great opportunity for the Dems to throw a few knives in the gop infighting ring.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:19
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Majorian posted:Let him try. SCOTUS won't even hear the case, unless Trump lucks out and manages to stack it with his appointees in the next year. Trump's been lucking out pretty hard so I expect a 13 judge SCOTUS staffed with luminary legal minds like Ted Cruz and Eric Trump.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:21
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a foolish pianist posted:So I was with a union, door knocking for Obama in 2012. We spent a lot of time talking to OFA, and OFA was glad to get help from us. When it come to supporting pro-union policies, though, we got nothing. They were happy to have our help, but they clearly didn't care about our poo poo. I'm starting to think this Obama guy isn't as progressive as these republicans make him out to be
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Nov 16, 2016 05:22
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Well, Candidate Obama vs. President Obama was the preferred meme to express disappointment before the latest act of the the GOP horror show started.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:25
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:I'm starting to think this Obama guy isn't as progressive as these republicans make him out to be I scoffed on Twitter at someone referencing Obama as a 'left wing radical' and referred to him as a corporate centrist and I got hammered with like 300+ "DEPLORABLE _________" notifications trying to school me for being a 'libtard' and referring to him as a "Marxist." It's kind of crazy how myopic they are. Obama is a marxist for not being a craven right-wing extremist in their view. And it's almost impossible to speak to them because we don't even speak the same language.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:26
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:I'm starting to think this Obama guy isn't as progressive as these republicans make him out to be Obama's administration basically just took Bush's and discontinued most of the heinous poo poo, and flipped from socially conservative to socially liberal. They lubed up the federal dick and that was enough for most people to stop complaining.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:26
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LeeMajors posted:I scoffed on Twitter at someone referencing Obama as a 'left wing radical' and referred to him as a corporate centrist and I got hammered with like 300+ "DEPLORABLE _________" notifications trying to school me for being a 'libtard' and referring to him as a "Marxist." 90% of them don't know it, but they're talking about cultural marxism which is an alt right protocols of zion type conspiracy theory, complete with Jews trying to take over the world
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Nov 16, 2016 05:29
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Admiral Ray posted:Trump's been lucking out pretty hard so I expect a 13 judge SCOTUS staffed with luminary legal minds like Ted Cruz and Eric Trump. https://twitter.com/HuffPostPol/status/798743925259403268
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Nov 16, 2016 05:29
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 Go me. I think this is just a trick because doesn't literally everyone in the Senate loathe Cruz?
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Nov 16, 2016 05:31
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Ted Cruz wouldn't even accept nomination if it were offered to him; it would be the end of his career and he has too many people left to gently caress and betray
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Nov 16, 2016 05:32
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Something about "If the lights went out in the Senate and Ted Cruz was found with a knife in his back, no one would convict."
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Nov 16, 2016 05:35
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That or its part of the thing where the quickest way to get 8 vacancies to appoint Cruz. Then it'll be a thousand year Trumpreich.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:37
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Nov 16, 2016 05:38
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Grognan posted:Something about "If the lights went out in the Senate and Ted Cruz was found with a knife in his back, no one would convict." "If Ted Cruz were murdered on the Senate floor, and the trial was in the Senate, then nobody would convict."
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Nov 16, 2016 05:41
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It would get him out of the Senate.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:44
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Grognan posted:Something about "If the lights went out in the Senate and Ted Cruz was found with a knife in his back, no one would convict." It would correctly be ruled a suicide
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Nov 16, 2016 05:45
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Watch Cruz filibuster his own nomination.
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1-800-DOCTORB posted:Watch Cruz filibuster his own nomination. By reading the script of Fireproof over and over and over and
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Nov 16, 2016 05:50
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Notorious RBG would probably fill his robes with glitter and rusted razors.
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Mustached Demon posted:Notorious RBG would probably fill his robes with glitter and rusted razors. I think everyone would do that.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:52
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Telephones posted:Why is he so hated? How did he ran earn the ire of Republicans? Think if one of us got elected to the senate.
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So everything I'm reading is saying the transition team is a flaming hot mess of terribleness , that Kushner Trumps son in law is purging the ranks of anyone even connected to Christie and that there's basically no Republicans willing to take key positions in the administration for fear of just abject failure the administration will be. So here's the question. What do they do if they don't have their poo poo together by Jan. ? Isn't there over a 1000 different appointments that need to be made not including staff? Cause pretty sure the Executive Branch has to like function.
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Flynn being SecDef might actually scare me more than Trump being President. Trump's in over his head but Flynn is a complete loving monster of a human being and would turn the US in to a Starship Troopers-style military dictatorship without hesitation if he could. The only upside to Trump letting Kushner be part of his inner circle is that he's probably the only person who can get Bannon fired and persona non grata to Trump. And Considering Kushner's jewish, sooner or later Bannon's going to say some anti-Semitic or otherwise racist poo poo to Kushner's face and all bets are off when that happens. Especially if Ivanka and Donald Trump are both present for it. Spaced God posted:Ted Cruz ran on wanting to prosecute Planned Parenthood for murder. He'd file every charge in the 5th(?) circuit as well since it's probably the only one that won't immediately dismiss his cases with extreme prejudice. Fojar38 posted:Donald Trump is going to be impeached. No he won't because nobody in Congress wants to roll the dice on what his crazy white wing followers would do in response to what they'd see as a coup and all those people committing hate crimes in celebration of Trumpism would turn their sights on politicians. Especially GOPers who'd be seen as even bigger traitors than the Dems and liberals they already hate. The GOP will just make sure Pence and others are sufficiently sweet-talking Trump when they need bills signed while the Secret Service ends up babysitting him for the next several years. Also Black Lives Matter or some other movement will be painted as the source of problems that Trump's having/causing, so that the racist base go after them instead of the GOP.
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Hollismason posted:So everything I'm reading is saying the transition team is a flaming hot mess of terribleness , that Kushner Trumps son in law is purging the ranks of anyone even connected to Christie and that there's basically no Republicans willing to take key positions in the administration for fear of just abject failure the administration will be. Obama's fault for tping his office.
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