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Third World Reggin posted:So what is everyones planes for Jan 20th? yeah I was curious is anyone here going to the inauguration? 
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The 20th is a Friday, which is good. Trump's inauguration is not meant to be experienced sober.
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Jan 3, 2017 04:42
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bird food bathtub posted:So this is what it's like to live in a dying democracy. Words mean nothing, truth is whatever words gently caress over the other guy and crushing the opposition to grab power is all that matters. Seriously starting to believe this is the beginning of the end for the republic. Sure it's gonna drag on in some form but jesus gently caress with people like this writing the rules for themselves I don't see a way towards any positive future at all. It's worth noting that the measure is opposed by Ryan, so it probably won't pass.
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Jan 3, 2017 04:44
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A Handed Missus posted:yeah I was curious is anyone here going to the inauguration? I most likely will not get to see tickets to one for a few years if I keep on this path. But I doubt I will go if I ever do see tickets. I've heard some stories of what is going on at them and they just don't sound fun.
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Jan 3, 2017 04:47
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holocaust bloopers posted:I think the US is hardy enough to survive a bad presidency or two. Oh also other members of that same political party have just voted on dismantling legal constraints on themselves. Like, that just happened. Right now. Pass or not, that's showing pretty god drat clear what their goals are. One of these things is not like the other.
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Jan 3, 2017 04:50
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:how the hell do you make women competing and debasing themselves for a man's attention "empowering" the same way that weakening the Office of Congressional Ethics strengthens House ethics oversight
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Jan 3, 2017 04:54
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Third World Reggin posted:I most likely will not get to see tickets to one for a few years if I keep on this path. I went to the Commander in Chief ball in 2013 and it was really fun. Also hilarious to see so many senior ranking members of the military getting trashed with the lay people.
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Jan 3, 2017 05:00
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bird food bathtub posted:One of these things is not like the other. Yeah that's kind of a false equivalency.
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Ok calm down bird food.
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I have a 4 hour layover in Atlanta the 21st so i hope you guys don't collapse a day after trump takes over
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Jan 3, 2017 05:29
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They just gutted the Congressional Ethics Committee.
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Jan 3, 2017 05:30
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CommieGIR posted:They just gutted the Congressional Ethics Committee. so it actually went through?
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What does that actually mean? I don't watch C-SPAN.
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Jan 3, 2017 07:12
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Blind Rasputin posted:What does that actually mean? I don't watch C-SPAN. Here's a good summary: quote:The Office of Congressional Ethics has been controversial since its creation and has faced intense criticism from many of its lawmaker targets — both Democrats and Republicans — as its investigations have consistently been more aggressive than those conducted by the House Ethics Committee.
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Jan 3, 2017 07:16
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So there is 2 ethics committees, and neither can really do the job right? Sounds like my government all right.
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Jan 3, 2017 08:02
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Two Finger posted:i'm assuming that was a typo but asking what everyone's flights are seems fairly accurate Coming home from Minneapolis because gently caress me if I'm still in.
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Two Finger posted:so it actually went through? Nah, the entire house votes on it today to finalize it or reject the motion. Fwiw Ryan and the house majority leader both said they oppose the measure. So there's still a chance it doesn't go through. Also three of the congressmen who pushed the vote through have had run ins with the ethics office so 
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Jan 3, 2017 12:59
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Time to buy GM stock. https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/816262733830168576 Also it's dumb as hell to yell at GM about this when Ford and Chrysler do it too.
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facialimpediment posted:Time to buy GM stock. It's dumb as hell to do it on Twitter lmao
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Jan 3, 2017 14:05
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Apparently jet fuel isn't the only thing that melts steel beams, it also possibly sinks unsinkable ships.
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facialimpediment posted:Time to buy GM stock. This is what the every 24 hour media network will be focusing on instead of the vote on the ethics committee. its slight of hand. Your co-workers will be talking about nafta today instead of a seemingly boring "pro-corruption" vote in congress.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816068355555815424 Nice!
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GoGoGadget posted:Apparently jet fuel isn't the only thing that melts steel beams, it also possibly sinks unsinkable ships. This has been known about for years, it didn't have an impact on the sinking, and LOL at his theory that they increased speed just to burn coal faster.
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Jan 3, 2017 14:59
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 Just to hammer home my point, here's the front page of 3 media outlets right now. CNN has the ethics vote as their main headline , Fox buries it under a rain storm, and Drudge doesn't even list it. The right wing world needs a tweet to talk about while their lawmakers do objectively terrible things. In 48 hours, nobody will be talking about either the tweet, or the ethics vote. Also, remember how your uncle/cousin/brother/father, who is otherwise a smart person, spouted off his terrible political opinions over Christmas? This is the reason. Simply by entering in a different URL, he lives in a different world than you do. His opinions are justifiable based on the information he receives. Once Fox or Breitbart (or HuffPo) load their cookies into your computer, all you will see is advertisements for the bubble. Soon, you'll click on a sponsored article with the headline "America: Under Attack" and the situation repeats itself. Eventually, structurally non-partisan, and verifiable facts and figures (BLS, the Fed, NOAA) that stand contrary to literally everything that everyone else in your "world" have to be wrong, because acknowledging that they are right will now diminish your identity as a human being. Those facts and figures also won't "feel" right. Headlines about evil Muslims and Kenyan Usurpers "feel" right. The feeling is righteous indignation. People become addicted to it, and chase after it. This is when facts don't matter, only feelings. Basically everything I said can be applied to the left wing media bubble as well, but it doesn't happen nearly as much (think anti-vaxxers) and not with the same intensity.
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You don't even need to go as far as anti-vaxxers for the left-wing bubble. How many know how nasty the 'Drone War' is? How many know about Obama's mass deportations?
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Jan 3, 2017 15:46
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The lizard people need to drop an EMP in the atmosphere "Ok there hu-mons, y'all need a time-out from this internet thing".
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It gets better too. Trump was hilariously wrong about the Cruze. https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/816284649869680640 Also, it's definitely legitimate to say that Trump is tweeting to distract from other stuff, which may be the case here. A lot of times though, he just tweets because he has zero self-control and happily drags out a negative story (see Putin, V.) by tweeting about it. It'll be funny when he breaks twitter's Terms of Service and @POTUS gets banned. Probably will never happen, but I can dream!
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-utah-2-year-old-saving-twin-trapped-beneath-dresser/ Something about this poo poo bothers me. Maybe it's the fact that the parents didn't anchor a 100lb dresser. Maybe it's that they didn't hear the dresser fall over. Or the surely two solid minutes of crying and screaming. Another thing, the gently caress are these dumbass parents doing shutting the door on a room with twin 2 year olds inside it? And after that, they're still dumb enough to post the video on the internet. Nothing like making family service's job easier when the video shows up on one of their facebook feeds today. "HEROIC BABBY SAVES BRO" or whatever the clickbait will read. Can't really blame it on the manufacturer, I'm sure Ikea has seen to that with all sorts of warnings on the box and directions after their babycrushers caught wind a while back. They even sent techs out to build and anchor dressers for free. I'm sure they're decent parents. I know I was raised in shadier situations (who the gently caress lets their kids play in full grain hoppers? Everyone in my family). But goddamn, if this doesn't wind up with those kids in foster care, I'd be surprised.
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-utah-2-year-old-saving-twin-trapped-beneath-dresser/ Yeah, this made me cringe so much. You do NOT leave two toddlers alone like that in a room. It's Darwinism in action, and those two don't deserve it. That little infant is so lucky he has a twin that helped him. loving idiot parents....I gotta go hug my 4 year old now.
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Don't get me wrong, when Darwin wins, we all win, but it's a hard pill to swallow when the ones involved don't even have object permanence down yet. It's the fact that this is an instant backfire story that has me so annoyed. This happened in Utah, where I'm fairly sure a doctor would ask for details, but that's explainable away and nothing would likely come of it. It's a whole different level of stupid to watch the video and think, "I know, I'll post this on facebook as a warning to parents everywhere!" when in reality they're only exposing their own bad parenting abilities with this yearbook quality highlight of stupidity. If this happened in a left leaning state, there would be a social worker at the door already. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Trump spoke out against cutting the Ethics board on Twitter. Lol what
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holocaust bloopers posted:Trump spoke out against cutting the Ethics board on Twitter. Lol what  He's only concerned with the timing.
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Wasn't a major establishing move for Putin the consolidation of power to his faction of oligarchs? If Trump starts doing lots of weirdly inconsistent poo poo re:corruption, that's a pattern I'm going to keep an eye out for.
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CommieGIR posted:
I actually think it's a disorder. Dementia? Maybe he's schizophrenic? He probably legit doesn't remember the poo poo he does.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Trump spoke out against cutting the Ethics board on Twitter. Lol what Trump is deeply concerned with corruption and oversight and being crooked except for himself and his friends/appointees.
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Just gonna state what I hope to be the obvious: when a politician starts finger loving any ethics- or corruption-related organization, there's a reason. Case in point: remember when Gov. Coumo suddenly shut down that corruption probe? Now all of his cronies are under the microscope and are slowly but steadily racking up charges.
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