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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so what's stopping them from electing another regressive that does the same thing but worse. Clearly it's the person(Brownback) that failed regressivism and not regressivism that failed. 0 taxes isnt low enough got to go lower.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:10 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:30 |
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lol what https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/834533343500857346
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 02:41 |
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So the veto failed in the Senate?
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 03:06 |
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Yep, by 3 votes. Prepare for more cuts because apparently that's the only thing Kansas knows how to do.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 03:14 |
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Up and down not across.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 03:29 |
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Anubis posted:Yep, by 3 votes. Prepare for more cuts because apparently that's the only thing Kansas knows how to do. Son of a bitch
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 04:19 |
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kiimo posted:Up and down not across. This whole thing is so insane.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 15:39 |
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I would never force such awful governance on anyone against their will, but since the Kansas electorate volunteered themselves by electing and then re-electing this moron, I'm kinda glad to see the experiment continue. Maybe when Kansas is a failed state Republican voters will get it through their thick skulls that supply side is complete and utter bullshit they'll do something about it.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 19:00 |
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Family Values posted:I would never force such awful governance on anyone against their will, but since the Kansas electorate volunteered themselves by electing and then re-electing this moron, I'm kinda glad to see the experiment continue. Maybe when Kansas is a failed state Republican voters will get it through their thick skulls that supply side is complete and utter bullshit they'll do something about it. They're too busy cheering for a wall to keep out the immigrants that took their jobs and suck up all their tax dollars to notice.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 19:28 |
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After the wall is built and the last immigrant is deported, what will the next fake problem child be?
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 00:21 |
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Potato Salad posted:After the wall is built and the last immigrant is deported, what will the next fake problem child be? The great historical fallback is Jews. As a Jew, I'm willing to take the heat if there's a stipend involved.
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Potato Salad posted:After the wall is built and the last immigrant is deported, what will the next fake problem child be? Poor people, again
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 00:35 |
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Family Values posted:I would never force such awful governance on anyone against their will, but since the Kansas electorate volunteered themselves by electing and then re-electing this moron, I'm kinda glad to see the experiment continue. Maybe when Kansas is a failed state Republican voters will get it through their thick skulls that supply side is complete and utter bullshit they'll do something about it. The people who didn't elect Brownback are leaving Kansas. Same with Wisconsin, really; Democrat voters have been moving to Minnesota. Blue people won't be staying in red states.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 00:40 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The people who didn't elect Brownback are leaving Kansas. Same with Wisconsin, really; Democrat voters have been moving to Minnesota. Blue people won't be staying in red states. That's a problem.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 00:53 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The people who didn't elect Brownback are leaving Kansas. Same with Wisconsin, really; Democrat voters have been moving to Minnesota. Blue people won't be staying in red states. Hillary won Minnesota by the skin of her teeth though.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 00:55 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Hillary won Minnesota by the skin of her teeth though. GOP lite isn't very popular either
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:00 |
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Potato Salad posted:That's a problem. OK you can come and live in this hell hole and I'll live somewhere that isn't cutting gaping holes in every single social service provided by local and state governments
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:05 |
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Intentional or not it's a huge problem with fantasy land Reagan no tax paradises. The white collar professionals you want to build an economy around take a look at the crumbling schools and infrastructure and gtfo because they can.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:12 |
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Potato Salad posted:That's a problem. No way in Hell will I live in a red state. My state is purple and barely tolerable. The main reason I want to stay here is that I like the terrain and climate. Even now I'm still thinking "ugh, got to move me to a blue state."
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:23 |
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On the bright side Texas is a popular destination for people fleeing Oklahoma and Kansas. If the Texas GOP doesn't hurry up and destroy the state before too many educated people move here, they might lose control of it.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:33 |
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2016 saw a bunch of shitbacks cronies voted out, that's why the veto passed, not enough of the Senate changed. But still it's incredible that the House had 2/3rds and the Senate was 3 shy. Big change I the right direction.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 01:40 |
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Kansas is okay if you never go to the places that aren't Lawrence or KCK and are also white and talk like you're from JoCo
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:17 |
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I'm all those things and left anyway.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:29 |
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VitalSigns posted:On the bright side Texas is a popular destination for people fleeing Oklahoma and Kansas. If the Texas GOP doesn't hurry up and destroy the state before too many educated people move here, they might lose control of it. Joe Staus and his merry band are the only thing holding back the tide of crazy and I seriously worry how long they can keep it up
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 02:54 |
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SalTheBard posted:2016 saw a bunch of shitbacks cronies voted out, that's why the veto passed, not enough of the Senate changed. But still it's incredible that the House had 2/3rds and the Senate was 3 shy. Big change I the right direction. Except nothing actually changed and they're gonna jack up every consumption tax and raid the retirement fund to make it through another year, cool!
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 13:12 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The people who didn't elect Brownback are leaving Kansas. Same with Wisconsin, really; Democrat voters have been moving to Minnesota. Blue people won't be staying in red states. The other problem you encounter is that being a state legislator only pays about 10,000 a year and is in session for 3 months. Republicans go uncontested for a lot of these seats partially because no young democrat who isn't already independently wealthy can survive with a position like that (good luck getting a regular rear end job for the other 9 months of the year to pay your bills). Republicans don't have to worry as much about that because A) the sort of republican people who get into politics are almost always independently wealthy anyways, and B) They've got Koch brothers PAC money paying their bills behind the scenes. One of our big victories at the local level last year was ousting Jan Pauls who was an incumbent republican and Brownback toadie. In the next house district over, the republican incumbent candidate only won by about 200 votes. During the campaign he had raised about $30,000, primarily through PACs, and his democratic challenger only raised $250 throughout the entire campaign. This tells me that Republican support in some of these areas is extremely soft, all we have to do is break the apathy of otherwise democratic voters in the state because holy poo poo the democratic apathy is so loving real in the state.
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# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:55 |
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so this is interesting A friend of mine who works with local Dems found this GOP mailer from last fall, I'm crossposting it in a few places that hate crime murder that happened in the strip mall where I used to play starcraft and magic in the 90s and in the bar where we did our ten year reunion? Yeah don't let them blame it on Breitbart et al:
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 16:19 |
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Don't forget that plot to bomb the Somali community out in western Kansas last year.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 00:46 |
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Or the guy who shot up a jewish community center in literally the same city.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 05:52 |
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I was within a block of both of those events, when they happened, and I used to work near that Austin's. I think one of my roommates actually knows the guy that tried to stop the shooter at Austin's. I actually felt safer growing up in Wyandotte then I do in Johnson county now.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 08:44 |
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I spent a good portion of 18 to 20 at 31st Century (both original location and the current area) and it's crazy to think something like this could happen in Olathe.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 19:15 |
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SalTheBard posted:I spent a good portion of 18 to 20 at 31st Century (both original location and the current area) and it's crazy to think something like this could happen in Olathe. Is it? Multiple times I've been in the grocery store or similar and seen people with white power tattoos in plain sight. Several of my neighbors are pretty vocally anti-latino and I've had more than my share of run-ins with people who believe that Muslims are either not a real religion or are all either active or complacent in terrorist activities. Not trying to say that their in the majority or anything but it's certainly around here and not all that uncommon. Maybe being a 30 something white guy people are just willing to be more up front with me, because they somehow think I'll be on their side. But honestly, I'm shocked it hasn't happened earlier and more often.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 03:54 |
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SalTheBard posted:I spent a good portion of 18 to 20 at 31st Century (both original location and the current area) and it's crazy to think something like this could happen in Olathe. Anubis posted:Is it? Multiple times I've been in the grocery store or similar and seen people with white power tattoos in plain sight. Several of my neighbors are pretty vocally anti-latino and I've had more than my share of run-ins with people who believe that Muslims are either not a real religion or are all either active or complacent in terrorist activities. Not trying to say that their in the majority or anything but it's certainly around here and not all that uncommon. Yeah, apart from the easy access to guns which is a uniquely American thing, I can see this happening in any city anywhere in the world. There are horrible, violent, unstable racists the world over.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 04:59 |
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PT6A posted:Yeah, apart from the easy access to guns which is a uniquely American thing, I can see this happening in any city anywhere in the world. There are horrible, violent, unstable racists the world over. They got far more vocal and open in America after Trump won.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 05:01 |
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Some of us are old enough to remember what Olathe was like before it gentrified. It isn't like those batshit whiskey tangos moved away. Just thinking about the Old Settlers Parade in the late 80s sends a shiver down my spine.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 16:03 |
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http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article135941473.htmlquote:The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to release its ruling Thursday on whether the state provides adequate funding to schools.
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# ? Mar 2, 2017 18:28 |
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http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article135967648.html quote:Update: Kansas Supreme Court rules school funding inadequate
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# ? Mar 2, 2017 21:53 |
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Is this the part of the play where the state threatens to defund the SC and gets told it's unconstitutional to do it? Or did that bluff already get called and I missed an act?
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# ? Mar 2, 2017 23:34 |
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Sundae posted:Is this the part of the play where the state threatens to defund the SC and gets told it's unconstitutional to do it? Or did that bluff already get called and I missed an act? I think that failed miserably. The court was like "lol nah you don't get to do that."
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Washington state is already a model for ignoring schools, despite supposedly being blue. They'll have no trouble in Kansas. Our legislature has been ignoring the court order for five years and going so far, no jail time or anything. got any sevens fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 3, 2017 |
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