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birds
Jun 28, 2008


the hentai guy should have just said he was doing irony and proceed to include anime porn in every picture he posts on twitter afterwards to keep up the charade

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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
A day without Trump tweets? :sludgepal:

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

ReidRansom posted:

Like no longer allowing participation? Or those slated to get it or already receiving it won't and will have some present value of future benefits lumped into some other instrument?

Any employee hired after next year can't participate. No defined-benefit pensions for any new employees from now on; 457(b)s only. Lump-sum buyouts (optional) going to be offered to current employees at retirement.

Pension program dissolves after the last current employee dies or cashes out.

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


don't make me stay up until 3 am waiting for a tweet donald, I have work in the morning

Deptfordx
Dec 23, 2013

Hellblazer187 posted:

Oh, got it.

I actually didn't realize the UK had congressional districts (or whatever they're called there). I thought it was strictly proportional. I suppose they don't have a gerrymandering problem because there are just so many damned districts for a relatively small country physically that it approaches proportional representation? Or do they have a gerrymandering problem?

No, it's just that the constituencies are drawn up by a impartial and independant commission that ensures that their boundaries are sensible and reasonable and each one has a roughly equivalent number of people.

You know like any modern democracy would do.

BardoTheConsumer
Apr 6, 2017


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


GOOCHY posted:

I'm very interested in how they kept President Dumbass from live Tweeting every grievance he's ever dreamed up today. They must have taken his unsecured Android phone away from him?

Nono. Trump tweets from the iphone. The android is someone else using his handle..


I think. Is it the other way around?

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Jaxyon posted:

WTF happened? Last I heard they were still expecting a landslide, if smaller than what they had been.

Theresa May is the new Hillary Clinton.

JazzFlight
Apr 29, 2006

Oooooooooooh!

birds posted:

the hentai guy should have just said he was doing irony and proceed to include anime porn in every picture he posts on twitter afterwards to keep up the charade
LOL, like the goon who would always sneak his balls into the side of any photo he posted or the ebay seller who listed a metal teapot with his fat naked reflection in it.

awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug

Rigel posted:

Ignoring that last guy from Hawaii, here's the early field from the Senate in 2020.

The only reason to vote against banishing Scott Brown into kiwiville would be to run for president proudly declaring you opposed Trump harder than anyone else.

https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/872930134654930945
gently caress off we're full

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Nothus posted:

Theresa May is the new Hillary Clinton.

The New York Times could not help but write the comparisons between May and Hillary when going over the exit polling an hour ago.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/872892881014542341

Woah

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

BardoTheConsumer posted:

Nono. Trump tweets from the iphone. The android is someone else using his handle..


I think. Is it the other way around?

Other way around. He posts from an Android.

farraday
Jan 10, 2007

Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one.

Someone send for the firetruck Napolitano will need help getting off that limb.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound

hosed up if true

Hellblazer187
Oct 12, 2003

sugar free jazz posted:

The second biggest economy slowing down means difficulty providing for the billion people, and that billion people have afaik a severe demographic issue of not enough young people due to the one child policy. China has massive problems.

OK. I don't pretend to be an expert on China. They appear to still be growing faster than the global economy at large, and are taking on a bigger global leadership role after Trump left Paris.

I'd actually prefer if the next superpower is a newly strengthened liberal EU. Or, an un-hosed USA later. I'm just repeating the common wisdom and the reasons therefore.

RevKrule
Jul 9, 2001

Thrilling the forums since 2001

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

hosed up if true

I think you mean "deeply concerning."

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Pennsylvania just ended their public pension program for all state employees, judges, and county employees (teachers).

Or state legislature needs to be cleaned out entirely. Too many blood red rural districts ruin everything too.

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


Which one of you wrote this?

e:fixed

goethe.cx fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 8, 2017

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

GOOCHY posted:

I'm very interested in how they kept President Dumbass from live Tweeting every grievance he's ever dreamed up today. They must have taken his unsecured Android phone away from him?

They intentionally filled his schedule with meetings and speeches trying to make it so that he had no time to tweet.

That only works for so long, the crazyass tweets will come tonight or early tomorrow morning

Nocturtle
Mar 17, 2007

Are there any anonymous WH sources describing Trump's reactions while watching the Comey hearing? I need those more than I thought I would.

edit: Did he ball his fists and scream? I need to know.

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

Deptfordx posted:

No, it's just that the constituencies are drawn up by a impartial and independant commission that ensures that their boundaries are sensible and reasonable and each one has a roughly equivalent number of people.

You know like any modern democracy would do.

Iowa does this too. :colbert:

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Nocturtle posted:

Are there any anonymous WH sources describing Trump's reactions while watching the Comey hearing? I need those more than I thought I would.

They will leak, don't you worry. Maybe not today, but over the next couple days, I expect.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Bill loving Kristol just called Trump "dishonorable" on MSNBC just now, how many stooges does Trump have left in his corner?

thechosenone
Mar 21, 2009

Wrote what? That has a page not found thing.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/872934515211218944

trump is stewing and watching the tv news, that means we going to get some goooooooooooooooooooooood tweeting

Sloober
Apr 1, 2011

Majorian posted:

They will leak, don't you worry. Maybe not today, but over the next couple days, I expect.

Who ya gonna trust the mothafuckin' POTUS or some random scrub that didn't pledge undying loyalty

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Filthy Hans posted:

Bill loving Kristol just called Trump "dishonorable" on MSNBC just now, how many stooges does Trump have left in his corner?

Andrew McCarthy has an op-ed in WaPo entitled, "What Comey described wasn’t obstruction of justice. Here’s why."

I won't be clicking to find out "here's why," thankyouverymuch.

Sloober posted:

Who ya gonna trust the mothafuckin' POTUS or some random scrub that didn't pledge undying loyalty

What I love most when I hear this and the speaker isn't joking, is that they're usually the Dale Gribble types who otherwise 100% don't trust the government in ANY case.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Filthy Hans posted:

Bill loving Kristol just called Trump "dishonorable" on MSNBC just now, how many stooges does Trump have left in his corner?

Hasn't Kristol always been fairly critical of Trump?

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
Isn't Napolitano the gently caress that Fox didn't fire but put on vacation due to Donnie citing him directly about the trilllionbiglyillion illegal votes?

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Any employee hired after next year can't participate. No defined-benefit pensions for any new employees from now on; 457(b)s only. Lump-sum buyouts (optional) going to be offered to current employees at retirement.

Pension program dissolves after the last current employee dies or cashes out.

That sucks. I really don't expect ours here in Texas to last much longer either. Though my fiancee and I are both already on it and will probably just stay on here until hers vests and then we're probably off to California

Zoph
Sep 12, 2005

Majorian posted:

Andrew McCarthy has an op-ed in WaPo entitled, "What Comey described wasn’t obstruction of justice. Here’s why."

I won't be clicking to find out "here's why," thankyouverymuch.

The point it makes is more or less that we don't have any evidence of corrupt intent - yet. So technically, no, it's not yet *really* obstruction.

But we all know what's coming.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Majorian posted:

Andrew McCarthy has an op-ed in WaPo entitled, "What Comey described wasn’t obstruction of justice. Here’s why."

I won't be clicking to find out "here's why," thankyouverymuch.

I thought ComeyDay was being way overblown and the event would be indecisive. Judging by these early R flailings, it looks like I was fabulously wrong.

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

Reach for your Android phone, Trump. Angrily denounce Comey as a liar. Yell about how Hillary was let off easy. You can do it.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster
With Pennsylvania's pension system gone (it was the 5th largest non-federal pension left in the US), 2020 will be the first year that the percentage of U.S. workforce with a pension will be in the single digits.

Estimated to be 8.9%.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Zophar posted:

The point it makes is more or less that we don't have any evidence of corrupt intent - yet. So technically, no, it's not yet *really* obstruction.

But we all know what's coming.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone has claimed there's definitive "proof," but ol' Andy knows drat well that there's a lot of evidence.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Majorian posted:

Andrew McCarthy has an op-ed in WaPo entitled, "What Comey described wasn’t obstruction of justice. Here’s why."

I won't be clicking to find out "here's why," thankyouverymuch.

"as president, trump is permitted to order the fbi to drop investigations into his subordinates"

seriously

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009
Oh my God, okay, I'll read.

e: Christ Almighty, weasel, you didn't do it justice.:gonk: What a stupid, stupid argument.

Majorian fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jun 8, 2017

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

evilweasel posted:

"as president, trump is permitted to order the fbi to drop investigations into his subordinates"

seriously

IF THE PRESIDENT DOES IT IT'S NOT ILLEGAL

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

scuz posted:

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/872532952055513088

I'd be skeptical (also hopeful) of this if it weren't coming from a edit: nevermind he's not a law professor but still interesting.

Abramson spent most of last year writing Bernie Sanders fanfiction.

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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Nothing is happening before 2019.

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