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evilweasel posted:bad things happening to rupert murdoch, always good to see: UK election thread is pretty hot right now, I"m reading that
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evilweasel posted:the tory leader is going to be boris johnson who is going to schmooze up to trump even more Pikavangelist posted:Boris Johnson and Trumpy are literally the exact same human being, and you can't convince me otherwise.
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JohnCompany posted:A lot about the law and various lawyerings. Thanks to everyone for helping out an illawterate goon!
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evilweasel posted:the tory leader is going to be boris johnson who is going to schmooze up to trump even more
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I don't understand the UK elections but man, based on the UK thread (which is normally bitter as all gently caress), things are going very very VERY good for the left wing.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I don't understand the UK elections but man, based on the UK thread (which is normally bitter as all gently caress), things are going very very VERY good for the left wing. The left-wing is going to lose fairly decently. But they are losing by much less than expected 6 weeks ago. Tories will 100% have the largest party.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Melania and Barron are moving to the white house next week. Why bother? They are going to have to move out pretty soon at this rate.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The left-wing is going to lose fairly decently. But they are losing by much less than expected 6 weeks ago. According to the betting market juts now the left wing guy is now favored to be Prime Minister.
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Jesus. It's one thing when you hate your home team, but when your home team hates YOU...
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:According to the betting market juts now the left wing guy is now favored to be Prime Minister. Betting markets are useful for making money on professional wrestling shows, not politics
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:According to the betting market juts now the left wing guy is now favored to be Prime Minister. They are assuming Lib-Dems leave the Tory coalition, all the small parties join the Labor coalition, and Labour does better than the exit polls assume. Possible, but still a lot of things have to go 100% right. But the Tories will still be the biggest party and close to a majority. If Lib-Dems stick it out and the exits are accurate, then Corbyn won't be PM.
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Well Tories still lost a ton when they were supposed to gain a ton.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Well Tories still lost a ton when they were supposed to gain a ton. Yes, that's why people are excited. But Labour isn't winning.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:After today's performance, I'm not sure if McCain actually understands what's going on enough to properly leak anything. Well, he's able to leak in the way that Trump always thinks of.
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nachos posted:Too bad the US doesn't do election do overs
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nachos posted:Too bad the US doesn't do election do overs In the US version of this metaphor: Trump would win again, the Republicans would have 50 Senate seats instead, and 220 House seats. And they all get to stay in office until 2025.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:but really, who knows anymore, the R trail of succession could be so hosed in the case of impeachement/indictments that it may necessitate one This is less likely than the chance that you'll poo poo out a rainbow.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I don't understand the UK elections but man, based on the UK thread (which is normally bitter as all gently caress), things are going very very VERY good for the left wing. It is a Good Thing.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:but really, who knows anymore, the R trail of succession could be so hosed in the case of impeachement/indictments that it may necessitate one It seems unlikely that it would go past Orin Hatch, though, which would probably not be a great outcome.
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dont even fink about it posted:Betting markets are useful for making money on professional wrestling shows, not politics Professional bookmakers have historically been better predictors than UK pollsters (mostly because they get recorded near the election)
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Jun 9, 2017 01:49
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Now I wish there was a leftwing version of Ben Garrison to draw a comically buff Corbyn trampling over Blairites while spouting whatever the English version of "Not an argument" is.
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MrNemo posted:Professional bookmakers have historically been better predictors than UK pollsters (mostly because they get recorded near the election) Well, I was making more of a joke, and figured the first response would be about one of the goons who made bank on U.S. election markets.
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pumpinglemma posted:In US terms: a month ago we thought we were heading for Reagan vs. Mondale. Yesterday, we thought the Republicans were headed for a majority large enough that they'd never have to worry about the House Freedom Caucus ever again. Now, we're somewhere on the spectrum between the Republicans having a razor-thin majority that leaves them paralysed, the Republicans having no majority at all and having to rely on independents, and a Democrat government relying on independents (and controlling Brexit). Also, for the last five elections we've been running Clintons who have been taking progressively worse shares of the vote and who lost the last two elections. This time we ran Bernie, and he's currently on track to do far, far better than the last Clinton. Also also, every Democratic congressman is Joe Manchin and they've been spending the entire time screaming about how the left wing is totally unelectable and overtly trying to destroy Bernie, and they have now comprehensively been proven wrong. loving hell man you need a show on pbs or something
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Majorian posted:It seems unlikely that it would go past Orin Hatch, though, which would probably not be a great outcome. If multiple presidents are impeached at once like that whoever becomes president will have virtually no personal power to do anything.
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Mantis42 posted:Now I wish there was a leftwing version of Ben Garrison to draw a comically buff Corbyn trampling over Blairites while spouting whatever the English version of "Not an argument" is. I'm pretty sure the leftwing version of Garrison is Carlos Latuff. I mean, they even have the same style.
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There Bias Two posted:This is less likely than the chance that you'll poo poo out a rainbow. Any fine spray of water-based droplets will diffract light into its component colors. I'm just saying there's a chance.
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There Bias Two posted:This is less likely than the chance that you'll poo poo out a rainbow. I know a guy that could make this happen.
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Rinkles posted:He's the loving president. Well, yeah? I'm not expressing surprise at the fact that he's going to be in the loop on all of this, I'm expressing a combination of excitement and chagrin that the dolt has a non-zero probability of blabbing things he shouldn't because he can't control his twitter fingers when he's angry or excited.
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Young Freud posted:I'm pretty sure the leftwing version of Garrison is Carlos Latuff. I mean, they even have the same style. Jeremy Corbyn buttfucking Goku while an angry Jewish squid shakes a tentacle.
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pumpinglemma posted:In US terms: a month ago we thought we were heading for Reagan vs. Mondale. Yesterday, we thought the Republicans were headed for a majority large enough that they'd never have to worry about the House Freedom Caucus ever again. Now, we're somewhere on the spectrum between the Republicans having a razor-thin majority that leaves them paralysed, the Republicans having no majority at all and having to rely on independents, and a Democrat government relying on independents (and controlling Brexit). Also, for the last five elections we've been running Clintons who have been taking progressively worse shares of the vote and who lost the last two elections. This time we ran Bernie, and he's currently on track to do far, far better than the last Clinton. Also also, every Democratic congressman is Joe Manchin and they've been spending the entire time screaming about how the left wing is totally unelectable and overtly trying to destroy Bernie, and they have now comprehensively been proven wrong. I am so happy that the Trump experience seems to be inspiring a leftist wave throughout Europe. (Yes I know Macron is a neoliberal I DONT CARE)
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pumpinglemma posted:Also also, every Democratic congressman is Joe Manchin and they've been spending the entire time screaming about how the left wing is totally unelectable and overtly trying to destroy Bernie, and they have now comprehensively been proven wrong. The problem is that they don't know that. They've been in full on "Sure, Corbyn is defying expectations, but a Blairite would be doing even better!" mode for at least a week.
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skylined! posted:loving hell man you need a show on pbs or something Yeah, that's incredible. Now explain Henry II but using modern American politics.
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https://twitter.com/rachanadixit/status/872977854769836032 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/872978378026037249 https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/872938023536783361 https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/872971507512877056 https://twitter.com/NPR/status/872971756423716864 https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/872971018201165824 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/872982164085903360 https://twitter.com/jessicalustig/status/872184419909545984 And your moment of UK zen https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/872950545757204480 Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:In the US version of this metaphor: lmao that's not how parliamentary democracy works
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Dewey Defeats Socialism.
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Party Plane Jones posted:And your moment of UK zen Yeah, still a ton of seats to go, but I'm glad that at least for the time being Labour is clobbering Conservative.
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Amusing UK election note, one of the candidates for Labor who won was so certain he wouldn't win his district that he didn't even bother to bring a suit. https://twitter.com/paharvey99/status/872976656520163328
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