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Chilichimp posted:What? Did the Secret Service perform this function for Nixon or something? Why would the SS be in charge of recording or transcribing oval office conversations? they're getting out of the way, so when it's revealed that trump was recording the secret service has some cover  gently caress, dog tax i just got home 
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Night10194 posted:I legitimately don't understand their lust for death. Shimrra Jamaane posted:poo poo ton of Republicans are going to die. Red states are going to get hit the hardest.
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NoDamage posted:This is unfortunate, but hopefully it makes them realize they need to stop voting red if they don't want to keep getting hosed over. That's the only way I can see us getting out of this mess. If, on the other hand, they lose their health care and still decide to keep voting red, then we're all loving doomed. loving lol, of course they will keep voting red. Because even after their politicians take away their healthcare, they will find a way to blame their problems on illegals, Muslims and blacks.
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Single issue abortion voters. We care about you until birth.
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Prosperity gospel has them convinced they're dirty shameful sinners if they're poor.
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But they're not poor, just temporary embarrassed bigbillionaires that will get rich any day now. So they're making sure they dont tax themselves.
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Jaxyon posted:Single issue abortion voters. Unless any kind of prenatal care or providing reasonable accommodations are involved.
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enraged_camel posted:loving lol, of course they will keep voting red. Because even after their politicians take away their healthcare, they will find a way to blame their problems on illegals, Muslims and blacks. 
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I don't know why this has to be brought up constantly, but low income voters are mostly Democratic and at best are split pretty evenly. Meanwhile, Trump won the middle class suburbanite vote. These are people who primarily won't be affected by any of this (too poor to benefit significantly from tax cuts, well off enough to probably be on employer sponsored healthcare) loving over poor people. edit- employer sponsored healthcare plans are probably getting hosed here too though so lol Paradoxish fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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Honestly, it feels in the last 8 years the Republicans have stopped being the business party and have basically becoming beholden to a bunch of crazy rear end billionaires who are way worse than the corporations because they're absolute fanatics about this poo poo.
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Gorelab posted:Honestly, it feels in the last 8 years the Republicans have stopped being the business party and have basically becoming beholden to a bunch of crazy rear end billionaires who are way worse than the corporations because they're absolute fanatics about this poo poo. Um yeah actually.
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Gorelab posted:Honestly, it feels in the last 8 years the Republicans have stopped being the business party and have basically becoming beholden to a bunch of crazy rear end billionaires who are way worse than the corporations because they're absolute fanatics about this poo poo. Too bad nobody foresaw that massive wealth inequality would lead to this
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The GOP is not the party of business, they are the party of neo-feudalism
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As usual Democrats completely suck at the messaging war. I still don't see much use of the term "Trumpcare" which is what the AHCA should really be called. I hope when people start dying from losing insurance they know well enough then who's to blame for it and not some nebulous acronym.
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Fart City posted:I was speaking more broadly in terms of a terrorist attack or natural disaster, but yeah, Qatar is a pretty good test case of Trump's inability to deescalate a crisis. https://youtu.be/EYsM6dKS-RE
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Charliegrs posted:As usual Democrats completely suck at the messaging war. I still don't see much use of the term "Trumpcare" which is what the AHCA should really be called. They need to hang it around the republican party's neck, not trump. Trump is digging his own grave.
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NoDamage posted:This is unfortunate, but hopefully it makes them realize they need to stop voting red if they don't want to keep getting hosed over. That's the only way I can see us getting out of this mess. If, on the other hand, they lose their health care and still decide to keep voting red, then we're all loving doomed. Why do you think their communities became poor and addicted to opioids in the first place?
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This thread loves the easy answer that everyone is just evil monsters but the US really does have legitimately super hosed health care and most people really did see their healthcare get sharply worse over the last decade. Obamacare isn't a healthcare system, it was a really tiny adjustment that helped a little bit in some cases with some regulations on certain things. It was a good thing and it's good it happened, but there is a lot of non evil people that have been really hosed over by what is happening in US healthcare year by year and there is plenty reason people are lashing out to vote for something different other than "they are subhumans" since neither party is offering good answers that actually help them. Like democrat or republican the average health insurance premium has grown 190% since 1999, people on high deductible plans went from 8% to 55% and drug costs rose a bajillion percent. Bush didn't slow this down, obama didn't slow this down, neither party is offering anything except "just have faith, our plan isn't helping you now but later on we'll give you the good plan that totally will!" Like republicans are flat out wrong that their answer is right, but it's pretty easy to see why normal non satan people would want to go looking for something other than what we have.
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I hate to accidentally defend a Nazi, but I think that second photo might be someone making fun of them; it's "A Thing" to insist that you shouldn't punch "people you disagree with" (AKA Nazi assholes like Dick Spencer) because it's wrong. I think that dude was just making a joke like "Oh look. Shooting people who 'disagree with you'", taking it to the comedic extreme. But that doesn't mean the tweet isn't still 100% right and there aren't assholes legitimately whining about it. enraged_camel posted:Heh. TD has no mention of: This is like that one political cartoon where the kid is with a straight couple and then a gay couple and there's no other changes (he's still happy, etc)
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Paradoxish posted:I don't know why this has to be brought up constantly, but low income voters are mostly Democratic and at best are split pretty evenly. Meanwhile, Trump won the middle class suburbanite vote. These are people who primarily won't be affected by any of this (too poor to benefit significantly from tax cuts, well off enough to probably be on employer sponsored healthcare) loving over poor people. So the Republican's attempt to kill the poors is literally their solution to demographics? Here I thought they were just stupid and banal rather than outright evil.
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relevant somehow https://twitter.com/dril/status/874390753212080130
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my bony fealty posted:The GOP is not the party of business, they are the party of neo-feudalism Seriously. Anyone who believes GOP was at any point in time the party of business has stupidly bought into their messaging. "Business" was simply the front they used for their lovely racist and sexist policies. If a particular policy was beneficial for businesses, that was a coincidental side effect (which they happily capitalized on), not the goal.
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enraged_camel posted:loving lol, of course they will keep voting red. Because even after their politicians take away their healthcare, they will find a way to blame their problems on illegals, Muslims and blacks. One thing a lot of people in this thread forget is that these voters don't actually understand how progressive taxation works. They think if a rich dude gets taxed 35% then that 35% applies to all their income and not just the income over a certain amount. I have had to explain how it works to a ton of people, most of them who have been paying taxes for decades without understanding the concept. It blows their loving minds once they understand it and some, but not all, change their stance on taxes at least somewhat once they do understand.
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I liked that guy using "Nationalistsocialist" code word before straight out saying Nazi. Also lol that the only diversity he wants is diversity in people to kill in his video games. Reminds me of the Golden One playing Skyrim and role playing as himself (a nord, obv) killing all the feminist and SJW bandits.
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evilweasel posted:a mere three months after trump abruptly fired every sitting us attorney, all 93 of them, he has finally picked new ones Look how many new jobs he's created.
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Ularg posted:Reminds me of the Golden One playing Skyrim and role playing as himself (a There we go.
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Low Desert Punk posted:what's worse, donald trump or creed Unanswerable philosophical questions are in another thread.
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I keep getting ALCU emails about calling my reps or whatever regarding tomorrows hearing with Sessions. Is calling worth the hassle, even if I'm in deep blue California?
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evilweasel posted:a mere three months after trump abruptly fired every sitting us attorney, all 93 of them, he has finally picked new ones why are the Democrats obstructing the predisent from appointing new judges?!?
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D-Pad posted:One thing a lot of people in this thread forget is that these voters don't actually understand how progressive taxation works. They think if a rich dude gets taxed 35% then that 35% applies to all their income and not just the income over a certain amount. I have had to explain how it works to a ton of people, most of them who have been paying taxes for decades without understanding the concept. It blows their loving minds once they understand it and some, but not all, change their stance on taxes at least somewhat once they do understand. This reminds me of this one time an acquaintance who was a young aeronautical engineer bragged about how he was so smart for turning down a raise at his job because it would put him in a higher tax bracket and reduce his take-home pay. I had to interject and explain to him in front of everyone at the table that tax brackets don't work that way. Turns out his company was going around brazenly lying to their employees during annual performance review time, the talking point being "well we are thinking about giving you a 5% raise but we wanted to run it by you first because you would actually end up making less money... so it's up to you, let us know if you want it." And a lot of employees were young and ignorant so they were just turning it down and waiting for another year, hoping the raise then would actually be "large enough to offset the increase in taxes" or some bullshit. The thing is that this dude was quite liberal. But he was also young and naive and had made the mistake of trusting the first real authority figure in his adult life, i.e. his boss. So it's not just conservatives who don't get taxes. It's conservatives, and anyone else they can con.
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Im sorry to be that person, but due to moving Ive been in a news blackout. Can anyone tell me what page did the comey senate session statrt? Id like to backtrack a bit
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It would be really awesome if Megyn Kelly burns out in like 2 months on NBC because she can't adjust to life outside of Fox News. Except based on the Brian Williams precedent that means she'll be punished by hosting 11 PM on MSNBC.
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Gaj posted:Im sorry to be that person, but due to moving Ive been in a news blackout. Can anyone tell me what page did the comey senate session statrt? Id like to backtrack a bit There is/was a separate thread just for the Comey session which probably had most of the discussion. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3823090
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