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Zeris posted:It was a CIA plot to test needles that had been used for vaccinations for Bin Laden's DNA, hoping that his kids were just strolling around whereeverthefuck, Pakistan. The bin Laden thing wasn't the first or last time that tactic was used. USAID for example has had its mission undermined for decades because people don't trust the legitimate aid workers aren't spies.
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Good news for those fire victims, UK government has let them stay in some luxury flats nearby the tower (yay Corbyn) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40357280 Edit and more news, police officer stabbed in Michigan airport https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/877562977309704193 Hot Karl Marx fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Zeris posted:1. Having lived in Wardak, green makes sense.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Good news for those fire victims, UK government has let them stay in some luxury flats nearby the tower (yay Corbyn) lol, nope, they're next to luxury flats. The flats themselves are "social housing", so... BBC posted:Sixty-eight social housing flats in Kensington, London, are to be made available to survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, the government has said. e: ahahaha goddamn, the article is like an ad for the housing development that gloats about how much better the luxury flats are compared to the social housing. BBC luxury housing ad posted:Nestled off Kensington High Street, and a short distance from Westfield shopping centre, Kensington Row is the perfect example of London's booming real estate market. Anta fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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redneck nazgul posted:Coincidentally, Ossoff made the election a referendum on Handel's wasteful spending and avoiding statements on policy instead of saying "Handel will do everything Trump and the Senate want, including destroy your employer-backed healthcare". Handel tied Ossoff to Pelosi, ISIS, and the dude who shot up the Congressional Baseball Practice. The factually incorrect second part of your post aside, you're really missing the point here. Democrats took a district won by the previous Republican incumbent by 23 points in 2016 and chiseled that lead down to 4. Them winning against that kind of headwind was never going to really happen, but what's surprising is that they managed to shift that number of votes over. In the South Carolina race, they took a race won by 20 points by the previous Republican incumbent and shrank the lead to 3. More broadly, every single special election this year involved seats in ultra-conservative areas. The Democrats managed to shrink the margins considerably. The idea is that if this kind of shift can be applied to competitive districts, they'll stand to flip a large number of seats in 2018. psydude fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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This would be like some random R showing up in Pelosi's district and losing 52/48
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A NATO F-16 buzzed a Russian plane over the Baltic, it happened to be carrying their defence minister.
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Casimir Radon posted:A NATO F-16 buzzed a Russian plane over the Baltic, it happened to be carrying their defence minister. quote:A Nato official later said in a statement that the alliance "can confirm that three Russian aircraft, including two fighters, were tracked over the Baltic Sea earlier today (Wednesday)". Does freedom of navigation work in the air just like the sea? Obviously only applicable to militaries of course.
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Casimir Radon posted:A NATO F-16 buzzed a Russian plane over the Baltic, it happened to be carrying their defence minister. 
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hobbesmaster posted:Does freedom of navigation work in the air just like the sea? Obviously only applicable to militaries of course. Oh if only...
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psydude posted:The factually incorrect second part of your post aside, you're really missing the point here. Democrats took a district won by the previous Republican incumbent by 23 points in 2016 and chiseled that lead down to 4. Them winning against that kind of headwind was never going to really happen, but what's surprising is that they managed to shift that number of votes over. In the South Carolina race, they took a race won by 20 points by the previous Republican incumbent and shrank the lead to 3. i will wait until the next round of elections to decide whether or not it is a big deal. it could be an anomaly and the 2018 elections could be back to a 20+ point win for republicans. what i'm saying is i dont expect democrats to capitalize on this in a meaningful way.
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If winning wasn't possible, then spending $30M was a bad decision. Also oddsmakers had dems winning. It was absolutely considered winnable 24 hours ago. This is reality shifting to cover an L. Also Trump barely won the district. Maybe deciding to not run against Trump and instead running on (ERROR: ARRAY UNDEFINED NO DATA) was a mistake.
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Dead Reckoning posted:They're talking about Wardak the Defense Minister, not Wardak the province. Unless you were his secret Bacha Boy top... gently caress
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Best Friends posted:If winning wasn't possible, then spending $30M was a bad decision. Also oddsmakers had dems winning. It was absolutely considered winnable 24 hours ago. This is reality shifting to cover an L. Also Trump barely won the district. Maybe deciding to not run against Trump and instead running on (ERROR: ARRAY UNDEFINED NO DATA) was a mistake. I'm not entirely sure Russia is done influencing elections either.
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Best Friends posted:If winning wasn't possible, then spending $30M was a bad decision. Also oddsmakers had dems winning. It was absolutely considered winnable 24 hours ago. This is reality shifting to cover an L. Also Trump barely won the district. Maybe deciding to not run against Trump and instead running on (ERROR: ARRAY UNDEFINED NO DATA) was a mistake. It was considered a complete tossup with a Republican advantage given voting history.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:This would be like some random R showing up in Pelosi's district and losing 52/48 Pretend I searched for and posted that Vin Diesel gif from the dumb Furious series where he says that it doesn't matter where you win by an inch or a mile. Pelosi still wins the seat.
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Best Friends posted:If winning wasn't possible, then spending $30M was a bad decision. Also oddsmakers had dems winning. It was absolutely considered winnable 24 hours ago. This is reality shifting to cover an L. Also Trump barely won the district. Maybe deciding to not run against Trump and instead running on (ERROR: ARRAY UNDEFINED NO DATA) was a mistake. It's not that cut and dry. Political money is weird nowadays - it's almost more of a struggle to spend it than raise it in high profile campaigns. It's not like there were other races to spend it on, and if it weren't for the GA-09 special election that money may not have even been raised in the first place (most of the D money came from within the district). Should they have just saved it for the 2018 house race in that district? Or spent it on statewide races where they stand even less of a chance? And while it's fair to point out Handel did about as well as Trump there, it's also worth nothing that she performed much, much worse than Price in 2016. Spending $30m to seriously contest a seat that was just a few months ago a foregone conclusion and the media narrative that helps drive ("are Republicans in trouble?") is arguably worthwhile.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Pretend I searched for and posted that Vin Diesel gif from the dumb Furious series where he says that it doesn't matter where you win by an inch or a mile. Pretend that a gif of Vin Diesel exists in which he enters a race that he usually wins by at least 17-20 car lengths. Except this year, he races and only wins by 2-3 car lengths and also has to dump a ton of NOS when he can usually get away with using very little. He still wins the race and winning is winning. But now other racers from his crew who usually only win by 2-3 car lengths are in trouble because this new  crew are now performing better as seen in Diesels race and could very well beat them at the next race. Diesel still wins the race. Except now the number of people in his crew have dropped by a significant amount, and Paul Walker is still dead.  I don't understand why people are having a hard time seeing the bigger picture. There's no certainty or guarantee in all of this.The democrats can still gently caress this up massively, but the fact they are competitive in those districts means the GOP are going to have issues during the mid-terms at this rate, regardless if you can see that or not. Hell, if the Dems are this competitive in deep red districts, and the GOP needs to dump gobs of money to keep the seat, it's going to be a lot harder when you have 100 competitive races to dump money into. AreWeDrunkYet posted:It's not that cut and dry. Political money is weird nowadays - it's almost more of a struggle to spend it than raise it in high profile campaigns. It's not like there were other races to spend it on, and if it weren't for the GA-09 special election that money may not have even been raised in the first place (most of the D money came from within the district). Should they have just saved it for the 2018 house race in that district? Or spent it on statewide races where they stand even less of a chance? It's also worth pointing out a large chunk of the money Ossoff spent was raised locally, whereas most of Handel's money came from the National GOP and national groups. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Thanks, bud. I see the big picture. I also see that democrats aren't voting like they could.
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If the R's had run someone with any charisma what so ever it would have been way worse. Her seat comes up for election in a bit more than a year, so if the Dem's can find anyone with as much Charisma as Ossof it isn't unlikely to win the district if the Republican party get's a bit less popular.
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EBB can you deliver some truly disgusting Fast and Furious avs so we can finish the simile circlejerk in style?
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Good news for those fire victims, UK government has let them stay in some luxury flats nearby the tower (yay Corbyn) The officer was smoking and the civilian was just trying to get home safe.
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Zeris posted:gently caress "Yeah man, I pretty much lived in the defense minister's dirty butthole for six months, earned the gently caress out of that deployment ribbon."
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Zeris posted:It was a CIA plot to test needles that had been used for vaccinations for Bin Laden's DNA, hoping that his kids were just strolling around whereeverthefuck, Pakistan. Speaking of CIA plots, this particular revelation managed to not be news anywhere I've seen: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20...erm=Flashpoints quote:64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup: Not that they tried to call it off due to a sudden influx of foresight mind you, but interesting news nonetheless.
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The Iron Rose posted:Speaking of CIA plots, this particular revelation managed to not be news anywhere I've seen: I thought that was common knowledge. I saw that in a documentary last year.
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Zeris posted:EBB can you deliver some truly disgusting Fast and Furious avs so we can finish the simile circlejerk in style? I'm pretty sure I have a few pictures of burnt out Porsches on a flash drive somewhere. Will that work?
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Keep in mind these special elections were hand picked to fill the positions they moved in to. They were chosen to have no risk at all to the current majority. Yet they're turning into nail biter races. There's a loving blood bath coming for republicans, just not before the country finishes slamming it's dick in the car door they chose in November.
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Genocide Tendency posted:I'm pretty sure I have a few pictures of burnt out Porsches on a flash drive somewhere. Will that work? 
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A WSJ writer had a source that was basically an arms dealer. The arms dealer later offered him a 10% stake in a new arms dealing company. The WSJ writer took the deal. The AP found out about it while they were doing a story on the arms dealer. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/877611649678442496 https://apnews.com/d71bf1b8c2304329866441ec4089760f?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics He was the chief foreign affairs correspondent for WSJ. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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facialimpediment posted:A WSJ writer had a source that was basically an arms dealer. The arms dealer later offered him a 10% stake in a new arms dealing company. The WSJ writer took the deal. Good to see the WSJ keeping people with good business sense
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Zeris posted:I thought that was common knowledge. I saw that in a documentary last year. Yeah it's covered pretty well in the book "All the Shah's Men"
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton Intern Calls British ‘Faggots’ and Paul Ryan a ‘Cuck’ in Audio Recording This guy literally sounds like an unhinged cartoon character. Also, come for the "Benedict Arnold was a homosexual" comment and stay for the stupid "only 3% of colonists fought the British, makes you think!" trope.
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It turns out being a drunken USA-bro can get you some congressional jobs. Unless this internship was unpaid, in which case lmao, did he just gently caress himself over for "experience?"
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