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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Moving up one point on the 538 aggregate is hardly skyrocketing. And I'd say it owes more to Trump just being out of the spotlight for the last couple week. Yeah, Trump has an ongoing regression to the mean factor where his polls always go up slightly whenever he manages to not poo poo the bed for a couple days in a row.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I know we get a lot of international folks in here, so maybe one of y'all know enough about this. Welp, I just started off a conversation with 'Hey ma, we got nazis in the family right??' so thank you for that, at least We don't, our ancestors apparently left before the Holocaust. What a tough break 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, Trump has an ongoing regression to the mean factor where his polls always go up slightly whenever he manages to not poo poo the bed for a couple days in a row. That baseball shooting also helped drown out some of the Russian talk for a bit.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I know we get a lot of international folks in here, so maybe one of y'all know enough about this. Get your citizenship first and then hash out the details of statutory health insurance later. Generally Germany uses an employer based system of universal coverage where everyone pays into various sickness funds, with separate programs for the poor and unemployed/elderly.
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empty whippet box posted:please god let whatever this is be in the next two hours, I'm out of weed and I need to feel good https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/878262080201031680 Al Borland Corp. posted:Now we know what will happen. Heller switches parties, Left Democrats attempt to primary him, are unsuccessful due to the Democratic party backing Heller as reward for him switching, he loses to the Republican. Heller switching parties would be a massive development. Doubt it'll happen, though.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, Trump has an ongoing regression to the mean factor where his polls always go up slightly whenever he manages to not poo poo the bed for a couple days in a row. It's like he's unlocked some kind of cheat code that makes health continually go up, but is still playing badly enough to be losing anyway.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, Trump has an ongoing regression to the mean factor where his polls always go up slightly whenever he manages to not poo poo the bed for a couple days in a row. Which doesn't happen very often.
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Heller switching parties might literally kill McMagic.
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NiceGuy posted:Welp, I just started off a conversation with 'Hey ma, we got nazis in the family right??' so thank you for that, at least Might still qualify, actually. The big law that got this going was the Nazi "11th Decree" in 1941 which said any German Jew living outside of Germany lost their citizenship. This included any who had left, and also those they sent off to camps in Poland. Then after the war they passed the law that said you could get it back if that's why you lost it. There's more to it than that, and for some reason it's easier if it comes from your dad's side than your moms. I'm still working on it.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Now we know what will happen. Heller switches parties, Left Democrats attempt to primary him, are unsuccessful due to the Democratic party backing Heller as reward for him switching, he loses to the Republican. He'd have to bring Sandoval with since they're attached,, hand to colon. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Heller switching parties might literally kill McMagic. Hope is a lie 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties Quite the list.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Heller switching parties might literally kill McMagic. Speaking of which, https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/878319585648230400 https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/878320964815147013
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Mulva posted:We already pick up poo poo up there that is just over the counter and cheaper. Like people on the border go up for insulin and testing strips evidently because it's cheaper than the poo poo they can get here. So what stops this from becoming a black market where individuals buy stuff and resell it?
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I could technically get Italian citizenship (and therefore EU citizenship) through my dad, but I'd have to present my birth certificate for that, and it's got the wrong gender marker on it and Wisconsin doesn't seem to change gender markers on birth certificates  I mean I could try anyway and explain it to the people working there, but I doubt it'd work out very well.
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of which, "Up for grabs"? What is this, an auction?
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Obviously I'm not serious, just referencing Arlen Specter/Sestak Toomey. Though I misremembered, I thought Specter beat Sestak.
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There is a serious problem. Raising minimum wage will push large corporations to embrace automation faster than before. It works - and it's going to create a massive unemployment problem within the next 10 years. I would not surprised if within the next 20 years 50% or more of the entire population is left unemployed at this rate.
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Pollyanna posted:I could technically get Italian citizenship (and therefore EU citizenship) through my dad, but I'd have to present my birth certificate for that, and it's got the wrong gender marker on it and Wisconsin doesn't seem to change gender markers on birth certificates Last time I checked the US doesn't recognize dual citizenship, so it would be a pretty big clusterfuck to get that.
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PhazonLink posted:So what stops this from becoming a black market where individuals buy stuff and resell it? customs and the fact that most people that could fund that sort of venture are probably rich enough to be a Martin Shkreli and just do the reverse to an existing company. If you could get around the fact that this scheme would be shut down in shipping you probably could make a killing with what would be a genuinely Disruptive Innovation (the kind that isn't just a way for rich people to say "we're using phones to avoid regulation")
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No Butt Stuff posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties code:
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Pollyanna posted:I could technically get Italian citizenship (and therefore EU citizenship) through my dad, but I'd have to present my birth certificate for that, and it's got the wrong gender marker on it and Wisconsin doesn't seem to change gender markers on birth certificates Yeah, the EU thing is why I'm pretty interested in German citizenship. My wife is German also, so I could get citizenship if we lived there for 3 years, but I don't want to do that. And I could get a spousal visa for any EU country, but it's a big hassle. I'd rather just be like "see this REISPASS? Let me hang out as long as I want, Ireland!" Is the gender marker wrong because you transitioned or because they just made a big dumb clerical error? Obviously that's personal so feel free to just not answer if that's too person to ask online. Hellblazer187 fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of which, Lmfao so this Senate bill is as good as dead then.
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Javes posted:Why not just turn the cameras on? Whats the worst they can do? The WH has already essentially blacklisted CNN anyway. What's the point? They obviously stopped the cameras so they can just claim anything was said and they can't be contradicted but, in the first place, they were already doing that WITH video so, honestly, what the point? "The Whitehouse said this" "No we didn't" *releases video of the Whitehouse saying this* "No we didn't" Trump supporter/FOX News: "Fake News lying again."
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Confounding Factor posted:Lmfao so this Senate bill is as good as dead then. Nah. Press sec is a clueless waste of space
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Reminder that Wittes is a friend of Comey's and did his "tick tick tick" thing when the last few bombshells dropped, so he's not full of poo poo. My guess would be more details from WaPo about the CIA intercept of Putin personally ordering his goons to help defeat Clinton and get Trump as POTUS.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Last time I checked the US doesn't recognize dual citizenship, so it would be a pretty big clusterfuck to get that. Yeah, I used to have Guatemalan citizenship as a kid, but it runs out after like 14 or 15 or so.
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Sometimes Wittes tick tick ticks have been for relatively minor things, I'd say about 50/50 we're major bombshells though which is a good hit rate
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No Butt Stuff posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties  edit:  quote:In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush). In July, after failing to gain any ground in the presidential race and before any primaries or caucuses had taken place, Smith announced he was leaving the Republican Party and would seek the nomination of the Taxpayers' Party. One month later, Smith left the Taxpayers Party after claiming that ideologues within the party resisted his candidacy due to his Roman Catholicism and announced as an Independent. He withdrew completely from the race in October and endorsed Bush. Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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Confounding Factor posted:Lmfao so this Senate bill is as good as dead then. No, unfortunately. They can still buy off enough people, but there could be much lengthier behind the scenes negotiations than McConnell was hoping for. Current received wisdom is it will take at least 8 'nos' o none of the defectors feel too much pressure.
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Pollyanna posted:I could technically get Italian citizenship (and therefore EU citizenship) through my dad, but I'd have to present my birth certificate for that, and it's got the wrong gender marker on it and Wisconsin doesn't seem to change gender markers on birth certificates Could you claim to be transgender? You might be able to claim asylum as well for that reason. Besides, they're Italians. Just sneer and flip your hair as they sexually harass you and they'll wave you through. ::rides by in a Vespa:: Ciaaaaooooo!
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the right loves free ammunition http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/23/caught-on-tape-dem-official-says-hes-glad-scalise-got-shot.html quote:A Nebraska Democratic Party official was removed from his post on Thursday after an audio recording surfaced of him saying he's “glad” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got shot last week.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:"Up for grabs"? What is this, an auction? Yep, and the current government is willing to sell your life.
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"oh no, a guy who was on the technology committee in bumfuck nowhere said what a bunch of us were thinking!"
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:the right loves free ammunition drat, I guess he shouldn't have been posting so much in this thread.
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I hope more people get shot over healthcare but it's with vaccines and medicine because our health care is so good.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:the right loves free ammunition If that was a GOP politician saying that about a Democrat, he would be praised and perhaps even promoted.
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PhazonLink posted:So what stops this from becoming a black market where individuals buy stuff and resell it? Generally knowledge it exists. Like why the gently caress would someone think to look for a black market dealer of Canadian diabetes testing strips when they could just drive to Canada and buy a shitton of them? Like fun drugs, there are natural ways that stuff propagates at parties and clubs and whatnot. You see someone light up, you ask who their guy is. You aren't exactly going to see someone test at a nightclub and go "Man where you get them tight generic testing strips?". Nor is it the sort of thing that really has it's own subculture. Hard to make a cool t-shirt about how you want food and rent, and also to pay for the life giving medicine that keeps your 8 year old alive. Most you'll get is little support communities that might quietly tell each other how to save some money by crossing the border.
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