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NoDamage posted:Exactly what would have been worse than Trump winning the election and nominating a Secretary of Education that wants to gut public education, an EPA head that doesn't believe in climate change, a racist drug-war hawk as the attorney general, and (with Congress) pushing through a health care bill that will result in millions more uninsured and thousands more dying every year? No, my friends, we are already in the worst timeline. Feel free to read that as "would not necessarily have made things better," and it may well be right. Witness how half our politically motivated population seems to have completely ignored the hard evidence of election meddling in order to cash in on the power they won partially thanks to that meddling (or, in a few cases, to cash in on the unmitigated high of Being Right About Centrists I guess). Obama being louder about things could have changed how the election turned out but I'm skeptical.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Good news, engagement with the #hellerVoteYes tag is up 10,500%! No need to look at the tweets, Mr. Heller, let's get to voting. This implies that Heller isn't sitting at his kitchen table scrolling through the tag and watching his re-election chances rise.
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spunkshui posted:Somewere around the "I would be one of the most healthy presidents ever" I started to realize he might actually have a mental problem. He had to say it to save even a modicum of face. He's coming after the two most athletic Presidents in recent history. You have to go back to Teddy Roosevelt and Taft to find a worse handoff. Maybe he should have just said he was the healthiest major party candidate running. At least that had a chance to be true.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Even the goddamn GOP legislature had a lot of fun trying to make state employees say the magic words. Reminder, "Nuisance flooding" is causing the sewers to back up on a not uncommon occurrence. Enjoy your poo poo water. LOL at FL always making sure it remains #1 worst state.
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Krispy Kareem posted:He had to say it to save even a modicum of face. He's coming after the two most athletic Presidents in recent history. You have to go back to Teddy Roosevelt and Taft to find a worse handoff. He also explicitly couched his misogynist attacks against Hillary's gender in the language of "stamina," so he had to juxtapose her weak, womanly fragility against his manly vigor, whether or not he consciously knew that was what he was doing. And Donald is incapable of speaking except in superlative and hyperbolic language.
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Paul MaudDib posted:I actually literally feel bad for Donald Trump right now. Realtalk, as someone who watched a grandparent slide into Alzheimers, Trump is displaying serious signs of cognitive impairment. He reverts to younger behavior (discussing business over dinner) and leaks classified information in public literally right in front of the press. He forgets where he is in the middle of a photo op with Netanyahu and wanders off. This is not a guy who is fully grasping the contexts of where he is and what he's doing, and the mental degradation is so obvious from videos of even 10 years or so ago. He's in the hotseat of world power and he doesn't fully understand what is going on or what his actions will really do. Guy's probably confused why his usual approaches aren't working. I agree, mostly. A lot of people have said this before, but you put it nicely. The one thing is, while there are pretty clear signs of cognitive impairment, diagnosing which type is beyond the information we have. It could be Alzheimers, but there are there are other types of dementia, with different symptoms and prognosis: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/info/20007/types_of_dementia As with so much else about Trump, we know something is wrong, but we don't know what it is. My grandmother died in 2015, and she had pulmonary hypertension for some years, which gave her lower oxygen levels. She also had a hip fracture. This, together with all the medications she was taking, meant that she had a lot of problems with memory and focus. It wasn't Alzheimers, but it did end up with her being cognitively impaired. Sometimes she was normal, and sometimes not. There are a lot of causes for these types of things. Also, somewhat like Donald Trump, my grandmother juggled a lot of things, and managed to keep it up while she was more alert. Once she had cognitive impairment, a lot of the stuff finally came home, and the federal SWAT teams came in, etc. (Not a joke, my grandmother's last six months of life had members of my family getting arrested and a federal prosecution. So this gives me some idea of what is going on with Trump.) glowing-fish fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh absolutely. I'm just raising the technical point. As far as I can tell it's the only legitimate objection to the diagnosis. The DSM is a research manual that does not sync up well with real world psychiatric illness. No good clinician allows technical points to undermine a diagnosis. With that said it's incredibly silly to attempt arm chair distance diagnosis of anyone, especially someone whose entire career revolves around having a purposeful tailored preconstructed personality. This goes for the dementia stuff too. Megasabin fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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i heard trump eats worms c/d? https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/878656875444785153
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Duke Igthorn posted:I LOVE Trump's constant supervillainesque "No one can stop me!! Mnya heh heh heh" taunts! Like it is literally my favorite thing about all of this poo poo is that he has just, repeatedly, stood up in public and screamed "Then why haven't you stopped me yet?? MmmmmmnnnnnnnYAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!" AND NO ONE HAS STOPPED HIM YET! Holy poo poo how cartoonishly villainous can someone actually be in real life?? He's literally a Captain Planet villain.
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Jealous Cow posted:
I don't think anyone believed Mark Zuckerberg was a secret muslim Edit: and tenderloin sandwiches are good
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There Bias Two posted:Somewhere, someone read this and thought, "drat, we should at least be able to get that up to 1 in 3." Not 3 out of 5? 
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FuturePastNow posted:I don't think anyone believed Mark Zuckerberg was a secret muslim No but they believe he's one of them dastardly Jews.
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RiggenBlaque posted:Wow, I guess that super PAC is already putting out those heller ads, I just got this It's so hosed up that literally nothing can stop this bill that only 1% of the population actually wants. Even the government is exempting itself from it and the Dems aren't hammering them on that even after the lie of Dems being exempt from Obamacare is STILL around. Public approval ratings are against it, lobbyists are against it, the media is against it, it's like being in a speeding car and the brakes go out so you reach for the ebrake and it doesn't work, then you try to scrape the car along the guard rail but friction doesn't even slow you down, and then the door handle snaps off in your hand. It's hosed up and bizarre and nightmarish and it makes no loving sense.
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HootTheOwl posted:Does this count children? You're an idiot.
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So wait, the Republican's solution to the classic health insurance problem of, 'if insurance isn't required no one will buy it' is, 'if you don't buy it, you'll be ineligible for six months'? I think it's funny that the party that's built a policy talking point out of health care 'access' wants to make it harder to get health insurance, to say nothing of its affordability.
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Eltoasto posted:It's a pork tenderloin sandwich. I know Indiana considers it the state food and I bet Iowa is much the same, so it's like bragging that you are in memphis eating BBQ, as ridiculous as that may sound. But Tennessee doesn't have any barbecue?  I kid, I kid
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Even the goddamn GOP legislature had a lot of fun trying to make state employees say the magic words. I distinctly remember one of them using the term "atmospheric restructuring" to try to get around the rule.
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Mendrian posted:So wait, the Republican's solution to the classic health insurance problem of, 'if insurance isn't required no one will buy it' is, 'if you don't buy it, you'll be ineligible for six months'? Does the Republican Party even have convictions or positions anymore? They exist solely to stunt progress in american society.
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mango sentinel posted:You're an idiot. Hey, maybe if they hired a decent writer I would have bothered to read more than two paragraphs and wouldn't have had to ask.
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/yashar/status/878437465282953216 I can't think of a more cynical triangulation. Everyone knows he's the least folksy white male alive so showing that he's really Jewish but not one of those "bad' Jews who doesn't eat pork makes a lot of sense. Nobody is going to buy Westchester richboy Zuck thinks that Iowa is his "kind of place."
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Burt Buckle posted:Does the Republican Party even have convictions or positions anymore? They exist solely to stunt progress in american society. 1) More money for us. 2) gently caress you.
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Mendrian posted:So wait, the Republican's solution to the classic health insurance problem of, 'if insurance isn't required no one will buy it' is, 'if you don't buy it, you'll be ineligible for six months'?
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quote:In Florida, 1.5 million people were disenfranchised by a law that disqualifies ex-felons from voting, resulting in one in every four African American residents unable to vote in 2016. 25% of black Floridians are felons? What?
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Burt Buckle posted:Does the Republican Party even have convictions or positions anymore? They exist solely to stunt progress in american society. We went over this a while ago and I believe the consensus reached was that 'the republican party is the party of white resentment.' Sounds about right. Just an unending list of grievances and a plan to destroy everything Obama did. Mango Sentinel posted:
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boner confessor posted:i am a maedical professional, and in my professional medical opinion trump is a narcissist with early onset demential thank you Comedy option would be neurosyphilis. Maybe he caught a bullet during his personal Vietnam?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:25% of black Floridians are felons? What? I thought this sounded weird too, but Florida has 1.5 million disenfranchised adults (in prison/jail, on parole, or past felony conviction) and something to the tune of 3.5 million black people total. It, uh, sounds plausible. 
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A lot of y'all would be felons too if you got arrested and prosecuted at the rates black folks do. Get pulled over for driving whole black, etc.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A lot of y'all would be felons too if you got arrested and prosecuted at the rates black folks do. Get pulled over for driving whole black, etc. Well yeah, I was just vaguely surprised by the number being 25% of total adults. In hindsight, not sure why I was.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:25% of black Floridians are felons? What? There are areas where that percentage gets even higher, iirc. Both the laws (mandatory minimum sentencing specifically targeting drugs associated with black people over those associated with white people) and the courts are stacked against black people. Look at stuff like conviction rates and chance to be wrongfully sentenced by race. poo poo's hosed.
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Duke Igthorn posted:I LOVE Trump's constant supervillainesque "No one can stop me!! Mnya heh heh heh" taunts! Like it is literally my favorite thing about all of this poo poo is that he has just, repeatedly, stood up in public and screamed "Then why haven't you stopped me yet?? MmmmmmnnnnnnnYAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!" AND NO ONE HAS STOPPED HIM YET! Holy poo poo how cartoonishly villainous can someone actually be in real life?? He has retroactively justified every single ham-fisted greedy villain character. I used to think songs like Capital G were a bit on the nose but welp here we are with the AHCA and even Hallelujah Money is downright subtle by comparison.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A lot of y'all would be felons too if you got arrested and prosecuted at the rates black folks do. Get pulled over for driving whole black, etc. Yeah, definitely. That statistic is still freaking me out though.
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Peven Stan posted:I can't think of a more cynical triangulation. Everyone knows he's the least folksy white male alive so showing that he's really Jewish but not one of those "bad' Jews who doesn't eat pork makes a lot of sense. Nobody is going to buy Westchester richboy Zuck thinks that Iowa is his "kind of place." https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/878630411412406272
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Fitzy Fitz posted:25% of black Floridians are felons? What? 25% of black Americans have a felony conviction. Florida is actually a little higher. Jim Crow never went away.
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PhazonLink posted:Reminder. Marvel/DC/Image/some small label comic company needs to come out with a series that is just these people with the serial numbers filed off starting as villains. Just give them a fake name, and use these kinds of stories as the bad guys.
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mango sentinel posted:25% of black Americans have a felony conviction. Florida is actually a little higher. Jim Crow never went away. No loving way. It's maybe half that for only adult black men. .Edit: no actually this is about right. The figure I was thinking of was for those currently disenfranchised. Shocking. Ogmius815 fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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Duke Igthorn posted:I LOVE Trump's constant supervillainesque "No one can stop me!! Mnya heh heh heh" taunts! Like it is literally my favorite thing about all of this poo poo is that he has just, repeatedly, stood up in public and screamed "Then why haven't you stopped me yet?? MmmmmmnnnnnnnYAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA!!" AND NO ONE HAS STOPPED HIM YET! Holy poo poo how cartoonishly villainous can someone actually be in real life?? This is actually a facet of sociopathic behavior. Go look at any interview with Dahmer after he's caught and he keep repeating that he wanted to stop killing people, but he was so amazed that it was so easy and no one stopped him. So he kept going. Or at least that's his rationalization of it.
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Ogmius815 posted:Narcissistic personality disorder is a clinical disorder and being a mental patient raised by a cult does not make you competent to diagnose it, especially in someone you have never met. Maybe not, but as someone working in mental health with a background in diagnostics, I and my colleagues agree that he is a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Even looking at old footage, it is apparent. He can never be wrong and everything is about his successes, and he only aligns with individuals who can serve a need he has.
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