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QuoProQuid posted:To be real for a moment, Kobach's voter fraud panel does not have the resources to pursue actual cases of voter fraud. Given his history in Kansas and the language of the request, I expect that the report will focus on those who are registered in two states and try to conflate double registration with illegal voting in multiple states. It will probably also try to make "soft matches" between people with similar names and voting records across state lines, implying that some of these cases might be instances of voting fraud. The panel itself might hear testimony from local and state election officials claiming anecdotal instances of voting fraud or otherwise suspicious behavior. This is literally and exactly how Crosscheck works/worked. Kobach got a bunch of states to send him their voter roles, and he fed them into this system, then went back and said "okay here are duplicates between states, purge them." Now, the system has checks for using middle name and a host of other things to minimize or eliminate false positives. They just disabled all of them, and probably selectively picked their duplicates on top of that.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The media just can't help falling over themselves to write glowing pieces about Ivanka. Who is the only one in the family smart enough to keep her mouth shut about most things and gives mostly non-answers when asked about controversial issues. John Oliver did a good piece a month or two ago talking about this. She's a personality-free emotionless left-brained marketing expert. (gee I wonder who did that.) I can understand the WANT to humanize her, but that seems like a hail-mary.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 05:18 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I would pay good goddamn money for White House chef meatloaf. There's a recent book called A Meatloaf in every oven. The authors got recipes from a lot of notable people including several politicains. I made a joke about Paul "skips leg day" Ryan and his deerloaf and him being a hunter that definitely hunts for real. e: reference pics. PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Bueno Papi posted:It's easy to mock him but even Guy Fieri is too high end for Trump. Eh, Trump would want him based on popularity standing alone. You could be a clown slapping together a cheeseburger and if Trump read about your popularity, he'd hire you immediately. You know, provided that you've never done anything that left him with less than a smile because he's a petty old fucker
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Young Freud posted:That sounds like a mishmash of political terms he heard. Why the hell would there be a term limit on lobbyists? They're not elected. I brought up the problem of lobbyists running the show when you have term limits, and that was his answer, coupled with having new members of the house and senate do an internship. I gotta say the second one seems a like a solid stab at problem solving rather then just complaining. I'm not sure how it would work but I don't think apprenticing(his word) politicians before they go into office is a terrible idea.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"Another chef has hanged themselves with their apron, my Lord. The suicide note read the same as the last two...'I just can't waste my life and talent cooking food this bad - I would say to tell my wife and children I love them, but I forgot how to love anything a month ago.'" "Harold died a long time ago. I knew we would have to reach out to Dignitas when he started furiously Googling KFCs blend of recipes while angry tears filled his eyes."
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 05:22 |
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Bueno Papi posted:It's easy to mock him but even Guy Fieri is too high end for Trump. Despite what he's known for, Guy Fieri actually lives in like, one of the most liberal counties in the nation. And while I'm not a fan of his restaurants, he does do work with one of the tastier restaurants in his area, which is a culinary apprentice program for at-risk youth & young adults. https://www.worthourweight.org
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Pillowpants posted:
So Paul Weyrich is a name that comes up in my own research as well. He is nuts-deep in connections to the Council for National Policy, ALEC, and helped promote Accelerated Christian Education behind the scenes. Needless to say I am very interested in seeing where your research leads Pillowpants.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:...Which Justice did you see? Notorious RBG at that National Art Gallery
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 05:53 |
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He was a Bircher too. Soooooo, basically every right wing poo poo head you can think of will be connected to him.
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Throwing Turtles posted:I brought up the problem of lobbyists running the show when you have term limits, and that was his answer, coupled with having new members of the house and senate do an internship. I gotta say the second one seems a like a solid stab at problem solving rather then just complaining. I'm not sure how it would work but I don't think apprenticing(his word) politicians before they go into office is a terrible idea. It's another sign of the guy being political ignorant. Most representatives worked their way up to elected office either by doing grunt work early in their career or being activists, they rarely just pop up from nowhere unless they have poo poo-tons of money and popularity. Paul Ryan was a congressional aide for Senator Bob Kasten back in 1992, then getting into the FreedomWorks gravy train before going for political office. Nancy Pelosi literally interned for Senator Daniel Brewster and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in the '60s and '70s, before she worked her way up through the local, state, and national-level Democratic Party structures in the late '70s and '80s, and before running for Congress in 1993. Mitch McConnell also interned for Senator John Sherman Cooper during the '60s. Chuck Schumer campaigned for Eugene McCarthy before going into state then federal politics. None of these guys came from nowhere, their early careers were spent working for other elder statesmen. That guy also lacked the self-awareness that his boy would be disqualified under his idea. Hillary Clinton was far more experienced politically than Trump before going into elected office, having worked with on Walter Mondale's subcommittee on migrant labor as a researcher, among her activist background. People need to take civics classes.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 05:55 |
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i dreamed i saw obama riding shotgun in the sky, and he was turning into butterflies above our nation
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Young Freud posted:It's another sign of the guy being political ignorant. Most representatives worked their way up to elected office either by doing grunt work early in their career or being activists, they rarely just pop up from nowhere unless they have poo poo-tons of money and popularity. Paul Ryan was a congressional aide for Senator Bob Kasten back in 1992, then getting into the FreedomWorks gravy train before going for political office. Nancy Pelosi literally interned for Senator Daniel Brewster and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in the '60s and '70s, before she worked her way up through the local, state, and national-level Democratic Party structures in the late '70s and '80s, and before running for Congress in 1993. Mitch McConnell also interned for Senator John Sherman Cooper during the '60s. Chuck Schumer campaigned for Eugene McCarthy before going into state then federal politics. None of these guys came from nowhere, their early careers were spent working for other elder statesmen. Yeah he was all over the place, but hearing him talk about politicians needing training was a hell of a lot easier then hearing how great Trump was. At this point my bar is so low that somebody moving away from 2nd amendment solutions is a good day no matter how out of touch with reality it is.
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city of doves posted:i dreamed i saw obama riding shotgun in the sky, and he was turning into butterflies above our nation What's the over/under on whether he was actually riding shotgun?
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city of doves posted:i dreamed i saw obama riding shotgun in the sky, and he was turning into butterflies above our nation We are stardust We are golden We are piiiiiss taaaapes...
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repeating posted:What's the over/under on whether he was actually riding shotgun? The letter W. Boon fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Spiffster posted:No sir, you can't cast Engineered Plague targeting Muslims... On the other hand, considering what he cast to win the election, I wouldn't be so sure...
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mynnna posted:On the other hand, considering what he cast to win the election, I wouldn't be so sure... Fun fact: that card has a current internal identifier on the Magic web site of 1488. Also, the artist is a Neo-Nazi.
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Boon posted:Idiot. Reactionary obviously not getting that quoted poster was saying a dumb and I added a dumb to it.
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Young Freud posted:It's another sign of the guy being political ignorant. Most representatives worked their way up to elected office either by doing grunt work early in their career or being activists, they rarely just pop up from nowhere unless they have poo poo-tons of money and popularity. Paul Ryan was a congressional aide for Senator Bob Kasten back in 1992, then getting into the FreedomWorks gravy train before going for political office. Nancy Pelosi literally interned for Senator Daniel Brewster and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in the '60s and '70s, before she worked her way up through the local, state, and national-level Democratic Party structures in the late '70s and '80s, and before running for Congress in 1993. Mitch McConnell also interned for Senator John Sherman Cooper during the '60s. Chuck Schumer campaigned for Eugene McCarthy before going into state then federal politics. None of these guys came from nowhere, their early careers were spent working for other elder statesmen. He said congress and senators should have internships, nothing about the Prez. MAGA! *keeps voting Dr. "Best Brain" Donnie even after Dr. Donnie forced himself into a operating room and caused an "incident"*
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The one constant so far has been the Republicans projecting like crazy. Everything they accuse the Democrats of turns out to be something they themselves had been knowingly doing all along. At first it seemed like a tactic, but at this point it seems like some kind of uncontrollable Riddler-esque compulsion. Given that tendency to project with all of their accusations, should we be a bit worried that they keep bringing up the idea of Democrats running a child sex slavery ring catering to the top echelons of government? Pizzagate was absurd enough long before it was upgraded to Martian Pizzagate, but it got a weird amount of traction.
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Prism posted:Fun fact: that card has a current internal identifier on the Magic web site of 1488. The ID numbers in there are pretty much just "every magic card in existence sequentially", so it very likely is just a hilarious coincidence, but still.
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Whenever I have a conversation with my dad about Russian interference in the election, he brings up US interference in the Israeli election and he seems genuinely more upset about that than anything Russia did. My dad has no connection to Israel.
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Pakled posted:Whenever I have a conversation with my dad about Russian interference in the election, he brings up US interference in the Israeli election and he seems genuinely more upset about that than anything Russia did. My dad has no connection to Israel. The man had to have lived through the 70s and 80s, does he not remember the US / USSR loving around with elections all over the world?
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Your dad is an idiot.
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Robot Hobo posted:The one constant so far has been the Republicans projecting like crazy. Everything they accuse the Democrats of turns out to be something they themselves had been knowingly doing all along. At first it seemed like a tactic, but at this point it seems like some kind of uncontrollable Riddler-esque compulsion. I think it did start as a tactic, but was profitable - so therefore about half that nation is eating it up right now while the republican news/radio sell pills, reverse life insurance, and catheters. You see because that target audience - those who want their deepest, shameful fears to be publicly legitamized. Lo and behold it worked.
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What US-Israeli interference is he talking about? The only instances I know of are recent ones. And by ones, I mean one and that was Bibi being a cocksucker that tried to help Mittens win because he hates that " "neoliberal" " Obama.
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PhazonLink posted:What US-Israeli interference is he talking about? I think it's the one where the Obama administration funded some organization that was officially promoting a two-state solution but had no party affiliation, but then after they got the money (with no strings attached) they shifted toward taking direct sides in the Israeli election.
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quote:Given that tendency to project with all of their accusations, should we be a bit worried that they keep bringing up the idea of Democrats running a child sex slavery ring catering to the top echelons of government? Dennis Hastert's scandal already happened, and he was Speaker of the House for eight years, but it didn't get much attention because he'd already been out of office and out of the public eye for another eight. The 2006 midterm election already had a child sex scandal with Rep. Mark Foley resigning on September 29, 2006. Imagine if such a scandal had happened right now with Paul Ryan in October 2018, presaged by a random no-name representative resigning a month earlier. Such a scenario is more than theoretical; it could have already happened eight years earlier if the holes of Swiss cheese had aligned.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 07:40 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Remember when every now and then Obama would venture outside the White House and go to 5 guys or Panera Bread or some poo poo? Mingle with the commoners for a bit? There is a significant chance he would have an incredibly ugly social encounter caught on camera.
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dont even fink about it posted:There is a significant chance he would have an incredibly ugly social encounter caught on camera. If cameras are present, it's really a matter of when, not if, and definitely not where.
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The Glumslinger posted:Notorious RBG at that National Art Gallery In full rave gear, no doubt. Because she is just that cool. Florida Ghost fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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It had to be done...
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 08:51 |
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"If this war goes on, and it will -- it will. What else can we do but go on, you and I? It's always the same question forever, what else can we do? If they fight, we must fight with them. And does it matter after all, who wins? Was that ever really the question? Will Almighty God ask that question in the end?"
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litany of gulps posted:"If this war goes on, and it will -- it will. Such a good movie. Sheen might have been a little miscast though imo.
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Majorian posted:Such a good movie. Sheen might have been a little miscast though imo. I don't know, I like it. He's intense and weird about it. I can't process Berenger as the legit non-crazy man. That's the strange part for me.
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Majorian posted:Such a good movie. Sheen might have been a little miscast though imo. What movie we talking here? I need some stuff to watch this summer.
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BigglesSWE posted:What movie we talking here? I need some stuff to watch this summer. Platoon. Another movie I've been thinking a lot about lately is "The Last Supper" with Ron Perlman playing a conservative pundit with lofty ambitions.
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Young Freud posted:It had to be done... Need to get me on my Martian plantation with my child slaves
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BigglesSWE posted:What movie we talking here? I need some stuff to watch this summer. For a second I thought they were talking about Major League and I was gonna say that Sheen was perfect casting since he can throw an 85 mph fastball on steroids.
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