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Mikl posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889798407228989441 I think it's pretty fascinating that, even at the beginning of all of this, people were genuinely angry that McCain would come back from his cancer treatments or whatever just to vote on repealing the ACA. And then his vote ends up being one of the deciding votes for keeping the ACA as it is, and everyone's suddenly changed their mind on him. e: Like, there were people in the beginning saying "McCain's closer to moderate than people think, actually. There's a good chance he'll vote against the repeals as they are.", and anyone saying that was shouted down as being an idiot, at least in what I'd seen. SpacePig has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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oldpainless posted:He actually died Poor ol' Freckles, thought of base hits and died.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets a lesson in why you shouldn't wear green on TV: https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/890735104758296576
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SpacePig posted:I think it's pretty fascinating that, even at the beginning of all of this, people were genuinely angry that McCain would come back from his cancer treatments or whatever just to vote on repealing the ACA. And then his vote ends up being one of the deciding votes for keeping the ACA as it is, and everyone's suddenly changed their mind on him. But none of this would have happened if McCain hadn't come back just to vote on opening the debate in the first place. He's getting credit for killing the monster he brought to life.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:But none of this would have happened if McCain hadn't come back just to vote on opening the debate in the first place. He's getting credit for killing the monster he brought to life. Oh, fair enough. I forgot that the vote on opening debate is what kicked this off. I'm dumb.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets a lesson in why you shouldn't wear green on TV: I like that Spicer's wearing a green tie in that last clip, really ties it all together. (That said, wearing green on TV is fine if you know you're not going to be in front of a chroma-key backdrop, and you could really do that kind of editing with any solid color.)
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:But none of this would have happened if McCain hadn't come back just to vote on opening the debate in the first place. He's getting credit for killing the monster he brought to life. had to get one last handjob from the press
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"You have to have insurance or pay a fine" was a line item the Republicans insisted be in the ACA to placate their insurance-company backers. "The healthy people have to pay for the sick people" is how insurance works and has always worked. Every day, Fox and Friends gets dumber.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:53
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Good thing the president uses it as his main source of news.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets a lesson in why you shouldn't wear green on TV: https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/842481727419420674
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SpacePig posted:Oh, fair enough. I forgot that the vote on opening debate is what kicked this off. I'm dumb. Now that it only requires a normal majority to proceed to debate and it can't be used as much by the minority to affect change on the bill, it seems necessary to block. Let it go to debate, then vote. Also, was the text of the 8 page bill only made available a few hours before voting? Thats dumb.
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Besesoth posted:I like that Spicer's wearing a green tie in that last clip, really ties it all together. 
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Besesoth posted:That said, wearing green on TV is fine if you know you're not going to be in front of a chroma-key backdrop, and you could really do that kind of editing with any solid color. I was about to ask whether there was something special about the colour green that made, well, greenscreen a thing, so thanks!
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funmanguy posted:Now that it only requires a normal majority to proceed to debate and it can't be used as much by the minority to affect change on the bill, it seems necessary to block. Let it go to debate, then vote. Also, was the text of the 8 page bill only made available a few hours before voting? Thats dumb. The Republican senators literally (and I am not joking about this) wrote the text of the bill over lunch to have it ready for voting in the afternoon. Analysing the bill? Debating on it? What's that?  Also, I remember reading on these very forums (or maybe twitter? I forget) the following about McCain: "McCain is an eighty-year-old man who survived cancer once, and now has cancer again. This is very likely his last term in the Senate. He will never stand for re-election again. He doesn't have to worry about voting along party lines or anything like that. What he'll do until his term is up will tell you what kind of person he really is." Very true, as it turns out.
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CommissarMega posted:I was about to ask whether there was something special about the colour green that made, well, greenscreen a thing, so thanks! Green is typically used because the filters in modern digital cameras are more sensitive to green (mimicking the human eye), so the green channel has less noise than the red or blue channels and can produce cleaner mattes.
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While what he did was probably to receive a handjob from the press, I'm not going to argue the end result.
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Besesoth posted:"You have to have insurance or pay a fine" was a line item the Republicans insisted be in the ACA to placate their insurance-company backers. Seriously, the "healthy people have to pay for the sick people" line always gets me. THAT'S LITERALLY HOW INSURANCE WORKS YOU DOLTS! So many people seem to think that it's something you're paying into like a retirement account and you're just withdrawing when you get sick.
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CommissarMega posted:I was about to ask whether there was something special about the colour green that made, well, greenscreen a thing, so thanks! They picked up on Blue because of some physical property of film makes the blue layer less grainy than Red or Green, and thus would provide a cleaner cutout. Green is used with digital film usually because Green is sampled twice as often as blue, which provides a cleaner cut out for digital film. They're both used because they're complementary to human skintone and thus have the least likelihood of having people's faces become partially transparent. But if you have a strong uniform hue you can theoretically chromakey with any color.
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SpacePig posted:I think it's pretty fascinating that, even at the beginning of all of this, people were genuinely angry that McCain would come back from his cancer treatments or whatever just to vote on repealing the ACA. And then his vote ends up being one of the deciding votes for keeping the ACA as it is, and everyone's suddenly changed their mind on him. he's now released a statement saying he only voted no because the bill didn't go far enough 
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"didn't go far enough" in the sense that he wants them to actually have a replacement ready to go that actually hits the points they say they want to hit. Not just repealing Obamacare for the sake of looking good to Poppa Trump. e: I mean this might just be a platitude to his conservative base, but he does say that he wants Democrats to actually be okay with it and not just force through a partisan bill because they can. 
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McCain says a lot of things, last night he refused to say how he was voting and told reporters to "watch the show"
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BASE jumping is so loving dangerous
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What was he doing? "Look ma no hands?"
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canyoneer posted:http://abcnews4.com/news/crime-news/video-woman-tries-to-rob-ladson-mcdonalds-with-knife-from-drive-thru-window It's great that the video keeps going so we get to see their reactions  Kurieg posted:What was he doing? "Look ma no hands?" He was squeezing the water out of his gloves
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He was squeezing the water out of his gloves Yeah but there's no reason to do it like that, right in front of your field of view, except to show off to your gopro. If it's raining hard enough that you need to squeeze the water out of your gloves it's raining hard enough that you should really be riding more carefully.
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Kurieg posted:"didn't go far enough" in the sense that he wants them to actually have a replacement ready to go that actually hits the points they say they want to hit. Not just repealing Obamacare for the sake of looking good to Poppa Trump. exactly, if we take his words at face value, he wants something that is palatable for everyone on both sides and actually delivers, whatever that solution might be my guess is he's not gonna outright say anything that might toe too far from THE MARKET KNOWS BEST but his emphasis on not just scrapping for the sake of scrapping without having any viable alternative is heartening, to say the least
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Kurieg posted:What was he doing? "Look ma no hands?" he's obviously draining his gloves (which is still stupid, you dont have to do it in front of the camera dumbass)
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Maybe he was testing some new gloves that were supposed to be waterproof but he was showing the camera that they were waterlogged?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Maybe he was testing some new gloves that were supposed to be waterproof but he was showing the camera that they were waterlogged? Yeah, might be this. Still, he could do it at home with a hose  losing focus while riding a bike in those conditions is reaalllyy bad
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I should probably stop trying to make sense of these dashcam crash videos, it's a fool's errand
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AlmightyBob posted:McCain says a lot of things, last night he refused to say how he was voting and told reporters to "watch the show" If I learned anything from Top Gun, it's that mavericks like an audience.
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orange sky posted:losing focus while riding a bike alternately orange sky posted:
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I imagine most people are not keen on watching someone die, but: 1. This guy was very old. 2. It's a nazi. https://twitter.com/xbCC0981LdF25kD/status/884747826382725120 Edit: "a heartfelt speech" https://twitter.com/BKforBernie/status/890966719317123072 Mierenneuker has a new favorite as of 18:43 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Mierenneuker posted:I imagine most people are not keen on watching someone die, but: "How'd the speech go, Gramps?" "Killed it!"
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Is it sad that I get a lot of my political news from the schadenfreude thread? It's usually the most satisfying place to find out.
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Mierenneuker posted:I imagine most people are not keen on watching someone die, but: lol
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He'll never be the head of a major corp- no wait poo poo that's not the right joke at all.
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Mikl posted:The Republican senators literally (and I am not joking about this) wrote the text of the bill over lunch to have it ready for voting in the afternoon. Analysing the bill? Debating on it? What's that? The House also enacted martial law so they could vote on it immediately if it passed. They were doing everything they could to try to sneak it through and still failed.
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