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I went to Wikipedia to find out who this person was and.... quote:Neera Tanden (born September 10,[1] 1970) is an American policy adviser and the President of the Center for Corncob Politics [2], a public policy research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.[3] She has served in this role since November 2011, before that serving as Chief Operating Officer from 2010 and in earlier roles.
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e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ loving gently caress you. you beat me because I included an image!  Read about this stupid corncob backlash, then ended up googling Neera Tanden. First line of her wiki right now  Well played.
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Aug 3, 2017 16:21
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happyhippy posted:Looking forward to future rap songs trying to rhyme on 'Corncob'. 'Lou Dobbs'
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WeAreTheRomans posted:e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ loving gently caress you. you beat me because I included an image! Now who's the corncob? 
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Aug 3, 2017 16:24
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SLOB ON MY KNOB LIKE IT'S CORN ON THE COB
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Aug 3, 2017 16:24
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I actually had no idea who Al Giordano is so I looked him up and Ah, yeah, okay. Challenging progressives from the center sure is a great strategy these days, Al.
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Aug 3, 2017 16:25
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VotGs posted:I get the feeling they're confusing 'corncob' with 'cornholing', which is a pretty old term for anal sex, especially anal rape in prison. Wikipedia says that 'corncob' was a synonym for 'cornhole' from the 70s, but I've never particularly heard it used that way. I've heard "corncob" used in ways that indicate butt stuff a VERY small handful of times, but that's absolutely not what's going on in the dril tweet and it basically denies the abilities of words to have 2 definitions.
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Aug 3, 2017 16:26
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interesting: https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/893130662865186816 i assumed that was just going to get buried but maybe not
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Aug 3, 2017 16:26
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Christ, do we have to turn every random dumb statement on twitter into another civil war?
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Aug 3, 2017 16:27
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evilweasel posted:interesting: well I guess for some in the GOP this is a way of turning against Trump for now. If he continues to abuse his own party's congress while contributing nothing (what else is he gonna do?) then hopefully they pick up the pace a bit. I'd rather they get him out before he bombs pyongyang or whatever Casey Finnigan fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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Aug 3, 2017 16:27
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Hey y'all remember on Futurama where bender was the Pharaoh and he made everyone's life miserable, and they did everything he asked them to, and he became an even bigger jerk, and then even his lovely underlings were like "gently caress this throw him in the garbage. Don't even try to make up a plausible excuse." How far are we from that? Ever since I saw Birds Rights Activist I think this is how pussy grabber talks.
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evilweasel posted:https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16084246/mueller-obstruction-case-stronger-trump-surrogates Oh poo poo what does this mean???
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Aug 3, 2017 16:27
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... anyway in real news: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/893129838445330432
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Aug 3, 2017 16:28
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HappyHippo posted:I went to Wikipedia to find out who this person was and.... WeAreTheRomans posted:e: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ loving gently caress you. you beat me because I included an image! Looks like you guys posted In Tandem
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Aug 3, 2017 16:28
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We need to reconcile ourselves to the fact that people on the same side as us are going to have dumb views and make dumb statements and not reflexively make a deal of this.
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Aug 3, 2017 16:31
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HappyHippo posted:... anyway in real news: Oh he's going to fire him now out of spite
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Aug 3, 2017 16:31
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Javes posted:https://twitter.com/axios/status/893122032635965440 Amazon pays very well, apparently. Last report I read had that there is a large influx in people quitting their jobs which is an actual good thing because it indicates security and opportunity In the labor market.
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Aug 3, 2017 16:32
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HappyHippo posted:... anyway in real news:
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Crows Turn Off posted:Couldn't Trump veto this, though? And unless it has a veto-proof majority, it won't actually matter, right? It'll look extremely bad and be tough to defend. So that's something at least.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Chimp is a breathtakingly stupid clown, but he can still inflict untold harm on the country. Good thing we have a strong left that's willing to stand up for the important issues of the day! As a member of the church of Dudeism I find it highly offensive that he would use the term "dude" in a derogatory manner.
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Boon posted:Amazon pays very well, apparently. Last report I read had that there is a large influx in people quitting their jobs which is an actual good thing because it indicates security and opportunity In the labor market. amazon pays well for skilled labor, not for unskilled labor, and the wages listed there for unskilled labor are not "very well" paying jobs
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Aug 3, 2017 16:35
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Teddybear posted:It'll look extremely bad and be tough to defend. So that's something at least.
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https://twitter.com/onesarahjones/status/893083608893849601 Saw this posted earlier today and its interesting given the current ridiculous corncobbed thing. Especially this quote: "If the center wants to win over a suspicious left, they can start by clearly explaining their policy orientation, particularly in areas where they might have fallen short by the supposed standards of the modern Democratic Party — which all three of the above candidates have done in various ways. If they want to deepen divisions, they can use cynical accusations of bigotry to try to beat back any leftist challenger."
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Aug 3, 2017 16:36
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Crows Turn Off posted:Trump doesn't care about looking bad, though. Yeah but Sessions is recused and the more obnoxious and obviously guilty Trump makes himself look the less likely Congress is to approve his pick to replace Sessions. Unless Trump does a recess appointment but I dunno if he'll have the opportunity to do that any time soon. That's the best outcome in that situation at least.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Couldn't Trump veto this, though? And unless it has a veto-proof majority, it won't actually matter, right? If it actually came to a vote on the floor of both houses, it probably would have a veto-proof majority. The biggest obstacle is probably Ryan and/or McConnell quietly killing it by not scheduling a vote for it.
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Today in: how to be an insufferable shithead on the internet (WIRED edition) https://twitter.com/cragcrest/status/893125430873640960
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One interesting thing about this administration that may be a silver lining is the rolling back of executive power. We aren't there yet but the Russian sanctions bill (which specifically limits him), this special council protection, and the talk of preventing Trump from defunding the subsidies are all moving in that direction.
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evilweasel posted:amazon pays well for skilled labor, not for unskilled labor, and the wages listed there for unskilled labor are not "very well" paying jobs Sadly, $13.75, full-time, and health insurance is a massive step up for most people with only a high school degree. The Amazon Warehouse in my area hires seasonal workers from September-January and pays $22 an hour with no benefits.
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evilweasel posted:amazon pays well for skilled labor, not for unskilled labor, and the wages listed there for unskilled labor are not "very well" paying jobs Yeah, I should have stated compensation (benefits) - which I guess are pretty good. That said I don't know and am working on heresay.
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Rigel posted:If it actually came to a vote on the floor of both houses, it probably would have a veto-proof majority. The biggest obstacle is probably Ryan and/or McConnell quietly killing it by not scheduling a vote for it. that can be gotten around via discharge petition, and while that virtually never happens it's possible that you could cobble together the votes for it if the media started asking pointed questions why republicans were supposedly for this bill but unwilling to take steps needed to get a vote a discharge petition basically requires the bill to get a vote, but it never happens because signing one when your party controls the house is seen as an incredible act of disloyalty as making sure the speaker/majority leader has the power to kill bills that will force your side to take hard votes protects your entire caucus, and if discharge petitions become a thing that the public pays attention to as the "real vote" (much like they have with votes to break a filibuster) then suddenly that becomes a problem
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Harrow posted:I actually had no idea who Al Giordano is so I looked him up and Also that part of the article is lies. AFAICT the actual news is that in June 2016 he said that if Sanders didn't concede and endorse HRC before the convention he'll challenge him for Vermont in 2018. But Sanders did. So....? Fangz fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Aug 3, 2017 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sadly, $13.75, full-time, and health insurance is a massive step up for most people with only a high school degree. oh yeah, the more unskilled labor jobs the better and there's a reason the applicants are beating down their door to get hired, per the article but it's important to remember those are still poverty-level jobs (and miserable ones, by all accounts, at that)
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The online comments about the exchange between Miller and Acosta are deranged. 
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T_D is taking the following WikiLeaks tweet as a coded message that Trump is going to be "taken out" like Kennedy. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/893064603021824000 Normally wouldn't post about T_D, but drat if some of the responses aren't... disturbing. 
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Dick Trauma posted:The online comments
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evilweasel posted:that can be gotten around via discharge petition, and while that virtually never happens it's possible that you could cobble together the votes for it if the media started asking pointed questions why republicans were supposedly for this bill but unwilling to take steps needed to get a vote yeah, this is a path that they really don't want to go down because today the discharge petition might force the leadership to schedule a vote for a good bill, but tomorrow your opponents might force you to make an awkward no vote on the "preventing kittens from being thrown into wood-chippers act" that includes funding for unrelated projects you don't support.
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Mortanis posted:
Theres farrrrrrr too much  in that to process
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I too think members of the left bitching about currently sitting Senators when we need everyone to stop a literal fascist is a good use of our time! What a bunch of loving retards.
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Mortanis posted:T_D is taking the following WikiLeaks tweet as a coded message that Trump is going to be "taken out" like Kennedy. These fuckin' weirdos aren't going to do poo poo no matter what happens
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