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-Zydeco- posted:6. Animals - The wild horse herd on Vieques was air-dropped a ton of alfalfa pellets. [The three humans there also received food.] About 120 dogs and cats will be flown from VI to Boston, for vet inspection and potential adoption. Nice.
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-Zydeco- posted:If anyone is curious about how bad Puerto Rico is right now the USACE hurricane damage report came down the wire this morning, summarized below. VI is the US Virgin Islands. jesus motherfuck the situation in VI is grim.
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enraged_camel posted:here's your evening trigger An unironic White Man's Burden comic in the year 2017. Amazing.
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Euphoriaphone posted:Is anyone else reading this that Trump is implying the shooting was a false flag?
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Sorry everyone. There's not going to be any meaningful legislation. A couple of years ago when Obama was still president a mentally ill person went into a school and killed a bunch of little kids. Babies really. Obama tried after that to rally and pass something meaningful but he couldn't. Nothing substantive is going to pass from this latest massacre.
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PR death toll up to 34 https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c460_story.html
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This shooting broke Bill Mitchell even more than usual. He is going all in on "this is antifa and corupt cops are hiding the manifesto (inside job)"
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Vladimir Putin posted:Sorry everyone. There's not going to be any meaningful legislation. A couple of years ago when Obama was still president a mentally ill person went into a school and killed a bunch of little kids. Babies really. Obama tried after that to rally and pass something meaningful but he couldn't. Yeah, it sucks.
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enraged_camel posted:Nah, it should be the DNC. Make it really really obvious who is helping PR and also trigger Trump even more. Nah. It can be called "brown Democrats are coming to vote and you can't stop us!" or anything to trigger Trump. But it shouldn't be run by the DNC. We've got to break this stupid expectation that the DNC should be so everything. The DNC should be a national coordinating organization for Democratic electoral and legislative politics but it cannot be the only or even the main organization fighting day to day. It can't be effectively structured to do both and we need it to be built to balance power and infighting in the party rather than be built like a grassroots campaign, a social media hub, or even activist network. We need other groups doing those jobs. It will make the DNC strong to have stronger allied institutions to rely on and those other organizations will be better at their jobs. The DNC shouldn't try to replace BLM or La Raza or even Daily Kos. Let the DNC cut them a check and retweet their posts but we need a healthy ecosystem of advocacy and centralizing everything at the DNC doesn't do it. (Also a side note, paying people to leave the island isn't helping PR it is helping people leave it.)
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Vladimir Putin posted:Sorry everyone. There's not going to be any meaningful legislation. A couple of years ago when Obama was still president a mentally ill person went into a school and killed a bunch of little kids. Babies really. Obama tried after that to rally and pass something meaningful but he couldn't. Oh wow I already forgot about sandy hook and all the dead first graders. Wait no I didn't because repeating this poo poo only hurts us you dingus. The voting population changes, and continually pushing for things is the only way to make them happen. If you don't want to that's fine, just don't engage then.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This shooting broke Bill Mitchell even more than usual.
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Trabisnikof posted:Nah. It can be called "brown Democrats are coming to vote and you can't stop us!" or anything to trigger Trump. But it shouldn't be run by the DNC. It doesn't have to be the DNC itself, but DNC has a sufficiently large network where it can create a 501(c)(3) with its own board of directors and funnel donations through it. My main point is that the narrative has to be "Trump and the GOP didn't give two fucks about PR, but Democrats have gone through a huge amount of trouble to help in substantive ways."
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Reasonable gun control in America won't happen until more representatives are shot or are scared of getting shot hth. And if you have any moral reservations about using fear as a tactic, remember that that cat has long been out of the bag: http://gawker.com/5728545/shot-congresswoman-was-in-sarah-palins-crosshairs I really don't agree with or like what you are doing here.
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Vladimir Putin posted:I really don't agree with or like what you are doing here.
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Medullah posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/915371086249971712 
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Good to see that some of my high school composition teachers are finally getting their own comic book.
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I can completely see Trump staring at himself in the mirror screaming "DOOMCOCK".
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Medullah posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/915371086249971712 i wish i could find the article but it talked about how trump's use of quotes is characteristic of someone with weak reading/writing skills. they're unsure so they use the quotes as a sort of fallback. it went over how he's a creature of television and has likely never read a book in his adult life so he's used to be speaking/hearing but not actually using the written word. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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FYI the linked article seems to indicate the opposite. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/353685-trump-admin-denied-puerto-rico-request-to-let-hurricane-victims-use?amp So wait, denied or not?? The best I can figure is that no new food stamp recipients qualifying due to having homes destroyed, but people who are already in the food stamp program (~40% of PR) get the waiver to buy hot food with them. http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-administration-wont-let-puerto-ricans-use-food-stamps-hot-meals-it-did-677100 Nothing on the official site except modifications to the NAP program, which is different. https://www.fns.usda.gov/newsroom
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Medullah posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/915371086249971712 Oh oh I know this one. The miracle was a Jew right
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Oh wow I already forgot about sandy hook and all the dead first graders. household gun ownership does decline over time so there likely will be better gun control for future generations. but for the foreseeable future sandy hook was 100 percent the end of the gun control debate.
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It looks like Trump's advisers are going to let Trump decertify the Iran Deal, but avoid pushing for new sanctions. Basically, it gives Trump a way to stick it to Obama while still adhering to the Iran Deal itself, and keeping the Europeans happy. So we're basically going with the old, "give younger sibling an unrelated remote so they can pretend they're playing the video game" approach. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/03/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-243427
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 Also, it's depressingly hard to find this post by googling. You can imagine how well "shooting new york times" works as a search term. 
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Once I was very sick and was getting a thing where no matter what face I looked at I'd get "I know this person" responce from my brain. Like not even as a delusional thing where I thought it with my mind, just purely physically I could feel that feeling with every face, separated from anything. I always think about how easy that would have driven me insane to have that feeling amplify or go away for medical reasons if it had not happened when I was clearly extremely sick and having issues with thinking. Sounds like you had some kind of opposite Capgras delusion going on. This is many pages back now but check out Oliver Sacks' work, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat etc. There are an amazing amount of things that can go wrong neurologically that result in things like "I am absolutely sure I'm already dead, despite all evidence to the contrary", "I can't form new memories so it's always 1945 and I just came back from the war", and "everyone I know has been replaced by an identical imposter".
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Brass Key posted:Sounds like you had some kind of opposite Capgras delusion going on. This book and Musicophilia are so freakin' good and everyone should read them.
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I love that they're trying to fight gun control by pointing out that Chicago had 4300 gun casualties and Baltimore had 900, when Las Vegas had almost 600 in a single night by a single person. They don't know that "fatalities" are people killed, "casualties" is people killed and anyone injured.
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Groovelord Neato posted:household gun ownership does decline over time so there likely will be better gun control for future generations. Sort of. In the last 50 years the highest point was in the early 90s, and the lowest was in 2000. We are up from 2000, but down from 2011. The average though is about 40% of homes, and that's where we are right now. Also the converse side is that gun control is increasingly getting impossible due to advances in technology, like that weirdo libertarian Cody Wilson doing literally everything possible to make it cheap and easy for people to make their own untraceable firearms at home. It's at the point for about.....oh, 2,500, 3000 dollars you have all the tools to make all the pistols and rifles you want til the end of time and there is absolutely zero way to find out about it. I honestly don't know how you put that genie back in the box.
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You should be very proud. Wonderful numbers. Wonderful work I'm doing.
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I get that every President does the photo op tour after disasters but it's not really normal for it to be very clear that the President is only there to get a few good photos and look like they're doing something. Must of the time they have a speech prepared to say things like stay strong, we have your back, etc. I've never seen anybody go for the express purpose of collecting praise and brag about how good things are.
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Imagine if Obama vol 22753 If Obama took rolls of paper towels and shot it into crowd like a basketball
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pacerhimself posted:I get that every President does the photo op tour after disasters but it's not really normal for it to be very clear that the President is only there to get a few good photos and look like they're doing something. Must of the time they have a speech prepared to say things like stay strong, we have your back, etc. I've never seen anybody go for the express purpose of collecting praise and brag about how good things are. Yeah, they rarely go to the disaster area and tell them that the bill for the relief is in the mail, once you restore mail service
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pacerhimself posted:I get that every President does the photo op tour after disasters but it's not really normal for it to be very clear that the President is only there to get a few good photos and look like they're doing something. Must of the time they have a speech prepared to say things like stay strong, we have your back, etc. I've never seen anybody go for the express purpose of collecting praise and brag about how good things are. Hey, at least he told them they should be proud of their death toll and to have fun before giving a big wave and a smile and jumping back in his jet. So will he golf in Vegas before or after meeting with victim's families and the injured? How many gauze roll 3 pointers will he make?
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For anyone who needs ammunition against those who are buying the whole argument that Puerto Rico is just a unique mess, a quick reminder that Obama led a much bigger and more efficient response to Haiti. The article doesn't include that Obama had reached out to W to build up bipartisan support.
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Groovelord Neato posted:or that guy that lives in the hell of a 20 second memory. There have been multiple people like that (there are two in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), but the one you're probably thinking of is Clive Wearing.
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