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Ogmius815
Aug 25, 2005
centrism is a hell of a drug

Your Boy Fancy posted:

Hi friend.

I was pretty angry this morning, and then I decided gently caress it. Gillespie at the helm with all branches of government in GOP Control is still the nightmare scenario. Northam showed me what he was today. It annoys me. I’m gonna fight to get this stupid rear end in a top hat elected anyway.

Honestly, it was never about hearts and minds. It’s about turnout. And nobody is running with Northam capitulating. They’re too busy staring at taxes and Russia. Works just fine for me here in Virginia.

NoVA Goons: let’s finish this god damned thing. Non-NoVA Goons: let’s blow up the phones until nobody can think. We’ve still got a House of Delegates we can fill with real, proper progressives - Danica Roem, Hala Ayala, John Bell, Kathy Tran, David Reid - and that’s just the north! If we can make any inroads at all, we don’t become North Carolina. If we lose a seat, here come the transvaginal ultrasounds.

It’s gonna be chill, if and only if the work gets done.

I am interested in doing some phone banking this weekend. I live in NYC. Is this possible? I don't have pms anymore thanks to 45 but if you see this I'll maybe post my email for a minute or something idk?

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Your Boy Fancy
Feb 7, 2003

by Cyrano4747

axeil posted:

So is Fairfax super lefty then? I voted for him in the primary because he seemed the most qualified of the three but god drat he better run in 2021 on a "guillotines for the GOP" platform. They are an existential threat to humanity.

He’s pretty far left until the left discovers his past career defending some people/causes that aren’t pure, at which point he’ll have always been centrist slime.

Kale
May 14, 2010

What does it say about the two party system when one party is corrupt and the other is that to a factor of at least 50.

Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room

Kale posted:

What does it say about the two party system when one party is corrupt and the other is that to a factor of at least 50.

That both sides are the same, according to a distressing amount of people

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Kale posted:

What does it say about the two party system when one party is corrupt and the other is that to a factor of at least 50.

That our culture is pro-corruption?

Pander
Oct 9, 2007

Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.



Tarantula posted:

Vice had an interview with the people involved in the new Wolfenstein, was not expecting to hear someone from Bethesda straight up saying "gently caress Nazis", good for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb-tF7WilP8

The nazis in the comments are trying so hard to hide the tears. If they lose video games they'll really have nothing left to live for and hopefully either grow the gently caress up or kill themselves.

Can't wait to see Far Cry 5 next. It's not just "what if Nazis in America", it's straight up "Hey gently caress ultra-nationalist Christian white supremacists".

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007
That people are unable to see the many shades of grey that make up the modern American political spectrum?

Rednik
Apr 10, 2005


Your Boy Fancy posted:

CVille has to be in the mood for movement. After August, even some of the most dedicated, chill activists I know picked up the black loving flag. We’ve needed this campaign, and needed it badly.

The Bernie-lifers? gently caress em. They used the pamphlet thing with Fairfax as a reason to never do anything, because they’d rather be inactive, internally correct, and watch their world decline instead of beat back these god damned wolves. And make no mistake: they are wolves. People like my brother will suffer, the whole drat interstate will get sold off by the foot, and god forbid these fucks try to make the tiki torches into a regular thing.

That Latino Victory Fund ad was spot on, and they only bitched because it was more on the nose than a neti pot. People tried to be brave for an establishment Democrat, and they got rewarded for it by disavowal and a straight up policy reversal.

My hope is that Fairfax runs in 2021 and goes to war. NoVA might have defense contract centrists for days, but they show the gently caress up when it counts, and I love them for it. So you and me, motherfucker. Let’s win this loving state. To arms, baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkCUREHnpyo

Bernie bro-turned VA Dem campaigner busing in from DC here. How has the canvassing been going for NoVA goons?

I'm getting a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach about this race. I canvassed last weekend in HD 67 (around Chantilly) for Delaney and Northam and it went better than 2016 for me, but I saw that Gillespie had hit the neighborhood hard. We were coming to some of the doors of voters who were "likely" to vote for Democratic candidates and they had already been hit with tons of Gillespie materials. Somebody I was canvassing with mentioned to the Dems organizer that an undecided voter she was speaking with had already been contacted by the Gillespie campaign four times. The organizer, summoning a bit Robby Mook overconfidence, just claimed it was because the GOP campaign was wasting its money and using a poor voter targeting database. I'll sleep easier on the 8th when this race is over.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

quote:

Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs, grenades, mines and other incendiary devices.

The documents, which range from instructions on detonating dynamite to U.S. military manuals for constructing improvised explosives and booby traps, were passed around during online conversations among members of Anticom, a secretive and militant group that has emerged during the past year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/white-supremacists-share-bomb-making-materials-in-online-chats

When one of these pricks decides to carbomb somebody there's going to be no response from the Orange One on it since they're white.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Grammarchist posted:

I guess in a way I was lucky to be raised Republican with the "Always vote straight ticket, party if not the man" ethos. It's transferred over nicely since I realized I was on the wrong God drat side of humanity.

I will never forgive the GOP for turning my family from mellow Kasich assholes to Trumpist monsters. Voting D with no fucks given may not erase my 2008 support for Palin, but damnit, the conservatives have earned my eternal contempt and they're gonna loving get it till I'm six feet under.

My mom got stockholm syndromed by my dad into being an avid fox consumer and she cried when I said I was voting for Hilary. She cried and yelled because she thought she lost her son or some poo poo.

I loving HATE Right Wing Media.

Insurrectum
Nov 1, 2005

Rednik posted:

I'll sleep easier on the 8th when this race is over.
-said the liberal on November 6th, 2016

Ron Howard: "He didn't."

Pander
Oct 9, 2007

Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.



Party Plane Jones posted:

When one of these pricks decides to carbomb somebody there's going to be no response from the Orange One on it since they're white.

there'll be a response, but it just won't be the one you want.

"A sad event, tragic, prayer for the family, so much hate on both sides..."

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Party Plane Jones posted:

When one of these pricks decides to carbomb somebody there's going to be no response from the Orange One on it since they're white.
:10bux: on it being the old CIA Improvised Munitions Handbook pdf that's been floating around the internet since at least 2004

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



KickerOfMice posted:

Out of curiosity, I glanced at the frontpage of current state media.



You didn't edit that image or anything? That's a 'news organization' that supposedly wants to be taken seriously saying gently caress you to people with ad blockers?

Before anyone tells me to check I did and didn't get a banner so maybe I'm using different blocker rules :shrug:

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Spiffster posted:

:allears: keep it coming boys :allears:


That’s his Kink

Fine, turn him upside down and burry him alive somewhere in the middle east.

C2C - 2.0
May 14, 2006

Dubs In The Key Of Life


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/926177786124996608

:lol:

Your Boy Fancy
Feb 7, 2003

by Cyrano4747

Rednik posted:

Bernie bro-turned VA Dem campaigner busing in from DC here. How has the canvassing been going for NoVA goons?

I'm getting a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach about this race. I canvassed last weekend in HD 67 (around Chantilly) for Delaney and Northam and it went better than 2016 for me, but I saw that Gillespie had hit the neighborhood hard. We were coming to some of the doors of voters who were "likely" to vote for Democratic candidates and they had already been hit with tons of Gillespie materials. Somebody I was canvassing with mentioned to the Dems organizer that an undecided voter she was speaking with had already been contacted by the Gillespie campaign four times. The organizer, summoning a bit Robby Mook overconfidence, just claimed it was because the GOP campaign was wasting its money and using a poor voter targeting database. I'll sleep easier on the 8th when this race is over.

Hi friend. The canvassing hasn’t been bad, honestly, though I also have the advantage of labor households to rock turnout over cold knocking. That said, the district you were canvassing is one I hit a week and a half ago...and yeah. Ashburn is where misery breeds. Locked doors and suspicious glances everywhere. Its the epitome of suburban white fear.

I have more hope for the 87th, where John Bell is in an arms race against Subba Kolla. Million dollar race. And yet another excuse to listen to the Bollywood radio station where Kolla runs ads.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016


Suck it pizza jerk.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

I'm glad for this, because it means Peyton Manning also lost money.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Crow Jane posted:

I think the average person just wants to go back to only having to really think about politics every 2-4 years. It's become glaringly obvious that things will never be "normal" under this administration, so they have to keep thinking about it. I think that if a new administration meant something of a return to normalcy most people would be all over it

I can't imagine just how loving embarrassing it must be to be a Trump supporter at this point, and I say that as someone who's done a lot of dumb poo poo. Though I suppose that ship probably sailed a long time ago for them

I know of one woman who was for Trump and talking poo poo about Hilary until March. Then it just kept getting worse, and worse, and worse to where she was obviously figuring out that old folks like her are being thrown under the bus and her retiree husband loving Hated Trump and that's when she loving talked about AT LEAST OBAMA COULD SAY SOMETHING OF VALUE and I'm just looking at her like I'm communing with God. Some of these people are getting off the Trump Train and not even a year in are missing B-Rock. A few months ago was normal and they'd like to go back there and just hate Hillary in peace.

TARDISman
Oct 28, 2011




Whoopsie.

Boon
Jun 21, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Kale posted:

What does it say about the two party system when one party is corrupt and the other is that to a factor of at least 50.

Nothing really, other than we're at that stage in our history as a country.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
1https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/926104214312574980
2https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/926177222427381761
3https://twitter.com/FederalistPitch/status/926171229932982274
4https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/926120126805573637
5https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/926102193756868609
6https://twitter.com/LissandraVilla/status/926277804710416384
7https://twitter.com/owillis/status/926286221072093187
8https://twitter.com/funder/status/926201164785438721
9https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/925824745974714368
10https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/926288851643109377
11https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/926198828440739841
12https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/926150826023845888
13https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/926269757443190785
14https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/925814873585520640
15https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/926187067956187138
:siren: 16https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/926294412149297157 :siren:
17https://twitter.com/AP/status/926294384626274304
18https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/926292150417022976
19https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/926293380530950144
20https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/926294868170825729
21https://twitter.com/maddow/status/926194783143518210
22https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/926286946971906048
23https://twitter.com/TrumpsAlert/status/926295382048440320
24https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/925929555327705090
25https://twitter.com/benjancewicz/status/926195260144996352
26https://twitter.com/FluffSociety/status/926283062073352193
https://i.imgur.com/L5YLh63.mp4

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Nov 3, 2017

Feral Integral
Jun 6, 2006

YOSPOS


It's crazy to me, though, that dude just loses 70 mil, then makes some of it back like all nonchalantly

Feral Integral fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Nov 3, 2017

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

I don't understand the mechanism of him losing 70 million dollars.

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

Rinkles posted:

I don't understand the mechanism of him losing 70 million dollars.

Papa Johns stock price dropped.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Munkeymon posted:

You didn't edit that image or anything? That's a 'news organization' that supposedly wants to be taken seriously saying gently caress you to people with ad blockers?

Before anyone tells me to check I did and didn't get a banner so maybe I'm using different blocker rules :shrug:

"The banner was edited by a low level employee on their last day." -FoxNews

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

Xae posted:

Papa Johns stock price dropped.

specifically, he cried about the NFL kneeling hurting his sales, so his stock dropped because he revealed their sales were hurting. An expensive and hilarious self-own.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012


We all died and we're in hell

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Rinkles posted:

I don't understand the mechanism of him losing 70 million dollars.

Rich people's money is concentrated in stocks, as a company founder he has tons of shares. He 'lost' 70 million by the stock value decreasing but since he (probably) didn't sell any in the short fall in stock price he didn't really lose anything.

AmiYumi
Oct 10, 2005

I FORGOT TO HAIL KING TORG
The gently caress does it matter “how Hispanic” they are, it’s a Republican. You can just say “we are not accepting any members from the party that wants to build a wall and send ICE against every Latinx community in America”, it’s not a secret that the party as a whole is loving racist as poo poo. How are you this bad at politics, it is literally your one job.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Rinkles posted:

I don't understand the mechanism of him losing 70 million dollars.
Stock valuation.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Xae posted:

Papa Johns stock price dropped.

Wouldn't that be in large part a response to poor projections, rather than Schnatter's dumb statement? Seems a bit clickbaity.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

AmiYumi posted:

The gently caress does it matter “how Hispanic” they are, it’s a Republican. You can just say “we are not accepting any members from the party that wants to build a wall and send ICE against every Latinx community in America”, it’s not a secret that the party as a whole is loving racist as poo poo. How are you this bad at politics, it is literally your one job.

They're constrained by public opinion. The public in general won't accept the argument that the Republican Party is racist because there exist non-white members of the Republican Party and the party doesn't officially sanction burning crosses and heiling hitler. Especially since Hispanic Republicans are heavily involved in this debate, it'd just make the Democrats look bad. You and me and other people whose voices don't matter can say that, but Democratic public officials have to be very careful about saying it.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Jesus christ, this is like poo poo out of a spy novel

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Rinkles posted:

Wouldn't that be in large part a response to poor projections, rather than Schnatter's dumb statement? Seems a bit clickbaity.

He announced in public that their sales had dropped without giving specifics. A number of investors heard this, considered that their risk on the downside had increased without being able to quantify it exactly and chose to exit their position as a result.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Bottom Liner posted:

specifically, he cried about the NFL kneeling hurting his sales, so his stock dropped because he revealed their sales were hurting. An expensive and hilarious self-own.

Chadderbox posted:

He announced in public that their sales had dropped without giving specifics. A number of investors heard this, considered that their risk on the downside had increased without being able to quantify it exactly and chose to exit their position as a result.

As far as I can tell, he didn't randomly run his mouth, he was trying to excuse the bad (public) financial report.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/926297705495834625

quote:

The current 1-million-acre ban on new uranium mining was put into place by the Obama administration in 2012 for after an environmental impact statement found that expanded mining could cause severe impacts on water quality for downstream users. The Grand Canyon watershed provides drinking water for at least 25 million people.

The economic implications of lifting the ban don’t work in the favor of the Trump administration either. Existing uranium mines in the area are currently idled, not because of regulations, but because of rock-bottom global uranium prices.

Even if the market rebounds, a mining expansion would have nearly no economic benefit for taxpayers. Under the General Mining Act of 1872, the federal government can’t collect royalties on minerals like uranium, so there would be no significant revenue raised from the move. Industry would be the sole beneficiaries, while publicly owned forests surrounding a national park are damaged and polluted.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I'm picturing Steve King bursting into the CBC with his papers from 23 and Me shouting "I'm 1% African! You gotta let me in and now I can say the n word!"

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The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Al Borland Corp. posted:

I'm picturing Steve King bursting into the CBC with his papers from 23 and Me shouting "I'm 1% African! You gotta let me in and now I can say the n word!"

pretty sure if he found out he has a drop of negroid blood in him he'd eat a gun

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