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B B posted:One of my buddies just chatted me that this interaction happened on MSNBC: :  god drat
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B B posted:One of my buddies just chatted me that this interaction happened on MSNBC: : This wasn't said as a burn. It was very humble and congratulatory
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Nov 8, 2017 05:28
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Fancy, please tell me youre at a post election party or something. What is the mood there? I want to live vicariously through you tonight! The labor folks all have prior obligations. Dogs to feed. Spouses to hug. We’ve been blitzing for weeks, stressed out of our minds. We need some sleep. I’m just sorta floating home to my home. My wife made Stromboli. I’m just gonna tell her I love her and smile a lot and maybe cry a little. I’m not proud. So true story: Spotify has been weird lately. It slipped this song into my classic prog / Steven Wilson mix. It didn’t fit. Y’all it drat fits tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw772km7PQ Your Boy Fancy fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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Endorph posted:cricket fields? Cricket is really popular in India Maybe there was also a cricket field built in the area recently?
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Your Boy Fancy posted:The labor folks all have prior obligations. Dogs to feed. Spouses to hug. We’ve been blitzing for weeks, stressed out of our minds. We need some sleep. You have a very well-deserved rest owed to you. Thanks for organizing all of us! You said you're doing a production of the Nutcracker in December right? Tell USPol/Trump thread when it is! I'm sure a lot of us would like to come support y'all.  Endorph posted:cricket fields? That's a bizarre racist line of attack. Cricket fields are great! You can use 'em for lots of other sports because they're huge. BigRed0427 posted:To be fair, Cricket is a really boring sport. It's like baseball but even more confusing.
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FizFashizzle posted:This wasn't said as a burn. And yet it's still one of the greatest political burns I've read in years. You haven't seen this? This and the attacks against the Sikh guy have been floating around for weeks now, they're loving vicious and awful.
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Looks like the West Coast now has a trifecta of trifectas. https://twitter.com/flippable_org/status/928115394178457600 Tonight, Dems have gained 2 trifectas (NJ and WA) for a total of 8 (the other six are CA, CT, DE, HI, OR, RI). Republicans have 26 (RIP). Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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Lightning Knight posted:You haven't seen this? This and the attacks against the Sikh guy have been floating around for weeks now, they're loving vicious and awful. And worked great (in getting them elected)!
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Helena, MT just elected the state's first black mayor, in part because of the lovely old mayor's strong support of keeping the town's confederate memorial. Obviously not as momentous as VA, but very cool none the less.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:And worked great (in getting them elected)!   punched my v-card at camp posted:Helena, MT just elected the state's first black mayor, in part because of the lovely old mayor's strong support of keeping the town's confederate memorial. loving Montana has Confederate monuments too? Jesus Christ.
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https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/928119943081746432 The Nazi rally appears to have really pissed local people off and motivated them to vote this year. Double the vote increase from the rest of VA.
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So this is pretty much a lock for Virginia expanding Medicaid, right? Isn't there at least 1 moderate Republican in each of the House and Senate who has come out in favor of it?
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VitalSigns posted:So this is pretty much a lock for Virginia expanding Medicaid, right? If I'm a GOP Delegate/Senator who survived this wave I am very quietly signaling that I'm voting for Medicaid expansion. Dems only need 1 Senator and 1 (or 0) GOP Delegates.
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axeil posted:If I'm a GOP Delegate/Senator who survived this wave I am very quietly signaling that I'm voting for Medicaid expansion. Yeah that's what I was thinking. I'm wondering if any of the survivors are already on the record. I think I remember reading earlier this year that the Senate was already on board but the House Republican supermajority was the obstacle.
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VitalSigns posted:So this is pretty much a lock for Virginia expanding Medicaid, right? Yes, the Republicans still left in the Hampton Roads and NoVa are running as far away from toxic Trump as possible.
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah that's what I was thinking. I suspect the GOP Delegates/Senators aren't exactly going to pop their heads up and say it the night of/day after the election but I suspect it'll very quietly happen in January/February.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/democrats_breathe_sigh_of_relief_after_virginia_victory.htmlquote:Steyer, the Democratic Party’s biggest donor, had made a point to be in attendance, hours after his grassroots organization, NextGen, had set up a petting zoo on Virginia Tech’s campus to lure students to the polls. He told me he was “a little bit relieved, and a little bit defiant.” The relief was that Northam pulled it off, though Steyer defiantly believes that Democrats should push even harder. As the leader of another prominent progressive organization in attendance told me, “it’s fantastic that Northam won despite how uninspiring his campaign was.”
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Lightning Knight posted:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/democrats_breathe_sigh_of_relief_after_virginia_victory.html that devious motherfucker i would walk through gehenna barefoot to cuddle some baby goats
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Lightning Knight posted:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/democrats_breathe_sigh_of_relief_after_virginia_victory.html Experience has taught me that college students' three great loves are free alcohol, free food, and being able to pet cute animals, so smart move.
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Lightning Knight posted:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/democrats_breathe_sigh_of_relief_after_virginia_victory.html Man it's too bad Clinton's MJ12 game devs mistimed the released of Pokemon Go and couldn't get the Mexican Illuminati to agree to have taco trucks on election day last year.
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For those who are down on the new NJ governor. https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/07/phil_murphy_wins_race_for_new_jersey_governor.html quote:Murphy started with some formidable advantages in deep-blue New Jersey, including nearly a million more registered Democrats in the state, and an incumbent governor in Christie with a historically low approval rating. Murphy offered relatively little in the way of specific policy proposals, aside from a promise to raise taxes on the wealthy and push for a new state bank, which allowed him to parlay his two decades at Goldman Sachs into something like a public good. But he enjoyed the support of the state’s powerful public-sector unions, who were eager to elect a Democrat after eight years of battling Christie. Even he seems to see which way the winds are blowing. A healthy skepticism is warranted, and we should spend the next few years calling his office and the offices of all the Democrats that create bills to get these promises kept, but things seem to be looking up.
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Moktaro posted:Pity Trump's in Asia, would be funny if you could get a bunch of people to hang outside the White House and just sing this: I'm always amazed at the ability of football fans to do cheers with weird timing in perfect unison.
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I am so goddamn proud to be from VA today. Wanna express my thanks to Fancy and everyone else who worked their asses off doing GotV, It Mattered!
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In conclusion, Virginia is a land of contrasts.
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