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rodbeard posted:538 is saying there's talks of trying to get Luther Strange elected in a write in campaign. Pretty sure the state's sore loser law precludes that.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Pretty sure the state's sore loser law precludes that. It prevents him from appearing on the ballot running under a third party. Write-in votes for him would still be valid.
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I was unaware the presidential election was still happening.
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Vib Rib posted:Maybe I'm judging too harsh at a glance but all I can glean from Imgur is that it's mostly just like Reddit: incredibly right-leaning and anti-diversity but convinced by themselves they're a progressive paradise. No you're exactly right. Their community is 90% trash, especially since imgur started as an image host for reddit.
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Picnic Princess posted:I was unaware the presidential election was still happening.
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Why is "America First" the last piece to go in?
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I was looking up Senate expulsions to see what precedent there would be for getting rid of Moore if Alabama votes him in anyway. A whole bunch of Senators were kicked out at the start of the Civil War, but before that, William Blount was expelled for conspiring to help Britain take over Louisiana and Florida. There was a brawl during his impeachment hearings, which made its way into this cartoon: He in a trice struck Lyon thrice Upon his head, enrag'd sir, Who seiz'd the tongs to ease his wrongs, And Griswold thus engag'd, sir.
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rodbeard posted:The Republican establishment already didn't want anything to do with Roy Moore. I'm expecting them to tear him to shreds now. EDIT: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/928730814350811147 Nihilarian fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Lightning Knight posted:I'm not super familiar, I'm currently taking a 300 level course on Native American history and we just covered this so that's about my level of background, but it goes back to longstanding traditions related to veneration of successful warriors in many Native cultures. Many Native Americans served in both World Wars, Vietnam, etc. Some of it is also an identity thing, holding on to their past as cultures that were proud of their ability to fight in a way that is still culturally acceptable. I dunno if i'd say it's a spiritual thing but you're more or less on track about being raised in a culture with a history of warriors and hunters. You got a lotta restless young men who feel like they need to live up to their heritage. There's also something to be said about joining the military being a way to escape a bad life on the Rez. I can't really speak for my own people on that front other tha we have our own longstanding tradition of getting into ironwork rather than the military.
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Speaking as a dude who covers a lot of veterans events and the Honor Flights here in Wisconsin, I can tell you that every time an oldtimer Oneida or Lac Du Flambeau vet comes out for the flight, the rez turns out to give them a big sendoff, drum circles and everything.
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Phuzzy posted:Speaking as a dude who covers a lot of veterans events and the Honor Flights here in Wisconsin, I can tell you that every time an oldtimer Oneida or Lac Du Flambeau vet comes out for the flight, the rez turns out to give them a big sendoff, drum circles and everything. Yay Wisconsin stories! My professor, who is an Indian law expert and does a lot of dispositions for treaty dispute cases in Federal court, was telling us a story the other day about how at Native events they'll make calls for anyone who has served in the military, Native or not, and have them join in dances and such. It's less common now, but he was telling us about how they'd call forward World War II vets and push their wheelchairs around the circle.  Der Waffle Mous posted:I dunno if i'd say it's a spiritual thing but you're more or less on track about being raised in a culture with a history of warriors and hunters. Right, my bad. A better word would've been "cultural" rather than spiritual, then?
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rodbeard posted:538 is saying there's talks of trying to get Luther Strange elected in a write in campaign.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Beating that dead horse like it's his wife. https://twitter.com/ADannyDevitoIRL/status/928766359223357441?s=17
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I like that truth and liberty are only now being added to MAGA MOUNTAIN, but WALL was in there way early on E: lol, peace through strength is part of HYDRA's chant from the Marvel comics Hydra posted:Peace Through Strength! Honor Through Obedience! Continuance Through Conformity! Hail Hydra! Immortal Hydra! We shall never be destroyed! Cut off one limb, and two shall take its place! We serve none but the Master-as the world shall soon serve us! E2: This is gonna be a trash fire. https://magacon2018.com/ Somfin fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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quote:Lester admitted that “he had been drinking on Broad Street and when he returned home he thought his wife was dressed to go out, which made him angry because she had been going out a lot lately. Regan Lester told police she had no intention of leaving the home.
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Boring aside: I worked for Gov. Brown's second election campaign a few years ago which makes this even more baffling that the caricature is unrecognizable. Also fun fact about Jerry Brown: he eats off your plate. Like if you go to dinner, he, without asking, will also just spear some of your food with a fork and eat it. Not "hey can I try that?" just straight up takes some of your food. And everyone at the table is too afraid to say anything because, you know, he's the Governor and we worked for him. But he does this every time that a group is eating a meal - anyone within fork range gets some of their food taken also. I'm sure there's a political metaphor here somewhere in this but it is the most bizarre/weirdly rude behavior ever.
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du -hast posted:Boring aside: I worked for Gov. Brown's second election campaign a few years ago which makes this even more baffling that the caricature is unrecognizable. A mob boss does that in the Sopranos. He gets killed for it.
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I imagine he's looking at the Garrison cartoon with the glasses from They Live!
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Roland Jones posted:Good grief, I didn't comment before but yeah, that caricature is utterly unrecognizable. It looks nothing like Brown. Yeah. If you guys are interested, I have some more stories. All the state government has a CHP office that follows them around, doubling as a driver/bodyguard. Cruz Bustamante (former Lt Governor to Grey Davis before the Schwarzenegger recall) was widely considered to be the biggest rear end in a top hat on the planet. He would insist that the CHP go pick up his kids, grab food, etc. The CHP is not supposed to do this - they're guarding him, not a burrito. He also would insist that the CHP turn on the sirens/lights to get him to the airport. He was convinced that just telling the CHP guy 45 minutes before the flight that he had to get to Sac International (30+ minute drive from downtown where the capitol is) would work. Every time. The CHP told him, no, we can't do the flashy lights, you need to tell us earlier. He threw a fit and attempted to lower the CHP budget over this bullshit. Bill Lockyer, former CA Treasury Secretary (from 07 - 2015 - during the financial crisis and the CA budget meltdown) generally spent his entire time in budget meetings reading SciFi and Fantasy novels. I once spotted him reading Wizard's First Rule during a budget meeting. He basically sat there and read, ignoring the committee, until they told him what to do. He's a great guy and a lot of fun, but basically just dozed through his entire term. Tom McClintock, who ran for State Controller (and ran against Schwarzenegger during the special election) made a habit of wearing a kilt during his campaign ads for controller, and speaking in a lovely fake Scottish accent. He also wore the kilt when he was campaigning, and did NOT wear underwear. What I am trying to say is I have seen Tom McClintock's sweaty scrotum. Also I met Arnold Schwarezenneger several times in the hallways of the capital (he even remembered my name!) There's a fancy hotel across the street from the State Capitol, and he bought out the penthouse floor and used it in lieu of the governor's mansion. He got caught cheating on his wife (Maria Scheiver, one of the Kennedy klan) so many times that she demanded that he fly home every single night to Los Angeles so that he wouldn't bang the maids anymore. Every night he would go to the private airport in Sac and fly to Santa Monica, spend the night, then fly back in the morning. Also another thing about Schwarzenegger is that he's not actually all that tall - I put him at a hair over 6'. (I am 6'7" so gigantic compared to everyone, but this was not limited to me). He knew he needed to appear to be a bigger guy, so every time you take a picture with him, you put hand-in-hand like a handshake, normal political pictures, he will step forward towards the camera at the last minute so as to appear taller than he really is. Maybe that doesn't sound as interesting as I thought it was, but it was amusing to watch him step forward to appear taller even than like one of the 5'2 female assemblymen. Anyway I got more stories about it I guess if anyone's interested, but those are the ones that are semi-interesting.
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du -hast posted:
There's a great picture of two of those world's strongman competitors with this tiny guy between them. Then you do a double-take because the tiny guy is Arnold.
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uh is the implication of panel 2 that Brazile wrote her book with the intention of sabotaging the election because boy howdy is that a claim to make
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loquacius posted:uh No. No it isn't. I'm not sure how you get that.
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loquacius posted:uh You had a couple of jagoffs arguing that point within the week before the November elections. MSNBC talking heads were even riding on the 'Gillespie is going to win because of this' train, in addition to residual DNC drama. They plunged into the existence of Brazile's book real hard because of how cheap and easy it is to grab ratings off of something they've probably never read. I'm also wary of ascribing motivation to Brazile here because it's fairly difficult to get a read on the judgment of someone who will apparently buddy up all nice and friendly like with the sort of people such as, uh... Sheriff Clarke. edit: none of this relates to the Bad Reporter cartoon because I sort of skip over those usually.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:No. No it isn't. I'm not sure how you get that. You get that by assuming the two things in that panel are connected in some way.
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Office Pig posted:I'm also wary of ascribing motivation to Brazile here because it's fairly difficult to get a read on the judgment of someone who will apparently buddy up all nice and friendly like with the sort of people such as, uh... Sheriff Clarke Her motivation is really blatantly buddying up to the right wing media sphere in hopes of landing a job. It’s why she’s also beating the Seth Rich drum.
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Office Pig posted:I'm also wary of ascribing motivation to Brazile here because it's fairly difficult to get a read on the judgment of someone who will apparently buddy up all nice and friendly like with the sort of people such as, uh... Sheriff Clarke. I would never question the integrity of someone willing to let themselves be interviewed on Fox News.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:No. No it isn't. I'm not sure how you get that. probably the part where it shows her reacting to the book "failing to sway the election" by saying it is rigged y'know the panel
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Office Pig posted:Sorry let me be clear what I'm saying is that our Christians have pretty much thrown away any right they have to claim anything resembling humanity after going to the bible to say pedophilia is cool less than a day after a candidate for the US senate came out as a kiddy diddler. Outside of the religious folks, it's mostly the latter. https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/928756267425943553
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