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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:The best thing would be if Obama, Carter, Clinton, George Bush Jr all got full health work ups and released them the same day Trump does. Carter is almost certainly in better shape. 
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the black husserl posted:I'm from ATL. Are you trying to tell me I didn't grow up eating lake trout and pit beef Lmao my bad. It's just a thing I've seen a lot elsewhere. Azhais posted:Coca Cola, The Wire, Robocop Detroit is home to Valentine's Vodka, aka the best vodka in the world award winner! Also Detroit: Become Human, I guess 😂😂 Detroit is legit awesome tho. 
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empty whippet box posted:So this is a thing The way things are ramping up, it might. I wouldn’t be shocked if people start making undecided noises again.
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Dec 17, 2017 21:22
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PhazonLink posted:I sort of disagree. When basement dwellers go outside and have a mob they escalate till some moron takes the lulz to far. Pretty sure Prester Jane has written something on this. Not saying they're not dangerous, but it's more useful to call them moronic basement dwellers rather than to live in fear of them. They want to be considered a spooky threat.
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Mark Hamill, as far as I'm aware, has been in a continuous state of owning for four decades now.
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Koalas March posted:Lmao my bad. It's just a thing I've seen a lot elsewhere. Also, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Beverly Hills Cop and Two-James rye whiskey and Evie's Tamales and... and.. .and... Detroit is legit awesome and also loving infuriating at the same time. I've lived in a lot of places, but none nearly as dumb as SEMI.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Also, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Beverly Hills Cop and Two-James rye whiskey and Evie's Tamales and... and.. .and... Yeah the more I travel the more I love my city and hate my state, haha
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Wark Say posted:So, no Simpsons/Family Guy and such? They got fx and fxx, so they have reruns I guess
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Your Boy Fancy posted:The way things are ramping up, it might. I wouldn’t be shocked if people start making undecided noises again. Sweet new avatar (again) brah lmao what'd you do
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empty whippet box posted:Sweet new avatar (again) brah lmao It's a good one, I approve. Because it's right.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:The way things are ramping up, it might. I wouldn’t be shocked if people start making undecided noises again. Let me guess, you pissed off some jackass in USPol because you actually worked to get a candidate elected while they just sat back and bitched about purity. E: Look, I'll freely agree that Northam deserved to be slapped for that one, but here's the point: he got slapped. You think if Ed Gillespie was in his place right now and tweeted something about selling poor people to zoos for meat that there would be anyone around him that said "erm maybe you shouldn't do this"? Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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The Phlegmatist posted:Not saying they're not dangerous, but it's more useful to call them moronic basement dwellers rather than to live in fear of them. They want to be considered a spooky threat. They keep killing people. Isn’t there a point where we should say “someone should prevent this” instead of “haha what kind of loser only kills two people during a school shooting”?
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Dec 17, 2017 21:43
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Revelation 2-13 posted:I honestly don't understand the mechanism which leads to fox being as overwhelmingly a trumpstaffel propaganda machine as it is, as compared to a "normal" conservative news organization. empty whippet box posted:Anyone who believes that all republicans are old people must not live in the south, is all I can think.
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Alter Ego posted:Let me guess, you pissed off some jackass in USPol because you actually worked to get a candidate elected while they just sat back and bitched about purity. my bet is on kilroy
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botany posted:my bet is on kilroy he has been pretty extra lately lmao
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Dec 17, 2017 21:47
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So is there any chance of threatening the republicans' majorities in the house or the senate? I'm not American so I only vaguely know how it works and how things are. Or is there any other way to frustrate Trump or make it hard for him to do anything except for the next presidential election?
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Alter Ego posted:Let me guess, you pissed off some jackass in USPol because you actually worked to get a candidate elected while they just sat back and bitched about purity. It really seems like some 'leftist' would rather VA have stayed a locked-in republican state just rather than a centrist dem win just so they can claim they were right. The same people that think Clinton getting elected would be just as bad as Trump getting elected, I guess. I'm disappointed that every elected official isn't a left-of-bernie revolutionary too but blowing $50 to impotently stick it to someone who's actually out there doing the work because you're upset about a headline is pretty out there.
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Shibawanko posted:So is there any chance of threatening the republicans' majorities in the house or the senate? I'm not American so I only vaguely know how it works and how things are. House: yes, absolutely. Every House seat is up for election every 2 years. Senate: possible, but less likely. Only 1/3 of Senate seats are up for election every 2 years, and the ones up for grabs in 2018 don't include many Republican seats, and do include a good number of vulnerable Democrats. Pakled fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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I'm sure there are plenty of people here who work in politics and just don't get too specific about it because of that. Sorry ybf
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Deteriorata posted:While they also decry the excessive partisanship in Washington. lmao is this for real.
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Pakled posted:House: yes, absolutely. Is it really likely that the house will flip? The current republican majority looks pretty big.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lmao is this for real. It’s Deteriorata, dude.
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Shibawanko posted:Is it really likely that the house will flip? The current republican majority looks pretty big. if we go by the polling and history the republicans are going to get massacred.
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Dec 17, 2017 21:58
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Shibawanko posted:Is it really likely that the house will flip? The current republican majority looks pretty big. Current projections suggest it takes like +8 voter swing to change the house, actual polls put the current real number in 10-14% in favor depending on the source.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lmao is this for real. Let me introduce you to this document called the Constitution. It lays out a form of government where power is dispersed among many rival entities so as to force them to cooperate to get anything done.
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Shibawanko posted:So is there any chance of threatening the republicans' majorities in the house or the senate? I'm not American so I only vaguely know how it works and how things are. There are 8 GOP held Senate seats up in 2018 and 25 Democrat or Democrat aligned seats. There'll also very likely be a special election for McCain's seat too. The Dems would need to gain 2 seats net from that to win the Senate. All House seats are up in 2018. The Democrats need 218 to win the majority and they currently have 193. 25 Republican and 14 Democratic Representatives are resigning so those seats will not have an incumbency advantage.
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Shibawanko posted:Is it really likely that the house will flip? The current republican majority looks pretty big. The opposition party gains seats in almost every midterm election (minus 9/11) and the Democrats have been overperforming expectations in every single election since Trump took office. See the Tea Party wave in 2010 and Republicans taking the House for the first time in decades 2 years after Clinton was elected. The Republicans maintain such a majority in the House because those seats are gerrymandered to make their seats more favorable to them. They are not actually getting that many more votes. It's hard to overcome but gerrymandering is a double-edged sword and if the wave is large enough, all those gerrymandered seats go down.
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If Virginia and Alabama are any indication, the rivers will run red with the blood of the republicans in 2018.
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Helen Highwater posted:25 Republican and 14 Democratic Representatives are resigning so those seats will not have an incumbency advantage. first I've heard of this many resignations. Is this higher or lower than the median?
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Mustached Demon posted:If Virginia and Alabama are any indication, the rivers will run red with the blood of the republicans in 2018. And it's not like they're currently on track to do anything popular to change this course.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:first I've heard of this many resignations. Is this higher or lower than the median? Much, much higher.
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botany posted:i love that the US always has very good ratings on corruption indexes because you've legalized all your corruption, lol this is actually no-poo poo an institutional step up from Brown Bag O' Cash corruption like, you know, still horrific, and we should probably discourage this sort of thing in our allegedly civilized society but there are very good reasons for countries to transition from one to the other even if it's politically unfeasible to destroy the gravy train altogether
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Alter Ego posted:Let me guess, you pissed off some jackass in USPol because you actually worked to get a candidate elected while they just sat back and bitched about purity. It's that. They got real salty about the leaflets and had a good time insisting Ralph is actually a giant racist who's going to betray us all when he really just needs a slap. There's a subset of human being that would rather be worse-off-but-correct instead of better-off-but-annoyed.
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At this point, the only thing I can imagine saving the Republican House majority is a war.
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do we actually score well on corruption indices? i thought we scored laughably bad for a developed country.
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Night10194 posted:And it's not like they're currently on track to do anything popular to change this course.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:It's that. They got real salty about the leaflets and had a good time insisting Ralph is actually a giant racist who's going to betray us all when he really just needs a slap. There's a subset of human being that would rather be worse-off-but-correct instead of better-off-but-annoyed. I need a new av after getting banned for openly wishing for the murder of government officials, if someone wants to target someone for an obnoxious and mean red text avatar then I'm right here waiting, people. <---hey, it worked! empty whippet box fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Deteriorata posted:Let me introduce you to this document called the Constitution. It lays out a form of government where power is dispersed among many rival entities so as to force them to cooperate to get anything done. ...until they realized compromise is for chumps and all you have to do is Stonewall and convince your voters it's the other side's fault nothing I'd getting done. Then you just keep doing that until they vote you a majority, then use that majority to disenfranchise the other side as much as possible. "Middle ground" is dead, we live in an era of "Total Victory or Bust" politics.
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