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Abramson is absolutely the same kind of worthless nutter that Mensch is, and one of the few bright spots of last month was watching him become more and more pompous and aggressive as ever-greater numbers of people started to call him out on his breathless rumormongering. All of these Twitter con artists react the same when they sense the walls closing in.
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Kilroy posted:(It's the racism I don't want my grandparents to be racist but I totally suspect they are. They're wonderful people, I love them DEARLY, but I cannot help but feel like there's some deeply seated prejudices there that even they aren't aware of. I could be wrong, I hope I'm wrong, but I worry that I'm not.
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KickerOfMice posted:WaPo - Acts of Faith - Michele Bachmann tells televangelist she might run for Al Franken’s Senate seat Wasn't she forced out of her seat
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KickerOfMice posted:-archy, -ocracy, what's that word that means a society controlled by the wealthy undead? Necroligarchy
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TheNewt posted:Arkansas ain't stupid enough and Boozeman is too much of a business friendly moderate republican to get voted out by anyone that cares. She's running for governor not senator.
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Uncle Wemus posted:Wasn't she forced out of her seat If I remember correctly, she just stepped down. Technically, yes - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/reading-between-the-lines-of-michele-bachmanns-retirement-speech/276332/ Chadderbox posted:Necroligarchy  Here's what I was looking for.VVVVV Nice. KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Chadderbox posted:Necroligarchy Thanatocracy. 
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I'm that person. Oh, ha, whoops Heck Yes! Loam! posted:You have yet to show how they are different. You've failed to show they're the same. I also don't really care that much
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STAC Goat posted:Don't worry. Huckabee makes poo poo up and never actually follows through on anything she says will be announced later. Its just her go to deflection when a reporter asks a question about something Trump said. She neither wants to disagree with the President nor has anything to back him up so she just tells you to ask someone else or wait. I wonder if she saw how well Trump's "we'll see" dodge worked and made her own version of it. SHuckS is a rather frustrating because she is pretty darn good at shutting down the press without even giving up eyebrow-raising quotes in a way that made them a target of mockery like Spicer had a habit of doing. Competent people in this administration scare me.
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TheNewt posted:Is the thread done reminiscing about Laughable Xhosa Girl? :gb2somethingsensitive:
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Pakled posted:Considering that black people are the cornerstone of the Democratic party, it's pretty remarkable that out of 49 Democratic senators, only one has a black chief of staff. I know it's a tired old Republican trope, but Black people giving 90+% of their votes to the Democratic candidate regardless of their eventual policies isn't good. It's equivalent to poor White people who support Republicans even though it goes against their best interests. Doug Jones seems to legitimately appreciate Black support. I don't know if most other Democratic Senators do.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://twitter.com/JanMorgan_/status/948187266001883137?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E1 See now all I can think about is the rhino making GBS threads itself and feces falling all over the dog as it chases. So yeah, that's pretty much the perfect embodiment of that campaign.
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Carlosologist posted:Happy new year Trump thread, here’s a funny anecdote It’s from two pages back but I can’t stop laughing at how nutbag conservatives treat “knowing people” as part of a point system to give them a pass at not being a bigot. It’s like they list that they know 3 Jews and a black woman and so they can rattle off at least three racial epithets on national TV without being labeled a bigot or racist. gently caress, I helped a black neighbor shovel snow out of his driveway and dated a cute Venezuelan girl with Jewish heritage a while back, how many points does that get me? Am I finally in the “not racist” zone?  What the gently caress, white people? Why do we suck so bad?
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Smol posted:Cruz maybe? Cruz is gonna be inserting himself into every primary until the day he dies. His reputation since loving high school is that of someone that is always clambering to reach a higher seat of power and the POTUS is the ultimate end goal for him. Fortunately, he has all the charisma of a moldy banana so the odds of him ever winning a general election are slim. Even Republicans don't like him.
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Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run I worry that she is a weak campaigner and would play right into the same biases as Hillary.
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Family Values posted:Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run Well, she is a woman, so yeah.
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Family Values posted:Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run I doubt Warren will have issues with paid Wall Street speeches.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Thanatocracy. Lich lord Trump has been accepting embalmuments. The republican branch of our thanatocracy has been taken over by the alt-wight. Orrin Hatch is still a senator.
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I'm so glad that Roy Moore ran for senate. First he threw the race by being a creepy pedophile, Then he put the dumbest motherfucker ever in a CNN interview who got completely, totally, and mercilessly wrecked by Jake Tapper. I STILL get an urge to laugh just thinking about that. Then his wife steps up to the plate and gets owned in that Washington Examiner article. If literally any other republican had been in his place, Alabama would have elected them and we'd have one less Dem in the senate and fewer sources of joviality in this thread. And with how depressing this last year has been, we need all the chuckles we can get around here.
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Family Values posted:Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run In that she's a woman and America is super sexist? Otherwise she's literally someone who has cred for sticking up for the working class and loving with banks. And knows how to talk to people in ways they can hear.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Thanatocracy. Necronomarchy
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Family Values posted:Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run After 2017: The Year of the Sexmonster I will only vote for a woman in the 2020 primaries so more women is good news. Warren>Klobucher>Gillibrand/Harris/Anyone Else
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Family Values posted:Warren positions herself for potential 2020 run What makes someone a weak campaigner? As long as she’s willing to do public events that’s campaigning.
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yronic heroism posted:What makes someone a weak campaigner? As long as she’s willing to do public events that’s campaigning. Agreed. She did the Women's March last year and I thought she did a good job. Plus she's pretty much perfect on domestic policy. I dunno enough about her foreign policy stances to say anything.
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yronic heroism posted:What makes someone a weak campaigner? As long as she’s willing to do public events that’s campaigning. Martha Coakley would like a word with you.
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Riptor posted:That still comes off as someone who has stupid ideas / has watched too much House of Cards rather than someone who is literally insane like Mensch https://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/on-bernie-sanders-and-exp_b_10077684.html edit: like, i will say that abramson is better than mensch in that he clearly is aware that he's talking bullshit, he just believes that talking enough bullshit is going to have a positive impact. mensch legit believes everything she says.
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axeil posted:Agreed. She did the Women's March last year and I thought she did a good job. Plus she's pretty much perfect on domestic policy. I dunno enough about her foreign policy stances to say anything. Better than tweeting threats to foreign powers should be an improvement.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Martha Coakley would like a word with you. We have Martha Coakley to thank for Liz Warren though. Well that and the GOP refusing to allow her appointment to head of the CFPB BlueBlazer posted:Better than tweeting threats to foreign powers should be an improvement. Yeah on the foreign policy front "thinks nuclear war is bad" is pretty much the only qualifier at this point for me.
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Pretty much any other woman in the field would be a better choice than Warren. She is not charismatic on the stump. She's awesome in writing and there's some great clips, but if you look at longer campaign speeches, there are better options. She can probably still beat Trump (we hope), but I'd like to nominate someone who can also win in 2024.
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Shifty Pony posted:I wonder if she saw how well Trump's "we'll see" dodge worked and made her own version of it. I'm not sure how competent she is, but the main difference I find between her and Spicer is that Spicer let the media get to him. He got angry and worked up and felt a need to defend himself and Trump. Huckabee doesn't. She's nakedly shameless and feels no need to defend anything she or Trump do or say. The media doesn't make her angry or put her on the defensive. She just condescends to them and dismisses them openly in a way that no professional PR person should do. I don't know if that's competency as much as its just inherited "give no poo poo"ness. But its what you need to survive the Trump Administration. if there's something Huckabee really gets its (a) that just denying something or deflecting it is way more effective than fighting it like Spicer did and (b) there's so much poo poo and chaos that the press pool really can't keep up to hold you accountable for the poo poo your promised them last week.
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Shifty Pony posted:I wonder if she saw how well Trump's "we'll see" dodge worked and made her own version of it. Being able to say nothing about things that people already know is now competent. A sound activated sign that lit up and said 'no comment' could do her job the bar is in free fall
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axeil posted:We have Martha Coakley to thank for Liz Warren though. This is true, but she was an awful campaigner, which was my original point.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:none of their candidates have had twenty five years of baseless hatemongering pointed at them so no i mean, the dkos/democratic underground types used to accuse Jeb! of stealing the 2000 election for his brother. but that never really went beyond those circles so it's not to the same degree.
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Rigel posted:Pretty much any other woman in the field would be a better choice than Warren. this is pretty ridiculous hyperbole
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Rigel posted:Pretty much any other woman in the field would be a better choice than Warren. She is not charismatic on the stump. She's awesome in writing and there's some great clips, but if you look at longer campaign speeches, there are better options. She can probably still beat Trump (we hope), but I'd like to nominate someone who can also win in 2024. Her authenticity on Wall Street regulation matters way more than if she doesn't check your boxes in charisma. The idea that she would lose as a sitting president because of stump speeches is absurd.
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Instant Sunrise posted:i mean, the dkos/democratic underground types used to accuse Jeb! of stealing the 2000 election for his brother. but that never really went beyond those circles so it's not to the same degree. Accuse?
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khy posted:Then he put the dumbest motherfucker ever in a CNN interview who got completely, totally, and mercilessly wrecked by Jake Tapper. I STILL get an urge to laugh just thinking about that. How did I forget about that already? Here it is, for anyone who hasn't seen it. poo poo, and for those who have. This is full-swing wrecking ball ownage. Literal dumbstruck silence included.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYRkzznsc0 KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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botany posted:this is pretty ridiculous hyperbole "pretty much any other woman in the field" = Gillibrand, Harris, and Klobuchar. All 3 would be better options. So no, I don't think so.
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axeil posted:Agreed. She did the Women's March last year and I thought she did a good job. Plus she's pretty much perfect on domestic policy. I dunno enough about her foreign policy stances to say anything. Basically everyone who a) is elected and b) the left likes is this way, minus a few gimmes like "diplomacy is good" and "let's try to stop human rights abuses," honestly. I'm struggling to think of a left-approved nationally elected politician who focuses much on the foreign policy side.
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