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STAC Goat posted:The NDA was signed 2 weeks before the election, wasn't it? I think that constitutes as "political aspirations". Also I'm not even sure what you're arguing. Are you saying she's making it all up? Because even Sarah Sanders has verified that its legit. I wasn't sure when it was signed. What i'm getting at is that either he signed and was aware (clearly not the case unless Stormy's about to commit suicide via lawsuit) or didn't sign and wasn't aware. NDA's are quite different from business mergers, there's no benefit at all from him knowing and not signing it. I'm not attacking Stormy's character, just saying that it has to be a very weird situation if she's telling the truth about him being aware of the NDA and didnt sign, and that it will be a fairly heavy burden of proof.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:The barbarians aren't at the gates; they're already inside. Reminder Blanco got that metaphor wrong too. Like the witch hunt and the "defending the castle from outside??!?!" are his two biggest fuckups.
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enraged_camel posted:Nah, it doesn't. Qualcomm and Huawei are the only competitors for 5G chips. If Broadcom acquires Qualcomm, they will break it up and kill its chances of competing effectively, handing victory to the Chinese (government). I honestly agree with that. The speed of the 'veto' as described does seem odd. Maybe form a narrative, get public support, force dems to agree with you publicly. but lol trump lol I wonder that if it were a firm in a different country, if it would have been axed so quickly. God forbid if it were a Russian company.
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Bicyclops posted:I'm also changing the words back to "And also with you" so that the next time one of my relatives dies, I'm not confused by all this "And with your spirit" stuff.
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Admiral posted:That caught me out after starting work at a Catholic School. I'm not religious at all, but I did attend a Catholic High School myself, and when I had to attend the first staff mass, I was pretty psyched that I was still going to remember some of the call and response stuff. It actually was severely deeply upsetting to me, no joke, and like, whatever, it's probably a good thing. Maybe it's a more accurate translation or something that better reflects our times, I don't know. But like, trying to explain to my Jewish wife some of the important things of being raised Catholic, despite leaving the Church, I wanted her to understand some of the comfort of a community coming together and saying (or singing) a set of magic words, binding everyone into some kind of harmony and creating normalcy, all things that could have actually served as a comfort to me and a confirmation of my identity. It just soured the whole experience and made me think more about the things I hated about being raised Catholic, like the CCD class I had to take where the teacher wrote "SEX = FIRE" over and over again on the board. It felt like they took out all the window-dressing and comfort, like all the ugliness of the Church that my poor mother worked for for 27 years was still there, but I was in the BerensTAIN, Universe, where all the stuff I'd grown up with was perverted in some kind of Twilight Zone-esque way. .........Anyway, it was pretty funny when Trump got mad at Sean Spicer and wouldn't let him come along to visit the Pope.
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ummel posted:I honestly agree with that. The speed of the 'veto' as described does seem odd. Maybe form a narrative, get public support, force dems to agree with you publicly. but lol trump lol The techcrunch article goes into a lot of detail. Basically, Intel is the second largest chipmaker in the world, and is investing heavily in 5G in the hopes that it can get a nice chunk of the market as the third player (alongside Qualcomm and Huawei). But if Broadcom acquires Qualcomm and then sells its 5G assets to Huawei, Intel, and by proxy the US, would be hosed. So what most likely happened is that Intel lobbyists sounded the emergency alarm bells and got the US government to block the merger, which is why it happened so quickly.
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Putin would only shoot someone if it was with a hidden polonium dart in an umbrella like he's the loving Penguin
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Trazz posted:Putin would only shoot someone if it was with a hidden polonium dart in an umbrella like he's the loving Penguin Or actual Novichok holy poo poo.
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Crabtree posted:A lovely world and politics can age you. Wasn't she shot in the head? I think that might put a few years on you.
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It's completely baffling that the Russian uk embassy just flat out admits that they offed the guy. I'm not sure getting into a kanly with Russia is a smart thing, but for all intents and purposes Putin already started it. 10-20 oligarchs should do to put the pressure on. I wouldn't want to be in Teresa Mays shoes though.
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So I don't get the GOP's angle on closing off the House investigation with a full exhoneration - surely they'd be doing better at the mid-terms with independent/undecided if they could keep up the facade of "we're the checks and balances on the madman", if they strung along the investigation forever? What exactly do they gain with this?
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canepazzo posted:So I don't get the GOP's angle on closing off the House investigation with a full exhoneration - surely they'd be doing better at the mid-terms with independent/undecided if they could keep up the facade of "we're the checks and balances on the madman", if they strung along the investigation forever? What exactly do they gain with this? Trump stops yelling at them to end it.
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canepazzo posted:So I don't get the GOP's angle on closing off the House investigation with a full exhoneration - surely they'd be doing better at the mid-terms with independent/undecided if they could keep up the facade of "we're the checks and balances on the madman", if they strung along the investigation forever? What exactly do they gain with this? We can't ask because they keep jumping out of Ubers and running into the woods only to emerge hours later from under a white house buffet table.
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Mar 13, 2018 07:28
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canepazzo posted:What exactly do they gain with this? A bit of rhetorical chaff. Any discussion about this issue for the next six months is going to start with some Trump supporter saying 'But the House exonerated him on all charges!' and having to deal with that little bit of bullshit. Also, a whole ton of lower-information voters are gonna see this in the headlines and think that because the House GOP exonerated him, that the issue is over.
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canepazzo posted:So I don't get the GOP's angle on closing off the House investigation with a full exhoneration - surely they'd be doing better at the mid-terms with independent/undecided if they could keep up the facade of "we're the checks and balances on the madman", if they strung along the investigation forever? What exactly do they gain with this? Fox wanted something to talk about.
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Republicans posted:Trump stops yelling at them to end it. About time too. He yelled at them through twitter to DO SOMETHING! like five months ago. 
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axeil posted:Who was the actual favorite among the Russian people post-Gorbachev? this is almost absurdly wrong. for starters it was the white house that was shelled in 1993 in the final anti-democratic coup by yeltsin, not the soviet "hardliners" who masterminded the short-lived but bloodless 1991 uprising. it was this subversion of parliamentary authority that paved the way for the current russian constitution, which vests a great deal of power in the office of the president. but because yeltsin was "our guy" this caught nary a complaint from the west, and in fact led to the interference in the 1996 election people have already posted about the west propped up yeltsin, and yeltsin chose putin as his successor. yet again, the us finds itself facing a problem of its own making and has conveniently suffered amnesia where causes are concerned
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R. Guyovich posted:
To be fair, this isn't limited to politics.
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Mustached Demon posted:Fox wanted something to talk about. Could be? Maybe they're hoping all day Fox coverage will energize voters in PA.
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Bronze posted:Could be? Maybe they're hoping all day Fox coverage will energize voters in PA. Meanwhile everyone else likely to vote tomorrow doesn't buy gently caress all of their poo poo.
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canepazzo posted:So I don't get the GOP's angle on closing off the House investigation with a full exhoneration - surely they'd be doing better at the mid-terms with independent/undecided if they could keep up the facade of "we're the checks and balances on the madman", if they strung along the investigation forever? What exactly do they gain with this? The majority of people don’t know that there are multiple investigations going on and that they are all different. The don’t know there’s a House investigations, a Senate investigation, and the Mueller investigation. They just know that there is “a” investigation about the fake news trump Russia thing, and now they “know” that trump has been exonerated by the investigation.
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Boris Galerkin posted:The majority of people don’t know that there are multiple investigations going on and that they are all different. The don’t know there’s a House investigations, a Senate investigation, and the Mueller investigation. They just know that there is “a” investigation about the fake news trump Russia thing, and now they “know” that trump has been exonerated by the investigation. The majority of the people? Or his base?
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I saw some speculating that the House ruling was timed to help the PA election. Some speculating that it was another preventive strike against a Mueller bomb like we've seen before his indictments. While it's all possible I think it's all over thinking. The second the House Committee took up this "investigation" it was intended to end this way, with a joke of an effort that they could point to and pretend they did their jobs and a rubber stamped "cleared of all charges" that they'll go back to every time someone talks about Russia, Mueller, Manafort, or whatever. From now on every time we get a story we'll hear"The House did an exhaustive investigation and already cleared President Trump". Even if Mueller wants to press charges and people call for Ryan to impeach he'll say "he was already cleared". It was all a transparent cover from the second Nunes did his little stunt running around DC. The timing is academic. Maybe it will coincide with a big news story or indictment or scandal, but with this Administration youve got better than even odds of that every week. Remember Trump is appealing to the "we won that Syria thing" and "Obama couldn't get Bin Laden" base. Now we'll all spend the rest of our lives arguing with idiots that Trump wasn't cleared by the fbi or Mueller or anyone but half a dozen Republicans. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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STAC Goat posted:I saw some speculating that the House ruling was timed to help the PA election. Some speculating that it was another preventive strike against a Mueller bomb like we've seen before his indictments. While it's all possible I think it's all over thinking. That last paragraph was what I was going at too. Like DACA and shutting down the government it’s about messaging. The Nazis in office just sent a message that Trump is innocent. This is what all the news media is going to repeat now.
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bogoodski posted:Random, and out of curiosity (new thread's got me questioning things (like: life, its meaning, and other existential but equally important deliberations, such as the following)): Is it pretty common among this thread's participants to visit this thread exclusively on SA? I visit the various forums in the Games section. The Let's Play section in particular has some excellent threads. Also the thread on Brexit is nice so you can see the trainwreck that the UK referenda's itself into.
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Admiral posted:That caught me out after starting work at a Catholic School. I'm not religious at all, but I did attend a Catholic High School myself, and when I had to attend the first staff mass, I was pretty psyched that I was still going to remember some of the call and response stuff. Dangit, that’s the only thing I enjoy about being forced to go every 8 years or so. Remembering all of those words burned into my brain that are now apparently useless.
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RBA-Wintrow posted:I visit the various forums in the Games section. The Let's Play section in particular has some excellent threads. Asktell is quite good. Other threads in this subforum can have a good signal to noise ratio depending, e.g. the Africa thread is pretty good if slow. Goons with spoons is educational and the MRE thread is a forums highlight.
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Boris Galerkin posted:That last paragraph was what I was going at too. yeah they sure are saying just that. My prediction based purely on spite: Mueller has Nunes dead to rights and has made his move.
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Oh please who actually thinks Trump wouldn't wuss out and sign it anyway.
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R. Guyovich posted:this is almost absurdly wrong. for starters it was the white house that was shelled in 1993 in the final anti-democratic coup by yeltsin, not the soviet "hardliners" who masterminded the short-lived but bloodless 1991 uprising. it was this subversion of parliamentary authority that paved the way for the current russian constitution, which vests a great deal of power in the office of the president. but because yeltsin was "our guy" this caught nary a complaint from the west, and in fact led to the interference in the 1996 election people have already posted about This documentary gives a pretty good breakdown: https://vimeo.com/1223566
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Neurolimal posted:I wasn't sure when it was signed. What i'm getting at is that either he signed and was aware (clearly not the case unless Stormy's about to commit suicide via lawsuit) or didn't sign and wasn't aware. NDA's are quite different from business mergers, there's no benefit at all from him knowing and not signing it. At this point, does it really matter (to anyone besides Stormy Daniels)? The hush contract is in the public record, and that's enough for the court of public opinion. And, well, hardcore Trumpists didn't care that he has a history of adultery and self-admitted sexual assault, but the damage is done as far as centrists are concerned.
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To continue the Yeltsin derail, it's hard to overstate just what an absolute disaster this guy was for Russia and the other post-soviet states that just completely went to poo poo after the USSR collapsed. Gorbachev gets a lot of poo poo (or praise, depending on your ideological bent) for the dissolution of the USSR, but he actually fought like hell to keep some kind of union based on socialist principles together. It was Yeltsin (in his role as president of the Russian Socialist Republic) that sat down in secret with - if I remember correctly - the presidents of the Ukrainian and Belorussian SRs and agreed that their respective republics would leave the Soviet Union, thus leaving the USSR a hollow shell consisting of a few central asian republics and - by pure coincidence! - leaving Yeltsin as top dog in the wreckage. In short, gently caress Yeltsin and gently caress the short-sighted idiots in the west who hailed him as a champion of democracy.
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yo i went to bed yesterday at this point but i just wanted to say:axeil posted:See edit. thanks for pointing that out, i wasn't aware the site was garbage. the story is still correct, it was just the first link i found.
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Birb is about seven times smarter and eleventy times more reliable than Trump.
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oh hmmmm i wonder who just loving named him https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/973513962330447872 There's your collusion right there.
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