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SulphagneSocialist posted:At the going rate I think Ryan will decide to retire and not run for his seat again, he's gotten his tax cut, all that's left to do is head to the private sector and cash in. I saw this earlier but I have no idea what site "townhall" is so I'm not really taking it seriously at all: https://twitter.com/downwithtyranny...654404811923456
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Eeyo posted:Is there a good explanation of this out there? I don't really understand how public/private businesses work with respect to buyouts from groups like that. Basically private equity firms, once they take something over, add the cost of the takeover to the debt of the company. So in iHeartMedia's case it cost the equity firm something like 15 billion to acquire it and that debt went right into their ledger.
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RiggenBlaque posted:I saw this earlier but I have no idea what site "townhall" is so I'm not really taking it seriously at all: I don't know what you mean, you can implicitly trust any source which uses the word "Trumpanzee."
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RiggenBlaque posted:I saw this earlier but I have no idea what site "townhall" is so I'm not really taking it seriously at all: Honestly that makes me doubt my own supposition, instead of believing in it more.
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Bicyclops posted:I'm a big fan of textbooks that include funny cartoons about insane stuff like, say, the Brooks-Sumner affair. Sometimes it takes seeing it from a different perspective to see how insane portions of history are. I think some textbooks try this with period political cartoons but most of those are boring as hell, not like the ones in the cartoon thread where it's people farting on pictures of their enemies.
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I'm starting to get a little worried about Grassley  https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/974448487449415680 https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/974665148316225536 https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/974685180068851712
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CyberPingu posted:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/16/arm-homeless-with-shotguns-to-reduce-crime-us-senate-hopeful-says.html Ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHEAOrAdCU
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Radish posted:I think some textbooks try this with period political cartoons but most of those are boring as hell, not like the ones in the cartoon thread where it's people farting on pictures of their enemies. Johnny Treason should be the textbook mascot who guides all high school students through American history. 
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Rigel posted:I'm starting to get a little worried about Grassley Sounds like someone needs his you-know-what fix
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haveblue posted:I remember a somewhat breathless article from late 2016/early 2017 about how this situation was the way Steve Bannon would subvert the Catholic Church. yeah, burke and bannon are besties
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Crow Jane posted:Sounds like someone needs his you-know-what fix This proposal is as bad as the History Channel!!
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To be fair, Grassley is right that a RINS cap would absolutely decimate ethanol and big agribusiness in his home state. Everyone here knows that's who he really works for.
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Groovelord Neato posted:how, its profits exploded after sandy hook. Revenue went up, but profit didn't. This was deliberate. they made more money bankrupting the company
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Bicyclops posted:Johnny Treason should be the textbook mascot who guides all high school students through American history. The cartoon thread would be so much better if a filter replaced every political cartoon with this one, because that's all every political cartoon really is anyway.
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Smiling Jack posted:Revenue went up, but profit didn't. This was deliberate. Leveraged buyouts are such an amazing scam.
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Bicyclops posted:I don't know what you mean, you can implicitly trust any source which uses the word "Trumpanzee." Hell, how could you trust a source that doesn't
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enraged_camel posted:there was also poo poo like this Reminder even the Texas governor sent the national guard to "keep watch." Weird how an n-word(neoliberal) gets elected and suddenly a routine military exercise gets turned into some sort of plot.
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Bicyclops posted:Johnny Treason should be the textbook mascot who guides all high school students through American history. Godspeed Johnny  VitalSigns posted:The cartoon thread would be so much better if a filter replaced every political cartoon with this one, because that's all every political cartoon really is anyway. It really is political discourse boiled down to its most base level.
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Groovelord Neato posted:how, its profits exploded after sandy hook. Remington went bankrupt in the 1980s and a lot of its business was spun off and bought by FN, which is owned by Herstal Group. Ironic that a lot of patriotic Americana is now majority owned by the Belgian government. Anyway when people talk about Remington they may be informally talking about one of a number of companies. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Radish posted:Godspeed Johnny The sunrise in the background is what really makes it special.  VitalSigns posted:The cartoon thread would be so much better if a filter replaced every political cartoon with this one, because that's all every political cartoon really is anyway. Too sophisticated.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Basically private equity firms, once they take something over, add the cost of the takeover to the debt of the company. So in iHeartMedia's case it cost the equity firm something like 15 billion to acquire it and that debt went right into their ledger. In the case of iHeartMedia, would they otherwise have been able to survive? Or were they distressed, and the equity firm thought they could squeeze enough money out of the liquidation. So is the problem that they got 15 billion in debt and had to pay interest on it and were less likely to get loans to expand/develop so they eventually weren’t able to pay back the debt, or that they were pretty much screwed anyway and the equity firms come in to pick the carcass for what it’s worth.
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Rigel posted:I'm starting to get a little worried about Grassley When I read Ender's Game I thought it was a silly idea that governments would govern and debate over the internet but here we are.
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sean10mm posted:The sunrise in the background is what really makes it special. Also that little shrub, bravely flippin' the bird.
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Boris Galerkin posted:When I read Ender's Game I thought it was a silly idea that governments would govern and debate over the internet but here we are. And that children could appear as or more intelligent than actual politicians. But, again, here we are indeed.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/974693091063025664 Part of me thinks those sources close to the White House are just saying whatever loving thing they think reporters will tweet out (which is everything).
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Tayter Swift posted:Part of me thinks those sources close to the White House are just saying whatever loving thing they think reporters will tweet out (which is everything). Trump sleeps nude in an oxygen tent, which he believes helps his hair grow back!
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/974693091063025664 Mick Mulvaney is the piece of poo poo who made it his goal to overturn the Obama Department of Labor's fiduciary rule (previously, financial advisers working with ERISA-qualified plans only had to disclose meaningful conflicts of interest regarding investment advice to their clients; the rule made them act as fiduciaries, which is to say in their clients' best interests). gently caress him forever.
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PT6A posted:Trump sleeps naked in an oxygen tent, which he believes helps his hair grow back! I mean that neck flab of his probably gives him sleep apnea like a mofo, he probably should sleep with an oxygen tank. Crossing my fingers he's too vain to actually do so Oh god, imagine how horrible his snoring must be Crow Jane fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:When I read Ender's Game I thought it was a silly idea that governments would govern and debate over the internet but here we are. I rolled my eyes when Ender's brother shitposted his way to ruling the Earth, welp
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Boris Galerkin posted:Didn't we a few hours ago just hear Kelly say "I'm in"? Nobody loving knows at this point.
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Bicyclops posted:Johnny Treason should be the textbook mascot who guides all high school students through American history. I've seen this cartoon dozens of times over the years, and I've only just realized that it's a picture of George III, and not him poking his head out of a window. 
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cochise posted:Nobody loving knows at this point. Seriously, just a night or two ago the Washington Post was quoting White House staff as saying that no one knows what's going to happen even an hour from now because Trump's behavior is so unpredictable.
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PT6A posted:And that children could appear as or more intelligent than actual politicians. But, again, here we are indeed. I keep wondering whether the fact that politicians are notably dumber now is something to do with lead. The politicians of the age to be at the peak of their careers now are the ones in the generation most severely affected by lead pollution. And they seem *so* dumb compared to the Parkland school students. It can't just be age. You look at what politicians in the past wrote, and it's so eloquent, so finely written (shh, don't mention the slavery), but Trump writes like something from Idiocracy and talks like a drunk farmer. Current politicians are from the generation that caused that huge crime wave from the '70s to the '90s.
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Nth Doctor posted:I've seen this cartoon dozens of times over the years, and I've only just realized that it's a picture of George III, and not him poking his head out of a window.  holy poo poo, me too
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Boris Galerkin posted:Didn't we a few hours ago just hear Kelly say "I'm in"? Considering these tweets of him being fired came before the “I’m in” report I’ll go with the latter.
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BarbarianElephant posted:I keep wondering whether the fact that politicians are notably dumber now is something to do with lead. The politicians of the age to be at the peak of their careers now are the ones in the generation most severely affected by lead pollution. And they seem *so* dumb compared to the Parkland school students. It can't just be age. You look at what politicians in the past wrote, and it's so eloquent, so finely written (shh, don't mention the slavery), but Trump writes like something from Idiocracy and talks like a drunk farmer. Current politicians are from the generation that caused that huge crime wave from the '70s to the '90s. Yeah probably, individual boomers can be smart, but the average ones are so much dumber than the generations on either side of them, their lead-addled brains aren't their fault but it sucks we all have to be ruled by a series of incurious idiot kings.
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PT6A posted:Trump sleeps nude in an oxygen tent, which he believes helps his hair grow back! Hey, that's a half truth!
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