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Jealous Cow posted:Holy poo poo everyone go listen to this. Stormy and her lawyer are loving brilliant and are loving Trump 20 different ways. KickerOfMice posted:DeVos is a stain Edit: Tax 
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Cable Guy posted:This is good. She's not that clever.
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Cable Guy posted:
I would bet everything I have it was
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Cable Guy posted:loving DeVos... think this was deliberate oversight? Well, I'm sure the fact that DeVos has a ton of friends in the lending industry has nothing to do with it.
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Cable Guy posted:loving DeVos... think this was deliberate oversight? I wouldn't put it past this mountain of madness. I mean a contract it just that, but to enforce them for such unimportant bullshit, on teachers who are already criminally underpaid. If you meet/exceed the teaching requirements for that gargantuan $4000, you aren't exactly burning a debt-hole in America's pocket. It's just so goddamn petty.
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KickerOfMice posted:I wouldn't put it past this mountain of madness. I mean a contract it just that, but to enforce them for such unimportant bullshit, on teachers who are already criminally underpaid. If you meet/exceed the teaching requirements for that gargantuan $4000, you aren't exactly burning a debt-hole in America's pocket. It's just so goddamn petty. This is how private contractors function and make their profits off of administering government benefit programs; they cut benefits everywhere possible, then force those who are denied to jump through a futile "appeal" system that never actually corrects problems. The giveaway is the "there is an appeal process but nobody ever wins." They implement those processes to wear folks out and prevent them from going to federal court; every additional hurdle they require people to jump is a hurdle that preserves profit. The private corporations administering this know exactly what they're doing. It's like bank fees: the system is designed to reap profits off of incidental trivial mistakes or deliberately created errors; there's no incentive to correct. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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The more I learn about the financial workings of our government, the more I want to run around shirtless in the streets screaming about it.  I know - the shadowrun megacorps, too, but I already hated them. 
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Guillotines for everyone
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KickerOfMice posted:The more I learn about the financial workings of our government, the more I want to run around shirtless in the streets screaming about it. A lot of the money problems in government are because we keep letting Pruitt, DeVos and Carson types in.
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Ague Proof posted:Behold a dumb cartoon: god drat, really reaching for that matryoshka joke.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:33
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*table full of people who broke the law* still nothing.
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So according to the cartoonist, all those people committed crimes.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:36
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I like the grim detail that the dolls seem to die when opened.
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Lycus posted:So according to the cartoonist, all those people committed crimes. Their guilt wasn't instantly proven at the time they were accused of something so it's just a fishing expedition, no crimes you see. Conspiracy should be easy to prove! *Spends two years investigating a blowjob* RuanGacho posted:A lot of the money problems in government are because we keep letting Pruitt, DeVos and Carson types in. I know, it's just dispiriting.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I like the grim detail that the dolls seem to die when opened. In Russia, even the toys are grim
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It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35?
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? They're old and don't give a poo poo? Living out the rest of their bitter days while they're on the slow march towards an inexorable death, and making sure that everyone around them is just as miserable as they are.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:48
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The Opening Arguments podcast is loving fascinating.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? Everyone tries to claim the Reagan mantle but I don’t think Trump can be remotely looked at as a neo-Reagan.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? Because they don't know or talk to anyone under 35 except maybe at Christmas or weddings, times when most people want to avoid getting in a big ol knock down drag-out fight over politics and just enjoy themselves.
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Cable Guy posted:Sometimes I feel for some of the GRU.... not often, just sometimes. I feel for them every time they have to check FYAD.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? They're convinced all of the young leftists will grow up and get over it someday.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? The polls are wrong, the people love Trump, young people dont vote and theyll be conservative when they get older. Its one big bubble of denial and delusion.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? They're convinced they're right and everyone will agree with them eventually. Same reason anyone holds onto an unpopular ideological position.
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Lol after all of those think pieces, one from Nate himself, on how Trump being up to 42% approval is a concern and Yadaa yadaa a couple more polls came today and now the aggregate on 538 is 40.4.
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Think about the reverse. Do you care about how your preferred candidates play to someone above 65? No. Do they care about how their candidates play to under 35? No.
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Rigel posted:The polls are wrong, the people love Trump, young people dont vote and theyll be conservative when they get older. That and, the internet exists now. Their first view of how much this place isn't a B&W 50's family show, and actually sucks = what's happening? everything has gone to hell! No, Grampa, take that "Trump that Bitch" sticker off of your truck....
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Vladimir Putin posted:Think about the reverse. Do you care about how your preferred candidates play to someone above 65? No. Do they care about how their candidates play to under 35? No. Fair enough. I guess I look at it in a long term way rather than A. More money for us B. gently caress you.
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Crow Jane posted:They're convinced all of the young leftists will grow up and get over it someday. I have heard this unironically from my parents SO many times.
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Everyone should grow at least a little bit of their own food, even if it's just some windowsill herbs. I have a small backyard and still manage to fit: tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, peas, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, gourds, melons, grapes, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and like 20 kinds of herbs. There's also some zucca, but I don't think I'm going to eat it.. Anyway, it's incredibly rewarding, puts you in touch with your surroundings, and adds a little (or a lot of) exercise to your day.
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Asimov posted:Remember that the Mule frequently masqueraded as a buffoonish clown in public. This allowed him to gain access to many key people while avoiding suspicion. Magnifico would also perform concerts to mass-indoctrinate his unwitting victims. Yes, and his stage name was Magnifico Giganticus. Sounds like our orange master.
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AceOfFlames posted:I have heard this unironically from my parents SO many times. If you're young and not a liberal, you're heartless, and if you're old and not a conservative, you're brainless. *says my stupid loving heartless father in law at the yearly family reunion
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Vladimir Putin posted:Think about the reverse. Do you care about how your preferred candidates play to someone above 65? No. Do they care about how their candidates play to under 35? No. They're over 65 and not long for the world.
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CascadeBeta posted:It's really stunning to me how large the blinders are on older conservatives. How do they not see how toxic their brand and their Neo Reagan are to anyone under 35? People have been saying this for a good 20-30 years now, but the supposed tidal wave of left-leaning folks suddenly taking over from baby boomers on business and government has so far failed to materialize. I wouldn't be holding my breath. Those on the left are going to have to do a whole lot better than to wait for some imagined new generation. I would dare say this imagined new wave of lefties taking over being conjured fancifully in peoples' minds are a factor in the left's enduring complacency. President Trump is a thing that exists, because people didn't go out to vote. Yes the Republicans are doing a stellar job of self-destructing, but it's not enough and it's not a free ride for the Democratic party. At best you will get what happens in the UK - parties are no longer voted in primarily because of personal ideologies held by individual citizens, but parties get voted out because they didn't do good enough during their time in power.
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CascadeBeta posted:Fair enough. I guess I look at it in a long term way rather than A. More money for us B. gently caress you. You have to consider the younger you are the more you are likely to have serious concerns about the future. Young people haven’t lived most of their lives and the future plays an outsized concern in their minds. Older people have already lived most of their lives or realize that they are living it for the here and now. To think about the future for an elderly person is to do it through the prism of a person they love who is younger like a child or a grand child. So concerns about the future play a different role depending on your age. And those specific concerns are also way different for the different age groups. When people ask if they are concerned about the future ‘brand’ of the party to 65+ they should consider these points.
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AceOfFlames posted:I have heard this unironically from my parents SO many times. i heard that a lot too and i have been making more money than both of them combined for years and i still dont believe in trickle down economics
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Hellblazer187 posted:The Opening Arguments podcast is loving fascinating. Edit: evilweasel-signal  Can we get an opinion? Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Jealous Cow posted:Holy poo poo everyone go listen to this. Stormy and her lawyer are loving brilliant and are loving Trump 20 different ways. Summary for those of us who don't have a bunch of time to listen to podcasts?
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:People have been saying this for a good 20-30 years now, but the supposed tidal wave of left-leaning folks suddenly taking over from baby boomers on business and government has so far failed to materialize. I wouldn't be holding my breath. Those on the left are going to have to do a whole lot better than to wait for some imagined new generation. I would dare say this imagined new wave of lefties taking over being conjured fancifully in peoples' minds are a factor in the left's enduring complacency. President Trump is a thing that exists, because people didn't go out to vote. Yes the Republicans are doing a stellar job of self-destructing, but it's not enough and it's not a free ride for the Democratic party. You know that the boomers are just now dying off in big numbers, right? People have been saying it was going to happen because they knew it was going to happen.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Everyone should grow at least a little bit of their own food, even if it's just some windowsill herbs. Agreeing with this. My current porch is too small but I have one of these indoors and it's awesome: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...d=1MOSYKLVTZ1UQ  (not mine, mine has three pod spots and is smaller)
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