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Mr. Nice! posted:But seriously, the rest of the world is against us. This is not good. Took them long enough
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The Iron Rose posted:What a dishonest, and, honestly, kinda misogynist caption
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Jun 5, 2018 17:50
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yeah guys I'm not disagreeing with any of that I'm saying the UN voting down a pro-Israel resolution is not surprising in the slightest and shouldn't be presented as this big shocking surprise, and the insults in the tweet felt gendered. That's about it. US isolation in the international community is undeniably a big problem that needs to be addressed and countered of course.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:54
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Mr. Nice! posted:yeah, he's an idiot posting idiot things. Nothing he's ever done or said is newsworthy. He's as bad or worse than Bill Mitchell, adds absolutely nothing to the conversation, and isn't remotely impactful about anything. I already cannot scroll past those types fast enough when I'm browsing C-Spam. If we want a chud twitter thread where we post all those types all the time, I mean lets start the thread. I just don't think we should give them the time of day here unless they're actually relevant towards a current event. You're no fun https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1004037988970446848?s=19
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boop the snoot posted:I’m sure congress could change that. [Contempt power] Contempt is a power of the judiciary which would make it a separation of powers problem. The Constitution would have to be amended to change it. (Or Congress could defund the judiciary if an administration official/toady was ever held in contempt, but that's stretch even for 2018)
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Jun 5, 2018 18:00
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joat mon posted:Contempt is a power of the judiciary which would make it a separation of powers problem. The Constitution would have to be amended to change it. Didn't that literally happen in Kansas over education funding?
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Jun 5, 2018 18:03
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if mitchell or wohl were slightly interesting or provided anything to the conversation other than just "what are morons thinking out loud" then I'd welcome them with open arms. I just don't see the need to give grifters any more attention than they deserve.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:07
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One of my favorite developments in the presidency was when Trump attacked the NBA, bron-bron called him a bum, then Trump never attacked the NBA again. Bron dunked on him again. https://twitter.com/Con_Chron/status/1004043793144745984?s=19
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Jun 5, 2018 18:08
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Saw a article saying Trump is trying to use the GOP tax law to financially punish teams to have kneelers.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:13
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CommieGIR posted:Saw a article saying Trump is trying to use the GOP tax law to financially punish teams to have kneelers. Tried. It was last year he told staff to specifically look into how to change tax law to punish the NFL.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:14
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Is it really too much to ask for these people to face literally any consequence for lying constantly? One of the things I'm curious to see going forward is politicians realizing that now they can blatently make up anything they want (and no longer at least have to pretend to be reasonably honest) and the implications for future elections. The GOP is so good at messaging that if I didn't hate them so much I'd admire them. Just light years ahead of the Dems.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:15
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When can Trump and all his supporters just drink orange flavorade and just loving die already. They offer nothing worthwhile to humanity and actively work to destroy it. I'm loving so worn out by this poo poo
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Jun 5, 2018 18:16
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sharknado slashfic posted:The GOP is so good at messaging that if I didn't hate them so much I'd admire them. Just light years ahead of the Dems. Hate motivates faster and easier than love, shocking.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:16
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Also did Black Rifle Coffee Company ever hire those 10,000 vets? BRCC and every other CHUD also completely missed that Starbucks pledged to hire 10,000 vets back in 2013, and they met their goal last year.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:18
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The Iron Rose posted:yeah guys I'm not disagreeing with any of that Eh, it was a complete shutout though, I could be wrong but I didn't think that happened too often, or at least not with the US as the lone supporter. Does it happen that often? Genuinely curious, now that you mention it as less of a big deal I would like to know, not something I am overly familiar with. Also, I didn't read it as gendered, but I'm admittedly not so sensitive to that, and would grade it on somewhat of a curve since it's a non-english speaker.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:21
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CommieGIR posted:Hate motivates faster and easier than love, shocking. Not entirely what I meant, yesterday some talking head on One America News and later Hannity on Fox were basically reading from the same script. All the same talking points, all the same rebuttals, all the same "the Mueller investigation is the greatest political scandal in history" (and not in the way we think of it). One America guy started to say "our country" at one point, caught himself and said "our constitutional republic" and later on Hannity was using "constitutional republic" as well, so I assume their workshopping found it played well with the base.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:24
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sharknado slashfic posted:The GOP is so good at messaging that if I didn't hate them so much I'd admire them. Just light years ahead of the Dems. I don't give them credit for that so much as blame. The GOP were early adopters of being completely soulless billionaire-donor/corporate whores vomiting any talking points they were told to so they got the benefit of those billionaires funding a massive state propaganda machine in the right wing media. Their ideas are poo poo, their policies are worse, their message is hateful and their talking points have devolved to "1500 kids ripped from families and going to foster homes or wherever isn't that bad and it's fake news anyway". They just have basically endless propaganda dollars to force the discourse onto their topics and into their framing by pure volume. Can't argue the results because we have a spiteful cheeto as president, I just don't give them credit for messaging when it's just more dollars not better messaging.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:27
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sharknado slashfic posted:One of the things I'm curious to see going forward is politicians realizing that now they can blatently make up anything they want (and no longer at least have to pretend to be reasonably honest) and the implications for future elections. Lol friendo let me tell you about the boston massacre and how the news media fanned the flames and lied about what happened Politics wasn't just invented, making poo poo up has been true for a long time carthago delenda est
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Jun 5, 2018 18:27
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sharknado slashfic posted:Not entirely what I meant, yesterday some talking head on One America News and later Hannity on Fox were basically reading from the same script. All the same talking points, all the same rebuttals, all the same "the Mueller investigation is the greatest political scandal in history" (and not in the way we think of it). One America guy started to say "our country" at one point, caught himself and said "our constitutional republic" and later on Hannity was using "constitutional republic" as well, so I assume their workshopping found it played well with the base. And how do they sell those messages? With fear, hate, and violent rhettoric. Hate motivates more.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:32
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Didn't that literally happen in Kansas over education funding? Pretty much. Education funding was the precipitating event, though the specific defunding threat was the punishment that would happen if a court overruled a(n unconstitutional) law that stripped the Kansas Supreme Court of its budgetary/administrative/supervisory powers over lower courts. (in retaliation for the education ruling) The Kansas Supreme Court called the Legislature's bluff and the Legislature
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Jun 5, 2018 18:40
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Future constitutional amendments we ought to have: 1. Federal Candidates must release every tax return they've ever had. 2. Presidents explicitly can't pardon themselves or family members. Any more ideas while we're dreaming?
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Jun 5, 2018 18:42
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CommieGIR posted:And how do they sell those messages? With fear, hate, and violent rhettoric. I'm not disagreeing with you just clarifying my post. Third World Reggin posted:Lol Meh, just feels to me like there was always a "You know I'm lying, I know I'm lying, but I'm going to pretend to not be lying" thing with politicians, and now it feels like "You know I'm lying, I know I'm lying, gently caress you." Maybe I'm just being Trump'd. Or maybe it's the day drinking.
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Jun 5, 2018 18:42
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Casimir Radon posted:Future constitutional amendments we ought to have: Repeal the second amendment 
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Haley is absolutely insufferable. She's as bad as Bolton. Both are dangerous lunatics that should be kept far from any position of power. I didn't read the criticism of her in that video as gendered insults. The same words could and would have been said if mustache John had been in Haley's position.
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Casimir Radon posted:Future constitutional amendments we ought to have: In a hypothetical universe where we make it through the Trump administration in one piece, I can see a constitutional amendment modifying the pardon powers substantially to include something like confirmation by the Senate. In fact, post-Trump, assuming the current Republican party implodes, I could see Congress removing a lot of power from the executive.
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If we make it through I'm sure the GOP won't. The younger generation of the party gas spent the last 3+ years flirting pretty openly with fascism, and it's all on social media. Going to be a lot of would-be Paul Ryans too toxic to win a senate election.psydude posted:In a hypothetical universe where we make it through the Trump administration in one piece, I can see a constitutional amendment modifying the pardon powers substantially to include something like confirmation by the Senate.
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Handsome Ralph posted:There wasn't? I could have sworn there were a couple that Chris Long stood with in solidarity or something. Apparently not, according to what they were saying on the Sportshub this morning. As a Pats fan too, I definitely agree with that, as much as it hurts to say that.
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fan, I'm okay with that loss as I'm happy to watch the Eagles force Trump to self dunk over this poo poo. Also lol at the owners for thinking their anthem policy would ever placate him.
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psydude posted:In fact, post-Trump, assuming the current Republican party implodes, I could see Congress removing a lot of power from the executive. I could see maybe a pardon change involving the Senate because the Senate loves power, but Congress as we know it will never move to limit the Executive's power. It makes both a handy scapegoat for why they can't do things and lets them also not have to do things, thus not chancing a risky vote.
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Casimir Radon posted:If we make it through I'm sure the GOP won't. The younger generation of the party gas spent the last 3+ years flirting pretty openly with fascism, and it's all on social media. Going to be a lot of would-be Paul Ryans too toxic to win a senate election. Trump has definitely been the anti-Reagan to millennials. What is it, something like 63% of people under the age of 40 voted for Clinton? Too bad boomers are going to live pretty long. But generation X is already well on its way to drinking and injecting itself to an early grave.
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Mr. Nice! posted:They were pointless insults, but regardless of that our UN ambassador just had to veto a resolution because no one would vote for ours. We literally have the rest of the world against us. I would say that the begging and humiliation aspects were accurate reporting, and although harsh, were gender neutral. A male diplomat doing and saying the exact same things would have been seen in the same light. 
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Jun 5, 2018 19:10
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https://twitter.com/musalbas/status/1004049970721419264?s=19 He's hosed
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Jun 5, 2018 19:13
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Judge has set Friday as the deadline for a response from Manafort's lawyers.
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Jun 5, 2018 19:15
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CommieGIR posted:Judge has set Friday as the deadline for a response from Manafort's lawyers.
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Jun 5, 2018 19:41
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facialimpediment posted:One of my favorite developments in the presidency was when Trump attacked the NBA, bron-bron called him a bum, then Trump never attacked the NBA again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxkFd3lHaM&t=5s
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:How did you go from Obama to this
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:How did you go from Obama to this Black presidents were only supposed to exist on the Richard Pryor Show, Chapelle's Show, and Deep Impact. It broke white people's brains to see it happen so now we gotta overcorrect to full Gilead mach loving schnell.
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Jun 5, 2018 20:06
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:How did you go from Obama to this Well ya see. A not insignificant portion of the country got real offended that a black guy was president for eight years, so offended it broke their brains.
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Jun 5, 2018 20:11
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Defenestrategy posted:Well ya see. A not insignificant portion of the country got real offended that a black guy was president for eight years, so offended it broke their brains. It gets even funnier when you realize how long ago jim crow ended and how many people are still alive from then or one generation from that.
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Oops https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1004079759528165377?s=19 Oooooops https://twitter.com/tfurlong/status/1004078159594172416?s=19 FYI - the answer is Big Dick Nick facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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