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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The demographics in 2020 will be oh so slightly more favored for Dems compared to this year and 2 years ago and considering by how slimly Trump won by that alone might be enough. We are absolutely in a position where the dem primary will essentially decide the winner of the general near instantly Biden, Booker, any number of half-baked centrists who might crawl out of the woodwork between then and now, we can kiss our asses goodbye the second one of them wins. We need to be watching the party and holding them accountable. We can not afford another 2016 ratfucking. If it starts looking like the DNC is set to appoint its Chosen One again in 2020 you best buy a gun and/or get your immigration papers in order.
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Lightning Knight posted:
The thing at the presser today. Acosta challenged dear leader and woudln't back down and take his poo poo.
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BlueberryCanary posted:Sooooo is there a reason that neither this thread nor the Russia thread are discussing the fact that Jeff Sessions resigned earlier today at the behest of Trump, potentially putting the Mueller probe in danger? I think this thread moves faster than you realize.
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Lightning Knight posted:I queued a week for this by the way, don't do garbage like this. Sure we can't go for a ban? It's not like Oxx adds anything even when he's not publicly looking forward to other posters' suicides.
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Ague Proof posted:https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060333176252448768 The video shows the LITERAL OPPOSITE of this. https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1060331883878379520
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Lycus posted:I think this thread moves faster than you realize. ~2500 posts in like 12 hours!
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Lightning Knight posted:It was discussed in both, and you are free to continue discussing it. I don't really see a path for Democrats to effectively block him from killing the investigation and I doubt there's going to be mass turnout to protect Mueller's position. the democratic house can do investigations and presumably Mueller, being a ruthless Lawn Order terminator, has backup plans (starting with handing his everything relevant to NY and NJ attorneys general) even if New Horrible Acting Attorney General Partisan Hack goes with his proposed "cut all of mueller's funds, decline all his future requests", it ain't dead, although doing that instead of firing Mueller is likely to produce less public rage than the alternative
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CNN should refuse to do live coverage of his events and essentially not cover his crazy poo poo.
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Ague Proof posted:https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060333176252448768 Bahahahahha. Amazed that they didn't try spin that Acosta threw a shoe at Trump or some other non-real thing that didn't happen. Something like "We will not tolerate DRUNK reporters driving motorbikes at the PRESIDENT during a press conference".
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Congrats to Jim Acosta who'll get to dine out on this incident for the rest of his career.
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https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...ek-in-politics/
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GreyjoyBastard posted:i don't know who Lady Seven is but i nominate her for president based on her attire I think I saw something about the first Muslim, who's a woman to boot, being elected to congress? I'm guessing that's her.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:i don't know who Lady Seven is but i nominate her for president based on her attire 5 is giving me Olivia Pope vibes and I LOVE IT. 
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https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1060334166083059712 Seized the pass.
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Mooseontheloose posted:CNN should refuse to do live coverage of his events and essentially not cover his crazy poo poo. what is the actual function of the white house press corp? like, the press briefings haven't provided anything more than noise and spectacle for two years and it gives the administration a platform to lie without being called on it.
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I'm at work, what exactly did Acosta do that they are spinning into assaulting an intern?
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Huh. I expected people in this thread to be pretty panicky about the Sessions firing, but it's been pretty jocular. Is this because of the thread merger?
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Spiritus Nox posted:Sure we can't go for a ban? It's not like Oxx adds anything even when he's not publicly looking forward to other posters' suicides. Yeah he's at the point where he has multiple probations for telling people to kill themselves/hoping folks die.
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DynamicSloth posted:Congrats to Jim Acosta who'll get to dine out on this incident for the rest of his career. if he's ever in my mildly awful town in texas i'll buy him as much barbecue as he can cram down his gullet
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Shot in the dark, but does anyone know where I can find raw election data for local races in New York State (State Senate & Assembly). I want to do some analysis/visualization of the races as locally as possible, but I'm having a difficult time finding the raw data that will let me do the manipulations I need. I contacted the Board of Elections, but I suspect they're going to be slow. Anyone know of any available datasets that breakout the election data into election districts or precincts?
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Cythereal posted:I think I saw something about the first Muslim, who's a woman to boot, being elected to congress? I'm guessing that's her. I think you're thinking of Rashida Tlaib, who represents my district! MI-13.
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Mooseontheloose posted:CNN should refuse to do live coverage of his events and essentially not cover his crazy poo poo. The right response is for everyone else to call bullshit and try and become the new Jim Acosta because like the free press thing only works if you don't let them pull this poo poo. I mean, last time they tried to ban CNN reporters even Chris Wallace spoke out against it. So hopefully tonight/tomorrow is a shitshow. And the fact that they're flat out making up an assault story when the video of it has already gone viral is just asking for the news story of tomorrow. The Administration is so evil but also so loving incompetent.
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Petr posted:Huh. I expected people in this thread to be pretty panicky about the Sessions firing, but it's been pretty jocular. Is this because of the thread merger? I don't know why we would panic. Jeff Sessions is a massive shitbird and the Mueller investigation isn't really the lynchpin of defeating Trump in 2020. It's not great but it's not worth freaking out about imo.
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Cythereal posted:I think I saw something about the first Muslim, who's a woman to boot, being elected to congress? I'm guessing that's her. we've had other muslims (Keith Ellison!), it's probably a narrower qualifier but she looks cool at least
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Acosta was already a good reporter, now he’s a legend.
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Cythereal posted:I think I saw something about the first Muslim, who's a woman to boot, being elected to congress? I'm guessing that's her. We got two actually, and a couple native American women as well. Democratic caucus is starting to look more like its voters
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Petr posted:Huh. I expected people in this thread to be pretty panicky about the Sessions firing, but it's been pretty jocular. Is this because of the thread merger? It was always inevitable. Winning the House is probably playing a large part in folks being able to take this news with a level head.
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Koalas Massacre posted:5 is giving me Olivia Pope vibes and I LOVE IT. also i didn't notice on first glance but 5's hair owns and presumably takes a trillion years to do
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Acosta getting stopped by a "secret service" guy who sounds like he's 15
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Deified Data posted:I'm at work, what exactly did Acosta do that they are spinning into assaulting an intern? a member of the white house staff tried to take acosta's microphone while he was using it and he pulled away i was going to say, "i hope someone asks trump about the time he cheered on lewandowski grabbing a reporter" but i don't expect anything to come from that because this administration lacks shame
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Deified Data posted:I'm at work, what exactly did Acosta do that they are spinning into assaulting an intern? https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...ek-in-politics/
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Petr posted:Huh. I expected people in this thread to be pretty panicky about the Sessions firing, but it's been pretty jocular. Is this because of the thread merger? Sessions' firing was always coming and we were prepared, Mueller seemed to have prepared for it with him working with the NY AG, and the Dems grabbing the House changes the dynamic of this since the entire reason we needed a special council was because the House refused to investigate it themselves?
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Cythereal posted:I think I saw something about the first Muslim, who's a woman to boot, being elected to congress? I'm guessing that's her. There are actually 2 muslim women who managed to get elected to Congress yesterday! One is Rashida Tlaib who is my representative and a badass super nice lady. The other is the one in that picture, and her name utterly escapes me but she seems pretty awesome too.
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Petr posted:Huh. I expected people in this thread to be pretty panicky about the Sessions firing, but it's been pretty jocular. Is this because of the thread merger? I think a bunch of people who were super worked up about got probated, more for flipping out that other people have a different perspective on the seriousness of the situation or the amount of attention that it really deserves. Elections have consequences. 
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Lightning Knight posted:It was discussed in both, and you are free to continue discussing it. I don't really see a path for Democrats to effectively block him from killing the investigation and I doubt there's going to be mass turnout to protect Mueller's position. This incidentally is part of why I was thinking that the 'new investigations' that were promised seem to be... wishful thinking at best. If we can't even bring this one home, how exactly can a weak dem house hope to instigate new investigations that will have any teeth?
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Deified Data posted:I'm at work, what exactly did Acosta do that they are spinning into assaulting an intern? Basically she was trying to take the mic off him, and he sort of pulled it back and didn't let it go, and his free hand pressed against her arm briefly. After a couple seconds of this she stops trying and sits down. So dramatic and violent an assault was this that not one single person in the room at the time even paid mind to it.
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