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Munkeymon posted:Yes! New plan: kidnap Beto's, uh, dog, I guess? Every two years and say he only gets the pooch back if he finds something to run for statewide. beto strikes me as a cat guy 
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We have heard this story a thousand times; I will believe it when it comes from Mueller's spokespeople and not before.
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Did he announce that with "smell ya later!" While giving everyone the finger and this played? https://youtu.be/PFZAcOcE2No
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PJ, arguing that game winning goals in hockey technically can be anyone who scores during the game
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loving yikes at this rationale for voting for DeSantis over Gillum: https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1060544264973750275
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Nov 8, 2018 16:25
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Tibalt posted:Any NC goons want to confirm something for me? It appears based on local news articles that Roy Cooper is moderately popular in NC despite his ongoing battles with the legislature. Would that be a fair assessment? the distinct impression i got was that the legislature has been so brazenly anti-democratic that he's gotten more popular as a result rather than less as a result of that fighting, but I'm not from NC.
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 Hays on the left would be even more amazing had democrats actually tried to run for most positions there... but fuckin hell that's quite a jump
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Nov 8, 2018 16:26
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I can't wait for RBG to swim across the Yangtze river and stop all you guys from panicking.
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If this is true, I wonder if it's good/bad/indifferent that the report be released right after the mid term
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Blitz7x posted:What? Yes it does. Yes the governor got reelected but the rest of this post is just flat wrong https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-11-07/democrats-make-gains-in-formerly-ruby-red-texas
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I don't give a singular gently caress whether the vote was deciding or not. I truly believe it was a moral imperative that every dem vote against Kavanaugh. That being a line no one would cross is meaningful. Edit: This thread moves fast.
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'sources' keep saying this and the problem is those sources keep being Rudy Giuliani
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Brony Car posted:I can't wait for RBG to swim across the Yangtze river and stop all you guys from panicking. yea I'm sure the old lady who's actively turning to dust in front of us daily is actually secretly a highlander
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corn in the bible posted:
"fastest growing" is usually a statistically ignorant way of saying "smallest" (because you only get big growth rates if you're small) so my guess is that just is another statistic relevant to beto winning the big cities in Texas (and I bet those counties are suburbs of those cities)
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fishing with the fam posted:I don't give a singular gently caress whether the vote was deciding or not. I truly believe it was a moral imperative that every dem vote against Kavanaugh. That being a line no one would cross is meaningful. See, yeah, that's a good way to make the point (also agreed)
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Nov 8, 2018 16:28
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Brony Car posted:I can't wait for RBG to swim across the Yangtze river and stop all you guys from panicking. There is good reason to panic. Trump's scotus is going to be loving over liberals for decades
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Brony Car posted:I can't wait for RBG to swim across the Yangtze river and stop all you guys from panicking. She probably should not; I heard the Yangtze is pretty polluted now 
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I literally feel like I'm going to puke. My brain is struggling to complete thoughts. I'm just started a full day of teaching and it took me almost 20 minutes to fumble through 5 minutes of today's lesson content. RBG was my hero in law school. I seriously think I'm on the verge of a literal nervous breakdown right now. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Arist posted:loving yikes at this rationale for voting for DeSantis over Gillum: Yeah we have a word for people like this, it's "racist"
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Nov 8, 2018 16:30
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evilweasel posted:when you decide to be a "technically correct" nitwit, you need to actually be technically correct, and you are not correct no matter how badly you try to mangle the english language to turn every vote into a "deciding vote" If Manchin had voted against Kavanaugh, then it would have been 49-49 and Pence would have had to cast the deciding vote. Hieronymous Alloy posted:THat's not what "deciding vote" means and I wish you wouldn't do this sort of fact-agnostic derail. Fair enough. Manchins vote for Kavanagh was completely indefensible. I suppose my real issue is that vite was defended at the time very vehemently by posters like Evil Weasel because we were assured that Manchin was necessary for flipping the Senate. Over and over we were lectured that once the Senate flipped handing the gavel to Schumer would make all his betrayals of women/LGBT a justifiable sacrifice. Except it turned out that he wasn't the deciding factor in flipping the Senate. So the net effect is that a bunch of super privileged white liberals itt threw LGBT/women under the bus for absolutely no gain what so ever. And have clearly learned nothing from the experience.
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Nov 8, 2018 16:31
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Brony Car posted:I can't wait for RBG to swim across the Yangtze river and stop all you guys from panicking. This is a dumb as gently caress post. People making news into more than it is can be annoying, but acting like no one has any right to fret about the health of an 85 year old who just sustained a painful, mobility limiting injury is goddamned stupid too.
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Jarmak posted:Yes the governor got reelected but the rest of this post is just flat wrong The distressing thing, though, is that redistricting is coming up soon--all those wonderful districts will simply get more ornate and stupid and the State Lege will be solid red once again  but they can't stop our county elections that way!
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Sanguinia posted:I literally feel like I'm going to puke. My brain is struggling to complete thoughts. I'm just started a full day of teaching and it took me almost 20 minutes to fumble through 5 minutes of today's lesson content. RBG was my hero in law school. I seriously think I'm on the verge of a literal nervous breakdown right now. She broke some ribs and shrugged it off for a while before finally going to the hospital. I know old folks falling and suffering trauma tends to mean they go downhill quickly, but with how well she takes care of herself it's way too early to assume this is the beginning of the end for her.
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Arizona GOP is shook about the possibility of mail-ins giving the Senate seat to Sinema https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-senate-race-gop-sues-mail-in-ballots-martha-mcsally-kyrsten-sinema/ quote:Arizona GOP sues to limit mail-in ballots in McSally-Sinema race Hoping that the bolded part means that the lawsuit will be too late to change anything.
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you probably would’ve had a blue tsunami had mueller done the right thing and leaked before the elections but republicans gonna republican.
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evilweasel posted:"fastest growing" is usually a statistically ignorant way of saying "smallest" (because you only get big growth rates if you're small) so my guess is that just is another statistic relevant to beto winning the big cities in Texas (and I bet those counties are suburbs of those cities) Well, Hays in particular I think swung widely due to the sudden rise in youth turnout (there's a fairly big university there, for example) But regardless of the reasons for it, I'm perfectly happy with the suburb counties going more blue because I currently live in one.
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Groovelord Neato posted:you probably would’ve had a blue tsunami had mueller done the right thing and leaked before the elections but republicans gonna republican. "leak" "done the right thing" 
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Thankfully RBG is famously dedicated to her health and wellbeing. She’s not an average 85 year old lady, she’s closer to one of those 80 year old skiers who regularly go down black diamond trails.
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eke out posted:'sources' keep saying this and the problem is those sources keep being Rudy Giuliani Yup, the Trump admin game plan specifically for after the midterms seems to be division and disinformation. At this point is just disregarding any "Breaking" news unless its factual and not just "sources say".
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Groovelord Neato posted:you probably would’ve had a blue tsunami had mueller done the right thing and leaked before the elections but republicans gonna republican. Muller's team not leaking is one of the few things that might make charges stick
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Toaster Beef posted:She broke some ribs and shrugged it off for a while before finally going to the hospital. I know old folks falling and suffering trauma tends to mean they go downhill quickly, but with how well she takes care of herself it's way too early to assume this is the beginning of the end for her. as worried as i am i'd frankly be substantially more worried if it was breyer
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Groovelord Neato posted:you probably would’ve had a blue tsunami had mueller done the right thing and leaked before the elections but republicans gonna republican. Assuming the final report is damning
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Kimsemus posted:"leak" lol yea nothing is more evil than *checks notes* leaking government documents a little early
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Arist posted:loving yikes at this rationale for voting for DeSantis over Gillum: Yea. Basically, no white person gives a flying gently caress if they're called a cracker- unless they can use it as a dumb 'reverse racism' argument. But what they do hate is being called racist. That really gets under their skin.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Thankfully RBG is famously dedicated to her health and wellbeing. She’s not an average 85 year old lady, she’s closer to one of those 80 year old skiers who regularly go down black diamond trails. those guys literally constantly die
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sexpig by night posted:lol yea nothing is more evil than Do you want Mueller to leak to affect an election against DoJ policy, or do you want him to produce a report people take seriously that makes charges stick? Use your noodle and play the long game.
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Oh cool, another mass shooting Normal rear end country
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Fart Amplifier posted:There is good reason to panic. Trump's scotus is going to be loving over liberals for decades VH4Ever posted:This is a dumb as gently caress post. People making news into more than it is can be annoying, but acting like no one has any right to fret about the health of an 85 year old who just sustained a painful, mobility limiting injury is goddamned stupid too. This loving over in terms of the Court has one on for for years and I've been spending too many times worrying about the older Democratic appointees since W was first elected. I don't have enough emotional energy anymore to lose my poo poo when it looks like the Sword of Damocles is finally going to fall. RBG has been a health risk for years, but sadly that apparently wasn't enough to inspire enough voters in enough of the right states to vote Dem in 2010, 2014 or 2016. It's sad but this is a reality you have to accept and you instead need to work on what you can work on. I don't want to trivialize anybody's grief, but let me have my dark humor.
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Kimsemus posted:Do you want Mueller to leak to affect an election against DoJ policy, or do you want him to produce a report people take seriously that makes charges stick? Use your noodle and play the long game. I mean... the former, gently caress decorum
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Prester Jane posted:If Manchin had voted against Kavanaugh, then it would have been 49-49 and Pence would have had to cast the deciding vote. manchin was necessary for flipping the senate. it didn't flip, that sucks, but he was absolutely necessary to have a chance of it. that is also just a basic mathematical exercise, much like "what is a deciding vote". as to "well, we didn't win the senate, therefore the sacrifice was not worth it": due to the number of red state dems that lost, winning it in 2020 is going to be hard and manchin keeping his seat is one more seat they're starting with making it a little more possible to do it. his seat is now safe for six years. you can argue that voting for kavanaugh was morally unjustifiable on an "the ends do not justify the means" style argument and i have sympathy for that argument. arguing that the ends are pointless and stupid because the democrats didn't win the senate so an extra senate seat is of no value is just factually wrong and makes us all a little dumber having to read it.
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