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Retro42 posted:Sessions was doing an absurd amount of harm to minorities and immigrants. Him being out as AG is a GOOD THING. Yes, it's a mess when it comes to the Mueller probe, but there is a substantial number of people sleeping better tonight with him out of a job. So? Yes, he was doing bad things, but what makes you think a GOP Executive (Trump) and GOP Senate are going to appoint someone BETTER? All you have to do is look at who he chose to replace Sessions: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/08/muellers-new-boss-is-a-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR3y_1IEoh5UHNpESeKyz1cHEL9J-pF5FXsa0PuKJTxoXOtq5POhdQDCG-k
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Retro42 posted:Sessions was doing an absurd amount of harm to minorities and immigrants. Him being out as AG is a GOOD THING. Yes, it's a mess when it comes to the Mueller probe, but there is a substantial number of people sleeping better tonight with him out of a job. none of those efforts are likely to slow under the control of his chief of staff
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Retro42 posted:Sessions was doing an absurd amount of harm to minorities and immigrants. Him being out as AG is a GOOD THING. Yes, it's a mess when it comes to the Mueller probe, but there is a substantial number of people sleeping better tonight with him out of a job. He's going to be replaced by someone equally terrible, this is such a silly argument "They've stopped stabbing me in order to pick up a bat, what a relief!"
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Random Stranger posted:Honestly, that always played to me as a flimsy excuse. It was quite obviously a flimsy excuse, and they GOP hammered this poo poo in mailers and TV ads. They had pictures of Gillum on a BOAT with LOBBYISTS and at a GALA with LOBBYISTS. Thanks, Americans for Prosperity. I must have got 8 "go for the throat" mailers pro-GOP for every wishy washy democrat one. And I'm in a deep blue county.
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CommieGIR posted:So? Yes, he was doing bad things, but what makes you think a GOP Executive (Trump) and GOP Senate are going to appoint someone BETTER? Sessions was directly pulling appeals to himself from Immigration courts for the express purpose of loving over more people. Thats just one of many many many things he's directly done as a tiny little racist rear end in a top hat. The world is a better place with him unemployed.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump could have fired Mueller back in the Summer of 2017 before it got in gear and easily weathered the short term outrage but he hosed up and now the investigation is 18 months in and it’s unclear whether firing him would even be helpful at stopping the deluge at this point. The only explanation for why he didn't - because he clearly, clearly wanted to - is that enough Republicans told him they'd undo it if he did. There's no way he got restrained any other way.
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Retro42 posted:Sessions was directly pulling appeals to himself from Immigration courts for the express purpose of loving over more people. Thats just one of many many many things he's directly done as a tiny little racist rear end in a top hat. The world is a better place with him unemployed.
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evilweasel posted:The only explanation for why he didn't - because he clearly, clearly wanted to - is that enough Republicans told him they'd undo it if he did. There's no way he got restrained any other way. It's a good strategy as it keeps liberals fixated on inside baseball that doesn't mean a goddamn thing to anyone not glued to MSNBC and Twitter all day.
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Retro42 posted:Sessions was directly pulling appeals to himself from Immigration courts for the express purpose of loving over more people. Thats just one of many many many things he's directly done as a tiny little racist rear end in a top hat. The world is a better place with him unemployed. And again, they are not going to replace him with someone who doesn't do this.
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Stereotype posted:civil war here we come choo choo
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think it's obvious that it's because this is an intermediate step and the next step is the one that will like, draw out riots in the street. Who is gonna march on something like this when it seems like a few days from now there is gonna be the thing everyone that would ever march would march over? i feel like it depends on how trump deals with mueller. if he fires him, there will be massive protests and lots poo poo flying. Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump could have fired Mueller back in the Summer of 2017 before it got in gear and easily weathered the short term outrage but he hosed up and now the investigation is 18 months in and it’s unclear whether firing him would even be helpful at stopping the deluge at this point. this and he learned from comey. if mueller gets fired its gonna be comey X100 of levels of negative press and protests.
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Kobayashi posted:It's a good strategy as it keeps liberals fixated on inside baseball that doesn't mean a goddamn thing to anyone not glued to MSNBC and Twitter all day. yeah it is literally impossible for people to follow two things at once. especially a group of people, that group can literally only follow a single thing.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:MAGA is going to get it's own Tinder There have been a few of these and they all crash and burn spectacularly lol What is their plan for the "95% of people who sign up will be unattractive male losers" problem?
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Stereotype posted:civil war here we come choo choo That would probably require people to be motivated. The vast majority of white people are still engaged in the idea that things will work themselves out.
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Republican Justin Amash had an uncontested primary and won re-election with 55.1% of the vote, in a district that went for Trump by 52-42%. This seems odd considering some of Amash's positions: quote:In May 2017 Trump was accused of pressuring fired FBI director James Comey to end an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Amash was reported as the first Republican congressman to publicly state that the allegations, if proven true, merited impeachment.[83] This report is contested by the office of Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), who claims that he was the first to recognize that if true, the allegations merit impeachment.[84][85] He has a lot of galaxy brain libertarian positions, however.
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Crows Turn Off posted:And the new guy won't? Sessions was singularly devoted to this kind of poo poo in a way that no one was else previously has been, even under bush.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Basically this I don't think Vox is reading this thread if they think this
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Sessions was singularly devoted to this kind of poo poo in a way that no one was else previously has been, even under bush. Sessions, at the same time, knew what he couldn't legally push. The new guy? He doesn't give a poo poo.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:MAGA is going to get it's own Tinder Third time's the charm, eh?
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Republicans posted:Firing Sessions isn't outrageous and is, in fact, good as hell. As was firing Comey but let Trump be blamed all the same.
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my bony fealty posted:There have been a few of these and they all crash and burn spectacularly lol Some of them might turn out to be gay. If so, I hope they find love.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Sessions was singularly devoted to this kind of poo poo in a way that no one was else previously has been, even under bush. the new guy is his chief of staff there are plenty of people who could get installed on a permanent basis who would be an improvement, albeit not by much, but his replacement is a guy who is clearly as evil as he is (no net gain) and was installed for a corrupt intent to hobble the rule of law, so the reaction to people saying this is very bad and a threat to the rule of law "actually it is good that he was fired" is entirely missing the point
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evilweasel posted:interesting thread about Ohio: But is Ohio looking at an EV reduction next decade?
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my bony fealty posted:There have been a few of these and they all crash and burn spectacularly lol I just hope it leads to more "Trumpists can't get anyone to touch them" articles, those things give me life. Also, how easy do you think this one will be to troll?
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mobby_6kl posted:Third time's the charm, eh? Seems they at least learned their lesson of not advertising with mixed-race couples for their Aryan Singles app.
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evilweasel posted:yeah it is literally impossible for people to follow two things at once. especially a group of people, that group can literally only follow a single thing. Plus Trump being hated for more things than people can keep track of isn't some kind of 5D chess super genius masterstroke, it just means he's hit hate saturation and the extra stories are just making the rubble bounce. People not being mad at your pet bad thing because they're mad about a different bad thing ultimately doesn't matter because they're still mad at Trump.
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I found another angle on that video of Acosta breaking that intern's arm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUcn5b8JG0A&t=74s
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Dapper_Swindler posted:sorry, friend. i legit had one yesterday because i stared into the abyss for too long on this thread plus the discord D&D chat. but i talked to a professor at my old college and it helped me a ton, plus just taking a break with pets. I was at work (High School) and was just sort of hit with this zen feeling that the kids are alright. That maybe part of my bouts of unhappiness are some sort of generational ego of hoping we would be living and making a more beautiful world in our prime. And that naw, that was never very realistic, and was wrapped up in a sort of arrogance. And that one beautiful day we will be the old people, and if we're the worst society has to deal with well that can't really be a very bad future. Hell of a lot better than the boomer gerontocracy we are trudging through little by little. They will all be dead in several decades. Turns out utopia will not happened now, because of millennials or whatever, it was a silly thing to hope on. And the kids, the kids are alright. Our job I guess is to push through the Boomer winter, and fight those bastards every step of their march into the grave. And it will be ugly and dirty and people will suffer, because that's what happens in wars. That's our duty. That's a pretty good fight to fight. And coming back to the zen feeling? This is important to mentally fit yourself into. But we shouldn't do it for ourselves, our time in the spotlight as sucked after all. Too late on that account. Do it for Gen Z, and for whatever the hell the current little kids will go on to be called. We're progressives drat it, we're supposed to be future minded. Not wallowing in the present.
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Lycus posted:But is Ohio looking at an EV reduction next decade? maybe, who cares, it'll be after 2020. and if the plan to rig the census against areas with latinos isn't blocked, maybe not.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:MAGA is going to get it's own Tinder Is this a rebrand of the thing that got its database dumped to the internet a few centuries ago (Trump Age Time - month or so Real Time)?
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my bony fealty posted:There have been a few of these and they all crash and burn spectacularly lol high non-refundable signup fee and lots of bots 
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my bony fealty posted:There have been a few of these and they all crash and burn spectacularly lol Those will only be 50% of the site. The other 50% will be trolls.
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CommieGIR posted:Sessions, at the same time, knew what he couldn't legally push. The new guy? He doesn't give a poo poo. You seem to think the new guy is just as much a racist as Sessions. Unless the new AG is named Steve King thats not really possible.
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kidkissinger posted:I found another angle on that video of Acosta breaking that intern's arm. Thoughts and prayers for Doctor Doak. 
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Ague Proof posted:Republican Justin Amash had an uncontested primary and won re-election with 55.1% of the vote, in a district that went for Trump by 52-42%. So like, sure, I wish he'd lost, but if I had to pick between his insane libertarian rear end and a bog-standard racist, at least he would stopped-clock on something.
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Crow Jane posted:I just hope it leads to more "Trumpists can't get anyone to touch them" articles, those things give me life. If you make a fake white lady profile then I guarantee you will get as many bites as you want Goon...project...?
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Retro42 posted:You seem to think the new guy is just as much a racist as Sessions. Unless the new AG is named Steve King thats not really possible. it's jeff sessions' chief of staff, a man jeff sessions specifically picked to assist him in his racist works
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DACK FAYDEN posted:He absolutely does, but I want to chime in to say that he is genuinely and truly interested in stopping the government from committing (Patriot Act and adjacent) electronic abuses of privacy on U.S. citizens. He's one of the few Republicans that I know actually agrees with something I also believe in. yeah Amash is sort of like Clarence Thomas: he's utterly insane, but he sticks to his utterly insane principles
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