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Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Nonsense posted:

A guy walking into work said liberals probably felt bad for El Chapo since he was only a product of his environment. One guy said pretty loudly he wanted Pelosi to die and California to sink into the ocean. Texas rules

I will take into account the fact that you live in Texas the next few times you post nihilism. :3:

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Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Stereotype posted:

the fact that it is his takeaway shows pretty clearly why people still vote for Republicans.

I genuinely don't know where / which direction you are going with this.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
Y'all are getting too horned up about Florida

Kim Jong Il
Aug 16, 2003

Ague Proof posted:

The guy who tried to primary Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the left:

https://twitter.com/Tim_Canova/status/1060728832330817536

Shut up :ughh:

I think they probably did rig Canova's primary but just shut up. Rubio is retweeting him and Scott is using it as evidence.

Canova is a Seth Rich truther and also wants to bomb the poo poo out of Iran, dude is certifiable.

Demon Of The Fall
May 1, 2004

Nap Ghost

TheScott2K posted:

Y'all are getting too horned up about Florida

I’m rubbing my thighs OP

Otteration
Jan 4, 2014

I CAN'T SAY PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S LIKE THAT GUY FROM HARRY POTTER AND I'M AFRAID I'LL SUMMON HIM. DONALD JOHN TRUMP. YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.
OUR 47TH PRESIDENT AFTER THE ONE WHO SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER DIES
Grimey Drawer


On this day, in important politics:

Is Hillary Jeb, or is it Bernie again? Or are Bernie running and so is Jeb? Am I Hillary Bernie running Jeb? And wheretofore cometh Dukakis?

Is it loving Tuesday yet?

Man, the past comes at you John snappy Quick.

Time to remembrance that orange fecal smear my doctor ordered last week.

What What!?

Sinistral
Jan 2, 2013

VitalSigns posted:

Lol watch DNC corruption screw us a second election in a row

This guy didn’t even run in the primary this time, is a Seth Rich truther and is making common cause with Donald Trump. Maybe take his unfounded accusations with a grain of salt.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Rick Scott is currently reading the riot act to election officials.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Nonsense posted:

Rick Scott is currently reading the riot act to election officials.

Somebody call Jim Acosta! He could stop this right now!!

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

TheScott2K posted:

Y'all are getting too horned up about Florida

it's either that or crushing despair

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Nonsense posted:

Rick Scott is currently reading the riot act to election officials.

Why the gently caress is Goblin Boy so afraid of a recount if he is so sure he won?

(It's because he actively hosed with things, and he doesn't want it to be found)

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Sinistral posted:

This guy didn’t even run in the primary this time, is a Seth Rich truther and is making common cause with Donald Trump. Maybe take his unfounded accusations with a grain of salt.

Tell it to the judge

quote:

A judge has ruled that a Florida elections supervisor violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 congressional race while they were the subject of a lawsuit against her office.

The SunSentinel reports Florida's Department of State said it will send election experts to the Broward County elections office in upcoming elections to "ensure that all laws are followed."

The decision involved Tim Canova's bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Democratic primary.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

So what are the odds of Sinema winning in AZ?

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
The GOP is so loving good at taking control of the narrative

The Dems will be on the defensive for the next three weeks on CNN and everywhere else while Trump's shittery with the Muller investigation and the massive losses the GOP just took get pushed to the back burner

Shammypants
May 25, 2004

Let me tell you about true luxury.

enraged_camel posted:

So what are the odds of Sinema winning in AZ?

If a candidate is currently ahead, 55%, if they are currently behind, 45%.

eke out
Feb 24, 2013




i yammered on about this in the trump thread a few times but this perfectly illustrates the poo poo Trump's administration keeps doing that gets their policies struck down: completely reversing Obama-era policies without even pretending to give a poo poo about the requirement they provide reasoned explanations for the new position

quote:

In rejecting the permit, Morris relied mainly on arguing that the State Department, the agency that analyzed the project, didn’t properly account for factors such as low oil prices, the cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases from Keystone and the Alberta Clipper pipeline and the risk of oil spills.

“The major spills that occurred between 2014 and 2017 qualify as significant. The department would have evaluated the spills in the 2014 [environmental review] had the information been available,” wrote Morris, whom former President Obama nominated to the court.

The judge also said that State didn’t properly justify its switch from rejecting the pipeline in 2015 under the Obama administration to approving it in 2017 under Trump.

Such a change isn’t completely prohibited, Morris said, but State needs to better explain changes like its decision to disregard the climate change arguments it made in 2015.

“The department’s 2017 conclusory analysis that climate-related impacts from Keystone subsequently would prove inconsequential and its corresponding reliance on this conclusion as a centerpiece of its policy change required the department to provide a ‘reasoned explanation,’ Morris said, citing court precedent on similar policy changes.

“The department instead simply discarded prior factual findings related to climate change to support its course reversal.”

you're allowed to change your policies because you have new political leadership, but you're not allowed to do that without at least creating a record of why you think your new policy is actually better than the old one.

they made some version of this mistake with DACA, and waters of the united states (and probably a half dozen other major agency actions i'm forgetting rn) but apparently never learn

eke out fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Nov 9, 2018

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry

enraged_camel posted:

So what are the odds of Sinema winning in AZ?

100%, she's actually been seated already, that's how hard she won.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I genuinely don't know where / which direction you are going with this.


He said this:

VitalSigns posted:

Lol watch DNC corruption screw us a second election in a row

which is very much blaming the DNC for Republicans being anti-democratic fascists since they "gave them a reason to".

Republicans are so universally understood to be bad-faith actors that anyone who might have triggered their bullshit is blamed instead of the Republicans themselves, since it's just their nature ya know.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

enraged_camel posted:

So what are the odds of Sinema winning in AZ?

Nearly 1/5 of the total vote is still out. It's anyone's race.

But a 50/50 shot is way better than the almost certain loss that was expected this morning.

Tibalt
May 14, 2017

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee

A last minute reversal of the FL Sen and Gov race after a whole bunch of 'lost' ballots are 'found' during the recount would make things much more sensible.

Florida just being Florida, Beto almost won because Cruuuuuuuuuuz, don't start writing your think pieces about a Blue Texas just yet.

Edit: the alternative being that Texas should be the swing state and not Florida, which would be Weird As gently caress, to give context for where I'm coming from with these posts.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Tibalt posted:

A last minute reversal of the FL Sen and Gov race after a whole bunch of 'lost' ballots are 'found' during the recount would make things much more sensible.

Florida just being Florida, Beto almost won because Cruuuuuuuuuuz, don't start writing your think pieces about a Blue Texas just yet.

Edit: the alternative being that Texas should be the swing state and not Florida, which would be Weird As gently caress, to give context for where I'm coming from with these posts.

I literally saw that article this afternoon

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
I think the actual most important thing that Texas resident poll shows is that Texas will continue to not go blue because all your reactionary racists keep moving here

BarbarianElephant
Feb 12, 2015
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

corn in the bible posted:

I think the actual most important thing that Texas resident poll shows is that Texas will continue to not go blue because all your reactionary racists keep moving here

Same problem as Florida?

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Rick Scott going full on Voldemort is some delicous schadenfreude

Watching the chuds melt down because democracy is happening without their permission is an interesting twist to this new season.

Here's to a cold open tomorrow with Jr. being arrested.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster
Official turnout for 2018 will be about 47.2% of eligible voters.

Second highest midterm election turnout post-WW2.

Highest was 1966 with 49.1%.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

corn in the bible posted:

I think the actual most important thing that Texas resident poll shows is that Texas will continue to not go blue because all your reactionary racists keep moving here

California is doing its best to export as many liberals and progressives as we can

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Official turnout for 2018 will be about 47.2% of eligible voters.

Second highest midterm election turnout post-WW2.

Highest was 1966 with 49.1%.

This is both excellent and pathetic simultaneously.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


corn in the bible posted:

I think the actual most important thing that Texas resident poll shows is that Texas will continue to not go blue because all your reactionary racists keep moving here

The Cruz/Beto fight might help that a bit by making those racists think that Texas has been ruined by liberals.

LegendaryFrog
Oct 8, 2006

The Mastered Mind

enraged_camel posted:

So what are the odds of Sinema winning in AZ?

It's actually not 50/50, it's quite a bit higher than that given the areas where votes are uncounted (the two most liberal counties).

Sinema is ahead by 10k votes at the moment, and assuming all remaining ballots come in at the same ratio as the counties have reported thus far, she will end up winning by over 20k votes.

Here is a doc where analysts crunched the numbers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nHUiVE8z9yuTFFvR85DWdF4ZWeY1NBem8W54G-GFWZg/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true

Your Boy Fancy
Feb 7, 2003

by Cyrano4747
It’s still all to fight for.

Things are happening at every level of society to make this world suck just a little less. That’s incredible.

We might survive. The tides may rise, the country may reform, and the guns might fire. But the tides may recede, the country might rebuild, and the guns might get melted.

There’s always tomorrow. Let’s see what it brings.

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


There’s...there’s hope?

When does it all come crashing down?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Pollyanna posted:

There’s...there’s hope?

When does it all come crashing down?

2020

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

predicto posted:

The GOP is so loving good at taking control of the narrative

The Dems will be on the defensive for the next three weeks on CNN and everywhere else while Trump's shittery with the Muller investigation and the massive losses the GOP just took get pushed to the back burner

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Because fear and negativity control the narrative and those are the tools of the GOP.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Because the closest thing to liberal media is still centrist as gently caress

Fox News is like if the Jacobin had a major cable news channel

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Want to control the narrative? Incessantly and violently scream truth is regardless of what truth actually is in everyone's face and you will control the narrative.

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Encumbered by pesky 'facts'

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

The GOP isn't controlling the narrative besides their already horribly stupid base and Fox News. Everyone else is laughing their rear end off or enraged at once again, the evil stupidity and malice of the GOP

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Uncle Wemus posted:

Why can't dems ever control the narrative :(

Because even supposed leftist folk eat right wing framing up. There is nobody pushing a different frame.

See: Nancy Pelosi, or almost any other female elected official.

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RuanGacho
Jun 20, 2002

"You're gunna break it!"

A better question is how do you make the narrative, minus the pendulum panic, of this forum, the national one?

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