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mistaya posted:Um, since when does the First Lady get to randomly fire people in the White House staff...? The only reason I can think of for this happening is stupid reality TV show poo poo that I don't even want to say out loud. I think that normally the First Lady would just convince her husband to do it since, you know, he's the president. But since he's a coward and wouldn't do it even if she could convince him and, even then, the two of them are barley on speaking terms, I guess this is the way it's done now.
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Nov 13, 2018 22:42
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Isn't the whole writen questions thing a Rudy obsession? When ever I see a "source" talking about Mueller's written questions I immediately think it's a Rudy lie/leak.
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Nov 13, 2018 22:45
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mistaya posted:Um, since when does the First Lady get to randomly fire people in the White House staff...? The only reason I can think of for this happening is stupid reality TV show poo poo that I don't even want to say out loud. This is literally a beef about plane seating arrangements and possible negative leaks to the media. Real Housewives WISHES they could get this plotline.
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Nov 13, 2018 22:49
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will the dems ever actually stand up for their constituents instead of immediately folding to megacorps?
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Nov 13, 2018 22:53
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JasonV posted:I think that normally the First Lady would just convince her husband to do it since, you know, he's the president. But since he's a coward and wouldn't do it even if she could convince him and, even then, the two of them are barley on speaking terms, I guess this is the way it's done now. enraged_camel posted:She didn't fire just a random staffer. She fired a national security advisor's aide. this 100% didn't happen not only is the person not actually fired, the first lady definitely isn't doing the firing. seriously think about it for a second
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Nov 13, 2018 22:55
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I suspect that after that masterstroke of a press conference he had on the 7th they're doing everything they can to keep him out of public view.
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Nov 13, 2018 22:56
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Condiv posted:will the dems ever actually stand up for their constituents instead of immediately folding to megacorps? Buh buh buh Uncle Phil does so much for the communities of Oregon! 
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Nov 13, 2018 22:56
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So it's extremely important for the media to shine lights on all this poo poo, and the more attention it gets the less likely it is to actually happen if there's a good public backlash, but the fact that they're doing this at all after being given a mandate to govern for the people is going to depress any enthusiasm for voting for them in the future. I guess they've been getting away with it for so long that it hasn't mattered and personal enrichment is just better for corporate dems than good governance. 
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Nov 13, 2018 22:57
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Condiv posted:will the dems ever actually stand up for their constituents instead of immediately folding to megacorps? I have questions about this bit in particular: quote:Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said he doesn't expect the broader business community to support lawmakers' push to raise business taxes. He accused businesses of burning him "very badly" when they stalled Democrats' attempt to pass a gross receipts tax in 2017 by insisting public pension savings were a prerequisite. Clicked through the relevant link: quote:SALEM -- Democratic leaders conceded on Thursday that they've given up on making major changes to Oregon's business tax system until at least 2019. I could use some Oregoon input here. The way both these things read, there's an easy fix to both pensions and taxation, and now that the Senate president got hosed over, he's into his feelings and just trying to get ANY tax reform done, pensions be damned. And gently caress that. Pensions are promises.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:00
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So Oregon is just like Washington in that Boeing plays the state like a fiddle. (Context) Boeing demands huge tax breaks or they will leave... and then they move groups to different states anyway.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:02
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It's funny because if he went to House Democrats and asked for all the things he promised during the campaign that Republicans would never ever bring up for a vote, like a huge-rear end infrastructure spending bill and universal healthcare and an end to tax loopholes for the very rich, he would go down as the most popular President in almost a century
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Nov 13, 2018 23:03
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Nov 13, 2018 23:04
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Things like this drive me up a wall. Like, this is awful stuff and I'd love to see real pushback, like with phonecalls, protests and primary challenges. Yet if she also protects/grows LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, tackles Gerrymandering and voting rights and increases the Democrats' hold on the state, should I feel so terrible? My first instinct is to go "....why did Democrats even bother voting for you if you were going to swerve Right like this?" I sorta feel like my extreme discomfort for supporting right-leaning Democrats (if you can call them that) is something childish and rather I should focus on the positives of ppl like her being in these positions of power, right?
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Nov 13, 2018 23:07
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Your post has made our glorious job creators uneasy. You must immediately perform penance with the remaining available balance on all of your credit cards.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:10
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Bloody Pancreas posted:Things like this drive me up a wall. Like, this is awful stuff and I'd love to see real pushback, like with phonecalls, protests and primary challenges. Yet if she also protects/grows LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, tackles Gerrymandering and voting rights and increases the Democrats' hold on the state, should I feel so terrible? My first instinct is to go "....why did Democrats even bother voting for you if you were going to swerve Right like this?" I sorta feel like my extreme discomfort for supporting right-leaning Democrats (if you can call them that) is something childish and rather I should focus on the positives of ppl like her being in these positions of power, right? You call, you protest, you try to primary them from the left. In the end you vote for them if the primary doesn't work because the alternative is taking away personhood from trans people. Sometimes you get AOC and that's cool but sometimes you have to settle and that's not cool but not the end of the world. What is the end of the world is letting Republicans have control again.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:28
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Push El Burrito posted:You call, you protest, you try to primary them from the left. In the end you vote for them if the primary doesn't work because the alternative is taking away personhood from trans people. Sometimes you get AOC and that's cool but sometimes you have to settle and that's not cool but not the end of the world. What is the end of the world is letting Republicans have control again. unfortunately dems like above are gonna help get repubs in control again by giving handouts to megacorps. so it's doubly imperative to scare them into doing the right thing before they help the republicans by doing the wrong thing
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Nov 13, 2018 23:32
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Bloody Pancreas posted:Things like this drive me up a wall. Like, this is awful stuff and I'd love to see real pushback, like with phonecalls, protests and primary challenges. Yet if she also protects/grows LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, tackles Gerrymandering and voting rights and increases the Democrats' hold on the state, should I feel so terrible? My first instinct is to go "....why did Democrats even bother voting for you if you were going to swerve Right like this?" I sorta feel like my extreme discomfort for supporting right-leaning Democrats (if you can call them that) is something childish and rather I should focus on the positives of ppl like her being in these positions of power, right? That's the thing. Call your reps and shout and moan and protest in the strongest possible non-lunatic terms because since your state has a Dem supermajority it might actually make a difference, whereas if your state had a GOP majority they'd just tell you to go gently caress yourself.
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Taerkar posted:I suspect that after that masterstroke of a press conference he had on the 7th they're doing everything they can to keep him out of public view. Is that the one where he went out of his way to call black female reporters losers who don't know what they're doing/talking about?
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Nov 14, 2018 00:46
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This was everything I feared from an Amazon entry into NoVA. Renaming entire towns, doing just enough infrastructure to help themselves and no one else, giveaways on par with selling off the HOV lanes, oh and the side effect of making everyone who even thought about living near the city head off into Manassas, where hope goes to die.
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Nov 14, 2018 01:09
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Zwabu posted:Is that the one where he went out of his way to call black female reporters losers who don't know what they're doing/talking about? And where he did the name and shame of the Republican candidates who didn't kiss his rings and lost.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:32
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theCalamity posted:Nike founder Phil Knight tries to buy election for GOP gov candidate You'd think they'd at least take this poo poo personally, but nope. <_<
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Nov 14, 2018 02:33
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marshmonkey posted:https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1062511830818525184 So is this the kind of thing that might make a difference in the runoff? We were joking that only if some pedo stuff came out like Roy Moore would it flip....but...referencing lynching? Thats uh...something.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:41
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Taerkar posted:And where he did the name and shame of the Republican candidates who didn't kiss his rings and lost. Yeah. Hard to believe but I think he is actually getting worse, more disinhibited. He used to confine his nastier crazier poo poo mainly to rallies but now it's spilling over into real life. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:42
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Seems like an exceptional amount of close races that ultimately tip dem this year, or is it not out of the ordinary?
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friendbot2000 posted:So is this the kind of thing that might make a difference in the runoff? We were joking that only if some pedo stuff came out like Roy Moore would it flip....but...referencing lynching? Thats uh...something. It's Mississippi, she'll probably win whites by 90 points now
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friendbot2000 posted:So is this the kind of thing that might make a difference in the runoff? We were joking that only if some pedo stuff came out like Roy Moore would it flip....but...referencing lynching? Thats uh...something. Not even a little bit.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:53
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Rinkles posted:Seems like an exceptional amount of close races that ultimately tip dem this year, or is it not out of the ordinary? I think when you're riding a wave sure you'll tip a bunch of districts by a tiny bit that you'd have lost by a few to a handful of points before.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:53
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VitalSigns posted:It's Mississippi, she'll probably win whites by 90 points now I can't find any exit polls, for Mississippi to see if this is true, but considering 37.5% of the state is black people, and their turnout is actually a little higher than white people, and Espy got around 40%, it's probably depressingly close to accurate.
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Nov 14, 2018 03:38
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Zwabu posted:I think when you're riding a wave sure you'll tip a bunch of districts by a tiny bit that you'd have lost by a few to a handful of points before. i think at least part of it is the perception that races are closer than they really end up. a lot of them when all votes are counted paint a different picture case in point https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1062511011188494336 there are plenty of razor thin races, but maybe less than we at first thought
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Nov 14, 2018 03:59
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If Democrats win the Mississippi Senate race and lose the Florida Senate race I'm just gonna, like, stop making any predictions. Ever.
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Nov 14, 2018 04:11
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dems wining Mississippi would literally be the icing to the top of the cake of 2018 and pretty much mean this is pure hellworld and everything is opposite forever
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Nov 14, 2018 04:22
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Hell if Florida actually flips and Miss. runoff goes blue as well I will donate 50 bucks to The D&D mods charity of choice. 30 bucks if only one goes blue. Hell I haven’t done this in years but why not  I actually really want to pay this one for trumps mad tweets alone, 
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Nov 14, 2018 04:33
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Spiffster posted:Hell if Florida actually flips and Miss. runoff goes blue as well I will donate 50 bucks to The D&D mods charity of choice. I'll join this
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The CHUD base is also being whipped into a frenzy by years of UHLEEGUL VOTERS ARR STEELIN' R DUHMOCRACY so that they're not willing to engage their brain space and think "Hey maybe counting every vote takes awhile" and instead running into the arms of a fascist enemy purge because that fits Cheeto Benito's narrative better.
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