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pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp

Lightning Knight posted:

This line of thought is going to quickly lead into people bein' gross about AOC, don't be gross about AOC please and thank you.
This isn't really about your point, but it made me think of something - with all the constant media & internet attention paid to AOC, I still have absolutely no idea if she's even single. Like, I think I would know if she were married, but I don't know if she has a boyfriend or even if she's straight.

I'm pointing this out not because I care, but because I think it's absolutely amazing that we've managed to get a national spotlight on a young female politician without any of that coverage getting hung up on her personal life. That is something I would never have predicted.

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Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

Lightning Knight posted:

Huh. Well, someone else claimed he is facing the death penalty, so I dunno who to believe but I know Fields is extremely (self-)owned for all the evidence he left that he clearly premeditated.

Edit: that said Molly is smart so I'll trust her.

I saw a NYT article that said he faced federal hate crime charges, which carried the death penalty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/charlottesville-murder-trial-james-fields.html

quote:

Mr. Fields, who faces a life sentence, has also been charged in federal court on hate crime charges, in which the death penalty could be imposed.

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1071070596543508481

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club




Brush your teeth AND fight fascism. Raffi owns.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


pookel posted:

I'm a few pages behind, but I don't think anyone answered this.

Per Molly (@socialistdogmom), Virginia has the death penalty, but only for certain categories of 1st degree murder, e.g. killing a cop or a child (I don't remember the categories exactly). What Fields did is regular 1st-degree murder and so does not qualify for the death penalty.

Man imagine if someone killed a kid cop

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


it rules that the president's only response to being called dumb is "no u".

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Unoriginal Name posted:

Shes unique in the sense that shes an outspoken woman in Congress. Brings out the fragility in men who suddenly start bringing their opinion of what she should be doing

also a poc

ArgumentatumE.C.T.
Nov 5, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Asema posted:

And yet she still won 78% in the General with an increase of +8 to the shift from 2016, yeah dude I'm sure your opinion is super on point so go away Rape man

Are you trying to say that people really are 6 points less excited about AOC than they were about Carolyn Maloney in 2006?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

The Slack Lagoon
Jun 17, 2008




Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone
I've got this feeling, so appealing
For us to Get together and fight fascism!

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


this bananaphone kills fascists.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:

Are you trying to say that people really are 6 points less excited about AOC than they were about Carolyn Maloney in 2006?

Go away rape guy

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

pookel posted:

This isn't really about your point, but it made me think of something - with all the constant media & internet attention paid to AOC, I still have absolutely no idea if she's even single. Like, I think I would know if she were married, but I don't know if she has a boyfriend or even if she's straight.

I'm pointing this out not because I care, but because I think it's absolutely amazing that we've managed to get a national spotlight on a young female politician without any of that coverage getting hung up on her personal life. That is something I would never have predicted.

She's apparently dating a guy who used to work for Eric Holder last I checked but I don't have firm confirmation on that. A partner of hers has been mentioned repeatedly in news articles but it's always vague.

Eeyo posted:

I saw a NYT article that said he faced federal hate crime charges, which carried the death penalty.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/charlottesville-murder-trial-james-fields.html

Perhaps Molly was saying that he can't receive the death penalty for state crimes and excluded the federal charges?

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

RiggenBlaque posted:

Really hoping to refresh this thread at some point soon and see like 10 pages worth of posts exploded in under a couple minutes

https://twitter.com/meganamram/status/1071138901287301120

Well now they will really have to rewrite this article:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/05/101-of-megan-amrams-best-trump-tweets.html

Kudos to the author for actually doing the work on a nonsense article

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

cochise posted:

I'm a history nerd and I'm not quite sure how we can explain this other than "poo poo was really dark and crazy"

Like kids are going to think we're making this all up.

Towards the end of the 20th century, a news media organization and TV network was created with the mission of promoting the interests of one of the two major political parties to the exclusion of all else.

The voters of that party watched that channel 24/7.

The end result was that that party became immune to what had been the normal political consequences of bad behavior and incompetent and corrupt governance. Its positions and rhetoric became increasingly extreme, as its voters no longer left the fold and punished their party in elections for demonstrably bad governance, corruption or offensive rhetoric. It nominated a brazenly corrupt buffoon who became President.

Chimp_On_Stilts
Aug 31, 2004
Holy Hell.

Write down Raffi right next to Juggalos and Furries on the list of allies we never expected, but are glad to have.

Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005

Baby POTUS, baby POTUS
is the piss stream warm

Eeyo
Aug 29, 2004

Asema posted:

And yet she still won 78% in the General with an increase of +8 to the shift from 2016, yeah dude I'm sure your opinion is super on point so go away Rape man

I don't know, I'm pretty sure the person you're arguing against is just an idiot, anybody that can form a sentence worth arguing over would understand you can't just randomly pick the last election to compare to since midterms and presidential elections tend to be significantly different.

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo
Looking forward to the Raffi & Gritty collab album

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



new ambassador has a lot of good ideas

https://twitter.com/HeatherNauert/status/494094758793318401

Ate My Balls Redux
Aug 2, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Vintersorg posted:

Brush your teeth AND fight fascism. Raffi owns.

RING RING RING RING RING RING RING ANTIFAPHOOOOOONE

Toobly
Feb 19, 2013

Lightning Knight posted:

She's apparently dating a guy who used to work for Eric Holder last I checked but I don't have firm confirmation on that. A partner of hers has been mentioned repeatedly in news articles but it's always vague.



She has a boyfriend. I'm close friends with a lot of people she went to high school and they've spoken about "her and her boyfriend" recently

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

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


Hair Elf

RiggenBlaque posted:

Really hoping to refresh this thread at some point soon and see like 10 pages worth of posts exploded in under a couple minutes

https://twitter.com/meganamram/status/1071138901287301120

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1071148111375020032

DandyLion
Jun 24, 2010
disrespectul Deciever

pookel posted:

I'm a few pages behind, but I don't think anyone answered this.

Per Molly (@socialistdogmom), Virginia has the death penalty, but only for certain categories of 1st degree murder, e.g. killing a cop or a child (I don't remember the categories exactly). What Fields did is regular 1st-degree murder and so does not qualify for the death penalty.

Good. A lifetime in a small box to think about the ramifications of one's actions is acceptable. As long as he can't freely contact/converse with his Nazi chums on the outside, the world is a safer place.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Toobly posted:

She has a boyfriend. I'm close friends with a lot of people she went to high school and they've spoken about "her and her boyfriend" recently

Well, there is the answer then. :shrug:

Still, I will say again, don't be gross about AOC (or any other women in government).

Pellisworth
Jun 20, 2005
About an hour until indictments possibly drop and the Dow Jones is probably gonna close down close to 5-600

Tibalt
May 14, 2017

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

What a ridiculous idea

Thomas the Tank Engine is clearly about a proletariat underclass working in a fascist-capitalist society that values them only as machines and disregards their sentience.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://mobile.twitter.com/KFILE/status/1071148815640616962

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser



I hate Thomas, seriously. Every plot is about how valuable the trains are as people according to their usefulness. Seriously like every episode ends with the conductor saying "Thank you Thomas, that was most useful of you"

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Lightning Knight posted:

Still, I will say again, don't be gross about AOC (or any other women in government).

:lol:

Do as I say not as I do?

Just two days ago you were talking about how killer she was at 'looking good for the camera'

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

twice burned ice posted:

:lol:

Do as I say not as I do?

Just two days ago you were talking about how killer she was at 'looking good for the camera'

Somebody pointed out that my choice of words was bad and I apologized for it.

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



Pellisworth posted:

About an hour until indictments possibly drop and the Dow Jones is probably gonna close down close to 5-600

don't see any reason to expect indictments at this point just the Cohen and Manafort filings

I wasn't in here when the story dropped, but Rudy telling journalists that Mueller thinks Manafort lied about Trump not knowing about the Trump Tower meeting seems... highly significant

if the memo today contains that charge and literally any support for it it'll be explosive. i'm afraid it'll all be redacted though

Toobly
Feb 19, 2013

Pellisworth posted:

About an hour until indictments possibly drop and the Dow Jones is probably gonna close down close to 5-600

What's worse than someone saying we're not doing well at trade? A person of equal importance simultaneously saying the exact opposite.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/investing/stock-market-today-navarro-kudlow/index.html

selec
Sep 6, 2003

eke out posted:

don't see any reason to expect indictments at this point just the Cohen and Manafort filings

I wasn't in here when the story dropped, but Rudy telling journalists that Mueller thinks Manafort lied about Trump not knowing about the Trump Tower meeting seems... highly significant

if the memo today contains that charge and literally any support for it it'll be explosive. i'm afraid it'll all be redacted though

Judge told them to have them ready by 5pm today.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:

Do you really not understand that other people, say, Democrats that stayed home on 2016, will be much more likely to believe it when it is not made up?

Tell us more about the epidemic of false rape charges on college campuses please :allears:

Also, if you are a Democrat who stayed home on 2016 you are actually dumber than a chud. Hope this helps!

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

Pellisworth posted:

About an hour until indictments possibly drop and the Dow Jones is probably gonna close down close to 5-600

* puts away “Dow 25,000” hat *

* gets “Dow 24,000” hat out of storage *

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



selec posted:

Judge told them to have them ready by 5pm today.

that would be the judge in the Cohen matter in SDNY, not anything else

selec
Sep 6, 2003

eke out posted:

that would be the judge in the Cohen matter in SDNY, not anything else

Oh my bad.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

never forget

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

:psyduck: Can't wait for the hot take, 'text is printed black on white, THAT'S RACIST!'

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Lycus
Aug 5, 2008

Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.
Rex, do another interview, don't hold back this time.

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