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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:
just like to point out that this loving moron was personally banned from speaking in auckland by our mayor
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Allow me to introduce Senator Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii). Generally, he's a very cool guy. Unfortunately, he is getting turbofucked by this voting poo poo. Because you see, Senator Brian Schatz left for Hawaii (11 hour flight) after the Senate passed the funding bill, since Donnie said he'd sign it. Now, because Donnie Cheesebrain changed his mind and the House passed a version with wall funding, Senator Brian Schatz is needed back in Washington for the Friday vote knocking down the walled version. So, he has to get back on the 11-hour flight, again, because members of Congress have to be physically present to vote. https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1075927173406482433 https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1075942738162417664
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facialimpediment posted:Allow me to introduce Senator Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii). Does the Senate work that way? Is it a hard 60 votes for cloture, or 60% of the quorum? e: Looks like it's 3/5 of the entire Senate - https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30360.pdf. Should have enjoyed his schadenfreude-laden Christmas instead. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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I don't feel bad for members of congress having to deal with bullshit work requirements, like being told by your boss you have to come back to the office after you already planned a vacation. I just don't.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Does the Senate work that way? Is it a hard 60 votes for cloture, or 60% of the quorum? This poo poo's apparently weird. From what I remember reading, there will be three votes in the Senate. Vote 1) Majority needed, to simply take up the House modification. Vote 2) 60 needed, cloture. Vote 3) Majority needed to either pass the House version or send back a compromise version. Reminder: the Senate version passed by voice vote. Basically, ANY Senator could've delayed that vote (and didn't), or 20% of the quorum could've requested a full roll call vote (they didn't!). So, vote 1 might not even pass because Republican Senators are pissed off or out of town. Vote 2 definitely won't even come anywhere close. For the above/below: nah, it's just funny! facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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facialimpediment posted:Allow me to introduce Senator Brian Schatz (D - Hawaii). I'm sorry, are you asking me to feel sorry for a member of Congress?
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redneck nazgul posted:The Man Who Would be Prince Well, I liked it
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It was a good movie.
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Handsome Ralph posted:You mean to say someone with a rose in their Twitter handle would take something completely out of context so they could dunk on the libs? Well no sir I don't believe it. What does a rose in somebody's Twitter handle represent? FAUXTON posted:she's only got a 93% lifetime rating from the league of conservation voters, might as well have just hired ted cruz She will still oppose Trump on all the things that are dear to his heart, and she's better at holding the caucus together than anybody else. AND she will be gone in four years at the latest. It's a transition period, and having pulled one of the most effective Speakers of the House to the left is a good achievement. Edit: https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1075909439176216577 Lol, great NATO ally. Torrannor fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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Dec 21, 2018 06:16
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Torrannor posted:What does a rose in somebody's Twitter handle represent? You know how AOC walks the walk A rose is when you're just talking the talk. Or tweeting the talk as it were.
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I thought bailing on the Kurds every decade was part of our ME strategy
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The rose is a DSA thing I'm pretty sure
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Slim Pickens posted:The rose is a DSA thing I'm pretty sure From what I gather they're basically just cosplaying as dsa online.
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maffew buildings posted:I thought bailing on the Kurds every decade was part of our ME strategy Yeah but this time there's nothing stopping full on genocide
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Torrannor posted:Edit: Quitting and running the 24 hour news circuit sure is going to help!
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Yeah but this time there's nothing stopping full on genocide Oh how quick you are to handwave away the power of *squints real hard* bipartisan disapproval in Congress...ok yeah they're all going to be killed
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McNally posted:I'm sorry, are you asking me to feel sorry for a member of Congress?
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Vasudus posted:I don't feel bad for members of congress having to deal with bullshit work requirements, like being told by your boss you have to come back to the office after you already planned a vacation. I just don't. I generally agree with this sentiment but I once dated someone who was a staffer of his and it left me with the impression Schatz in particular is a really good dude so I'll feel *a little* bad for him.
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I get that anyone that has followed Trump this far isn't going to be swayed That said, seeing all this poo poo pan out with Mattis, who vets/AD absolutely revere as a god, yet they're still all:  just blows my mind. Idk whether to laugh or cry. They're gonna follow this dude to the ashes of America and still be going on about the emails and irrelevant poo poo Obama did
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jim and i agree: Kurds gonna get hosed and that is fuckin gross and a continued stain on America.
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Jarmak posted:I generally agree with this sentiment but I once dated someone who was a staffer of his and it left me with the impression Schatz in particular is a really good dude so I'll feel *a little* bad for him. He’s not a cosponsor of S. 339, so how good a dude can he really be?
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Slim Pickens posted:The rose is a DSA thing I'm pretty sure Yeah the rose is a DSA symbol although it obviously doesn't mean they are an actual DSA member if they have it or aren't if they don't. Basically just a way to signal to other people that you're a socialist. Like QAnon people using a red X or centrist dems using a donut...for some reason.
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sharknado slashfic posted:To the surprise of no one So what's the term for when you knew somebody was going to be lovely, but you couldn't foresee just how awful they'd pan out to be? Like milkshake duck on meth. I don't know about those other poo poo fake news pages, but I have a couple of lousy coworkers who constantly shared stuff from the Right Wing News page, and it was reliably the most awful propaganda I'd seen on Facebook.
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Arc Light posted:So what's the term for when you knew somebody was going to be lovely, but you couldn't foresee just how awful they'd pan out to be? Like milkshake duck on meth. Fredo
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Vasudus posted:I don't feel bad for members of congress having to deal with bullshit work requirements, like being told by your boss you have to come back to the office after you already planned a vacation. I just don't. Especially when the project they're working on isn't finished yet.
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That Works posted:Fredo I CAN HANDLE THING!! I'm SmARt! NOT LIKE EVERYONE SAYS, LIKE DUMB! I'M SMART AND I WANT RESPECT!!!
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BigDave posted:I CAN HANDLE THING!! I'm SmARt! NOT LIKE EVERYONE SAYS, LIKE DUMB! I'M SMART AND I WANT RESPECT!!! You broke my heart
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Well the Kurds are hosed. Apparently we're pulling out of Afghanistan too.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Well the Kurds are hosed. Partially. It's only going to be half. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.b32c784594f7
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Getting out of Afghanistan is a good thing.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Getting out of Afghanistan is a good thing. Absolutely a good thing, but maybe with more planning than the morning poo poo with tweet machine in hand?
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Anybody got a link to a write up to what exactly happens wrt those margin calls when the S&P hits 2420? Something about a trillion bucks in calls or something.
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maffew buildings posted:I thought bailing on the Kurds every decade was part of our ME strategy Genuinely don't know why anyone sticks their neck out for the US any more.
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Very suspicious imo that he would just conveniently happen to be dead
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Getting out of Afghanistan is a good thing. Yeah even if Trump is going to get a lot of innocents killed, spending more blood and treasure in Afghanistan is just going to breed more resentment, consume more and more of our resources, and continue to result in terrible human cost. We need to get out. We lost the war, it's time to admit that and cut our losses.
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If there was a war we would never win, its Afghanistan. We might have had a chance to unite the country and accomplish something, had Shah Massoud not been killed right before the war. We might have won had we been willing to negotiate. We might have won if we reacted like the Israeli's did after Munich. We might have won if we had spent more than a week determining our strategy beyond, "Kill Browns." We might have had a chamce at victory had everything gone right. But we didn't. We didn't learn from the history of that hard place, and when we do leave, we will be leaving with an ugly scar of not only another war lost, but a failure of the US to accomplish any real sustainable goals. poo poo, I remember twlling people way back in 02 that if Alexander the Great was afraid of taking Afghanistan, followed by so many other expeditions, most notably the British and Russian, then we didn't have a chance, because we didn't learn enough from Vietnam. I completely agree we should pull out. On our way out, we should be polite and deliver a case of MREs, an AK, and a "Hang in there" kitty poster, because it's going to go back to exactly what it was befoew we got there.
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