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Trump could have just poo poo on the floor and Graham would have acted like it was America's finest moment.
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Seph posted:Has there ever been a freshman lawmaker as young and as visible as AOC? I can't think of any. In fact I can't think of any freshman representative that I've paid attention to besides her. So I wouldn't take the (fair, IMO) criticism that she's unpolished as sexist. She just happens to be new and in the spotlight. Henry Clay was a feshman a month shy of his 34th birthday when he was Elected Speaker of the House. Was instrumental in getting us into war with Britain within the year.
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silicone thrills posted:I'm sorry Him being The Dumb Corinthian kinda makes sense
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TulliusCicero posted:With how boring and awful it was it makes it even more funny and pathetic that Graham went all in on Hannity calling it "Trump's finest presidential moment"
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bobjr posted:Trump could have just poo poo on the floor and Graham would have acted like it was America's finest moment. "I would like to see one of those parasite riddled founding fathers form a bowel movement as solid as Trumps". - Lindsay Graham
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Jan 9, 2019 04:40
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Please stop engaging bad faith trolls. The AOC interview was awesome and the poster above nailed it by calling out the huge double standard between male and female politicians. "Oh no she looked at her notes" seriously? Just this week she had to defend herself from essentially being called totally clueless because she misinterpreted one statistic. So she course corrects and brings notes and that's also not acceptable. Funny how that works.
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Jan 9, 2019 04:41
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I hope no one reads the NYT.
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Jan 9, 2019 04:41
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Catalyst-proof posted:Oh gently caress. You think he's just trying to starve out the Department of Justice so the investigation stops? Like, it's not four dimensional chess or anything. It's probably the only thing on his mind. Stop the investigation. Stop the investigation. So he has an out. "The shutdown could go on for months or years." Long enough to stave off the Mueller report, he's hoping. That might work if the Mueller Report wasn't an essential service that was being funded regardless.
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CelestialScribe posted:Listen, I've said before I'm not a fan of AOC. She's super green and she's said some stupid stuff. She's one (1) of four hundred and thirty-five (435). Seems like she's doing ok.
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Fulchrum posted:That might work if the Mueller Report wasn't an essential service that was being funded regardless. What if we created an Investigation Coin Crypto to support Mueller?
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So the thread is going to spend more time fighting about AOC instead of discussing a nationally televised presidential address/campaign ad or the Manafort news today. I’m not sure I should be surprised really.
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Also Celestial Scribe is a drat Aussie so his hottakes of US Reps are kinda meaningless.
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Jan 9, 2019 04:46
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Big Wet President can read out loud for eight whole minutes without stuttering or blurting out racial slurs. So Presidential!
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Jan 9, 2019 04:47
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Retro42 posted:So the thread is going to spend more time fighting about AOC instead of discussing a nationally televised presidential address/campaign ad or the Manafort news today. Yeah, we kinda just found out that the thing Mueller is accusing him of lying about is that he loving colluded with Russia on the voter targetting
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Jan 9, 2019 04:48
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1082839415075061760 The comments are rightly dragging them but the ratio seems weird
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Josh Lyman posted:Right wing voters literally believe Dems want unlimited illegal immigration to win elections While they are disenfranchising everyone they can to hold onto power.
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Jan 9, 2019 04:49
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Retro42 posted:So the thread is going to spend more time fighting about AOC instead of discussing a nationally televised presidential address/campaign ad or the Manafort news today. In fairness the presidential address was a giant ball of nothing, but yeah, the Manafort stuff is the actual news of the day.
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STAC Goat posted:This is very stupid and needlessly inflamatory. People getting excited about AOC are not responsible for the actions of people tearing her down lol, this is some incredible gaslighting, like "it's liberals' fault we conservatives voted for Trump" level gaslighting. A woman is making a big splash in politics, that makes a ton of people uncomfortable so they look for any excuse to tear her down and show that she's overrated and that leads to ridiculous criticisms like a newbie doesn't sound like Obama did after 20 years on the job, nobody is forcing them to do it lmao they're showing their rear end all on their own. STAC Goat posted:Also you know very well that the people attacking her mistakes in RWM are not the same people posting in this thread. I am willing to concede that at least some of those people are just dumb and didn't connect "person dragged day in and day out for every middling mistake on a figure" and "person starts bringing notes to interviews" E: also "person is deliberately misquoted in a media campaign to smear her" and "person writes down precisely what she wants to say when talking to the media" VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Why do we even give a gently caress about the reaction "within his orbit"? They're gonna say he was great no matter what. It's not giving us information it's just giving more spin time to them blah
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Retro42 posted:So the thread is going to spend more time fighting about AOC instead of discussing a nationally televised presidential address/campaign ad or the Manafort news today. The Manafort news has been discussed for hours already and Trump's inane ramblings were just more of the same. It might be news if he said anything of substance whatsoever.
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As if, I'm pretty sure they stop letting guys that fat on horses, it's bad for them.
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silicone thrills posted:I'm sorry ...I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “mouth > eyes” edit where it‘s so difficult to tell it’s an edit. Pigbuster fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Josh Lyman posted:Right wing voters literally believe Dems want unlimited illegal immigration to win elections I mean, I do.
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Honestly I feel Angry Ranting Trump would have gone over better, because then you would see news outlets talk about how passionate he is. This just reminds you when you see a grandparent at thanksgiving and they just start quietly rambling and you feel bad at how old they look.
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You know, I just realized that I wish we actually had politicians who were fit enough to reenact this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY Also: Really looking forward to whatever else comes out of the Manafort stuff this week. Maybe that is why orangeman was so low energy.
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bobjr posted:Honestly I feel Angry Ranting Trump would have gone over better, because then you would see news outlets talk about how passionate he is. This just reminds you when you see a grandparent at thanksgiving and they just start quietly rambling and you feel bad at how old they look. Never forget every major media outlet is DYING to write the trump redemption story. They want nothing else than for him to pivot. If he had signed that ridiculous 25 billion dollar for the wall bill there would have been paper bricks written about how he had cut through the partisan divide, etc. They're never going to stop giving him that chance.
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bobjr posted:Honestly I feel Angry Ranting Trump would have gone over better, because then you would see news outlets talk about how passionate he is. This just reminds you when you see a grandparent at thanksgiving and they just start quietly rambling and you feel bad at how old they look. There was no way it could have gone better. The expectation was for a major announcement or speech. That’s the whole point of a national address. Instead it was written as a defensive political rant. Trump lost this round before it started. Edit: Personally I think he loses support within the party because of this. It did nothing to help and pulled the focus right back on him even harder. Retro42 fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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The "more video" clip is a pro-click. A great combination of passion and policy. AOC did a fine job tonight.
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Retro42 posted:There was no way it could have gone better. The expectation was for a major announcement or speech. That’s the whole point of a national address. Instead it was written as a defensive political rant. Trump lost this round before it started. Yeah, everyone knew this was going to be a waste of time. Only the panicky folk really expressed anything different or worried that the networks had given Trump the key to change America's minds. And by the news reports even Trump seemed to realize this was a loser and didn't want to do it.
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How many other nationally televised presidential speeches like this have there even been? I only remember one from Obama, when we started bombing ISIS. I remember a few from Bush, about 9-11, invading Iraq, etc. I think Clinton had a few, including one when we thought we found proof of past life on Mars lol. Like this has to be the biggest wet fart of all speeches like this, right?
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So I take it I didn't miss anything important by doing dumb side quests in Breath of the Wild, huh.
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Tibalt posted:So I take it I didn't miss anything important by doing dumb side quests in Breath of the Wild, huh. You missed a few koroks probably
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Honestly his advisors are even bigger loving idiots than he is. Trump's one unique oratory strength is his arrogant, mocking cadence and tone. He is at his best (worst) when he can be combative. His idiot advisors thought a man that is literally all style should go completely on substance, which is a gently caress awful strategy because the man is a vacuous hole in terms of intellectual ability
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TulliusCicero posted:Honestly his advisors are even bigger loving idiots than he is. It helps that his advisors are just yes men. But like their logic actually is consistent. "Demcrats don't want a wall, so just call it something else and they'll be happy!" "People criticize him for ranting angrily, so have him say the same stuff calmly and they'll love him!" Its the same pattern of stupidity at least.
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Tibalt posted:So I take it I didn't miss anything important by doing dumb side quests in Breath of the Wild, huh. All you missed was the opportunity to play a better game.
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After watching Chuck and Nancy's response that boiled down to 'we agree we need lots of racist border control but walls are icky so gently caress off' it genuinely is nice to see AOC going on a major network to say 'but why are we even funding ICE at all though'.
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