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GreyjoyBastard posted:yeah, I'm not real on board with people masturbating to "if we just cut off the Republican parts of the country the people who won the geographic lottery would live in a socialist utopia!" Many posters don't think about things like there are more Democrats in Texas than people in Connecticut.
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It doesn't matter if it is true or not. It will trigger a wave of backbiting and infighting in the West Wing causing even more dysfunction. If there is one thing this administration loves, it is a snipe hunt.
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I feel like the current South is showing more upswing than the Midwest is. Like Virginia has already become cool, North Carolina is literally having to be held back by Ukraine level politics by their GOP from being cool, and Georgia and Texas are both one frustrating generation from coming to Blue Jesus.Spacebump posted:Many posters don't think about things like there are more Democrats in Texas than people in Connecticut. Quality not quantity. 
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Didn't realize there was anywhere near this many contractors.  https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1088263131502129152
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Jan 24, 2019 03:34
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Kamala Harris is on Rachel Maddow paging Office Pig et al here, I'll help: she's saying the FBI losing funding is bad, when the only acceptable central law enforcement agency is one hunting down capitalists and counterrevolutionaries
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Imagine being so loving stupid that you knowingly stop paying the Praetorian Guard. why cant donnie use his
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Jan 24, 2019 03:40
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What's up with this Gen X spike on the sexist issue? All the other charts, it's mostly a continous downward slope from Silent to Millenial. https://twitter.com/DataProgress/status/1088264830644043777
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Jan 24, 2019 03:42
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Spacebump posted:Many posters don't think about things like there are more Democrats in Texas than people in Connecticut. Yeah but it's Connecticut that brings you the Bushes and Trumps to take advantage of the poor white racist mobs. Maybe its best for us all if we just cut each other off.
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PhazonLink posted:why cant donnie use his War until we get Philosopher's stone! (Ancient) Greece will pay for it!
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Charlz Guybon posted:Didn't realize there was anywhere near this many contractors. Yep, and contractors might not get backpay depending on their contract. Some might be covered by their companies, others are in a position where if they dont wotk, they dont get paid. The shutdown is much much larger than 800K people, but no one is saying squat about it. So many are sufferring. The businesses in the cities that depends on the patronage of government workers are sufferring too. Trump and the GOP is raining sufferring down on more than 4.8 million.
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Charlz Guybon posted:What's up with this Gen X spike on the sexist issue? Older Xers are very conservative. They're Reagan-lovers.
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Zeno-25 posted:In many ways, the South has always been the anchor chained to America's true potential from the beginning. Like, being a progressive utopia would be really easy if we could just get rid of the actual sorts of problems poverty brings to regions and just make sure we only deal with the good kind of poor that have easy to solve issues and like, cut off all the states that have minorities in them because they are the bad states (while maybe saying "we don't mean them though, when we say we should kill everyone in that state, we mean the real population" so they know we care).
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Lycus posted:Older Xers are very conservative. They're Reagan-lovers. But they're less conservative than Boomers on the other three issues. It's only on that one that they're more conservative.
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Charlz Guybon posted:What's up with this Gen X spike on the sexist issue? I dunno, probably a societal shift from sex being considered shameful or intensely private, to people being more open about it, to women finally having enough power to say "hey it's cool that we can be open about sex now, but stop it with the loving harassment you jackasses." Boomers probably couldn't or didn't consider getting away with the poo poo that old Xers got away with, so they aren't feeling the loss as hard.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:So is this SOTU the first time Trump has been publicly denied something he wanted? I think he’s had a couple of nominees that failed/withdrew, and there was the ACA repeal. But this is the first time he’s locked horns wth a non-trifecta government.
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my bony fealty posted:The white working class in the South should be a vital part of a US leftist coalition. Unfortunately many of them are racist This is why it's so important to deepen the burgeoning partnership between the left and juggaloes.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:So is this SOTU the first time Trump has been publicly denied something he wanted? He was publicly, quietly denied his stupid wall for the first two years of his presidency. Now they have a scapegoat.
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SuperKlaus posted:Is that USPTO? I thought they were self-sustaining on the fees from patent applications. Congress still has to authorize spending the collected fees.
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Jan 24, 2019 03:52
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Hah AOCs policy advisor is now famous https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1088260329610625024?s=21 https://twitter.com/danriffle/status/1088266005187624960?s=21 So weird how Fox keeps being free advertising for AOCs ideas
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Charlz Guybon posted:But they're less conservative than Boomers on the other three issues. It's only on that one that they're more conservative. That just means that overt racism doesn't as much generational staying power as sexism.
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theblackw0lf posted:Hah AOCs policy advisor is now famous at long last he gets to upstage his cousin Dan Ruffle, who started a potato chip company
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Charlz Guybon posted:What's up with this Gen X spike on the sexist issue? Xers have always been the hardest generation to offend. Boomers are offended by things like swearing and sex, millenials are offended by racism and sexism, and Xers just don't give a gently caress because they've been desensitized since youth. They're the target market for mainstream stand-up comedy.
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Noise Complaint posted:Yeah but it's Connecticut that brings you the Bushes and Trumps to take advantage of the poor white racist mobs. Trump is a New Yorker my dude. And Texas ain't ever gonna off load W on us just because he was born here lol, he's your dumb ten gallon hat boy. Now Bush Sr, we're gonna have to admit to that one. But really a truly exemplar lovely CT politician that actually reflects us in some way would be *grits teeth* Joe Lieberman.
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Tormented posted:Hopefully the pope will weigh in on this. Jesuits don't take poo poo like this lightly. Just a wee sidebar from eons ago, but, "US Jesuits release names of 50 priests accused of sexual abuse" https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/01/15/us-jesuits-release-names-of-50-priests-accused-of-sexual-abuse/
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theblackw0lf posted:https://twitter.com/danriffle/status/1088266005187624960?s=21 Sean getting his money's worth out of the top button his shirt there.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Like, being a progressive utopia would be really easy if we could just get rid of the actual sorts of problems poverty brings to regions and just make sure we only deal with the good kind of poor that have easy to solve issues and like, cut off all the states that have minorities in them because they are the bad states (while maybe saying "we don't mean them though, when we say we should kill everyone in that state, we mean the real population" so they know we care). Ok while it's true and good to point out that the South has a large black population, loving lol at when Southerners then go flying off in the other direction and acting like the rest of the country is some pearly white Vermont of demographics. Like we go from "DEATH TO DIXIE, THE LAND OF WALL TO WALL GOOD OL BOY STEREOTYPES" to "DIXIE IS THE ONLY GOOD ONE BECAUSE WE HAVE ALL THE COLORED FOLKS!". Both are stupid and wrong.
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Grape posted:Trump is a New Yorker my dude. And Texas ain't ever gonna off load W on us just because he was born here lol, he's your dumb ten gallon hat boy. Vince and Linda McMahon. 
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Lol. Yeah that’s about right. Demographically irrelevant! Yay! 
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friendbot2000 posted:Yep, and contractors might not get backpay depending on their contract. Some might be covered by their companies, others are in a position where if they dont wotk, they dont get paid. The shutdown is much much larger than 800K people, but no one is saying squat about it. So many are sufferring. The businesses in the cities that depends on the patronage of government workers are sufferring too. Trump and the GOP is raining sufferring down on more than 4.8 million. Contractors don't carry benches anymore these days even for when you're the only one who is off billing, let alone when the entire company can't bill. Just my own experience, you start burning through your PTO the day any shutdown occurs unless you are declared essential and are actually billing. When you run out of PTO and go as far into the hole as possible, you essentially go on LWOP. The company is still paying your benefits though at this point to keep your healthcare and everything going. Many might be able to pay a paycheck still, but a shutdown this long - I'm not sure contractors would be able to pay an entire workforce for long with zero revenue coming in. I don't know what happens to companies that are underprepared for this, but I can assume they declare bankruptcy if they have to pay debts that they can't afford. When you come back finally after the government is reopened, you typically try to work extra to make up the hours, but the government can and will mod your contract sometimes and not let you work your full hours for the year or they will only let you work a few hours extra per pay period, which in turn will make you just lose the money for the hours missed unless you just take less PTO (if you have enough PTO to cover it to begin with). But to say it's disruptive is an understatement, even at a whiff of a shutdown coming, many small businesses will start bleeding people as they will go to the most established firms for perceived safety. As the shutdown continues, some will take unemployment no matter how large their cushion might be because financial anxiety is a genuine feeling that even the wealthiest feel when they're not bringing in any money and their bills still keep coming due and their families depend on them. Added to all this are the things that most americans don't see that is a total waste of their tax dollars...it takes weeks of preparation from some people at every single group of every branch of every department of government to figure out who is essential and who the lawyers will allow to work and who can't and what's the process for getting someone in there if necessary later on and how to orderly shutdown and on and on. And then there's just the general loss of productivity from having 99% of your office doing nothing for days leading up to and after a shutdown because all they can think about is the shutdown and how to prepare their work for a potential interruption. It's a total clusterfuck unlike anything I've ever seen in my career.
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Zophar posted:This is why it's so important to deepen the burgeoning partnership between the left and juggaloes. Juggalos are representative of working class whites of the Upper Middle West, not the South.
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PT6A posted:I dunno, probably a societal shift from sex being considered shameful or intensely private, to people being more open about it, to women finally having enough power to say "hey it's cool that we can be open about sex now, but stop it with the loving harassment you jackasses." Boomers probably couldn't or didn't consider getting away with the poo poo that old Xers got away with, so they aren't feeling the loss as hard. Older Xer here, we definitely didn’t get away with more sex stuff than the boomers. We were squarely in the ‘SEX=DEATH’ AIDS panic. I don’t have an alternative explanation though.
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theblackw0lf posted:Hah AOCs policy advisor is now famous He sounds tired and completely out of it, like he's just going through the motions. Usually when I see a Hannity clip he seems like he had a fervor, but it's gone here.
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Kellyanne Conway bashed her own husband to a reporter while he was at home waiting for them to finish their walk and said him criticizing Trump was akin to adultery. That's absolutely true.
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Grape posted:Juggalos are representative of working class whites of the Upper Middle West, not the South. You jest, but these idiots serve you your food and vices. KM was right, their faygo-pumping hearts are in the right place, even if their music is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa39v3WAAbY Wu-Tang forever is the best rap album ever created.
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friendbot2000 posted:It doesn't matter if it is true or not. It will trigger a wave of backbiting and infighting in the West Wing causing even more dysfunction. If there is one thing this administration loves, it is a snipe hunt. Yea these stories never need to be verified, the point is that they need to be just realistic enough to make others in the house say 'yea that sounds right...gently caress THAT rear end in a top hat' and start the crab bucket.
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Noise Complaint posted:Vince and Linda McMahon. lol I'm not gonna count her, all she ever did here was fail constantly to try and be a CT politician. That's a point of pride! Also a point of pride is out extremely incompetent Keystone Cops local GOP. I invite all red staters to come be tourists here, where you can mock and torment our bumbling weak republicans. Go hog wild, full BDSM whips and what have you. They ain't gonna bite, they're just gonna helplessly get a bland businessman to fail to stop you over and over.
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Family Values posted:Older Xer here, we definitely didn’t get away with more sex stuff than the boomers. We were squarely in the ‘SEX=DEATH’ AIDS panic. My understanding of Gen X comes entirely from late 90s TV and its funny seeing, say, the cast of Friends constantly having casual sex with numerous partners and mocking Ross for going without for an unthinkable 3 months. Meanwhile, in 2019, sociologists are baffled by the "sex recession" among millennials.
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