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Hannibal Rex: Feb 13, 2010

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hasn't forgotten after all.

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SquirrelyPSU posted:

Oh God damnit not Trebek

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:27

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facialimpediment posted:

It's somewhat of a clusterfuck because Democratic leadership still think it's 2014. The rules have changed - the proper thing to do about the shrieks of anti-semitism is to promptly retweet the 230942390843298234 times that Republican representatives have done worse.

Or, put Rep. Omar on the floor with a multi-day hyped apology statement coming. Then have her promptly apologize for putting a Jewish Star next to a picture of Clinton and a pile of money (Trump). Or apologize for changing Tom Steyer's name to Tom $teyer (Trump's favorite Jim Jordan). Or how Jews are going to BUY the election (current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy).

Otherwise, you're still going to have the mega Israel supporters in the Democratic Caucus continue to complain about Rep. Omar and keep the poo poo in the news. Defense is 2014, Offense is 2019, get with the loving times.

https://twitter.com/AyeshaASiddiqi/status/836803468719439872

drat that's a good tweet

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:31

Reign Of Pain: May 1, 2005; Nap Ghost

Am I horrible for wanting Omar to just STFU until Dirty Donny is gone because I'm afraid she's gonna throw a wrench in the works? Same for AOC but props on the Cohen questions...if they weren't given to her in advance :tinfoil:

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:44

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# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:45

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

Reign Of Pain posted:

Am I horrible for wanting Omar to just STFU until Dirty Donny is gone because I'm afraid she's gonna throw a wrench in the works? Same for AOC but props on the Cohen questions...if they weren't given to her in advance

yes

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:47

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Reign Of Pain posted:

Am I horrible for wanting Omar to just STFU until Dirty Donny is gone because I'm afraid she's gonna throw a wrench in the works? Same for AOC but props on the Cohen questions...if they weren't given to her in advance

yes

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:48

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Reign Of Pain posted:

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# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:49

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Reign Of Pain posted:

Am I horrible for wanting Omar to just STFU until Dirty Donny is gone because I'm afraid she's gonna throw a wrench in the works? Same for AOC but props on the Cohen questions...if they weren't given to her in advance

Your heart's in the right place, but there are no works to wrench up. Nothing is getting out of Congress in these two years except for judges and bare-bones keep-government-functioning poo poo. Nobody actually cares about, nor will care about, Rep. Omar as long as Donald Trump is the President of the United States and does something stupid on an hourly basis. All this poo poo is going to get drowned out in the Primary/General as well.

Remember how effective the caravan hype and military deployments were at the border for the 2018 election? Remember how badly it hosed over the Democrats and it all led to the Republicans keeping the House?

This is all sideshow filler for cable news, which people don't care about. Opinions are baked the gently caress in, everything is an up-or-down vote on Trump.

So, yes! :v:

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:55

Reign Of Pain: May 1, 2005; Nap Ghost

Vasudus posted:

yes

Proud Christian Mom posted:

yes

Would you be so kind as to elaborate as to why the dems are immune to wrenches thrown by n00b reps?

e:

facialimpediment posted:

Your heart's in the right place, but there are no works to wrench up. Nothing is getting out of Congress in these two years except for judges and bare-bones keep-government-functioning poo poo. Nobody actually cares about, nor will care about, Rep. Omar as long as Donald Trump is the President of the United States and does something stupid on an hourly basis. All this poo poo is going to get drowned out in the Primary/General as well.

Remember how effective the caravan hype and military deployments were at the border for the 2018 election? Remember how badly it hosed over the Democrats and it all led to the Republicans keeping the House?

This is all sideshow filler for cable news, which people don't care about. Opinions are baked the gently caress in, everything is an up-or-down vote on Trump.

So, yes!

Thanks.

I feel that the SOCIALISM!!! and LOOK AT OMAR IN HER HEADWEAR STUFF SHE HATES JEWS!!! is gonna be a somewhat effective battle cry to make sure lazy chuds in the rural areas show up again and its gonna put off some conservative dems. It just seems unnecessary chaff to throw in the air while republicans still have the senate. There's no point right now. :shrug:

Reign Of Pain fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Mar 7, 2019

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:56

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Reign Of Pain posted:

Am I horrible for wanting Omar to just STFU until Dirty Donny is gone because I'm afraid she's gonna throw a wrench in the works? Same for AOC but props on the Cohen questions...if they weren't given to her in advance

The Obama administration was basically eight whole years of Haagen-Dasz vanilla, desperately trying to avoid "throwing a wrench in the works." Everything he did was Islamocommiefascism anyway, because there was a fundamental lack of good faith in right-wing political discourse. That clearly hasn't changed, so gently caress it. Some actual Muslims and socialists aren't going to make that worse.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:57

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006; Can't post for 4 days!

StandardVC10 posted:

The Obama administration was basically eight whole years of Haagen-Dasz vanilla, desperately trying to avoid "throwing a wrench in the works." Everything he did was Islamocommiefascism anyway, because there was a fundamental lack of good faith in right-wing political discourse. That clearly hasn't changed, so gently caress it. Some actual Muslims and socialists aren't going to make that worse.

And no, there is not an appreciable number of "reasonable" Republicans that would vote for a Democrat if they were just more centrist.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 02:59

Kawasaki Nun: Jul 16, 2001; by Reene

Reign Of Pain posted:

Would you be so kind as to elaborate as to why the dems are immune to wrenches thrown by n00b reps?

e:

Thanks.

I feel that the SOCIALISM!!! and LOOK AT OMAR IN HER HEADWEAR STUFF SHE HATES JEWS!!! is gonna be a somewhat effective battle cry to make sure lazy chuds in the rural areas show up again and its gonna put off some conservative dems. It just seems unnecessary chaff to throw in the air while republicans still have the senate. There's no point right now.

Making policy around how lazy chud racists will react is a bad idea

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:08

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Chichevache posted:

The other is your house.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:09

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Kawasaki Nun posted:

Making policy around how lazy chud racists will react is a bad idea

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:10

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...m=.0402bf7b9438

quote:

President Trump proclaimed in a freewheeling speech to a conference of conservatives last weekend that �America is winning again.� But his administration has been on a pronounced losing streak over the past week.

Trump is losing ground on top priorities to curb illegal immigration, cut the trade deficit and blunt North Korea�s nuclear threat � setbacks that complicate his planned reelection message as a can-do president who is making historic progress.

Late last week, Trump flew home empty-handed from a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi � and, within days, new satellite images appeared to show that the North was secretly rebuilding a rocket-launching site.

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that unauthorized border crossings have spiked to the highest pace in 12 years � despite Trump�s hard-line rhetoric and new policies aimed at deterring migrants.

And on Wednesday, the Commerce Department said that the nation�s trade deficit is at a record high � in part due to punitive tariffs Trump imposed on allies and adversaries. Trump vowed throughout his 2016 campaign and during his presidency to shrink the trade deficit, which he views as a measure of other nations taking advantage of the United States.

�The president hasn�t shown much of an ability to cut good deals with Congress or anyone else,� said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), who is mulling a Senate run in 2020. �Almost the only time he has been successful at one of his goals is when he can set the terms unilaterally. That�s why he�s done a lot of executive orders, executive actions, like the travel ban, deregulations, emergency declaration. Those are things that don�t require any negotiation at all.�

Trump took office on a pledge to buck conventional wisdom, sideline Washington�s political class and tackle long-standing problems with a mix of outside-the-box improvisation and dealmaking skills honed during his real estate career. �I alone can fix it,� he declared at the Republican National Convention in 2016.

Yet as he has struggled to fulfill some of his signature campaign promises, Trump has consistently blamed others for his woes.

He has criticized the administrations of President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush for not reforming the immigration system or reining in North Korea. He has railed at Democrats for failing to support his proposed border wall and implored them to ratify new trade deals. And he has even attacked fellow Republicans, obliquely slamming former House speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) during a Rose Garden news conference last month for not having pushed faster to get a deal on the wall.

White House officials argued that rather than being a setback, the immigration trends could bolster Trump�s argument that he is justified in taking unilateral action on the border. Federal authorities detained 76,103 migrants at the southern border in February, up from 58,207 a month earlier.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that the numbers were clear evidence that Trump was right to declare a national emergency last month.

�If that doesn�t define crisis, I don�t know what does,� she said. �Congress should have fixed this problem. The president tried multiple times to get Congress to work with him to address the crisis. They failed to do so, and now the president has to do what is absolutely necessary.�

Republican allies praised the president for eliminating business regulations, helping pass a major tax cut in 2017, appointing two conservative Supreme Court justices and scores of lower-level judges, and nurturing an economy with low unemployment.

They emphasized that challenges such as North Korea will take time and chided Democrats for blocking Trump�s agenda.

�The House is just involved in investigations and really not concerned about legislation,� said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said Trump is �very frustrated right now with all of us. He wants to get results and we�re looking at a two-year period where it�s pretty obvious the other side doesn�t want to do anything.�

But Trump�s critics said his policies have made things worse.

On immigration, the administration has sought to block asylum seekers at legal ports of entry along the border, prompting them to try to find alternative pathways into the country. The president shut down parts of the federal government for 35 days � the longest such closure in U.S. history � in an ill-fated fight for border wall funding, even though experts said the surge of migrant families is not a threat to national security and that a wall would do little to curb it.

On trade, Trump�s tariff war with China has harmed U.S. farmers as Beijing slashed agricultural imports. Although the president has signaled that a trade deal is close, analysts said an accord would not fundamentally alter the U.S. trade relationship with the world�s second-largest economy.

And on North Korea, officials have said, the president�s decision to rush forward with bilateral summits with Kim have led to difficulties for U.S. negotiators engaging with their counterparts over technical and complicated nuclear matters, as Kim has preferred to deal directly with Trump.

Simon Rosenberg, founder of NDN, a liberal think tank, noted that the tax cut has not met GOP projections for economic growth and could add significantly to the ballooning federal deficit.

�The reality is he can�t point to a single thing that�s better today than when he came to office,� Rosenberg said.

Although he has projected confidence, Trump has fretted in private over his difficulties. During the government shutdown, the president�s approval ratings dipped to 37 percent in a Washington Post/ABC News poll, one of the lowest marks of his tenure.

Since then, his numbers have fluctuated. This week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll put his approval at 46 percent, while a Quinnipiac University survey pegged it at 38 percent.

During a marathon speech Saturday to the Conservative Political Action Committee, Trump veered off script, spending much of the time attacking his rivals, including congressional Democrats, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and news organizations. Trump spent less time on his governing record.

On trade, he defended his use of tariffs and suggested the United States had accrued large trade deficits because past administrations were afraid to use that tool as leverage. On North Korea, he blamed the Obama administration for allowing the Kim regime to send �rockets flying all over the place� and said his team was �making a lot of progress.� On immigration, Trump called current U.S. laws �crazy� and said he felt empowered to declare a national emergency �because our Congress can�t act.�

�Not my fault I inherited this mess, but we�re fixing it,� he said during the speech.

Trump at times also appears determined to prove that he is making progress. He publicly contradicted his own intelligence chiefs, who testified to Congress in January that there is no evidence that North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear program.

Asked by a reporter Wednesday about the satellite images that showed construction work at the �Sohae Satellite Launching Station, Trump said he would be �very disappointed� if the news is confirmed, but he added that it was �a very early report.�

Senior White House aides have sought to cast the Hanoi summit as a sign of Trump�s negotiating fortitude and unwillingness to settle for a bad deal. Yet Trump has grown frustrated by the largely negative coverage of the summit, a senior White House official said, and his aides briefed lawmakers this week to explain his goals. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to characterize internal discussions.

�He thought they closed the gap on some issues,� Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said. �He just said, �North Korea isn�t ready to make a deal.� �

Last year, Trump berated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over the rising border crossings. Though he no longer blames Nielsen, aides said, Trump told his staff that the shutdown dispute sent an important message to his conservative base that he is fighting for them.

On trade, Trump postponed a March 1 deadline to impose another round of tariffs on China in hopes of a deal. White House aides are planning events for Trump and Vice President Pence in the Midwest this spring to tout an updated trade deal reached last year with Canada and Mexico that Congress has yet to ratify.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said in an interview that farmers support Trump but are growing antsy.

�These folks are with you, they want to see you be successful,� Rounds said, speaking as if he was sending a message to Trump. �But you�re going to have to deliver some results.�

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:11

Crakkerjakk: Mar 14, 2016

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

And no, there is not an appreciable number of "reasonable" Republicans that would vote for a Democrat if they were just more centrist.

Dems could actually start going hard for the people who don't believe either party would measurably improve their life. Crazy talk I know.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:17

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Reign Of Pain posted:

and its gonna put off some conservative dems.

lmao gently caress those 'dems'

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:24

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006; Can't post for 4 days!

Crakkerjakk posted:

Dems could actually start going hard for the people who don't believe either party would measurably improve their life. Crazy talk I know.

The mistake is to assume that these people are primarily, or even that large numbers of them are moderates who just can't stomach Dem "extremism". The Democrats have been running to the center about as hard as humanly possible since slick Willie and voter participation is about as low as it ever was while Republicans remain Republicans. Continuing to attempt and fail at compromise with a party that has been taken over by actual extremists and nativists isn't going to magically create an upswell of support this time around.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:35

Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Obama was the greatest Republican President since Reagan.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:46

Crakkerjakk: Mar 14, 2016

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

The mistake is to assume that these people are primarily, or even that large numbers of them are moderates who just can't stomach Dem "extremism". The Democrats have been running to the center about as hard as humanly possible since slick Willie and voter participation is about as low as it ever was while Republicans remain Republicans. Continuing to attempt and fail at compromise with a party that has been taken over by actual extremists and nativists isn't going to magically create an upswell of support this time around.

Yeah. Most people are to the left of where common political discourse is (though not on the current political slap fights of the day), and some stuff like "tax the rich" and "we'll give you stuff" is pretty broadly popular.

Just do that poo poo.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:46

bengy81: May 8, 2010

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Obama was the greatest Republican President since Reagan.

I have been saying that for years and people think I'm nuts.
If he was a white dude named something like Herb Smith, he would have been the most popular president ever, probably could have pulled some FDR poo poo and gotten a third term out of the deal.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:52

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Reign Of Pain posted:

Would you be so kind as to elaborate as to why the dems are immune to wrenches thrown by n00b reps?

That premise is wrong: Ilhan Omar didn't "throw a wrench in the works"—she and other junior reps have been deliberately targeted by AIPAC and its affiliates, with the incidents in the news in the last month hinging on deliberate mischaracterizations of her remarks. While I think she could have spoken better to the seriousness of the topic, it's clear that this has been an effort to prevent genuine critique of America's Israel policy from gaining even the slightest foothold in Congress.

That concrete examples of anti-Semitism from GOP reps have been ignored during all this is because the GOP is diehard in its support for the Israeli government (up until the apocalypse, at which point they believe ~7k Jews will find salvation in Jesus and the millions of others will burn in Hell for eternity).

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:56

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

i'm a reformed centrist democrat that has been pushed further to the left out of political necessity and it's been for the better

ama

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:57

Reign Of Pain: May 1, 2005; Nap Ghost

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

The mistake is to assume that these people are primarily, or even that large numbers of them are moderates who just can't stomach Dem "extremism". The Democrats have been running to the center about as hard as humanly possible since slick Willie and voter participation is about as low as it ever was while Republicans remain Republicans. Continuing to attempt and fail at compromise with a party that has been taken over by actual extremists and nativists isn't going to magically create an upswell of support this time around.

It seems that going more left as an answer to losing last time isn't going to help with the areas that need to be flipped. Dems don't need more votes overall.They need more votes overall in the right districts because the electoral system is completely broken.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:58

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Reign Of Pain posted:

Do you know anyone that works here because I'd really want to see a screen shot of your phone contact list

e: no they're not cock rings

I feel seen.

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# ? Mar 7, 2019 03:58

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

Reign Of Pain posted:

It seems that going more left as an answer to losing last time isn't going to help with the areas that need to be flipped. Dems don't need more votes overall.They need more votes overall in the right districts because the electoral system is completely broken.

2017's limited state races and 2018's congressional storm has proven that the best strategy isn't to turn people from republicans to democrats, it's to get previously non-motivated voters to the polls.

edit: Like I'm a pretty political person compared to the average American. It was torture for me to pull the lever for HRC in 2016, and in 2018 I mostly did it out of spite for my congressional rep.

Vasudus fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Mar 7, 2019

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:03

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Also just in case that wasn't enough, Trump HAS had a meeting with our CEO

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/05/03/meeting-with-trump-was-very-positive-schaeffler-ceo-.html

A truly masterful post by Sgt. Dunson.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:10

Reign Of Pain: May 1, 2005; Nap Ghost

Vasudus posted:

2017's limited state races and 2018's congressional storm has proven that the best strategy isn't to turn people from republicans to democrats, it's to get previously non-motivated voters to the polls.

edit: Like I'm a pretty political person compared to the average American. It was torture for me to pull the lever for HRC in 2016, and in 2018 I mostly did it out of spite for my congressional rep.

It should be the #1 concern to get rid of Donny and then fix what that fuckhead and the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus shitbergs broke. I do not believe that screaming YOU GET FREE poo poo is gonna work in the districts that it needs to work in whether its to flip a voter or to get them out of the trailer to vote at all.

e: Tony LaRussa is now working for the Boston Shitsocks. gently caress the world to death twice

Reign Of Pain fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Mar 7, 2019

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:10

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Vasudus posted:

i'm a reformed centrist democrat that has been pushed further to the left out of political necessity and it's been for the better

ama

Should the Democratic party mpve further to the right or EVEN further than the right to capture a moderate who no longer exists?

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:17

Defenestrategy: Oct 24, 2010

Reign Of Pain posted:

It seems that going more left as an answer to losing last time isn't going to help with the areas that need to be flipped. Dems don't need more votes overall.They need more votes overall in the right districts because the electoral system is completely broken.

At this point if the Dems have to campaign anywhere close to a centrist platform to win a government majority we're already so hosed by climate change and won't have the ability to do anything about it that it doesn't even matter.

edit: If you elect some dude on a centrist platform and they don't perform as a centrist they aren't gonna get re-elected and woops the Donny and his party are back again.

Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Mar 7, 2019

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:20

mods changed my name: Oct 30, 2017

gotta tune that racism dial just right

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:21

Vasudus: May 30, 2003

the problem with centrism is that it largely doesn't do anything because hey, poo poo wasn't on fire before why change it

this leads to demotivation of your base and also waters down your party platform and makes it harder to distinguish from the other party, which when combined lets people like the tea party take over

also yes, turns out that screaming YOU GET FREE poo poo does in fact work in plenty of places, including everywhere that matters, because people are so used to being ignored that anybody that pays remote attention to them can capture *new* votes

go look at the turnout for beto in texas, they had people that last voted for LBJ go to the polls because someone actually went out and engaged them

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:21

Reign Of Pain: May 1, 2005; Nap Ghost

All I'm sayin' is 4 more years of Dirty Donny is the worst case scenario and thats the way 2020 should be played. 2022 is a different thing

e:

Vasudus posted:

the problem with centrism is that it largely doesn't do anything because hey, poo poo wasn't on fire before why change it

this leads to demotivation of your base and also waters down your party platform and makes it harder to distinguish from the other party, which when combined lets people like the tea party take over

also yes, turns out that screaming YOU GET FREE poo poo does in fact work in plenty of places, including everywhere that matters, because people are so used to being ignored that anybody that pays remote attention to them can capture *new* votes

go look at the turnout for beto in texas, they had people that last voted for LBJ go to the polls because someone actually went out and engaged them

I voted for Beto. 1st in a long time because I thought he had a hope in hell and because I wanted to hit all D's on the machine as a gently caress you to Donny. I also have many reasons to despise Ted Cruz but getting free poo poo had nothing at all to do with me going out and voting. It had to do with me finding the actions of republicans so repugnant that I had to spend almost half an hour to get off my rear end and go to Randalls.

Reign Of Pain fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Mar 7, 2019

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:23

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Kristjjjjjien Neilson really doesnt wanna cop to her baby cages.

Splinter link above posted:

n more astonishingly—that migrant children have ever been placed in cages.

Testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday, Nielsen continued to deny any existence of an actual policy requiring that migrant children be separated from their parents while in border patrol custody.

Outstream Video

During her testimony, she faced off with New York Rep. Kathleen Rice and committee chairman Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson several times, denying the semantics of what exactly the Trump administration did, and continues to do, to families.

In one exchange, Rep. Thompson asked Nielsen if the government is continuing to use cages in facilities to house children, to which she denied that the cages inside facilities are cages at all.

“No, no, no,” Thompson said, adding, “I saw the...fences that were made as cages, and you did too! All you have to do is admit it. If it’s a bad policy, then change it, but don’t mislead the committee.”

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman also grilled Nielsen on the subject of cages.

“Does it differ from the cages that you put your dogs in when you let them stay outside?” she asked.

“Yes. It’s larger, it has facilities, it provides room to sit, to stand—” Nielsen said.

“So did my dog’s cage,” Watson Coleman replied.

Good video tweets in the articles of that woman saying that poo poo with a straight face.

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:24

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

Vasudus posted:

i'm a reformed centrist democrat that has been pushed further to the left out of political necessity and it's been for the better

ama

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:27

maffew buildings: Apr 29, 2009; too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Reign Of Pain posted:

I feel that the SOCIALISM!!! and LOOK AT OMAR IN HER HEADWEAR STUFF SHE HATES JEWS!!! is gonna be a somewhat effective battle cry to make sure lazy chuds in the rural areas show up again and its gonna put off some conservative dems. It just seems unnecessary chaff to throw in the air while republicans still have the senate. There's no point right now.

This is the same logic being used by the succdems and we should always do the opposite of what they think is a good idea

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:27

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Reign Of Pain posted:

I do not believe that screaming YOU GET FREE poo poo is gonna work in the districts that it needs to work in whether its to flip a voter or to get them out of the trailer to vote at all.

lmao what do you think tax breaks are

# ? Mar 7, 2019 04:41

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

btw please take a step back to reassess why the only examples of uppity noob dems are POC women

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