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kumba posted:does anyone know why the house voted this week to subsidize european and eurasian energy diversification? Just a guess, but Russia provides a lot of fossil fuel energy to eastern Europe so promoting alternative energy sources there reduces Russia's influence in the region. Edit: Added my dog for the snipe 
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Asema posted:I try to canvas as much as I can during election season. I've heard and talk to a lot of really lovely people. My friend bubble as well as my work bubble are all real good though. Keep up the fight friend, respect.
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Critical posted:Monica's twitter bio lists "ex beret model" and "rap song muse." She can somehow simultaneously take no poo poo about being mocked and have a sense of humor about herself and its amazing. She has a PhD in being bullied and shamed by this point. Good on her for finding the right way to handle it.
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Koalas March posted:They didn't have a case I'm still confused what exactly happened Did those brothers attack him, or somebody else
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theflyingorc posted:I'm still confused what exactly happened No one knows, they said they did, but the CPD beats false confessions out of people all the time so that doesn't mean anything. The evidence that they were hired to do it was a check that Jussie paid them which turned out to be for personal training, so maybe they attacked him for their own reasons or maybe it was someone else. The evidence they did it is also sketchy, the video of them buying MAGA hats and rope turned out to be a video of them buying ski masks before an oncoming polar vortex so
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The new DB Cooper mystery for our time
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Pakled posted:This raises the question, what IS a winning issue for Republicans? It's not taxes, they managed to make a tax cut unpopular for the first time in American history. Is it "the economy?" There's not much they can do about that legislatively since their whole message is "things are fine the way they are." Is it immigration? Everyone in DC except Trump knows that what he wants can't possibly pass through Congress. The last polls that I've seen, that I'm not gonna look up because I'm phone posting, show that immigration probably matters most in the sense that it's the highest-priority issue among Repunlcians according to polls and therefore gets the Republican base out. With the general population, I think Republicans might still do better on "the economy" and "fiscal issues" and such when they're vaguely worded. Maybe even on vaguely worded "foreign policy" too. But nothing suggests healthcare is good for them now. It was during the Obama years when the ACA was poorly sold and rolling out poorly, but now people depend on it. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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eviltastic posted:the Obama conspiracy thing that the Chicago PD union was pushing This is worth diving into because holy crap does it sound dumb when you lay it out. This starts with state attorney Kim Foxx, who was approached by Tina Tchen during the initial investigation. Tchen was Michelle Obama's chief of staff and is a close personal friend of Rahm Emanuel's wife. She claimed to be acting on behalf of the family. Foxx was subsequently in touch with a relative of Smollett. Per released emails, Foxx was apparently persuaded to pass the request up the chain that the FBI take over the investigation, and the superintendent of police subsequently made that request. Foxx recused herself when Smollett became a suspect. So to sum it up, the conspiracy theory here that outfits like Fox or the Chicago police union are rolling with is: Smollett actually faked the attack, and before Smollett was a suspect, his family pulled strings to cover it up, before the narrative turned against Smollett, by trying to make a federal case out of it, with the acquiescence at the highest level of the very same police department now calling for a corruption investigation of this loving process. Because when you're actually criming and haven't been caught yet, what you really want is to twist arms of the cops to get the FBI investigating. Not like there's any other reason minorities might not want an investigation of a hate crime handled at the state level. Koalas March posted:They didn't have a case Thanks, I figured that was about the size of it.
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VitalSigns posted:No one knows, they said they did, but the CPD beats false confessions out of people all the time so that doesn't mean anything. k, just making sure I understood where we were at with it One would hope that they didn't just pick random people off the street to accuse, but that certainly seems within the spectrum of possibilities
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VitalSigns posted:No one knows, they said they did, but the CPD beats false confessions out of people all the time so that doesn't mean anything. How do you explain them having bleach in their house? Who the gently caress has bleach just lying around?
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Smollett giving up the bond and doing community service is a tacit admission of guilt, so he has no chance of winning if he sues. Unless the feds go after him the story is probably over.
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Teresa May has decided to turbofuck the UK and then quit while the country burns.
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LostRook posted:Smollett giving up the bond and doing community service is a tacit admission of guilt, so he has no chance of winning if he sues. Unless the feds go after him the story is probably over. He never got sentenced to community service. They stated he already does community service (read LGBT and BLM activism) so he just needs to.. keep doing that. He never pled out or was formally sentenced in any way. They basically told him to keep keeping on.
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Critical posted:Teresa May has decided to turbofuck the UK and then quit while the country burns. They doing a no deal brexit? Oh also that bleach thing I just said was a joke. Everyone owns bleach. I just realized someone might read that and think I'm serious
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theflyingorc posted:I'm still confused what exactly happened It is still within the realm of possibility that Smollett is guilty of doing pretty much what the cops accused him of doing, but their case is very weak. Much, much weaker than I expected, and we'll probably never know what happened. The burden of proof is on Chicago to prove his guilt, not on Smollett to either prove his innocence or to Perry Mason style prove what really happened.
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Koalas March posted:He never got sentenced to community service. They stated he already does community service (read LGBT and BLM activism) so he just needs to.. keep doing that. ....and then made a point of expunging the record of the whole thing which drat near NEVER happens, especially to POC, am I correct? Nope, nothing suspicious or weird here, says CPD, why do you ask?
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:They doing a no deal brexit? I would assume. Its days away and there's no progress. She just announced shes stepping down once its "delivered" whatever that means.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:How do you explain them having bleach in their house? Who the gently caress has bleach just lying around? You know I always wondered that about Wizard of Oz Why did the Wicked Witch have a bucket of water in the house? It's weird enough she mops her floors with instantly-lethal contact poison in the first place, but then she leaves a huge open container of it sitting around? What if she slipped and tipped it over? What if a flying monkey buffeted it with a wing? The official story just doesn't add up
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Barry Foster posted:My body's been falling apart day by day since I turned 30, in a frankly alarmingly rapid and noticeable fashion. Getting old (even vaguely 'old') sucks, I can imagine it gets worse and worse. That ain't normal.
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kumba posted:does anyone know why the house voted this week to subsidize european and eurasian energy diversification? kumba posted:i don't get it, isn't this something the EU should probably be doing and not us? why are we even involved with this or is it some NATO thing
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President Trump is completely immune from the legal system, he must be defeated politically.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:They doing a no deal brexit? They are trying to hold runoff votes between like 6 or 7 alternatives to May's deal including a referendum of some kind, but whatever emerges from that is just advisory. May could just shrug, smile, go "thats nice", then ignore that and on the deadline ask them to vote on her deal one last time or else crash out with no deal.
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Jokes on you since they will never be able to agree on a plan...
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Rigel posted:It is still within the realm of possibility that Smollett is guilty of doing pretty much what the cops accused him of doing, but their case is very weak. Much, much weaker than I expected, and we'll probably never know what happened. The burden of proof is on Chicago to prove his guilt, not on Smollett to either prove his innocence or to Perry Mason style prove what really happened. I think the question was what does the internet think happened, not what will be proven in court by legal standards, since now we’ll never even see the evidence. Kind of like another case from the past week where prosecution ain’t gonna happen. yronic heroism fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1110961926190837760 lol
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Breaking: May says the other MPs can also have all her stuff once Brexit is delivered. They can even kill her if they want, anything to remove her from the nightmare of being the Prime Minister during Brexit.
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VitalSigns posted:You know I always wondered that about Wizard of Oz She's only weak against holy water, which Dorothy unknowingly created with her holy power because she is the only Christian in a land of heathens
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lmao Britain elected this woman "welp I'm definitely going to cock this up so bad it'll be completely unsalvageable, but don't worry I won't even try", that country deserves everything they get
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Koalas March posted:He never got sentenced to community service. They stated he already does community service (read LGBT and BLM activism) so he just needs to.. keep doing that. No, he wasn't sentenced, but the 16 hours of community service and forfeiting of the bond were specifically cited as part of a deal with the prosecutors. That's a tacit admission of guilt. Still probably only done because of a conspiracy by the police. Of course.
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yronic heroism posted:I think the question was what does the internet think happened, not what will be proven in court by legal standards, since now we’ll never even see the evidence. Much like another case from the past week where prosecution ain’t gonna happen. I was initially going to go with "yeah he probably did it, but it couldn't be proven, maybe also got off easy with money and fame, etc" but then I read what the cops actually had, and it was not much at all, they apparently locked in on an early theory. So now, I honestly don't know.
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VitalSigns posted:You know I always wondered that about Wizard of Oz It's pretty obvious that Dorothy is, in fact, as the Munchkins correctly surmised, a witch
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Actually agreeing to a Brexit strategy to own the leader of your party.
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Imagine how the Wicked Witch smelled.
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LostRook posted:No, he wasn't sentenced, but the 16 hours of community service and forfeiting of the bond were specifically cited as part of a deal with the prosecutors. That's a tacit admission of guilt. Still probably only done because of a conspiracy by the police. Of course. Clearly everyone who cuts a deal with the cops in America's fair and even-handed justice system is unmistakably guilty because there's no reason a black man might be worried about being framed in a trial in America
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Bicyclops posted:She mostly works in anti-bullying work now and will, justifiably, walk right off the stage if someone asks about Bill Clinton. The way she was treated by the Media, the Democrats and in particular the Clinton's was loving horrid. The general public attitudes regarding sexual harassment were well I was going to say less evolved but honestly they were poo poo, the mainstream "woke" position at the time was that it was no big deal that of course a young upwardly mobile intern would be willing to get involved with the most powerful man in the world. The fact that it was an abuse of power just wasn't on peoples radar the way it is today. But even by the standards of the time the way she was treated was awful. She was the victim in all of that mess and instead of anyone stepping in to protect her they thew her to the wolves. In all honesty the fact that Hillary didn't do more to shield Monica from abuse is second only to her Iraq vote when it comes to being a despicable poo poo. Listening to Monica's interview with Oliver about her being black balled left me disgusted. The Democrats should have made sure that she was taken care of financially and professionally. The fact that she was able to come out the other side of that poo poo with a sense of humor and as a decent human being is impressive as hell. Skex fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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In one of the later Oz books Dorothy and her family just move to Oz altogether because they all realize Kansas sucks
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A dark day for British political cartoonists.
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