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TheScott2K posted:Likely: Bernard Agreed. Either of those are cool and good. EDIT: this is cool, the guy is biking around the world and found a kitty friend along the way https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1112776644454813696 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCg8RCBYT2 VH4Ever fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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If I ever have a kid I'm going to have to get a jogging stroller no matter what because my natural walking speed is so fast I'd worry if a basic stroller could handle it.
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This is just straight up primary chat, I think you should go to the thread for that specificallyhaveblue posted:If I ever have a kid I'm going to have to get a jogging stroller no matter what because my natural walking speed is so fast I'd worry if a basic stroller could handle it.
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RasperFat posted:Probably the only way to ensure fair elections in any of the GOP stronghold states is to have the UN or some other third party oversee the elections to make sure the Republicans aren’t cheating. The EU sends election observers and their findings are pretty much exactly what you'd expect. https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/usa/411251
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Apr 3, 2019 19:01
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highme posted:Counterpoint, I christ walk wherever I go and no, it's not good enough for me.  How is this not good enough for you?
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Apr 3, 2019 19:06
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In USPOL news, McConnel's going through with it https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1113501892385099776?s=21
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Apr 3, 2019 19:10
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Tayter Swift posted:In USPOL news, McConnel's going through with it They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right
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Apr 3, 2019 19:13
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right
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Apr 3, 2019 19:14
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right Short term gains over long term consequences. Also what was said above. (Assuming they even do lose power. The Wisconsin state Supreme Court thing has me extremely anxious.)
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haveblue posted:If I ever have a kid I'm going to have to get a jogging stroller no matter what because my natural walking speed is so fast I'd worry if a basic stroller could handle it. Nice humblebrag
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James Garfield posted:The EU sends election observers and their findings are pretty much exactly what you'd expect. That report’s language seems way too clinical to be describing the dumpster fire that is voting in America. OSCE Report posted:While noting that election observation is regulated by individual states, the report highlights instances where observers were not allowed and recommends that legislation guarantee access to international observers invited by the United States authorities for all stages of the electoral process, in line with OSCE commitments undertaken by the United States Government. This part is especially worrisome. The perpetual unabashed shittiness of the GOP paired with their continued electoral success really triggers some  in me about how widespread fraudulent votes and vote counting is across the country.Part of it is probably just my brain trying to reject that such a giant portion of my fellow species are so dangerously stupid and/or evil, but there also seems to be a shitload of incredibly shady election shenanigans that miraculously help the GOP 90+% of the time.
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right That's the point, ram through as many judicial nominees as possible so courts are stacked with conservatives for generations to come. edit: there's also a good chance the Senate stays GOP even if Dems flip the Presidency and maintain the House in 2020. That imo needs to be one of our top priorities, if we don't control both houses of Congress and the Presidency we're definitely not going to make meaningful progress on health care, climate change, etc. Then Tom Cotton wins in 2024 or whatever. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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theflyingorc posted:Uh, GWB's approval dropped to 25% on the back of that recession, and the Republicans got clobbered in 2008. This is a complete misread of what happened, and the world is absolutely and dramatically different than it was in 2007. The GOP will not get the blame for a recession because the modern MSM will never hold the GOP accountable- rather they will play the both sides game while RWM screams endlessly that the catering economy is the result of deliberate democratic sabotage. We are living through the rise of fascism and an economic collapse has (historically) always worked in the favor of the fascists. It is privileged naivete to think that the distracted mass of Americans will suddenly wake up to reality once things impact them/their family personally. What will actually happen is that miserable unemployed people will go looking for a scapegoat and the RWM will provide one while the MSM plays the both sides game. If we had an effective left wing media that could compete in the battle for control of the sociopolitical narrative things would be different- but we do not live in that world. The first thing to remember in a battle for control of the sociopolitical is that facts do not matter and nuance is weakness- expecting a huge number of people to suddenly figure things out for themselves (against the grain of the majority of media they will be exposed to) while they are suddenly hungry and deprived is foolishness*. *Utter foolishness. Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right It is far from a foregone conclusion that the Democrats will win the Senate or the White House in 2020.
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OddObserver posted:Is there a good reason for losses to be claimable, anyway? To the extent we're taxing on the basis of income, there is in principle. We use income as a basis because (ideally) it's a fair proxy for ability to pay. Say two people walk into a casino - the first has losses totaling 10k but gets lucky and has winnings of 15k, so walks out 5k ahead. The second has losses of 35k and winnings of 25k, and walks out 10k in the hole. Intuitively, it makes sense to tax on net rather than gross because the first person, and not the second, is the one that seems like they should fairly bear the greater burden. (That's just an illustration, I'm not trying to use the analogy to defend the fairness of the tax code as it stands).
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Basically the country is going to be a theocratic dictatorship via the courts and he's betting the Democrats are never taking the Senate again and too wrapped up on Decorum to pack the courts in order to fix the stolen seats if they ever did.
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Radish posted:Basically the country is going to be a theocratic dictatorship via the courts and he's betting the Democrats are never taking the Senate again and too wrapped up on Decorum to pack the courts in order to fix the stolen seats if they ever did. Which is a decent bet, taking the Senate in 2020 will be significantly harder than the Presidency.
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Neo Nazis vandalized a bunch of poo poo in Norman, OK. Including an elementary school and an art center gently caress https://nondoc.com/2019/04/03/racist-vandalism-across-norman/
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Bugsy posted:https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1113220569300897793 the hour has arrived, the man is alan dershowitz
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right Buckling down a judge for a generation is probably a bigger win when that judge will just stymie laws and regulations from your opposition and/or facilitate your election fraud
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If he just closed the border and billions of dollars of economic activity was lost starting a recession, where, between 38 and 43% would his approval be...
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Jfc, I really don't want to live in a country where the GOP controls the courts for 20+ years. I only have one life to live and that's a huge chunk of time. The education system and healthcare system are already poo poo, and this won't make it any better. If you're not a cutthroat capitalist/conman, what's the appeal of this place? Sorry about the sky is falling poo poo. This bottom-up court packing really gets to me. The system has no safeguard against it.
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Prester Jane posted:This is a complete misread of what happened, and the world is Actually people blame the current president for the economy even when it isn't applicable, this has happened again and again and again and again. People really do think it's the two levers, and your using the word "fascist" doesn't change that. I would agree with you if Democrats were currently in power - if the great recession had happened in 2015-2016, Republicans would have 60 senate seats and a near veto-proof House majority. But we blame presidents for things, and Trump's 35% of blind followers aren't enough.
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right Have D's shown that they are going to bring a gun to this gun fight? This leadership sure hasn't.
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Prester Jane posted:This is a complete misread of what happened, and the world is
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:I really do not see how any amount of media, no matter how ubiquitious, breaks through the simple sequence of "economy bad->Trump is president->it's Trump's fault".
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Can anyone see the full article? I really want to see how dumb this gets.
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020....
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ummel posted:Jfc, I really don't want to live in a country where the GOP controls the courts for 20+ years. I only have one life to live and that's a huge chunk of time. The education system and healthcare system are already poo poo, and this won't make it any better. If you're not a cutthroat capitalist/conman, what's the appeal of this place? We are extremely due for a Constitutional re-tooling. Judicial fixes are out the window, so it's either amend the thing or the mob throws it out and possibly balkanizes the country.
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Prester Jane posted:This is a complete misread of what happened, and the world is Oh right, the pattern that has held for the entire modern era where a bad economy hurts the incumbent president's party does not apply any more because we don't have an effective left wing media like we did in 2008.
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TheScott2K posted:We are extremely due for a Constitutional re-tooling. Judicial fixes are out the window, so it's either amend the thing or the mob throws it out and possibly balkanizes the country. Once again please explain how you think a Constitutional Convention with the current GOP existing in any sort of form with influence would turn out ok for anyone.
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TheScott2K posted:We are extremely due for a Constitutional re-tooling. Judicial fixes are out the window, so it's either amend the thing or the mob throws it out and possibly balkanizes the country. Mayhaps I haven't given it enough thought but balkanization does not seem like the worst-case scenario right now.
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BTW just look at everything the GOP does though the lens of preserving and perpetuating minority rule. That is there is literally no fear whatsoever of what they are doing being done to them because what they are doing is their only chance of maintaining their minority rule.
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JazzFlight posted:Yeah, I think it would go the same way the government shutdown went. Everyone realized it his problem to own and his approval ratings started dipping. And then it went right back to normal a week later after it was done because his base is concrete and he owns them forever. Literally nothing Trump can do will ever make the 40% of people who still love him abandon him forever, just get kinda mad at him for maybe a day or two and then crawl back to him asking for his forgiveness. Don’t pin your hops on these people. Ever.
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Sephyr posted:He'd still peel off that Decorum DC Liberal constituency. It would not even be close. He could appear in ads manually building the Wall and spitting on asylum seekers and they'd still vote for him. 
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CuddleCryptid posted:They do realize they are going to lose power in 2020 and then they will have this used against them right This was always the plan. It was a one-time gambit: block every Obama appointee however they could by abusing the rules, then abolish those rules the instant the pendulum swung back and left them in control. They did the same thing with blue slips, abused them under Obama to leave seats open in conservative circuits for them to fill with conservatives, then abolished blue slips immediately under Trump to start stacking liberal circuits with conservative justices too. If Obama and Reid hadn't finally ended the filibuster for lower court nominees after McConnell held so meany seats open the DC circuit couldn't function, Republicans would have done it themselves immediately upon taking power just like they did the Supreme Court nominee filibuster. The idea is that by blocking so many appointees, they effectively got 5 terms of conservative court appointments and a free hand to completely rewrite the law and constitution from the bench for the next 20 years or maybe forever depending on how successful the new conservative courts are at ending democracy.
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Angry_Ed posted:Once again please explain how you think a Constitutional Convention with the current GOP existing in any sort of form with influence would turn out ok for anyone. Oh I don't think anything is going to happen within the legal framework. I'd like to use amendments to fix it, but in this country not even the Left's grassroots people can bring themselves to start trying. Either the elites going to decide the current situation is untenable and just be like "yeah we're replacing that with this," like when we replaced the Articles of Confederation, or it'll be something even more flagrant and people just won't care because their needs aren't being met by the existing Constitution.
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TheScott2K posted:We are extremely due for a Constitutional re-tooling. Judicial fixes are out the window, so it's either amend the thing or the mob throws it out and possibly balkanizes the country. Though extremely unpractical due to the GOP in its current incarnation, I agree that its kinda overdue. That would be a fun thread, to have D&D try to do a mini constitutional convention and see what kind of changes get proposed. I'm sure some crazy governing structures would get suggested
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Congrats to Matt Tiabbi on sucking now. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1113505052931567617
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