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Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Grouchio posted:

Where can I find the Economic Downturn thread from 2016? Or do we need to make a new one?

I feel that one will really be needed after Brexit Day April 12th.

Trump will shut the border on the same day and call it Mexit.

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Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Charlz Guybon posted:

Trump will shut the border on the same day and call it Mexit.

Sad thing is this is completely plausible.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Dems bad ?

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1113066911737282562
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1113067972149604352
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1113069270173396993

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Yikes

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1113074871913902080

Double yikes!

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1113074867031760896

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1113073945031446529

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1113073898793459712

https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1113050481520242688

When Mayor Pete raises 7 million, 12 for a California senator is not that impressive

https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1112876794779262976

That actually looks awesome
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1113072463481630723

WTF
https://twitter.com/Elise_Jordan/status/1112754425733529606

https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1113072056734830593

Ugh...

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1113071804686483457

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I do appreciate your tweet dumps as much as PPJ's, but would it be possible to number them?

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Have the Democrats tried moving him to a new diocese?

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

Captain Invictus posted:

I do appreciate your tweet dumps as much as PPJ's, but would it be possible to number them?

Ya. If nothing else it makes quoting them substantially easier.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Floridian here, this sadly does match what I've come to know and expect from the Florida Dems. The Democrat party machine in this state, in my experience, is elderly, white, Midwestern centrist types who do everything in their power to ignore young people and racial minorities. Gillum winning the governor nomination was a huge upset won against the Democrat machine here, and the party's done its level best to forget that episode, at best as a cautionary tale against nominating someone like Gillum instead of another old white centrist.

NiceGuy
Dec 13, 2006

This is my BOOMSTICK
College Slice
Joe biden is such a loving nonstarter for way more reasons than that he's a creep just loving dump him already what the gently caress is this own goal bullshit

sorry i know this is practically white noise at this point but gently caress the dems are doing everything they can to lose the moral high ground on this poo poo which should be literally impossible

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World

NiceGuy posted:

sorry i know this is practically white noise at this point but gently caress the dems are doing everything they can to lose the moral high ground on this poo poo which should be literally impossible

It's white noise because you're freaking out as if Diamond Joe has already been nominated by the Democrats, when he's just one guy in a hilariously overcrowded field who has self-owned every previous time he tried to get nominated. He's only the frontrunner insofar as he has name recognition at a point where 95% of the planet isn't even paying attention yet.

sean10mm fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Apr 2, 2019

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Cythereal posted:

Floridian here, this sadly does match what I've come to know and expect from the Florida Dems. The Democrat party machine in this state, in my experience, is elderly, white, Midwestern centrist types who do everything in their power to ignore young people and racial minorities. Gillum winning the governor nomination was a huge upset won against the Democrat machine here, and the party's done its level best to forget that episode, at best as a cautionary tale against nominating someone like Gillum instead of another old white centrist.

While true, it does seem like Gillum is trying to ignore them back and do the job they won't. Still way to early to tell how much he's actually going to do and if it will be effective.

ummel
Jun 17, 2002

<3 Lowtax

Fun Shoe

Cythereal posted:

Floridian here, this sadly does match what I've come to know and expect from the Florida Dems. The Democrat party machine in this state, in my experience, is elderly, white, Midwestern centrist types who do everything in their power to ignore young people and racial minorities. Gillum winning the governor nomination was a huge upset won against the Democrat machine here, and the party's done its level best to forget that episode, at best as a cautionary tale against nominating someone like Gillum instead of another old white centrist.

Abso loving lutely. The FL Dems are the loving worst. Just look at the non-existent campaign of Bill Nelson against a literal medicare fraudster. They're awful in just about every way. And it's very frustrating.

Nut to Butt
Apr 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Sanguinia posted:

Another state hosed into poverty by GOP economic policy starts waking up. It's going to be very interesting to see how the Democrats approach 2020 from a strategic perspective. If they can nail down Penn and Michigan and the rest of Clinton's map holds (which at the moment there's little reason to think it wouldn't), they only need to win ONE other state. You have to think they're going all-in on North Carolina. They have a Governor's mansion to defend, a court-ungerrymandered House map to work with, there's a Senate seat up for grabs, and it's probably the most purple state in the entire south. We can also expect a strong push to lock up Maine and more-than-necessary effort in Colorado to capture that Senate seat. But beyond those obvious targets, where else do you go?

Do you fight the hard rear end slog in Wisconsin to try and capitalize on taking the governor's mansion when it's one of the most polarized states in the union right now? Do you target Kansas since it has a Senate seat on the table to try and follow through on THAT gubernatorial win and the optics of R's in the statehouse switching parties? Do you gamble on Georgia with it's huge swell of democratic strength or pass on it because of the blatant electoral corruption Kemp is stacking against you? Do you try and help Jones keep his seat in Alabama for it's symbolic value or leave him to his fate? Do you aim to defend the Governor's mansion and pick up the Senate seat in Montana, or leave Tester as the last man standing? Missouri was the site of your biggest defeat in 2018, but the voters there showed an openness to leftist ideas despite that and it's governor's mansion is the most valuable one on the board for redistricting, so do you take the uphill fight or is it too big a risk? Do you look toward Iowa and weaponizing Steve King and Trump's abuse of farmers to try and get that Senate seat? Do you try to cash in all those :decorum: points you've been saving up and go hard on Arizona to seize McCain's Senate seat? And now maybe do you also ask the question if Louisiana and it's Senate Seat are in the game?

This election is certainly going to be an interesting ride.

Just so you know...



Prior to 1992, it's more than a century of Democratic dominance.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Serve!
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1113222109139021829

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

SUBPOENA MUELLER YOU loving IDIOTS

EDIT: SORRY I DID NOT REALIZE WHICH THREAD I WAS IN

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
But how could that be? Surely the invisible hand would prevent them from cutting corners like that? :thunk:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1113252801268699136

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1113288725977600000

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Didn't someone here do a bet that they'll do something if it turns out the crashes were because of the plane and not the pilots? Don't think it was actually a toxx.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Aaaaaand Subpoena'd. :toot:

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

Zanzibar Ham posted:

Didn't someone here do a bet that they'll do something if it turns out the crashes were because of the plane and not the pilots? Don't think it was actually a toxx.

I did. No one's PM'd me any red text, and I deserve it when that story gets backed up.

Relentless
Sep 22, 2007

It's a perfect day for some mayhem!


Grouchio posted:

Aaaaaand Subpoena'd. :toot:

No, they just gave themselves permission to subpoena for the report. No actual action has been taken yet!

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/amyfiscus/status/1113582439732064258

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1113647759100456965

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1113647316186083329

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER


lol it's over if they wanted it public they should've leaked it, idiots

anonumos
Jul 14, 2005

Fuck it.
Is it time to investigate Barr?

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface
Pretty sure they can still leak it.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Telsa Cola posted:

Pretty sure they can still leak it.

I expect a heavily edited release, denial of edits, conclusive proof of edits, partial unedited release, leak of the whole thing, official denial that the leak is real, conflicting evidence that it's real, then confirmation it's real three days before the next election.

BougieBitch
Oct 2, 2013

Basic as hell
Seems to me like the whole point of going to that effort is to set a trap for Barr. Now there's one more person caught in the net who had specific instructions to do the right thing and opted not to. Whether or not Barr's behavior rises to the level of criminal I really couldn't say, but if nothing else he might drop some more "Trump told me to write a report that said no collusion" evidence, and this story is getting more play from legit sources than the initial Barr letter did.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

BougieBitch posted:

Seems to me like the whole point of going to that effort is to set a trap for Barr. Now there's one more person caught in the net who had specific instructions to do the right thing and opted not to. Whether or not Barr's behavior rises to the level of criminal I really couldn't say, but if nothing else he might drop some more "Trump told me to write a report that said no collusion" evidence, and this story is getting more play from legit sources than the initial Barr letter did.

I know, right? This guy was a previous AG who buried a huge executive scandal, wrote a letter to the White House advertising himself as an AG candidate who would bury an executive scandal, got confirmed along party lines because he was an AG nominee who would not promise not to bury an executive scandal, and became an AG that promptly buried an executive scandal.

It's practically Manafort levels of telegraphing your criminality.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
Just a reminder that all of the rules around how a Special Counsel is supposed to be handled, from start to finish, are not actually law, just Honor System level poo poo. JUST A SUGGESTION, USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT level poo poo :jerkbag:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.10

quote:

§ 600.10 No creation of rights.
The regulations in this part are not intended to, do not, and may not be relied upon to create any rights, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity, by any person or entity, in any matter, civil, criminal, or administrative.

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

V. Illych L. posted:

lol it's over if they wanted it public they should've leaked it, idiots

If you wanted your report to have maximum impact, immediately leaking it wouldn't be the way to go. Letting team Donny do this is how you would do it. Especially since there is no way that the thing doesn't get out somehow anyway.

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Gyges posted:

If you wanted your report to have maximum impact, immediately leaking it wouldn't be the way to go. Letting team Donny do this is how you would do it. Especially since there is no way that the thing doesn't get out somehow anyway.

They let Manafort hang himself this way, I guess it's possible they gave Barr the rope as well.

I'm just so very tired and I want some form of the report to come out. I would take the SCO-written summary at this point, as long as House Judiciary Cmte. gets all the underlying evidence.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I want them to read the entire thing into the public record. Just daisychain congresscritters once one gets too tired to read swap'em out for the next one and get the whole thing out there even if it's 400 pages long

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
1. :agreed:

https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1113787229732732928

2. RIP

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1113787049096699904

3. :jerry: Of course he's a democrat
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1113786540952641536

4. WTF!?

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1113786430826975232

5. Trump believes the opposite

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1113786212915933184

6. Nixon is right
https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1113781937980813313

7. Because of course he did
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1113788332767633409

8. :drat:
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1113788324450324480

9. :thunk:
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1113577915185340416

10. :agreed:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1113621082064470017

11. :lol:
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1113474626326269952

12. Can't wait
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1113643881562890242

13. We need an MLK emoji
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1113635391024840705

14. My 92 year old grandmother is starting to mentally decline and she ain't this bad
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1113441002176614400

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
I probably don’t need to tell you all that that nutrition study is bullshit.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009




Nutritional studies covered by the news these days are 99.9% of the time complete and total bullshit specifically written to get news coverage. This one is setting off my bullshit detector.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

Random Stranger posted:

Nutritional studies covered by the news these days are 99.9% of the time complete and total bullshit specifically written to get news coverage. This one is setting off my bullshit detector.

Okay..so are you just going to turn that detector off and move on to another subject of thought or peruse the information to determine how much data and time was used to compile this study and come to an educated conclusion about its merits?

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Flesh Forge posted:

Just a reminder that all of the rules around how a Special Counsel is supposed to be handled, from start to finish, are not actually law, just Honor System level poo poo. JUST A SUGGESTION, USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT level poo poo :jerkbag:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.10

Please clap investigate.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011


While this is funny, actually reading the article it looks like the Texas AG is being unreasonable about this because it's a chance to kick out a liberal judge on a technicality.

E: holy poo poo, quoting the wrong tweet at first inadvertently made "while this is funny" a massively inappropriate comment.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
1https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1113785767082508291
2https://twitter.com/roqchams/status/1113502140289363968
3https://twitter.com/JonathanBlitzer/status/1113457748207898624
4https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1113808211109453825?s=20
5https://twitter.com/katierogers/status/1113599564114690048
6https://twitter.com/JamesQueallyLAT/status/1113807001950216194
7https://twitter.com/JamesQueallyLAT/status/1113808241358544898
8https://twitter.com/JamesQueallyLAT/status/1113808587569033222
9https://twitter.com/JenniferShutt/status/1113802139028140032
10https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1113546266900934656
11https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1113808075767652352
12https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1113527957329514496
13https://twitter.com/nicole_carroll/status/1113787372234334208
14https://twitter.com/nicole_carroll/status/1113795949862760449
15https://twitter.com/DEricSayers/status/1113807683751116800
16https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1113808448200769536
17https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1113808715239628802
18https://twitter.com/kira_lerner/status/1113808521580171264
19https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1113564367637884928
20https://twitter.com/reveal/status/1113804725881901057
21https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1113546289877331969
https://i.imgur.com/VhjpPV2.mp4

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



i am harry posted:

Okay..so are you just going to turn that detector off and move on to another subject of thought or peruse the information to determine how much data and time was used to compile this study and come to an educated conclusion about its merits?

No, because when they spout psuedo-science scarewords in their findings, I'm done. There's no need to review things further.


A shithead CHUD relative of mine is a "former owner of a West Virginia water treatment plant" and I was hopeful for a second that he had been busted.

Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Apr 4, 2019

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Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Lightning Knight posted:

Please clap investigate.

It occurs to me though, if there are no consequences to Barr putting the report in the shredder, there's no consequences to anybody else down the chain leaking whatever the gently caress they want, excepting strictly classified material, but I think probably most or all of it is classified :shrug:

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