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Tatsuta Age posted:Yes, he was commenting on how that's bullshit Are you gonna believe the journalist or the guy who is the communications director for Turkey writing a Pro-Turkey op-ed?
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Bugsy posted:https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1181642991687127040 Oh good, taking time out of their busy day of crimes and shitposting on twitter to gut the few protections tipped workers have from being in serfdom gently caress these people so much
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sanchez posted:I could possibly make it down there, sounded like the audience was having a blast at the last one. Do it. The more you make those things a circus the angrier Wohl's gonna get and that's the best part of these.
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deoju posted:The next president should immediately take a picture of her/himself behind the Resolute Desk with the doors and windows open. Air out the Oval Office. That glass is like 8 inches thick they don’t open.
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The Glumslinger posted:Looks like the British, store brand Trump is following suite about being above the law Queen Liz personally telling Bozo Johnson to get hosed would be the funniest poo poo, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come
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sanchez posted:I could possibly make it down there, sounded like the audience was having a blast at the last one.
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TulliusCicero posted:Queen Liz personally telling Bozo Johnson to get hosed would be the funniest poo poo, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come She’s gonna wear a rude brooch
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TulliusCicero posted:Queen Liz personally telling Bozo Johnson to get hosed would be the funniest poo poo, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come they're on the same side my dude
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axeil posted:It's very, very sad and enraging. Homophobic straight men are so terrified of being called "gay" for being attracted a trans-woman that they will literally murder people over it. It's insane. The argument doesn't even make any sense because trans-women are women and present as women. How is it "gay" to be attracted to a person who presents as/looks like a woman? It's so loving dumb. Among the many things my ex wife divorced me over, and one of the biggest, was that she found out I had looked at transgender porn. Just throwing that out there since she considers herself and open minded liberal type.
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Taerkar posted:If the impeachment process gets derailed (as is quite likely) by the Republican controlled Senate not playing ball it is a constitutional crisis. If the Impeachment process in the House can't progress forward because the Executive and Justice branches of the government are saying 'LUL NO' for everything and stopping hearings then it's a constitutional crisis. That's because both involve a violation of one of the core elements of the constitution. The Senate has the option of voting to support the poo poo smear's acquittal. That's part of the Constitution, and not a constitutional crises. The Senate has the option of changing it's rules (unlikely) and not taking up articles of impeachment and ignoring it all. That's part of the Constitution, and not a constitutional crises. "LUL NO" is actually part Constitution that serves anyone arrested well, and is not (yet) a constitutional crises here. "We already know the GOP is acting in bad faith and they're trying to drag things out to avoid any consequences." Has to be proven, "legally" first, which leads to "politically" later. Everyone here in this thread knows the GOP is poo poo, but we're not the voting public in red states, and I'd reckon none of us is able to convince a Senator of trump's shittiness until the polls go under. ETA: "until the polls go under." Otteration fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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deoju posted:The next president should immediately take a picture of her/himself behind the Resolute Desk with the doors and windows open. Air out the Oval Office. The White House is in need of a good rebuilding, what better occasion than erasing any memory of Trump being there (Insert pic of a bulldozer inside the white house's shell)
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DarkHorse posted:(Insert pic of a bulldozer inside the white house's shell) Do this again: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/upshot/harry-trumans-home-improvement.html
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Arglebargle III posted:what the fuuuuuuck you'll need to be more specific boss
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Good signs https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1181597285458890754
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The Glumslinger posted:What are the odds they trot out the same dude? Different guy, but same kickin' rad xXx tattoo.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:That glass is like 8 inches thick they don’t open. Edit: or at least it did under Obama.
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If Republicans as a whole are already around 15-20% defecting, and those independent swings are big, the cracks are really growing now Expect to see more GOP Senators than Romney testing the waters
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https://twitter.com/laura_nelson/status/1181727656930234368 Our loving privatized utility has decided that it wants to continue to embezzle money from safety funds into executive bonuses, and in an effort to allow themselves to stop burning down the state from their illegally under maintained equipment, plan to cut power to nearly a million people over the next several days. Nationalize PG&E
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The Glumslinger posted:Nationalize PG&E
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Maybe introduce some legislation to stop it shithead. I'm quoting this monkey's paw of a post for later when Republicans authorize arms shipments to ISIS or something else equally inane.
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This is absolutely despicable and the most shameful thing trump has done. https://twitter.com/IgnatiusPost/status/1181724205567631367
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Slain witness Joshua Brown was expected to testify in lawsuit against Dallas police nypost.com/October 7, 2019 NyPost. Sorry if this was this part of the family legal team's twitted letter pages ago (twit doesn't like me, so I couldn't read it).
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Lightning Knight posted:I'm quoting this monkey's paw of a post for later when Republicans authorize arms shipments to ISIS or something else equally inane. adding to the list of our other allies in the global war on terror, al qaeda and the taliban
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skylined! posted:This is absolutely despicable and the most shameful thing trump has done. Oh wow, the Russians benefit from this too?! Who could have seen this coming?!  (Literally everyone with a functioning brain and not a Trump cultist saw this coming)
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skylined! posted:This is absolutely despicable and the most shameful thing trump has done. Well, Russian TV has been singing praises of Molotov-Ribbentrop lately....
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TulliusCicero posted:Oh wow, the Russians benefit from this too?! Who could have seen this coming?! Someone hack up that code-word server in the WH basement. The trump/putin phone convos might be good for a laugh. Edit: Oops, someone's already taxing it: https://i.imgur.com/l0tVCHl.mp4 Otteration fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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skylined! posted:This is absolutely despicable and the most shameful thing trump has done.
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sanchez posted:I could possibly make it down there, sounded like the audience was having a blast at the last one. Do it, dress in a suit, say you're from the SA News Service, and ask a question like, "In a statement earlier today, Harris said that you were barely a 3 in bed. How do you respond to these allegations?"
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jesus christ. he really is just speed running nixon hard. no. my guess is he only knows a little bit since i think some of it happend after he got pinched. skylined! posted:This is absolutely despicable and the most shameful thing trump has done. jesus christ. tomorrow is gonna be a nightmare. trump is basicaly letting the bastion of progressive thought in the middle east get pushed over a beaten to death by various faction of chud. god i hate him.
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Random Stranger posted:Do it, dress in a suit, say you're from the SA News Service, and ask a question like, "In a statement earlier today, Harris said that you were barely a 3 in bed. How do you respond to these allegations?" Please.
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:Congress choosing not to enforce them is the Constitutional crisis Beaten but I mean, yeah. What did he thing a Constitutional crisis even was?
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BiggerBoat posted:I've started re-reading Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: 72" and, my god, does it read like a synopsis of what's going on now. Maybe with a little less blatant criminality since Nixon hadn't hit Watergate yet but the stuff about disaffected voters, uninspiring candidates, trouble getting the youth vote to turn out, the sleazy Madison Avenue approach to grooming people running, the general instinct for averting the truth and manufacturing "charisma"...it all hits really close to home. So American society has ages. The age of the New Deal for example lasted from FDR around 1936 (can't remember off the top of my head) to 1980, where we transitioned away from socialism to neoliberalism. Now that socialist, post-war society had aged and collapsed. Its defenders had grown old and comfortable. Capital had undermined it. And in the 1970's that order was extremely weak and American society was in a sort of crisis of self. We'd been the heroes during WW1 and 2, at least according to our national mythos, but Vietnam put the nail in that particular coffin. Or at least one of the nails. So we reorganized as a society around neoliberalism and politically the democrats shifted away from labor to capital and the republicans shifted away (ish) from open racism to dog whistle racism and towards conservative Christianity. We're at that point again. Honestly, we have been since 2007 during the financial crisis. We were primed for a New Deal style reorganization but Obama took all of that Hope and Change rhetoric and flushed it down the toilet. He continued to embrace neoliberalism despite the fact that the values of capitalism championed by neoliberalism, greed is good, failed spectacularly. The problem is that we didn't reorganize like during and after the Great Depression. We were primed for it and nothing happened. Obama stuck with the old, crumbling system and it has continued to crumble ever since. The republican party, terrified that white supremacy might fail, have increasingly doubled down on failed, old policies and naked hatred. But they can no longer win without cheating. The democrats primarily serve as an alternative party that aren't as abusive as the republicans, but also act as a kind of flywheel. They'll go further right, but the party actively discourages and attempts to destroy any left wing movement at all. Americans despise both parties, want some sort of new order but neither party is reaching for a new order in any sort of meaningful way. And so in jump the demogauges. If society were healthy and stable, these people would basically be nobodies, but now they can reach for and potentially achieve real power because when the values of a liberal democracy fail, they'll reach for a strongman to "set everything right". Trump was that strongman. What you're seeing is the same thing that Thompson saw. The collapse of the old order, but the parties want to keep the grift going. They want to keep their jobs even though they're not doing them. They want to keep the rot right where it is, letting it spread rather than adapting and listening to their voters. Who they listen to instead, basically exclusively now, are wealthy donors. And those wealthy donors call almost all of the shots. What you're reading about In "Fear and Loathing" would be synonymous with the end of one of these political eras. Where the political machine is broken and everyone is angry, disinterested and stressed. We missed the obvious boat to creating a new era in 2008 with Obama because he just didn't do it despite having a clear mandate to remake the country. Now we're drifting towards fascism because that's what people do when liberal democracies are crumbling. What's particularly interesting and unexpected is that fascism is openly failing basically right out the gate. Trump is an incompetent narcissist. His brain is broken and he's even more corrupt than basically any present we've had. So when fascism fails, what comes after that? More fascism maybe? Socialism? Don't know. We can't really go back to the status quo. At least not in a way that would be sustainable. There are no tweaks that will fix this system, no small fixes. What we need are sweeping changes. And the democrats want to try and kick the socialism can down the road another twenty years because they're almost all self-interested grifters and ice chewing psychopaths. The neoliberal order has been collapsing, and really, it collapsed in 2008. It was revived by Obama, but none of the contradictions were resolved at a fundamental or root level. But the collapse never completely stopped. The rot continued. America is poised for a new political order and Trump could have set the tone just like Obama did, but Trump is fantastically stupid and can't capitalize on his win to absolutely steamroll our weak, dumb poo poo institutions and largely toothless and feeble watchdogs. So America is rotting now like it was back then, begging for a new political order. And instead of changing, we've entered a political holding pattern. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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