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FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Otteration posted:

California Governor Threatens State Takeover of PG&E
wsj.com/Updated Nov. 1, 2019
'California Gov. Gavin Newsom is threatening a state takeover of PG&E Corp. unless the company exits bankruptcy and dramatically improves the safety of its electric grid before the next wildfire season.

The governor on Friday said he has demanded that PG&E executives, investors and representatives for wildfire victims appear in Sacramento next week to discuss how to expedite the company’s emergence from chapter 11 by a state-imposed deadline of June 30. He said the state may intervene if the company’s shareholders and bondholders don’t quickly agree on a reorganization plan.

“PG&E as we know it, may or may not be able to figure this out, if they cannot we are not going to sit around and be passive,” Mr. Newsom said. “The state will prepare itself as backup for a scenario where we do that job for them.”'
He needs to do this no matter what, because if he doesn't they aren't going to change. They took public money and spent it on bonuses and dividends when it was supposed to go to replacing the old lines which have sparked wildfires and led to PG&E being liable for damages from the large fires.

Privatized utilities are just an awful, awful thing.

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b0ng
Jan 16, 2004

Thats a nice Game 7 you have there. Would be a shame if somebody nailed it down.

I am definitely feeling the “oh poo poo” at the very end.

Otteration
Jan 4, 2014

I CAN'T SAY PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S LIKE THAT GUY FROM HARRY POTTER AND I'M AFRAID I'LL SUMMON HIM. DONALD JOHN TRUMP. YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.
OUR 47TH PRESIDENT AFTER THE ONE WHO SHOWERS WITH HIS DAUGHTER DIES
Grimey Drawer
Quick tax:

https://i.imgur.com/U6wXRbY.mp4

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

FlamingLiberal posted:

He needs to do this no matter what, because if he doesn't they aren't going to change. They took public money and spent it on bonuses and dividends when it was supposed to go to replacing the old lines which have sparked wildfires and led to PG&E being liable for damages from the large fires.

Privatized utilities are just an awful, awful thing.

Seriously. They deserve far worse than a threat.

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset




King! loving king, holy poo poo! I loving needed that.

LadyPictureShow
Nov 18, 2005

Success!



CubanMissile posted:

A little surprised. I would assume UFC is a lot more chuddy than the other sports.

I think someone posted this when Trump getting booed at the Nats game first came up, but UFC viewers report as slightly dem.


Ogmius815
Aug 25, 2005
centrism is a hell of a drug

Edit: not worth it.

Ogmius815 fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Nov 3, 2019

paternity suitor
Aug 2, 2016

LadyPictureShow posted:

I think someone posted this when Trump getting booed at the Nats game first came up, but UFC viewers report as slightly dem.




Hell yeah NBA

mistaya
Oct 18, 2006

Cat of Wealth and Taste

I love that graphic. Monster trucks are truly bipartisan.

pkay
Jan 4, 2005
"You and your ilk just made me vote downticket R in the midterms."
- a black man (- a magachud)

Skex posted:

How the gently caress can you call the Russiagate nonsense at this point?

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/maddow-connects-the-dots-trump-may-have-done-this-exact-thing-once-before-with-ukraine/

All roads lead to Putin with Trump for a reason, he's been in bed with them for decades. FFS he ran a modeling agency for Eastern European women, that's the goto cover for human trafficking which is straight up Russian mob poo poo.

All of his loving around with Ukraine is about him obstructing and attempting to undermine the Mueller investigation into his connections with the Russian campaign to interfere with US elections.

All of this poo poo is just an extension of the same Russiagate conspiracy.

Seriously it takes some serious willful ignorance at this point to pretend that there is no there there.

It took some willful ignorance on 01/21/16 to pretend like there was no there there. Yet here we are....

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
WTF!
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/court-ruling-could-throw-impeachment-timeline-into-disarray-212205014.html

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...

Skex posted:

How the gently caress can you call the Russiagate nonsense at this point?

There's definitely a contingent of D&D that gets all defensive and incredulous about 'Russigate' and it's seriously off-putting. Like we can connect-the-dots with Epstein and Cop-case witness murders but get low-key dissmissive with Trump being obsequious to Russia (and Russian interference in general).

I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?

Charliegrs
Aug 10, 2009

LadyPictureShow posted:

I think someone posted this when Trump getting booed at the Nats game first came up, but UFC viewers report as slightly dem.




How the hell does WWE lean Democratic? That's like the chudiest thing ever

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Charliegrs posted:

How the hell does WWE lean Democratic? That's like the chudiest thing ever

vince mcmahon mostly smothered southern rasslin

seripusly Vince McMahon grew up in a southern trailer park, probably got raped by his step father, and loving hates the South and Southern style pro wrestling among many other things

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?

Sometimes for some people it's as simple as "US bad and imperialistic therefore any rival of the US must be good" even if that rival is a horribly regressive right-wing authoritarian state.

Instead of the incredibly obvious "Two things can be bad at the same time and I don't have to defend either" stance.

thin blue whine
Feb 21, 2004
PLEASE SEE POLICY


Soiled Meat
There are lots of hashtag resistance people that really think Trump is some kind Russian spy or whatever poo poo is coming out of Seth Abrahms or Louise Mensch now. I've always thought there was some kind of give and take between Russia and Trump, even if it was just them trying to do whatever benefits the other as some kind of agreement.

However, it's getting more and more difficult to think he literally wasn't swapped out with a Russian Trump Clone with a chip in his brain or something because of how out of the way Trump and those around him have been handling Ukraine since day 0.

thin blue whine fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Nov 3, 2019

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Charliegrs posted:

How the hell does WWE lean Democratic? That's like the chudiest thing ever

Poor people. Same for UFC leaning slightly to the left.

That chart is basically a map of "rich vs poor" sports fandoms. The ones that break from that framing are typically the ones that appeal to overeducated libs, like tennis.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

There's definitely a contingent of D&D that gets all defensive and incredulous about 'Russigate' and it's seriously off-putting. Like we can connect-the-dots with Epstein and Cop-case witness murders but get low-key dissmissive with Trump being obsequious to Russia (and Russian interference in general).

I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?

the mod/admin who closed down the standalone Russia thread and made a general conspiracy thread banned himself and left unapologetically after it came out that he had a history of genocide denial regarding China and Russia

Tacier
Jul 22, 2003

Otteration posted:

Fire in Paradise
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/October 29, 2019
"A year after the devastating Camp Fire, FRONTLINE examines who’s to blame and why it was so catastrophic. With accounts from survivors and first responders, the documentary tells the inside story of the most destructive fire in California’s history, its causes and the impact of climate change."

Great documentary. I was 10 miles away from Paradise when the fire happened and have worked with several people in that video, so it hits close to home. It really captures the confusion and dread of that morning when all information channels broke down and we seemed to go directly from “there’s a fire burning near Paradise” to “the entire town has been destroyed” in the blink of an eye.

Generic American
Mar 15, 2012

I love my Peng


https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1190861163929784321

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


Strange Poon posted:

There are lots of hashtag resistance people that really think Trump is some kind Russian spy or whatever poo poo is coming out of Seth Abrahms or Louise Mensch now. I've always thought there was some kind of give and take between Russia and Trump, even if it was just them trying to do whatever benefits the other as some kind of agreement.

However, it's getting more and more difficult to think he literally wasn't swapped out with a Russian Trump Clone with a chip in his brain or something because of how out of the way Trump and those around him have been handling Ukraine since day 0.

His campaign used their power over the RNC the moment he sealed the nomination to overrule all policies regarding Russian sanctions for seizing Crimea. This was clear from day one

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

LadyPictureShow posted:

I think someone posted this when Trump getting booed at the Nats game first came up, but UFC viewers report as slightly dem.




... hang on

stringless fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Nov 3, 2019

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

FlamingLiberal posted:

He needs to do this no matter what, because if he doesn't they aren't going to change. They took public money and spent it on bonuses and dividends when it was supposed to go to replacing the old lines which have sparked wildfires and led to PG&E being liable for damages from the large fires.

Privatized utilities are just an awful, awful thing.

I will be shocked if they manage to get their poo poo together before the end of the year, it seems guaranteed.

E: honestly the big worry I'd have is them selling off almost everything during the bankruptcy and handing the skeleton to the state to deal with

Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Nov 3, 2019

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Grapplejack posted:

I will be shocked if they manage to get their poo poo together before the end of the year, it seems guaranteed.

E: honestly the big worry I'd have is them selling off almost everything during the bankruptcy and handing the skeleton to the state to deal with

they'd just be busting up their own monopoly!! :pseudo:

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Tacier posted:

Great documentary. I was 10 miles away from Paradise when the fire happened and have worked with several people in that video, so it hits close to home. It really captures the confusion and dread of that morning when all information channels broke down and we seemed to go directly from “there’s a fire burning near Paradise” to “the entire town has been destroyed” in the blink of an eye.

It's so horrific, it's simply unconscionable that PG&E continues to operate as is.

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

Junior made a similar tweet as well. They're going full-on "do not trust your eyes and ears" on this one.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Google Butt posted:

It's so horrific, it's simply unconscionable that PG&E continues to operate as is.

that the state didn't take over control of the california energy market/utilities as a whole in the wake of enron loving them over hard for a year plus was insane

https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1190653116473073664

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

they were chanting boo-ess-ayy

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


guess i should tax

https://twitter.com/_TheBestDogs/status/1190547438429523969?s=20

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

There's definitely a contingent of D&D that gets all defensive and incredulous about 'Russigate' and it's seriously off-putting. Like we can connect-the-dots with Epstein and Cop-case witness murders but get low-key dissmissive with Trump being obsequious to Russia (and Russian interference in general).

I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?

No that's pretty much it, they think any form of Russia-bashing is redbaiting because people will associate Russia and the USSR. As if half the country doesn't go into frothing rants about SOCIALISM every time the gas tax goes up by a cent.

Charliegrs
Aug 10, 2009

Gen. Ripper posted:

No that's pretty much it, they think any form of Russia-bashing is redbaiting because people will associate Russia and the USSR. As if half the country doesn't go into frothing rants about SOCIALISM every time the gas tax goes up by a cent.

Which is pretty hilarious because Russia is probably the Right Wing leader of the world these days.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Gen. Ripper posted:

No that's pretty much it, they think any form of Russia-bashing is redbaiting because people will associate Russia and the USSR. As if half the country doesn't go into frothing rants about SOCIALISM every time the gas tax goes up by a cent.

there's also an element of "why are you talking about foreign interference when we should be talking about corporate / powerful-entity interference as a whole??"

which isn't entirely whataboutism

not at first

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1190718939862642694
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1190886847070834688
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1190886366453882880
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1190886358354714625
https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1190885127695544321
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1190886120256626688
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1190619004722929664
https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1190848983855435777
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1190877284397461505
https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/1190683422240452610

Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Nov 3, 2019

Kro-Bar
Jul 24, 2004
USPOL May

We can look at how nobody has ever been executed or imprisoned for attempted murder for proof of Brit's galaxy-brain logic.

Ershalim
Sep 22, 2008
Clever Betty

Nice of Brit Hume to tell everyone it was gonna be a dumb answer before they actually said anything. A good tweet.

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

There's definitely a contingent of D&D that gets all defensive and incredulous about 'Russigate' and it's seriously off-putting. Like we can connect-the-dots with Epstein and Cop-case witness murders but get low-key dissmissive with Trump being obsequious to Russia (and Russian interference in general).

I can't really fathom why except that I guess Russia = USSR = Communist = Leftist and it's all some dumb tribal thing, but it can't possibly be that stupid and petty can it?

Gen. Ripper posted:

No that's pretty much it, they think any form of Russia-bashing is redbaiting because people will associate Russia and the USSR. As if half the country doesn't go into frothing rants about SOCIALISM every time the gas tax goes up by a cent.
Yeah it's definitely not that the lanyard class has been banging on the Russia drum for three loving years to cover for their own dismal failures in governance and the giant Donald Trump-sized hole they left in our institutions for the fash to just waltz right through in to power.

Nope it's that we all secretly, or not-secretly, love Vladimir loving Putin because despite apparently being able to use keyboards we think this far-right authoritarian dickhead is somehow socialist because Russia == socialism. You got us. God drat it, it took y'all three years but you finally figured us out.

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

If he happens to have a penultimate penalty laying around, I'd be happy to settle for that, but it seems that the president is immune to anything less.

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Yeah it's definitely not that the lanyard class has been banging on the Russia drum for three loving years to cover for their own dismal failures in governance and the giant Donald Trump-sized hole they left in our institutions for the fash to just waltz right through in to power.

What does this have to do with whether Donald Trump is purposefully doing Russia's bidding or not?

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Kro-Bar posted:

We can look at how nobody has ever been executed or imprisoned for attempted murder for proof of Brit's galaxy-brain logic.

They'd bring up Cameron Todd Willingham as an example of false accusations leading to the ultimate penalty if they didn't know exactly what they're doing.

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saintonan
Dec 7, 2009

Fields of glory shine eternal


So ridiculous. Execution is the ultimate penalty, especially for shitters like Brit Hume who cheerlead the death penalty. In Trump's case, we just want to fire him. Losing your job isn't remotely the ultimate penalty.

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