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Neo_Crimson posted:Honestly, Thanksgiving could use a rebranding like Columbus day. So we could get a day off and gorge on turkey without whitewashing the deaths of Native Americans. Black Friday is basically eating up more and more of Thanksgiving anyway. I wonder did there’ll ever actually be some backlash or an ‘enough!’ moment about that. Edit: 
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The_Doctor posted:Black Friday is basically eating up more and more of Thanksgiving anyway. I wonder did there’ll ever actually be some backlash or an ‘enough!’ moment about that. That ship sailed when people started eating Thanksgiving dinner earlier to accommodate stores opening on Thursday evening.
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Cactrot posted:That ship sailed when people started eating Thanksgiving dinner earlier to accommodate stores opening on Thursday evening. Which always confused me because like my family always had "dinner" cooked by like 2 PM anyway because it takes awhile to serve a huge rear end family, clean up, do a massive dessert spread, and then send everyone home safely.
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STAC Goat posted:I mean, Lindsay Graham said terrible poo poo about Trump and Trump backed Mitt Romney for his campaign. I think if Sessions is willing to eat enough poo poo he'd get Trump on board. That is kind of the skeleton key to Trump. The man will hold a grudge against you until his dying day, unless you drag yourself back to his feet and weep a mea culpa before him. He'll still be a petty rear end in a top hat five-year-old to you but at least you've proven your worth to him and that's enough for his... whatever Trump tends to express that approaches forgiveness.
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I got your war on thanksgiving right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VssWj5DwTTw
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I’d sooner start with Columbus Day which has absolutely zero redeeming qualities. That would be stupid. If we go straight from Christmas to war on Columbus Day, the Right would attack Thanksgiving and cut our supply lines. Also, my phone keeps correcting "war on X" to "eat on X", what does that say about me.
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STAC Goat posted:Which always confused me because like my family always had "dinner" cooked by like 2 PM anyway because it takes awhile to serve a huge rear end family, clean up, do a massive dessert spread, and then send everyone home safely. My family always had Sunday dinner at 3, I assume because traditionally the main meal was earlier before being delayed due to the advent of 9-5 work days.
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https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1192236126322470912 https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1192233343833776128 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1192236487166844928
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My state has laws against Black Friday bleeding over into Thanksgiving itself so that’s nice. But it still starts at midnight which is bullshit. It should start at 5 am on Friday no earlier.
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Nov 7, 2019 01:42
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The_Doctor posted:Black Friday is basically eating up more and more of Thanksgiving anyway. I wonder did there’ll ever actually be some backlash or an ‘enough!’ moment about that. Is it? For whom? people without internet? I feel like local news has to look pretty hard to find a "look at these savages" piece for quite a while. Would have thought black friday peaked in the late 90's.
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Really, the problem with the cartels is that there's too many of them, right? There's too many hits. They can't get anything done. Pick one, provide them with a bunch of fancy heaters, help them knock over all the other cartels. Then we take a percentage - our piece of the action - and nobody has to get shot up any more. (please, please, please do not mention this within earshot of any Trump administration official)
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Really, the problem with the cartels is that there's too many of them, right? There's too many hits. They can't get anything done. This was literally American foreign policy in central and south american in the 1980s through early 90s.
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The_Doctor posted:Black Friday is basically eating up more and more of Thanksgiving anyway. I wonder did there’ll ever actually be some backlash or an ‘enough!’ moment about that. This cat has a weird pompadour/cowlick thing
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Tacier posted:Could we meaningfully destabilize or destroy the Mexican cartels even if we wanted to? I don't fully understand their operating structure, but they seem to be at least as well organized as ISIS and better armed. Of course I'd love to see them dismantled, but is that actually a feasible near-term outcome if the force of the US military was brought to bear on the problem? yeah overnight by legalizing drugs (whether that's a good plan or not is another whole discussion though)
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Mr Interweb posted:i....wha? The KY state legislature only meets for 60 days once a year and 30 days every other year, with extra sessions needing to be called by the governor. By holding off signing and then vetoing a bill at the end of an assembly, the governor can essentially negate the law for a full year, or negotiate its passage in exchange for a special session; if it's an election year, the next assembly may lack the vote totals to override his veto. It is an extremely, abominably stupid way to run a government.
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nine-gear crow posted:That is kind of the skeleton key to Trump. The man will hold a grudge against you until his dying day, unless you drag yourself back to his feet and weep a mea culpa before him. He'll still be a petty rear end in a top hat five-year-old to you but at least you've proven your worth to him and that's enough for his... whatever Trump tends to express that approaches forgiveness. this but he also still holds the grudge and will bring it up constantly and if said lickspittle ever doesnt kiss rear end, than the grudge comes back times 1000. STAC Goat posted:I still love Thanksgiving to eat too much and drink beer and spend time with loved ones and ideally remind yourself and others to go out and do some decent stuff (ideally beyond the holiday). i am fine with thanksgiving as a vague "giving thanks" day and talking about how dumb and backwards and weird the puritans were. honestly i just prefer Christmas because of the music and colors and cheer.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:yeah overnight by legalizing drugs (whether that's a good plan or not is another whole discussion though) I’ve read that the cartels have become so established within so many facets of Mexican society that while legalizing drugs up here in America would take a hit it wouldn’t necessarily be some crippling blow anymore.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Really, the problem with the cartels is that there's too many of them, right? There's too many hits. They can't get anything done. 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Christ I forgot all about blue cards. Is there any way to tell how many vacancies there were at the start of the new Congress on January 2015 when things ground to a permanent halt? this is the thing we should be screaming at leahy for, right?
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Nov 7, 2019 01:48
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Slo-Tek posted:Is it? For the workers who are having to come in earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving itself because the stores are opening earlier on Thursdays rather than the Friday.
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Haha he looks trashed in that pic already (not surprising)
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Sometimes I can't tell if Lindsey Graham is just the most shameless liar, or just a complete loving idiot
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FizFashizzle posted:I got your war on thanksgiving right here Jesus Christ.
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The papa johns in town has a huge sign on their front door about how they're independently owned and operated because of this idiot.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I’ve read that the cartels have become so established within so many facets of Mexican society that while legalizing drugs up here in America would take a hit it wouldn’t necessarily be some crippling blow anymore. yeah. it might hurt some of their business and is probably a good thing, but it wouldnt destroy the cartels at this point. they would probably move onto other rackets and such.
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Willo567 posted:Sometimes I can't tell if Lindsey Graham is just the most shameless liar, or just a complete loving idiot C. a perpetually drunk lying idiot
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Willo567 posted:Sometimes I can't tell if Lindsey Graham is just the most shameless liar, or just a complete loving idiot 
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Zwabu posted:The Trump campaign is getting so much grift off rich people and foreigners funneling money his way it's both hilarious and sad that they still grift small time contributions off dumb chuds just because they can. If they actually wind up getting in any trouble because this is so easily proven I'll laugh. Sadly none of said chuds will probably ever even feel bad or pursue action over this. Dallas right? There was an anesthesiologist that billed for his own surgery. Like he was getting operated on, and he said he was the doc giving the anesthesia.
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OAquinas posted:https://twitter.com/aldotcom/status/1192187600452407298 "Dear football fans, I heard you would like some free money? Here's a great class action opportunity that would be paid for by Alabama tax payers."
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RuanGacho posted:The papa johns in town has a huge sign on their front door about how they're independently owned and operated because of this idiot. Yeah the brand is really a drag on the business. With so many pizza places out there, it's just not that hard to shop somewhere that doesn't have the spokesman screaming support for a fascist.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I mean just rename it. it is also indigenous people's day but uh nobody actually calls it that apparently the history of columbus day is, basically, part of an italian campaign to be "white" instead of "swarthy lazy south europeans"
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RuanGacho posted:The papa johns in town has a huge sign on their front door about how they're independently owned and operated because of this idiot. papa johns itself basically hung a giant sign on the company itself about how they are now independently owned and operated from this guy
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RuanGacho posted:The papa johns in town has a huge sign on their front door about how they're independently owned and operated because of this idiot. Doesn't matter, they could be any other chain. Never buy that fascist's pizza.
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Judge Scraps 'Conscience' Rule Protecting Doctors Who Deny Care For Religious Reasons npr.org/November 6, 2019 Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET 'In a blow to the Trump administration, a federal court in Manhattan has knocked down a rule that would make it easier for doctors and other health care workers to refuse care for religious reasons. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services, which issued the regulation earlier this year, exceeded its authority and "acted arbitrarily and capriciously" in promoting it. The department's violations of federal law, according to the judge's opinion, were "numerous, fundamental, and far-reaching" — and he vacated the rule entirely, just over two weeks before it was set to take effect on Nov. 22.' Milwaukee man charged with hate crime in racist acid attack, authorities say abcnews.go.com/Nov 6, 2019 "A Milwaukee man was charged with a hate crime on Wednesday for allegedly throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man in a suspected racist attack, authorities said. Clifton Blackwell, 61, was charged with first degree reckless injury, use of a dangerous weapon and a hate crime after video appeared to show him dousing a man with acid during an argument over the victim's immigration status, according to a probable cause affidavit." Never Forget, America’s Mass Lynching: 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas blackwestchester.com/June 12, 2016 "Towards the end of 1918, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton of Little Rock, Arkansas listened to Black sharecroppers tell stories of theft, exploitation, and never ending debt. One man by the name of Carter, explained how he cultivated 90 acres of cotton and then had his landlord confiscate the crop and all of his possessions. Another Black farmer, from Ratio, Arkansas said a plantation manager would not give sharecroppers an itemized record of their crop. No one realized that within a year of meeting with Mr. Bratton, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. would take place. In a report released by the Equal Justice Initiative, white people in the Delta region of the South, started a massacre that left 237 Black people dead. Even though the one-time death toll was unusually high, it was not uncommon for whites to use racial violence to intimidate Blacks." ....
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i was just reading a case where a judge basically put this into a footnote: "yes, party X, i realize you were right and i needed to reconsider my opinion, but next time be more polite about telling me that if you don't fix it you'll appeal"
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evilweasel posted:it is also indigenous people's day but uh nobody actually calls it that Yep, that's what it was. Which isn't quite as clever as how Middle Eastern and North African people became white...by invoking Jesus in front of the Supreme Court.
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https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1192246695624630276 Genuinely surprised Barr would refuse to do this, given all of his other toadying.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1192246695624630276 Probably because it would backfire.
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The Americanization of Italians was a huge, weird, republican oriented campaign initiative in the late 70s and early 80s. At the 1980 RNC, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island Buddy Cianci gave a speech declaring his pround italian heritage. He was running for Governor in 1980, and when he lost the election he held a celebration party because he was going to remain Mayor. He was also mobbed up as hell because it turns out Providence was the third biggest mob town on the east coast between Boston and NYC. Kids know him today as the namesake of the school on Family Guy.
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