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SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Amazing Zimmo posted:

To me he looks young enough to run for president, so late 70's early 80's

Probably some desk jockey in the army sometime in the 50's and 60's. You know, close enough to WWII he can make claims and it's not that big a stretch.


I just woke my neighbors up from the "HA!" I emitted reading through this list. Jesus loving christ.

SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Nov 13, 2019

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Cornwind Evil
Dec 14, 2004


The undisputed world champion of wrestling effortposting
Having perused this thread on and off for the past two months, I wonder why so many people have turned wholly to atheism. It seems pretty clear that 98 percent of these scumfucks will only get a proper punishment in some sort of moral-based afterlife.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Cornwind Evil posted:

Having perused this thread on and off for the past two months, I wonder why so many people have turned wholly to atheism. It seems pretty clear that 98 percent of these scumfucks will only get a proper punishment in some sort of moral-based afterlife.

Just because it would be nice doesn’t mean it is real.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

1glitch0 posted:

I mean... that really doesn't sound right.
"$x of economic activity" means literally nothing. If I transferred $10000 from one bank account to another, and then immediately transferred it back, that would count as $20000 worth of "economic activity" ($40000 worth if you don't make any effort to correct for each bank having the $20000 of "economic activity", which I'm sure they usually don't).

Any time you see that phrase, someone is trying to bullshit you.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Cable Guy posted:

Great... now I'm imagining thousands of Lou Dobbs coming over the hill...

What would even be the collective noun for that..? A pillock of Dobbs?

A Cobb Of Dobbs.

e: change the thread tag to that giant Lou Dobbs head chasing those immigrant children.

Pasty Doughboy
Dec 23, 2006
With red way hair. One day it will all be gone, I’ll go blind from the glare

Cable Guy posted:

Great... now I'm imagining thousands of Lou Dobbs coming over the hill...

What would even be the collective noun for that..? A pillock of Dobbs?

A blobbin of Dobbs.

hellotoothpaste
Dec 21, 2006

I dare you to call it a perm again..

Otteration posted:

Possible replacement for Australian cowboy scream dude video, as tax:

https://twitter.com/Lisa_Bizzle/sta...agenumber%3D451

Y'all are fuckin up if you don't watch this hilarious dog

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Cornwind Evil posted:

Having perused this thread on and off for the past two months, I wonder why so many people have turned wholly to atheism. It seems pretty clear that 98 percent of these scumfucks will only get a proper punishment in some sort of moral-based afterlife.

Prosperity gospel is the mainstream in the western world, essentially.

ManBoyChef
Aug 1, 2019

Deadbeat Dad



Ice Phisherman posted:

Partially. It depends from state to state.

In many states the dems have basically abandoned state parties. People can point to others who do good jobs. Brown in Ohio is one of them because he genuinely seems to give a poo poo, but he's more of an outlier. The money just doesn't go these places. There's very little support from the national party in terms of money, manpower and attention, if anything depending on where you live. Ineffective and corrupt leadership who run the local parties are left in place to continually gently caress up chances so they can stay on top of their little molehills. In the long run, this has ceded rural America to the republicans and there is still a strong case to be made for political ideologies like prairie socialism. It's hard, it takes time, it takes money, it takes manpower, it takes competence, but over time you can grow a local coalition for left wing change. Not even normal democratic party ideas, such as they are, are being pushed in rural America and so left only to the republicans, rural America rots, but still has outsized voting power, especially in the senate. So long as they remain largely unchallenged in rural America, the dems will have a hell of a time seizing the senate. If they don't seize the senate, the republicans will stay viable as a party and obstruct any change just like they did under Obama.

I will agree on the old part as well though. The dems are an incredibly old party, at least at the national level.

https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/the-115th-congress-is-among-the-oldest-in-history/175/

I have a lot more faith in the new younger, newly elected democratic leadership who haven't been broken by the party and who are far more vigorous and in touch with their constituents. While the experience isn't there, and that's important, the party at the federal level is largely ancient and out of touch with its voters. But the people who control the national party aren't particularly interested in distributing more money to build real political power in rural states and rust belt states.

A lot of it has to do with fundraising. Establishment dems take money from people that want them to act like republicans because they take money from the same people the republicans do. We don't have a party of the people anymore. We have two right wing corporate parties.

How do we fix this? Public funding of elections and overturning citizens United. Basically the only money a candidate will get is small individual donations from citizens. Secondly, we need to pass laws that say a person that is in government that regulates an industry by holding public office cannot work in said industry after they retire from public office. There will be strict guidelines set on how lobbying can take place with an ethics review board that is fully funded.

I know this is just a pipe dream. As my dad told me when I was a kid ;"our system is sick. Integrity isn't common anymore."
He is right.

ManBoyChef fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Nov 13, 2019

Sjs00
Jun 29, 2013

Yeah Baby Yeah !
Ah yes, passing laws. Let's try that

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋




I know this is just dumb whitenoise bullshit but my god I hate it when people try to use WE THE PEOPLE as the object of the sentence.

“They tried to hurt we!!!” :byodood:

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Amazing

https://mobile.twitter.com/TysonJWhite/status/1194385939818307586

thin blue whine
Feb 21, 2004
PLEASE SEE POLICY


Soiled Meat
Just a reminder the hearing starts at 10am ET and here's a link. If you have it open before it starts you might have to refresh it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXlbDEATZwM

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

SocketWrench posted:

Hahahaha, you seriously think Ivanka is gonna correct daddums? Even if she did understand what was going on she wouldn't. The whole family is dumb and self centered the whole way down
I think it's darkly funny that, despite the fact that Jr. is way more open about it (no doubt in great part due to his gigantic-rear end daddy issues being way more explicit and well-documented), I feel that both Ivanka and Kushner are as dumb if not dumber than Jr. and Eric.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1194586470050349056

canepazzo
May 29, 2006




"Did that lawyer ever work for me, which would be a conflict?" :psyduck: What the hell does that even mean

Jaramin
Oct 20, 2010


Trump had had a LOT of lawyers, and he knows they all know how dirty he is.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
He's only paid a few though so a lot of them would be glad to stick a few in his back

ewiley
Jul 9, 2003

More trash for the trash fire

canepazzo posted:

"Did that lawyer ever work for me, which would be a conflict?" :psyduck: What the hell does that even mean

Remember, at this point Trump thinks the entire executive branch works for him directly, therefore anyone ever employed by the exec branch who goes against him is conflicted.

osker
Dec 18, 2002

Wedge Regret

A real dyed in the wool by the book DJT grifter. Fake time cover, claims of attending the best schools, I don't understand why they would be upset seeing how we have that shining beacon of morality in the oval.

eke out
Feb 24, 2013



The new defense "any lawyer could have worked for me and they must prove they didn't" is brilliant and unprecedented.

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

eke out posted:

The new defense "any lawyer could have worked for me and they must prove they didn't" is brilliant and unprecedented.

Obviously if they were that good Trump must have thrown money at them at some point, probably to evict a minority from a building.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



canepazzo posted:

"Did that lawyer ever work for me, which would be a conflict?" :psyduck: What the hell does that even mean

Trump has hired over 87% of lawyers in the country. This is because as soon as he hires one he refuses to pay them. And obviously using a lawyer that previously worked for someone and no longer has any ties to them would be a conflict of interest.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



eke out posted:

The new defense "any lawyer could have worked for me and they must prove they didn't" is brilliant and unprecedented.

I swear this was an actual tactic on a legaladvice post where a husband was planning on hiring or contacting all the divorce lawyers in their small town so the wife couldn't be represented by any of them.

AhhYes
Dec 1, 2004

* Click *
College Slice

I wonder if it would be of any service for Schiff to start things out by saying, "this is the investigation, not the trial."

Basically give a small civics lesson, explain the difference, and note that the trial and the President's due process will be overseen by the Chief Justice and the Senate.

Would that do any good?

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Another impeachment

https://mobile.twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1194582214245322754

Ratoslov
Feb 15, 2012

Now prepare yourselves! You're the guests of honor at the Greatest Kung Fu Cannibal BBQ Ever!

canepazzo posted:

I swear this was an actual tactic on a legaladvice post where a husband was planning on hiring or contacting all the divorce lawyers in their small town so the wife couldn't be represented by any of them.

Yeah, if I recall it didn't go very well for him at trial, and he was forced to pay for his wife's (elevated) legal fees.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I know NYP is a conservative rag but I thought they were usually reality based

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I know NYP is a conservative rag but I thought they were usually reality based

Conservatives don't live in reality.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Ratoslov posted:

Yeah, if I recall it didn't go very well for him at trial, and he was forced to pay for his wife's (elevated) legal fees.

Specifically many hours of travel time for his wife's attorney to travel back and forth from their office in the nearest major city.

Courts generally don't have much patience for acting in bad faith.


Also just a general reminder - r/legaladvice is moderated by cops.

ManBoyChef
Aug 1, 2019

Deadbeat Dad




this type of overt misinformation and the gaslighting that the GOP and conservative pundits are allowed to get away with is why we will never have any significant change in our country. The stupid people are too stupid to change and the rest of us have pretty much given up.

VH4Ever
Oct 1, 2005

by sebmojo

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I know NYP is a conservative rag but I thought they were usually reality based

Not since Trump. They 100% have thrown their lot in with him. So their "reality" now bends at his whims.

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

How loving deranged does someone have to be to make this type of thing?

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

FlamingLiberal posted:

Down here in Florida we have zero candidates so almost all of our Dem candidates are ex-Republicans
I'm a Florigoon too so I know.

They'd be better off running any random alligator.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

AhhYes posted:

I wonder if it would be of any service for Schiff to start things out by saying, "this is the investigation, not the trial."

Basically give a small civics lesson, explain the difference, and note that the trial and the President's due process will be overseen by the Chief Justice and the Senate.

Would that do any good?
It's probably less of a problem to allow the right to howl about how the House impeachment process is a sham trial than it is to suggest the actual Senate trial will not be a sham.

It's too tough of a burden to simultaneously explain (correctly) that the House impeachment process is proper and the upcoming Senate trial will be a farce.

Kaal
May 22, 2002

through thousands of posts in D&D over a decade, I now believe I know what I'm talking about. if I post forcefully and confidently, I can convince others that is true. no one sees through my facade.

Dalael posted:

How loving deranged does someone have to be to make this type of thing?

It's just another grift.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Rent-A-Cop posted:

I'm a Florigoon too so I know.

They'd be better off running any random alligator.
It made it much harder to accept Gillum losing since he was the first good gubernatorial candidate the Dems have had in my lifetime, and it was a wave year, and he still lost.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Cornwind Evil posted:

Having perused this thread on and off for the past two months, I wonder why so many people have turned wholly to atheism. It seems pretty clear that 98 percent of these scumfucks will only get a proper punishment in some sort of moral-based afterlife.

Atheism kinda precludes believing in an afterlife, and doing so only to hope that your enemies are punished ain't really gonna jive with the mindset that leads someone to become an atheist.

WoodrowSkillson fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 13, 2019

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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

eke out posted:

The new defense "any lawyer could have worked for me and they must prove they didn't" is brilliant and unprecedented.

The content this guy is pushing out the door, frankly it's unbelievable.

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