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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Because of the tweets: wouldnt surprise me. monsters like him work best in the shadow. trumps screaming and tweets shine a light on every thing they do. barr probably wants to get out and go back to the shadows. Herstory Begins Now posted:I find the idea that Barr actually is a man of virtue and principle who would quit in distaste and protest to be the most laughably stupid poo poo anyone has ever put in writing. Only reason a true believer like Barr is quitting is if he doesn't want to go down in the fallout of whatever poo poo he thinks is going to come along next. Semi-related, but I wonder how long it will be before someone traces payments to the trump foundation or inauguration or something else in trump's orbit back to the recent pardons, cuz there's zero chance trump spontaneously decided to do something for free. probably soon. we are in another trump crisis "lull" now but its building up again with his various actions and tweets.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Because of the tweets: On one hand, Barr is the toadiest of toads and would never leave of his own volition, on the other that's exactly what I thought Bolton was.
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1229895101746483201 It isnt any of the big names, they all did it by fox appearances. quote:For those who didn’t receive the Fox News treatment, it appears that in at least one case, cold hard cash did the talking. Paul Pogue, a construction company owner who pleaded guilty to underpaying his taxes by $473,000 and received three years probation, was issued a full pardon and clemency by the president. And did not know that Pirro is connected to Kerik, but of course she is. quote:The pro-Trump Fox News star, who brushed off Blagojevich’s crimes as “just practicing politics” in an April 2018 interview with Patti Blagojevich, has something of a sordid history with Kerik. Back in 2006, Pirro—who was then running as a Republican for New York attorney general—admitted she asked Kerik to bug her then-husband’s boat to see if he was having an affair after federal prosecutors began investigating whether she and Kerik illegally taped conversations.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:probably soon. we are in another trump crisis "lull" now but its building up again with his various actions and tweets. Again, the one (and perhaps only) upshot to the GOP outing themselves as craven traitorous shitbags that will defend anything a Republican politician does is that Trump now mistakenly thinks he's invincible. Sure he's probably protected from being impeached and removed, but that doesn't mean there aren't political consequences for, say, pardoning financial criminals just because the dunderheaded House Minority leader said he should.
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Pakled posted:What the gently caress does Trump gain out of pardoning Blagojevich? Isn't he massively screwing over the Illinois GOP by doing this? It's been yakked about gobs, but another simple bit to consider is that pardons and tariffs are some of the only things the poo poo smear can do with a swipe of a sharpie with unadulterated power. Pardons also give carte blanche to all his friends and neighbor grifters in Illinois and everywhere that all is well, trump on a trumpin on. Edit: https://twitter.com/samstein/status...D681%23lastpost Yep, even simpler. Otteration fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Current unaffiliated voter tax: https://i.imgur.com/UgcfzA9.mp4
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Bugsy posted:https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1229895101746483201 And it's important to remember the final link: A very significant portion of Trump campaign contributions end up in his own pocket via spending at his properties and businesses. Plus, you know, probably straight into his pocket.
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John Oliver actually had a good episode on M4A: https://youtu.be/7Z2XRg3dy9k
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Otteration posted:It's been yakked about gobs, but another simple bit to consider is that pardons and tariffs are some of the only things the poo poo smear can do with a swipe of a sharpie with unadulterated power. Pardons also give carte blanche to all his friends and neighbor grifters in Illinois and everywhere that all is well, trump on a trumpin on. Papal Indulgences are back, in a bigly way
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Trump is the re-incarnation of Andrew Jackson, with only the negative qualities.
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Angry_Ed posted:I will probably laugh for an entire day if this uplifted frog man quits because Donald Trump made it difficult for him to cover up Donald Trump's crimes. A competent opposition party would be doing everything they can to drive a wedge between Trump and Barr. Of course a competent opposition party would not have voted to confirm him either. Barr leaked this to tell Trump "seriously, shut the gently caress up." Which probably means Barr isn't as smart as I was giving credit for. Or maybe he's arrogant enough to think "I, William Barr, will be the genius that finally gets Trump to shut up and go along with the plan."
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1229801897948860416?s=19 um... isn't he on Notre Dame's board of trustees? Name's familiar in those circles, anyhow... Like, Debartelo Hall on campus there. I believe I've met the man. <quick google> yeah, dude's name is on multiple buildings on Notre Dame campus. Remember, Reagan got a good chunk of Catholics to swing Republican, bein' The Gipper and pushing for 'family values' poison (say no to drugs, abortion is murder, etc). And Notre Dame is adacent to South Bend, Indiana. And the first debate of the general is going to be at Notre Dame - in Debartelo Hall. e- those catholic Reagan Democrats' intellectual decendents are a population Mayor Pete is deliberately aiming to draw upon. There's billionaires among 'em, I met a few myself, working the front desk of The Morris Inn for a decade.
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I never really understood how much South Bend influenced the politics of our day until I started delving into South Bend history. Did you know that in 2015, the population of South Bend increased by 286, the largest one-year growth in over 20 years? Who was responsible for that? You guessed it. Pete Buttigieg.
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I used to overnight in south bend once in a while, it is a surprisingly okay place for being an also ran metropolitan area in an also ran state.
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:Trump is the re-incarnation of Andrew Jackson, with only the negative qualities. He seems more like a Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) to me. Ivanka is Lucrezia. Now, which of his sons has the guts to be the reference picture for all modern paintings of Jesus? Edit: I wasn't the first to see those parallels. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Feb 19, 2020 06:44
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Uglycat posted:um... isn't he on Notre Dame's board of trustees? Name's familiar in those circles, anyhow... Like, Debartelo Hall on campus there. I believe I've met the man.
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cant cook creole bream posted:He seems more like a Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) to me. Ivanka is Lucrezia. Don Jr. has the right level of high profile dipshittery to be Cesare. Eric is Juan, equally big of a fuckup but utterly forgotten by history.
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:can you quit making everything about you good loving god Actually please don't because "Standing Rock changed my life and now I live on an activist Hippy Bus" is insanely funny to me.
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nine-gear crow posted:Don Jr. has the right level of high profile dipshittery to be Cesare. Eric is Juan, equally big of a fuckup but utterly forgotten by history. Someone Photoshop Don Jr.s face on a bunch of renesaince paintings. TIA.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/quote:It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president Expect to see a lot more of this if Bernie keeps winning
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ As someone who studies democratic governance models: lmfao.
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Shrecknet posted:in case you'd like a preview. is this the first time where a previous host of the WHCD came back to do it again? also, yesh. hasan rules. his show has some weird editing, but it's overall good stuff.
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Crumbskull posted:As someone who studies democratic governance models: lmfao. Do you have any insight on why so much of political science as an academic field seems to just be Democracy Was A Mistake, and naked boosterism for centrist Democrats? That’s what it seems like as an outside observer. Some sort of article analyzing the field and its history and development would be fascinating
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icantfindaname posted:Do you have any insight on why so much of political science as an academic field seems to just be Democracy Was A Mistake, and naked boosterism for centrist Democrats? That’s what it seems like as an outside observer. Some sort of article analyzing the field and its history and development would be fascinating Most academic fields allocate grant funding, despite claims by Republicans, via politically unbiased reviewers and career professional program managers looking for real measurable physical phenomenon. This is not the case in political science.
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ This has to be the worst endorsement of Preferential Voting that I have ever seen. Just, holy gently caress, saying it out loud these days. The WaPo posted:It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president J.A.B.C. fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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icantfindaname posted:Do you have any insight on why so much of political science as an academic field seems to just be Democracy Was A Mistake, and naked boosterism for centrist Democrats? That’s what it seems like as an outside observer. Some sort of article analyzing the field and its history and development would be fascinating Its similar to economics insofar as its basically a fake discipline that serves as a post hoc rationalization for ideologically based decision making, and similar to economics the ideology being justified is the one dumping money into the field. I should be clear though, I'm a co-op developer so I study like enterprise, community and federational governance systems and don't spend a ton of my time on e.g. US civil democracy because its prima facie so idiotic and undemocratic that what would be the point. You can't have meaningful civic democracy without economic democracy in my opinion. Crumbskull fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:John Oliver actually had a good episode on M4A: I did like this episode. I have to ask though... are his episodes normally bad?  cant cook creole bream posted:He seems more like a Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) to me. Ivanka is Lucrezia. Hopefully the comparison there does not predict future events. While i'd probably enjoy seeing the Trump family fall apart after the shitstain dies, having his corruption ultimately lead to a permanent division of the US and centuries of conflict would not be an optimal outcome. 
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Yureina posted:I did like this episode. I have to ask though... are his episodes normally bad? His researchers are good, and his jokewriters are awful, just dogshit. So you get some decently informative material (albeit at a necessarily superficial and abbreviated level), mixed in with appalling cringe jokes about Susan from HR. It depends what percentage of rat poo poo you can tolerate in your hamburger
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Failed Imagineer posted:His researchers are good, and his jokewriters are awful, just dogshit. So you get some decently informative material (albeit at a necessarily superficial and abbreviated level), mixed in with appalling cringe jokes about Susan from HR. Apparently I can tolerate alot of rat poo poo then. 
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Failed Imagineer posted:His researchers are good, and his jokewriters are awful, just dogshit. So you get some decently informative material (albeit at a necessarily superficial and abbreviated level), mixed in with appalling cringe jokes about Susan from HR. his jokes are a lot like painting your pet walrus, randy the lakers colors. seems like a good idea at the time, but it brings up a LOT of questions down the road WHAT WERE YOU THINKING SUSAN HUH? YOU'RE A MONSTER. A MONSTER I SAY
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Mr Interweb posted:his jokes are a lot like painting your pet walrus, randy the lakers colors. seems like a good idea at the time, but it brings up a LOT of questions down the road Oh God I can hear it. poo poo sucks, man. Don't mean to yuck anyone elses yum though. I mean, I still watch John Oliver about half the time, and I think the show is a net positive, and comedy is subjective. I just have to watch it with gritted teeth and a clenched butthole
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Yureina posted:Hopefully the comparison there does not predict future events. While i'd probably enjoy seeing the Trump family fall apart after the shitstain dies, having his corruption ultimately lead to a permanent division of the US and centuries of conflict would not be an optimal outcome. I'm hoping that it at least we get to see an Italian in a white hoodie beat the crap out of Trump inside the Vatican.
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Mr Interweb posted:his jokes are a lot like painting your pet walrus, randy the lakers colors. seems like a good idea at the time, but it brings up a LOT of questions down the road Oh god, yeah. His rhythm is so loving predictable.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Oh god, yeah. His rhythm is so loving predictable. If you want me to be more polite Steve than wash your loving dishes. Don't leave them in the sink like your a lazy aardvark cause Grayson the aardvark in accounting doesn't tolerate that poo poo. Don't piss of Grayson, Steve. Don't loving do it. Wash your loving dishes.
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AceOfFlames posted:I'm hoping that it at least we get to see an Italian in a white hoodie beat the crap out of Trump inside the Vatican. If we got history as depicted by Assassin's Creed, then that would also mean the shitstain would get murdered by Don Jr. It would make for some interesting news days at least.
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Mr Interweb posted:his jokes are a lot like painting your pet walrus, randy the lakers colors. seems like a good idea at the time, but it brings up a LOT of questions down the road uncanny
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ Literally “the people are too stupid to know what they want, let me and the elite handle it from now on” right under “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. Holy poo poo, this is rancid. This just cemented me canceling my subscription today. gently caress this poo poo, I’m not supporting a rag pushing fascist garbage.
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CuddleCryptid posted:It is truly amazing how many people physically cannot handle thinking that their ancestors from three hundred years ago were not perfect saints. Don't you want to believe in self improvement? That you are living a better life in a better world than people from back then? I don't know how old you are...so forgive me if you're over 35-ish, this ain't for you (hopefully)... but it's almost impossible to explain to someone who didn't come of age at least by the back half of the 1990's how utterly air tight and enforced the bullshit American Lore was to the in-group (white people) in this country. Remember recently as Watchmen dropped, how utterly baffled people were that they never knew about what happened in the Greenwood section of Tulsa? Yeah, that's the essence of The Thing in a nutshell. poo poo like that was utterly and completely hidden, I'm talking completely abstracted, away from the typical white person unless they were literally academically tasked with learning about it. And up until about say... 2007-ish, you figure? About the point where Wikipedia went critical mass?...Getting information on those incidents took work. I remember back in my AP courses having to go to the Orlando central library to finish up research. One paper I actually had to go over to the University of Central Florida to finish out my citations because one literally could not get deep reads on historical events without doing so. Now that poo poo is one click away. We, as a society, had to put in real work to find out the truth of how this country came to be and why we are where we are today. Now Imagine your typical white suburban-raised cultureless slob that would even write a series like this 1776 piece in response to documented American History. These people cannot reckon with the fact that this joint and their privilege was built upon a mountain of broken people, unfulfilled, unevenly enforced rules and outright malice. Even worse, these authors know that their main reader cohort is part of that group of white people that are in this reckoning process and are not going to read 1619 in the first place because they can't reckon with it. This poo poo explains so much about us. I hate to use a Rick and Morty reference, mainly because I don't watch the show, but I did see an episode that kinda sorta encapsulates the concept here (I'll spoiler the plot reveal): There was this beloved king that ended up being a child molesting dirtbag behind the scenes. After the arc of the story and what ultimately happens to the King, there's a scene where these priests (?) are standing there out at a clearing having found all the evidence of what the dude really was and they had a choice of telling the townsfolk or burning the evidence and allowing the people to live with the illusion. They burned the evidence. The internet prevents white people from burning the evidence and...in a sort of grotesque sentiment...there's no misguided peasants trying to thoughtfully keep the peace because it's dirtbags almost all the way down. Funny that, eh? Or something like that.
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