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TulliusCicero posted:Would have been great if this dumb arrogant fucker were in jail already, but America
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Latest Rasmussen poll has Trump at 43% approve 56% disapprove which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.
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Wark Say posted:Wasn't he at some point like 38% approve with Rasmussen in like the last 2 weeks? That was after the 538 adjustments
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Ah yes Smallpox. Famously harmless to populations encountering it for the first time. 
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Apr 10, 2020 17:30
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:8th grade math would actually be slightly above the average American's math skill level. Yeah, people are shamed for illiteracy but being 'bad at math' is just a personality quirk haha 
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Something weird going on for Rasmussen. Their # has dropped while others have leveled or gone up.
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Arturo Ui posted:Something weird going on for Rasmussen. Their # has dropped while others have leveled or gone up. Unless something changed, Rasmussen was always weirdly accurate in their numbers were consistently wrong. So (making a number up off the top of my head here to explain), their polls were always like 7% off, but if you took out their magic numbers, they tended to be pretty good.
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It's really cool that the answer to the absolute failure of the executive branch is to just turn the xenophobia up to 11.
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Sinister_Beekeeper posted:https://ctmirror.org/2020/04/08/bernies-out-but-he-still-wants-a-connecticut-primary/ CT's primary is delayed till June 2. Do they have mail in ballots there? If not that seems like plenty of time to get them sorted out.
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Governor Northam posted:Governor Northam signed these bills: Ok, but are they going to start prosecuting straw purchasers? Governor Northam posted:Senate Bill 69 and House Bill 812 reinstate Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month rule to help curtail stockpiling of firearms and trafficking. How many firearms constitutes a "stockpile?" Is there a limit to how many magazines you can purchase at one time? There is a reason that soldiers and police do roll around with 15 guns on their person. Governor Northam posted:House Bill 9 requires gun owners to report their lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement within 48 hours or face a civil penalty. Are there other cases where being the victim of a crime is penalized? Also, what is to stop anyone from having a "boat accident," reporting their guns lost and just keeping them? Governor Northam posted:House Bill 1083 prevents children from accessing firearms by increasing the penalty for recklessly leaving firearms in their presence. I don't see how this is going to deter anyone who would leave their firearms were children could get at them.
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PeterCat posted:How many firearms constitutes a "stockpile?" Is there a limit to how many magazines you can purchase at one time? There is a reason that soldiers and police do roll around with 15 guns on their person. The purpose of the one a month rule is to make illegal trafficking via straw purchases harder and less worth it, because you can only do it once a month instead of buying loads of guns every day it's not really an attempt to keep people from owning/stockpiling guns for personal use, since as you say, in a year you could buy a dozen handguns which is more than anyone really needs no matter how much you love guns
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PeterCat posted:Ok, but are they going to start prosecuting straw purchasers? #1 is yes. #2 is a good question. I don't see it in any of the article summaries. I'm going to check the bill for the definition.
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Deptfordx posted:Ah yes Smallpox. Famously harmless to populations encountering it for the first time. It was also really loving bad for Europeans throughout history, too. It was just less bad for them than it was for people of the Americas who had zero immunity.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:#1 is yes. Looks like the bill doesn't actually define a stockpile or put any limits on how many you can own. It is just limiting you to one purchased gun per month to "prevent stockpiling," but doesn't actually make it illegal to stockpile. Also, you can be exempt from the one gun per month rule in a few circumstances. quote:The bill exempts from this provision (i) persons who have been issued a certificate by the Department of State Police under certain circumstances and with an enhanced background check, (ii) law-enforcement agencies and officers, (iii) state and local correctional facilities, (iv) licensed private security companies, (v) persons who hold a valid Virginia concealed handgun permit, (vi) persons whose handgun has been stolen or irretrievably lost or who are trading in a handgun, (vii) purchases of handguns in a private sale, and (viii) purchases of antique firearms. This looks like it mostly just stops firearms stores from letting people bulk-buy and people from out of state bulk-buy.
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PeterCat posted:There is a reason that soldiers and police do roll around with 15 guns on their person. Obviously you're not looking at the right everyday carry lists.
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Apr 10, 2020 18:15
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Bravo on such a skillful performative piece illustrating the case of "Letting Perfect be the enemy of Good."
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1248660660382121984quote:Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and several of his neighbors — whose properties on the Gulf Coast of Florida have private beaches — have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a county government ordinance which temporarily closes all beaches.
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Apr 10, 2020 18:32
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Haha, eat poo poo, Huckabee. Dog killers.
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Apr 10, 2020 18:33
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"Non-concur" "Do not recommend waiving..." This is a very polite "gently caress off" from the DOD to DHS.
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Taerkar posted:Bravo on such a skillful performative piece illustrating the case of "Letting Perfect be the enemy of Good." it's the usual bait-and-switch 10 "we don't need draconian bans, we can do so much good with some common-sense reforms that barely even inconvenience gun owners" 20 "okay sounds good, we'll do exactly as you suggest" 30 "oh you're not going far enough, if you're not going to do a draconian ban then it's useless" GOTO 10
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its not even just because of the tentions. its because right now china is winning soft power "race" because trump refused to play. now we are playing catch up witht he only way the pentagon and the chuds know how. obviously other reasons too.
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I guess the Trump administration thought it might be a good idea to pivot to Asia...
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https://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/1248652973334335488 Sounds like a good proposal.
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I don't have a problem with UBCs, I just asked if they were going to increase prosecution of straw purchasers. Does this ban person to person sales? If I sell a pistol to someone, do I have to keep records? Is there a registry of some sort in Virginia? Because if the idea the required reporting of lost or stolen firearms is that if a gun that you supposedly own is used in a crime that you are liable for that gun's whereabouts, what is stopping you from claiming that you sold it in a person to person sale? Or, more Constitutionally, simply refusing to answer any questions regarding the firearm on 5th Amendment grounds? The law increasing the penalty for not securing a firearm around children sounds like a backdoor storage requirement, and would be more palatable if that's what it was. Not being able to bulk buy handguns is understandable and even reasonable as long guns are better for non-criminal uses of firearms.
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This closure of private beaches is lawful because landowners whose property is next to a beach don't actually own the beach, right?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOCgHePSzc its started.
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Apr 10, 2020 18:54
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"We're going to get Mexico, as the expression goes, over the barrel" trump. loving piece of poo poo idiot.
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The Bananana posted:"We're going to get Mexico, as the expression goes, over the barrel" trump. Yeah, how's it going getting them to pay for your dumbass wall?
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Gah, label these links, I saw a few frames of his face moving vote_no posted:This closure of private beaches is lawful because landowners whose property is next to a beach don't actually own the beach, right? Depends on local laws, but generally yes. A tech billionare lost a high-profile case like this in California and was ordered to stop blocking public access to "his" beach.
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Yeah for all the protest they spawned, the new VA gun laws are pretty mild, inoffensive and full of loopholes (and were from the start). But every bit helps and even just making gun purchasing slightly more inconvenient is a start to cutting down certain types of gun violence.
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The Bananana posted:"We're going to get Mexico, as the expression goes, over the barrel" trump.
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Wark Say posted:He just can't help sticking his toad-shaped nob in the hornet's nest, can he? I so badly wish there was a reporter there who would actually grill him on the wall BS or just his overall racist-rear end default stances. true but why. the chuds will just denie reality and the reporter will be screamed at for 10 min by trump and no one cares about the wall anymore. https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1248673934544973827 https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1248674272400285697 they are gonna gut WHO and trumps getting pissy. Edit. trumps gonna make this a looong one. he just they will have plenty of time for questions later since "everyone is off today". https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1248669526855749632 Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/Jim_Brunner/status/1248652973334335488
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1248637403893583872 The best propaganda is true.
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Any reason why China or some other coalition of countries won't step up and fill the WHO-funding vacuum? Seems like this is just pointlessly ceding soft power and opening the door for other nations to position themselves well.
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NecroBob posted:Any reason why China or some other coalition of countries won't step up and fill the WHO-funding vacuum? No, and that's an accurate assessment. American soft power is not profitable for Trump, also it involves people who aren't nice to him who he can't just get rid of, so out the window it goes.
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This won't matter because "things were different". Just like the breadlines on the expressway that got captioned as Bernie's America. But it's happening now under Trump. "Yeah, but that's different"
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The official death count from H1N1 was much lower than 12,000 or 17,000. Those are the CDC estimates, which try to factor in deaths that weren’t counted due to lack of testing. What are the odds that Trump and Republicans reject the CDC estimates that come out later for COVID-19? Because it will certainly be adjusted upward, not downward.
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