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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Who is this Twitter guy? I'm just a rando on Twitter and he has me blocked.  he's retweeting a (very funny) business insider article
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Dec 5, 2020 02:58
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socialsecurity posted:What legislation went through the house from the senate during this time period that shouldn't of? There's the military funding bill that Trump is threatening to veto
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Dec 5, 2020 03:06
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Who is this Twitter guy? I'm just a rando on Twitter and he has me blocked. It's obviously a very important person based on the description "Movie live-tweeter"! Maybe you've been tweeting out too many movie spoilers 
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Dec 5, 2020 03:07
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Kalit posted:It's obviously a very important person based on the description "Movie live-tweeter"! Maybe you've been tweeting out too many movie spoilers All I can think of is maybe I follow someone they blocked all the followers of? I uh mostly retweet stuff and tweet with others about Seattle weather and how much I love it. It did make me feel briefly special to be blocked by someone 
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Dec 5, 2020 03:10
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Who is this Twitter guy? I'm just a rando on Twitter and he has me blocked. Probably just a twitter guy, the source for the "scoop" is in the story but the source themselves is actually just a "key player in Democratic Chicago politics" and the precise quote also throws in the passive voice: "I don't think the transition is answering his calls," so who knows.
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Dec 5, 2020 03:24
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Does anyone have the Obama book quote about the black guy mouthing off with enough testosterone to piss of any cop? It was shared here this week but I can’t find the link or tweet now.
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Dec 5, 2020 03:25
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Bottom Liner posted:Does anyone have the Obama book quote about the black guy mouthing off with enough testosterone to piss of any cop? It was shared here this week but I can’t find the link or tweet now. It was more like Gates could probably get any cop's testosterone going but I can't find where it was quoted
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Dec 5, 2020 03:35
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Bottom Liner posted:Does anyone have the Obama book quote about the black guy mouthing off with enough testosterone to piss of any cop? It was shared here this week but I can’t find the link or tweet now. https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1333874806228480003?s=19 This one?
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Dec 5, 2020 03:41
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Didn't Obama get in trouble because he said that the cops acted stupidly in that incident, leading to the lame as gently caress beer summit?
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Dec 5, 2020 03:42
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Grondoth posted:I know this isn't a thread for anxiety posting, but what in the world is Trump doing stuffing the DoD with legal guys? This one is a particularly obvious and easily corrected example of it, but the Biden transition team is actively on the lookout for Trump hires trying to burrow in at agencies and screw things up.
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Dec 5, 2020 03:44
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ponzicar posted:Didn't Obama get in trouble because he said that the cops acted stupidly in that incident, leading to the lame as gently caress beer summit? yes like most Obama things he started off with some solid words, taking a fairly measured stance of 'we don't know what happened fully yet, maybe the cop acted stupidly' and then when the right wingers got all 'OH MY GOD HE SAID A COP WAS STUPID?????' he instantly sprinted to the right and made his friend have a beer with the racist who hosed with him. That really should have been the wise up moment for a lot of us (me included), what a disgusting display of cowardice that got him nothing at all.
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Dec 5, 2020 03:53
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ponzicar posted:Didn't Obama get in trouble because he said that the cops acted stupidly in that incident, leading to the lame as gently caress beer summit? Yep . And he and Gates are friends.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:07
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Dec 5, 2020 04:09
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When you think the jackboot MIGHT have been in the wrong, but that boot just looks so tasty you gotta lick it anyway. Never meet your heroes, I guess. What a loving wasteland that guy has transformed himself into.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:11
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Obama's latest autobiography is incredibly impressive. It might be the most thorough piece of self-inflicted character assassination put to paper.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:19
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Neurolimal posted:Obama's latest autobiography is incredibly impressive. It might be the most thorough piece of self-inflicted character assassination put to paper.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:20
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What I have mostly seen is people who likes, didn't like, and had specific issues with Obama, finding that this book satisfies exactly their preconceptions regardless of what they were going in.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:25
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Neurolimal posted:Obama's latest autobiography is incredibly impressive. It might be the most thorough piece of self-inflicted character assassination put to paper. He should've done himself a favor and gotten a ghostwriter to blame any of the poorly received bits on instead of being publicly petty about Michele's book. Sarcastr0 posted:Dunno about that. What I see is that people on both sides of the aisle that already hated Obama sure do hate him more after this book came out. I've seen a lot of people who otherwise revere Obama start to have serious reservations about their assessment of him, and I think it's because all of this stuff is straight from the horse's mouth. It's not like Republicans are out here slagging him unfairly.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:25
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It hasn't been appreciated enough (certainly not by me) just what a huge piece of treasonous garbage Michael Flynn is. Just what an absolute disgrace.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:35
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sexpig by night posted:yes like most Obama things he started off with some solid words, taking a fairly measured stance of 'we don't know what happened fully yet, maybe the cop acted stupidly' and then when the right wingers got all 'OH MY GOD HE SAID A COP WAS STUPID?????' he instantly sprinted to the right and made his friend have a beer with the racist who hosed with him. The fact that we have to live in fear of putting a foot wrong and having the right pounce all over any opportunity to paint all left-leaners as anarchist mad bombers, knowing that all they have to do is slam the HE SAID THING button and half the country will erupt in slavering wrath, while if we point out right-wingers' obvious everyday hypocrisy or moral depravity or racism or bloodlust it's just a big yawn, and Literally Donald Trump can be President and turn the entire government into a giant personal vanity fundraiser and we line up to donate our last covid pennies to his cause ... it's really depressing how high the deck is stacked.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:36
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1334890209771663363?s=20 Didn't Fauci recently advocate schools opening? Genuine question.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:48
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^^^Yes, speaking of 'stop giving in', unsurprisingly after doing that the dipshit chud crowd's reaction was 'OH SO YOU ADMIT YOU LIED AND WE SHOULD HAVE ALL DONE WHAT RAND PAUL WANTED'Data Graham posted:The fact that we have to live in fear of putting a foot wrong and having the right pounce all over any opportunity to paint all left-leaners as anarchist mad bombers, knowing that all they have to do is slam the HE SAID THING button and half the country will erupt in slavering wrath, while if we point out right-wingers' obvious everyday hypocrisy or moral depravity or racism or bloodlust it's just a big yawn, and Literally Donald Trump can be President and turn the entire government into a giant personal vanity fundraiser and we line up to donate our last covid pennies to his cause ... it's really depressing how high the deck is stacked. and the only way this will stop is if we just actually support progressives and stop caring what the right wingers will do. Obama should have been the prime example of that. He did loving NOTHING radical and got portrayed as not just a radical but an active enemy of america. But no, here we go with Joe who was outright regressive for most of his career but now suddenly he's the love child if Castro and Mao, almost as if the right doesn't care who gets picked and just uses the same playbook!
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Dec 5, 2020 04:52
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Neurolimal posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1334890209771663363?s=20 I think he said it should be a last resort if closing everything else doesn't curb the hospitalization numbers.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:54
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Don't forget the followup, in which the cop is a "thoughtful, decent man" while the black man is merely "on his best behavior". https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1333877185141149701
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Dec 5, 2020 04:54
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imagine being a girl Obama was friends with in college and reading about how he wanted nothing but to gently caress them, or Gates and reading about how Obama functionally just believes the racist rear end cop who tried to arrest him for being black and in a nice part of town. Like, genuinely what a creepy little dude he turned out to be.
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Dec 5, 2020 04:58
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Neurolimal posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1334890209771663363?s=20 AFAIK it was in relation to having bars/restaurants open. It sounded like a dig to NY/Cuomo, here's an article about it: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-fauci-close-bars-school-instruction-coronavirus-infections-health-2020-11
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Neurolimal posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1334890209771663363?s=20 K-2 only. Closed is causing harm especially to that age group of kids much more than older kids. Opening would cause harm too. Whole thing is a poo poo show. When they’re closed, a thing that is happening is that parents pod up and gather unmasked in groups. It’s kind-of a damned if you do or don’t situation.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:01
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InsertPotPun posted:i don't think the problem is "slogans not accurate or catchy enough" i think it's the people who think politics is screaming louder and missing the point the most. Except a lot of people who actually agree with you are also missing the point. The person that posted right after you explained it pretty well. The fact that 98% of us loving agree with the message but are still arguing about it might be telling if one were capable of getting over themselves for a moment and actually listen to what some folks (who agree with you) are actually trying to say. This shouldn't really be that hard and it's not about "crafting a slogan". TO me it's about choosing the right words. I think there's a difference.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:11
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Neurolimal posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1334890209771663363?s=20 Prioritizing schools over, uh, bars is a no brainer. In a sane society, everything would be closed and we’d be paid to stay home. He knows this isn’t a sane society.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:22
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Sarcastr0 posted:Dunno about that. What I see is that people on both sides of the aisle that already hated Obama sure do hate him more after this book came out. I was honestly neutral, leaning on positive for him. Yeah he was hsit on so much but he was halfway decent compared to anyone else in the White House in recent years (besides Bill but I feel again he was less 'good' and simply more 'not openly evil'). Now I'm just sitting there in awe at myself for respecting a man who's head was so far up his rear end in a top hat he did a lap and is wrapped up inside himself like a spiral.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:24
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SirPablo posted:You're probably being facetious but to say that a government with two million civil service employees has "not done a thing" to help people because congress can't pass bills is ridiculous. Okay let's assume those 2 million paper pushers all decide they want the scores of millions of unemployed Americans to get relief to the tune of 1200 a month. They have joined together JRPG style in a dread circle and cast their dread spell. They chant to the oncoming meteor "1200 1200 1200 per per per" in the confidence that when it impacts, everything will Just Be Okay. How does it happen? How does their apparent will toward this end make it actually happen?
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BiggerBoat posted:The person that posted right after you explained it pretty well. The fact that 98% of us loving agree with the message but are still arguing about it might be telling if one were capable of getting over themselves for a moment and actually listen to what some folks (who agree with you) are actually trying to say. I'd argue that the reason we agree but are arguing is that while everyone in the thread might agree on defunding the police, some posters also take democrats at face value (despite them 100% not wanting to defund the police, at all, ever, in any circumstance, in any way or form that will harm police paychecks) when they gaslight about how Defund the Police is simply bad messaging about what they really want, which is to reform the police (by giving them more money). So you have one group who wants to defund the police, and one group who wants to defund the police who have been cajoled into thinking that the fact that DTP isn't yet majority-popular is a reason to compromise its messaging and goal. For the record, DTP has steadily risen in support. If it was cratering maybe one could see the wish to workshop it, but it's held steady at 28-34% despite actively malicious attacks from both parties. A third of americans for a six month old policy is a pretty good bedrock of support for a radical policy that's half a year old.
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Alkydere posted:I was honestly neutral, leaning on positive for him. Yeah he was hsit on so much but he was halfway decent compared to anyone else in the White House in recent years (besides Bill but I feel again he was less 'good' and simply more 'not openly evil'). TBH, I look at it as relative to others in his position. Obama's an rear end in a top hat, but not any worse than any other president in my lifetime (i.e. since Reagan)  In fact, I would argue better? Bill Clinton was definitely worse than Obama.E: I'm not trying to say you should feel positive for him. But I think trying to think of him as one of the worse people alive without thinking about the context of his polictical position is unproductive as well. Kalit fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Dec 5, 2020 |
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VitalSigns posted:There's the military funding bill that Trump is threatening to veto Now why would anybody assume the House Dems would see anything right now as important enough to hold up critical legislation? Better to just pass it through quietly and let our apologists explain why it was the only possible option in the whole universe of possibilities and if you're homeless as a result it's because you're a piece of poo poo and gently caress you (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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pthighs posted:As a narcissist, how could he not run? He's had a taste of being the person who gets more attention that anyone in the US, and probably the world, for the last 5 years. How could he ever let that go?
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A reminder of where BLM was in 2016 and today. Defund the Police is where BLM was at three years into its existence, six months into its existence. And that's with democrats seizing every possible chance to take a fat steaming poo poo on the concept. Biden increased opposition to a fracking ban 10+ points in a single debate. These numbers are not set in stone, institutional support is a huge factor. 30% is extremely good for a policy opposed by both parties, in its infancy.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:35
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LeeMajors posted:Prioritizing schools over, uh, bars is a no brainer. In a sane society, everything would be closed and we’d be paid to stay home. He knows this isn’t a sane society. Schools don't make money. And as long as the restaurants are open, the staff can't take care of their children. So they go to daycare. And get sick.
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Dec 5, 2020 05:44
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Sarcastr0 posted:Would you like to explain more, or just gonna : They could try for a bailout bill that doesn’t include a liability shield and has another round of stimulus checks. But it’s easier to lay the blame on one party than it is to accept the culpability of Andrew Cuomo, Eric Garcetti, and Democrats across the country.
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