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mastershakeman posted:i've seen people who are pretty savvy about the politics guessing game point out how easy it is to do dc/pr statehood, how it solves a lot of things long term, etc etc and that's why it + salt cap will be the only thing to get done It was part of the bait and switch. Thats the tactic and it worked because consumers were created and voted. Citizens don't exist any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-statehood-bowser/2021/01/07/91eeacae-511d-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:20 |
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Flavius Aetass posted:lol SOS is the state dish up there or what? explains a lot DC- half smoke VA- ham MD- crabs PA- cheesesteak NY- pizza Jersey- chicken savoy Delaware.... .... ... SOS
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:22 |
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:Biden said DC should be a state, but it's one of those things that absolutely requires the abolition of the filibuster, and oh shucks would you look at that Access to statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:24 |
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I'm unfamiliar with half smoke and chicken savoy
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:24 |
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mastershakeman posted:i've seen people who are pretty savvy about the politics guessing game point out how easy it is to do dc/pr statehood, how it solves a lot of things long term, etc etc and that's why it + salt cap will be the only thing to get done oh yeah it's easy and would be good but it was never going to happen lol
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:24 |
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Not exactly the actions of a democrat but: https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1363500207250436097?s=19 Holy loving poo poo some Texans had their rate change to $9 a kWh overnight, and most of them have electric heat instead of gas furnaces. What a prime opportunity for the democrat party to make gains in Texas by doing direct payments of utility bills, or nationalizing utilities, or drone striking the boards of current utilities. Let's see what they end up doing!
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Yinlock posted:comedy option: neera is getting knifed because the biden team completely believed their own bullshit about her being a fig leaf to the left, and as a leftist superstar she must be stopped I want this to be true so badly
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:28 |
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BitcoinRockefeller posted:Not exactly the actions of a democrat but: they'll pressure ERCOT to hire Ella Emhoff
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:29 |
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mastershakeman posted:i've seen people who are pretty savvy about the politics guessing game point out how easy it is to do dc/pr statehood, how it solves a lot of things long term, etc etc and that's why it + salt cap will be the only thing to get done It's not easy at all. Admitting one new state, much less two, disrupts the power structure in DC and every single Republican and Republican-appointee will rightly see it as a direct threat to their influence and fight it to the death.
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Killin_Like_Bronson posted:Nobody told mcmagic to shut the gently caress up all weekend. Come on. It's his cute cat av, people want to see it
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Nothus posted:It's not easy at all. Admitting one new state, much less two, disrupts the power structure in DC and every single Republican and Republican-appointee will rightly see it as a direct threat to their influence and fight it to the death. PR will very likely be a republican state
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:34 |
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Flavius Aetass posted:I'm unfamiliar with half smoke and chicken savoy DC, my hometown, half smoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TxuMP74Rnc chicken savoy sucks, but you know Jersey
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:35 |
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mastershakeman posted:i've seen people who are pretty savvy about the politics guessing game point out how easy it is to do dc/pr statehood, how it solves a lot of things long term, etc etc and that's why it + salt cap will be the only thing to get done Lol, anyone who seriously thought the dems would do statehood for dc/pr is a bigger rube than Qanon weirdos expecting trump to drop in from a helicopter and arrest biden at the inauguration sting operation. The more power the democrats have, the harder it is to pretend they're powerless.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:38 |
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BitcoinRockefeller posted:Not exactly the actions of a democrat but: You know who has a lot of experience sitting on boards of energy companies? Hunter Biden
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Grapplejack posted:PR will very likely be a republican state I'd say possibly rather than likely - to add to this it is hard to overstate how fundamentally baked in "the US federal government hosed us over and will always gently caress us over" is to PR politics. They don't really fall into a clean division so it's hard to predict who they end up bringing to the Senate
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:42 |
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:I'd say possibly rather than likely - to add to this it is hard to overstate how fundamentally baked in "the US federal government hosed us over and will always gently caress us over" is to PR politics. They don't really fall into a clean division so it's hard to predict who they end up bringing to the Senate abortion, gays, religious freedom. they are very socially conservative. and their elite and political structure would make romney blush.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:49 |
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MysteriousStranger posted:DC, my hometown, half smoke
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Nothus posted:https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1363804276666081286?s=20 lol for at least five years all these people have been saying that rude tweets by supporters of a particular candidate were disqualifying for office
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:51 |
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i don't know why that chili looks so watery but a half smoke looks good anyway. mustard on a chili dog is always tasty.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:51 |
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Flavius Aetass posted:i don't know why that chili looks so watery but a half smoke looks good anyway. mustard on a chili dog is always tasty. when I was a kid we used to have burgs with chili and slaw and mustard and they were very good. I think it's a regional thing in NC
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:55 |
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1363835937239699458 digging how democrats are just celebrities now and the idea that they could do good things by exercising their control of the government instead of raising money for charity is just crazy talk
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:55 |
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lol the US is a failed state
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:57 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:You know who has a lot of experience sitting on boards of energy companies? Hunter Biden "Let them eat cake" is replaced as the go-to example of ruling class indifference with "c'mon man," which Joe Biden say in response to hunter, getting paid 100k a month on ERCOT's board, getting arrested for DUI while driving around Houston hosed up on lean with Chamillionaire and some strippers.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:57 |
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1363662291376373761 the parliamentarian isnt actually listening to the arguments or even reading them shes just tossing them in the trash can but as far as the intellectual rigor goes were doing great
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 15:58 |
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The Unnamed One posted:
You should vote for a Republican over Andrew Cuomo.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:00 |
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i think i posted this in the wrong thread before https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1363652346354499593?s=20
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:00 |
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1363549049303932931 tired: space force is dumb and we should get rid of it wired: space force is a national treasure and how dare trump take it away from a blue state
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:02 |
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fits my needs posted:i think i posted this in the wrong thread before lmao I mean some people can't handle the fact htat no one in government gives a poo poo about you so why not build a mythology to explain it
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:02 |
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what exactly was ted cruz supposed to be able to do about the power outages, again? wasn't ercot specifically designed to evade federal regulation? adler leaving for cabo when the pandemic was roaring seems worse honestly
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:06 |
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fits my needs posted:i think i posted this in the wrong thread before QAnon is closer to the truth than whatever centrists believe.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:07 |
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smellsownfarts posted:One thing that constantly gets forgotten is that Bush II tried in some respects to shift the republican party away from the open embrace of racism that typifies the current republican party and drove the realignment. Bush II tried to tamp down (to a limited degree) open embrace of anti-muslim bias as a republican party plank This was not a policy thing - it had no impact on the war on terror - it was part of the "compassionate conservatism" rebranding. On a more policy level, the Bush II admin was in favor of immigration reform, as was (at the time) a reasonably sized bloc of elected republicans. Both things made it so that if you were a racist old white voter, the republican party was not advertising itself to you as The Party Of Racism. McCain's campaign continued that.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:09 |
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stellers bae posted:what exactly was ted cruz supposed to be able to do about the power outages, again? not leave yes, if you get right down to it even the President doesn't necessarily improve the response or the situation just by being physically present in a disaster area, but that's what's expected of you
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:10 |
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Stringent posted:Yeah, I don't wanna sound /too/ optimistic, but the hell we're in was the making of a gop senator and administration. The gop is now returning to obama-era obstructionism (trying to pin the dem gov'ts slow pace and ineffectiveness on the dem party) l. That obstructionism is delaying relief, but can't do so indefinitely. We started so far down that there's a lot of room to go up. There's certainly room to go further down, but the night and day differences between the gop and dem governments (and their approaches) leads me to think things will be getting noticably better for most people in short order. And the gop is splitting a bit, with the more misanthropic side seeming to have the advantage in the base, and a stalemate within the leadership. as an anarchist, i agree op.
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:11 |
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Flavius Aetass posted:i don't know why that chili looks so watery but a half smoke looks good anyway. mustard on a chili dog is always tasty. chili is pretty good as well, it's not hot by any stretch of the imagination though it's an odd ball but the locals love it. half smokes are VERY good. IIRC costco now carries the halfsmokes from Ben's (at least in the DC area cause local dish)
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:12 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:not leave oh ok that's what I thought then I assume you can link footage of biden in texas?
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:14 |
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in theory theres lots of stuff congress could do but nobody wants to discuss that because the senate being on break and no one having any interest in calling it back into session is the entire reason cruz left in the first place
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:16 |
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https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1363869640544378880?s=20
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# ? Feb 22, 2021 16:18 |
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a thousand mean tweets
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stellers bae posted:oh ok that's what I thought then https://twitter.com/daniraestar/status/1363500506178551809 https://twitter.com/Photocrazy1/status/1363589416099344385 https://twitter.com/thefrogpryncess/status/1362924043398168577 if we're going to say that it's hypocritical for Cruz to be slammed for leaving Texas when Biden hasn't visited either, and the libs are making all sorts of excuses for Biden, or ignoring the issue completely, I'm right there with you, agreeing
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1363549049303932931 libs have been poised to reclaim space force for a while. Netflix whipped up a whole show about how space force is actually awesome and the only problem was orange man bad, complete with Steve carell and John malkovich talking down to an AOC stand-in who thinks maybe we should feed people with that money instead https://youtu.be/vRGgi6RXXQs
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