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Tiny Timbs posted:Somehow I will never forget how the intro to Hatchet has the dying pilot rip a massive fart before croaking Fart so hard he had a heart attack?
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McCarthy has flipped and is making with the happy talk too today. Main development is that it's now in the designated negotiator phase and everyone involved seems to love the negotiator picks. So it's primetime for Fetterman and others to make 14th amendment noises to not only push the deal left, but give an out of Republicans really want some unreasonable poo poo. I loving hate negotiations, but it really does seem great that Fetterman has recovered significantly. edit: https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1659243210030436352 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 18, 2023 |
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Crab Dad posted:Fart so hard he had a heart attack? What a way to go!
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For a party that really wants to be working people against elites they really hate Carhartt for some reason.
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facialimpediment posted:McCarthy has flipped and is making with the happy talk too today. I look forward to the day I can vote for this man.
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May 18, 2023 18:18
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Crab Dad posted:I look forward to the day I can vote for this man. And for all of Fetterman's stroke-induced auditory issues and past depression treatment, he's not even close to the sickest Democratic Senator: https://twitter.com/anniekarni/status/1659245303919267840 Ramsay Hunt syndrome (face is busted), encephalitis (brain swelling), and pre-existing memory issues made worse by all of that. quote:People close to her joke privately that perhaps when Ms. Feinstein is dead, she will start to consider resigning. Gonna Strom Thurmond her way out of office, yeesh. https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1659181109119184896
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May 18, 2023 19:00
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facialimpediment posted:Gonna Strom Thurmond her way out of office, yeesh. I hardly think she's gonna have an illegitimate mixed race kid at this point
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May 18, 2023 19:15
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Milo and POTUS posted:I hardly think she's gonna have an illegitimate mixed race kid at this point True but you could convince her that she did at this point.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I hardly think she's gonna have an illegitimate mixed race kid at this point Aside from the racism, segregationism, and Biden-buddyism, Thurmond is just the general political geek's example of a walking corpse in his last Senate years. Dude was absolutely, positively not functioning in the last years. Which is a strength of the Feinstein-defenders - the Senate has always hid the Senators that simply can't do the job anymore but can still get shuffled around to give a yea/nay.
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May 18, 2023 19:31
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May 18, 2023 21:36
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 Pictured. Feinstein voting down a federal minimum wage increase to $12.00 /hr. Circa 2027.
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May 18, 2023 21:44
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Crab Dad posted:Fart so hard he had a heart attack? I am scared of this exact scenario. Every. Single. Time. In other news the Titanic just arrived: https://apnews.com/article/titanic-wreck-3d-digital-scan-382bd3d1b8d18043e703e3bd80f7e118 quote:Deep-sea researchers have completed the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic, showing the entire wreck in unprecedented detail and clarity, the companies behind a new documentary on the wreck said Thursday. 
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May 18, 2023 21:45
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facialimpediment posted:And for all of Fetterman's stroke-induced auditory issues and past depression treatment, he's not even close to the sickest Democratic Senator: Straight up committing elder abuse just to put Pelosi's chosen candidate in a better position. The California Democratic political machine is well on its way to becoming as corrupt as Chicago's. I so resent that the only alternatives to being a Democrat are to be a member of the Christian nationalist neo-fascist party, the compromised tankie party, or the party of dudes who have strong objections to age of consent laws.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Straight up committing elder abuse just to put Pelosi's chosen candidate in a better position. The California Democratic political machine is well on its way to becoming as corrupt as Chicago's. you can always join the dark side and become a Disenfranchised Voter
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May 18, 2023 22:27
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Zamujasa posted:you can always join the dark side and become a Disenfranchised Voter My dude, I live in Washington DC, and used to live in California and New York. I'm certainly not a Enfranchised Voter now and my vote at the national level has never mattered ever since I registered to vote in 2002.
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I don't disagree with anything that's been said wrt to Feinstein remaining in office, but this certainly adds a wrinkle to things. McConnell has also said he won't allow a vote to replace her either. https://twitter.com/MC_of_A/status/1659208123922653186?s=20 Great system we have here!
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May 18, 2023 22:53
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May 18, 2023 22:57
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Sucks to be her but she's been a career politician all her life and this is the baggage that comes with that. Better keep that ticker pumping as long as there are federal judges to appoint.
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May 18, 2023 23:17
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Handsome Ralph posted:Great system we have here! Ah yes, we are once again checkmated via the Ginsberg Gambit. Funny how that keeps playing out!
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May 18, 2023 23:20
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How does the minority leader get to dictate who's on the committees?
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May 18, 2023 23:42
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Grip it and rip it posted:Sucks to be her but she's been a career politician all her life and this is the baggage that comes with that. Better keep that ticker pumping as long as there are federal judges to appoint. a new artificial heart, the Casemaker
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Handsome Ralph posted:I don't disagree with anything that's been said wrt to Feinstein remaining in office, but this certainly adds a wrinkle to things. McConnell has also said he won't allow a vote to replace her either. Isn't it just that Republicans can block a swap but if a seat opens because the Senator is gone, the Democrats can fill it with anyone they want because they are guaranteed x number of seats?
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Mustang posted:How does the minority leader get to dictate who's on the committees? From what I've read, to change the committees, you have a full Senate vote, which can then be filibustered. That's why Feinstein couldn't be switched out - Republicans wouldn't let her. Unclear on a quick search what happens when a Senator dies/resigns and how their committee slot is filled. I bet that would need some dumb poo poo like a reorganization measure since they're almost always done by unanimous consent.
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May 18, 2023 23:56
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Mustang posted:How does the minority leader get to dictate who's on the committees? IIRC the vote is up to the members of the Judiciary Committee, with Feinstein gone the vote would be tied, and the VP can't break ties for committee votes. It's spectacularly lovely behavior on behalf of the Republican members of the committee, but frankly what do you expect. E: or what facialimpediment said, either way it's a lovely situation with no good options that don't involve time travel. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 19, 2023 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:E: or what facialimpediment said, either way it's a lovely situation with no good options that don't involve time travel. Or looks at RBG’s legacy and steps down well before she went organic and thus allows for a safe replacement outside of an election cycle but there’s that kind of foresight that our entrenched gerontocracy can’t seem to wield without your aforementioned time travel.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:IIRC the vote is up to the members of the Judiciary Committee, with Feinstein gone the vote would be tied, and the VP can't break ties for committee votes. It's spectacularly lovely behavior on behalf of the Republican members of the committee, but frankly what do you expect. Why shouldn’t the republicans do all this poo poo, it clearly works
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Republicans deliver what their voters want. It’s a shame that they want other people to suffer.
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Mustang posted:How does the minority leader get to dictate who's on the committees?
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https://twitter.com/ruff_bluffs/status/1659249762099507201?s=20 Not great!
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We can all look at this and collectively come to the conclusion that she should have retired a while ago. But that’s also why none of us will ever be a Senator. Those people are a separate loving breed of human. Statewide elected officials with an immense amount of power at the federal level. The types of people who become Senators have a drive and a desire for power and status that is positively clinically insane. We got some weird states, and a total of 100 senators. Folks like Sanders, Feterman, Cheney, they’re outliers. Good ones, at that. But I digress.
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War Boi posted:We can all look at this and collectively come to the conclusion that she should have retired a while ago. Cheney wasn't a senator, and I wouldn't put her as a good one, as she was as red as they come except for calling Trump on one particular brand of his bullshit.
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This is such a disgrace watching them wheel her corpse around weekend at Bernie’s style
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Not to be insensitive of elder abuse but she always was an rear end in a top hat anyway. Should've retired years ago but as was said before, her only hobby was MORE POWER. MORE MONEY. MORE INFLUENCE.
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orange juche posted:Cheney wasn't a senator, and I wouldn't put her as a good one, as she was as red as they come except for calling Trump on one particular brand of his bullshit. I wouldn't put her as a "good one" but I would put her as an outlier - someone in Congress who put principle above re-election.
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Not great how in some states & districts they trend so far in one direction that elections are meaningless and they become lifetime appointments with zero accountability. Fundamentally the problems go far past Feinstein as it’s absurd a region ultra populous & with a colossal economy has half the senatorial delegation of the dakotas.
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Do you want the Golden Throne? Because this is how you get the Golden Throne. Soon enough, they'll have to make daily sacrifices of interns to keep her alive.
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War Boi posted:We can all look at this and collectively come to the conclusion that she should have retired a while ago. Actually Senators are just people, and being wheeled around by employees while you poo poo yourself at work isn't a particularly rare impulse for someone to have. Generally they're just told no , rather than being puppeteer about.
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