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Surprise! https://twitter.com/CraigDMauger/status/1707212452893475270?t=hGKqdHSf0uVE_Lp652a0PQ&s=19 And this is from the Detroit News, the right-leaning paper. The Detroit Free Press doesn't have anything like that up yet.
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facialimpediment posted:Surprise! I was reading an article from another source the other day which basically had a UAW head saying, "LOL no, he wasn't" in response to Trump saying he was Union friendly when he was president.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1706985063747830018?t=HSSdSlQByUm-VIyvA7u05w&s=19 
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lightpole posted:I turned on the republican debate and I only have regrets. Hillary offers more inspiration than anyone on stage. Is it me or is Vivek more obviously on crack than most candidates? "I'm spewing lunacy and I'm REVVED UP about all of it all the time!"
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Sep 28, 2023 14:41
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is it me or is Vivek more obviously on crack than most candidates? Here's a quick version of Vivek's past from college classmate Pablo Torre (longer version on his channel): https://youtube.com/shorts/o7P835lu-vM?si=056hN_oUX2z_41HO Vivek has apparently been That Guy since at least college and he's a total loving weirdo. Once Pablo mentioned that Vivek would raise his hand all the time in Harvard classes, in the shape of a V, everything else slid into place for me. He may/may not believe any of this poo poo in the debate and through this primary, the Rule of Goats applies and gently caress that guy.
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Sep 28, 2023 14:58
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is it me or is Vivek more obviously on crack than most candidates? It should be clear to anyone that has read the 36 lessons.
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Milo and POTUS posted:...like spock?  this actually kinda hurts my hand, but I can't do the spock thing either but if you've been in college, you know this fucker as the GODDAMNIT SHUT THE gently caress UP JESUS CHRIST guy
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Sep 28, 2023 15:16
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It's funny how the other candidates absolutely hate his guts.
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hobbesmaster posted:It should be clear to anyone that has read the 36 lessons. You're giving the GOP field too much credit, most of them don't have the attention span for anything longer than 14 words.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:You're giving the GOP field too much credit, most of them don't have the attention span for anything longer than 14 words. heyoooo
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pantslesswithwolves posted:You're giving the GOP field too much credit, most of them don't have the attention span for anything longer than 14 words. See, I'd ballpark it more in the 14-88 word range.
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I bought and read the book by Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough, on a whim. One of the books funnier running themes is Matt Gaetz appearing every now and then and always being portrayed as an absolute loving looser.quote:We hung out at Kevin’s (McCarthy) for a while, drinking quite a bit before people drifted off to their quarters. A few of us were left when, at one o’clock or so, Dan Crenshaw, who had lost an eye in Afghanistan, brought out a display case of variously designed glass eyes he always carried with him, and began popping in one after another and asking us which we liked best.
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So, practically guaranteed a shutdown now. House Republicans are just poo poo-flinging chimpanzees wordlessly screeching at each other. They're putting more effort in to impeachment sound bites for Fox to broadcast than they are keeping the lights on. I'm putting 30 days in the betting pool. They have no plan and a large portion of the house Republicans want there to be no plan. Dismantling the government is their goal, not something to be avoided. The majority is so slim that I feel the true MAGA believers will never accept a deal and are just totally OK letting the mother fucker burn, and that there's enough of them to ensure there is never a Republican plan. The way I see things shaking out is the hardcore fundamentalists will never agree to a deal and McCarthy is going to have to work with dems, which will be signing his and more than a few other representatives political death warrants. They'll do everything possible to never, ever do that. Until poo poo gets bad, and the money starts to hurt, nothing happens. The money is going to have to start yanking leashes so hard there's no choice left and it's going to take a good, long while to get to that point.
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Yeah the fact that a number of them are against what would typically be uncontoversial topics like "fight Russia" and "disaster relief for your constituents" means this is probably going to be a long one.
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Add a budget to the things I feel should be considered under the purview of national security. Just like transportation and utility infrastructure. E: also I can't help but feel some of the GOP are taking cash from russia to do this kind of poo poo. Pine Cone Jones fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Sep 28, 2023 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is it me or is Vivek more obviously on crack than most candidates? I didn't bother to listen more than like 20 min. It was all either a straight up dodge on anything remotely hard, something completely insane, or straight up hypocrisy. You would get better flavor eating a plate of cardboard bullshit.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Add a budget to the things I feel should be considered under the purview of national security. Just like transportation and utility infrastructure. Considering a senior senator was just caught taking bribes from Egypt, guessing significant numbers are on the take for embarrassingly small amounts from unexpected countries. Wonder how much routine corruption would vanish if Congressional salaries were raised to $2 million annually. Would be trivial in the budget but would cut out so much. For the shutdown, yeah guessing a few weeks minimum. Kinda wish shutdowns meant air travel grounded & social security checks don’t go out to create screaming pressure for our awful leaders to get it together or be immediately replaced.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:E: also I can't help but feel some of the GOP are taking cash from russia to do this kind of poo poo.
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Friends, I would like to notify you that we are quickly approaching Fat Bear Week.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Friends, I would like to notify you that we are quickly approaching Fat Bear Week. This is an important current event. I swear my wife rolls her eyes so much during Fat Bear Week.
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Sep 28, 2023 17:56
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wonder how much routine corruption would vanish if Congressional salaries were raised to $2 million annually. Would be trivial in the budget but would cut out so much. That's one of the funny things about money: you can never have enough.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Considering a senior senator was just caught taking bribes from Egypt, guessing significant numbers are on the take for embarrassingly small amounts from unexpected countries. Wonder how much routine corruption would vanish if Congressional salaries were raised to $2 million annually. Would be trivial in the budget but would cut out so much. Because as we all know, the sort of person to become a corrupt congressman has an amount of money considered “enough.”
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https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1707180720870072405?t=p-RTQHQPhLFlnmbFMQh3Fw&s=19quote:This unit was created to identify threats from foreign and domestic sources by "posting or sharing content that may suppress participation, mislead people about when, where, and how to participate in a civic process, or lead to offline violence during an election."
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If there's no factual argument, is playing the ref a bad strategy? Every time Chutkan (resonably) slaps down a motion like this that's more ammo for trump friendly media. When the case on its merits is a foregone conclusion and sentencing is life or exoneration, what are the consequences of getting a judge angry? Mentioned this in passing yesterday, but now here's a tangible thing: https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1707436683229077645?t=eL1amcEFT6nIwAWRbxoQ6A&s=19 The lawyers filed a "judge, we think you're biased, recuse pls" motion, which failed, and are now asking for a trial date delay. Meanwhile, the Special Counsel is arguing for some type of gag order, with one potential option being a speedup of the trial to limit Donnie's piehole yappings. You'd probably want to be the party that didn't just accuse the judge of being biased. And note - I don't think ref-working is really a thing when it comes to federal judges. They're as permanent as permanent can be and don't need to keep sources happy like reporters.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Considering a senior senator was just caught taking bribes from Egypt, guessing significant numbers are on the take for embarrassingly small amounts from unexpected countries. Wonder how much routine corruption would vanish if Congressional salaries were raised to $2 million annually. Would be trivial in the budget but would cut out so much. While fair compensation is an important part of managing corruption, at some point, well before $2kk, it loses its incentivizing power. They are stealing just to steal, not because they need to.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Considering a senior senator was just caught taking bribes from Egypt, guessing significant numbers are on the take for embarrassingly small amounts from unexpected countries. Wonder how much routine corruption would vanish if Congressional salaries were raised to $2 million annually. Would be trivial in the budget but would cut out so much. It would not stop the corruption
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I expect a long shutdown. It isn't resolvablen until McCarthy becomes willing to rely on Democratic votes for his speakership.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I expect a long shutdown. It isn't resolvable until McCarthy becomes willing to rely on Democratic votes for his speakership. My brain keeps telling me that there are some paths out of it (Senate CR including border funding), but Republicans in the House are so hosed up that they can't even impeach Biden right: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1707435275973001464?t=IZCLACGytl_Ygq00yMAbBQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/MZanona/status/1707434463674671558?t=iWRrSYmaW90jYQmKkb46LQ&s=19 So the house GOP doesn't even know what they're mad at and how to be mad about it. It may be trying to unfuck the unfuckupable.
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Rip Gambon
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Friends, I would like to notify you that we are quickly approaching Fat Bear Week. The voting for the Cubs starts today! https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
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ASAPI posted:This is an important current event. Sounds like a 747 front runner  E: We should probably start the thread sooner than later but I'm not going to get to it until probably Sunday morning.
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facialimpediment posted:Mentioned this in passing yesterday, but now here's a tangible thing: It seems to me as John Q. Dumbass, with no legal experience and only largely relying on those of you itt for updates, that the only way to hold Trump's feet to the fire is to move the trial up, as nothing else is going to get through; he'll just appeal to the ends of the earth to stall in the hopes of his bigly genius plan of "Win, Pardon (even though I did nothing wrong), Profit" comes to fruition. e- https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1707414904699789371 
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Sounds like a 747 front runner 806's cub put on some serious weight.
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facialimpediment posted:My brain keeps telling me that there are some paths out of it (Senate CR including border funding), but Republicans in the House are so hosed up that they can't even impeach Biden right: The fact that this a very competitive political party in this country is just utterly stupefying. Jesus loving christ. Millions upon millions of ignorant white people just crawling all over themselves to vote for some of the dumbest people to ever exist. I wonder how this period in American history will be covered in the history books.
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Mustang posted:The fact that this a very competitive political party in this country is just utterly stupefying. Jesus loving christ. Idiots, Birchers, and Know-Nothings have been a thing in America since forever. I think what's new is information access - we now have access to nearly unlimited information for researching political positions that are the most factually correct. And we've basically decided gently caress all that noise, I only want to hear what I want to hear. And gently caress you for making me read too!
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Stultus Maximus posted:Because as we all know, the sort of person to become a corrupt congressman has an amount of money considered “enough.” It won't stop the corruption elementals, of which there are too many in our system already. But Singapore is an extremely strong argument that high salaries for legislators and high ministers will prevent many young politicians from transforming into corruption elementals, as well as preventing much of the minor graft from "normal" politicians.
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Singapore's might've taken a couple more steps than just pay to arrive at that, if I recall
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Friends, I would like to notify you that we are quickly approaching Fat Bear Week. Welp https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1707459431410147422
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