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https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1709920365248442661 That's strange, I thought being indicted by the Feds only improved your primary chances.
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This loving sucks. From “not another foot” to this: Washington CNN — The Biden administration will waive 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register Wednesday, citing “high illegal entry.” https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-administration-border-wall/index.html Of course, we’d been promised this wouldn’t happen: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899266045/biden-would-end-border-wall-construction-but-wont-tear-down-trump-s-additions It does feel like we’re going to have our own American debate over leaving refugees to drown in the Mediterranean but before too long here “drowning in the Mediterranean” will look like being shot from turrets along the border, hell maybe within a decade. Climate refugees aren’t going to just slow down or go away. What’s the longterm Dem strategy? Just hope everybody sees “build the wall” as quaint liberalism in a few years?
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selec posted:This loving sucks. That'd be a lot of turrets to man.
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There hasn't been a long term strategy in US government this millennium and we're not gonna break that streak now.
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RBA Starblade posted:That'd be a lot of turrets to man. Just have an AI do it
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KillHour posted:Just have an AI do it Elon Musk probably having some Thiel ghoul whip up a PowerPoint for this. It’s in the pipe, I’d lay a finn on it.
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RBA Starblade posted:That'd be a lot of turrets to man. jobs program!
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selec posted:Elon Musk probably having some Thiel ghoul whip up a PowerPoint for this. It’s in the pipe, I’d lay a finn on it. This might work out in our favor if it's Musknet, the turrets might just detect and kill each other instead and the Cybersupplytrucks would simply overheat and have their batteries catch fire in the desert sun.
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KillHour posted:Just have an AI do it No need, they'll charge chuds 100$/ hr to shoot the guns. Hell, you'd probably have people lining up to do it for free.
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selec posted:It does feel like we’re going to have our own American debate over leaving refugees to drown in the Mediterranean but before too long here “drowning in the Mediterranean” will look like being shot from turrets along the border, hell maybe within a decade. Climate refugees aren’t going to just slow down or go away. What’s the longterm Dem strategy? Just hope everybody sees “build the wall” as quaint liberalism in a few years? The current Dem strategy is to hope that the electorate continues to not care about immigration issues all that much, or at least not much compared to other issues.
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Queering Wheel posted:The current Dem strategy is to hope that the electorate continues to not care about immigration issues all that much, or at least not much compared to other issues. They're going to run primarily on Orange Man Bad for as long as Trump draws breath. And once he dies, it'll be "This person is Trump 2.0, democracy is on the ballot" until the heat death of the universe.
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selec posted:This loving sucks. Joe “Build the Wall!” Biden, ladies and gentlemen. 2020 really was the death of people pretending to care about the rights of migrants.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Current Senator, and former House member, Markwayne Mullen claims that when he was in the House that Matt Gaetz used to show everyone pictures on his phone of young women he had slept with and bragged that he ground up viagra and mixed it with energy drinks to have sex all night. The wildest thing is "Markwayne"
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Re: Matt Gaetz, his best buddy was my former county tax collector, who was also doing a bunch of similarly shady poo poo. I’ve honestly lost track of Joel Greenberg’s many crimes. However, my favorite moment had to be when he had a crypto mining operation set up in the back of a government office and the mining rig caught on fire
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Chasing Blue Chew with Bang Energy drinks sounds like the lamest drug orgy ever, so it's very fitting for Gaetz and that's why I believe it 100%.
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https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1709945932689899557 Couldn't even win the Green Party nom, very sad. Daou got Chotinered the other day he's clearly just another grifter
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1709945932689899557 What about that quote makes it seem like he couldn't win the Green Party's nomination to you? And considering how much people claim the Green party is full or charlatans it's probably good he's not running on their ticket, no?
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ummel posted:Chasing Blue Chew with Bang Energy drinks sounds like the lamest drug orgy ever, so it's very fitting for Gaetz and that's why I believe it 100%. Half these people twice his age are doing blow off russian prostitutes on some lobbyist’s yacht during vacation, and Matt here is bragging about how he needs boner pills and monster ultra zero
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Judgy Fucker posted:What about that quote makes it seem like he couldn't win the Green Party's nomination to you? zoux fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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RBA Starblade posted:That'd be a lot of turrets to man. When I was working for MSPs one of the sites we hosted was a company that took paraplegics and quadriplegics hunting, by way of streaming the gunsight and having a servo pull the trigger when a key was pressed. They'll sell tickets to let people man the walls remotely, my dude.
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zoux posted:I suppose it's true that he may think he can defraud more people of their money as an independent, so I shouldn't have jumped to that conclusion. Why do you think he wants to defraud people?
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Judgy Fucker posted:Why do you think he wants to defraud people? Well... he doesn't seem stupid or insane... he doesn't seem to want to spoil a D win for the R... what's the 4th option beyond "wants to get that money"?
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Surely there are more lucrative things that Dr. West could do than run as an independent candidate for President. As you say, he’s pretty smart. What if he just wants to be President?
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Judgy Fucker posted:Surely there are more lucrative things that Dr. West could do than run as an independent candidate for President. As you say, he’s pretty smart. What if he just wants to be President? Well, like I said, he's not stupid, and would know that he cannot win the presidency without an (R) or (D) by his name right now.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1709920365248442661 That only works for MAGA candidates who the whole reason they get voted for is cause they're massive idiot shitheads that'll "own the libs" and the establishment GOP guys like McCarthy or McConnell.
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He should have tried to run as a Democrat and if they told him no, he should have listened.
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Judgy Fucker posted:Why do you think he wants to defraud people? Because he's a charlatan with a half million dollars in unpaid child support and unpaid back taxes. Kale posted:That only works for MAGA candidates who the whole reason they get voted for is cause they're massive idiot shitheads that'll "own the libs" and the establishment GOP guys like McCarthy or McConnell. You know what would really own the libs https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1709964465771258017 
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Running for President as an independent is not really a good way to make money unless you have a book coming out or you manage to parlay that fame into something more lucrative. He already makes a significant amount of money. Granted, he has some large debts, but that isn't due to an income problem. I doubt Cornell West is doing running for President specifically to make money. Running for President is a good way to get free air travel to campaign events and free food, but not a great way to increase your personal checking account.
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selec posted:It does feel like we’re going to have our own American debate over leaving refugees to drown in the Mediterranean but before too long here “drowning in the Mediterranean” will look like being shot from turrets along the border, hell maybe within a decade. Climate refugees aren’t going to just slow down or go away. What’s the longterm Dem strategy? Just hope everybody sees “build the wall” as quaint liberalism in a few years? The long-term Dem strategy is to pass major reforms of the immigration system, and heavily invest in the parts of the system designed to let people in rather than keep them out. There's no telling when (or if) the Dems will ever have enough votes to do that, though. There's also the problem that the US electorate generally doesn't feel all that strongly about positively reforming immigration, but the "build the wall" folks are extremely dedicated by comparison.
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zoux posted:Because he's a charlatan with a half million dollars in unpaid child support and unpaid back taxes. Using this logic, one could only assume Biden wants to be President so as to more easily rape more women. Or at the very least, sniff more little girls’ hair. Unpaid taxes and child support is crummy but as far as Presidential candidates go those are pretty tame sins.
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Objectively Cornel West and the Green Party would make a much better effort together then apart, unless there's some other vaguely credible candidate waiting in the wings. I'm guessing this, much like RFK Jr. abandoning the Democratic primary is just the effective end of the campaign even if the candidates themselves don't know it yet.
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Judgy Fucker posted:Using this logic, one could only assume Biden wants to be President so as to more easily rape more women. Or at the very least, sniff more little girls’ hair. This comparison only makes sense if you imagine political donors are donating little girls to sniff. If they aren't, and it is money that they are donating, then money is indeed a potential motivating factor.
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Why don't you offer a different possible motivation for him running first as a Green and then as an Independent then, with the priors, again, being that he is not insane and not an idiot. That isn't the behaviour of someone who "wants to be president" and meets those priors, so it has to be something else. Being a charlatan or grifter is the standard something, the folks running for pure ego tend to do it as one of the main parties. So why would he be running? Defaulting to the standard assumption seems reasonable if no other plausible alternative exists.
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Judgy Fucker posted:Surely there are more lucrative things that Dr. West could do than run as an independent candidate for President. As you say, he’s pretty smart. What if he just wants to be President? There are more lucrative things that anyone could be doing instead of inevitably failing as a politician, but alas, they still do it, and still make money off of it.
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zoux posted:Because he's a charlatan with a half million dollars in unpaid child support and unpaid back taxes. Yeah, he's a politician, but if he hasn't raped anybody or built The Wall, he's still ahead of Trump or Biden.
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GlyphGryph posted:Why don't you offer a different possible motivation for him running first as a Green and then as an Independent then, with the priors, again, being that he is not insane and not an idiot. In fact, running as an independent rather than seeking the Green party nomination is hindering, not helping, his chances for office. The greens are on the ballots in 21 states (I think). That's why I assumed he couldn't win the nom, because you wouldn't leave to run as an Ind.
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There are at least four relevant documents in the border wall thing. The first is of course the DHS secretary announcement that got people talking. Back to that in a second. The second is a Biden presidential instruction from the first weeks of his presidency basically boiling down to "state of emergency dumb, using other funds for border wall dumb, we won't be doing that". The third is the 2019 appropriations one whose existence probably should be better mentioned in these articles. (specifically Div. A, Title II, sec. various above 231. hooray omnibus appropriations) which in turn makes reference to 2018 appropriations, so this is turning into a bit of a rabbit hole If i'm reading this and sigh the repeatedly amended IRIRA correctly, this is a "shall" situation not a "may" situation. In fairness, CNN reported Mayorkas saying the same thing. quote:Construction of the wall will be paid for through a 2019 appropriations bill that funneled money specifically to a “border barrier” in the Rio Grande Valley, and according to Mayorkas, “DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose.” I'm less clear on whether the waivers are functionally mandated. My gut would say no. Mayorkas has been more willing to listen to shitheads in CBP/ICE on some issues than I'd prefer and this seems like it would be a perfect time to, well, not do those waivers and let things just drag along. If someone wants to sue about this interfering with the "expeditious" clause, they can do that. Otoh the "high illegal entry" bit isn't mayorkas repeating cbp whining, it's part of the congressional instruction for where to build the required barriers. as far as the "oho candidate biden said he'd never build any border wall" well i guess maybe he should have had a more encyclopedic knowledge of existing appropriations bills edited some because a few of my sentences got away from me Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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Judgy Fucker posted:Dr. West Dr. Jill Biden
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