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If this is the thing that gets Devos to resign I will lose it.
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There’s a lot of blaming Russia for everything in the air and it deserves some pushback. Maddow in particular is a high profile example and done some really dumb stuff in her going down the Russia rabbit hole. In the case of the mueller report, we need to actually see what’s in it because, even ignoring any evidence or convictions so far, the source of our current report is about as biased as it gets and saying “STOP WORRYING ABOUT COLLUSION ITS OVER” is very dumb. We know Trump is like the personification of fraud at this point. There’s no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s also lazy as gently caress so the idea that there isn’t a smoking gun with his fingerprints all over it connecting him to anything and everything is not implausible either. Regardless, we should, again, not trust the attorney general who has clearly demonstrated and said that he’s going to cover up the poo poo out of this merf
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skylined! posted:Ben Shapiro is melting down on Twitter because an article in the economist labeled him as alt right. It is pretty funny. Also he’s a loving fascist.
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Grand Rapids is an interesting place to be tonight as the Orange One graces us with his presence. The giant inflatable Trump baby is already on the streets and the giant American flag they have up in VanAndel arena has... yep, twelve stripes instead of 13. It's been weird to see the grifters come to town selling MAGA garbage on street corners.
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Confounding Factor posted:Barr directly quoted Mueller in his statement: "the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference." Mueller's words, not Barr's. You'd think if Barr were misrepresenting Mueller, Mueller might have something to say about that. That's the guy you've hanged your conspiracy theory on, whom you exalted into some sort of folk hero, for whom you held "hands off Mueller" demos, getting all hard about his military career and how he was going to take Trump to the woodshed. Just accept that you played yourself and move on. Can't directly quote something you haven't actually read William
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Coelacanthian posted:Grand Rapids is an interesting place to be I'm too scared to go to the west side of the state as-is; today would be nightmarish.
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Coelacanthian posted:Grand Rapids is an interesting place to be tonight as the Orange One graces us with his presence. The giant inflatable Trump baby is already on the streets and the giant American flag they have up in VanAndel arena has... yep, twelve stripes instead of 13. It's been weird to see the grifters come to town selling MAGA garbage on street corners. Ugh, I didn't even realize he was here. Guess I'm staying out in the burbs today.
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it's missing the other half of the quote https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1111364119091912705
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Party Plane Jones posted:it's missing the other half of the quote Just a stupid question, but doesn't congress decide if this gets funded or not?
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Ugato posted:There’s a lot of blaming Russia for everything in the air and it deserves some pushback. Maddow in particular is a high profile example and done some really dumb stuff in her going down the Russia rabbit hole. I don't watch Maddow. What did she blame on Russia or report that was wrong/proven false? I get that she's devoted a crazy amount of time to it and there's arguments either way whether it was warranted (or a ratings grab), but what arguments are there against the content of her reporting?
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Mar 28, 2019 21:49
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Darko posted:I'm too scared to go to the west side of the state as-is; today would be nightmarish. It's weird, there's a big liberal community in Grand Rapids proper but all the white-flighters and Hollanders are streaming in from the burbs. Those of us not going to the rather large protest are hunkering down and drinking through the shame.
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When was the last time Congress even passed a budget as opposed to a CR? This was all a stupid piece of performative cruelty that wouldn't have gone anywhere even under a Republican congress.
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Spun Dog posted:Just a stupid question, but doesn't congress decide if this gets funded or not? yeah, it was going to be done. Trump is trying to claim credit for overruling Devos before the house overrules Devos.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:When was the last time Congress even passed a budget as opposed to a CR? This was all a stupid piece of performative cruelty that wouldn't have gone anywhere even under a Republican congress. IIRC Special Olympics defunding was in the last two budget proposals as well. So no a Republican congress didn’t pass it.
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Spun Dog posted:Just a stupid question, but doesn't congress decide if this gets funded or not? congratulations, you officially understand more about this than trump does
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Darko posted:I'm too scared to go to the west side of the state as-is; today would be nightmarish. I make it a rule to not enter the coast of Rapture 2; DeVosLand
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Uncle Wemus posted:Itll still be cut anyway. It was never going to get cut, even the Congressional Republicans weren't stupid enough to put that in a budget and the Democrats are in charge of appropriations now so his budget is nothing more than attack ad fodder which is what makes the move so perplexing. Kind of like their decision to not defend the ACA. It makes no sense which is why even Republicans are asking "WTF are they thinking" best case Roberts does as expected and reaffirms that the ACA is constitutional, worst case it does get overturned and we go into an election with a healthcare system in chaos and the Democrats already have a ruling from the SCOTUS (in the original AVA challenge) that says that single payer would totally be Constitutional so you can bet your last dollar that MFA would be the second bill shoved through congress and to the new President's desk. That's what's so crazy about what they are doing, there's exactly zero political upside to what he's doing. Hell even his base will crumble once they lose their frigging health insurance. I mean I think that if they could pass those things they would, because I believe that the Right's answer to climate change is to reduce the number of people significantly which is an answer to climate change it's just so loving unbelievably evil that no one would ever admit out loud that that is what they are doing. Which still makes it really weird that they are doing it so openly.
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Don't let normalization keep you from realizing how loving racist this is.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:When was the last time Congress even passed a budget as opposed to a CR? This was all a stupid piece of performative cruelty that wouldn't have gone anywhere even under a Republican congress. No, this is Republicans + Bureaucracy coming together to have unintended consequences When they proposed getting rid of Meals on Wheels, they didn't realize what they'd done, either. Every department just turned in huge cuts because that's what makes Trump happy, DeVos probably told an underling to get the budget down to X dollars and then that person found what they could
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Nothing in Trump's budget is anything but a value statement. The budget will be written in the house and senate, and they'll get together to hammer out something eventually, then Trump will stomp his feet and either sign it or not.
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Edmund Lava posted:IIRC Special Olympics defunding was in the last two budget proposals as well. So no a Republican congress didn’t pass it. The Trump theory of politics is that pissing off the libs and having a friendly judiciary is enough to win elections, and is even more important than setting actual policy. This week has been a pretty stark example of that. theflyingorc posted:No, this is Republicans + Bureaucracy coming together to have unintended consequences I would argue that extreme budget cuts are performative cruelty, even if the bureaucrats put on blindfolds while they swing their machetes.
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fake news, ponce de Leon took care of more Puerto Ricans
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Coelacanthian posted:the giant American flag they have up in VanAndel arena has... yep, twelve stripes instead of 13. What's this now?
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1111370017734561793 https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1111373353091125264 Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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I've come all the way around to just loving this man's Martian use of superlatives and syntactic construction. Like this is a perfect example of it, but also let's not forget the phone-call transcript with his quote " I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country." Dude should have been 25thed for that sentence alone
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've come all the way around to just loving this man's Martian use of superlatives and syntactic construction. Like this is a perfect example of it, but also let's not forget the phone-call transcript with his quote " I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country." Dude should have been 25thed for that sentence alone I'm genuinely worried that he's done lasting damage to the grammatical structure of political discourse in this country (and to my own). Sad!
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Skex posted:No Barr says that he directly quoted Mueller in his statement, a quote that was taken out of of context (a thing we know because at least one of the quotes starts from the middle of a sentence. quote:I also note that you are ignoring the part where it says that it did not exonerate the President either. quote:Also I barely trust Mueller either, I have a little bit of hope that he's not completely corrupt based on how he ran the investigation which had way too many convictions and pleas to be a cover-up. quote:Finally we're talking about William I covered up Iran/Contra Barr I'm not taking his loving word on anything and anyone who does is a Fash or a Fash sympathizer.
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I love when trump speaks in headlines because it always works.
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This is a really dumb loving question, but what the gently caress is even the given reason for him having a rally right now? There aren't any elections for months. Does Bigly boy just really need attention this week? Like try loving doing something besides rallies and golf you stupid worthless fat gently caress
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Confounding Factor posted:When Mueller comes out and says, "Barr misrepresented me," you might have a point. Right now it's pure desperation. Why put yourself through this torture any longer? Why would a lawyer quote two half sentences in a legal document as evidence of something? What reason would he have to leave out the first half?
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TulliusCicero posted:This is a really dumb loving question, but what the gently caress is even the given reason for him having a rally right now? There aren't any elections for months. Does Bigly boy just really need attention this week? He's been having rallies since January 2017 
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