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Oh man, oh man, I'm waiting for some hot takes regarding Prince Harry about to marry a mixed-race American woman. Probably not from Trump, but I'm pretty sure his crowd like Nigel Farage aren't happy of a future with African blood on the throne.
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twice burned ice posted:I think Maggie Haberman should read this op-ed and remind herself why no one feels bad for the rich. How the gently caress is a belt $450
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Young Freud posted:Oh man, oh man, I'm waiting for some hot takes regarding Prince Harry about to marry a mixed-race American woman. Probably not from Trump, but I'm pretty sure his crowd like Nigel Farage aren't happy of a future with African blood on the throne. It probably helps that he's the spare
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Nov 27, 2017 18:25
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TheScott2K posted:How the gently caress is a belt $450 Same way any of that costs anywhere near what it does
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and they just let him take the office https://twitter.com/kaylatausche/status/935128990494359552?s=17
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Nov 27, 2017 18:27
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TheScott2K posted:How the gently caress is a belt $450 They have to price it high to recoup the costs of designing and making the belt, since they don't have many sales, since the belt is priced high.
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Nov 27, 2017 18:28
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:and they just let him take the office He's eventually gonna win, that fight is funny but quixotic. Unfortunately the President gets to appoint people to things. One way or another, eventually, unless we immanentize the eschaton, Trump's gonna win that fight.
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Prester Jane posted:That isn't even vaguely what that poster was saying and you are going well out of your to insult him as viciously as possible because something about his post made you feel insecure and you are lashing out. Yeah man, maybe don't use football playing as a reason your children deserve to score and maybe don't post about the disappointment you have about your children's failure to gently caress.
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Rinkles posted:what is she trying to say? Exactly what it looks like she's trying to say. Maggie is occasionally more tone-def than the Trump administration.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:and they just let him take the office The CFPB general counsel said he was the boss  As an underling, you may suspect Mulvaney wants to fire you, but being on the wrong side of a failed coup is a good way to have a target painted on your back. There will probably be a few holdouts, but if you want to fight the good fight, you can probably do more staying on the inside than getting fired for "cause".
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Prester Jane posted:Over in the GBS thread where we are discussing the history of SA there was a fascinating post made last night by a younger Goon (21 years old) that dovetails very nicely with exactly what you are noticing here. As somewhat of a shut-in who still happens to travel a bunch and interact with strangers and friends-of-friends thanks to people in my life pulling me along to places, I can’t really agree with this. Yeah, there are some social circles where people are lovely at any meaningful social interaction, but you have the opposite happening in many other places, too. I grew up and graduated from high school shortly before social media really started taking off and at the time my friends were mostly asocial nerds so I never really learned a lot of the fundamental aspects of socialization. Now my friends are mostly artists and everyone is constantly talking about goddamn everything, dating or sleeping around, and partying or working on their projects. Social media is more prevalent than ever in our lives but so is socialization irl. I look at some of the bizarre fringes of the internet nowadays (like the alt-right) and all I’m really seeing is people who willingly refuse to participate with the wider world because of their bizarre ideological positions. The internet hasn’t changed anything. People are just as stupid as they’ve always been
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:He's eventually gonna win, that fight is funny but quixotic. Unfortunately the President gets to appoint people to things. One way or another, eventually, unless we immanentize the eschaton, Trump's gonna win that fight. This. The CPFB is an part of the executive, and despite the trick language in the statute that allows the outgoing director to name a replacement, this will lose in a lawsuit. Don't expect career people to throw themselves under the bus to fight this.
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Why is the wife of the loving Treasury Secretary so high profile? Why, goddamnit? I'm not saying she can't be famous, but I question her presence, dressed to the nines, in so many photos of Mnuchin serving in an official capacity.
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Young Freud posted:Oh man, oh man, I'm waiting for some hot takes regarding Prince Harry about to marry a mixed-race American woman. Probably not from Trump, but I'm pretty sure his crowd like Nigel Farage aren't happy of a future with African blood on the throne. Jose posted:https://twitter.com/DMReporter/stat...r%3D201%23pti23 https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/935099098977439744
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Nov 27, 2017 18:35
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I had completely forgotten about this Trump quote: "I love all people -- rich or poor -- but in those particular positions, I just don't want a poor person, does that make sense? If you insist, I'll do it -- but I like it better this way." "Somebody said, 'Why'd you appoint rich person to be in charge of the economy. I said, 'Because that's the kind of thinking we want.'"
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Devor posted:The CFPB general counsel said he was the boss I would love to see literally every employee of every cabinet agency resign en masse in a general strike demanding Trump's impeachment, don't get me wrong Like, fighting mulvaney is the good fight but it's throwing yourself on a grenade when you know there's another six grenades in the air towards your bunker anyway
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Young Freud posted:Oh man, oh man, I'm waiting for some hot takes regarding Prince Harry about to marry a mixed-race American woman. Probably not from Trump, but I'm pretty sure his crowd like Nigel Farage aren't happy of a future with African blood on the throne. It's already starting with the fact that she's divorced. Clearly an unacceptable reality.
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Nov 27, 2017 18:36
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Rinkles posted:what is she trying to say? If I was being generous I would say that she's pointing out how absurd the whole 'The rich will just take their money and go elsewhere' threat is hollow. But I'm not going to be generous with her.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:and they just let him take the office This is why the guillotine was invented. That and the Mint fashion show up there.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Which means? Trump's in a
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Chilichimp posted:Why is the wife of the loving Treasury Secretary so high profile? Why, goddamnit? I'm not saying she can't be famous, but I question her presence, dressed to the nines, in so many photos of Mnuchin serving in an official capacity. Rich men like to show off their trophies?
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Chilichimp posted:Why is the wife of the loving Treasury Secretary so high profile? Why, goddamnit? I'm not saying she can't be famous, but I question her presence in so many photos of Mnuchin serving in an official capacity. Because she's pretty and morons still cling to the idea of royalty while pretending they don't.
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Chilichimp posted:Why is the wife of the loving Treasury Secretary so high profile? Why, goddamnit? I'm not saying she can't be famous, but I question her presence, dressed to the nines, in so many photos of Mnuchin serving in an official capacity. Because Donald Trump is president.
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Can someone please explain to me what the gently caress is going on? We're doing that thing where there where two popes who just kept excommunicating each other, but it's a government organization I've never heard of, and one of them wants to be the head so he can destroy it?
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TheScott2K posted:How the gently caress is a belt $450 I have no idea. I'm not the thriftiest person in the world, but even if I had buckets of money, I don't think I could bring myself to pay $450 for a belt. I was once shopping for shoes and saw this ordinary pair of black boots that were $400. I don't know why they cost that much; there was nothing remarkable about them. And I'm sorry, if I'm going to pay $400 for a pair of shoes, they had better massage my feet, light up, and play music while I wear them.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:A kid deserving to have scored by now because he's a football man and a dad feeling shame that he hasn't is like a situation out of an incel rage comic. When I lived in Nottingham, I lived just off the street where all the prostitutes hung out waiting to get picked up. At the time I was working in a casino, so I'd be walking home down that street at weird times of the late night and very early morning, so I'd see them all very regularly. Most of them were not attractive women, many of them had track marks from their considerable drug habits, many were victims of domestic abuse or sexual violence and were often covered in bruises. Most of them were older ladies who were on the street because they weren't getting any business from anywhere else. Anyhow, there was a story in the local paper about a dude who decided to get his 14 year old son the chance to lose his virginity with one of these dubious delights as a birthday present. Being a generous and loving father (but not generous enough to pay for a better class of escort), he rolls up with his kid in the back of the car next to the prettiest and least necrotic one. Who was obviously an undercover policewoman running a sting operation. That's my story about dads who are bad at dealing with their children's sexuality.
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it's pretty cool that the royal family will have blood in it from someone of African descent IMO
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Guy Goodbody posted:Can someone please explain to me what the gently caress is going on? We're doing that thing where there where two popes who just kept excommunicating each other, but it's a government organization I've never heard of, and one of them wants to be the head so he can destroy it? Close enough. Listen to this if you want to hear the former director explain it himself.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Can someone please explain to me what the gently caress is going on? We're doing that thing where there where two popes who just kept excommunicating each other, but it's a government organization I've never heard of, and one of them wants to be the head so he can destroy it? Essentially. You should really be familiar with the CFPB though. It's a good agency that Republicans have been desperate to neuter/kill because they're terrified of it, despite really not having much power, because Republicans wouldn't allow that.
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theflyingorc posted:it's pretty cool that the royal family will have blood in it from someone of African descent IMO It is not in any way cool that the royal family has survived this long
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She must be insane... Who the hell would voluntarily choose that life?
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mcmagic posted:She must be insane... Who the hell would voluntarily choose that life? You wouldn't marry a prince?
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The CFPB is Elizabeth Warren's brainchild and it was written to be hard as possible to gently caress with by a hostile president. Most of it's excutive independence was lost in a court case iirc, but its bylaws state an outgoing director can name their replacement. Hence the fight over which director is the real one.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Can someone please explain to me what the gently caress is going on? We're doing that thing where there where two popes who just kept excommunicating each other, but it's a government organization I've never heard of, and one of them wants to be the head so he can destroy it? CFFB is the government office Elizabeth Warren created to regulate the financial industry and protect consumers. It's basicallly One Weird Trick Republicans Hate: The Government Agency. The prior Obama-appointed director just resigned because that's what you do when Trump is your boss, there's a rule that says when the director resigns his deputy becomes acting director, there's also a rule that says presidents can appoint directors though so Trump appointed a guy who's stated position is "CFFB should not exist" to head the CFFB. Basically imagine if this were a 1980's kids movie, the nun who runs the local orphanage just retired, her assistant nun still wants to run the place, but the landlord wants the place shut down and the assistant nun isn't on the lease. Except, in this scenario, the nuns are Elizabeth Warren, the landlord is Trump, and the orphans are non-millionaire americans.
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"We didn't vote Brexit for THIS" is easily my favorite.
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Hijinks Ensue posted:I was once shopping for shoes and saw this ordinary pair of black boots that were $400. I don't know why they cost that much; there was nothing remarkable about them. And I'm sorry, if I'm going to pay $400 for a pair of shoes, they had better massage my feet, light up, and play music while I wear them. Lifestyle creep is a real thing. I used to get $16 Costco tennis shoes and just wear those everywhere, and I thought that paying $100 for "nice" shoes was dumb. Now I wear normal boring-rear end leather shoes that cost $100 and have gotten used to that.
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I like that we still all collectively pretend that Harry is actually related to his father and not the bastard son of Diana's bodyguard that the royal family was forced to accept for fear of scandal. Or whatever.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:You wouldn't marry a prince? gently caress no. That life must be hell on earth.
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