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US Politics for the month of September. We are now down to this being a glorified RSS feed since everything else got shunted off to its own thread. I came across a follow up to July's OP photo and just had to use it. Anyways... Big question for this month is how will Congress react to Obama's expected impending executive actions on climate change and immigration. If he puts them in place, there is already an undercurrent of opposition to a continuing resolution for the budget, which would trigger another shutdown a month before the election. Or they could just campaign against whatever he does. Or Obama could do nothing, to try and protect congressional Dems in tight races. Time will tell.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:39
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I will sell my vote for $72,999.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:40
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ReindeerF posted:I will sell my vote for $72,999. I'll do it for $72,998!
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Aug 30, 2014 16:44
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Calendar says it's still August. Impeach fried chicken.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:44
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Calendar says it's still August. On average, he's on time for the past two months.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:44
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/border-patrol-agent-fires-at-armed-militia-member Why not start with the Texas Border Patrol almost killing some moron playing soldier. quote:Border Patrol Spokesman Omar Zamora told the Associated Press that agents were pursuing a group of immigrants when one agent spotted a man holding a gun near the Rio Grande.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:46
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Calendar says it's still August. I think if these keeps up, he will issue an executive order, making the last few days of the month a prime slot for the next month's thread. The tyrant! Wait, does this make the regular posters members of Congress?
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Aug 30, 2014 16:47
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computer parts posted:On average, he's on time for the past two months. I don't know why you fried chicken supporters keep bringing up impeachment. I and my fellow poster may be opposed to his OPsidency but we don't want to impeach to him.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:48
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what no taupe joke? damnit fried chicken 
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Aug 30, 2014 16:48
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Sir Tonk posted:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/border-patrol-agent-fires-at-armed-militia-member
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Aug 30, 2014 16:49
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The budding American fascist movement almost had it's first casualty in the fight for liberty.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:52
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Sir Tonk posted:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/border-patrol-agent-fires-at-armed-militia-member I really dislike the existence of state militia since they exist in a bizarre nether region that makes me feel like they could be used to start a civil war. 
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Aug 30, 2014 16:56
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Damiya posted:what no taupe joke? damnit fried chicken Seriously, I was crushed by the title. I'm eager for September to start in earnest, this year's recess wasn't jam packed with townhall stupidity like I was hoping
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Aug 30, 2014 16:56
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Lawman 0 posted:I really dislike the existence of state militia since they exist in a bizarre nether region that makes me feel like they could be used to start a civil war. These aren't "state" militia as far as I know though? The ones going down to "secure the border" are some yahoos that don't belong to any level of the US government - or that's the impression I got, aside from Rick Perry calling upon the actual Texas National Guard.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:59
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ReindeerF posted:I will sell my vote for $72,999. Nintendo Kid posted:I'll do it for $72,998! I will charge campaigns $72,997 in legal fees and coincidentally endorse them.
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Aug 30, 2014 16:59
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Yeah, it's a bunch of idiots. I also would love to see their backgrounds pulled so I can keep crowing about my "THEY'RE NOT FROM loving TEXAS" thing.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:00
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Joementum posted:I will charge campaigns $72,997 in legal fees and coincidentally endorse them. $72,996! Do I hear $72,996?!?
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Aug 30, 2014 17:01
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Joementum posted:I will charge campaigns $72,997 in legal fees and coincidentally endorse them. Actual scenes from Jesse's reLOVEution compound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDSn6odVzs
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Aug 30, 2014 17:02
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Where is The Audacity of Taupe thread title? Impeach Fried Chicken!
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Aug 30, 2014 17:06
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Damiya posted:what no taupe joke? damnit fried chicken Why is Fried Chicken ignoring the will of the people? I think its about time we started considering impeachment!
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Aug 30, 2014 17:08
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StandardVC10 posted:These aren't "state" militia as far as I know though? The ones going down to "secure the border" are some yahoos that don't belong to any level of the US government - or that's the impression I got, aside from Rick Perry calling upon the actual Texas National Guard. The state militia is legally separated into two categories, organized and unorganized. In pretty much every state the organized militia is defined as the state's National Guard and whatever State Defense Force the state may or may not decide to have. The unorganized militia is all able bodied persons (or males depending on the state) between whatever age range the the state decides. The purpose of the unorganized militia is to be able to draft people in the case of some kind of emergency where the state would need to do that sort of thing, the unorganized militia isn't supposed to organize itself and go do stuff without orders from the state military establishment. tl;dr No they're not in the state militia.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:09
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Thread title sucks. Impeach fried chicken.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:09
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Now a lot of people are going around saying that posters want to "Impeach Fried Chicken", but this is a lie. We want nothing of the sort. All this impeachment talk is just part of a plan by Fried Chicken to get moderators to feel sympathetic towards him and entrench him even deeper as the perma-OP of the USPOL threads. For this reason, I, and my fellow posters, plan to file a lawsuit against Fried Chicken for illegally leveraging powers that do not belong to OPs, including his bad mis-management of thread titles and lack of up-to-date news and materials in the first post. I would like to stress, however, that this lawsuit is NOT an impeachment proceeding, because we have no intentions of that sort.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:16
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Evil Fluffy posted:Thread title sucks. Impeach fried chicken. I would have also accepted USPol Sept -- Peter King's natural enemy, a black in tan
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Aug 30, 2014 17:17
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By the way, the "taupe" pun dates all the way back to the Obama staff in 2007.quote:Even on their wedding day, politics was ever-present, but never an intrusion. [national press secretary for Senator Barack Obama] Mr. Burton, now 29, and his groomsmen wore tan summer suits. “The audacity of taupe,” he quipped, still on message.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:20
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If Obama signing executive orders causes the GOP to do another shutdown right before the elections, then I hope the Pres has plenty of ink.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:42
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FlamingLiberal posted:If Obama signing executive orders causes the GOP to do another shutdown right before the elections, then I hope the Pres has plenty of ink. If this happens I expect to see the GOP take voter disenfranchisement to a whole new level. What better excpet to shutdown voting locations in poor/minority areas than blame any such 'accidents' on a government shutdown?
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Aug 30, 2014 18:23
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Evil Fluffy posted:If this happens I expect to see the GOP take voter disenfranchisement to a whole new level. What better excpet to shutdown voting locations in poor/minority areas than blame any such 'accidents' on a government shutdown? Because white people don't like government shutdowns either, and voting locations are handled by the state governments.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:31
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Evil Fluffy posted:Thread title sucks. Impeach fried chicken. I'll bet he wears a tan suit too.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:37
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computer parts posted:Because white people don't like government shutdowns either, and voting locations are handled by the state governments. The only way the GOP could get any value out of shutting down the government in the middle of election season is if they could spin it that it was the Democrats who did it. Which, that didn't work so well last time, if I remember correctly. Anyone who wasn't already voting straight ticket R saw through the bullshit, with a few examples of hand wringing, "Well, why can't they get along, it's BOTH sides' fault!" Further evidence for impeachment.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:42
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I was 468 posts behind on the August thread. What did I miss? Other than taupe jokes.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:44
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Defenestration posted:I was 468 posts behind on the August thread. What did I miss? Other than taupe jokes. EDIT: Also, a man with dark skin wore complementary colors, which is apparently unheard of if you're President.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:46
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Gentlemen, surely we need to form a union to set a price-floor on minimum vote prices. Now, what you'll get is anything above a minimum amount that campaigns agree to pay, along with an annual dividend payment in proportion to the total members of your family who vote the way we want. As a guarantee for payments, we'll need you to snapchat a picture of your ballot to a verification algorithm's address. Campaigns: $200 per vote or $100,000 for our block of votes.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:50
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The DoJ is suing a Minnesota Town, in Keith Ellison's district, for unlawfully denying Muslim groups access to a town business center. It seems pretty open and shut, but expect the right to freak the gently caress out [url] http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/30/3477632/minnesota-town-islamic-center-lawsuit/[/url]
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Aug 30, 2014 18:51
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Fried Chicken posted:US Politics for the month of September. We are now down to this being a glorified RSS feed since everything else got shunted off to its own thread. Free Amergin!
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Aug 30, 2014 18:52
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My Imaginary GF posted:Gentlemen, surely we need to form a union to set a price-floor on minimum vote prices. Now, what you'll get is anything above a minimum amount that campaigns agree to pay, along with an annual dividend payment in proportion to the total members of your family who vote the way we want. As a guarantee for payments, we'll need you to snapchat a picture of your ballot to a verification algorithm's address. Collectivism is anti-american.
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Aug 30, 2014 18:54
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computer parts posted:On average, he's on time for the past two months. Which means he has horribly discriminated against August - starting its thread 6 days late, starting September's thread 2 days early. Fried Chicken is the real calendarist here. SavageBastard posted:Free Amergin! Wait, what? I thought that Amergin-only thread got killed? Jackson Taus fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Aug 30, 2014 |
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Aug 30, 2014 19:01
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SirKibbles posted:Collectivism is anti-american. Look at this scab, living at 123 North Fake Street. Sure would be bad if anything happened to this scab. Now, I'm not saying scabs deserve violence, that'd ve illegal, one shouldn't scab in a house with glass windows.
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Aug 30, 2014 19:04
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Jackson Taus posted:Which means he has horribly discriminated against August - starting its thread 6 days late, starting September's thread 2 days early. Fried Chicken is the real calendarist here. It might have I don't know. I do know that he provides some of the only real "debate & discussion" in these threads and why people get so mad about him is beyond me. A true troll does it just to get people worked up. Amergin does a pretty decent job at presenting an opposing view and I actually enjoy thinking about and reading how people respond. Without hat this just becomes another echo chamber steamrolling towards liberal fantasyland. Heaven forbid someone present some lovely viewpoints and people have to make a post that isn't pure reaction.
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Aug 30, 2014 19:13
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SavageBastard posted:It might have I don't know. I do know that he provides some of the only real "debate & discussion" in these threads and why people get so mad about him is beyond me. A true troll does it just to get people worked up. Amergin does a pretty decent job at presenting an opposing view and I actually enjoy thinking about and reading how people respond. Without hat this just becomes another echo chamber steamrolling towards liberal fantasyland. Heaven forbid someone present some lovely viewpoints and people have to make a post that isn't pure reaction. People keep throwing around echo chamber but it's really not most of the threads on SA have trended towards being more specialized,these threads used to be 100s of pages. It's really not an opposing view though very rarely did he post his actual positions and when he did it wasn't anything more than standard SA liberal so I'm not seeing how a liberal pretending to be conservative is stopping an echo chamber. If you wanted to do that you'd merge Gip and D&D.  My Imaginary GF posted:Look at this scab, living at 123 North Fake Street. Sure would be bad if anything happened to this scab. Now, I'm not saying scabs deserve violence, that'd ve illegal, one shouldn't scab in a house with glass windows. Good thing unions are on life support in this country or I'd actually be worried.
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