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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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Remember 2 years back when (former) House Majority Leader Cantor responded to Labor Day by tweeting about how the true heroes are the rich "job creators"? Well the right has come up with a new way to protest the existance of Labor Day - workingquote:Right wing launches misguided protest against Labor Day
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Aug 31, 2014 00:23
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McDowell posted:Something I read/heard about Ferguson was that alot of the residents can't afford cars so the looting and store closures were preventing people from getting staples. No? Ferguson is solidly middle class. Plenty of people there have cars and there was never an issue with access to staples. On fact the concern about cars was the reverse - the rich white suburb a 15 minute drive away was freaking the gently caress out that their imagined horde of looters would drive over to their neighborhood. And man, y'all make impeachment jokes for a month and a half, tan suit jokes for an hour, and I'm supposed to go with the latter? Screw this, I'm going golfing
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Aug 31, 2014 06:44
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Communocracy posted:Also I haven't seen this come up in the thread yet: Nothing like starting the day feeling sick to my stomach about seeing 1st amendment rights trampled and the officer cleared even with video evidence of him in the wrong.
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Sep 2, 2014 13:54
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Police arrest black political candidate for distributing literature on voting rights If this poo poo was happening in a movie we'd roll our eyes at how heavy handed it was trying to get across its "establishment are the bad guys" message
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Sep 2, 2014 17:33
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I don't know how to get the address of a vine embedded in a tweet clear of the tweet itself on my phone ap, so I'll just link the tweet itself. Have some Fox News stupidity. https://twitter.com/africasacountry/status/506901444877099008
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Sep 2, 2014 21:32
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Prester John posted:To me this is somewhat worrisome because this level of disconnect is eventually going to cause their followers to react very very badly when their version of reality keeps getting rejected by the public at large. I could honestly see a Tea Party type losing an election and honestly refusing to concede and his followers honestly becoming violent. You mean like in Mississippi? I don't think there has been any direct physical violence yet, but there has been a ton of threats, intimidation and abuse, and one suicide.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:32
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Republicans on the west wing are probably the most poorly/hilariously portrayed group. Always fiendish enough to get in the way but never tougher than cardboard except when they get a minor victory to set up a bigger democrat victory later. In one of Sorkin's interviews he pointed out that the Republicans consistently won policy victories on the show while Bartlet and the Dems won the "culture war" victories. Like getting Bartlet to appoint an arch conservative to the SCOTUS. And never mind comparing the fictional Republicans of the West Wing to the current crop we really deal with. SirKibbles posted:The civil rights act is pointless using this thought process. The whole system is built on the fact that everyone is equal more opportunities to show that either it is not living up to that bullshit or actually getting people things they need is not bad. They do think the CRA is useless under that thought process though? Worse than pointless actually, they think it infringes on the rights of private citizens to discriminate and object to the legal idea of protected classes.
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Sep 3, 2014 13:18
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Charles C Johnson, who has been claiming Michael Brown was convicted of 2nd degree murder as a juvenile, is now suing the state of Missouri to disclose Michael Brown's juvenile record. Note that there is no indication at this time that Michael Brown even had a juvenile record. And even if he did, it has no bearing on him being shot in the back for jaywalking. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/lawsuits-seek-any-michael-brown-juvenile-records Guess he got bored paying people to lie in Mississippi
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Sep 3, 2014 15:12
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After a brief flirtation with the reality of the limits of American power and the necessity of viewing foreign policy in light of national interests rather than an ideological crusade, Republicans are back to being full on hawks http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/02/after-flirting-with-doves-the-gop-returns-to-the-hawks/ Probably does not bode well for Rand Paul's presidential ambitions. He does have to get through the primary after all
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Sep 3, 2014 16:00
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HootTheOwl posted:I thought he was shot in the front (six times)? I haven't been diligently following the story for about a week and a half, but my understanding is it is ambiguous. There were 11 shots fired, a cluster of 5 and a cluster of 6. The police now admit Wilson fired at Brown as Brown ran away. Now whether the hits were from behind when he was running, after he stopped and turned, or both, is unclear from the wound placement. Hits to the underside of the arm could be when he was running, when he turned to surrender with hands up, or both. Either way they killed an unarmed kid for jaywalking
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Sep 3, 2014 16:23
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:The Web 2.0 thing was already addressed but housing prices shot back up quite a bit with out a corresponding increase in wages while most jobs added since the recession officially ended have been minimum wage types. In the sort of non-recovery for the non-rich housing prices should've at least stayed stagnant if not continued to fall a while longer and not gone up at all. A bigger concern with housing is that most of the measures that stopped the foreclosure blitz expire in January. So we are going to see a huge uptick in foreclosures again And the web 2.0 points didn't come close to covering the most egregious valuations of the "app economy". That is such an obvious bubble I have to wonder how many are really just scams to embezzle money and dodge taxes. Never mind AirBnB, how is Yo! worth 10 million? It makes me wonder about things like Twitter, which hasn't turned a profit but as we've seen has a lot of social value (great for getting information out from the ground and mobilizing the voice of communities). Bubble pops, then what? Hopefully someone will develop a version that can last as freeware that doesn't need the central infrastructure, like what pirate bay has done with their stuff.
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Sep 4, 2014 12:51
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Gozinbulx posted:So is there some commonly understood reason why Holder in resigning? He announced he would be doing it this year back in February, right around when he was put in the hospital for a bit. So probably health, but the GOP is going to go nuts patting themselves on the back anyways
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Sep 25, 2014 16:55
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I'm 65 pages behind, as my evenings and weekends have mainly consisted of having VAN and cutting walk maps on one screen and WoW or Netflix on the other, did I miss anything or is it mainly Amergin trolling?
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Sep 25, 2014 16:57
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Zeitgueist posted:Agreed. You both are forgetting failure to investigate and prosecute Bush torturers
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Sep 25, 2014 18:54
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So did anyone post about Hillary's letter to Saul Alinsky? I saw some twitter comments mocking the freak out but I didn't see any news reports from reputable sites when I googled it
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Sep 25, 2014 19:38
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radical meme posted:Oh God drat it! And it had to be a black man; couldn't have been a mentally unstable white guy, gently caress no. I find a bit of perverse pleasure* that we haven't had a mass shooter since Elliot Rodgers. His manifesto was so loving pathetic that even the would be Adam Lanzas, James Holmes, Seung-Hui Chos and Steven Kazmierczaks of the world don't want anything to do with him or what he did. * you know, in addition to genuine relief that we've managed to go a few months where we've been limited to spates of general gun violence rather than another massacre
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Sep 26, 2014 19:28
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Shear Modulus posted:Wait, so they basically hired Taibbi and said he was going to publish awesome Taibbi stuff on his sweet Taibbi site then changed their minds to make it a lovely aggregator or something? That sucks. Yeah, First Look has really been rolling back in scope. Initially they were pitching to launch 8 online news magazines. Then after months of silence it was 2. Then 1. Then an Andrew Sullivan style of links and fast takes. Now it's just... It
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Sep 26, 2014 19:37
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My Imaginary GF posted:Burris, Quinn, Rauner: Pick 2. Burris and Rauner. Rauner will be tangentially related to something one of his businesses did, Burris for standard corruption
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Sep 27, 2014 16:55
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My Imaginary GF posted:Unfortunately, the Supreme Court disagrees. I do wonder, would it be illegal for a city to put in place a tax upom transfer of gun ownership and requirement to register with fee payment with the police precinct in which a gun is being held? Say, just compensaion for officer's time in using for using a (lowest of low-bid and purposefully designed worse than healthcare.gov) registration database. That would be prior restraint, and is banned for very good reasons
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Sep 30, 2014 12:00
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InequalityGodzilla posted:Let's play everyone's favorite game: If you want the biggest example of white privilege out there, here it is. John Crawford gets killed by the police for calmly carrying an air gun he just bought to his car in an open carry state, but a white kid toting guns at the Aurora movie theater becomes a YouTube hero when police praise him for demonstrating for gun rights, and a [URL= http://www.wsmv.com/story/26573535/gun-rights-advocate-demonstrates-outside-metro-school]white man with loaded AR-15 and bullet proof vest can go to a school and have the cops shrug it off[/URL] Its almost like profiling is applied in one case but not the other two...
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Sep 30, 2014 12:08
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Grouchio posted:Vote Iron Lady 2016! I've got an OP, suggest your titles
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Oct 1, 2014 15:12
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Tender Bender posted:Much like Sandy Hook the right is doing the exact opposite of the reasonable response. In this case instead of "We need to improve healthcare" it's "If someone is sick they should be abandoned to die." On that note some nutter called in a bomb threat there today. I'd put money in it being a Sandy Hook Truther that did it
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Oct 1, 2014 18:48
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In good news, Michael Dunn was just found guilty of first degree murder for the death of Jordan Davis in his retrial. For those of you who don't recall, 17 year old Jordan was in the back seat of a SUV that parked next to 45 year old Dunn at a gas station. Dunn ordered the teens to turn their music down, when they didn't Dunn screamed "You can't talk to me like that" and drew a 9mm pistol, firing 10 shots at the SUV as it drove off. 3 struck Davis in the liver and lungs, killing him as he drowned on his own blood. Dunn then resumed waiting for his fiancée to leave the gas station, went back to his hotel room and ordered a pizza. He didn't bother mentioning the incident to anyone until the police tracked him down 2 days later, where he invoked the state's "Stand Your Ground". At trial Dunn contradicted his own testimony and recorded evidence multiple times, and maintained Davis had exited the vehicle and pointed a shotgun at him (contradicted by video and forensic evidence). He was convicted of 3 counts of attempted murder for shooting at the other teens in the car, and had a hung jury on Davis, this indicating that the lesson to take from this was he should have killed all 4 for the crime of being teenagers and then he could have walked. Despite conviction at retrial, Dunn maintains he is the victim here for defending himself from Davis
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Oct 1, 2014 22:02
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I remember reading about some Republican trying to make websites targeted at Asian kids saying "Didn't get in? The system isn't fair (so rail against Affirmative Action)"...and the photos of Asians he used on his website were all stock photos as well. I remember that the GOP Asian outreach program consisted of white finance guys who lived in Hong Kong. Because hey, they lived in Asia and someone needs to represent those expats dammit
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Oct 2, 2014 00:14
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3669131
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Oct 2, 2014 02:30
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