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Kansas State legislator reminds fellow legislator he's carrying a gun before she casts her vote. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-casts-her-vote
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my kinda ape posted:That is my understanding yes. It is filled with horrible dumbshit retirees who moved there from colder parts of the country. I've heard Flagstaff is populated mostly by normal people maybe? Flagstaff is a nice big town but not large enough to really be a city. There are a lot of nice places in Arizona, it's just the middle of the state is this suburban hellzone. Literally: https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=8ed1618a63aa659e&hl=en&gl=US&source=wweather
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Jun 5, 2017 18:07
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Arglebargle III posted:Flagstaff is a nice big town but not large enough to really be a city. There are a lot of nice places in Arizona, it's just the middle of the state is this suburban hellzone. Literally: https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=8ed1618a63aa659e&hl=en&gl=US&source=wweather This goes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE
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Jun 5, 2017 19:55
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Arglebargle III posted:Flagstaff is a nice big town but not large enough to really be a city. There are a lot of nice places in Arizona, it's just the middle of the state is this suburban hellzone. Literally: https://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=8ed1618a63aa659e&hl=en&gl=US&source=wweather Heh, 109F is a lower temperature than where I live now in AZ.
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Jun 6, 2017 01:45
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pillsburysoldier posted:Kansas State legislator reminds fellow legislator he's carrying a gun before she casts her vote.  This dumb mother fucker must have a hell of a time hitting anything past 10 feet.
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Jun 6, 2017 01:53
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Boon posted:
Favorite Books The Bible, Frederic Bastiat, Atlas Shrugged, The Reagan Diaries, Trump the Art of the Deal, I, Pencil Hometown Wichita, Kansas you don't say edit: "He pursued a Bachelors degree at the University of Kansas where he studied Political Science and Public Administration." After my initial anger at attending my alma mater I have to say it is pretty vague on how long he was there and if he ever finished. kiimo fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Jun 6, 2017 02:14
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kiimo posted:Favorite Books He looks like a missing link. ~Unfrozen caveman drop-ooout!~
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Jun 6, 2017 04:18
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Da Mott Man posted:Heh, 109F is a lower temperature than where I live now in AZ. This is gonna be a 117 F day in 100 years.
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Jun 6, 2017 04:48
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julian assflange posted:They sold the state capitol.....what?
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Jun 6, 2017 06:26
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I remember reading about that in Matt Taibbi's Griftopia. I'd say it was the most infuriating chapter of the book but basically every chapter was the most infuriating chapter. Highly recommend.
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Jun 6, 2017 06:30
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VitalSigns posted:Isn't Arizona's modern problem similar to Florida's? A lot of old people move there to retire somewhere warm and then elect the dumbest con men to run the place because their decrepit decaying brains are gullible as gently caress It's not really falling for a con, they know what they want and vote for what they want. "I already paid taxes for school back home I don't want to pay taxes anymore" *complains about non white nurses and docs (from out of state/country) changing their diaper and why their family hates visiting them*
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Jun 6, 2017 06:45
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kiimo posted:Favorite Books Hmmm it must take a pretty broken brain to think these things aren't mutually exclusive, or to like Rand at all really.
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Jun 6, 2017 06:46
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tbf smart people read stuff that they think/know is wrong as a "know thy enemy" thing. Also I bet he only "read"/add Donnie's ghost written book to the list on 2016-11-09 2:XXAM.
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Jun 6, 2017 07:05
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PhazonLink posted:tbf smart people read stuff that they think/know is wrong as a "know thy enemy" thing. They might read them but they don't list them as their "Favorite Books"
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Jun 7, 2017 01:41
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The Bible is in there because you have to put it there to get elected in the Bible Belt. Atlas Shrugged is what he actually believes, the book that ends with a tiny supercapitalist elite killing everyone in the world so they don't have to pay any more taxes even though we are constantly shown that those taxes don't in any way interfere with living their lives in absurd luxury.
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Jun 7, 2017 01:54
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FilthyImp posted:Some other city sold control of their street parking / parking meters. Then they ended up having to pay the new owners lost profits when the streets were shut down for parades and whatnot. That would be Chicago, and it has turned out so poorly in so many that ways other cities have scrapped plans for something similar.
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Jun 7, 2017 02:10
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Chuu posted:That would be Chicago, and it has turned out so poorly in so many that ways other cities have scrapped plans for something similar. Chicago sold a 75 year concession for 1.15 billion. As of year 8 of the deal, the company's total revenue stands right around 900 million. chicaglol? Edit: haha, this is great https://www.chicagoreader.com/Blead...he-city-streets quote:Plus, Emanuel's revised deal offered other sweeteners to the meter company. The extended hours would boost its revenues by $4 million to $9 million a year, Waguespack and the progressive caucus estimated, even after accounting for free Sunday parking in some areas. Rahm Emanuel sold this to the public as making lemon-aide out of lemons. bedpan fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Jun 7, 2017 02:21
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https://twitter.com/jonshorman/status/872283685843869696
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Jun 7, 2017 03:57
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Lol it got so bad the Republicans voted to override the veto? Seriously?
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Jun 7, 2017 04:02
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"Conservatism was failed on this day", Scott Walker probably
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Jun 7, 2017 04:03
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Night10194 posted:Lol it got so bad the Republicans voted to override the veto? Seriously? 88-31.
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Jun 7, 2017 04:16
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https://twitter.com/HunterMw/status/872283627551412224 trying to find more
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Jun 7, 2017 04:16
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Defenestration posted:https://twitter.com/HunterMw/status/872283627551412224 Here's another: http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/2017-06-06/senate-house-narrowly-override-gov-sam-brownback-s-veto-12-billion
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Jun 7, 2017 04:31
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I mean, I wish the lowest bracket would have been saved from the increase, but holy hell! The Kansas Legislature finally did something sane.
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Jun 7, 2017 04:44
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Doesn't that mean the Kansas government will take in even less revenue now? And what's going to happen to all those companies that moved their operations to Kansas' business-friendly environment? Are they going to have to close shop? How many jobs is this going to cost the people of Kansas?
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Jun 7, 2017 04:50
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Kilroy posted:Doesn't that mean the Kansas government will take in even less revenue now? And what's going to happen to all those companies that moved their operations to Kansas' business-friendly environment? Are they going to have to close shop? How many jobs is this going to cost the people of Kansas? All of them. Kansas will have negative jobs, in fact.
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Jun 7, 2017 05:36
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The Kansas legislature is about to pull a McConnell and ask Brownback why he didn't stop them from royally loving up their own vote so that they could continue to burn the entire state to the ground. In this manner they can avoid Kilroy's incredibly naive and ignorant question about the possibility of things he doesn't understand.
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Jun 7, 2017 05:43
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Ego-bot posted:"Conservatism was failed on this day", Scott Walker probably Reminder that guy got married on Reagan's birthday so he can think of an old white man during The Anniversary Sex.
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Jun 7, 2017 08:27
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NewMars posted:Here's another: http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/2017-06-06/senate-house-narrowly-override-gov-sam-brownback-s-veto-12-billion Haha oh my God, the governor's counter-proposal quote:Sen. Vicki Schmidt, a Topeka Republican who voted in favor of the override, said the governor set the stage for a substantial tax increase by suggesting to the Legislature in January a budget that resembled a house of cards. He talked about closing a $900 million deficit over two years by selling off future tobacco settlement payments to Kansas in exchange for a one-time infusion of cash and recommended the state delay government contributions to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Sell the state's tobacco settlements to J.G. Wentworth and divert the proceeds from healthcare to the rich, steal from public pensions and give the money to the rich. Brownback managed to come up with a plan so evil it even turned Republicans' stomachs, that's loving impressive.
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Jun 7, 2017 08:36
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The big problem was actually that they weren't going to be able to open the school year July 1 if they didn't fund the schools properly, and they couldn't do that without rolling back brownbacks tax plan If the schools were impacted again after all the poo poo over the last 5 years you honestly would have seen a democrat majority in the legislature here
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Jun 7, 2017 09:01
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rscott posted:If the schools were impacted again after all the poo poo over the last 5 years you honestly would have seen a democrat majority in the legislature here Lol if you think that's what would happen. A not insignificant portion of the voting populace would loudly wonder about greedy teachers or some poo poo. Most people don't get budgeting and taxes, and they also have no respect for teachers. Remember, even Republicans think Brownback is poo poo, and he is inextricably tied to the mounting woes of Kansas, but he still got reelected. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Jun 7, 2017 09:16
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rscott posted:The big problem was actually that they weren't going to be able to open the school year July 1 if they didn't fund the schools properly, and they couldn't do that without rolling back brownbacks tax plan Accelerationism can only be failed.
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Jun 7, 2017 09:23
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ToxicSlurpee posted:All of them. I'd bet dollars to donuts a ton of those new "businesses" disappear. I've met programmer contractors that after 2012 ran everything through newly formed LLCs just because it meant they didn't have to pay Kansas taxes. Of course Brownback cheered it on as if it was actual job growth instead of just a reordering of existing employment, but anyone who bothered to pay attention already knew what was going on.
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Jun 7, 2017 13:59
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Is Kansas the state where the coach of the university has his salary go through an LLC so he doesn't have to pay taxes on the taxpayer money hahahaa yeah http://kcur.org/post/thanks-tax-cuts-bill-self-highest-paid-state-employee-owes-little-kansas-income-taxes#stream/0
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Jun 7, 2017 14:05
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VitalSigns posted:Haha oh my God, the governor's counter-proposal Let's just eat this seed corn, what could possibly go wrong?
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Jun 7, 2017 14:21
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bedpan posted:Chicago sold a 75 year concession for 1.15 billion. What breaks my brain is that a city official can sign a contract for significantly longer than their own terms.
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Jun 7, 2017 16:46
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moist turtleneck posted:Is Kansas the state where the coach of the university has his salary go through an LLC so he doesn't have to pay taxes on the taxpayer money Well federal taxes anyway. Let's not pivot this conversation towards lumping Bill Self in with these dudes please my fandom can't handle that.
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Jun 7, 2017 17:48
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VitalSigns posted:Haha oh my God, the governor's counter-proposal The thing he got wrong was being too nakedly corrupt. You're supposed to do it behind the scenes doing things like over paying companies owned by your friends to pave roads badly or build lovely bridges.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:16
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kiimo posted:Well federal taxes anyway. Let's not pivot this conversation towards lumping Bill Self in with these dudes please my fandom can't handle that. haha get wrecked
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Jun 7, 2017 18:19
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Sam Seder had a good point on Majority Report today, which is that it's disappointing that the Democrats haven't used the Kansas shitshow more frequently on a national level. This is what Republicans are all about, after all. This is the bottom line of their ideology, in its purest form. This is what Donald Trump and Paul Ryan want to happen to the whole country. So craft your message around that and run on it.
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