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When you think about it, hitting your head so hard that your hair falls out might explain some things about him.
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Goddamn Wisconsin get it together
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Sep 24, 2015 05:32
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Lord of Pie posted:Goddamn Wisconsin get it together They are obsessed with football, sausage, and cheese. While this makes them pretty fun on the weekends, these are not the kind of people you would trust with governing the nation.
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Sep 24, 2015 08:04
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Good beer too. I would kill for a Moon Man pale ale.
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Sep 24, 2015 12:33
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ubergnu posted:When you think about it, hitting your head so hard that your hair falls out might explain some things about him. Goddamn is he one ugly motherfucker.
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Sep 24, 2015 21:15
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:I really don't think he's anything like Huntsman and I doubt very much he shared any significant % of supporters. I don't think SW really even had a base outside of WI to be honest, his polling was pure name recognition, which is pretty much the complete opposite of Huntsmans deal. Republicans outside of WI were vaguely aware that he was the dude that showed the unions whats what but as soon as they actually saw him speak his support vanished completely. They're similar insofar as they both got a small policy wonk section of the GOP excited but turned out to have absolutely no appeal to the GOP's primary voters. Philthy posted:Wait, what. A director and screenwriter? I would imagine he is a part of SAG and all the other unions that depend on each other for Hollywood to even function. This would be like a black KKK guy. I suppose there has got to be at least one out there. I guess Reagan was in a union for his entire life, but he also praised them during that time. He only busted up the airline one because he was pissed, not because he was inherently anti-union. Reagan also praised unions while his administration was gutting labour rights. One of his criticisms of the Soviet Union was that workers couldn't form their own unions. Anyway the guy I'm thinking of has a property on Lake Muskoka, a nice house in downtown Toronto and a house in Los Angeles so I imagine his status as a rich old white guy trumps the fact he should theoretically know better (the guy was also in Vietnam reporting on the war so he should really know better, but something funny happens to white dudes after they hit 40). He's also the kind of guy who would claim to be a moderate conservative despite tending to support and identify with the Republicans.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:50
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put a conservative's back against the wall even slightly and see where all the vaunted "liberty" and love of "freedom" goes
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Sep 25, 2015 02:38
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Whole lotta stories poppin up about mismanaged money in his campaign, his state job agencies, and now the Kochs want 900 million back from him.
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Sep 25, 2015 04:35
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Philthy posted:Whole lotta stories poppin up about mismanaged money in his campaign, his state job agencies, and now the Kochs want 900 million back from him. lmao what are they going to do call a collection agency?
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Sep 25, 2015 05:49
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Lord of Pie posted:Colbert's Hunger Games rip on Walker dropping out will be the peak of his coverage For those who missed it.
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Sep 25, 2015 06:15
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Philthy posted:Whole lotta stories poppin up about mismanaged money in his campaign, his state job agencies, and now the Kochs want 900 million back from him. I have a sinking feeling that I know exactly where that money is going to come from.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:07
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The Department of Administration of Wisconsin incurred costs for his presidential bid, and is now seeking a refund from his campaign war chest leftovers for what they paid.
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Sep 25, 2015 07:54
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I guess the answer is that Scott Walker has no appeal.
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Sep 25, 2015 08:11
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Hilario Baldness posted:The Department of Administration of Wisconsin incurred costs for his presidential bid, and is now seeking a refund from his campaign war chest leftovers for what they paid. The Department of Administration was stuffed with Walker stooges and is now extremely corrupt and partisan. For example, they claimed pro-union protesters did $7.2 million in damage to the capitol, which was eventually revised down to nothing. Since his presidential bid failed, Walker's next move is to put all workers in the state under their purview.
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Sep 25, 2015 08:40
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skaboomizzy posted:They are obsessed with football, sausage, and cheese. While this makes them pretty fun on the weekends, these are not the kind of people you would trust with governing the nation. if they doesn't vote Feingold back into the Senate, this state that I've never been to and never plan to go to is dead to me
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SousaphoneColossus posted:if they doesn't vote Feingold back into the Senate, this state that I've never been to and never plan to go to is dead to me Feingold's pretty much a shoe-in, the senator he lost the seat to self-funded his campaign last time and has said he will not do so this time.
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Stereotype posted:The Department of Administration was stuffed with Walker stooges and is now extremely corrupt and partisan. For example, they claimed pro-union protesters did $7.2 million in damage to the capitol, which was eventually revised down to nothing. Since his presidential bid failed, Walker's next move is to put all workers in the state under their purview. Check out this e-mail coming from DHS Secretary to us plebians: quote:September 24th,2015 - Governor Scott Walker Releases Statement on Recruitment and Retention Reforms 1: Supervisors are trained to be discouraged from recommending subordinate staff for discretionary merit compensation. 2. All of the staff he mentions by name in this are republicans (not really a surprise). 3. The job selection process is slow because it's been designed to be as objective as possible. 4. The mentioning of specific cases is the same as identifying the bus drivers who abused the overtime system to make 100,000+/year: divide and conquer. Get us pissed at each other and they change the rules to the benefit of the rich.
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Sep 27, 2015 05:32
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Not gunna lie, applying for the state is a huge pain in the rear end that generally takes months. When I was unemployed, I applied for about 6 or 7 positions. Each required either a test and multiple page essay to be considered, or just essay questions. I didn't mind doing this, it separates people who can't even spell their names and allows for people to really explain why they're qualified. You finally get an email one to two months later asking to call so and so and set up a time to come in for an initial interview which is usually two weeks out. Once you get in, it's usually three people who are considered experts in the field you're going to be going in (IT for me). None of them ever saw your essay questions that you submitted previously, they're not allowed to. After this, if it goes well, you will then wait another week or two and set up a second interview with the manager you would be working under. The amount of time to get a single job for the state is loving ridiculous, and I can only applaud any process that makes it into something more sane. I remember the days of throwing my resume at a company, getting a call the next day asking for you to come in, you hit it off, and you get an offer a day or two later. Done. I also walked both ways to school in the snow. Up a hill.
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Sep 27, 2015 06:40
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still waiting for walker to die in a motorcycle accident and hope that he is an organ donor thats his appeal to me
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Sep 27, 2015 08:15
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Like everything else about him, his organs are bought and paid for by the Kochs.
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Sep 27, 2015 08:34
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If he doesn't give the Kochs their money back someone's gonna be a-peeling him off the steps of the Wisconsin Capitol building
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Sep 27, 2015 08:39
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Top City Homo posted:still waiting for walker to die in a motorcycle accident and hope that he is an organ donor Pfft, like he's an organ donor
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Sep 27, 2015 09:26
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I'm imagining Scott Walker as Tim and Eric from Billion Dollar Movie and laughing a lot.
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Sep 27, 2015 09:30
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Wanamingo posted:Pfft, like he's an organ donor The Kochs have to be keeping him around for something.
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Sep 27, 2015 18:04
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Philthy posted:Not gunna lie It is a pain in the rear end, and it's incredibly objective to get the strongest candidate regardless of who they are. When this goes through I'm convinced this is only going to lead to widespread cronyism. Whatever they do, it's setting a dangerous precedent. Hilario Baldness has issued a correction as of 19:37 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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Sep 27, 2015 19:33
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Government jobs tend to also be incredibly stable compared to most sectors, to the extent that the months of vetting tend to be worth it. Of course, this might not be the case in Scott Walkers Teenage Nuclear Superpocalypse
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Sep 27, 2015 20:58
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Philthy posted:Not gunna lie, applying for the state is a huge pain in the rear end that generally takes months. When I was unemployed, I applied for about 6 or 7 positions. Each required either a test and multiple page essay to be considered, or just essay questions. I didn't mind doing this, it separates people who can't even spell their names and allows for people to really explain why they're qualified. You finally get an email one to two months later asking to call so and so and set up a time to come in for an initial interview which is usually two weeks out. Once you get in, it's usually three people who are considered experts in the field you're going to be going in (IT for me). None of them ever saw your essay questions that you submitted previously, they're not allowed to. After this, if it goes well, you will then wait another week or two and set up a second interview with the manager you would be working under. All of this poo poo is in place because 100 years ago whichever rear end in a top hat got elected as governor would fire a bunch of people and replace them with whoever helped him get elected / his family / his drinking buddies. As a society we eventually decided that letting executives give government jobs to their buddies or as a "thank you" for helping them get elected was A Bad Thing, so we put in place systems with tedious checks all along the way to ensure that poo poo doesn't happen anymore. I'm sure it feels good to bitch about how much of a pain in the rear end the process was, but if the process wasn't there the job never would have been posted - it just would have been given to some retarded nephew of the Koch brothers.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:All of this poo poo is in place because 100 years ago whichever rear end in a top hat got elected as governor would fire a bunch of people and replace them with whoever helped him get elected / his family / his drinking buddies. As a society we eventually decided that letting executives give government jobs to their buddies or as a "thank you" for helping them get elected was A Bad Thing, so we put in place systems with tedious checks all along the way to ensure that poo poo doesn't happen anymore. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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Sep 28, 2015 00:16
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:I'm sure it feels good to bitch about how much of a pain in the rear end the process was, but if the process wasn't there the job never would have been posted - it just would have been given to some retarded nephew of the Koch brothers. The problem is that you basically have to be unemployed to have the time and willpower to see the entire process through. I couldn't imagine a good engineer from somewhere else thinking "Hey, that job opening at the state sounds pretty kickass." and stick through it. They've got to be missing out by doing this.
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His greatest appeal, to me, is that he's not running for president.
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