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Great OP as always. To start off the new month, Alabama is closing 31 driver's licence offices throughout the state leaving 29 counties without one. 8 of the top 10 counties polling for Obama in 2008 have an office closing. All of the top five counties polling for Obama in 2008 have an office closing. 11 out of the 17 counties with more than 24% of individuals living in poverty have an office closing (65%). All six counties with the highest % of black residents have an office closing. 59% of the 17 counties with the highest % of black residents have an office closing. Alabama of course has strict voter ID laws. My preferred drink is shots of Everclear. Doesn't waste my time. JT Jag posted:New thread, thank god. The last one started moving a little too fast and I lost track. You missed nothing, trust me. The last couple dozen pages were... bad. VVV Rand Paul. Other guy is Jeb Bush.
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zoux posted:Sad to say this but I guess this is going to be one of the "significant" ones. Significant in what way?
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Oct 1, 2015 20:58
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Significant in making it impossible to talk about anything else in this thread for several days. No room here to talk about Trump declaring he'll kill off NAFTA for example. Seems like a necessary component to his protectionism policy. He's only now coming out and saying it explicitly.
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Oct 1, 2015 21:04
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Seattle plans to push for comprehensive public financing of local elections. Pretty confident this will pass and excited to see the results. I hope we can inspire other cities to follow our lead. Can't do anything about Citizens United, but I'm bullish on it being overturned within the next decade too. One step at a time though.
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Oct 2, 2015 05:31
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nessin posted:I always wondered why the President didn't get up and talk about whatever issues he wanted the public to push for on a weekly basis. It always seemed like that would be huge and has made a big difference in the past (see Reagan or, to a lesser extent, Roosevelt). And relevant to current events it seems like that would be a great way to get national attention on a weekly basis to put up facts about Climate Change, Vaccinations, or even more publicly divided issues like Gun Control or Healthcare. Turns out, that has been a regular thing since Reagan (minus H.W. Bush) and is currently done by Obama. In case this is news to anyone else: It's basically every reason you've outlined. They're a bit dry and routine, and too wrapped up in the political side of politics for anyone to give a poo poo. For the most part it's opinions everyone already knows Obama has. There are no surprises and no story. They're also way too frequent for anyone to seriously follow them on a week to week basis. People barely care about the State of the Union, and that's once a year. Even outside this format, we saw Obama talk today about the shooting. Powerful stuff in the face of a national tragedy. Well written speech. Nobody will change their mind or do anything different. Could Obama change his approach, do more, and somehow sway the hearts and minds of the American people better than he has been doing? Hard to say. I don't have any particular ideas on that front.
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JehovahsWetness posted:Jeb, the might have a bit more punch *if you hadn't signed a pool fence bill as gov* (sponsored by DWS!): Wow.
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Oct 2, 2015 23:56
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It's been forty pages. Can we please talk about anything else? Was the bombing of the MSF hospital not interesting enough to warrant more than three posts? Meanwhile, I'm sure gunchat is changing hearts and minds. Here's an article about how US Special Forces operated in 133 different countries in 2014. I certainly had no idea of the extent of this. quote: A clandestine Special Ops training effort in Libya imploded when militia or “terrorist” forces twice raided its camp, guarded by the Libyan military, and looted large quantities of high-tech American equipment, hundreds of weapons—including Glock pistols and M4 rifles—as well as night vision devices and specialized lasers that can only be seen with such equipment. As a result, the mission was scuttled and the camp was abandoned. It was then reportedly taken over by a militia. Oops! Good thing that's a pretty rare and isolated inci... gently caress. How's that for gun control?
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Oct 3, 2015 22:38
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Prosecution claims shooting of Tamir Rice was "tragic but reasonable" For those who have trouble keeping all the names straight, this was the 12 year old boy who was playing with a toy gun in a park and swiftly executed by police arriving on the scene. The 911 caller claimed he believed the gun was fake, and police did not offer any aid as the boy lay dying (he died the next day). Video exists and is brutal.
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Oct 11, 2015 01:46
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Kalman posted:Standing is infamously negotiable. Exactly what argument do you think they'd make that an opt-out voting approach is unconstitutional? It is the fundamental right of every citizen to protest the political system through abstaining from voting. Any attempt to encourage citizens to vote violates their substantive due process rights and therefore violates the 14th amendment. Volcott posted:Sanders the Bernhog officially came out in support of a new AWB. Dumb.
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Oct 11, 2015 09:18
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Larry Lessig wants you to know that he's decided to be a bit more realistic about his run for the presidency. He is no longer campaigning on resigning after passing his agenda. I hate this guy a lot. Other Democratic nominees are talking about this exact issue and are also well rounded politicians instead of being lovely one trick ponies. This guy is just a megalomaniac with no understanding of the political process. His MayDay PAC was a terrible grifting operation. Please do not let this guy into any debates. 1% threshold there is an absolute joke too, should be at least 3%.
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Oct 18, 2015 01:44
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They always get Orrin Hatch in for some lovely rear end quote.
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Oct 19, 2015 08:26
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Fried Chicken posted:The US Government has canceled an upcoming sale of treasury bonds because of the debt ceiling standoff with Congress Mr. Nice! posted:I dug into this because I was curious. They canceled the auction today for two year notes, but not 5 or 7. They felt that this would disrupt the market less than canceling the auction outright even though they don't think they'll have the money to pay for them. From a few pages back, but I don't quite understand the rationale for this. Those notes won't mature for years, so they're really the least of our worries if we hit the debt ceiling. Isn't the real threat the bonds that were issued a long time ago and mature on Nov 3/4? Those are a done deal. This move will cost the country millions in lost revenue and market panic. Issuing these bonds doesn't cost money, so why cancel the sale? What am I missing here?
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Oct 22, 2015 21:00
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Mr. Nice! posted:That's not exactly how bonds work. They do have a face value that is redeemable after whatever period the bond is issued, but they also come with interest payments that get paid out periodically before the actual maturity date. When they speak of a default, it isn't that we won't be paying back the bonds when people are trying to redeem them. Its that we can't make the regular interest payments. Thanks, this cleared it up for me.
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Oct 22, 2015 21:59
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STAC Goat posted:At this stage I assume the general unelectability and terribleness of each candidate feeds the others to be convinced they can just break through any moment now. This actually happened to Santorum in 2012. He was polling 4% at the end of 2011 then caught fire and won Iowa. Every candidate thinks that they're the best and just have to wait for the crowd to thin out. It also helps that there are two unelectable goobers sitting at the top of the polls.
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Oct 22, 2015 23:38
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Luigi Thirty posted:Oh, good, someone dug up a video of a (black) student throwing a teacher to the ground over their cell phone and Asking Questions with it since apparently one uppity black beating up a teacher vindicates all arrests of black students everywhere. Their race are no angels.
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greatn posted:Point is remove any one of those reasons and he wins. So it is completely fair to blame any of those. It was a statistical tie. There were hundreds and hundreds of events, decisions, etc. that could have made the election go the other way. That's why blaming Nader alone is myopic and dishonest.
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