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Oh, please let the GOP publicly implode. I've been waiting for this since 2008. So what's the federal legal basis now for what Alabama is pulling re: Voter ID, the Voting Rights Act, and Shelby County v. Holder? Do we have to wait for Congress to do something?
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Fried Chicken posted:Obama has vetoed the FY16 NDAA, returning it to congress and saying "Let's do this right" huh. interesting. does this mean the defense budget is now on the table during the spending bill debates?
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Oct 22, 2015 21:50
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evilweasel posted:Yes. Republicans want to bust the sequester cap for defense but not domestic. Democrats want to do both. They won't pass the defense bill above the sequester cap without domestic above the sequester cap as well. it's about loving time. gj democrats.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:00
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Ideologically, this is the next step steering the GOP towards the inevitable Libertarian wing that makes them "relevant."
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Oct 22, 2015 23:52
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Radbot posted:I thought the same thing, then someone posted an interesting article talking about how libertarians aren't really as common as you think - they're just really, REALLY loud on the Internet. Anecdotally, there are. There's a huge shift left when it comes to a number of domestic policy issues (drug war, gay rights, healthcare, etc.) intergenerationally. The only way small government pro business can continue to exist is to give up on traditional conservative social policy which will be seen as heartless unless "it's not governments business" line continues from Reagan. This fits very well with commonplace political apathy.
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Oct 23, 2015 00:08
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think everyone's going to be in for a nasty shock over the next few months as it becomes clear just how loving crazy Paul Ryan actually is. Dude has maintained abolishing Medicaid (well, turning it into under-funded block grants) as a central policy position for years, and he's on the record saying that blowing the debt limit was "no big deal." I take it as a known quantity at this point? I'm still coming off a good glow with how well House Dems handled the committee hearing, and I've had my heart broken before with the lack of unified front of the Democratic party, but, like the Cubs, "this could be the year." Instead of the ideology of the right simmering underneath ignored voting records and with the defense budget now on the table, I think there could be a good, dangerous, public debate that could define the parties for the next few cycles. It's been held off on since at least 2000, and we have yet to come to grips with the Recession. GOP has been floundering since '08; these last-gasp radicals are the easiest to cut down on a national stage, and, thankfully, that's this election.
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Oct 24, 2015 16:31
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Jackson Taus posted:I'm not trying to say the Secret Service is incompetent or anything, I'm just saying that it's very easy to imagine an alternate history where we lost 3-4 Presidents in the last century due to assassins, instead of just JFK. Growing up on Chicago's public trans., the Cermak stops never quite clicked until I read he took a bullet meant for FDR back in '33. Now that is an alternate history mindgame.
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Oct 24, 2015 16:35
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So, how's the theory of Trump trolling the election cycle? Have there been any good write-ups worth reading yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tji1g0WrPw
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Oct 24, 2015 21:37
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zoux posted:The third-party narrative operating in 2000 was that Gore and Bush were indistinguishable from one another. Turns out there were a couple of key differences. This is why Excitement is the new Jaded. god drat gen x
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moller posted:Yes, cyberpunk became reality. But only the bad parts of cyberpunk.  I think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkEIGsNXu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_orf5u6RQgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePRP7GXzqyI&t=56s bonus:  https://vimeo.com/105240463
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