USPOL Nov: I would've preferred Huckabee have said nothing at all

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greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Mr Interweb posted:

So I just discovered this. Apparently, Bill Maher was dating this chick for two years at one point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara_Santa_Maria

There's a 20 year difference between them.

Your surprised he's an old disgusting lech?

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 12:37

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 19:45

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Klaus88 posted:

After reading her wikipedia page, I retract my comment, as frankly it was extremely sexist of me.

Still, it looks like one of those "opposites attract" things. To me at least.

The podcast it mentions she is on, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, is very good by the way. I'm surprised it doesn't mention it on her wiki but she just one a major science educator award, from Neill Degrasse Tyson.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2015 15:39

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

If it were true and they resigned wouldn't democrats have the Senate?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 12:23

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

I mean temporarily.

Kentucky however has a democratic governor.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 12:26

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

According to the Daily Mail, Ryan is having real trouble getting the stench of cigarettes out of Boehner's office.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 16:00

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Bonus, Paul Ryan sleeps in his office so Boehner's second hand smoke is probably literally killing him.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 16:15

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

How much power does Ryan have over the house functions not relating to law? Like can he ban smoking in the offices and institute pizza Thursdays in the cafeteria?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 16:32

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

I identify as a democratic socialist I guess. I live in Alabama so there's no reason for me to even vote most of the time. I just vote for whoever is black in city council and mayoral and state legislative elections and whoever is a woman in judicial elections and whoever is a democrat in statewide or national elections.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 17:11

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

When they have votes in Alabama legislature it doesn't even break down as democrat vs Republican anymore. It's black vs white. The few white democrats remaining just vote with the Republicans.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 17:26

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Oklahoma Mayor apologizes as her husband dresses as a KKK member for Halloween.

http://ow.ly/U8QiK

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 18:16

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

zoux posted:

Joementum forecasts a rosy 9.9% for Jindal in Iowa.

Yeah but there's a 3.9% margin of error so it's more like 13.8%

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 04:05

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

I always thought it would be funny if when his handler called and said "How about a nice game of solitaire?" He just had a bad draw and couldn't complete the game, thus never saw the trigger card.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 15:16

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

You know how a Christian will censor themselves and say "flipping" instead of "loving"? It's because they are all excellent flippers because of their gymnasiums. All Christians are really good at gymnastics in general, did you never notice?

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 18:02

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I guess Jon Stewart couldn't stay away any longer:

I wonder if Eliot Kalan will be joining him.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 19:16

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Right now Trump is using Bush to attack Rubio, it's fantastic. He's really amazing at politics. The gist is basically "Bush is absolutely right about Marco Rubio and its really gonna hurt him, but Bush isn't smart enough to get his message out so he only hurt himself."

Taking about Rubios credit card problems and how he used campaign funds to repave his driveway.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 21:33

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Bernie Sanders. Martin O'Malley, and Hillary Clinton all have very good, detailed criminal and social justice programs. O'Malley ironically probably the best (from experience of being terrible before?).

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 22:24

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

hangedman1984 posted:

So I was wandering, what are the odds that Trump cancels his SNL appearance last minute because he deems some joke or bit as "not fair"?

Zero, Lorne Michaels is a whore and will do whatever he wants.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 22:51

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Well my trans nephew just moved to loving Utah, I'm sure he'll be fine there.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 05:11

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

She could also be talking about, you know, Republicans. But, that would be a lot of mental twisting for a Slate writer.

Republicans doing think guns are an urban problem, they don't think they are a problem at all, and wouldn't be caught dead using gun and problem in the same sentence.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 17:19

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Trabisnikof posted:

Yeah, I wonder if Clinton said "some people think the earth is flat, that's stupid" if people would say it was an anti-science attack on Sanders.

It would be, he is notoriously a flat earther.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 17:41

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Kill all white people except for me and my friends and family and their friends and families and so on, but everyone else.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 18:44

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

gently caress Jesus. He can go to hell.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 19:33

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Konservative Kids konvert all the time once they become teenagers and get sick of their parents poo poo. Like the kid who spoke at C-Pac and had a Republican book deal became a moderate Obama supporter basically the second he could grow a mustache.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 20:48

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

I think the headline after the committee asked Rice about it was "The Lady is a Champ"

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 20:01

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

lookoutbelow posted:

Maybe some context would help: Trump was in and out of here yesterday with no equipment set up or noticeable press arrangements, and he spoke after filing to maybe a hundred or so people. Fiorina came and went earlier this morning with a sad parade of 20 red shirted partisans.

Sorry to waste your time with this picture. Is there a minimum amount of people you'd like to see, so I'll know whether to post something later today?

I think as a defensive Bernie supporter hr was assuming you were taking a swipe at Bernie with a picture of no crowd, instead of the thing you were actually doing which was posting a picture of stuff being set up.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 20:57

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

fits my needs posted:

The only minorities are staffers holy poo poo. Haha sure Bernie doesn't have a minority problem.

A minority in a suit can only be a staffer or reporter. Maybe YOU got a race problem pal. (or maybe this is New Hampshire)

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 22:13

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

He understands very well how humans work in a literal sense, but doesn't understand relationships. Coming to CBS next fall.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2015 23:43

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

McAlister posted:

Is a fallacy. The one where you claim your opponent made a stronger claim than they did, prove the stronger claim false, then declare victory without ever addressing the actual claim. The charge laid at Bernies feet is ignorance/disinterest of racial and gender issues.

So, for example, a person unaware of the details of gamergaters might agree that ethics in game journalism are important. Why not? Ethics are good. We like ethics. That same person, once updated on the gamergaters communities behavior towards women, would probably not want to be seen positively endorsing their slogan. And would either dodge the question or conditionally affirm it with the statement that the gamergaters movement isn't interested in ethics and show no ethics of their own.

When someone repeats a dog whistle their are only two possibilities. They know what it means or they don't. You can make a very good case that Bernie doesn't mean his whistles. But the best case scenario here is still ignorance/disinterest. Which he is on the record saying btw ... He's made it clear that he views economic and social issues as separate and sees social issues as mere symptoms of economic issues. He doesn't feel it is the job of the president to try to fix social issues, just the more fundamental/important/real economic issues.

I disagree with this assertion in its entirety. These social issues, to me, are economic issues. They are inextricably intertwined and I don't believe any progress can be made by ignoring either part. They have to be worked on at the same time. Period. So to me, Bernie means well but doesn't "get it" the way Clinton does. Likewise if you believe that economic and social issues are unrelated then you will probably feel that Bernie "gets it" while Clinton wastes time with unimportant things.

This is bullshit though Bernie Sanders has been talking about social justice issues at length as a seperate issue completely than economics for months ever since he was criticized on it and has a detailed platform on it.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 00:17

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Trabisnikof posted:

And you really fail to see how adding some talking points and a page on his website fails to alleviate the concerns people are raising?

You mean doing exactly what those criticizing him say he should do? And in addition to that he's done outreach and meet with activists and hired activists on as staff.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 00:25

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

theblackw0lf posted:

Bernie for a long time saw racial issues as part of the larger economic injustice issue. Recently though, thanks in parts to people like Symone Sanders (who is his top racial justice adviser), he has come to understand that racial justice is it's own separate issue and must be addressed on it's own terms.

He also has the issue with saying some really stupid poo poo in the past like when Freddie Gray(i may be thinking of the wrong murdered black teen here) got killed in Ferguson he went on the news and said the problem was lack of job opportunities and college. But he really has done a complete 180 on that stuff.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 01:30

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

tsa posted:

Probably because it's funny to watch the loony left form their own version of the GOOGLE RON PAUL phenomena, complete with poll skewing.

Yeah but the thing is the Sanderistas here aren't really doing that. They just get mad at people kicking him while he's down for not much rain based on falsehoods or half truths.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 01:34

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Sorus posted:

I'd settle for a presidential Triumvirate.

You can't spell Triumph without Trump

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 01:50

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

The funny thing is I'm a Hillary voter who supports Bernie.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 02:11

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Khisanth Magus posted:

Don't worry, once Hillary is president we will go back to never criticizing Israel no matter what they do. Even if they were to start a true active genocide of the Palestinians we will continue to actively suck Bibi's dick if her recent statements are anything to go by.

The Republicans might be better on Israel because they are dumber and eager to please so they might at least accidentally annoy them. Like how a dog keeps bringing you dead birds, or like Costello, Abbot's best pal but always getting him into trouble.

The democrats will worship them just as hard but probably stay out of their way.

This is all Jesus's fault.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 05:12

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Your friend just spent $2000 on sex to get his dick wet. Tell him maybe use a condom or date someone who uses birth control, Jesus.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 16:04

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Crain posted:

My parents are 100% certain he's legitimately running for president. They're Dem as hell so they're not voting for him, but they don't see his actions and...person as being anything but genuine.

They've also said that they could totally understand feeling that they "have" to vote for the man based on his work as a doctor if you were a former patient of his, or family of a former patient. Which is a scary thought:

"His policies are horrible, He's pretty close to the "danger" zone of religious belief, and it's becoming pretty clear that outside of being a brain mechanic he's a terrible doctor; But he "save" me/my kid/my brother/etc so I have to vote for him."

The amount of people he's surgerized and their families has got to be a statistically insignificant asking of folks.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 17:12

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

zoux posted:

Nah, if the politico story is true and gets picked up in the mainstream, he should be done after his.

He SHOULD be done, but this is 2015 and nothing makes sense anymore.

Trump said he would respect McCain more of her didn't get captured and got a bump.

Here's the "truth" about Carson, he could have gone to West Point if he wanted, so his false story is true.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 17:58

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

weekly font posted:

In 88(?) Diamond Joe had to drop out of the Presidential race cause he lifted parts of a campaign speech without citing them. In 2015 who gives a gently caress make up your whole backstory like you're the goddamn Joker.

Didn't cite them sometimes, he usually actually cited them.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 18:16

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

pathetic little tramp posted:

Republican Twitter is blowing up right now, wondering why the media never fact checked Hillary's military story:

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/us/hillary-clinton-says-she-once-tried-to-be-marine.html

That does sound made up af tbf.

Probably the only candidate not lying about their past is Donald Trump.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 19:25

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 19:45

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Yeah, that much was pretty obvious. But the administration came out a few days later with a whooops we were wrong.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 21:12

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