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 What a wonderful production the wise leaders of the conservative movement have prepared for us! I’m sure it’ll be a smashing hit! With Trump and Republican governors leading us down the path towards war and xenophobia, shooting up abortion clinics and Black Lives Matter protesters, and shutting down the government over all of the above. Yes, what a Grand Old Time we have here in America with the Grand Old Party! And so it should be no surprise that a good time will be had for all here in the USPOL thread for December 2015!  114th Congress Bingo Card So how is House Speaker Paul D. Ryan doing after his first month in office? Let’s take a look, shall we?
 Other News, featuring the Clinton Corner Did you know that one of Hillary’s hired goons collaborated with CNN to smear poor, innocent Rand Paul? Clearly this means you shouldn’t vote for Hillary! In other news…
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Related threads "US Politics" is an incredibly broad topic, as A) the country is freaking huge and B) given our role in international events pretty much everything impacts us. So there are other subthreads 2016 Presidential Primary 2016 US Senate Elections SCOTUS thread Right Wing Media There are also regional subthreads that are usually pretty slow, but sometimes cross-pollinate with this thread when something important is happening. Pacific Northwest Illinois Texas California Lifted the rest of the above from FriedChicken. As before post suggestions for adding to the above and I'll edit them in if I see them. And remember folks, drink chat goes in D&D chat thread. Drink responsibly. Your liver will thank you. 
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So what's the odds on December being the month that Trump deflates?
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Jonas Albrecht posted:So what's the odds on December being the month that Trump deflates? I think if it's going to happen, it'll happen now. It seems like the other GOP candidates are bringing out everything they have to defeat Trump, but if he makes it through Iowa and New Hampshire unscathed I think he'll be the nominee for sure.
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I'll bet ten bux he won't.  E. To be clear, I'm referring to him deflating this month. He won't deflate, he will soar even higher as the war on Christmas continues.
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You know, I wouldn't be shocked if Donald's campaign was a Producers-esque scheme gone awry.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:So what's the odds on December being the month that Trump deflates? It's going to happen in almost exactly two weeks. At least, according to Jeb!'s campaign. And have they ever been known for unwarranted enthusiasm?
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N. Senada posted:I'll bet ten bux he won't. The War on Christmas is such a silly thing, considering Christmas's 30 years of unopposed victories.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:You know, I wouldn't be shocked if Donald's campaign was a Producers-esque scheme gone awry. Since he doesn't solicit much donations that's more an appropriate description of Carson
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It annoys the hell out of me that Republicans would rather their grandchildren lived in a blasted desert wasteland rather than do easy things now to prevent it.
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Peztopiary posted:It annoys the hell out of me that Republicans would rather their grandchildren lived in a blasted desert wasteland rather than do easy things now to prevent it. Have you met many republican voters? It's all a myth, once government gets out of the way we'll all live on Galt's Gulch! Sure we'll be slav-uh, contracted workers, but it'll be great!
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Jagchosis posted:Since he doesn't solicit much donations that's more an appropriate description of Carson Yeah but Trump's the one who tends to profit from stupid business decisions.
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Carrasco posted:It's going to happen in almost exactly two weeks. At least, according to Jeb!'s campaign. And have they ever been known for unwarranted enthusiasm? When pressed for a reason, did the Jeb! campaign just keep repeating "Two Weeks!" before revealing that they were wearing an elaborate mask bomb?
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Jonas Albrecht posted:So what's the odds on December being the month that Trump deflates? I'm going to say 3:1 odds he makes it to January without popping. Too many other things in the news cycle this month.
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I feel like a government shutdown would crowd out Trump in terms of media coverage, but would also allow Trump to rail against the establishment even more.
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Trump can't die. Look at those phoenix flames on his head, cleverly shaped to look like hair. The man is teflon to negative press.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:So what's the odds on December being the month that Trump deflates? The question is whether things pick back up where they are now when everybody reboots in January, and they start paying more attention to politics with the looming primaries.
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Ugh. I was watching my local channel 7 news and they ran a segment that was indistinguishable from something you'd see on Fox. This "congressional reporter" got a hold of some stupid report by a Republican who found $100 billion in "government waste" and said she wasn't able to find a single person who could defend the things in it (you know, the typical high-lariously useless sounding projects that conservatives love to tout like $5 million on mating habits of fruit flies and such). It was so Fox News-y that they even had lovely stock music playing in the background signifying how shady and wasteful the government is. The "reporter" ends the segment by saying that the "American people shouldn't expect answers any time soon".
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Mr Interweb posted:Ugh. I was watching my local channel 7 news and they ran a segment that was indistinguishable from something you'd see on Fox. This "congressional reporter" got a hold of some stupid report by a Republican who found $100 billion in "government waste" and said she wasn't able to find a single person who could defend the things in it (you know, the typical high-lariously useless sounding projects that conservatives love to tout like $5 million on mating habits of fruit flies and such). It was so Fox News-y that they even had lovely stock music playing in the background signifying how shady and wasteful the government is. The "reporter" ends the segment by saying that the "American people shouldn't expect answers any time soon". I think I saw the same report. It mentioned 30k to fund research into senior dating habits. You know the population with the largest increase in STDs over the last decade. Can't think how that would be helpful.
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Mr Interweb posted:Ugh. I was watching my local channel 7 news and they ran a segment that was indistinguishable from something you'd see on Fox. This "congressional reporter" got a hold of some stupid report by a Republican who found $100 billion in "government waste" and said she wasn't able to find a single person who could defend the things in it (you know, the typical high-lariously useless sounding projects that conservatives love to tout like $5 million on mating habits of fruit flies and such). It was so Fox News-y that they even had lovely stock music playing in the background signifying how shady and wasteful the government is. The "reporter" ends the segment by saying that the "American people shouldn't expect answers any time soon". This is the author of that "report". 
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Mitt Romney posted:This is the author of that "report". When cornered on the capitol steps and questioned on whether he would actually help fix anything, the reports' author allegedly looked down and whispered 'no'.
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Quoting from the last thread:Fried Chicken posted:I am not, in any great sense, a spiritual man. Yet it still strikes me as something very twisted about following a day of thanks and being grateful for what you have with a weeklong orgy of mass consumerism, manufactured greed, and impulse acquisition, where crowds literally beat each other to death in the name of getting more, more, more. It is just the marketers' revenge for the American family steadfastly refusing to let Thanksgiving be turned into a gift giving holiday.
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Gonna be funny when the GOP congress is shouted down by their own party because shutting the government down at Christmas would be gift wrapping the nom to Trump Be even funnier when it doesn't work because the clowns are in control now
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N00ba the Hutt posted:WaPo has a terrifying and yet somewhat hilarious report on What Carson Supporters Actually Believe.
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Bastard Tetris posted:Have you met many republican voters? It's all a myth, once government gets out of the way we'll all live on Galt's Gulch! Sadly not all believe this. I grew up in Lake Jackson Texas (Ron Pauls district, to give you an idea of what kind of people we are talking about). There was a community theater there and pretty much that whole community all knew each other, so even in middle school and high school I had a lot of political discussions with adults when hanging out in the green room. One guy I had known for years, mid-thirties, always seemed like a down to earth guy, agreed that we were destroying the earth and that it would probably go to poo poo soon, but didn't believe in trying to enact environmental policies. He said when all our resources are gone, they are gone and that's it for us. The thing that makes me angry to this day is that he had an infant daughter, still didn't want to do poo poo. That kind of attitude is even worse than the deniers in my opinion.
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Mitt Romney posted:This is the author of that "report". That $100 billion would be better spent figuring out what the hell is wrong with his face.
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N00ba the Hutt posted:WaPo has a terrifying and yet somewhat hilarious report on What Carson Supporters Actually Believe. At any rate that article is sort of disappointing as it's just a profile of some idiot married couple in their late fifties - though I have no reason to think they aren't representative of Carson supporters.
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Edmund Lava posted:I think I saw the same report. It mentioned 30k to fund research into senior dating habits. You know the population with the largest increase in STDs over the last decade. Can't think how that would be helpful. Yup, that was the one! Mitt Romney posted:This is the author of that "report". That sounds about right.
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The Larch posted:That $100 billion would be better spent figuring out what the hell is wrong with his face. It's the typical lovely evangelical racist grin face.
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Kilroy posted:I can't be certain, but it seems like this woman actually believes that Obama supports taking in Syrian refugees... so he has people to hang out with once he's left office? Nah she's built up in her mind a paranoid fantasy where Obama's inviting Syrian refugees to set off another 9/11 because he's a Muslim and not 100% American and thus wants to destroy the country from within. Because Satan.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Obama only has one more 9/11 to pull off a 9/11 How many until America gets a free sandwich?
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Obama will be blamed for anything bad happening for the next 4-8 years if a Republican gets into the White House. President Rubio privatized my social security and started a war with Russia! OBAMA 
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N00ba the Hutt posted:WaPo has a terrifying and yet somewhat hilarious report on What Carson Supporters Actually Believe. these people make me sad. they are just sadbrain fundies who are scared shitless because they bought in to some angry fuckfaces tirade on the radio. I feel bad for them.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:these people make me sad. they are just sadbrain fundies who are scared shitless because they bought in to some angry fuckfaces tirade on the radio. I feel bad for them.
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