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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Joementum posted:

Harry Reid notices that there's a reconciliation bill on the Senate floor to repeal Obamacare and defund PP and cracks his trolling knuckles.

Harry Reid is a silver lining in a grim day

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

This lady talks like her teeth are always clenched

I mean, she's probably not having an awesome day

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea the number is being hosed because reports are coming in in different amounts, but it seems to be a total of 3 no matter what, right now 2 'down' and 1 dead it sounds.,

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mormon Juggernaut posted:

"I don't know."

I'm just waiting for a person in these conferences to just say 'do you think I was there or something dude'

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Artificer posted:

Would getting one of these guys arrive and getting their testimonies and poo poo change anything?

It's pretty much always a good thing to have an actual suspect in custody rather than a corpse, in the sense of an investigation and justice rather than pure 'I want them to be punished for bad things'.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Oh did you mean stop the vultures and poo poo? Oh my no.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

zoux posted:

What the gently caress?

If there's one guy who knows how badly basic human decency like 'don't be a racist' can gently caress up a case it's him!

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
We know literally nothing about this and we're pretending it's rolling the red carpet for the GOP less than a year from now, ok.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

ComradeCosmobot posted:

And one of those Justices will almost certainly replace RBG, guaranteeing a 6-3 conservative court which will lock in conservative gains for decades to come.

Notorious RBG will literally command her heart to pump long after her biological death if there's a republican president

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Since it was a medical facility, I am assuming that the IRC was a "gun free zone" but does anyone have any proof because my facebook feed is filled with people bemoaning gun free zones as the culprit behind this.

loving pick your fights dude, 'gun free zone' arguments mean literally nothing

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

That's really stupid. You have to at least wait until, ya know, a primary happens before you worry about this.

We don't know how many people who are happy to shout "WHOO YEA gently caress THE SAND PEOPLE" will actually drag their fat old asses through a lovely Ohio winter day to actually cast their lot.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

zoux posted:

This seems slightly premature or are they tipping to Donald "Because I don't want to, Greta" Trump that they are going to ratfuck him at the convention.

They are 100% without a doubt going to ratfuck him if the worst happens

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

zoux posted:

Yeah but you don't tell him that before hand.

True but not like we haven't had guys like Ryan getting out saying 'ha ha no, I'm in charge at the convention and I won't let Trump win' for a bit now. It's been a pretty open secret that as he got crazier and crazier the establishment got closer and closer to saying 'no you will not be our nominee I don't care if you win literally every primary'.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I very much like MOM, on paper.

I just, ya know, know how he completely hosed his city and everyone with a darker skin tone than eggshell white so that counters that, but I enjoy his campaign.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Radbot posted:

Just FYI if tech workers ever unionize, they will be painted as racists and xenophobes trying to deprive hardworking foreigners from coming to America and enriching the fabric of our country.

That's why things won't ever get better in that regard, anyone looking to strengthen worker protections will be attacked from the left as well as the right, good faith or not.

I mean, they could avoid that by not making their union racist as gently caress but yea I guess if it's all middle class white dudes from the valley and google and poo poo yea they'd probably put a lot of hosed up 'no outsiders' poo poo in it like what happens when other industries become represented by their most privileged members.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Joementum posted:

Those dastardly Democrats, selling out America by making enhancements of the EITC and the child tax credit permanent! :argh:

If there's one group of fat cats that need to pay more it's those loving middle class families with kids. Disgusting that once again the cowardly democrats sell the real working man out imo.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

>plants Donald "I'm starting to wonder myself whether he was born in this country" Trump 2016 sign in yard

Look if one person gets something then everyone should burn to death. That's what socialism is right, I think that's what the wikipedia page said but I got bored half in.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Lol if you haven't already been slowly building a taste for rock soup and couch stuffing you bougie piece of poo poo.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

FAUXTON posted:

Didn't you post this about Martin Shkreli earlier?

Rule of 3s man

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

I am not a book posted:

So basically, Sanders campaign doesn't have access to any voter data except the paper copies that their field managers have scattered around their offices.

Yea and most importantly they have no way to pool data other than calling Bill The Dude Who's Probably Already Overworked In The Next City and hoping his poo poo is up to date (Spoiler it probably isn't)

It's not that huge of a thing, this is gonna be A Thing but the DNC has been very clear this isn't a criminal thing so they just have to endure the audit. It's gonna be a big hit but not much more than, ya know, being massively behind in basically every poll but NH I think?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Basically yea, the fact that he's down is why this is a fairly bad thing even if the audit goes smoothly. When you're already behind and need to focus on gaining ground, suddenly having the big tool you use to compile data and pool together all your spread apart workers' stuff taken away means gaining ground becomes nearly impossible versus someone who still has access to it. His best case scenario is a triage that ends up with only a couple points shifted.

The article was a bit too doom and gloom to act like Bernie might as well pack it in now, but this is something that is a very bad thing to happen to a campaign even in the best situations.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Gail Wynand posted:

The Bernout thread is already in unskewed polls territory anyway, this is just going to pull forward some of the inevitable meltdowns

It's kinda depressing that people are acting like the campaign saying they didn't use it means the audit will be over fast.

Like, it's either some crazy cult of personality posting or people genuinely thinking that an audit works on an honor system.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
If this entire thing is solved by someone calling the DNC and saying 'nah it's gone' then no one can ever pretend Bernie wasn't secretly somehow the party favorite because that's not how that works for anyone.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Mind sharing your source of how the DNC handles something like this then?

I mean, the entire purpose of an audit is to check the records and files and poo poo to be sure everything's kosher. Wouldn't it be pretty rear end backwards to remove punishment on a pure 'nah, we're good' honor code and THEN do the audit? What would they be auditing, then, if the ethical issue has already been cleared?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
I'm not happy agreeing with MIGF but aside from the kinda weird glee he's having to basically tell people there's no Santa he's not wrong that dealing with any political party on the national level is a slow, cumbersome, process that even when you're getting something good takes forever and is constantly shifted off to less and less helpful people.

Like, no poo poo Intern Gary isn't gonna be the head of the Sanders Probe but this is a way bigger process than 'yea get me DWS, hey Deb, we're cool. Ok great thanks.'

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Gail Wynand posted:

Maybe if Bernie had done anything with his time in congress other than piss off his colleagues he would have gotten this fixed with a phone call before it hit the media

Just sayin

So much of a maverick he can't even make an investigation on himself go smoothly! This is good for Berncoin!

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Grouchio posted:

poo poo poo poo poo poo how hosed is Bernie now? :gonk:

Fairly, he loses access to a major asset that Clinton still has in a (politically) short timeframe before the major poo poo starts. Dude was already lagging far behind and now he got the legs kicked out from under him.


Gail Wynand posted:

I'm 19, but I've been disillusioned by the political process from a very early age. When I was younger, I was involved in some youth leadership government programs that really deterred me from politics and government. I swore it off by the age of 16 and vowed never to vote, never to participate, never to do anything because gently caress society and gently caress institution and gently caress bipartisanship and gently caress the negativity of the political climate in the US. gently caress EVERYTHING.

I'll never not love the dudes all 'yea man, in Student Council this guy Jeff was buddies with the football team and they helped him get votes...never again...I've seen some poo poo in politics...'

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
It was summer camp, we were electing cabin leaders, I campaigned on honest bunk assignment reform but Jeff, that scumbag, he said he'd probably suggest we get more swimming time in the lake. I knew from then on the system was rigged against the little guy.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Oh, so now it's just a cult

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Cult of personality wasn't supposed to be literal!

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Samurai Sanders posted:

I'm late to the party, but I had no idea data like that was kept from people inside the same party.

Data from other people's campaigns? Yea, I don't think there's any system where you're not allowed private polling data and all.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Frabba posted:

I could believe that the director after confirming some basic level of the data exposure tasked some subordinates to probe how wide and deep the hole went. He's a director, he's not going to do a full pen test himself.

This is one of those things where the solution is to instantly tell someone and not gently caress with it further. You don't have Intern Mike poke around in opposition data just for tests.


Samurai Sanders posted:

I still thought they would both be operating off of the same data as each other until the primaries, and secrecy was just for the actual election against the other party.

This is the primaries?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Dude they have magic carpets, tigers, and birds that speak with a man's voice. You gotta stamp that out fast.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Logikv9 posted:

Bernie supporters love victimizing themselves because it gives them a rationale on why they are losing. Because obviously the reason isn't because the majority of voters wanted Clinton.

*No voting has happened yet*

"Man this whole thing just isn't democratic, you know, it was all a setup from the start"

Guys what are you gonna say when he has a win in a place like NH? Did he overcome the dastardly Clinton plots there?

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mitt Romney posted:

I'm wondering how much autonomy Weaver has in the Sanders campaign and in a situation like this if Sanders made the call on some of these things.

Weaver hosed up badly before the previous debate too.

There is no way he's saying poo poo like 'we're gonna sue the DNC' on his own.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

SirKibbles posted:

To really drive home how bad the DNC (and apparently Hilary's press secartary are loving up) Hilary was already dominating she loses nothing by just washing her hands of this. Bernie is not going to win. It does 2 things though

1) Regardless of the actual facts a lot of Debbie is shilling for Hillary is really starting to spread. Hillary is already viewed as shady (the wall 9/11 poo poo during the last debate and her immediately getting busted on it did not help that) This will push this narrative and as we saw with Perry and Newt when they attacked Romney on Bain Capital that poo poo sticks

2) Bernie is basically a test on both Socialism and groups being able to work within the Democratic party. Now you might say these groups are naive childish whatever the point being that this was a change to get a bit of the 50% of that population in the US that literally never votes and it's imploding. Also you kinda need Bernie to sorta pull Hillary left (again as seen by her wall street 9/11 comments) if Bernie flames out too quickly she's going to start going rightward (whether or not this makes her an rear end I don't really care the point is it's just good politics) and the left in the Democratic party continues to be irrelevant because if centrists can still pull elections there's no reason to shift.

Source your quotes

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

theblackw0lf posted:

Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui)
12/18/15, 9:28 PM
In statement, DNC says access to voter file is being restored to Bernie Sanders' campaign

https://t.co/J4ldnofYoP

The sound of a thousand berniebros eating poo poo for pretending this is a conspiracy. If anything this is absurdly in favor of bernie to a degree that if this were Clinton everyone would be freaking out about collusion.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Mayor Dave posted:

Because the students at the school decided to politicize it.

The students, it seems, complained to the school that a lot of their 'ethnic' dishes were wrong and in some cases straight up weirdly not a thing at all and, ya know, as people from those ethnic groups, they'd like if the school is going to do their food for them to do it at least trying to be right.

This is some weirdo third party seeing this and yelling "HAHA WHAT A BABY".

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Yea there's some stuff you can play semantics on but I'd be pretty annoyed if a "Jewish menu" offered me a nice plate of latkes with bacon bits in them served with cheese.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

The most delicious of apostasies.

Well yea as a filthy reform Jew heathen that sounds like some pretty bomb rear end smothered hashbrowns, I just wouldn't try to pass it as Jew food.

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