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Bill Kristol is an astonishingly wrong man. I mean, I thought it was a joke at first, but as time goes on this guy is just always, always wrong. It's inexplicable. It's like he lost the lottery with each number one digit too high.
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highme posted:This loving election. Dilbert Daddy might be in need of a lengthy discussion with a therapist.
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I don't believe that a party can realistically change its candidate after formal nomination at the convention. If he were to burn out in August or September and go completely off the rails, the GOP has to ride that train all the way to the station. Admittedly, I'm no expert on the laws of nominating and the procedure that each state does, and I reckon that a few states would just be "yeah, sure, swap him in," but I guarantee there are a good amount of states that would seal that name in stone. I wouldn't miss the GOP convention. Put it in your calendar. It'll be a hoot.
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Jun 6, 2016 22:24
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The last of a class of Very Good Dogs. (I mean, dogs in general are good but we do need to stratify this sort of thing.)
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Jun 7, 2016 05:35
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Jeffrey Lord is trending on Twitter now. He was getting ethered from all sides. Woof.
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Jun 8, 2016 01:39
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WampaLord posted:"What if the situation completely changes, will you feel different about it then?" The appeals court found that the tape was newsworthy, which would make it well within Gawker's rights to post it. The judge in the trial court excluded that evidence. This judge has been overturned on several points throughout the trial by the higher court. The most likely result is that Gawker will prevail on appeal if they can survive to the appeal stage. But it won't really matter now; Thiel's objective of carrying out his vendetta was achieved, and the sale is underway.
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Jun 10, 2016 18:41
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Popular Thug Drink posted:well i'm sure billionaires are just waiting like hawks to swoop down on the poor little plucky revenge porn tabloids of the world and shut down freedom of press Well, as zoux posted, there's Vandersloot's lawsuit against Mother Jones for libel that failed, but nearly wrecked the company. Adelson bought the Las Vegas paper and immediately tried to use the coverage to influence lawsuits he was involved in.
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Jun 10, 2016 18:44
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Yeah, this probably isn't super US POL material. PSP/WH2K/Rowdy Ringsports/whatever the gently caress it's called, the wrestling subforum, has had a thread on the case throughout, if we wanna keep chatting about it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3767467
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Let's spin the wheel of shooters and see what motive comes up. Evangelical infuriated by godless heathens? Wannabe ISIS with easy access to firearms? White supremacist building the wall ahead of time on the club's Latin night? Oh, I'm sorry, this is America. It's mental illness. Sorry.
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Jun 12, 2016 13:35
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm really looking forward to my town being used as a political prop for the next few weeks. Hon you live in Orlando, it's been a prop for something or another roughly since its founding.
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greatn posted:God drat it. Is that the biggest mass shooting in American history? Since 1984.
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Jun 12, 2016 15:31
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SubponticatePoster posted:It's ok. I'm not a sports junkie, but didn't there used to be an NBA team called the Bullets? Yeah. They're the Washington Wizards now.
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Jun 12, 2016 18:26
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I've been seeing that the 'explosives' in the guy's car in LA were tannerite, which is what you commonly use in long-range firearm targets. Not to downplay it, but I think saying "explosives" overstates the situation a bit.
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Jun 12, 2016 18:56
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Crain posted:It's funny how the GOP now expects the LGBT community to just forget 60+ years of conservatives making GBS threads on them. I'm surprised that the self-identified LGBT vote hasn't gone the way of the black vote in terms of polarization towards the Dems.
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STAC Goat posted:I fully expect to eventually hear the phrase "it was an American club." It's been a not-uncommon refrain among Very Serious People and conservatives that it was an attack on Freedom, not on gays. By splitting it this way, they can hate both muslims and gays at once.
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Jun 14, 2016 21:07
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Does... Does he not know what gay is?
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Jun 14, 2016 21:13
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It's true but it makes literally no sense to bring up. Who does this gain points with?
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Jun 15, 2016 03:15
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Is Assange still facing those rape charges in Sweden? I don't recall how all that shook out.
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Jun 15, 2016 03:42
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I think they formally expelled him from the party.
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Jun 15, 2016 13:53
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/SenateDems/status/743103894310518784 ... Is there anything the Senate's doing that would even get held up by a filibuster?
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STAC Goat posted:A bunch of Republicans straight up thought Romney was going to kill Obama based on them. It was nuts. I knew people who were totally shell shocked the next day and basically going "wait... were the polls right?" Supposedly Romney himself was blindsided. It cannot be repeated enough: Romney was so sure that he was going to win despite all evidence to the contrary that he didn't write a concession speech, hired a massive barge in Boston Harbor with fireworks that never went off, and didn't make plans to get home after the rally because he thought the Secret Service would be driving him.
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Jun 16, 2016 16:54
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I think their outrage is that it was dated May 2015 and addressed how to plan for attacks against Hillary specifically. Bernie launched his campaign on the last day of April, and formally started it at the end of May. No, this is not a particularly strong avenue of attack.
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Jun 16, 2016 19:53
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theflyingorc posted:Seth Myers banned Donald Trump from Late Night. The notable thing is that Trump responded by claiming that he'd never appear on such a low-rated show and that he's turned down their requests to appear multiple times over the last two years. It's the same lines he gave when John Oliver's show attacked him a while back.
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Jun 16, 2016 20:10
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:And Daniel Bryan's. Coincidence? Hm. Both have silly facial hair, both can get crowds on their side, and both had their livelihoods ended by shots to the head. Sounds right.
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Jun 17, 2016 01:30
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If Warren were appointed, Gov. Baker would appoint an interim Senator before a by-election can be held. The laws were changed in 2004 when folks were concerned about John Kerry being elected president and Gov. Romney filling the rest of his term with a Republican. It was used when Kerry became secretary of state-- Mo Cowan was appointed senator, and he declined to run in the subsequent special election, serving for about five months.
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Jun 17, 2016 15:18
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I believe the current story is that Trump impulsively fired Corey this morning after Trump's kids hammered him with questions about the state of the campaign and Corey's answer to how to fix it was to suggest leaking the VP pick early. It was a coincidence that it happened today. Jesus, this all happened today. Feels like ages ago.
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Jun 21, 2016 06:56
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In 2033 President Duckworth will take the inaugural oath... then do some fuckin' awesome scooter donuts.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:An absurd reaction to something she can't understand, or a desperate attempt to explain a diaper fetish? One day our political class will embrace their fetishes and feel unashamed. Until that day, take a wide stance, baby.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:46
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If Warren got the pick, Baker would appoint a caretaker Senator for a few months-- maybe a Republican, but he might get pressure enough to appoint a centrist Dem-- and the special election would follow. Coakley's since taken a gig at Bain Capital, I poo poo you not, so she's done with politics almost assuredly. Warren's replacements would likely be either Joe Kennedy III or Seth Moulton, both of whom are Reps. For a more unconventional pick, they might dig into the Boston City Council and grab either Michelle Wu or Ayanna Pressley, who are both seen as up-and-comers in state politics. They would be the first Asian-American and the first black woman senators from Massachusetts. A not-implausible pick might be Maura Healey, the state AG-- she's fairly popular and would be the state's first openly gay senator, but she's relatively recently elected and the voting public might get deja vu with Coakley too much. Unlike Coakley, though, she seems hella competent.
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Gort posted:Is the US like Stellaris where every ruler gets to build one super-big building with their name on it? It's traditional that presidents have a library, either standalone or associated with a university, that houses their papers and records. JFK's is at UMass Boston, for example, and GWB's is at... I wanna say SMU or TCU.
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Yeah. I'd say Kennedy is likely the front runner for the open seat right now, with Moulton taking the next one. But still, keep an eye out for Wu and Pressley. They could end up going far.
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