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Solemn Sloth posted:If the democrats can't manage to win back congress with two years of trump under their belt they should just log off and walk into the ocean. The Senate is an uphill battle because it's the people who were re-elected alongside Obama's win in 2012, and the House is gerrymandered to hell. On the other hand Trump is a hell of a target to run against.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Daily Mail saying he founded a political club called Fascism Forever! When he was in school. He also chose the 'the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional etc.' Kissinger quote for his yearbook. Pretty big red flags. That just means he's a well read scholar etc hurf durf.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The Senate is an uphill battle because it's the people who were re-elected alongside Obama's win in 2012, and the House is gerrymandered to hell. Yeah I recognise it's a uphill battle but seriously, if not now, when?
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Feb 2, 2017 08:58
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Have to admit some satisfaction at watching the most spineless, bootlicking allied government get wrecked by the trump twitter regardless.
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Feb 2, 2017 08:59
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Solemn Sloth posted:Yeah I recognise it's a uphill battle but seriously, if not now, when? I'm just pessimistic about this.
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:Have to admit some satisfaction at watching the most spineless, bootlicking allied government get wrecked by the trump twitter regardless.  I don't envy DFAT analysts right now. Do we suck up to the oppressive and corrupt communist regime or the crazy and probably senile fascist.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:
As if the mob in charge would even listen to them. Who does the LNP want to cosy up to? Follow the donation trails and personal business interests.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:20
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Perfect opportunity for an Alec Baldwin / Lawrence Mooney collaboration here.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:21
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Solemn Sloth posted:Yeah I recognise it's a uphill battle but seriously, if not now, when? Sure, what's your plan? Cos I don't see any good options.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:23
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ewe2 posted:Sure, what's your plan? Cos I don't see any good options. Drink heavily before the world goes Mad Max. Know where your leather jacket is.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:25
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Solemn Sloth posted:Yeah I recognise it's a uphill battle but seriously, if not now, when? Feel free to point to the three seats the Dems are going to flip while also keeping North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Missouri, and West Virginia. 
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Feb 2, 2017 09:27
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ewe2 posted:Yeah he's to the right of Scalia, as I said. The only good thing about this is that he just slots into an existing power structure 4 pro-liberal, 4 pro-conservative, 1 centrist. It gets interesting if a non-conservative dies or retires. you're loving dumb as dogshit dude. there is no difficult decision. the republicans aren't going to reward democrats if they play nice with them. did you literally just start following US politics because the last 8 years demonstrated this very well over and over and over.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:30
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The Senate is an uphill battle because it's the people who were re-elected alongside Obama's win in 2012, and the House is gerrymandered to hell. If Trump has driven the country into a recession by then and made life worse for the rednecks who voted for him originally, and democrat voters are outraged and motivated enough to actually get out and vote it might be doable.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:37
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BBJoey posted:you're loving dumb as dogshit dude. there is no difficult decision. the republicans aren't going to reward democrats if they play nice with them. did you literally just start following US politics because the last 8 years demonstrated this very well over and over and over. Let me know when you figure out the reading thing, kid. The rest of the kindergarten are ahead of you.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:38
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Hello Auspol, i'm feeling like staring into your abyss again. That OP is loving spectacular.
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Feb 2, 2017 09:47
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Guy on Radio National is talking about how automation and moving jobs to the lowest cost location will result in people "finding something else to do" as an off-handed result. "Finding Something Else To Do"'. That's what you call a revolution. Or a civil war.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:24
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Well, if there was a workable social safety net, people would. As it stands now, the "something else" is suffer in poverty.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:27
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A good day for Turnbull. Good optics all round. Should keep the backbench off his hammer for a bit.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:49
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Trump is so unpopular abroad that any friction Turnbull has with him makes Turnbull more popular. It's an upside for Turnbull, I guess, but it's hard to be excited for him when today was probably the deciding factor whether or not the Mad Max future happens.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:53
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What I'd loving give to have someone leak a recording of that phone call.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:57
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There's definitely at least one recording, one in the US one in Canberra and probably a few at the kremlin. Apparently Trumpo was yelling at Malcolm which is pretty fuckin' wild.
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Feb 2, 2017 10:59
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Actually it doesn't help Turnbull, because everyone knows he was licking arse and still got shat on.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:00
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I wish I could have seen Turnbull's face as he tried being all puffed up statesman like at first then realised he was being talked down to by a shouty reality TV show host who considered him to be less than nothing.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:03
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DancingShade posted:I wish I could have seen Turnbull's face as he tried being all puffed up statesman like at first then realised he was being talked down to by a shouty reality TV show host who considered him to be less than nothing. Probably the same look as whenever he tries being all puffed up statesman like and he realises he is being talked down to by an onion eating reptile
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Feb 2, 2017 11:07
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Imagine losing to this tasteless piece of poo poo: drat, his feet are tinier than his hands.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:13
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There's talk of exporting our service industries. How the gently caress do you do that (other than drive professionals overseas because we're poo poo) ? I sure hope they're not expecting our internet to withstand the effort.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:15
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ewe2 posted:There's talk of exporting our service industries. How the gently caress do you do that (other than drive professionals overseas because we're poo poo) ? I think it's a bit like hosting a call center that makes money by taking calls from overseas. Except more agile or something
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Feb 2, 2017 11:18
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well why not posted:Trump is so unpopular abroad that any friction Turnbull has with him makes Turnbull more popular. I don't think attempting to suck up to Trump, getting shut the gently caress down, attempting to lie and say you are best buds, then getting publicly humiliated is as good for turnbulls popularity as you think it is.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:22
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Obama must be laughing his goddamn rear end off.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Obama must be laughing his goddamn rear end off. He is on Richard Branson private island right now choomin and chillin. Last photo I saw he was in shorts a T-Shirt sunnies and a backwards baseball cap
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Feb 2, 2017 11:59
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gay picnic defence posted:I think it's a bit like hosting a call center that makes money by taking calls from overseas. Except more agile or something Yeah it just sounded like half-baked advisor soundbites, it didn't survive the news cycle. Or perhaps that was just Qantas's excuse for moving their call centre to the Philippines like everyone else.
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Solemn Sloth posted:If the democrats can't manage to win back congress with two years of trump under their belt they should just log off and walk into the ocean. Edit: beaten like american democracy
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Feb 2, 2017 12:24
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When someone says exporting service industries, I think overseas call centers.
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Comstar posted:Guy on Radio National is talking about how automation and moving jobs to the lowest cost location will result in people "finding something else to do" as an off-handed result.
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Milky Moor posted:When someone says exporting service industries, I think overseas call centers. Australia has lots of services industries to export such as
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Feb 2, 2017 12:42
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Service industries are 68% of the Australian economy. To compare - mining is around 7-8%. If we offshore the service industry, there'll be nothing left.
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Feb 2, 2017 12:47
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If i were a teen now I'd be learning a second or even third language in hope of making a career teaching English somewhere in Asia. It's one of the few things that we can do better than other countries in SE Asia.
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DancingShade posted:Australia has lots of services industries to export such as The Professor being interviewed wanted to offshore his paper work, the daily routines he wants to get someone else to do, so he could spend more time teaching students. I really wanted to ask who is going to be paying to listen when we have no jobs to pay for it, huge debts after it., and no jobs at the end of the education he was so thoughtfully providing. Sadly I don't think he'd thought that far ahead.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Service industries are 68% of the Australian economy. Offshore finance? Yeah maybe. Offshore our.. tourism? I guess we can box up Uluru and send it to China. Offshore our media? Well it's all been destroyed or taken over by Rupert so sure why not. Offshore education? Ok sure, import cheap overseas trained teachers and the locals can go pick fruit on the work for the dole program. Offshore logistics? I don't see a need for much for this locally once the previous stuff happens.
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