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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Holy loving poo poo I hope they pass this. We could see them all thrown out on their asses in just 2 years. I have my doubts. Their electorate follows the "Conservatism cannot fail, only be failed" mantra, have really bad political memory, and have suffered under GOP directed cuts already but still blame Dems.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:This is a goddamn electoral gift basket. They're handing us the next cycle if they pass this poo poo. Trump and the GOP are already framing it as "It'll take 2-4 years for this to really benefit you", so I bet they can spin it.
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https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/841409249485967360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Watch Erdogan start a war.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Somali pirates are back: Its rather sad, because the Pirates are a symptom of foreign fishing fleets raiding and diminishing Somali fish stocks. Piracy is almost all they have left.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:You sound fun. Libertarians are idiots: https://mises.org/library/stateless-somalia-and-loving-it
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Mar 14, 2017 16:55
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-richard-spencer-taxes-20170223-story.html IRS pulled Richard Spencer's groups Tax Free status.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:that vid is the perfect example of why i have always just sat staring straight ahead, hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel, window down and dome light on if at night when pulled over. i like keeping my blood on the inside He wasn't pulled over yet, he was getting out because he'd just had an accident with the semi in front of him, cop JUST rolled up on him while he was getting out.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Stop getting horny guys Sexually Reproductive Species craves sex, film at 11.
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Pesticide20 posted:You're confusing climate with weather, partner To be fair, it confuses even our best senators  https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html
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Mar 15, 2017 16:04
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Two Finger posted:i'm certain i remember reading somewhere that zuckerberg is really socially awkward in person Don't forget he's an ex-athiest and now born again Christian.
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Mar 15, 2017 21:42
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psydude posted:He was raised Jewish, actually. He's really flip-floppy quote:While raised Jewish, Zuckerberg later identified as an atheist,[179][22][180] a position he has since renounced.[181] He has shown an appreciation for Buddhism.[182][183] With regard to Christianity, both Zuckerberg and his wife told Pope Francis in August 2016 "how much we admire his message of mercy and tenderness, and how he's found new ways to communicate with people of every faith around the world."[184][185][186] In December 2016, when asked "Aren't you an atheist?" in response to a Christmas Day post on Facebook, Zuckerberg responded, "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."
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Woof Blitzer posted:Brand new (old) nuke footage This is amazing.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:32
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Yeah, but beggars can't be choosers. It's just something that should happen anyway. Would be hilarious if the person to finally do it would be Trump. I still think it would mostly be a subtraction thing that would come out of it, say CA, OR, WA as the 9th mirroring the 5th. Some adding to the 10th or 8th perhaps. For now, we probably need to not break up the 9th, especially considering Sessions being the current sitting DoJ lead.
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Mar 16, 2017 02:12
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psydude posted:He's basically raping and pillaging everything that isn't DHS or DoD. Let's be honest: What's going to be left to defend and secure at the end of all this?
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Mar 16, 2017 12:40
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-un-conference-womens-rights-hate-group-a7632296.html TL;DR: US is now sending Right Wing think tanks to the UN to advocate against women's rights and gay rights. quote:What has Ms Stern and other CSW attendees particularly perturbed by the decision to include the groups is that both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Ms Haley upheld "the right to be free from discrimination as an American value” during their respective Senate confirmation hearings, Ms Stern said.
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Mar 16, 2017 13:45
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NASA budget proposed by Trump cuts Earth Sciences, Asteroid Redirect, and Europa Lander Mission. http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14942200/nasa-budget-plan-trump-administration-cuts
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VikingSkull posted:To be honest, no administration in 40 years has cared about ambitious uses for NASA so shifting space exploration to the private companies is a pretty good idea IMO. No, I'm sorry, its not. Largely because the goal of private industries is to make a profit, not purely exploration. NASA/JPL is far more equipped for exploration than SpaceX. Granted, we should fully encourage SpaceX/etc. to continue, but they won't replace NASA.
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Mar 16, 2017 20:27
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Handsome Ralph posted:"We can't defend funding the corporation for public broadcasting to our salt of the earth citizens", simple solution dipshit, tax the rich. I wish Fred Roger's was still alive so he could make this fucker cry.
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at the idea of him putting himself into a blue collar workers shoes.
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VikingSkull posted:I'm not saying that NASA isn't worthwhile, just that administration after administration has underutilized them. It's pretty clear that no one who matters is going to fund them to appropriate levels, so we're gonna have to rely on the private side to do the heavy lifting. Nah, because nobody wanted to compete with us for it. If Russia or China was really pushing a space program, NASA would be doing it. And to be fair: NASA is still the king of heavy lifters, even the Falcon Heavy doesn't have anything on the SLS.
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Its laughable that we want to spend more on the DoD while we still have the largest Fleet and Air arm in the world.
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Godholio posted:And we fight so many goddamned wars and maintain a permanent presence in so many areas of the world that we're stretched super thin and wearing out our people and equipment faster than it can be replaced. Nobody is arguing gut the military, but we don't need $50 billion MORE spent on it! http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/03/trumps-bigger-military-wont-necessarily-make-us-stronger-or-safer/136212/?oref=DefenseOneFB CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I am. We're still building tanks to park in the desert. We're still fighting a war in Afghanistan for no reason whatsoever. There are massive parts of the defense budget that could be cut. We could simply take those funds and use them where needed. Instead of dumping more into it.
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Third World Reggin posted:As a former submariner, we could use less subs. Yup. http://www.globalfirepower.com/navy-submarines.asp
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I love how their plan is to bascially demonstrate that low income elderly and children need to starve. The Party of Jesus, ladies and gents.
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Godholio posted:Except it is not "far below the current standard." We're there. There's not enough money in the budget to recapitalize the neglected nuclear force, refresh the Navy's surface fleet and bring the average age of surface ships below 70% of their design lives (2015), recapitalize an Air Force that has been actively involved in combat operations since 1990 (and in some communities, stretching back to the early 80s) and has an average aircraft age of 27 years old (2015) but includes dozens of front-line planes designed and/or built in the 1950s and 60s, entice qualified, trained, and intelligent people to stay in uniform (ie stop the "brain drain" especially in the officer corps), and replace the 25% or more of high-end training that has been siphoned off for the past decade+. There were several consecutive years where we saw a 10% cut in flying hour funding, for example. There are roughly half the aggressor squadrons across the DOD compared to 20 years ago and far fewer real exercises, for another. The problem is not lack of funding, but how it is spent, and where it is spent. They don't need more funding. And eventually, it will cost us dearly to keep up this insane pace of military spending.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Oklahoma State Senator caught loving an underage male prostitute. Best part is this guy was running on a Family Values Anti-Gay/Anti-Trans platform.
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facialimpediment posted:And everyone hates Donnie's bullshit budget. This isn't suprising. Despite what the GOP likes to tout, actually cutting these programs like Trump wants to will directly affect their constituents, and that won't bode well for future votes.
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FastestGunAlive posted:Trump should develop some sort of consolidated area for the branches of government and various agencies and departments could be conveniently located near each other so he wouldn't have to hold meetings in mar a lago every weekend Except he does it because he's a dumbass.
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Office Pig posted:So, two things. The first thing, which is ridiculous: I wonder what his secret service name is? "Golden Child"?
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One of these days, a member of the press is going to snap at one of these conferences and blow up on Spicer, Trump, or their Budget rear end in a top hat.
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http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-are-educators-learning-how-to-interrogate-their-students
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I've taken to tying the number of Mossy Oak/Realtree Decals and gear to the level of poverty in the region.
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DoktorLoken posted:Yeah, the thing is WI is solidly average to above average in per capita income. There is poverty, but it's mostly concentrated in urban areas. I'd just chalk it up to a lot of hicks living in northern WI or Minnesota. It isn't just poverty as in lack of income, but poverty in heavy credit to gross income burden as well.
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Theresa May will kick off Brexit next week on the 29th.
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So glad I just seperated.
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http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_tells_gop_lawmakers_i_m_gonna_come_after_you_if_you_vote_against_trumpcarequote:President Donald Trump Tuesday morning told Republican House lawmakers he will "come after" them if they do not vote for TrumpCare, the Republican bill to repeal and "replace" ObamaCare. Earlier today NCRM reported the President had threatened Republican Congressmen by stating they "will lose" their seats if they don't pass TrumpCare. He's gonna die alone.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39343971?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook Britain is going to follow the US on its ban on laptops on flights from certain countries. This is idiotic.
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facialimpediment posted:Paul Manafort: Putin as gently caress. AP got their hands on documents showing he had a $10m/year contract with a Putin-linked Russian billionaire. This smoke is getting really loving thick, I wonder if there is a fire.
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TBeats posted:I'm just gonna tell it like it is: regardless of the end result, Russia really did a good job at whatever they were trying to do. They didn't do a good job, we're just really loving stupid. Like, the smoke has been visible for months even prior to November, and we still danced around it.
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TBeats posted:Eh, I'd say a little of column A, a little of column B. But I'll concede that it's more of column B (the column that says we are stupid). I think the biggest irony of this whole thing is the party that has been praising McCarthyism is the one taking Russian bait, hook line and sinker.
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