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Oh, here, have some non-Trump non-terrorism news. https://twitter.com/ClimateNexus/status/844625484822593536  Stay safe, Gulf Coast GiP-ers.
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Mike-o posted:It's Sherman's ghost coming back in cataclysmic hurricane form to finish what he started in the south. Well, burning everything clearly didn't work last time, I see his logic...
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Mike-o posted:Kill all republicans and conservatives. I say this as someone who grew up taking that bullshit hook line and sinker.
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Mar 23, 2017 19:07
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cowboy elvis posted:It's not like AHCA is popular. Like it's hated by nearly everyone so why all the fervor to pass it? Because they need to get a budget surplus so that they can pass tax cuts later on, they campaigned on repealing Obamacare, and Trump actually needs to accomplish something beyond a hiring freeze and a shitton of civilian deaths in Yemen and Syria.
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Mar 23, 2017 19:37
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https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/844996457249886208 I can't stop laughing.
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Mar 23, 2017 20:47
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https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/845055951531069441 https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/845055894677262336 https://twitter.com/BresPolitico/status/845056007558610944  ART OF THE DEAL!
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/NOMupdate/status/845029981747056640 I liked how Spain treated the bus: Told them they needed to get it out of the country for inciting hate, and later... 
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Mar 24, 2017 01:12
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Comey being asked to resign. Watch. If he does that, he goes down faster and harder than Nixon.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:46
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I wouldn't count it as self-immolation. Trump's supporters support Trump, not the GOP. All of the media attention for the health care debacle has been on Congress and Paul Ryan, not Trump. Congress will take the fall in the eyes of the Trump voters, but unless the leftist momentum fires up for the midterms (  ), the Republicans will just get replaced by other Republicans who know even less about governing, and the cycle will perpetuate.The key thing to look at here is how the Freedom Caucus played Ryan and Trump: Everyone was operating under Ryan's rules, where only certain things would be allowed to pass into the Senate. In order to get more of the HFC votes, Ryan relaxed those rules, which caused the HFC to go "Okay, but since you showed us that the goalposts can move, we now want this. And a ferris wheel." Ryan had to move those goalposts, losing more moderate votes and failing to secure new ones because the AHCA didn't go far enough in loving people over. And it all died because not only could the Republicans not get the votes, they didn't have the balls to put it on record since they're terrified of Trump trying to make a shitlist. I guess they're the only ones who really need to worry about that, given that their seats are probably the most vulnerable to being primaried by the right.
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Mar 27, 2017 02:08
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Fox has been waffling in their coverage of Trump because they're losing Trump voters to Breitbart and the like, so they drift between slightly critical of Trump and god-worship. Breitbart has called the entire healthcare thing "Ryancare" from the get-go and blamed Republicans.
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Mar 27, 2017 02:54
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I need the valuation of Rosneft in pieces of silver. 
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Mar 27, 2017 06:41
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I hope this leads to another explanation of uranium and nuclear holocausts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCnKtzQpCSs
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Mar 28, 2017 02:43
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holy poo poo there was another part A SECOND TWEET HAS HIT THE TWITTER https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/846536212362018816 edit: he's on fire https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/846537639167713281
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Mar 28, 2017 02:45
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Technically, if your party holds a majority in both parts of Congress and control of the Presidency, making GBS threads yourself on the national stage because you couldn't decide between "KILL THE POOR", "gently caress THE POOR", or "NO, KILL THEN gently caress THE POOR" probably counts as snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:56
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Jaguars! posted:What is the freedom caucus? Despite saving the US from a severe misstep, I get the impression they're bunch of morons. Quite a few of them didn't want to vote for the AHCA because it didn't actually get rid of government involvement in healthcare. Beyond that, they typically vote against any sort of spending increase whatsoever (unless it's for the military), vote against any raising of taxes, and forced Boehner out because he actually tried to govern once in a while. Out of thirty-plus members, four of them entered Congress before 2010. None of them know anything about governing or crafting legislation, all they know is stomping their feet and saying no.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:so am i safe running windows defender, or......? Yes. Get uBlock Origin for your browser of choice and don't be stupid about what you download/open/visit. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723583 Read this thread.
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Cugel the Clever posted:For the average user? Yes. There's significant debate in the security community about consumer-grade commercial anti-virus actually doing more harm than good (repeated examples of grossly irresponsible practices from AV vendors that actually serve as far greater attack vectors than would otherwise be available). James Mickens (look up his articles, they're all pretty good) put it this way: THREAT: Ex-girlfriend/boyfriend breaking into your email account and publicly releasing your correspondence with the My Little Pony fan club SOLUTION: Strong passwords. THREAT: Organized criminals breaking into your account and stealing your identity. SOLUTION: Strong passwords and common sense (don't click on don’t click on unsolicited herbal Viagra ads that result in keyloggers and sorrow) THREAT: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email. SOLUTION: Magical amulets? Fake your own death and move into a submarine? You're still gonna be Mossad'ed upon.
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The fabled destruction of minimum wage jobs by raising the wage is horseshit: Most minimum wage jobs aren't skilled and they'd be impossible to outsource without sweeping changes to employment that would make the positions obsolete anyhow. You still need someone flipping burgers at McDonalds' whether you pay them $5 an hour or $15, and the majority of employers are going to hire just enough people to run whatever business, regardless of wage. If they halved the minimum wage tomorrow, employers wouldn't suddenly find jobs out of thin air, they'd just pocket the remainder. poo poo's actually going to hit the fan as automation increases.
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Mar 28, 2017 21:58
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Proud Christian Mom posted:lol Nunes is just going to start making poo poo up now Start?
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Mar 28, 2017 22:50
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Would make my day if some ancient WW2 vet issued a statement saying "Never before?"
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Mar 29, 2017 01:59
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Genocide Tendency posted:The part about countries who left through diplomacy sounded like the Countries of the World song from the Animaniacs. You have a much lower chance of being raped in a science lab in Antarctica.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:How can you tell the difference between Texas Republicans and Texas Democrats? A Republican will tell you they just don't want the brown people around. A Democrat will tell you they don't want them around because it might harm their property values. I assumed one is behind the steering wheel of the pickup truck and the other is behind the bumper.
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https://twitter.com/MichaelBKelley/status/847814131357020160 General Misha.
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https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/847899113752604674 https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/847899898724986880 This is amazing. Look at the timestamps.
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Mar 31, 2017 21:08
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I honestly question whether there's anyone out there who actually voted for Obama and then voted for both Romney and Trump. Bonus points if that mythical disillusioned Obama voter is old, white, and near the poverty line. As endearing as these stories are, I refuse to believe this woman or anyone in her situation ever voted for Obama.
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Still not buying it. A: These people think that saying they voted Obama in 2008 would make other people think they're racist. Voting against him in 2012 is okay since they did it once and we had a black president, racism is over. B: These people are 50 or older. They've been voting since at least Reagan. They never establish any voting history, which means there isn't anything there. Either they didn't vote or they went straight Republican until Obama showed up and would make them feel guilty if they got caught voting against him. Who'd they vote for in '92? (HINT: It was probably Perot.) C: Much like every Breitbart article about radical liberal professors waterboarding innocent Christian students until they renounce Christ and embrace Marx, this poo poo is solely printed to make some people on the left clutch at their pearls and make some point and laugh. It's self-validating garbage. redneck nazgul fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Godholio posted:It's amazing how many people in this thread still assume that anyone who voted for Obama would automatically have voted for Hillary. Hillary was a poo poo candidate, the sky is blue, water is wet, always campaign in the Rust Belt. I'm not assuming anyone who voted for Obama would automatically vote for Hillary. I don't believe people voted for Obama in 2008, then changed their mind and voted for Romney in 2012 and Trump in 2016. Maybe someone could justify voting for Obama in 2008 by saying that they didn't want Sarah Palin within a heartbeat of the presidency in 2008, but I'm not sure how you can rationalize that with putting Trump in the presidency in 2016. There's no way of knowing whether these people are telling the truth when they say how they voted, and it's a demonstrable fact that people don't like to associate themselves with the losing/unpopular side: The number of self-described Republicans has plummeted since Dubya was in charge, while the number of 'independents' who coincidentally end up voting straight ticket R has grown by the same number. They should remove the independent label from polls: If someone wants to say that they're not a Democrat/Republican, make them choose a useless third party with which to associate themselves and then the Democrats can stop trying to appeal to people who vote Republican while refusing to associate themselves with the likes of Trump. Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that these regretful Trump voters are only whining because electing Trump didn't fix all of their problems overnight, and the only reason journalists are paying attention to them is because people enjoy finding those articles, clicking on them, and going "Ha ha, you did this to yourself". redneck nazgul fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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SwampDonkey posted:And then independent turns into "NONE" and nothing has changed. It'd be simple enough, and you could honestly get rid of asking for party affiliation. Establish their age, ask them who they voted for in the past X presidential elections, going as far back as Bush Senior/Clinton/Perot. You can extrapolate their actual party affiliation from there without telling them. If they didn't vote in any election, ask them who they would have voted for in 2016. If they say neither candidate, thank them for their time and hang up. I mention Perot because I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a correlation between people who voted for Perot and people who voted for Trump, but I haven't had the time to do any serious research on it.
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Waroduce posted:This administration could really use a war or attack to bolster their popularity..... The only way that works is if he's able to frame it that the IC was more concerned with wiretapping him than keeping America safe. So, uh, 50/50 odds.
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Two Finger posted:Are you forgetting that it came out the IC was all but screaming at Bush about people not being interested in how to land planes? Bush wasn't in a state of unannounced war with the IC in his first year, and at first glance, 9/11 was pretty out of the blue. It wasn't until later that everyone put the pieces together and went "Yeah, this was preventable". Trump's policies are, at best, conveniently ignoring potential sources of terrorism and encouraging it at worst. The only way Trump's getting 90%+ approval like you had under Dubya immediately after 9/11 is if he can sell it to America that the IC spent too much time trying to ruin him when they should have looked at RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRER.
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I remember 7th grade me in central Georgia, still firmly indoctrinated in Rush Limbaugh and O'Reilly from my parents, talking politics with a friend of mine. He voted Democrat because his racist grandfather did, solely on "which party hates minorities more". I tried to convince him the Republicans hated minorities more and so he should vote for Bush. It's me. I'm the worst leftist. redneck nazgul fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Fun Fact: Ross Perot's campaign pollster was Frank Luntz. Yes, that Frank Luntz.
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:If you want to reach, Harvard classifies GenX as 1965-85. I think the best watermarks are "Were you aware of the implications of the Berlin Wall falling?" for defining where Gen-X ends and "Were you aware of the implications of 9/11?" for where the older group of millenials ends..
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Hold on to your accusations of fire, I found more smoke: https://twitter.com/katherinemiller/status/849029612327890944
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