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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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cowboy elvis posted:

Also, is it no small coincidence that the Flynn charge happened after Kushner interviewed with Mueller?

No doubt, Mueller was probably double checking the story and then trying to figure out what Kushner was lying about or if Kushner would roll when confronted.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Mr. Nice! posted:

Someone posted this in the November thread, but I didn't want to keep chatting there.


Low level staffers are where a lot of the work gets done. Yeah, Flynn personally did a lot of things, but for every Flynn there are a dozen Papadopolouses. Also I wouldn't want anyone involved with this at all ever working for the government again, and one way to make sure of that is to charge them even if they only end up with probation or something minor.

Low level guys are also the ones who do scheduling and handle incriminating details like paperwork.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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psydude posted:

My stocks and mutual fund are mostly down on the day so far. It's like economics realize that loving over the middle class hurts the economy.

Its kind of the funny thing: The Stock Market favors the wealthy, but its not stupid, they know that if the Middle Class has no purchasing power, and the lower class has no liquid assets, then bad things are going to happen.

facialimpediment posted:

I'm really interested to see someone swear under oath about what happened. Trump Tweets are almost always from him, or through Scavino. If Dowd wrote the tweet, he hosed up by saying "pled" instead of "pleaded" which ZERO lawyers do.

That sort of explains why today, the lawyer (Dowd) is claiming the President can't obstruct justice because he's the highest ranking law enforcement official. It's total bullshit, based on previous impeachment documents citing obstruction, but they're officially making the Dredd Defense now.

That's not to mention: If the President's twitter is going to be counted as 'Official Communication' is it okay for his lawyers to use it? Probably, but still raises some issues.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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facialimpediment posted:

Here's the funny part about that though.

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/937686807201943553

Moore's an uncontrollable, religious nutbag and he won't take Donnie or McConnell's poo poo. Jones might actually want to get re-elected and would act quasi-Republican.

But if there is a Dem swing in 2018, Jones will likely swing back.

Moore? No.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Notable quotes

quote:

"I firmly believe," said Governor J. H. Hammond, "that American slavery is not only not a sin, but especially commanded by God through Moses, and approved by Christ through his apostles."[14]

Governor J. H. Hammond once said: "I endorse without reserve the much abused sentiment of Governor McDuffie, that 'slavery is the corner-stone of our republican edifice;' while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson that 'all men are born equal.'

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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If there was ever a good reminder why all these White Supremacist and Militia groups can rot in hell, here is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Raul_and_Brisenia_Flores

quote:

Gina Marie Gonzalez, the 31-year-old wife of Raul Flores and the mother of Brisenia, was in the home during the attack and was shot three times.[3] She survived because she pretended to be dead. When the assailants left the home, Gonzalez called 911 emergency services and armed herself with her husband's handgun. While Gonzalez was on the phone, the assailants re-entered the home, and Gonzalez fired the gun, wounding Bush. The killers then fled. Gonzalez identified two men--one white, the other Mexican--and a white woman as the attackers. Gonzales identified the white man (Bush) as the one who had murdered her daughter and her husband.

An early exchange within the 911 call was recorded as follows:
Gonzalez: "They shot me and I pretended like I was dead. My daughter was crying. They shot her, too.
Operator: "Are they still there, the people who, that shot them?"
Gonzalez: "They're coming back in! They're coming back in!" (Gunfire.)[4]

Brisenia was a third-grade student at the Sopori Elementary School in Amado, Arizona, at the time of her death.[5] Another of the Flores's daughters, a 12-year-old, was at her grandmother's home in Sahuarita, Arizona, during the attack.[6]

Good people on both sides I assume. Nearly every group associated with these fuckers is tainted by White Supremacists/Aryan Nation shitheels.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Immanentized posted:

The trick with financial stability is predictability and longevity of habits.

And the ability to actually get an income that allows you to have enough liquid assets left to do so.

Which is largely the overwhelming problem in the US: Median overall income has not matched overall productivity and the inflation of the dollar. So its not realistic for the average joe to actually set aside 1/3rd of their paycheck.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Asthma and hearing issues after 8.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Atlanta's express toll gets up to $13 one way, only gets you up to the I-285 perimeter.

Toll roads are a loving ripoff.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Oh its loving on.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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DoktorLoken posted:

I'm OK with this. If we start pricing congestion at actual market rates we might actually get Americans behind building real mass transit systems in cities that aren't NYC, Chicago, Boston, D.C., etc.

This is before you get into the fact that these roads were still probably paid for with tax dollars, so they are charging you money to use a road you paid for already. If they want to charge and call it congestion charges, fine, but they should do it at a scale based on what you actually make, because $35, let alone $13 is a huge impact for low income people.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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DoktorLoken posted:

It's one thing that a large percentage of Americans can't seem to understand. Single occupancy vehicles into city centers are idiotic and shouldn't be encouraged; building the interstate system through cities instead of up to their periphery was one of the worst mistakes we've ever made as a country as it decimated cities and created unsustainable suburbs around them. Mass transit works literally everywhere else, but for some reason they think American cities are different.

Oh no, we all agree, Mass Transit is the ONLY solution.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Moral Majority right there.

https://twitter.com/Elizabeth_Calo/status/937881699966509056

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Casimir Radon posted:

GUYS DONT YOU SEE?! THIS IS MUELLER'S WAY OF WRAPPING THINGS UP AND EXONAERATING ME! STUPID!

HE GOT HIS MAN, HE GOT HIS MAN AGAIN!


The co-author of this piece (who also has supposedly been tied back to Russian funding) is claiming its all just a big misunderstanding.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Time announced their person of the year.



It's the #MeToo movement :)

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Mr. Nice! posted:

Sucks because he was a decent to great senator, but i've already had to deal with "franken was a rapist; moore was at least consensual" on facebook.

Because "Nobody will believe you, I'm the DA" totally sounds like a consensual relationship.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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9 Democratic Senators calling for Franken to resign.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Doctor famous for discovering football related Trauma damage has come out saying that during his time as lead coroner, the local sheriff overrode his findings repeatedly to protect officers:
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/0..._content=202907

And the Justice Department has launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal tissue. The only person who has claimed/evidence for this is James O'Keefe
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/07/planned-parenthood-under-investigation-by-justice-department-over-sale-fetal-tissue.html

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Dec 8, 2017

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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quote:

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. A day that will live in infamy for most Americans – except the President of the United States, that is.

During a ceremony commemorating the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941, President Trump referred to the deaths of over 2,300 American military men and women as “a pretty wild scene.”

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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DoktorLoken posted:

So it turns out Trump and team were e-mailed a decryption key for Wikileaks stuff in September 2016....

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/939122861666721792

Not all that shocking, its become readily obvious Wikileaks was not only talking to Trump's campaign, but actively seeking to assist them.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Sanders: Buisinesses hanging Anti-Gay signs is a-okay

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/12/05/sarah-sanders-trump-ok-businesses-hanging-antigay-signs

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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This is mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mhsW5aWJM

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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At that same Florida rally, a speaker said Trump will usher in the Biblical End Times.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Thalantos posted:

But life sucks, being sober is a suckers game.

At least I haven't killed myself yet, lol

I'm sober, but I spend all my money on car projects.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Wasabi the J posted:

Zionism sucks and gently caress Israel.

Jews have been historically pretty cool and good to me.


I just don't honestly know what the gently caress to do and I don't envy anyone who has to make meaningful decisions in that region. It should be done by our most analytical and compassionate minds put together, but instead I cannot fathom Trump, Pence, or any member of his cabinet having any measure of compassion.

Like past cabinets were filled with people that I disagreed with but seemed reasonable. This cabinet seems so self serving and petty, I just feel disheartened.

The Israeli Government is awful and sucks, and Zionism is a cancer, but Jewish people are generally cool and good.

Wish we could just declare Jerusalem an International City and make it off limits to both Israeli and Palestinian governments and open to both religions.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Godholio posted:

Tom Clancy saves the world.

Tom Clancy would've given it to Israeli, c'mon now. Clancy was a Conservative that openly blamed 9/11 on the Left for cutting CIA funding.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 10, 2017

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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He's a decent guy, he just doesn't tolerate fools

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Notably, Moore's home county is reporting 91% for Jones.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Best catte.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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not caring here posted:

Yo I hear we're talking about fish tanks



This is about a week or 2 after the hurricane knocked out power for a week. I'd take a recent photo but the lights are dimmed for the night.

Did they all survive? :ohdear:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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....get hosed GOP, and thanks Bannon for coming in to take a giant poo poo in the reddest of states and turn it blue :getin:

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Sherman rolls on Alabama

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Tryzzub posted:

how long until trump throws moore under the bus?

Easily in the AM, he'll bitch that he wasn't using enough Trumpisms. Not even Bannon and Trump could save this poo poo stain.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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facialimpediment posted:

HOW THE gently caress DID ALABAMA VOTE FOR A PRO-CHOICE DEMOCRAT

HOW

NO loving WAY

Black voters, willing to bet it was the black voters who have seen the KKK marching at the behest and approval of a GOP President.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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And Trump/GOP still endorsed the fucker.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

Haha what a smug oval office

https://www.avclub.com/the-fccs-ajit-pai-now-openly-mocking-net-neutrality-pro-1821278546


Ajit pretty much made a video mocking everyone

He's such a loving out of touch dumbass.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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The best part is Netanyahu crying crocodile tears.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Gobbeldygook posted:

The pro-net neuter dystopic short stories you've read aren't going to become real. Your ISP is not going to suddenly force you to start paying every month for The Video Streaming Package and The Social Media Package to keep using your favorite sites. They're going to continue to control your usage with data caps and traffic shaping and maybe nerds will get real mad when they prove Comcast is throttling their Netflix at peak hours.

If that's the end of the world to you, get a hobby.

Its not like Comcast and AT&T have openly used the ability to throttle specific services and websites before to gain an edge, including locking competitors out through lobbying....

....OH WAIT, THEY HAVE! Comcast has in the past throttle third party VOIP applications in order to push their own, blocked services that they felt were illicit (ignoring the totally legal uses for them) and actively throttled competing applications.

And remember: Large portions of their backbone were paid for through tax incentives and directly through taxpayer funded grants.

They have actively fought against better competing products like Google Fiber and EPB, and local Fiber projects, while providing sub-par services and generally being legislative dicks to anyone that tries to compete.

Gobbeldygook posted:

If that's the end of the world to you, get a hobby.

You really are a loving dumbass if you think its just about Netflix and porn.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Dec 14, 2017

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

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Gobbeldygook posted:

Comcast pushing their own lovely VOIP application is like a 2 on the scale of corporate evil.

I too only use BitTorrent to download Linux ISOs.

You don't get to proclaim "Free Market is good and will provide" while sweeping aside actual market cronyism and say there's nothing to see here.

Please continue to help convince us how loving stupid you are.

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