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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

If it's anything Centrist dems don't want, it's to have to live life as a minority

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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I said a few months ago that Trump's going to break into national news coverage of the Dem primaries with presidential addresses to gently caress them over, and I still believe that will happen

"I apologize for interrupting the FAKE NEWS loving Democrats who are INSULTING ME, but let me talk for 30 minutes about infrastructure..."

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

::is poor::

::opens checking account::

::writes check::

::check bounces, because still poor::

"HOW DO WE FIX THIS THING?" - A Politician

::poors now allowed to bounce checks::

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Main Paineframe posted:

no worries

Booker's proposal solves that by continuing to allow banks to charge overdraft fees on checks

headline: "Banning overdraft fees: Cory Booker’s new idea to tackle big banks"
article: "Booker’s newly proposed legislation ... would bar financial institutions from charging overdraft fees on debit card transactions and ATM withdrawals."

::bounces check::

"No more fees!"

::bank closes account::

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

docbeard posted:

Honestly, more like:

::is poor::

::bank never lets you open account in the first place::

Yeah it feels like we're not far away from credit scores replacing Chex System or whatever banks use to tell if you should get an account

Schwab already does it

If banks can't make money off the poor through fees then they'll just dump them as customers

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
"What is Identity Politics?"

Socialist: Manipulation of people's thoughts by making them feel bad about race and gender

Republican: Snowflakes doing snowflake things

Democrat: SIR, I AM A GAY BLACK WOMAN, HOW DARE YOU ASK ME QUESTIONS WITHOUT EVER KNOWING MY STRUGGLE - NOW LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE TAX CREDITS I HAVE PROPOSED THAT WILL BE PHASED IN OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Losers With No Power - "why isn't anyone talking to us?"

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Shear Modulus posted:

one point i want to make w/r/t this thread's constant argument about "identity politics" (although i hate the use of the term since it is both imprecise and loaded with the right's preconceptions) is that the so-called "identity" that democrats and (for lack of a better term) liberals are championing/offering isnt the nonwhite, queer, etc "identity" but moreso the idea of a "woke" and sympathetic white person. the perspective is still firmly rooted in white supremacy.

this is intimately tied up with the on-the-ground reality that the dems themselves are all rich white men who think they are enlightened

Peak of this: 2020 Convention coming down to Bernie vs. Harris, and Obama stumping for Harris on the convention floor to a chorus of boos

MSNBC: "Apparently the Bernie supporters ARE in fact, racist!"

Hold on to your butts

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

But, you see, money

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Guy Goodbody posted:

Remember Cash For Clunkers? It kinda sucked but was really popular and easy to explain

How did that get past the Democrat brain trust that makes everything terrible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpc_3BWyCWs

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

This Man Has No Penis

https://twitter.com/IPM_Prime/status/1026158724128358401

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
"'Succ Zone" is an anthem. "Succ Zone" is a way of loving life. It unironically brings me joy.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

LinYutang posted:

abdul el sayed had a rally in a black church in Ypsi and only white people showed up lol

https://twitter.com/MattDargay/status/1023656083620089856

Yes, those progressive black theists did indeed fail to show up

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1026229623468830721

A little misleading...

quote:

The Politico/Morning Consult poll found a generic Democratic candidate doing even better than Biden and leading Trump 48- 35 percent.

Generic Democratic Candidate 2020

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

theCalamity posted:

It's also the same poll that only brings up Biden and no other likely candidate

and he still lost to Not Biden

That's a lol

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Where does The Hill fall on the spectrum of Succ?

Is it funded by Koch money or something?

It seems pretty reliable for Republicans loving Up news

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

oh my god

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Shear Modulus posted:

he cheated on his wife while she was on her deathbed with cancer

his mistress was on the campaign payroll

he had a kid with her

The Patton Oswalt Story

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

mythicknight posted:

eat the rich

I've been thinking for a while - wouldn't the best way to piss off the rich be to gather up the poor/homeless and have sit-ins at country clubs?

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

spacetoaster posted:

Homeless people have standards. :colbert:

I dunno, the thought of a nationwide sit-in at country club parking lots producing video footage of poors getting beaten and dragged from the property so Mr. Richardson can keep his tee time is an attractive proposition

Invade their safe space

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

MeatwadIsGod posted:

I feel a great disturbance, as if millions of voices suddenly hissed out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

"There are BLACKS in the POOL, Philip!"

"We don't pay $20,000/year for this!"

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Cerebral Bore posted:

How about we have the poors beating and dragging Mr. Richardson to the guillotine instead?

Dressing as the Grim Reaper and standing at the gates of every country club with a guillotine sounds like fun

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Kokoro Wish posted:

Create a twitter botnet that just posts pictures of Guillotines constantly to targetted millionares+. Hire a flat bed, put one on the back, park it on Wall Street.

Death takes a road trip to visit every Country Club in America, like a baseball fan visiting stadiums

Livestreams every day at noon

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/1027936522643955712

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Phone posted:

im at the optometrist and fight song is playing

send help

pls

help

Nate Silver puts you at 99% chance of leaving with both your eyes

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

etalian posted:

lol that article title and photo



it looks like a prostate massager

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Crazy ex-girlfriends do exist IRL and it's not sexist to say so

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/JonStall2009/status/1028415936674422784

Can we rename Idiot Kings to "Battle Station Organizers"

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Venom Snake posted:

The DNC is too busy paying obama consultants to tell them about "innovation", "american individualism", and "non-political progress" to pay anyone to post online

the Smartest Kid in America doesn't work for free

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Zeroisanumber posted:

Lol imagine the DNC hiring all of cspam for posting warfare.

Hoe much money does Pimp Daddy Lowtax skim off the top

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

GalacticAcid posted:

269 Consulting has a nice ring to it

Stairlayers Local #69

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_Being

quote:

"Humans Being", which was written with Alex as Sammy wrote a ballad with Eddie, "Between Us Two", was originally named by the singer as "The Silent Extreme" but Alex eventually gave it the new title. The song's lyrics proved a major source of contention. Alex called the film's director, Jan De Bont, to ask him how closely he wanted the lyrics to be related to the movie's context, to which De Bont replied "Oh, please don't write about tornadoes. I don't want this to be a narrative for the movie." Hagar obliged, and then asked De Bont for some footage of Twister. Considering that film dealt with "the infatuation people have with fear and how it can suck you in", he decided to write lyrics about how "sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway." De Bont and Budd Carr also sent Hagar a folder with terms used by storm chasers as the singer felt he could add lyrics with terms such as "suck zone". The brothers still disliked Hagar's first lyrics ("Sky turning black/knuckles turning white/headed for the suck zone"), and he had to come up with new ones.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pod Save America was started by the Obama speechwriter who came up with the "if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it" line and then laughed about in on camera years later

Fire him into the sun

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Good - I hope she uses White Noise machines while telling people how to start a revolution

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Grand Prize Winner posted:

Wait, he hired scab writers? Wrote everything himself?

gently caress him for screwing over workers but how did that even work?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2012/05/is-jon-stewart-anti-union/

quote:

Jon Stewart on the other hand, who I worked for on The Daily Show, is in my opinion, very manipulative. He’s more of a crowd pleaser and gives the illusion of taking chances. But he’s an impressionist and he’s trying to, uh…Well, I don’t want to talk about Jon Stewart because I could, you know, it’s like going after Christ. And this is a guy who—I’m a staunch member of the Writer’s Guild of America and Jon Stewart fought his writers when they wanted to go union. They went union and [he] has been punishing them ever since, so the reason, you know, if you watch the Jon Stewart show, he doesn’t really do well-crafted jokes. He’ll throw a couple in, but it’s mostly mugging and shouting. He’s funny, but he’s punishing his writers. He doesn’t use his writers’ stuff because he’s mad at them for going union. And when I was there, I came in there right after they signed with the Writer’s Guild and many of his writers wanted to work with me because they had never gotten their stuff on the show. So he’s turned them all into sinecures, you know, people who have titles and Emmy’s and they work all day, then he doesn’t uses their stuff.

It’s kind of [like] what Walt Disney did to the animators who went union on him. Walt Disney called in a guy named Art Babbitt who was a very rich artist with the Disney Corporation who felt that his animators should be union, and Art Babbitt paid a price with Disney. Eventually, he was one of, they called him the wise man of Disney and there was an animator’s strike that Art Babbitt orchestrated. And he didn’t need to, he was rich! And he still felt his employees at Disney deserved a union, Walt Disney felt they didn’t. So they got their union, Walt Disney called Art Babbitt into his office and said, “Congratulations, you got your union, let me see your drawings, your cels” and Disney took these beautiful cels that Art Babbitt had worked on all day and tore them in front of Art Babbitt and said, “you’ve got your union, you’ll never see your work on the screen again.”

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Also Seth MacFarlane did a Family Guy gag calling out Jon Stewart for his union busting, and got a STERN PHONECALL from Jon Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcOge6pMhg

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Al! posted:

but i'm having trouble believing him because he opens up the interview by talking about how brave and funny bill maher and dennis miller are

I'm looking at the IMDB for the writer above who called Stewart anti-union, and it appears he worked for Dennis Miller Live from 1994-2002, Daily Show in 2007, and then worked for Real Time from 2003-2012

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271017/

He gave the interview in 2012 - I wonder if Maher fired him for it?

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

etalian posted:

It was funny how Hillary set her favorite lackey up with Carlos Danger.

Optics!

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Crowsbeak posted:

It's a thing where people say either the progressives win or they don't vote democrat in the general election.

:getin:

Better support Bernie, DNC...or else

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EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Cynthia noooooooooooo

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1034441744761462784

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