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I guess getting put under 24/7 observation at Leavenworth is one way to prevent troop suicide.
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Sep 9, 2018 14:36
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After all the rain so far this year a Cat 4 up the Chesapeake is icing on the cake. Maybe if we're lucky a few McMansions in McLean will slide into the Potomac.
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Sep 9, 2018 16:54
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At this point it looks like you really don't want to be anywhere near drainage or below a reservoir: https://mobile.twitter.com/afreedma/status/1038902945922928645 https://mobile.twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1038966088581767168 A Harvey is going to wash away everything below the Fall Line and make a good attempt at doing the same for the Piedmont.
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Sep 10, 2018 03:38
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JFC https://mobile.twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1038978626291679237
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Sep 10, 2018 03:47
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EBB posted:
I posted this in the A/T weather thread but its something that's stuck with me since living through the last big NC hurricane: Terrifying Effigies posted:I remember as a kid after Fran passed through the local NC TV stations did live feeds of news choppers flying down the coast broadcasting video of endless blank, scoured clean concrete pads where all the beach side properties used to sit so people could know their homes weren't spared the storm's wrath. Managed to find the original video on YouTube, just show her this: https://youtu.be/NfUR9N_lZTI
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Sep 10, 2018 04:27
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Marines continue to be indirectly associated with terrible ideas, lol https://mobile.twitter.com/ddale8/status/1040285711189073920
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Sep 13, 2018 20:24
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Seems appropriate that other important criminal related news is dropping today: https://twitter.com/AVTVSeries/status/1032875061739438080 First season was a legitimately good send up of the True Crimes genre, hopefully they're able to keep it going in S2.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:48
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I was wondering what all the Toad memes in the CSPAM thread were about this morning, lmao
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Sep 18, 2018 12:29
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facialimpediment posted:labdkdjsoegeksbemehdjshs tbf Spain's already built it:  
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Sep 19, 2018 22:53
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EBB posted:...are they that worried about Portugal or is this a Gibralter thing? Ceuta and Melilla, two Spain enclaves on the Moroccan coast that count as EU territory in North Africa, so a lot of sub-Saharan migrants and asylum seekers try to cross over and get whatever counts as Dry Shoe status for the EU. Spain and Morocco have an under the table relationship where they bend or break a lot of 'official' EU regulations and policies to control the migrant population and keep them contained in camps on the Moroccan side of the border. In response, the migrants have occasionally staged mass crossing attempts that often result in deaths. It hasn't got as much attention lately since the mass exoduses from Syria/Libya started up but it's been going on since the early 2000s. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/02/spain-accountability-urged-appalling-migrant-deaths-ceuta/ https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/24/spain/morocco-protect-migrants-asylum-seekers edit - Ceuta and Melilla is literally what Trump is thinking about when he talks about the Wall, golf courses and beach resorts on one side, hordes of dark skinned foreigners getting gunned down by rubber bullets and pushed into the surf to drown on the other. 
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Sep 20, 2018 01:09
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my kinda ape posted:Hmmm I think if someone was trying to claim I raped my classmate after she accused someone else who looked similar to me I might be prepping a big loving lawsuit. https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1042905128674648064 The guy's apparently a middle school teacher in DC so it's pretty much finding the one guy from Kavanaugh's class that didn't end up in law or politics and tossing him under the bus.
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Sep 21, 2018 12:28
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 Remember when this was the biggest Kavanaugh story? Also double at Maggie Haberman getting into a Twitter slap fight over the Rosenstein story:https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1043211100962127873 https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1043213896650317828
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Sep 21, 2018 22:51
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Could you imagine if they aired some sort of Orson Wells/War of the Worlds fake newscast and Trump accidentally hit it surfing between CNN and Fox?
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Sep 22, 2018 04:39
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See also this idiot: https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1043490803283316742
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Sep 22, 2018 17:43
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I was wondering why there was suddenly 70 posts in two hours after a slow news day McConnell loving told Trump that Kavanaugh was the worst option from the start. Slam dunk shot to get another SCOTUS seat and help shore up the midterm vote and somehow Donnie's able to douse it in kerosene and road flares. It certainly makes more sense now why the GOP was in such a panic and jumping on Whelan's stupid rear end scheme if this stuff was circulating in the background.
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Sep 24, 2018 04:11
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Chuck Grassley obviously didn't read the article: https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1044054163460673536 Before this came out I thought Kavanaugh might have been able to sail through if he'd done better messaging at the start, along the lines of 'I have no recollection of this incident, but young boys are dumb and as a father of high school girls I regret anything I might have done, boys should not be engaging in inappropriate sexual encounters regardless of age etc etc'. Pretty clear why he didn't go down that road now if the Brett and Mike Show was as bad as it sounds.
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Sep 24, 2018 04:28
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Also  that Frank Sinatra's illegitimate son has become this timeline's Horseman of the Patriarchy Apocalypse
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Sep 24, 2018 04:33
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It's more on the order of 'motivate a few more angry women to get out to the polls and maybe volunteer or donate to a local campaign // discourage a few "reasonable" conservatives to not get up early and hit the polls before work on election day'. No one is going to change their minds, it's all about making sure your side puts in 110% and the other side starts leaving the stands in the 4th quarter.
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Sep 25, 2018 04:38
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At this rate tomorrow's going to be bugfuck nuts
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Sep 27, 2018 00:04
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Are they seriously going to double down with multiplying doppelgangers? I mean, the Federalist Society grows these candidates in test tubes but this is ridiculous. edit - re: whether Kav's going down or not, it feels more like watching a guy threaten to shoot a hostage with the gun to his head. There's nothing the Dems can do to keep the GOP from getting a right-winger on the court, but it's looney that the collective GOP is willing to inflame an already delicate situation with suburban women just before an mid-term election simply to get the first guy named Brett on the court. Any sane GOP strategy would have swapped him out for one of his (apparently) many doppelgangers who will vote exactly the same. Terrifying Effigies fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1045337454402850816 Not able to watch live but it sounds like this thing is going as badly as the GOP feared.
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Grassley and McConnell are definitely going forward with a vote regardless of whether they have enough to succeed. The old white elephants of the Senate GOP are baying for blood and they're going to force Flake, Murkowski, and Collins to take the hit of a no vote. One things for sure though, Thomas is probably feeling pretty baller tonight for not pissing his pants on live TV during the Anita Hill investigation.
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Sep 28, 2018 00:57
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psydude posted:Kavanaugh going down in flames for McConnell is probably the best outcome for him, because he didn't want him to begin with and still has time to confirm another justice before the election. A useful infographic: https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1045428923440525312 DoktorLoken posted:Yeah but I have to imagine this whole event is going to be a negative for the GOP in the polls, especially with women. Look what happened after Clarence Thomas got rammed through. On the one hand, the GOP is losing an entire generation with something absurd like +70% of under-35 women voting Democratic over the past two years. I fully expect in the next 5-10 years to see the GOP half-heartedly attempt (and fail to) address their 'Woman voter problem' just as they previously did with their 'Hispanic' and 'Black' voter problems in the 90s and 00s. That said, one of the points that really struck me from Perlstein's books on the rise of conservatism in the 60s and 70s was that despite all the talk about women's lib and the New Left, the real foot soldiers of conservatism during the time were women who felt that second wave feminism was an attack on their traditional values, religious morals, and sense of decency, and went out to build reactionary grass roots movements for Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan. The Republicans are doing everything in their power and then some to poison their relationship with women, but never underestimate the ability for people to double down against their own interests for the chance to 'save the babies' or 'show those harlots.'
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:I can't speak to the other two but Murkowski seems to vote in lock step more often than not. About the only thing that might cause her to vote 'NO' is the fact that her seat is up for election this year. She doesn't have much of a spine though, so I wouldn't hold my breath. Both the Governor and Lt Governor of Alaska have come out against Kavanaugh due to some rulings he made against Native American groups, so Murkowski probably has the most reason in the group to vote NO.
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Sep 28, 2018 02:05
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Pretty good summation of where we're at as a country: https://twitter.com/petridishes/status/1045424411950632960
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https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1045723406111580160 They're all fighting over the tiny sliver of Flake's conscience.
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Sep 28, 2018 18:22
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Yeah Flake's Mr Elevator, and it pretty obviously shook him up. He apparently stepped out of the room with Coons and Klobuchar earlier which set off the back room scrum.
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Didn't Flake get some BS 'agreement' in the past over a close vote on immigration or something that McConnell and Trump turned around and torched immediately afterward? edit - one other point of consideration, there should be polls arriving in the next 4-5 days post Ford/Kav hearing that will give senators on the fence a better feel on how this is all playing out in the public. Terrifying Effigies fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Third World Reggin posted:Hello. Who is feeling good this morning. https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1046051734022488065 I don't think she's entirely wrong here, I'd rather candidates point out that the GOP as a whole is out to destroy your lives rather than focus specifically on Trump and restoring  in DC. The term "impeachment" is way easier to deflect and disparage nowadays since most people associate it with the Clinton clown show in the 90s rather than the actual no poo poo seriousness of Nixon and Watergate.
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https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1046098156776312832 Oh... https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1046147787358900226 Oh NBC posted:...Instead of investigating Swetnick's claims, the White House counsel’s office has given the FBI a list of witnesses they are permitted to interview, according to several people who discussed the parameters on the condition of anonymity. They characterized the White House instructions as a significant constraint on the FBI investigation and caution that such a limited scope, while not unusual in normal circumstances, may make it difficult to pursue additional leads in a case in which a Supreme Court nominee has been accused of sexual assault.... Surprise surprise, Flake got loving Flaked again
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