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Lightning Knight posted:This is it. Thanks 4 making thread worse for absolutely no reason i guess
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cochise posted:Why can't they be more forceful with this idiot like this all of the time? They are every time they get to question him. On purpose, they almost never get to question him.
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Nov 7, 2018 18:34
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Koalas Massacre posted:Yeah changing the legislature is a really big deal! Sad he lost, glad he ran
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Nov 7, 2018 20:33
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Lightning Knight posted:Is the lesson “gently caress Democrats who back Republican social policy” because I’m extremely here for that if so. The thing he did sucks but he was dead in the water regardless
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Nov 7, 2018 20:34
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Lightning Knight posted:Wasn’t polling showing him as up/closer before? Yeah, but the polling was wrong. His final results were awful, he would have lost either way. I would have rather had him lose the other way, mind
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Nov 7, 2018 20:36
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The Kingfish posted:Its absolutely preferable that he lost the way he did. Future candidates may think twice before trying similar bullshit. Hadn't thought of it that way
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Nov 7, 2018 20:40
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Teddybear posted:Well, let's see what happens with Mueller now. If the investigation is shut down Schiff opens it up again
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Nov 7, 2018 20:49
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Majorian posted:"Too old" doesn't matter to me one iota, and it shouldn't matter to you or any right-thinking voter. We have a swiss cheese-brained senior citizen in the Oval Office right now, and as long as Bernie or whoever picks a good VP, it really doesn't matter.
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Nov 7, 2018 20:55
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Majorian posted:Then he steps down and President Beto or Gillum or Nina Turner comes to power. It wouldn't happen that smoothly and would delay a lot of good things happening
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Nov 7, 2018 21:02
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I just want Beto to be the next character in Overwatch
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Nov 7, 2018 21:08
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Spaced God posted:So Trump did this to replace sessions with someone to end Mueller's investigation before the new house is sworn in, right? Not how that works
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Nov 7, 2018 21:26
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Lightning Knight posted:You guys spend so much time posting about posting and complaining that [x discussion] is occurring instead of just not engaging with posters you don't wish to argue with. It's crazy! Oh my, what terrible modding (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 7, 2018 22:40
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Office Pig posted:Just like with Moore, any such findings would have absolutely no effect anyway. What Are you insane, that's why he lost
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Nov 9, 2018 03:25
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farraday posted:
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Nov 9, 2018 03:37
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TulliusCicero posted:I'm just laughing at this dumb WWE reject looking motherfucker on twitter honestly. I didn't say it would be him
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Nov 9, 2018 04:23
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Majorian posted:Granted, we probably would be worse in terms of relations with North Korea, but I'm not expecting the current thaw with the U.S. to last. Bullshit. It's not a real thaw, we'd be in exactly the same place. Trump hasn't undone anything in North Korea.
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Nov 9, 2018 07:47
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Majorian posted:Ehhhh...he kind of has, albeit unintentionally. His completely idiotic anti-diplomacy in 2017 basically took the U.S. away from the negotiating table, allowing South Korea more of a free hand in dealing with Pyongyang. Now he's taking a lot of undue credit for how things have played out, when it's Moon and Kim who have done basically all the work. But I'm not sure it would have played out the same way under Clinton. DPRK isn't behaving significantly different on the international stage that I've seen. Chats with Moon while they're still a brutal dictatorship doesn't change the board much.
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Nov 9, 2018 07:52
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GoluboiOgon posted:this picture is from 2014, obama's dhs secretary is being given a tour of a child camp. Are you an actual Republican Do you not understand that this was temporary due to a larger surge of unaccompanied minors, not deliberate cruelty
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Nov 9, 2018 07:54
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Lightning Knight posted:The fact that they're being effectively housed in a juvenile detention facility with fences rather than a welcoming and happier place is still damning against our country. I didn't say it was GOOD, but it sure as hell isn't the same. And again - temporary, more caused by underfunding than by hatred, and we weren't actively trying to grow said camps like Trump is
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Nov 9, 2018 07:58
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1glitch0 posted:You can go explain to a 3 year old they're locked in cage due to a large surge in United States prisoners and not deliberate cruelty. Again, they sucked, and more should have been done to improve things, but they're extremely loving different problems
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Nov 9, 2018 08:24
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Not a Step posted:A message very obviously was sent, and they very obviously do care. After the fall of Clinton and the continued popularity of Sanders the newest batch of candidates at least pretend to be way more left than previous batches. All the 2020 prospectives are at least giving lip setvice to M4A, which candidate Clinton famously yelled would never ever happen. So yeah, not voting works. The signs were there that this stuff was popular *before* 2016, but the Democratic Party thought they were above such petty concerns as what the people want when they could go with the reliable 'but have you seen the other guy?'. Do they have out pamphlets with arguments nobody has ever made so you people can all say the same things
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Nov 11, 2018 09:58
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Not a Step posted:Yes, Im on a mailing list. Oh boy i love a constantly shifting reference frame where i get to take any statement my vast collection of enemies has said and pointing it at all of them, that's my favorite
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Nov 12, 2018 03:12
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Majorian posted:West Virginia has one of the lowest voter participation rates of any state in the country. While I obviously can't say for certain that any other Democrat would win in the state, I think it's a little presumptuous to say that someone who ran hard on economic populism and was more subtle on social issues wouldn't energize those non-voters a bit more. His voters seem to extremely love a person saying "I'm not really part of either party, I hate Washington, I am a principled centrist", as far as I can tell. I do think that economic populism, framed correctly, could be a winning issue. I just don't think it could overwhelm the state that was only after Wyoming in Trump support to put any other Democrat in the Senate. Manchin's like a folk hero to these people at this point, it's weird and dumb.
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Nov 12, 2018 03:49
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RaySmuckles posted:I can't believe anyone ever thought was ever even an option. The impeachment and Russian obsessions were embarrassingly naive from the beginning. But then he trended up again in January and has kinda sat there, despite the constant failures. quote:a lot of people underestimate Pence. The guy is a christian fascist through and through. Kavanaugh is a result of that wing of the party, so we should take them a bit more seriously
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Nov 12, 2018 05:01
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Stexils posted:yeah as horrible pence's electroshock ideology is it's hampered by him being dumb and incompetent. if nothing else he wouldn't be able to rile up the base anywhere near as well. In a hypothetical Pence dictatorship versus a Trump dictatorship, I'd probably rather have Trump. But that's not what the question is.
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Nov 12, 2018 05:11
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Majorian posted:I think it's important to investigate, and I think there's going to be a lot of evidence that Trump is mobbed up, has made a lot of illegal business deals, has covered up a shitton of stuff, and that he's just a really horrifically corrupt individual. But it's not going to be enough to motivate enough voters to put enough pressure on enough Republican senators to remove him from office, even if the House votes to impeach. You're right that this is bigger than Watergate, but it's a different political era from 1974. Republicans are considerably more in-lockstep with one another than they were in 1974. They're more scared of their own voting bases, which are 100% behind Trump, than they are of you or me. Most Republican Senators don't have to care, at all, what anyone who isn't a Republican thinks. The Senate + voter-self sorting really are the main cause of most of our stupid bullshit in America. If we actually did what the majority actually wanted we'd have a pretty decently progressive country.
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Nov 12, 2018 05:14
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Not a Step posted:They can and should investigate for the history books, but Trump is going to end his term in office regardless of what Mueller digs up, and most Americans barely care when their material life continues to get worse with every passing year. They care a lot, they just find a source to tell them that the blame lies with "brown people"
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Nov 12, 2018 05:15
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Lumpy posted:I don't think Trump hates Latinos as much as he LOVES the cheers he gets when he talks about hating them at his rallies. Miller, on the other hand really loving hates them, and translates those cheers into easy policy steering for our idiot president.
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Nov 12, 2018 05:37
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Lightning Knight posted:I uh, certainly hope not. I don't think she modeled per se, but literally the worst thing about Hillary is her friendship with Kissinger and she probably at least sought his advice
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Nov 12, 2018 05:43
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Not a Step posted:I am open to better candidates. Bernie is old and has some shameful right wing opinions and defers to decorum frequently. I would hold my nose and vote for the shameful slightly left of center Sanders, but I would prefer an actual leftist candidate. The #1 sign of good posting is, of course, taking about yourself (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 12, 2018 09:21
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Tatsuta Age posted:aside from donnelly not losing.. how? kemp was gonna steal georgia either way, and florida is still up in the air. what else could you have wanted? McCaskill, Bredesen, Beto The Senate definitely could have gone better. But the fact that i was at one point worried we'd hit R+5 and we look like we're going to see R+2, maybe +1 is really nice.
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Nov 13, 2018 00:19
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OAquinas posted:A year ago, if you told someone here that "The 2018 Senate class will go R+2" most people would go "That's a really good showing for dems!" because the map was just that loving awful. Well, i was more hopeful because a year ago Trump's favorables were in the 30s and trending down But yeah Also, Beto was within 2 points, that's insane
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Nov 13, 2018 00:25
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Have we talked about the thing I'm seeing on CNN where North Korea hasn't stopped their nuclear program
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Nov 13, 2018 00:29
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:in other news, the sun also set recently. I'm not surprised, but i didn't think we'd see hard evidence this early
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Nov 13, 2018 00:38
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FilthyImp posted:Aw gently caress me the Senate reconciliation bill poo poo is gonna suck this time. That's assuming they don't use it before the new people are seated I was honestly expecting them to, and I'm very surprised we haven't heard anything about it
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Nov 13, 2018 06:21
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Lemming posted:Didn't they do some fuckery and already use up all the ones they had access to already? I thought that was part of why they didn't take another shot at repealing Obamacare, they needed that for the tax bill They used the second one really, really quick after the first one failed - they used one, let one expire. It really can't be expressed what a colossal self own the first reconciliation bill was. They could have easily done the tax cuts first and spent this whole year doing something else Rigel posted:This was never a serious threat to consider. The timeline needed to pass a reconciliation just takes way too long. I thought you could do it in a month or so. It's been available since October 1st.
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Nov 13, 2018 06:29
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thefncrow posted:They don't get to. I was worried about that myself and looked it up. They bailed on passing a budget this year, which is the key. If you want to write a reconciliation bill, you have to provide instructions in the budget about what the bill should be about. No budget, no reconciliation instructions, no reconciliation bill. Their incompetence is staggering
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Nov 13, 2018 06:32
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BonoMan posted:This has probably been posted, but holy poo poo the Governor of Mississippi is trotting out abortion as "black genocide" in defense of Cyndi Hyde-Smith's "public hanging" comments. It's a pretty old argument
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axelord posted:Someone has to call the cops they don't show up like magic. You think the cops won't show up to a 200 person protest Ok
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