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Mind_Taker posted:Which states that are currently gerrymandered to a laughable degree in the R direction are likely to be redrawn to a fair (or D-favorable) map in 2020 due to pickups in governorships/state houses last night? Michigan and Wisconsin would be the big 2
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Push El Burrito posted:We live in a world where you can see the end of Governor Scott Walker and that's beautiful. https://twitter.com/MaraGay/status/1060137101914750977 if anyone cares to remember, they had previously said "Scott Walker is a National Disgrace" when he was running for president, and "Still a disgrace, but no longer national" when he dropped out
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Nov 7, 2018 15:54
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WampaLord posted:SOME OF US LIVE IN FLORIDA and really don't like being told "Be happy!" after what happened last night. i'm sorry you can't vape indoors anymore
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Ginette Reno posted:So isn't 2020 a pretty lovely map for the Senate too? If I'm not mistaken vulnerable Republican senators = Cordy Gardner(Col), Susan Collins (Maine), and Thom Tillis (North Carolina). 2020 is going to be the reverse of this year, where 11 D seats are up for grabs as opposed to 22 Republican seats the weakest and really only vulnerable Dem seat is Doug Jones
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Nov 7, 2018 16:02
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Oxxidation posted:people keep saying this but they it's not really true, they didn't immediately get their vote back is there a source on this, it's not in the text of the amendment itself.
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Nov 7, 2018 17:46
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evilweasel posted:So I'm going to start playing with a 2020 electoral map. Iowa threw out most of their Republican CD sans King, so you might be understating the chances
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Nov 7, 2018 17:52
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haveblue posted:Even if you downgrade it to "a path to regaining your vote opened up where there was no path before" that's a pretty big win. there was a path before, but it was like running the 1904 Olympic marathon
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Nov 7, 2018 17:54
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:go off path drunk and take a nap in someone's rose garden? or get chased by rabid dogs, collapse with severe dust inhalation to the point of asphyxiation, or win because some dude started eating rat poison while the white guy gets in a car and drives to the stadium instead
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Nov 7, 2018 17:57
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In case anyone is wondering about the 1904 marathon and the monster running them, take a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw
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Nov 7, 2018 18:02
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eke out posted:https://twitter.com/rachelweinerwp/status/1060266854571225089 well it turns out publicly musing about strangling an independent organization might not make you fit to 9versee it so you have to recuse...
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Nov 7, 2018 21:28
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brockan posted:Apparently it's looking like all those tweets about Rosenstein also resigning are coming from a source called OANN. They're claiming it's expected to come in 48 hours. OANN is pretty much Laura Loomer and Jack Probosic iirc
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Nov 7, 2018 22:18
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corn in the bible posted:They go up again in 2 years, right? It's safe to say a fair number of those judges won't get past one term. Maybe some will, though they're 4 or 6 year terms
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Nov 7, 2018 23:16
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corn in the bible posted:I thought some local judge seats were 2 year terms. That fuckin owns then It might be 2 at the lower levels, but the state spots if any won would be higher
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Nov 7, 2018 23:17
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corn in the bible posted:we're mostly talking county judges here ie harris County courts are 4 years
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Nov 7, 2018 23:20
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Don’t dare hope the difference is only about 15,000 so that could definitely move if its 650k outstanding
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Nov 8, 2018 00:20
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The problem is that Dems have failed to help rural voters who now have sky-high suicide rates and lovely economic fortunes. On top of all that, a shitload of their rural hospitals closed in the last decade. They vote for people who lie to them and never have any intention of helping them.
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Nov 8, 2018 00:27
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Paradoxish posted:That's actually really sad. I visited Cleveland earlier this year and it was a (shockingly) super nice city. They're not Detroit.
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Nov 8, 2018 19:28
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Ague Proof posted:
that dip was pretty much Braun winning in Indiana gently caress Indiana nazis
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Nov 9, 2018 16:16
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Spacebump posted:Hard to say "with just about everyone in the voting public" when he didn't get more votes than Hillary though. I like Bernie but to get out of the primary you need more votes. he did do that, just in a lot of the smaller contests where even if he was blowing out the caucses with the 70-30 margin he needed, he just couldn't rely on them to make up the votes meanwhile in the first major voting day of the election, Clinton managed to take a run of like 65-70% of the vote in a bunch of open primaries and got herself a 200 pledged delegate cushion that just kept inflating for the rest of the primaries
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Nov 11, 2018 23:39
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Replace the election with these old rich motherfuckers doing Battle Royale and the last one left gets spared the guillotine and made god-king* can we replace the guillotine with New Jack
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Nov 12, 2018 13:52
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mcmagic posted:So Florida Dems cost themselves a Senate seat because their ballot design was overly complex unreadable? less overly complex and possibly more just poorly laid out
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Nov 12, 2018 19:28
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Deified Data posted:Besides being a huge congregation of chuds, does anyone actually know what's going on here? the photographer apparently thought it would be a great picture for the male junior class to sieg heil on a spur of the moment thing, according to the account by the guy in the upper right who is not really happy about this situation
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Nov 12, 2018 19:33
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GreyjoyBastard posted:they mentioned rico, time to @ popehat about this you cant spell corsi without rico
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Nov 13, 2018 00:27
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nine-gear crow posted:Someone said on MSNBC on Friday that a Whitaker was going to replace a Scaramucci as a measurement of brief time. scaramucci got canned before he even officially started
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Nov 13, 2018 01:33
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Kimsemus posted:not at all. I'm not a fan of what Jim Acosta has to say to POTUS but I defend his right to say it. Kimsemus posted:counterpoint: just for sake of argument, CNN can just send anyone not jim acosta.
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Nov 13, 2018 18:42
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Raskolnikov38 posted:its still idiotic to make any part of the process easier with the keystone klan in office the only thing close to this is that they put in some fast track or special consideration if you get 290 sponsors on a bill or for an amendment if you can get 20 Democrats and 20 Republicans to sign off on it OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Nov 14, 2018 23:18
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Yinlock posted:bipartisanship is always code for "willing to cave", also she's willing to change the rules to let republicans run around her easier the package is meaningless fluff if you would bother to read it https://gottheimer.house.gov/uploadedfiles/break_the_gridlock_packet.pdf
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Nov 15, 2018 00:11
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VitalSigns posted:jesus h christ dude what the gently caress Intervening in Honduras would have been cutting the financial aid that the US was giving them It's really a hosed up situation because on one hand the president who got exiled was trying to rewrite the Constitution to get rid of term limits (which cant actually be done without dissolving the constitution, the Honduran constitution explicitly lists the term limits and says that they are never able to be changed even if there was a constitutional amendment) On the other hand the military should have probably not exiled the guy and just instead seized and destroyed the ballots that were printed like they were directed to by the court.
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Nov 20, 2018 00:22
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VitalSigns posted:A president trying to extraconstitutionally change term limits doesn't justify arming a military dictatorship you numpty. The military was ordered to arrest him by the Honduran supreme court for his dictator shenanigans.
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Nov 20, 2018 00:25
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Your Taint posted:It took him 18 minutes to finish the thought. That's implying he has thoughts.
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Nov 21, 2018 22:30
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Spiritus Nox posted:Has he ever actually done so in a position where his individual vote mattered? no
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Nov 22, 2018 01:52
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VanSandman posted:I think you miss the main problem - that instead of addressing the substantive issues that drive people towards fascism (economic insecurity, blaming some 'other' for domestic problems, a refusal to address racial tensions and inequalities), Hillary wants to use fascist means to avoid real domestic change because she is rich, all her friends are rich, they already think they are paying their fair share, and she has long since forgotten what it means to be poor and struggling to get by. quote:We need to break the stranglehold on economic and political power held by a small same speech
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the actual Oxford speech is pretty clinical and textbook in advocating to raise up human rights, but the textbook nature of it is pretty much the flaw because it attempts to touch in dealing with the the invasion of the other that scares the nazis and how to handle it the major mistake Clinton is making is an attempt to deal with how to deal with the nazis in language that isnt just "gently caress off nazi" because engaging with them means they're already winning also by trying to not play the soundbite game as everyone in this country is really stupid and has no attention span edit: Ghost Leviathan posted:Hillary is really, really good at making terrible sound bites that render the otherwise reasonable content of the rest of the speech completely irrelevant to the intended audience. yeah goethe.cx posted:that's great, but her argument re immigration is fundamentally a capitulation to racists. i'm more sympathetic to hillary than a lot of people in D&D but the right-wing nativists aren't going to go away if more immigration restrictions are enacted, and it's ridiculous that she seems to think they will. even when she says good things, she just has no credibility in regard to them agreed, though this speech is threading the needle of trying to ensure civil rights for the disenfranchised and trying to kneecap the nativists and quite frankly it's basically mutually exclusive and she'd have been better off not talking about it as opposed to the economic messaging OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Nov 24, 2018 |
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Lightning Knight posted:Nope. probate people who call them chuds too
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what exactly do you think chud means
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Nov 25, 2018 00:49
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Lightning Knight posted:I seem to vaguely recall that it means "a small fat penis" but perhaps I am misremembering. That's a chub. Theres a movie called C.H.U.D. where there is a mutant race of subhuman cannibal creatures. It's not really playing a game, because I wanted to know of you knew where that slang came from because its otherwise fairly obvious why I brought it up in a discussion on probating someone for dehumanizing people.
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Nov 25, 2018 01:00
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The Glumslinger posted:Man, it's almost like this thread is completely incapable of discussing the actual events in us politics and would rather constantly rehash the same arguments constantly or the fact that Ukraine and Russia are probably about to go to war
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Nov 25, 2018 23:42
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Lightning Knight posted:It's a Sunday afternoon and there doesn't appear to be any more news other than "they fired tear gas at a civilian crowd." What more should we say? "That's quite terrible, and extremely on brand for the Trump Administration." https://twitter.com/samriegel/status/1066820402586935296
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Nov 25, 2018 23:47
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Ardennes posted:There are actually other threads for that though. everyone knows that it's going to be germane to this thread in a matter of hours trump can't help himself
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Feldegast42 posted:I don't know about that though -- she keeps popping up in the news cycle for stuff she has been saying, is fairly wealthy herself, and while she has lost establishment pull there are still a lot of diehards loyal to the Clinton camp. She won't win the primary but I can see her trying again to sate her own ego. https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1055199009130889216?s=19
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