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We won the popular vote by 7 percent last night. Would it be enough to win the electoral college?
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Ice Phisherman posted:Loyalty over competence. That's the Trump way. He's already self funded the investigation for years by seizing Manafort's assets.
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Nov 8, 2018 09:08
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Silver already publishing 2020 maps https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-2018-map-looked-a-lot-like-2012-and-that-got-me-thinking-about-2020/ He has the Dems favored on even a neutral map.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:38
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Tibalt posted:
Uh, Henry Clay was elected Speaker of the House as a first term representative and he quickly became the most influential legislator in this country between 1789 and 1860.
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Nov 11, 2018 06:44
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Helen Highwater posted:It's so weird that Congress couldn't find someone who had served at least one term already back in 1789. He was sworn into office in 1811, twenty two years after the first congress.
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Nov 11, 2018 07:21
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Chilichimp posted:I thought that was stupid too, turns out he just worded it weird. Clay didn't go to congress until 1811. How was it worded weird? Henry Clay was absolutely the most influential American politician between the signing of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The War of 1812 happened in large part because of Henry Clay! JFC! Doesn't anyone learn history anymore?
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Nov 11, 2018 07:26
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Chilichimp posted:Because your post made it seem like he was elected speaker in 1789 To people with limited reading comprehension perhaps.
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Nov 11, 2018 07:49
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Not a Step posted:I would wager that only a very small number of people refuse to vote or fake vote to 'stick it to the establishment'. My feelung is that most nonvoters, which is most of the electorate , dont vote because there isnt a point to it. Things continue to get worse no matter who they vote for, and nobody really seems to care about them. Its not that they want you to die, its that they want someone to care about them and thats not really a strong suit of the current Democratic Party. They abandoned labor for Wall Street decades ago and are only now showing signs of crawling back. There has not been some mass defection of people to the ranks of nonvoters in our lifetime.
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Nov 11, 2018 12:30
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Cerebral Bore posted:This happens because republican voters know that when they vote GOP, their representatives will broadly do what they want, whereas the first thing Democrats do when they get power is to start making GBS threads on their base and declare that the things the base wants are completely off the table. The causation is backwards. The Republicans do what their base wants because the base consistently push them to the right in primaries. Just look how far to the right they've moved in the last twenty years. The voters made that happen against the will of the GOP establishment.
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Nov 11, 2018 15:50
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Cerebral Bore posted:Even back in the day when the GOP hadn't openly gone full chud the base still got most of what they wanted. At the very least I can't recall Republican establishment openly telling their base that they're never ever getting something they want, which is routine when the Dem establishment talks to their base. So it it really surprising that republican voters are more loyal? The GOP elite talked up immigration reform that would favor big buisness for decades because that's what big buisness wanted and the GOP is beholden to them. It is what really sank Bush 43s presidency, not Katrina. The base revolted.
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Nov 11, 2018 23:21
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Your Taint posted:How is that at all damage control? If anything it makes it worse because it makes it look like Melania picks random people and demands they be fired by her idiot husband. I hate when that event pops up in CK2 and my wife randomly demands that I fire my steward, who also happens to be one of my most powerful vassals.
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Nov 14, 2018 02:59
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Mustached Demon posted:Yeah she's as millennial as one thousand empty Applebee's. I just read that Applebee's was on it's way back up, riding cheap comfort food.
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Nov 14, 2018 05:32
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Petr posted:So did John Brown. Good thing victory isn't predestined. John Brown won https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSn3NddwFQ
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Nov 14, 2018 13:38
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Ague Proof posted:
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Nov 16, 2018 04:59
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Ague Proof posted:Wohl speaks out I would legitimately be incredibly impressed if it turned out he has been running Avenatti's live in girlfriend has some kind of Manchurian candidate for six or seven months. That's crazy and sounds way outside of Whol's competency zone (lol). Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Nov 19, 2018 |
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Nov 19, 2018 05:15
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nine-gear crow posted:The Vice President is literally just the Backup President in case anything happens to the guy at the top. In theory they should basically be as similar as possible to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of government should the unthinkable happen. But because the unthinkable has become increasingly unlikely as time has progressed, the political norm has become to pick a Veep that contrasts and enhanced the POTUS in various ways because there's essentially a 0% chance that they will ever need to become President themselves. With the expansion of the bueracracy, it is beinifical to have the VP be someone you can trust with running various taskforces and delegating things to. Gore, Cheney and Biden all did a hell of a lot more work than previous VPs did.
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Nov 19, 2018 05:23
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Lightning Knight posted:The Trump campaign was basically the monkeys on typewriters of espionage, they're so stupid and incompetent that it accidentally looks complicated and deep.
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Nov 20, 2018 04:49
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Hmm...  https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1064727585786081282
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Nov 20, 2018 05:09
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Looks like Love lost after all. The Dem floor in the House is + 39 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1064688106945880064
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Nov 20, 2018 05:11
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Stereotype posted:This always irks me in regards to Space-X as well. People keep holding them up as an example of the free market doing what the government couldnt, but really they just sucked a ton of money out of NASA to blow up a ton of soviet rockets they bought for cheap. This is ridiculous. Even disregarding any beinifits of reusable technology, SpaceX has cut the price of getting to orbit by 75-80%.
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Nov 21, 2018 00:32
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1066799500407255040 
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Nov 26, 2018 04:30
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/mississippi-senate-runoff-election-results/quote:Two-thirds of the precincts are now in from Warren County (Vicksburg), where Espy leads 55 to 45 percent. The combined GOP vote won 51 to 49 percent on Nov. 6.
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Nov 28, 2018 02:50
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Nov 28, 2018 02:53
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Typo posted:no literally every single country in europe in 1914 actively made a decision to go to war, literally everyone had a chance to back off but they didn't. That's not true, in Germany the military brass dragged the civilian governments into a general war, basically against their will.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:22
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Typo posted:if russia wants to conquer the baltic states they do it in under a month no question If the Russians invade the Baltics, Poland will immediately intervene and that would eventualy cause Germany to be sucked in.
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Nov 28, 2018 07:08
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BabyFur Denny posted:Yeah but what would Poland alone be able to do against Russia? The Russian Army is not exactly the Red Army today. Poland's military is well funded and would be operating on close logistical lines.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:45
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Comrade Fakename posted:The fact that UFO sightings didnt massively increase once everyone started carrying cameras around with them at all times pretty much confirms that alien UFOs never existed. Eh... if there were actual aliens visiting, wouldn't they just be more careful, so as to avoid being photographed?
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Nov 29, 2018 07:59
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Talk about stereotypes Link (Wash Post) quote:The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise?
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Nov 30, 2018 03:55
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eke out posted:just a thought but tomorrow IS grand jury friday What makes this Friday grand jury day? Or are all Friday's grand jury day?
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Nov 30, 2018 04:22
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Crain posted:How this terrified a person hasn't decided to go scorched earth on the DoJ yet baffles me. His handlers have to be keep a TON of poo poo quiet, I just cannot comprehend this dude having any sort of restraint. They just ignore most of his unwise/illegal orders and he's too big a coward to say on twitter that his minions won't do what he says.
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Nov 30, 2018 04:26
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Gatts posted:Can someone boil this down for me cause my mind is not wanting to grasp what's going on besides "Trump was gonna meet with Putin and maybe secure the Presidency after Cleveland." and Cohen basically sang like a Canary...am I wrong cause I don't know why...I'm not processing this... What does Cleveland have to do with anything? Besides being the only president creepier than Trump?
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Nov 30, 2018 07:10
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Groovelord Neato posted:this is unlikely considering he wouldn't have invaded if he thought we'd respond. Thinking the US will disaprove and thinking they will respond militarily are two different things.
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Dec 5, 2018 00:26
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Just read this article, really good. Too bad it ain't happening anytime soon.  https://twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/1069963009521520641
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Dec 7, 2018 07:33
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enraged_camel posted:How do you even abolish the Senate? Worse, it would require an amendment that was unanimously approved, because it is unconstitutional to deprive a state of their equal representation in the senate without their consent.
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Dec 7, 2018 08:28
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Peacoffee posted:The texture of Rhode Island is remarkably a mixture of rain, season 1 family guy, and hp lovecraft. It doesn't rain that much
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Dec 11, 2018 23:58
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1072539601997316096
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Dec 12, 2018 08:41
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Lightning Knight posted:Even the NeverTrumpers would rather have Trump rubber-stamp policy than a Dem president in 2020. Its moral posturing that conveniently leaves out I like this because it guarantees an R president.
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Dec 12, 2018 09:05
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pseudanonymous posted:I don't. He's a liar. They should just say "he's lying". All this doublespeak to get around the fact he blatantly lies all the loving time is the media being complicit in those lies. It's basically "this guy is willfully and repeatedly lying " https://www.google.co.kr/amp/s/www....ver-over-again/
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Dec 12, 2018 09:56
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah dude we were just about to win in We let millions of Vietnamese come flee to the USA (that Trump is now trying to deport). Trump isn't going to let any of these people come with us. That's the problem.
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Dec 20, 2018 23:18
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Lightning Knight posted:Would an American withdraw from South Korea materially affect things? We have 50,000 troops there last I checked, while South Korea has a much larger force that is capable of fighting NK on its own if need be, and relations between the Koreas have marginally improved since Trump took office, since he's too incompetent to meddle properly. I'm sure it would look bad but it's not clear to me it would actually be bad in the long term for Korea. The result would probably a three way nuclear arms race between the ROK, PRC and Japan, so I'm going to say that would be bad.
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