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Solkanar512 posted:If you think last night wasn’t a win for the Democrats, you have unreasonable expectations. Nothing was going to be fixed over night and you never stop working. Take a break but it’s going to take a long time to make change last. My biggest issue with last night is how the it appears the lesson learned by Beto, Gillum, and Abrams' loss is that the Dems need to run more centrist candidates. But centrists lost in Indiana, Missouri, and North Dakota yet no talking head breathed a word of that. Pelosi and Schumer need to learn that the battle lines have been drawn. There are not enough true independents (most have taken a side, but want to pretend they haven't) or Eisenhower Republicans left to make a difference. What drives victory is motivating your base and a centrist "Republican-Lite" is demotivating. Republicans learned this with Gingrich and later the Tea Party, why can't our leadership understand.
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Al Borland Corpse posted:Hello thread. You might not know me, I'm Al Borland Corp, a limited liability poster. I am from the now defunct Trump thread. I look forward to sharing with you my thoughts, opinions, and insights! I feel like this is the start of an AA meeting. "Hi everybody. My name is Old and I'm <deep breath> a D&D'er." "Hi James."
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Someone in the election results thread was posting that the Florida amendment re-enfranchising felons first the person must repay their court fees. With these fees possibly being in the thousands and the limited employment opportunities for felons, many won't be able to pay to get their vote back. How legal would it be to have a GoFundMe to pay these court fees only if the person registers to vote?
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Nov 7, 2018 16:02
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Austin, commonly believed to be the most Liberal region in Texas, has 6 Congressional Districts (TX-10, TX-17, TX-21, TX-25, TX-31, and TX-35) but only 1 Democrat. THE ARISTOCRATS!
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Nov 7, 2018 18:33
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mcmagic posted:You can't just assume that all the factors that make this race closer this time: the Democratic hatred of Trump and base activation paired with a great candidate at the top of the ticket like Beto. 4% might just be the Dem ceiling. I wouldn't mind Beto running against Cornyn in 2020, but we also have other interesting options like Castro.
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Is there a livestream? cochise posted:https://www.twitch.tv/washingtonpost Thanks! Old James fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 18:43
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Z. Autobahn posted:Except Beto and Gillum lost, and Manchin won, so how is this not disproving your argument And Donnelly, Heitkamp, and McCaskill lost, so how is this not disproving your counterpoint Some Centrist Dems lost and some won. Some Progressive Dems lost and some won.
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Nov 7, 2018 23:41
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Yinlock posted:i'm not sure if "masters of war" is an apt term as mastery implies some sort of proficiency, and they were really bad at wars after starting them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mabTnMHe8
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Nov 12, 2018 04:31
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Your Taint posted:Nothing Trump does is good, even accidentally, so please tell me why this criminal justice reform bill is bad. HAHA, Trump is pressing criminal justice reform because he knows his crime family is going down and they will benefit from reform. The fact it might help others does not play into his thinking.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:54
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GoluboiOgon posted:things were actually better in the 90s That chart cuts off too early to make that comparison. The ACA took effect in 2010, so you only have 1 data point to show how fast costs are rising under ACA vs the 90s.
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Nov 15, 2018 17:03
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sexpig by night posted:trump did 911 You could probably create a mad conspiracy theory that somehow he knew OBL's father since they both are in real estate development. And therefore Trump coordinated the 9/11 attacks as part of his 10d chess to become President and eliminate the Libs. Post that on 4chan and watch the qanon folks lap it up.
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Nov 19, 2018 19:29
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Crow Jane posted:Did Trump pardon a turkey this year? Well, Chris Christie is running free. So you tell me.
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Nov 21, 2018 15:53
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galenanorth posted:For me, a proliferation of memes like "As for the C students, you too can be President." Provided your brother was Governor of a critical swing state, your father was a former President, and your grandfather was a Senator.
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Your Taint posted:Dude.... Gizmodo. This is rock bottom for Laura Loomer. When even loving Gizmodo is dunking on you. I hope Twitter doesn’t ask the cops to remove her and she ends up spending the next few days handcuffed to that door.
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Nov 29, 2018 22:46
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:"What a tasty burger!" - Samuel Jackson “I like beer!” - Samuel Adams
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Nov 30, 2018 01:34
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Helith posted:The thing is even with Medicare for All, America would still be able to have private insurance as well. I am uneasy about allowing the private option, it allows the rich to step outside the system and then they lose interest in maintaining a working public system. It's like with schooling. If the rich start sending their kids to private schools they stop seeing the public school system as a valuable asset and instead a drain on their wallets. The Betsy DeVos's of the world then try to defund it as much as possible as they receive no benefit and only see the burden on their wallet. The same will happen to healthcare, Republicans will get private insurance and then try to starve MFA till it is worthless.
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Your Taint posted:Holy poo poo that's $750 PER MONTH!! Dude's got legal bills to pay.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:what the gently caress is wrong with his brain tonight? He knows tomorrow is Mueller time.
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Dec 7, 2018 04:47
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah that's is why i loathe driving (and all my friends make fun of me for it). if the roads were just empty all the time i'd have to problem but people are so loving dumb i could get wiped out by some random idiot even if i do everything correctly. Like this poor soul...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_xnpfhw5hQ
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CODChimera posted:Is it normal for everyone to just continue driving on? Forget it, CODChimera. It's California.
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Rust Martialis posted:You mean a 32-212 scale Fahrenheit is a 0-100 scale, but the scale is adjusted to human comfort level. It’s easily relatable, at 0 your skin hurts from the cold and at 100 it hurts from the heat. In between there are so many more units to describe how [un]comfortable it is. Celsius is detached from the human experience, so it may be better for science but not day to day life.
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Crow Jane posted:The art nun, not the mascot She had a name you insensitive bastard, it was Wendy Thomas. Her real name is Melinda R.I.P. 1961 - 2018
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I know this will be a really big surprise we never saw coming, but the corporate plutocracy in which absolutely no consequences are paid for breaking the law is still in full swing: For America’s prosecutors a high conviction rate > justice. So they are incentivized to plead out tough cases and throw the book at the defenseless
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SirPablo posted:Here's how I expect the shutdown to play out. * Real world consequences include: Federal workers starting to accept bribes, Foreign spy agencies recruiting new agents, talented workers moving to the private sector.
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Skippy McPants posted:As others have speculated, this may be his turn into serving up "comedy" for the reactionary right. I wonder if he'll be self-aware enough to get creeped out when neo-Nazis start fawning over him. I wonder what will happen when the Nazis learn he is half Mexican.
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cheetah7071 posted:This is mostly right, but to anyone inspired by this post to watch it, skip season one. I guess it hasn't technically aged poorly because it just always sucked. Seasons 3-6 rule though and 2 and 7 mostly rule. Yeah, season 1 has lots of bad story lines surrounding Tasha Yar as well as the worst costumes. Later seasons still have bad story lines around Diana Troi and Dr Crusher, but at least everyone’s stylish.
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nine-gear crow posted:I dunno about the first pic, but it looks like Kirk’s about to learn how to do Fus-Ro-Dah in the second one He's about to do some snoo snoo in the first one. EDIT: Trump is brain damaged and the Republican party commits treason on a daily basis.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1082861112192843777 AP FACT CHECK: Historians put the blame for the assassination of Lincoln on John Wilkes Booth. But it takes two to tango. Booth's demand for Lincoln to die is one reason for the assassination. Lincoln's refusal to dodge the bullet is another.
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ReidRansom posted:Airport gates are crowded enough without a bunch of people who aren't going to be flying milling about. I do remember as a child going to the airport to see my dad off on various business trips and standing there at the gate watching the plane pull back and taxi out, etc., but eh, whatever. It's better now, imo. Well the crowd at the gates is also a side effect of TSA. Since it takes longer to get through security people get to the airport earlier, so more total time at the airport. Then when they get through they stay put on the gate side.
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And they all are Cooley alumni.
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JonathonSpectre posted:I'm one of the 23% of Democrats who blame Democrats for the shutdown. It's probably people like my wife's step-grandfather. He's a crop adjuster in the Texas panhandle. He's 90-something, grew up in the dust bowl and became a Democrat following the New Deal. He is a proud racist and, although my wife loves him, I will privately celebrate when he dies. Oh yeah, when I first met him, he threatened to shoot me if I ever hurt his granddaughter.
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I'm betting foreign spy masters are salivating at the opportunities to come from 800,000 unpaid and demoralized Federal workers.
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eggyolk posted:This is super late, but AOC progressive tax chat and the whole 70% top bracket thing inspired me to make a visual graph. Might be better to transpose that so the income and taxes a "trickling down" from the top. Then extend the bars for the additional 170,000 pixels. Additionally, maybe add a second bar next to each group showing the total share of income taxed (cumulative) as the net effect. Also, I think you have a typo. The groups go 30%, 5%, 95%... I assume the second group was supposed to be 50%? Otherwise, I like it!
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Jan 16, 2019 18:56
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Someone should merge video of Trump saying/doing awful things followed by the shot of that crowd.
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DaveWoo posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1087733867614781446 I hear Wild Bill Hicock's lines in my head after reading every Trump tweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcm4hq_vUOo Apologies to all the women 
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Schultz is just a Reagan Republican, who is ashamed to call himself a Republican. Change my mind 
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DaveWoo posted:It's not just Cuomo, a significant chunk of the establishment media seems to have a bizarre hard-on for the guy: Schultz on AOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4bftQ4xxFc
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Charliegrs posted:If the Russians were funneling money to the GOP through the NRA then obviously the next best source to funnel money to them would be through NASCAR. Next thing you know the Russians will be funneling money to the GOP through Bass Pro Shops. Wait, are Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Dunham sleeper agents too?
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InsertPotPun posted:You guys remember the time Melania disappeared for a month and no one would tell us where she went? Was she sleeping off a black eye?
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