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If you would like to know more about Chester A Arthur (and other Presidents), there's a thread for that https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3849787&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Psychics are like the lottery. Pretty equal chances you're going to get rich playing their game, and they exist solely to be the entity that parts fools from their money
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Mar 7, 2019 00:07
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Camacho at least took the smartest people he could find and charged then with fixing all the nation's problems, so not all that incompetent
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Mar 19, 2019 03:22
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Well that was a frustrating episode, why did he end it by telling everyone to protest live at Wrestlemania, while omitting any actual way they could identify themselves as being part of that? No specific chant like "pay your workers" to do in unison? Not even a hash tag to write on the signs? Vince will just write contract protests into the script for the show
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Apr 7, 2019 16:20
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Our system is functionally not a democracy and most votes do not count. What you're expressing is a belief that the system works, which is central to the thesis of this show (that voting better can make everything better) and antithetical to leftist revolution. If people vote differently, the people at the top of our institutions will just go to farther and farther lengths to protect their hegemony, and their actions alone can keep things the way they are; economic and political power are currently monopolized in the hands of the few, which is the whole problem. Blaming the voters is exactly what keeps attention off of the policy-based manipulations of the ruling class that holds the voters down. Those of us in the Nothing Matters party have known this for decades
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Apr 8, 2019 20:26
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Orange Devil posted:Still, everything else aside, who else but John Oliver straight up targets oligarchs with his platform? Maybe he'll target the plutocrats next time https://www.texasaflcio.org/working-texas/bill-would-create-separate-unelected-court-system-business-giants
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Apr 16, 2019 22:29
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Last Week Tonight: Cows don't fart, they belch
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May 13, 2019 09:07
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Orange Devil posted:I work in warehousing, in a country where Amazon's bullshit doesn't fly. Yet here also "Order today have it delivered tomorow" creates so many lovely loving jobs for no measurable societal gain it's infuriating. Just making that one thing illegal would already fix so much. Don't worry, robots are being refined that will get rid of those lovely jobs
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Jul 2, 2019 22:50
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Who the hell next day ships Oreos? That's what Prime Now is for.
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Jul 6, 2019 11:47
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Just be sure to have one of these for dessert In semi-related news, wtf did imgur just do to its interface?
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Jul 30, 2019 23:17
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Invalid Validation posted:Oh I’m sure they get money from all the companies falling over themselves to get cheap labor. I'm pretty sure the largest customer is the government. They have a mandate of some variety to use prison labor
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Aug 6, 2019 20:44
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I guess the answer to "how long before the idiots that believe communism is a remotely viable economic policy reach critical mass again" is about 60 years.
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Aug 21, 2019 06:54
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Y'all ready to hear a lot about a lot of societal problems a Bernie presidency could immediately fix? The senate is controlled by the Republicans and the predictions don't really seem to imply that's going to change, so it'll be about a bunch of problems that could be fixed if mitch mcconnell didn't exist.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:53
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Dumb Lowtax posted:The senate doesn't get a say in huge swaths of possible executive actions Anything people are clinging to Bernie to solve does. If you could just executive order nationalized healthcare, ubi, free housing, and education debt forgiveness, I'm pretty sure Obama would have tried at least some it.
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Feb 10, 2020 07:52
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A forgiven student loan is considered taxable income. So yes, Bernie could wave his hand and drive people into 1.5 trillion dollars of immediate tax problems. Which I suppose is still an improvement since I think you can actually declare bankruptcy to recover from tax debt, unlike student loans. Bypassing the taxes would need Congress. All I'm saying is the president has very little power to fire magic bullets at problems. Any Democrat coming in will probably do the easy stuff (competent people in charge of the sundry government divisions, ending the dhs concentration camps, etc). Anything else is going to involve Congress and that's going to be slow and lovely. Trump couldn't even get his stupid wall past a friendly Congress, it won't be any easier getting sweeping social changes past a hostile one.
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Nothing would make me happier than a December 2024 episode reviewing the first 4 years of the new American Golden Age. The realist in me says the December 2024 episode will be a review of the failed 4 year saga to replace Ginsburg.
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I was surprised his Hitler photo didn't show up immediately
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Feb 27, 2020 23:46
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Djarum posted:It will come in VERY handy for the Olympics since the BBC generally has the best coverage. I refuse to even acknowledge that any American channel carries it
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Feb 28, 2020 04:28
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https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-and-real-time-bill-maher-hbo-coronavirus-1203544022/ LWT is back this Sunday, filmed from John's house in quarantine. There better be PJs involved.
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Hopefully it goes OK. Seth Meyers has been doing his closer look segments from home for youtube and it's been pretty solid, hopefully they adjust to the home format well and don't put in as many audience laugh breaks
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https://twitter.com/chetwill/status/1244474947218612224?s=19 link related to the ratse: apparently going to the internet archive isn't needed, he's still around https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Biohazard Other than having wikifur in your browser history there's nothing untoward on the link (at least on mobile) Azhais fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Senor Tron posted:In a time when there is no live audience these type of things work better with a co-host to bounce off. And to minimize staff perhaps make it audio only. An audio newspaper for a visual world if you will. Nah, just have video guest appearances, like on John Krasinski's new YouTube show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5pgG1M_h_U
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Mar 30, 2020 14:10
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Everything Trump says is offputting and he's the one that called himself a war time president, so it's a reasonable response to feel off put.
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Mar 31, 2020 22:06
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Especially since a lot of Chinese food that Americans think about are actually American constructs
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Apr 6, 2020 22:19
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One Nut Wonder posted:They should track down the original artist of the rat painting, or his family and secures rights to sell prints for charity. I linked the original author in this thread shortly after the show aired, he's hardly a secret. His wiki entries even list him as being e-famous in the furry community for getting furry porn onto pbs
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Apr 13, 2020 06:49
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Milo and POTUS posted:You just wanted to see Burt's wife didn't you Reba McEntire?
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Apr 13, 2020 08:19
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Hillary's whole "Get a load of that guy" campaign didn't help either
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Apr 14, 2020 21:58
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PT6A posted:I feel like: "No, seriously, look at this loving moron" is going to be a much more effective argument after his incompetence has killed tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans, and we've seen how he actually behaves as President. The few Trump supporters I have to interact with are still of the "Thank god we had Trump to help us through this crisis" opinion. It truly is a death cult, don't expect them to suddenly change.
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Grand Fromage posted:Beyond their politics not matching and DNC poo poo, Biden is a billion years old and needs to pick a VP who is not also a billion years old. he should make Obama his VP then immediately resign on Jan 21
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Joking aside, you have to be eligible to be president to be the VP. The longest anyone can serve right now is 10 years, and that's only if you're the VP, the president dies with less than 2 years to go in their term, and you win re-election twice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWihXElw_zg LegalEagle did a whole thing on it, there's nothing that technically prevents you from being VP as a former President in the Constitution, but the shitshow of lawsuits to clear out that technicality would be pretty exciting.
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SlothfulCobra posted:He was raised to religiously destroy every document
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Apr 21, 2020 23:53
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Where's my Marlon Bundo stamp
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Alhazred posted:Speaking of Stewart, it's really depressing to see him talking about the same thing in 2014 and realizing that nothing has changed: You mean like 
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Orange Devil posted:Buddy, Bush had 14 year olds in Gitmo. So he was literally torturing children. You don't get to be "moderate" about that yet claim human empathy. It really started with Reagan. Ford was no saint but at least he tried to do some good social programs. Then the Gipper comes along with his piss on the poor economic system and jettisoning all of the nation's mentally ill onto the streets and it's been steadily downhill from them since
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Alhazred posted:We've had this for three years in my country and it hasn't actually made that much of a difference. Yeah, the rent just goes up. Just like a trade war, pass that extra cost on to the consumer. The US charges like 4x property tax on rental stuff already
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Jul 1, 2020 09:49
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So what's the proper square footage required for dignity
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Jul 4, 2020 10:16
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There's nothing wrong with tiny houses, I've been considering going that route once decent internet shows up in the rural part of Wisconsin I'm from. The things in the video aren't that, those are just Menards garden sheds with a mattress. If they actually manage to keep it going (which the end of the video casts some doubt on) I hope they get some actual tiny house designers involved. Widen those slightly, raise the roof slightly, loft the bed, and you can actually have a decent living space. Don't do that and you might as well just buy out a self storage facility and stuff the homeless in there, at which point I agree wholeheartedly about the whole dignity thing
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cant cook creole bream posted:Could you force people to relocate in such a way? Wouldn't be the first time!
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So your theory is you'd be happy to spend $200k building a house you didn't ultimately own at the end? The general argument I've seen is this theory involves the government owning all housing and letting the people live there for free. The dream: miles and miles of Khrushchyovka
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