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Nothing sums up the Republican ethos as Ted Cruz describing "being a gamer" as someone who buys all the micro-transactions and doesn't actually play the game. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1539058659304546304?s=20&t=KzGb1rVL-8HfWbfJbTgiiA
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Lmfao my man cruz is playing temple run 2 and spent 6000 in the first week of the game existing
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Jun 22, 2022 02:19
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"who's going to be the first candidate to be busted spending campaign funds on diablo immortal gems", a question that somehow got a lot more difficult after Duncan Hunter's resignation
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Craig K posted:"who's going to be the first candidate to be busted spending campaign funds on diablo immortal gems", a question that somehow got a lot more difficult after Duncan Hunter's resignation It was to increase voter base man it's totally legit. I had many 13 year olds hanging with me in Tristram and I was explaining why voter ID laws should be federal law while helping them on their journey They said I was " cool dude"
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Jun 22, 2022 02:25
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Stay a while, and listen (to my stump speech)
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Jun 22, 2022 02:32
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Young Freud posted:Nothing sums up the Republican ethos as Ted Cruz describing "being a gamer" as someone who buys all the micro-transactions and doesn't actually play the game. The rich in general, really. Also his enjoyment coming not from the things themselves, but that he gets them easier than a poor person.
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Jun 22, 2022 03:03
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Young Freud posted:Nothing sums up the Republican ethos as Ted Cruz describing "being a gamer" as someone who buys all the micro-transactions and doesn't actually play the game. Ted Cruz is a whale lol
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Jun 22, 2022 03:08
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Ted Cruz has been so frequently compared to horrors of the deep seas that being exposed as merely a whale would be almost humanizing, had it not been that case that the deep sea comparisons were all Lovecraftian
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Jun 22, 2022 03:21
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Young Freud posted:Nothing sums up the Republican ethos as Ted Cruz describing "being a gamer" as someone who buys all the micro-transactions and doesn't actually play the game. I bet he owns a star citizen ship
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Jun 22, 2022 04:08
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Gumball Gumption posted:I bet he owns a star citizen ship He definitely bought a Idris.
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Jun 22, 2022 04:18
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https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1539405926905569284 to reiterate, the pigs absolutely, undoubtedly, 100% killed children (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 22, 2022 07:49
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Well that guy's gonna have some interesting nightmares for the rest of his life. The things this country will put up with to keep it's dumb toys is kind of amazing. Can't even imagine the awe and horror our peer countries have when they read this poo poo. It makes one wonder when or even if this all ends? Like how many third-graders do you have to Mozambique before Republicans relent. All of them? -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 08:32
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-Blackadder- posted:It makes one wonder when or even if this all ends? Like how many third-graders do you have to Mozambique before Republicans relent. All of them? In this, and many other such questions, the answer is "when the money runs out." Or, perhaps more accurately, "there is no bottom." As it stands now, mass shootings are a boon to the NRA because the conversations on gun control of any kind spur people to buy more guns and more ammunition under a kind of hosed up FOMO that they might not be able to later. Our version of capitalism creates a lot of perverse incentives for people to make little niche businesses in the wake of tragedy that make repeated tragedy a bit more ... likely? Lucrative? I'm not sure how to phrase it. Guns are the most obvious example, but it also applies to preppers for natural disasters or terrorism, or even just like, novelty grifters. Like when they were selling commemorative pieces of the towers after 9/11. I haven't yet seen anyone attempt to sell children's shirts with bullet holes (as in, from the scene of the crime), but it's the kind of thing that if someone were to do it, I imagine it would pretty quickly become a collectable thing that just happens. Though it is possible I'm being overly cynical in thinking that.
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1539405926905569284 This is what happens when you try to be a good cop.
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Nevada Republicans are sending the absolutely worst people they can to the general election. https://twitter.com/AaronDFordNV/status/1539010853789257729?s=20&t=SAFmOu7b5pUn68HDmK-YIg quote:Chattah will face current Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford in the general election in November. quote:GOP voters nominated Jim Marchant for secretary of state, a position that would place him in charge of running the state's elections. quote:Republican voters also picked right-wing extremist Michele Fiore as their nominee for state treasurer.
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Jun 22, 2022 11:44
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-Blackadder- posted:Well that guy's gonna have some interesting nightmares for the rest of his life. Honestly, the horror and awe has been replaced by resignation. The question is how many ways Republicans have to show what sort of monsters they are before those who aren't Republicans treat them like they should. It's all Sotomayor writ large, to touch on the earlier points.
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Jun 22, 2022 13:33
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DarkCrawler posted:Honestly, the horror and awe has been replaced by resignation. The question is how many ways Republicans have to show what sort of monsters they are before those who aren't Republicans treat them like they should. It's all Sotomayor writ large, to touch on the earlier points. We've seen what happens when people start treating Republicans like they should https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/08/chris-murphy-protests-supreme-court-justices-homes/9697343002/ quote:Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is calling for peace after abortion rights activists marched to the homes of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts in response to the leaked draft opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAwO9IISkfs
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Decorum-whining happens. At least the protesters probably don't have abortion-ban wanting fascist friends who they still consider good people who engage in "just politics". Therein lies the potential for change. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 22, 2022 13:46
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Somehow youtube recced me a 30 minute long scene from some network cop show. Specifically a graphic 30 minute scene of a school shooting. With realistic depictions of dying kids, not network style "pow" *falls over dead* Prolly the only on-screen violence that has ever phased me and more importantly, where the gently caress are we at that this was made? Christ on a cracker. Focused on hero cops charging through the corridors rescuing kids and taking down the shooter, which, lol.
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Jun 22, 2022 14:25
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Biden is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 3 months (most likely dead in Congress) and to provide other forms of direct relief (almost definitely dead in Congress). Since they are both likely dead in Congress, he is also asking states to suspend their state level gas taxes and provide "commensurate" direct relief through "consumer rebates, relief payments, or delaying planned tax and fee increases." He says federal direct relief will cost about $10 billion and wants states to at least match that. Unless Congress does actually authorize direct aid or suspend the gas tax, then this is effectively just asking states to spend more money. Some states might do that, but you probably aren't going to see a ton of movement in places where they haven't already been willing to do so. His plan doesn't specify how Congress should make up the $10 billion that goes to the highway fund, so that is going to make it even less likely to pass. Democrats don't want to defund the transportation budget and Republicans don't want to raise revenue from anywhere else, so hard to see how they get 60 votes for that. The White House is having a press conference with full details about the plan and a Q&A 3 PM today. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1539534047210266624 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Edit: Double posted somehow, despite the 10-second post timer.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 3 months (most likely dead in Congress) and to provide other forms of direct relief (almost definitely dead in Congress). Incredibly easy for congress to find money for war. For the American people? ehhhhhhh
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BonoMan posted:Incredibly easy for congress to find money for war. For the American people? ehhhhhhh
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A 3 month suspension on the gas tax means that it'd end not terribly long before the midterm elections. Seems a bit short-sighted if the effect of the tax suspension winds up being noticeable, which admittedly isn't something I'd count on without anything being done to prevent the prices at the pump from going up even higher. (Not counting on this passing at all, mind) Srice fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 14:41
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Somehow youtube recced me a 30 minute long scene from some network cop show. Specifically a graphic 30 minute scene of a school shooting. With realistic depictions of dying kids, not network style "pow" *falls over dead* What was it called? The Daily Wire has been heavily promoting something like that recently.
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Srice posted:A 3 month suspension on the gas tax means that it'd end not terribly long before the midterm elections. Seems a bit short-sighted if the effect of the tax suspension winds up being noticeable, which admittedly isn't something I'd count on without anything being done to prevent the prices at the pump from going up even higher. This is going to turn into the student loan thing, where they'll cut the taxes, but not want the heat of increasing the again, so they'll keep pushing the increase back. Edit: or if it needs to be done by congress, Republicans will cut the tax, then filibuster the extension, making democrats own the increase. Dumb, boneheaded own goal, that also is more or less a republican policy: solving a problem by cutting taxes, which doesn't actually solve the problem.
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The White House has apparently not told Congress about the details of this plan until today, so that will surely make them happy.quote:The official said the administration was "encouraged by the fact" that members of the House and Senate have already made similar proposals to what Biden will call for on Wednesday, but suggested the White House had yet to engage in depth with members of Congress on this topic -- saying "we expect to" engage with Congress. According to several studies, between 65% and 72% of the suspended gas tax has been passed onto consumers when it has been done before. State gas taxes vary, but if every state and the federal government suspended their taxes for 3 months, then it would reduce consumer prices by an average of between 33.54 cents per gallon and 37.15 cents per gallon for 3 months. ~35 cents isn't nothing, but it's not enormous. And you need a lot of things to go right just to get that ~35 cents per gallon. The impact of direct aid and whatever his plan about increasing refinery capacity is harder to quantify and will most likely be close to 0 in both cases anyway.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Somehow youtube recced me a 30 minute long scene from some network cop show. Specifically a graphic 30 minute scene of a school shooting. With realistic depictions of dying kids, not network style "pow" *falls over dead* Is this one of those "cognitive disconnect" things like where people were posting pictures of bare store shelves from the start of the pandemic saying "This is what stores would look like under Communism" and being very confuses when people posted that's literally stores under Capitalism at that time? "This is what mass shootings would look like if police were defunded!" "That's literally what happened a month ago."?
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FDA seems to be making a lot of big moves against tobacco products this week. The FDA just made a surprise announcement that Juul will have to remove all of its products from the U.S. market effective immediately. Juul was famous for being responsible for the rise of tobacco use in youth for the first time in 40 years in 2018. They are small single-use cartridges with very high nicotine content (a single pod has roughly as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes/200 cigarette puffs) and fruity flavors. Juul had been in legal limbo for a while after the FDA banned fruity flavoring in products with high levels of nicotine and the FDA started a 4-year review of the impact of Juul on teen tobacco use. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1539602220685135875 quote:FDA to Order Juul E-Cigarettes off U.S. Market
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gently caress yeah, now that’s what I’m talking about, git’em Califf (in practice is be surprised if this isn’t stayed via a legal challenge; Altria and its other tobacco company shareholders have little incentive to do otherwise)
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former Florida candidate for Governor Andrew Gillum was indicted today for campaign fraud. https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1539618246147579905
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:former Florida candidate for Governor Andrew Gillum was indicted today for campaign fraud. Hopefully, it is for something exciting like the meth or the hookers that his friend ordered to just "hang out" in their hotel room. But, it is probably something boring like buying a car or paying his mortgage. Speaking of Florida Governors, DeSantis has moved from "very likely to run" to "definitely running." He's not asking for Trump's endorsement and doesn't want him to come campaign for his re-election. https://twitter.com/politico/status/1539594397179846657
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 3 months (most likely dead in Congress) and to provide other forms of direct relief (almost definitely dead in Congress). Even though this is how it's supposed to work here in the U.S. it's always seemed weird and inefficient that there wasn't more coordination between federal and state government strategy and operations. Every time Biden "talks to the states" about something it always comes off like he's sticking his head out the window of his house and yelling to his neighbors across the street, "Hey you guys, whaddya think of this?" Like maybe get people together and have a meeting?
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As suspected, gas tax suspension is already likely dead before they even made the official announcement of the plan today at 3 pm. Additional direct aid almost assuredly dead as well. That basically leaves: - Lower some tariffs and hope that the generally lower cost of imports translates into some lower inflation. - Ask states to provide direct aid or suspend their gas tax. - Get American refineries to increase production. As the only parts of the plan that might still happen. https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/status/1539628314796724229
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This might be a stupid question (and is not a demand or policy statement) but if (part of) the problem is the gas companies aren't making enough gas so the gas stations have to charge more, could the President decide that nobody being able to drive to work or the grocery store is an emergency and use the Defense Powers Act (I think is the name) to like make them make more? Like they did with baby formula earlier this year I think? Seems like the Actual President should (not necessarily can in the current system) do more than ask nicely idk.
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projecthalaxy posted:This might be a stupid question (and is not a demand or policy statement) but if (part of) the problem is the gas companies aren't making enough gas so the gas stations have to charge more, could the President decide that nobody being able to drive to work or the grocery store is an emergency and use the Defense Powers Act (I think is the name) to like make them make more? Like they did with baby formula earlier this year I think? American refineries are below capacity, but not by much, and American refineries also account for a very small amount of the world's oil refining. The problem isn't that they are refining too little. It's that there is too little crude oil available for cheap to meet the demand of the entire world. A lot of the "easy" oil in the world has already been extracted. New sources of oil require much more time and expense to extract. Plus, the ~3 billion people of India, China, and parts of Africa that have historically used far less oil and gas per capita than other countries are all growing and needing larger amounts of energy. It's basically a global problem and unless we discover a magic source of cheap and easily extractable oil or transition to a new energy source that is as effective and cheaper than oil, then there isn't much anyone can do about it in the short to medium term. More than half of global inflation is related to energy costs, the next largest chunk is supply chain problems, and then the next largest chunk is individual fiscal/monetary policies in each country. Individual countries have no real control over the first two. The U.K. inflation rate is 9.1%. The U.S. inflation rate is 8.7% The average E.U. inflation rate is 8.1% Some countries in central Africa and Latin America have 15+% inflation rates. They can fiddle around with spending and monetary policy to move it a bit, but most of it is out of their control and the result of not transitioning away from oil and then having demand for oil explode and supply for oil decrease every year since 2006.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
Even fox is saying trumps in trouble. I think everyone is about to hang trump out to try and stump for DeSantis for president. The pivot is already under way. Trump won't take it lying down.
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I see. I was just asking because you put -Get American refineries to up production As one of your remaining levers and I know there was that announcement that the President was bringing the heads of all the gas companies to the white house to discuss how they're making such profit when Americans are suffering and I wasn't sure if there was a way he could pull the "I am no longer asking" on them
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Sounds like we finally hit the Peak Oil we’ve been worrying about for the last couple of decades
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Meatball posted:Even fox is saying trumps in trouble. I don't know if there is a real pivot, but DeSantis probably realizes that this is his moment and he probably won't be a front runner in 6 years when he has been out of office 2 years. DeSantis wants to advantage himself and himself seem like the best option, but I don't know if that represents a real actual pivot among grassroots and institutional support for Trump.
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