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It's not necessarily about cash. Vanity and ambition should not be underestimated. By being a deciding vote and switching sides, she becomes important. No doubt she has been wined and dined and been given great attention by high Republican officials and important lobbyists as well. A guy who was my rep for a while in Washington State before he became a Senator, Rodney Tom, switched sides to the Republicans to swap control of the Senate. To seal the deal they made him the Majority Leader. The D-party organizations censured him for, quote, "Gross disloyalty" and "Perfiduous behavior". It killed his electoral career despite his title; he never won another election.
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Gumball Gumption posted:What happened to the judge in Washington who ruled that the FDA can't restrict access? How does that play into setting precedent? It's a thing that happened, but everyone would rather get a stay than play the Dueling Court Orders minigame.
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Apr 10, 2023 20:10
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Velocity Raptor posted:I had seen this story covered by CNN I'm curious as to why they only reinstated Jones to his position. From the CNN article, he was appointed back to his position since a special election isn't for a couple of weeks. But does anyone more familiar with TN state politics as to why only one of the two ousted members were reinstated? It's not the state government reinstating them; it's local governments. Different local governments that operate on different political and bureaucratic schedules. Expect both to be reinstated before too long.
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Apr 11, 2023 00:18
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Water rights arguments have always been insane. The Hoover Dam is named after Hoover not because he built it, but because he managed to get the relevant states to make even the slightest progress on water distribution agreements; thus was a prerequisite for the dam to even get started.
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Apr 12, 2023 09:19
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...it's literally stopping it right now, that's why its a topic of conversation. it's forcing McConnell and Feinstein out.
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Apr 17, 2023 10:17
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DarkCrawler posted:Uh, stopping what exactly? Is there a positive effect on American democracy when you have to be seriously injured or a demented vegetable to be maybe carted out of politics because you can't make it to a particular room? this is so weird. do you *actually* prefer the alternative of Feinstein('s aides) continuing to vote for her remotely?
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Apr 17, 2023 13:38
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TheDisreputableDog posted:So Fetterman needs to go, huh. do we really need to specify that its long term debilitation thats the problem
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Apr 17, 2023 18:36
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These issues are only really for long haul trucks, right? Short haul trucks - also in the bill - seem like they can convert to EV without nearly as many issues.
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Apr 17, 2023 22:17
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We're in higher danger than ever of that crash, Imo. McCarthy clearly does not have control of his party, and repeated rounds of purges may have finally put an end to Republicans willing to cross the aisle on these votes. Plus, the mess in Florida with DeSantis and Disney shows how loose the control of the corporate paymasters has become.
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Apr 18, 2023 15:57
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kronix posted:This isn't me purposely spreading misinformation, of course a lot of issues unrelated to the drivetrain because most EVs are packed with tech. My only point is that yes, in theory EVs should be more reliable. We have a nearly century of data for diesel trucks and we don't have data for battery electric trucks in the wild. EV motors don't last forever and will likely need to be replaced many times over the life of a truck, same with batteries. You can't do total cost of ownership without that data. Full size EVs haven't been practical until recently, but we've had electric forklifts for literally a hundred years, undergoing intense daily workload. Electric buses and electric locomotives have a long history. Hybrid vehicles have been around for decades. Electric motors and drive trains are not some newfangled device with teething issues. Their problems are predictable and the engineering challenges are known. And noone is 'going after truck drivers.' TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Apr 18, 2023 20:05
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I hope Fox has legally agreed that Tucker Carlson should have to wear a novelty shirt at all times saying "I AM A BIG LIAR AND I SMELL LIKE FARTS". at the very least the next election will be funny with fox hosts saying things like "This election is very dubious! But not because of the voting machines, which are incredibly reliable and trustworthy." while glancing just offscreen at the lawyer
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Apr 18, 2023 21:15
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Biden's simply not gonna pull the trigger on the coin without a scenario where he can frame the GOP as having forced him into it to save the global economy.
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Apr 27, 2023 02:52
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Jarmak posted:They evacuated the politicians under armed guard and shoot a rioter in the head in the process of keeping them back. What about that situation made you think the issue was intent not ability? mostly that jan 6 was more of a riot than anything, disorganized af and everyone there had their own intent. they were riding high on mob energy. so ascribing pretty much any intent to 'Them' is both possible and probably inaccurate.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:18
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Bar Ran Dun posted:No. That’s incorrect. That is fair and defensible, but the jan 6 rioters being united by hating democracy doesn't proceed automatically to Murder Death Kill.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:33
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From reading one of those articles a while back, its pretty clear there's some outright bribery and corruption going on in the relevant sections of HHS. People who asked too many questions got fired.
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May 8, 2023 19:15
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Fister Roboto posted:OK, noted. Could you address any of my other points please? Such as the question that others have asked you, for whom is continuous growth "perfectly sustainable"? Continuous growth at the macroeconomic level is perfectly sustainable so long as the causes of continuous growth are sustained: population growth and technological advances. Continuous growth of individual companies is sustainable until they exhaust their market. See Meta.
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May 9, 2023 19:43
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The Republican plan for some time now has been to make the country as ungovernable and nonfunctional as possible when they aren't in power. Politically, it hasn't been a failure for them, even if it hasn't been a success either. It helps that Fox News is so assiduously dedicated to controlling the narrative.
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May 9, 2023 20:02
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Cartels also usually don't work in a competitive enough market. I think the magic number is like 5 or so major participants.
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May 10, 2023 00:32
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CNN's leadership has been pretty open about a deliberate rightward shift. They want to eat Fox from the left.
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May 11, 2023 15:59
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I think the point was that Putin is the product of an avowedly communist society. In any cas, he certainly isn't a product of capitalism.
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May 11, 2023 18:37
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Morning Joe was literally hosted by a Republican congressman, and oftentimes it showed. Not great if that's what counts as centrist
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May 11, 2023 19:00
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the insult isn't that they're kissing. the insult is that they're so close. saying 'trump is in bed with putin' isn't homophobic.
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May 14, 2023 19:57
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Adenoid Dan posted:Sure, if you want to ignore all of our cultural context. Our cultural context is that the visual shorthand of any close relationship is holding hands, kissing, and so on and so forth.
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May 14, 2023 20:01
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How would you depict two people having a close relationship, visually?
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May 14, 2023 20:11
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Queering Wheel posted:Even if Biden wins next year, a Republican is probably going to be president again sometime this decade just because of how US voters tend to switch parties every few terms for Reasons The current strategy is to pray that demographic change / olds dying off fixes everything
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May 16, 2023 00:01
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She definitely failed. It's not like she could have succeeded - what is she gonna do, cut his mic? Trump would never have attended if so. But that's irrelevant; noone forced her to take the job, and she had to have known how it would go down.
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May 17, 2023 20:55
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There's always a lot of governors and would-be governors floating around with presidential ambition. I don't think Inslee is gonna run again, but people like that for sure.
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May 19, 2023 03:42
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until 1995 the house had a rule that the debt ceiling was just automatically raised by virtue of passing the budget it was explicitly repealed by republicans wanting to grandstand In other words the debt ceiling is a self inflicted wound on many levels, specifically by republicans.
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May 20, 2023 00:41
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Seattle transit suffered enormously from regional transit planning and funding being coordinated at the state level. While this might sound good in abstract, in practice the result was that everywhere that wasn't Seattle refused to pay a dime for Seattle transit; it kneecapped everything. There was an earlier attempt at a mass transit system that was going to build out the monorail (as opposed to the current completely separate light rail system.). IIRC they got so far as buying the right of way and land for the stations before the one of the yearly state propositions to cancel its funding succeeded and all that effort was wasted.
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May 27, 2023 01:04
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The charitable view is that polling can change dramatically during primaries, but that doesnt usually happen with an incumbent. The uncharitable view is that the media is wired for Republicans and have been faithfully writing up DeSantis stories for literally years with horse-race articles about how he's fueling his national ambitions by killing off as many old people as he can. 
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May 27, 2023 21:29
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Goons: "I would just dare them to shoot the hostage." poo poo sucks, but they said a while ago that they felt a 14th amendment solution would get jammed in the courts, so a deal was inevitable. And yeah you don't get what you want when the other guy has a veto.
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Anyone the Supreme Court wants to have standing. Originalism.jpg
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May 28, 2023 23:30
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Widespread respect for the Supreme Court as an institution is its only real protection from partisan kneecapping by whoever controls Congress or from ''good luck enforcing that' by the Executive. Which is why their current course is so fuckin stupid. unless you want to destroy civic trust in government and don't give a poo poo so win/win for republicans i guess.
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May 29, 2023 14:18
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this is exactly what joe biden wanted all along, which is why these cuts are happening during a cutthroat negotiation with a Republican-controlled house instead of at like, literally any other point. I bet he and the freedom caucus got together at epstein island and raised a glass of wine while toasting evil. c'mon posters.
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Celexi posted:I don't understand this Line of thinking either. Why do we have to shove two people from a group of 10 down the hill instead of 8 and instead not shove anyone at all? Because Republicans control the House and they want their pound of flesh.
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May 30, 2023 01:01
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Regardless of what you think of her allegations towards Biden, Reade was involved in the Russian propaganda network long before the 2020 election; not just her personal statements, but things like videos featuring her being distributed on Russian channels on topics like i.e. the 2019 crisis in Bolivia. So her defection doesn't come out of nowhere or anything.
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A big flaming stink posted:one of the reasons i dont post in dnd much anymore is because the moderation culture is extremely permissive about rampant rape culture as long as the targets are deemed acceptable. What would you suggest? Probating anyone that casts any doubt on Reade's accusations?
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May 31, 2023 13:05
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OctaMurk posted:Theres a slim possibility that the court cases do serious damage to Trump or take him out of the running is there not? In which case the frontrunner would be DeSantis and theres plenty of reason for people to believe they could beat him I have my doubts there will be any debates whatsoever for the 2024 election or primaries.
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Idk who it is backing Chris Christie, but he's had at least a couple columns touting him in the New York Times recently. I'd say his constituency is rich GOP donors who would prefer Not Trump but see DeSantis as a lost cause or a loose cannon. If he's going for VP after what happened last time, lol. lmao.
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also re traffic chat I can only speak for Washington State here, but the traffic data is actually pretty weird. In terms of # of accidents, roads are actually safer than ever; accidents are down by a lot across the board, even ignoring 2020-2021 for covid reasons. That includes pedestrians/bikes accidents, drunk driving, distracted driving, everything. But the absolute number of fatalities is still notably up!
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