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TheDeadlyShoe posted:wait, you can just...make threads? I thought i got probed for making threads!
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Eric Cantonese posted:Maybe you get probed because you dress like a trollop. Hey, whats wrong with showing a little bit of ankle and maybe even some calve?
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Jan 31, 2024 17:20
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Eric Cantonese posted:What does the House GOP have against Andy Milonakis again? He's not Biden?
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Feb 7, 2024 01:43
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Kale posted:So I assume even if they get the votes in the house the Senate would have to affirm the impeachment and there's basically no chance of that. Unless the system for impeaching a cabinet secretary is somehow dumb Its all about sending a message, dontcha know?
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Feb 7, 2024 02:03
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FistEnergy posted:vote scolding is a terrible and undemocratic strategy but I'm sure this time will be different When was the last time the election _wasn't_ the Most Important Election in the History of Democracy (tm, all rights reserved)
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Feb 11, 2024 04:22
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cdc posted:All elections are important, but I have never seen one in my lifetime where it was so obvious that the choice stood between normality and chaos. Democracy and fascism. Bill Clinton is younger than Trump and Biden.
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Feb 11, 2024 04:48
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B B posted:You're probably right about that. All of them have a history of eating ultra-processed food, but Clinton is the only one among them who drinks alcohol. Hadn't really thought about that much, but it does make sense. He also had double bypass a few years ago after a heart attack. I'm also sure he's not covered in makeup like the other two are.
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Feb 11, 2024 05:23
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Gyges posted:Bill Clinton was the worst Democratic President of my lifetime. Give me Sleepy Joe instead 10 out of 10 times. I was born at the very end of Nixon, so barely remembered Jimmy. Next for me would be Bubba, then Obama and now Biden. So yeah, in the past 50 years Bubba was the worst of them.
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Feb 11, 2024 05:46
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I live in this district, and I have a few observations. In my area at least there were tons of Mazi signs all over the place, and a few Suozzi signs which is..pretty surprising actually. My area is really really red and to see signs for Suozzi in this area is pretty significant. Democrats here tend to keep their mouths shut here and don't put out signs or have stickers on their car out of fear of vandalism. My wife and I voted early, a week ago on the first day of early voting. The polling pace had a HUUUGE line out the door for this one election, and many of the people early voting were probably in their 70s. The amount of paper, phone calls, targeted advertising and the rest was loving NUTS. I'd get 4-5 broadsheets a day in the mail for each candidate. The two big themes were 'she's anti abortion' and 'hes tied to Biden at the hip.' These are obviously trial balloons for November. As a candidate she sucked. No idea why she was nominated, probably because she checked off a number of boxes (Wait, i thought the republicans hated identity politics?). She had no real positions, no character and no personality. Apparently at the debate she floundered badly.
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Feb 14, 2024 05:11
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Why does the Monty Python song 'Every Sperm is Sacred' suddenly come to mind?
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Feb 22, 2024 04:10
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Byzantine posted:Yeah, this is what an actual populist takeover of a party looks like. Very unfortunate that America is such a demonic country that the populace rallies around Donald loving Trump instead of Bernie, but them's the breaks. Well, this is literally tyrany by the minority. The hardcore maga voters are what, 15-20 percent of the overall population and 30 percent of the GOP ? But they are so loud and potentially violent that the other 70 percent of the GOP is cowed by them, and cowed by the attacks they would suffer from Fox News if they grew a spine.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:26
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Can someone explain to me why the media reports that when Trump scores 60 percent of the primary votes its an amazing victory for him, but if Biden doesn't score 90 percent he's washed up and it's game over for the democrats?
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Feb 25, 2024 19:16
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FMguru posted:They don't just want a horserace, they want a Trump victory. Crazy Donny's Three Ring Circus Of Chaos was a money-geyser for news ratings and viewership and subscriptions and engagement metrics and advertising revenue (most political and news websites have seen traffic drops of 30-50% between the Trump and Biden eras), and they want that back. Everyone living in existential dread and constantly doom-reloading news sites and twitter was really good for business! Imagine the ratings CNN will get when they are livestreaming the nuclear warhead incoming track to the US east coast! That'll make a big splash for that quarter!
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Feb 26, 2024 19:38
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I know it isn't really the teacher's fault directly, but that article is really depressing with how impotent they seem. Meanwhile, my son's private (Catholic) school sent an email today saying they are installing vape detectors in all the bathrooms and have security cameras pointing at the doors. They will immediately notify security if they detect vaping, who will search the student. If found with a vape pen or Juul they will be suspended for a week on the first offense, expelled on the second.
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Feb 27, 2024 19:58
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:as a scientist in public employ, i'm obligated to angrily wave my fist in the vague direction of the administrative apparatus My old town's school superintendent retired after 20 years in the system, where she was making $380,000 a year. She immediately started drawing her pension (which she didn't have to pay into for some reason) of 250,000 a year. Well, the school district needed a new superintendent so they started the hiring process. But in the meantime, they needed someone to run the show. Who did they hire as an interum superintendent? Why the same woman who retired the day before. Her salary? 400,000 a year. Strangely enough, it took them two years before they hired a full time superintendent. Who did they end up picking? The vice superintendent. The local moms facebook is a right wing sewer, and they constantly complain about high property taxes, sales taxes and the general cost of living. But if you even think of bringing up this example or the fact that local police are the best paid in the state well...you are a goddamn socialist. But if the library wants a few thousand to replace the i486s they have had for who knows how long the loving explosions on that facebook group are amazing. Oh, did I mention i lived in George Santos's old district?
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Feb 27, 2024 20:12
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Professor Beetus posted:I mean most adults can't deal with having an addictive depression device in their pockets, much less minors. The horse has long sense left the barn but the best solution probably would have been to ban smart phones for minors. The parents' reasoning for having phones in class for emergencies would be satisfied with a dumb phone and if the US had any ability to keep up with new tech and regulate efficiently this could have been a solved problem before it started. Try getting parent controls and restrictions to work on Iphones. Its basically impossible, and I really think Apple does it on purpose. For example, you can disable apps after a specific time. But guess what, there is a 'ignore' button you can hit to ignore that bedtime rule.
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Feb 27, 2024 20:44
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haveblue posted:I haven't actually used this feature, but this is what the documentation says about it: You would think, but no.What actually happens is after the downtime starts if you try to load an app it says 'This app is blocked until 7:30 AM when screen time resumes" or something to that effect. However there is a giant 'ignore' button at the bottom of the screen. If you hit that the app launches. You can also manually change your clock to say, five hours earlier and poof, downtime goes away too.
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Feb 27, 2024 21:47
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Trump got into this specific bit of trouble in the first place for inflating his value for the purposes of getting loans. Now the judge wants him to go get more loans. loving LOL
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Feb 28, 2024 22:38
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Not sure if this was posted here yet or not, but this is pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtDq7VLQFE
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I'm sure that couple are not trying to exploit this for personal gain.
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Mar 2, 2024 04:50
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From the "Too drat late, not like it would have made a difference anyways" files: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1763727207954821374
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Mar 2, 2024 19:39
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DaveWoo posted:There's also the part where the poll shows Trump tied with Biden among women voters, a group he lost by 15 points in 2020. Don't you understand? Its because after the Dobbs ruling woman have universally come to accept and understand that God has appointed their husbands as their rightful rulers and they will vote the way their husbands tell them.
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Mar 2, 2024 19:59
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I looked at the trap, Ray! (I looked at the RCP poll of polls and got sick to my stomach)
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:is a one term senator who had to stand aside for being a dipshit going to even get lucrative lobbying gigs? (of course she'll earn more in a year than i will in a decade, but in the scheme of these things it how is she not worth peanuts?) It's not like she was all that influential either. I doubt she built much of a network worth lobbying with.
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Mooseontheloose posted:
Yeah, not sure that is really a thing TBH. She's pissed off pretty much all of the democratic activists with her juicy thumbs down on raising the federal minimum wage.
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Mar 5, 2024 21:47
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Scags McDouglas posted:Other posters have broached this but I think Sinema's snotty curtsy and thumbs down to minimum wage was the moment of no return. You know you done hosed up when you somehow manage to unite all the democrats against you.
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The thing I am dreading with the election season warming up is the fucksticks and their endless loving trump flags flying off everything.
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Mar 6, 2024 02:56
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Xiahou Dun posted:Yes, the meaningless ones. I would put myself into the "I don't love Biden, but he's sure as poo poo better than the alternative." I really hope this is the last gasp of the Boomer Generation of presidents. Its time for someone born in the 60s or 70s to take over.
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Mar 6, 2024 17:54
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Xiahou Dun posted:You're preaching to the choir, hoss. Politics is loving nasty. A guy i work with was running for school board in his town, and the poo poo that happened to him was amazingly awful. People showing up at his door late at night to yell at him, people calling him at all hours. Don't even ask about social media. It got so bad he had to sit with his daughter at the bus stop and watch her get on the school bus because his 5th grade daughter was catching poo poo waiting for the bus. Mind you, he is a Jewish Democrat running in a pretty MAGA part of Long Island, but still, it was awful. He ended up saying 'gently caress this' and withdrawing from the race. For school board.
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Mar 6, 2024 18:05
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I think I need to unsub from this thread for a while and take a mental health non politics break. I had a dream about the election last night, so when it gets to that level its time for a DT detox break. I'm sick of hearing about that fucker and its just not good for me to doom-refresh.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes, and more specifically, the way he's doing it is a 'gently caress you' to Mike Johnson's majority I just saw that and was about to post, but yeah, that's a giant 'gently caress you' to the GOP.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:30
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Haha, was this guy a semi-sane republican or a ghoul? Any chance that his seat flips? He's a ghoul because he's still GOP, he's semi-sane because he's getting out.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:34
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:He got 72% of the vote last time and Dems got 1% since they didn’t run anyone. It won’t flip Not always their fault to not run someone. The abuse the candidate and their families receive in really red areas is abhorrent.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:41
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Ellipson posted:OP was being quite literal. MTG’s opponent dropped out a few years ago because her supporters stalked and harassed him and basically ruined his life. Happens in deep red districts across the country. I’m half convinced the woman who kept running doomed campaigns here for years kept signing up because she was single and had no family to put in harm’s way. She had a brick thrown through her apartment window the last time she ran. I live in a red part of Long Island, and a coworker of mine lives in a town nearby. A few years ago he was running for school board in his town against a pretty MAGA mom. School boards are supposed to be non partisan, but it didn't take long for it to leak out that he was a democrat. People started calling him at 3 AM. Knocks at the door from people who wanted to 'give him a piece of their mind' and would berate him for 'trying to make our kids into socialists'. Facebook was even worse, and someone from out of state started making memes about him. It got so bad he had to sit in his car in the morning with his daughter to make sure she didn't catch poo poo from adults while waiting for the school bus. Eventually he dropped out of the race, saying 'gently caress this'. MAGA mom won unopposed. And yes, people from out of state were getting involved in this, this was part of the whole 'take back our school boards' movement if you remember that stuff.
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Main Paineframe posted:Yes, but most of the MTG-like crazies are already on record saying they don't want to oust Johnson. Hope so, otherwise he's gonna get hosed so hard his son's phone will be blowing up.
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mutata posted:I mean, this general sentiment being one that often comes up is exactly why I said what I said, but I also have no actual clue other than vibes from browsing headlines. "Democrats force House to become unworkable via procedural trickery (AP) "The House of Representatives today shut down for a third time this year as Congressional Democrats engaged in procedural chicanery , forcing a vote for yet another election of Speaker of the House. It is expected that during the needless wheel spinning thousands of undocumented immigrants will flood into the country as Congress is powerless to approve needed Border Security laws....."
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von Metternich posted:So uh, what can be done about this (by the Democrats)? It seems bad if your party can’t run a candidate at all in broad swathes of the country. You seem to think that this is somehow the fault of the Democrats. Did you see my post about my coworker running for school board? Now multiply that by all the people running as democrats in deep red areas in races that actually have national significance.
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