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After reading this thread all I can ask is please put this in the OP tia
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Drastic Actions posted:Oh yeah, no one should probably buy any of those domains (Giving any money to the GOP... ugh, no), I'm just saying that the order would go through with that domain. On that note, it's nice to know that Republicans and Bitcoiners share the same level of incompetence W/R/T technology.  In actual politics news Julican Castro was confirmed as HUD sectretary.  71 Yes, 26 No, 3 Not VotingSome notable Yes and No votes (all the Democrats voted Yes, no surprise there): Cornyn (R-TX), Yes Cruz (R-TX), No Rubio (R-FL), Yes Cochran (R-MS), Yes Wicker (R-MS), Yes McConnell (R-KY), No Paul (R-KY), No Cornyn and Cruz actually broke separately on this, which is one of the very small but appreciable differences between the establishment and the Tea Party. On that note, Cruz remains an rear end in a top hat, and Rubio potentially renews the calls of RINO if he tries to run in 2016. Both Mississippi senators voted Yes, which is interesting since Thad Cochran has been branded a RINO for getting blacks to vote fade5 fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 21:02
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I don't think HUD Sec votes are going to be a huge election issue.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:05
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theshim posted:After reading this thread all I can ask is please put this in the OP tia ? What am I not getting?
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Jul 9, 2014 21:11
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Thad Cochran voted yes? Wow. Maybe he did it just to spite the Tea Party for trying to oust him, since he's smart enough to know all those braying jackasses will hold their noses and vote for him anyway because the alternative is a DEMONCRAT.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:12
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Spun Dog posted:? Cyncism. A la: 
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Jul 9, 2014 21:13
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Accretionist posted:Cyncism. My bad, I already have plenty of that.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:15
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zoux posted:I don't think HUD Sec votes are going to be a huge election issue. A Superpac funded by Karl Rove/the Koch Brothers posted:Thad Cochran/Marco Rubio voted to confirm Julian Castro as the HUD secretary! Castro is known to support the Dream Act/Amnesty, and Cochran/Rubio do too. No, you're crazy, we're not implying Julian Castro is related to Fidel Castro or believes the same things Fidel Castro does, where would you get that from? Crazy liberal. 
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Jul 9, 2014 21:20
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They tried pretty hard with the president's middle name and it didn't work, and it wasn't a completely outdated reference like Castro.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:22
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New Quinnipiac poll is out and it looks pretty loving bad for the GOP. Hillary has a lead on every potential GOP candidate. Clinton has a huge lead in the Demo primary but the GOP primary is pretty even with Paul (lol) having a slight lead. Approval of congressional republicans is 10 pts lower than the approval of Dems (but both are bad). http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2058 Only thing I'm hearing reported though is the "satisfied with the country's direction" being really low
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Jul 9, 2014 21:37
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Looking a bit more positive that the Democratic party is going to have the balls to push through their 150+ nominees (and hopefully the remaining vacancies) before losing the Senate: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harry-reid-threatens-revisit-nuclear-option-filibuster-rulesquote:"We changed some of the rules. We didn't change that," Reid said of the Senate's November rules change that required a simple majority to confirm all nominees except the Supreme Court. "If they're going to continue this, maybe we'll have to take another look at that. Just, it's outrageous what they've done."
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Jul 9, 2014 21:37
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Good Citizen posted:New Quinnipiac poll is out and it looks pretty loving bad for the GOP. Hillary has a lead on every potential GOP candidate. Clinton has a huge lead in the Demo primary but the GOP primary is pretty even with Paul (lol) having a slight lead. Approval of congressional republicans is 10 pts lower than the approval of Dems (but both are bad). This means literally nothing.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:47
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Spun Dog posted:My bad, I already have plenty of that.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:52
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Mitt Romney posted:Looking a bit more positive that the Democratic party is going to have the balls to push through their 150+ nominees (and hopefully the remaining vacancies) before losing the Senate: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harry-reid-threatens-revisit-nuclear-option-filibuster-rules
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Jul 9, 2014 22:00
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zoux posted:The GOP gets off on getting called racist. They get to climb up on their moral high horse and accuse Dems of playing "the RACE CARD" and then the narrative switches to "is it racism" and liberals get called overly sensitive and so on. I had someone tell me recently that nothing said in anger can ever be fairly construed as racism while he was defending Anthony Cumia's right to not be fired by Sirius. The goalposts are on the move faster than ever.
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Internet Webguy posted:I had someone tell me recently that nothing said in anger can ever be fairly construed as racism while he was defending Anthony Cumia's right to not be fired by Sirius. The goalposts are on the move faster than ever. Yep. The Anthony Cumia example is a good way to show how tone deaf Americans are on racism because while what the dude tweeted was so clearly loving racist, I can buy that he and his supporters don't consider it racism. So the challenge with using "it's racist" as a strategy isn't just convincing voters that the policies or whatever are motivated by racism, but that they are in fact racist. Lol quote:“I won’t get into the debate about climate change," said Sen. Brandon Smith, a Hazard Republican. “But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.” 
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Jul 9, 2014 22:12
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Isn't the temperature of Mars over a hundred degree’s colder than the average temperature of Earth? I am going to assume that he was playing on the whole "Mars is warming, too" anti-Global Warming canard, but that is still a terrible way to phrase it.
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Jul 9, 2014 22:44
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The average temperature of Mars is exactly the same as it is on Planet Earth, -81 degrees Celsius.
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Jul 9, 2014 22:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWc6i8dpzO0
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Jul 9, 2014 22:46
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Reflections85 posted:Isn't the temperature of Mars over a hundred degree’s colder than the average temperature of Earth? I am going to assume that he was playing on the whole "Mars is warming, too" anti-Global Warming canard, but that is still a terrible way to phrase it. Let me guess, somebody on the house Science Committee?
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Jul 9, 2014 22:49
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Spun Dog posted:Let me guess, somebody on the house Science Committee? He's at least a STATE Senator as opposed to a federal Senator, so we can comfortably only blame like three towns in Tennessee or Kentucky or wherever.
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Jul 9, 2014 23:04
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The request for the Kansas tax cut article was hours ago, but here's a Vox link.quote:Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform said Kansas was "the story of the next decade." The Cato Institute praised Brownback's "impressive" tax cuts and gave him an "A" on fiscal policy. And the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol said that, if reelected, Brownback would be "a formidable presidential possibility."  quote:After the cuts became law, it was undisputed that Kansas's revenue collections would fall. But some supply-side analysts, like economist Arthur Laffer, argued that increased economic growth would deliver more revenue that would help cushion this impact. Talk about chronically wrong. Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 23:31
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So is the .gop ICANN arrangement only possible now that Obama ended US government control over that agency?
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Jul 9, 2014 23:59
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FAUXTON posted:They tried pretty hard with the president's middle name and it didn't work, and it wasn't a completely outdated reference like Castro. Yeah all the people that get upset when they hear Castro are already voting for whoever the Republican is.
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Jul 9, 2014 23:59
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Spun Dog posted:My bad, I already have plenty of that. Like a fish in water, you know?
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Talk about chronically wrong. And if you thought there was a glimmer of hope with the Democratic candidate winning in November, that article ends noting his solution to the imminent fiscal crisis is... more tax cuts.
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Ballz posted:And if you thought there was a glimmer of hope with the Democratic candidate winning in November, that article ends noting his solution to the imminent fiscal crisis is... more tax cuts. Man, that really is the issue with the neoliberal paradigm, huh? Once a Republican or Tory or whatever cuts taxes (and often creates a deficit), there really is no way to repair the damage done because saying "I'll raise taxes" is normally political suicide.
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Jul 10, 2014 00:10
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Good Citizen posted:New Quinnipiac poll is out and it looks pretty loving bad for the GOP. Hillary has a lead on every potential GOP candidate. Clinton has a huge lead in the Demo primary but the GOP primary is pretty even with Paul (lol) having a slight lead. Approval of congressional republicans is 10 pts lower than the approval of Dems (but both are bad). Obviously it's way too early for this to mean much, but I sincerely hope we're in for 2012 2: Republican Boogaloo where they rotate through every possible candidate before settling on the richest white guy they've got, who proceeds to get hammered at the elections.
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Hey sorry for the uninformed question but I've just been out of the loop on news in the last month. Is there *actually* some sort of a humanitarian crisis (like, more significant than 1 month, 6 months, or even 5 years ago) on the Mexican border or is this just a trumped up cable news thing?
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MrChupon posted:Hey sorry for the uninformed question but I've just been out of the loop on news in the last month. Is there *actually* some sort of a humanitarian crisis (like, more significant than 1 month, 6 months, or even 5 years ago) on the Mexican border or is this just a trumped up cable news thing? It's been building over this past calendar year quote:Since October, more than 52,000 children — most from Central America and many of them unaccompanied by adults — have been taken into custody. That's nearly double last year's total and 10 times the number from 2009.
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MrChupon posted:Hey sorry for the uninformed question but I've just been out of the loop on news in the last month. Is there *actually* some sort of a humanitarian crisis (like, more significant than 1 month, 6 months, or even 5 years ago) on the Mexican border or is this just a trumped up cable news thing? A truly overwhelming number of South American/Central American minors are just showing up at the border and literally throwing themselves at our mercy. Has anyone photoshopped the "Not our children not our problem" sign onto the Statue of Liberty plaque yet?
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Jul 10, 2014 00:26
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Did that Taibbi article on small town corruption that Fried Chicken or whoever mentioned last night drop? Anyone read it?
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MrChupon posted:Hey sorry for the uninformed question but I've just been out of the loop on news in the last month. Is there *actually* some sort of a humanitarian crisis (like, more significant than 1 month, 6 months, or even 5 years ago) on the Mexican border or is this just a trumped up cable news thing? Both. 50,000+ unaccompanied children since last October, and I think last month set a new record. They're fleeing drug gang warfare in several central American countries, where children are groomed to join gangs, or they die; there are no civilians in these "wars". Families (and most often the children themselves) are deciding to send the children to America to join already-immigrated family or just a chance at political asylum.
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Part of the cause is the William Wilberforce Act of 2008, which was a law to combat sex trafficking that requires children who entered the US without an adult from countries other than Canada and Mexico to get a hearing and access to counsel before being deported. The White House is punting this issue back to Congress because they know that Congress is not going to repeal a Bush-era anti-sex-trafficking law.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:01
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McDowell posted:So is the .gop ICANN arrangement only possible now that Obama ended US government control over that agency? Nah, anyone can petition ICANN for a top-level-domain(TLD). There are a loving shitload of them these days. This is more a publicity thing than anything. Also that deal hasn't gone though yet, the government still controls it afaik.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:01
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SavageBastard posted:Has anyone photoshopped the "Not our children not our problem" sign onto the Statue of Liberty plaque yet? Pretty sure that it would unironically get posted on conservative's facebook pages if it was made.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:02
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Good Citizen posted:New Quinnipiac poll is out and it looks pretty loving bad for the GOP. Hillary has a lead on every potential GOP candidate. Clinton has a huge lead in the Demo primary but the GOP primary is pretty even with Paul (lol) having a slight lead. Approval of congressional republicans is 10 pts lower than the approval of Dems (but both are bad). Approval of Congressional Republicans lower and Republican unfavorables higher. But a preference for Republicans to control Congress. Strange. Red Dad Redemption fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Jul 10, 2014 01:07
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Low info voters thinking that it's a good thing to have a divided government, I presume.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:14
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Low info voters thinking that it's a good thing to have a divided government, I presume. Eh, to be fair that's generally not a bad thing to want, providing that both parties are acting in good faith. That ship sailed a long, long time ago though.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Man, that really is the issue with the neoliberal paradigm, huh? Once a Republican or Tory or whatever cuts taxes (and often creates a deficit), there really is no way to repair the damage done because saying "I'll raise taxes" is normally political suicide. It's almost impossible to run on a platform where you explicitly state that you want to raise taxes. In my experience, the only people who would go along with that are leftists. And if you say you just want to raise taxes on the rich and businesses, your opponent will get gobs of money thrown at them from the Kochs, et al. We've had decades of propaganda telling us that taxes=bad, no matter what, too the point where even most Democrats will hang you out to dry. I think the biggest part is that most people really have no grasp on how taxes actually work or where their tax dollars go. I hear on a daily basis that people are unwilling to work too much overtime because they don't want to get into that higher tax bracket and make less money as a result. This is from people making $50-90k, depending on tenure, so it's not like they're going to lose some sort of assistance, either.
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