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Republicans posted:I miss that michael steele overlay. From what I've seen of him afterward, he could have quietly started their necessary pivot away from racism, social conservatism, and scorched earth tactics, especially with the wins in 2010. But the suicidal fanatics thought that with a victory in 2010 and a true believer in 2012 they would have defeated liberalism forever. Instead, the party is imploding to a regional rump party, rather than using people's short memories to suggest that they've always been at war with Eastasia.
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foobardog posted:Instead, the party is imploding to a regional rump party, rather than using people's short memories to suggest that they've always been at war with Eastasia. I choose to believe that this isn't a typo 
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Mr Jaunts posted:I choose to believe that this isn't a typo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_party
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Mr Jaunts posted:
"Rump" is another name for butt. Edit: which is ironic since they seem pretty strongly against butt stuff.
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fosborb posted:Indiana I-80 has the worst rest areas in the country. They are worse than Texas. Indiana, fix your poo poo. The Indiana Turnpike debacle should be a warning to everyone about the failure of modern "Public Private Partnerships". It's a textbook example of privatizing profits while socializing costs. Gov Kasich (sp?) gets a bump from me for not falling for that bullshit and selling off the Ohio Turnpike to the same group. AMA about the crumbling infrstructure
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CannonFodder posted:Indiana cannot fix their poo poo because they sold the I-80 turnpike to an international conglomerate that managed to run out of money while making no improvements, and then it was sold on to a different international conglomerate that will totally fix things over the next 50 years. They Promise™. At what point in the future should I just plan on avoiding bridges that I don't personally remember being built Driving around Indy, I feel like everything inside of the 465 circle is going to revert back to dirt roads while everything immediately outside of it is going to be on its third revamp, is my hunch correct?
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foobardog posted:From what I've seen of him afterward, he could have quietly started their necessary pivot away from racism, social conservatism, and scorched earth tactics, especially with the wins in 2010. But the suicidal fanatics thought that with a victory in 2010 and a true believer in 2012 they would have defeated liberalism forever. If by rump party you mean national party which controls 70% of state legislatures, Senate, House, Supreme Court and is one president away from complete control of the federal government. Any fights or differences are purely based on tactics and not ideology. The GOP have been very effective at passing legislation nationwide in the states they control. The GOP's influence and power over America as a whole has only grown over time since 1994 until now (and likely until 2020 at minimum). 06-10 is the only blip in that timeline. Mitt Romney fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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foobardog posted:From what I've seen of him afterward, he could have quietly started their necessary pivot away from racism, social conservatism, and scorched earth tactics, especially with the wins in 2010. But the suicidal fanatics thought that with a victory in 2010 and a true believer in 2012 they would have defeated liberalism forever. I remember when Michael Steele ended up Talking to Puppet Michael Steele on the Daily Show and Jon consoled him for getting canned because he was black.
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quote:2these are the officials that have political power in the usa that are associated with either kkk or racist related. addresses will not be released so nobody gets it in their mind to take out their own justice against them. Anonymous release of KKK affiliated politicians SalTheBard fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Mitt Romney posted:If by rump party you mean national party which controls 70% of state legislatures, Senate, House, Supreme Court and is one president away from complete control of the federal government. I don't deny this, but I guess I'm hoping I'm seeing the speaker debacle, and the primary as the light being brightest right before it goes out. Audacious hope, I know. 
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Assuming we see a GOP President, would the Tea Party and business/establishment factions quickly fall in line and start passing all sorts of bad legislation, or would there still be disagreements and in-fighting internal to the Republicans, similar to what we saw with Cantor v Obama's Grand Bargain and this whole Speaker debacle, that would otherwise prevent the country from being turned into a reactionary hellscape by Christmas 2017?
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SalTheBard posted:Anonymous release of KKK affiliated politicians Welp, tomorrow will be an interesting news day on the hill.
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SalTheBard posted:Anonymous release of KKK affiliated politicians ANOTHER GREAT DAY FOR INDIANA POLITICS
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gradenko_2000 posted:Assuming we see a GOP President, would the Tea Party and business/establishment factions quickly fall in line and start passing all sorts of bad legislation, or would there still be disagreements and in-fighting internal to the Republicans, similar to what we saw with Cantor v Obama's Grand Bargain and this whole Speaker debacle, that would otherwise prevent the country from being turned into a reactionary hellscape by Christmas 2017? The GOP have been very unified throughout recent history with very few exceptions. Even the Cantor gently caress up in 2011 was a disagreement on tactics. The tea party extremists and moderate GOP want the same laws passed but disagree on tactics. Look at what happens in the most state governments where the GOP control all 3 branches- stuff breezes through without interruption. I bet they would remove the filibuster for legislation almost instantly and would ram through the entire party platform before 2018.
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CannonFodder posted:The Indiana Turnpike debacle should be a warning to everyone about the failure of modern "Public Private Partnerships". For reference for the rest of the thread, Texas also does Public Private Partnerships to the extent that both toilets and mirrors in a Texas interstate rest area are made out of the same brushed metal found in prison cells. Indiana's I-80 turnpike manages to somehow be worse.
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Epic High Five posted:At what point in the future should I just plan on avoiding bridges that I don't personally remember being built Indiana sold the I-80 Turnpike, and used that money to build up 465 and the rest of Indianapolis. Then everything outside of 465 went to poo poo. Regular I 65 had a bride collapse that hosed up travel from Indy to Chicago but nobody cares.
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Mulva posted:Welp, tomorrow will be an interesting news day on the hill. How many times do you think people are gonna smugly bring up Robert Byrd and act like this resolves the Republican Party of all guilt?
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PUGGERNAUT posted:How many times do you think people are gonna smugly bring up Robert Byrd and act like this resolves the Republican Party of all guilt? they've been doing the 'the KKK were democrats neener neener' thing for literally 40 years now, it shouldn't even register anymore
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Has there been any confirmation of the Anonymous KKK leak? When the only source is an anonymously-written Pastebin document, it is ridiculous to treat this as anything more than National Enquirer-level fiction.
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Grundulum posted:Has there been any confirmation of the Anonymous KKK leak? When the only source is an anonymously-written Pastebin document, it is ridiculous to treat this as anything more than National Enquirer-level fiction. Presumably this came from an actual breach into an actual Klan database (notice how it's all regional and mostly the same....tribe or whatever). If there's going to be further confirmation it's going to come in that form, probably sent to a reporter or investigator or something. Or, it's just a bunch of names pasted into a text file. Impossible to know at this point
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greatn posted:If it were true and they resigned wouldn't democrats have the Senate? Even if they resigned, the odds of a Democrat getting one of those seats is slim. Probably it'd be an even worse Republican CannonFodder posted:You have a keen eye. Hooray for the efficiency of private business! Thankfully I'm in Bloomington now and the roads here are pretty good. All I really need aside from local ones is 37 south which will at least be the last of the southern IN roads to be ceded to the jungle Nothing quite like I-65 during a snowstorm, good to see it gets even worse every year Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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I mean temporarily. Kentucky however has a democratic governor.
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The Klan has been an outdated, nationally-laughed-at organization since the '70's. Its national image is that of inbred rednecks and sub-human goobers, and the last time a state-level candidate was revealed to be part of the organization, he got trounced in what should have been an easy election. Any document claiming that five sitting U.S. Senators are current members of an organization that provides no power and could be a massive scandal and is devoted to what 98% of this country considers unabashed evil needs a shitload more evidence before anyone even comes close to taking it seriously.
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greatn posted:I mean temporarily. So does Virginia but I don't think governors have the authority to appoint city mayors.
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Eschers Basement posted:The Klan has been an outdated, nationally-laughed-at organization since the '70's. Its national image is that of inbred rednecks and sub-human goobers, and the last time a state-level candidate was revealed to be part of the organization, he got trounced in what should have been an easy election. That sums up my thoughts on it as well, and better than I started to do earlier but then walked away to do work and forgot about.
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Mitt Romney posted:The GOP's influence and power over America as a whole has only grown over time since 1994 until now (and likely until 2020 at minimum). 06-10 is the only blip in that timeline. There was a significant recession of power from 1998 until 2002.
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SalTheBard posted:Anonymous release of KKK affiliated politicians Good to see Lexington living up to its stereotype of a lovely, racist wanna be Louisville. And we have a literal divide between poor and rich in the county.
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Joementum posted:Thompson was minority counsel to the Senate Republican during the Watergate hearings. Got a bit of Hitler pipe going on there.
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ReidRansom posted:That sums up my thoughts on it as well, and better than I started to do earlier but then walked away to do work and forgot about. November 5th is the date they are going to do a full release according to their Twitter, so I guess we have to wait until then to see.
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Bill Gates says that only socialism can save us from climate change That's one of Drudge's top headlines and it's in red. FoxNews should be able to get a week's worth of coverage out of this and avoid the KKK stuff completely.
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Also worth noting that Paul Fraim, mayor of Norfolk, is a Democrat who carried 71% of the vote. My friend's wife works for the mayor directly, she is black.
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Sir Tonk posted:Bill Gates says that only socialism can save us from climate change Eh even if he didn't they would just manufacture something else to rage about and ignore it all the same.
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foobardog posted:From what I've seen of him afterward, he could have quietly started their necessary pivot away from racism, social conservatism, and scorched earth tactics, especially with the wins in 2010. But the suicidal fanatics thought that with a victory in 2010 and a true believer in 2012 they would have defeated liberalism forever. My exe's father sat next to him on a plane after he became the head of the Republican party. Five minutes into the flight someone came up to him and started ranting that immigrants are killing our country and we need to deport everyone. Then he went on a tangent about the gold standard. After he sat back down, Steele turned to her father and said that those people are going to destroy the GOP
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greatn posted:Kentucky however has a democratic governor. For now. Governor election is tomorrow and the popular democratic governor is being term-limited out. So...*crosses fingers*
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Feeling bad for Steele is like feeling bad for Boehnor because he has to deal with the Tea Party. Don't. Strip out all the horrible social conservative stuff and they are still trying to regress the country to a pre-FDR standard for labor where children have to work in schools if they can't afford meals and you can fire a woman for being pregnant since that affects your bottom line.
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B-Rock452 posted:My exe's father sat next to him on a plane after he became the head of the Republican party. Five minutes into the flight someone came up to him and started ranting that immigrants are killing our country and we need to deport everyone. Then he went on a tangent about the gold standard. After he sat back down, Steele turned to her father and said that those people are going to destroy the GOP i kinda of feel bad for steele. he was president right before the poo poo got really bad and he saw it coming yet didn't do a loving thing. i guess he is like James Buchanan then.
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Mitt Romney posted:It's very sad because these decisions to reject medicaid expansions are resulting in unnecessary deaths. I did enjoy our governor who instigated it when it happened crying his eyes out for the last year because he can't get the legislature to agree to accept the money now.
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