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 What a crazy month August was. With Congress off on vacation and Donald Trump collapsed at the beginning of the month, there was plenty of anti-Arzying to go around. At least until his "convincing" Immigration speech at the end. But now things are getting real, with the return of Congress and the elections coming soon, there's plenty of news still to come. Just remember:
So sit back, relax, and drink responsibly. This is USPOL September.  114th Congress Bingo Card Congress was off all last month, so nothing to see here.  Other News
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ntan1 posted:Let's see how Trump does in one month. I was going to name this thread USPOL September: The Rehabilitation of Donald J. Trump but changed my mind.
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Sep 1, 2016 08:09
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I just got called on my cell phone for a poll about regulating short-term housing rental in LA. They asked a few different wordings of a question about whether I supported making short-term rentals pay hotel tax and limiting the number of days a place can be rented out, then they read me quotes from pairs of totally-real people with opposing opinions on regulation and asked me who I agreed with more. Hamilton, Garcia, and Smith were libertarian shitlords, while Anderson, Sanchez, and Chen agreed with me that Airbnb can suck it. The only demographic question they asked me was my race. Last month I had some pollster call me three times about different local ballot initiatives (city [should we be required to have a public vote any time the city literally does anything with selling/leasing public lands] and regional [should we add a half cent sales tax for public transit improvements]) in Northern California. Someone's spending quite a few dollars on these since they were live caller on a cell phone. I'm not convinced it's push polling but it's very interesting to note. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 01:36
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Spatula City posted:I used to love This American Life, but now they have programs that do the same thing, better, with no Ira Glass. like, Snap Judgment, Radiolab, and the Moth Radio Hour. See I'm the opposite. This American Life is alright but I can't stand any of those three shows you mentioned. Radiolab would almost be good if it wasn't for the *breaking glass* *glug glug glug glug* over production -tion -tion -tion iospace posted:you shut your whore mouth right now. Go, do it. It's more like Classic Peanuts. I appreciate Car Talk for what it is, but it's time to move on and find a replacement. Otherwise, at some point it's gonna be 2040 when a tenth of all cars are electric and 50% are hybrids and I'll still be hearing about someone's broken 1989 Toyota Corolla. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 03:30
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Ice Phisherman posted:Isn't it only around 5% of their funding now? Only if you look at the top line. If you start digging into the public media foundations and individual stations that help comprise the other top-level line items, you find out it's a bit bigger. I think it's somewhere around 35-40% if you look at both direct and indirect government funding, but it's been a while since I ran the numbers. EDIT: Found it. The national arm of NPR gets about 20% of its funding, directly or indirectly, from the Feds. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Sep 2, 2016 03:39
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So it turns out that if you've ever clicked through that "Non Disclosure Agreement" so you can volunteer for Trump, you've agreed to never say a bad word about Trump, any member of his family, his businesses or his family's businesses for the rest of your life.
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Sep 2, 2016 16:06
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Phone posted:Nah, they get taken to non binding arbitration which is good because __________________. Actually the form says that any Trumpling is allowed to submit their contract dispute to binding arbitration if they so choose. And then they can sue you anyway if they aren't happy with the result.
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Sep 2, 2016 17:17
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So is Trey Gowdy getting a promotion next term? Seems like he deserves one.
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Sep 2, 2016 20:28
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Trabisnikof posted:Will the press continue this in a potential Clinton administration? Yes. Trabisnikof posted:Will every single FOIA for emails from the federal government be framed as "the Clinton email scandals expand to the EPA as Clinton administration officials have refused to release all emails pertaining to the environment to the RNC" Judicial Watch wouldn't be Judicial Watch if they didn't.
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Sep 2, 2016 20:53
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Vox covers a study that explains what we already know (Why Democrats ain't holding state houses before 2030, or "lol better vote for Trump if you want Dems in the state lege")
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Sep 5, 2016 16:57
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So Hillary just had a bit of a coughing fit during her speech. So get ready to hear about that for a week. Wrap it up Hillarailures. Even NBC is starting to take the coughing thing seriously. RIP Hillary 1947-2016
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Sep 5, 2016 23:54
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Ron Jeremy posted:In other news Phyllis Schlafly is dead Finally we'll be able to pass the ERA!
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Sep 6, 2016 00:16
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Phyllis Schlafly may have just died, but did she have a big coughing fit yesterday before she did? America deserves to know.
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Sep 6, 2016 01:16
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Luckyellow posted:hold on, y'all are missing an important point with watch talk. You mean you don't?  Count me as a happy 200 meter water resistant watch owner.  It's got radioactive tritium tubes so it's actually useful in the dark! 
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Sep 6, 2016 06:04
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FiveThirtyEight just updated. Trump's chances have once again breached 30%. And while CNN appears to be an outlier, it's really not too far from the mean it seems. Most of the recent polls with Hillary up more than 3% are RV polls not LV polls. The LV polls, as you would expect, are much tighter. In short, now's as good a time as any to sign up to volunteer for Hillary (unless your boss signed away your rights by volunteering for Trump)
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Sep 6, 2016 15:40
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Petr posted:OK serious question now that Trump is the unquestioned leader: once he wins, do you think he'll actually have the Clintons arrested, or are the optics too bad on that? Yes. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 15:52
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Instant Sunrise posted:i wonder how much of this hypercritical coverage on hillary while brushing off the actual poo poo trump is doing is because after decades of conservatives saying "liberal media liberal media liberal media LIBERAL MEDIA LIBERAL MEDIA!" a lot of the news outlets have moved to the right to avoid accusations of bias 2/3 that, 1/3 "media knows on which side their bread is buttered"
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Sep 6, 2016 19:23
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nachos posted:Not so hot take alert if anyone's been following the media the last month, trump is guaranteed to win the first debate. Immediately afterwards, the polls will tighten to horse race levels as Republicans begin to accept him as "presidential." It happened for Romney, it will happen for Trump. Hillary still has a built in advantage, but it will be close. It has always been likely to be within only a few points.
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Sep 6, 2016 19:29
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Munkeymon posted:Well sure if you only consider the 2^8th most likely outcomes from before politics went off the rails. If you consider all states a toss-up, he has 2^50 paths! Want to see the path to victory where Trump loses every state but still wins the election.
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Sep 6, 2016 23:11
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Epic High Five posted:Then she did and won a contest because they were so good, then never did again Don't forget that some of the media decided to revive this exact topic a few weeks ago by "innocently" highlighting that the "Clinton Family Cookies" that were put up against whatever Melania submitted this election happen to be the same recipe as the 1992 one (implying that Hillary is lazy and a self-plagiarist) and also they aren't attributed to either Hillary or Bill (insinuating that neither is a good housekeeper)
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Sep 7, 2016 00:28
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In non-election/non-media news: It looks like we won't be getting a "No First Use" pledge from Obama.
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Sep 7, 2016 01:33
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emdash posted:barf Sounds like these Silicon Valley Marvels have successfully disrupted your digestive system!
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Sep 7, 2016 01:37
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Man, one lousy CNN poll and the entire thread goes to hell. But didn't you know that Hillary is a bad candidate? Here, let me explain every conspiracy theory ever involving Hillary Clinton until you accept that she is lovely and decide to vote for Jill Stein. Vincent Walker Foster Jr. was born January 15, 1945, not knowing what fate would befall him 48 years later at the hands of a future friend who had been born and raised in the home of the Daley machine, Chicago, Illinois...
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Sep 7, 2016 01:43
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The House Freedom Caucus is preparing to demand the virtual cessation of refugee resettlement in exchange for a continuing resolution.
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Sep 8, 2016 15:56
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CommieGIR posted:Where was the good guys with a gun?! We need to legalize open carry on school grounds.
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Sep 8, 2016 16:22
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Stallion Cabana posted:UT already has this. I know. That's not the school grounds I'm talking about.
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Sep 8, 2016 17:49
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Crabtree posted:How many "gifts" did he part with to make those kinds of friends I wonder. Following the SCOTUS decision last term, this was a given.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:37
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AbedinH, a copyrighted feature of state.goy.
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Sep 9, 2016 00:40
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Tarezax posted:I can see this happening with image-based text recognition, but the original document is an e-mail so that would never even come into play To be completely fair to Assange (not that he deserves it) pretty much all of these e-mails have been posted online as images, not text
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Sep 9, 2016 00:48
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Hollismason posted:It's great that we are having these conversations about sexual assault but why do people immediately discount the claims against Bill Clinton. Thanks for letting me know I can ignore the thread for the next 1000 posts.
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Sep 9, 2016 01:28
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iospace posted:Well, 5.3 magnitude earthquake in North Korea: South Korea called it an "artificial" tremor. So brace yourselves for another round of pundits patting themselves on the back about how Democratic foreign policy has failed and how Trump will win the Korean War and will beat all the Koreas, every one.
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Sep 9, 2016 03:37
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While we are still sort of talking about McDonnell getting off, Slate would like to remind you that the Roberts Court will not tolerate any suggestion that Pam Bondi is actually corrupt.
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Sep 9, 2016 05:17
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Eugene V. Dabs posted:http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-jerry-brown-signs-climate-laws-20160908-snap-story.html Vox recently had a breakdown of what this might require, including:
This is not going to be an easy task, and will probably make California an even more expensive place to live (as if it wasn't already). Brown's demand that developers be made effectively immune to resident opposition will probably be necessary in urban areas.
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Sep 9, 2016 07:48
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Obama has been a failure and it's time for a change.
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Sep 10, 2016 17:12
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Pakled posted:True, though of course, it's not everything. Bill had net +19 approval going into the 2000 election and we all know how that turned out. There's one key difference though: Gore ran from Clinton until the last weeks of his campaign; Hillary has been campaigning for Obama's third term since last year.
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Sep 10, 2016 17:35
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Where do you people even come up with this poo poo. I'm pretty sure the "Hillary has janky pantsuit fashion because they don't make good bulletproof vests for women" topic has come up before in a previous iteration of this thread. But I'm pretty sure even then it was speculation.
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Sep 11, 2016 16:35
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Night10194 posted:I mean, the danger here is not that she loses support but rather that people aren't talking about 'Trump literally boasted about how his tower was the tallest now, on 9/11'. Yeah but Hillary really needed to turn around and not have another week of the more craven parts of the media crowing about "IS HILLARY CLINTON REALLY SICK?" Now that's not going to happen and Trump gets yet another softball week, letting him close the gap by one or two points more. EDIT: It's not campaign ending by any stretch, but Hillary has had a stretch of bad news cycles and this does nothing to turn it around.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:07
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:it's a non story. It's hot and muggy at an emotional event. If it were anything remotely worse, a trip to Chelsea's apartment for a few minutes wouldn't do the trick. Drudge Report hasn't posted it front and center yet so maybe you're right 
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