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A lot of this stems back to the Iraq war vote. Congress is loving terrified of being held accountable for their lovely decisions and the Iraq vote cost a lot of people their seats. So when there was an opportunity to hand over some power to the executive they did it, so they can point the fingers at the executive branch and provided it wasn't too close to an election would be largely safe. Except now it's like having given a loaded gun to an angry small child and being shocked at the result.
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Syrian Lannister posted:Bigly President had Dow down almost 300 thanks to Mexican tariff talks The Dow drops 300 points like 12 times a week now.
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Vasudus posted:A lot of this stems back to the Iraq war vote. Congress is loving terrified of being held accountable for their lovely decisions and the Iraq vote cost a lot of people their seats. So when there was an opportunity to hand over some power to the executive they did it, so they can point the fingers at the executive branch and provided it wasn't too close to an election would be largely safe. Except now it's like having given a loaded gun to an angry small child and being shocked at the result. Perhaps a good argument for term limits in Congress.
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psydude posted:Perhaps a good argument for term limits in Congress. They have those. It’s called voting. I know there’s a lot of reasons why “voting” doesn’t solve the problem because of poo poo like gerrymandering and voter suppression, which also need to be fixed. But won’t because of the people who never get voted out. Our system is a joke and term limits would just lead to other abuses, since I don’t think it will actually fix anything if you don’t fix everything else. colachute fucked around with this message at 20:42 on May 31, 2019 |
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No-balls Congressfucker John Ratcliffe cosponsored HR 553 yesterday, along with two others who wanted to jump onto the bandwagon. The total number of cosponsors is now 327. The newcomers are: Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2] 05/30/2019 Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1] 05/30/2019 Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4] 05/30/2019 The losers who haven't signed on yet are: Alabama: 4th, 6th Arizona: 5th, 6th, 9th California: 2nd, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 27th, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 43rd, 45th, 50th Florida: 3rd, 11th, 19th, 23rd, 27th Georgia: 5th, 7th, 9th, 13th, 14th Idaho: 1st Illinois: 3rd, 5th, 8th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 18th Indiana: 1st, 6th, 9th Kansas: 3rd, 4th Kentucky: 4th, 5th Louisiana: 3rd, 6th Maryland: 5th Massachusetts: 7th, 9th Michigan: 3rd, 13th Minnesota: 5th, 6th Mississippi: 2nd, 3rd Missouri: 6th Nebraska: 1st, 3rd New Hampshire: 2nd New Jersey: 9th New Mexico: 3rd New York: 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 25th North Carolina: 1st, 5th, 6th, 10th Ohio: 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 16th Oklahoma: 3rd, 5th Oregon: 3rd Pennsylvania: 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th South Carolina: 6th South Dakota: You only have the one Texas: 3rd, 7th, 9th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 29th, 30th Washington: 9th Wisconsin: 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th There is no change in the Senate. John Ratcliffe is still a coward.
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TF CURES GENERATOR posted:What about his balls Can't talk about something that never existed.
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One of my coworkers today started talking unprompted about how the US should just annex Mexico because they aren’t able to govern themselves and have lots of natural resources we can take. I made up a meeting I had to go to. Is that an idea going around?
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Xenoborg posted:One of my coworkers today started talking unprompted about how the US should just annex Mexico because they aren’t able to govern themselves and have lots of natural resources we can take. I made up a meeting I had to go to. Is that an idea going around? Play to their innate racism. Tell them to think real hard about the question you're about to ask: Do they really want to export the second amendment and minimum wage to Mexico while simultaneously erasing the border?
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Xenoborg posted:One of my coworkers today started talking unprompted about how the US should just annex Mexico because they aren’t able to govern themselves and have lots of natural resources we can take. I made up a meeting I had to go to. Is that an idea going around? Ardlen fucked around with this message at 21:09 on May 31, 2019 |
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shame on an IGA posted:Play to their innate racism. Tell them to think real hard about the question you're about to ask: Do they really want to export the second amendment and minimum wage to Mexico while simultaneously erasing the border? Nah, there's no way they're thinking in those terms. The pretty resort parts and the spaces with natural resources will be administered ("settled" if you will) and the remaining people will get treated like Palestinians with limited/no rights or representation
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TF CURES GENERATOR posted:What about his balls What balls?
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shame on an IGA posted:Play to their innate racism. Tell them to think real hard about the question you're about to ask: Do they really want to export the second amendment and minimum wage to Mexico while simultaneously erasing the border? Wouldn't it be better to ask "Do you really want 120 million more Latinos who will likely vote for the Democrats?"?
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On the other hand, if we took over Mexico, there would be less wall to build on the new southern border.
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Torrannor posted:Wouldn't it be better to ask "Do you really want 120 million more Latinos who will likely vote for the Democrats?"? America doesn't do great with suffering it's conquered to have a voice.
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McNally posted:No-balls Congressfucker John Ratcliffe cosponsored HR 553 yesterday, along with two others who wanted to jump onto the bandwagon. The total number of cosponsors is now 327. The newcomers are: Maryland 5th is Hoyer and a lost loving cause. I'm just knocking on doors for McKayla Wilkes instead to straight up vote the fucker out. Something I highly encourage everyone in the DC area to do. If she can take down Hoyer and put HIS scalp on the wall next to AOC's trophy then some mother fuckers are going to be god drat terrified of the progressive base and will start doing the poo poo we need just to cover their own asses out of political sense of survival. Her campaign kickoff event is next Saturday. Phone posting, PM me if you want phone numbers to call to register for door knocking or check her web site.
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They finally dragged Steny Hoyer kicking and screaming onto the DC Statehood train, maybe they can draw and quarter him as a sacrifice to HR 553
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Vasudus posted:I don't have the time to collect my sources from poo poo I've been reading this week, but there's some insanely bad poo poo going on right now with global crops. There's been record crop failures in central/southern america this year due to climate issues. In the US, a huge amount of corn and soy hasn't been planted yet - and the insurance for those crops expires this month, as in today. The absolutely bonkers weather has caused record crop damage, crop failures, and just overall delays in production. Then you add in the fact that global trade has been hosed all year due to tariffs and things are gonna get real bad for people that can't afford to take the hit - on both the production and consumption side. FAO estimates that we have roughly 60 years of topsoil (the stuff that crops are planted in) left before it erodes away, becomes too salty/depleted, etc. When you take this into the context of climate change and what joys that will bring, it is evident that we are living through the last good days this planet has. I’m not trying to sound Malthusian here, but humans may be good at recognizing and dealing with acute threats but absolutely loving horrible at dealing with slow-moving ones. Think of the frog in the pot of water, except replace frog with “humanity” and pot of water with “the world’s oceans and resources.” http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/357059/icode/
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Torrannor posted:Wouldn't it be better to ask "Do you really want 120 million more Latinos who will likely vote for the Democrats?"? Bring back slavery for anyone failing a paper bag test. Bing-bong so easy.
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mexico is pretty conservative iirc also hella catholics who hate abortion
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:mexico is pretty conservative iirc Yeah but brown.
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Godholio posted:No. In fact the AF is reactiving the 65th Aggressor Squadron, which will fly F-35s. Robin Olds wrote about it in his book. I can't remember the exacts but they had higher problems of incidents due to pilots trying to push the planes well past what they are supposed to do because well, they are the same plane. Also that the training value was much less due to... training against the same drat aircraft.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:FAO estimates that we have roughly 60 years of topsoil (the stuff that crops are planted in) left before it erodes away, becomes too salty/depleted, etc. When you take this into the context of climate change and what joys that will bring, it is evident that we are living through the last good days this planet has. All i'm hearing is "I don't love profit, Jesus and America". In that order. Maybe. The last two might need to be switched. What are you, some sort of commie
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LingcodKilla posted:Bring back slavery for anyone failing a paper bag test. Bing-bong so easy. It cannot be overstated enough how utterly cool with slavery these types are. The reason why they're so vociferous in going to bat for the CSA is because they literally don't see slavery as a bad thing. Given that, one could draw their own conclusions about their willingness to go to bat for Nazi germany...
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Xenoborg posted:One of my coworkers today started talking unprompted about how the US should just annex Mexico because they aren’t able to govern themselves and have lots of natural resources we can take. I made up a meeting I had to go to. Is that an idea going around? In theory this isnt the worst idea. The US could have spent the last few decades working to develop Mexico rather than seeing it as a limitless pool of cheap labor. By now there could have been enough of an economic and cultural union to expand a North American EU-style organization like they did with eastern Europe.
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Mass shooting in VA Beach, according to cnn on my tv. Just a sec. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-custody-active-shooter-situation-virginia-beach-n1012646 No specifics yet. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 22:41 on May 31, 2019 |
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ded posted:Robin Olds wrote about it in his book. I can't remember the exacts but they had higher problems of incidents due to pilots trying to push the planes well past what they are supposed to do because well, they are the same plane. Also that the training value was much less due to... training against the same drat aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissimilar_air_combat_training DACT has been doctrine since the infamous first "dogfighting? what's that" days over Vietnam for many, many reasons, most of all to get the pilot used to countering another plane's strengths with your own.
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While I doubt my angry phone call to his office did anything, I will take credit for lending him balls. Since Rep. Ratcliffe was born lacking testes.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Mass shooting in VA Beach, according to cnn on my tv. Just a sec. 12 dead so far https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/...ingawful.com%2F
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Current event: my sister is pinning on Chief in the USCGR tomorrow (yeah yeah lol she is still in but I get to be happy for her so smdftb).
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BUG JUG posted:Current event: my sister is pinning on Chief in the USCGR tomorrow (yeah yeah lol she is still in but I get to be happy for her so smdftb). Nice!
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The coast guard reservists I’ve dealt with were pretty cool so good on her.
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how the gently caress do you go from "4 injured, suspect in custody" to "12 dead, including suspect" loving reporters
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If you murder enough people do you stop being gay? Asking for my friend Jeffrey.
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