jerry seinfel posted:

my entire job is to not prosecute sex crimes among the well-connected, and by god i'm good at it

punchymcpunch posted:

hi~!

Schnorkles posted:

https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1046558178618617856

people get paid money to get on twitter and say "hey if turnout isn't what the polls say the democraps might actually lose"

Warm und Fuzzy posted:

Keep in mind half of what you donate will go to Brett in the divorce.

oddium posted:

says here on the docket that they’re holding bofa

Sir Tonk posted:

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1046723951144120320

lol even mcconnell's wife cant avoid the grift

Schnorkles posted:

Democrats are favored to take the house at 5.8% to 6% (depending on your fundamentals) generic ballot advantage. To be a near "certain" thing, yes, it needs to be in the double digits.

To be better than 50/50 in the senate, it's more like 11 points.

Schnorkles posted:

The 6% specifically factors in both gerrymandering and partisan sorting, which is why a steady democratic advantage of 8-9 points leads to about a 4 in 5 probability of taking the house, not a 100% probability.

no one is disagreeing that both gerrymandering and the way that democrats are oriented in the country leads to disadvantages in the house, but the GB polling has been wildly steady for like... months. District level polling is even better for democrats and special election results are even slightly better than that.

jerry seinfel posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1046776772853944320

mormonpartyboat posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/1046777606232625152

Serf posted:

believe this: you are not prepared for anything that is about to go down. embrace that

Doorknob Slobber posted:

Smythe posted:

ted kaczynski did nothing wrong, and, was 100% right.

tacodaemon posted:

https://twitter.com/CopCrime/status/1046835657941946369

mormonpartyboat posted:

Epic High Five posted:

is it worse than what we did to China already?

tacodaemon posted:

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1046856277161365505

PoopOnaShoe posted:

mr. brett is essentially every movie about high school spanning from porkys to dazed and confused then everything in between happiness

Epic High Five posted:

say I paid Al! to make a neo-noir truckin and fuckin jesus, thousand yard stare and all, what would it say? Lasers and Razers?

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

Whichever set of rules, State or Federal, suppresses the lower orders best is the one conservatives go for. Typically that means State level, because it is easier to get away with heinous poo poo locally. Sometimes the conditions of the revolution being countered demand oppression at the federal level.

That's why States' Rights zealots in the antebellum were also vehemently for the Fugitive Slave Act which allowed slaver bounty hunters to kidnap and return to bondage escaped slaves who made it to free states.

radical meme posted:

You lie, fake news. Ye will straighten this all out. Ye will capture the black vote for Trump in 2020 and put an end to racism and inequality. I mean, Trump, the law and order President, already put an end to BLM and the police haven’t killed any, nearly as many, black people since he was elected.

A dawn of a new age. Especially after we repeal the 13th Amendment.

Squizzle posted:

lmebo cantor

quote:

Cantor earned $193,400 as majority leader; his wife, a lawyer and investment banker, was the real moneymaker. One of the reasons he took the Moelis job, he says, was because it was his turn to support the family. “Life is about balance. For 14 years, she had been basically the breadwinner,” he says. “I felt that I needed to do this for her.”

His annual salary at Moelis is $400,000, and he received $1 million in stock (vested over five years) and a $400,000 signing bonus in cash in 2014, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In 2015, he was slated to make another $1.2 million and $400,000 in stock. The $3.4 million payday drew accusations of selling out; at the very least, Cantor jumped into America’s other least-trusted institution: Wall Street.

He says that both politics and Wall Street rely too much on short-term results over long-term success; he gets the cynicism toward and distrust of the 1 percent. But he explains that Moelis, which specializes in mergers and acquisitions, is not like the “too-big-to-fail” investment banks that were bailed out in 2008. “We are not one of those firms that has any kind of taxpayer backing,” he says.

Cantor was hired for his expertise in global markets and government regulation.

J. P. Beagley posted:

https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1047079512624812033



EDIT: it's a stupid movie review

quote:

The cops are wolves on the prowl, while the black people are wide-eyed lambs. America is portrayed as effectively an apartheid regime in which blacks have no chance. The problem with such a take in dramatic terms is that it strips black Americans of their agency and dynamism, reduces them to pity receptacles. It’s not a sophisticated view but a reductionist one.

quote:

But Sessions has sought to limit the leeway immigration judges have in making those determinations, she said.

In April, the Justice Department informed immigration judges that evaluation of their performance would include how quickly they close cases. The backlog through June of this year had grown to more than 732,000 cases, up nearly 300 percent since 2008, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees immigration courts.

MORE: Trump admin's lower limit on refugees delays a reunion for one Arizona family

In August, the union representing immigration judges filed a formal grievance against the Justice Department, accusing Sessions of trying to exert too much influence over immigration judges. The complaint by the National Association of Immigration Judges said Sessions had pulled more than 80 cases from the docket of an immigration judge in Philadelphia after he closed the case of a Guatemalan who entered the U.S. illegally in 2014 when he was 17.

Sessions used the case as the basis to order that immigration judges no longer had the power to (administratively) close most cases, essentially bringing deportation proceedings to an end, and allowing immigrants to remain in the U.S. despite not having legal status.

Over the past decade, immigration judges had closed more than 350,000 cases, according to USA TODAY. The Obama administration used the practice to put many cases on hold so that immigration judges could focus on deportation cases involving immigrants with criminal records.

Lastgirl posted:

https://twitter.com/ilyamarritz/status/1047128353390702592

Forbes is Fake

quote:

T

rump’s business has some bright spots. A few blocks from the White House, at the Trump International Hotel, Trump fans hobnob with cable news stars and Cabinet secretaries. The place turned a $2 million profit in the first four months of 2017, far exceeding the Trump Organization’s expectations. A chunk of that money comes from various GOP organizations, which have pumped more than $1.3 million into the hotel since it opened in fall 2016, according to Federal Election Commission data. Despite what seems a violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, designed to keep presidents free from foreign financial interest, the governments of other nations are welcome too. Everyone from Kuwaiti officials to the prime minister of Malaysia has reportedly spent money there. And lobbyists working for Saudi Arabia disclosed that they ran up a $270,000 tab in just six months.

quote:

Meanwhile, if he’d liquidated, paid capital gains tax on his entire fortune and created a blind trust to invest it all in the booming stock market, Trump would be $500 million richer than he is today—without the headaches.

Origami Dali posted:

ah, there it is

velvet milkman posted:

maggie, shutta gently caress up!!!

sandoz posted:

is it misogynist of me to say that women can be way more misogynist than the worst men

Zoran posted:

I have a family friend who's a rape survivor and believes Kavanaugh did it, yet still wants him confirmed because (a) “he'd be a great judge” and (b) “it's that lady's fault too”

she says she herself and her rapist have equal blame for her getting raped

Bananasaurus Rex posted:

https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1047072198702321664?s=19
Libby is too
https://twitter.com/libbycwatson/status/1047122714442575879?s=19

quote:

How are we going to pay for these things, I wonder from my $25 million home? Well, Schultz is worth $2.8 billion. Perhaps, and I’m just throwing this out there, if we were to “redistribute” most of his “wealth” from his “stupid loving bank account” and “big dumb houses” to “people who need healthcare,” and do the same thing with the 540 other billionaires in America, we might get there. A crazy idea, I know.

Hamelekim posted:

Who wants a nuclear war?

https://twitter.com/KoriSchake/status/1047169342129954816

tacodaemon posted:

conservatives probably think real life is like cowboy movies where there'll be two guys raising their voices at each other in the saloon and all of a sudden everybody in the room will be punching each other for some reason