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« Reply #30120 on: January 23, 2019, 09:39:11 AM »
They would, however, elect President Butt Chug  :noah
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« Reply #30121 on: January 23, 2019, 09:39:21 AM »
I feel like it should be an onion article. Is this dude delusional? South bend has like 100k people.

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« Reply #30122 on: January 23, 2019, 10:11:57 AM »
Started my taxes last night. Looks like I’m going to be on the hook to send Uncle Sam $800 this year.

I knew this tax bill was going to fuck me.

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« Reply #30123 on: January 23, 2019, 10:53:27 AM »
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1088048731671412736

BEAST MODE THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN HAS OWNED THE LIBS AGAIN
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« Reply #30124 on: January 23, 2019, 11:31:41 AM »
All polls but Rasmussen are fake.

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« Reply #30125 on: January 23, 2019, 11:40:05 AM »
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088058134713823233

Not that it probably even needs to be said, since I assume for most people it is just the default, but factually speaking, Trump is wrong. If his wall actually did go against expert opinions and actually deter illegal immigration by a significant amount, per capita crime would rise, not fall.

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« Reply #30126 on: January 23, 2019, 11:59:29 AM »
I feel like it should be an onion article. Is this dude delusional? South bend has like 100k people.

Majority of people running for president aren't in any way thinking they'll win a nomination.

It's lucrative for them as an individual;  they almost always have a book to sell or some other ambition.

See: absolute crock of shit liar politicians like Ron Paul.

Didn’t Sleepy Ben Carson literally stop campaigning for a week during his bid so he can market his book lmao

Motherfucker didn’t even try to hide the hustle.
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« Reply #30127 on: January 23, 2019, 12:26:37 PM »





You're going to get tired of all the winning.

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« Reply #30128 on: January 23, 2019, 01:06:08 PM »


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The decline and closure of the neocon flagship journal, The Weekly Standard, did not slow the neocons at all. They are back with a new publication funded by a left-wing billionaire, but preaching from the same neocon playbook. Why do neocons continue to change their stripes, from Trotskyites in the 1930's, to Reagan conservatives, to Hillary-ite liberals?
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« Reply #30129 on: January 23, 2019, 01:09:45 PM »
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« Reply #30130 on: January 23, 2019, 01:13:41 PM »

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They (most of the republicrats) all serve the same circles of highly connected corporations while ACTING left or right. Due to their own extreme levels of immorality; They have no shame when they lie. They both hate Trump because he doesn't play along with them in the exact way they want him to. Though he's no moral compass by any stretch, he does things that interrupts the smoothness of their collusions and crimes. It's a mutual back scratching club where corporations gain wealth & power through consolidations and guaranteed government contracts while their puppets in government protect them and expand their own size & authority. This kind of America should and soon will dissolve. It's an empire and those always fall.
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« Reply #30131 on: January 23, 2019, 01:19:08 PM »
not crazy about this blackpill filler gimmick tbh

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« Reply #30132 on: January 23, 2019, 02:04:12 PM »
filler blacked  :-[
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« Reply #30133 on: January 23, 2019, 02:15:06 PM »
Dave is in for one hell of a surprise.
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« Reply #30134 on: January 23, 2019, 02:21:25 PM »
https://twitter.com/NickBaumann/status/1088147069364260864

Welp that's a campaign ender right there.


https://twitter.com/business/status/1088153775758544897
We ain't hearing from Cohen anytime soon.
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« Reply #30136 on: January 23, 2019, 03:25:12 PM »
so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference? :doge

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« Reply #30137 on: January 23, 2019, 03:26:41 PM »
No he send Pelosi a long form tweet stating: "I'll show up anyway"

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1088124637844828162
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« Reply #30138 on: January 23, 2019, 03:30:03 PM »
so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference? :doge

That seems like the obvious solution for him, but like a lot of commentators seem to think, I don't think Trump grasps that the House is a co-equal branch of government and that his authority doesn't override the House's unless the power explicitly granted.

So there is almost certainly some ego and ignorance at work here.

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« Reply #30139 on: January 23, 2019, 03:30:12 PM »
so he'll just host it in the senate instead and no one will notice the difference? :doge

Nah, people will definitely notice if he's slumming it in the Senate after he specifically said he was going to have it in the House and then Pelosi told him to get fucked.
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« Reply #30140 on: January 23, 2019, 03:33:18 PM »
I would say the odds of Trump just traveling there and having a stand off with Pelosi in front of the door are high.

Even if she manages to keep him out he'll do the speech on his favorite spot. Blurting below whirring Helicopter blades.
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« Reply #30141 on: January 23, 2019, 03:35:07 PM »
A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.

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« Reply #30142 on: January 23, 2019, 03:39:00 PM »
A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.
Don't forget he also did another speech (though not carried by all networks) and no one cared.
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« Reply #30143 on: January 23, 2019, 03:45:01 PM »
A lot of Trump people seem to think he'd get a big boost from the SOTU.

He already gave a televised speech that was carried live by all the networks and his ratings only went down.

Do you know what an integer overflow is?
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« Reply #30144 on: January 23, 2019, 03:53:37 PM »
if you're going to use that analogy then you meant underflow
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« Reply #30145 on: January 23, 2019, 04:01:38 PM »
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multiplying or adding two integers may result in a value that is unexpectedly small, and subtracting from a small integer may cause a wrap to a large positive value

Trump says Nancy canceled the SOTU
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1088179407477366784
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« Reply #30146 on: January 23, 2019, 04:02:39 PM »
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« Reply #30147 on: January 23, 2019, 04:19:35 PM »
Honestly, I am already working through my head how this move against Trump will undoubtedly be used in a totally disingenuous manner by some future Republican congress toward some future Democratic president to rationalize the justification for why they are denying the president a platform for the State of The Union because of some Benghazi/birther/email-gate style bullshit placating to their base. All the while the collective Washington editorial establishment will come out talking about "both sides" and drumming it up with a bunch of ridiculous moral equivalencies.

It seems to just be the cycle of things these days.

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« Reply #30148 on: January 23, 2019, 04:28:42 PM »
Alternatively, it doesn't matter if this president, or any president, is given an allotted time to conduct a ceremonial speech in the presence of Congress.
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« Reply #30149 on: January 23, 2019, 04:41:03 PM »
Imagine being 1 of the unpaid 800k federal workers and then discovering that all the GOP and the VP did during their S H U T D O W N meetings was to get Trump to sign up to a staged coup in Venezuela.
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« Reply #30150 on: January 23, 2019, 04:55:50 PM »
And likely a failed staged coup.
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« Reply #30151 on: January 23, 2019, 04:59:45 PM »
I thought Facebook cracked down on fake news

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« Reply #30152 on: January 23, 2019, 05:30:02 PM »
Alternatively, it doesn't matter if this president, or any president, is given an allotted time to conduct a ceremonial speech in the presence of Congress.

I should of added that the balcony of political nihilists and deep-thinking lefties that love to bring up Obama drone strikes or other such objectivity/superiority signaling will find a way to jump in and be dismissive of escalating trends no matter what ;)

But really, my point was less about the pageantry than the trend of our discourse - mostly through various beltway outlets - that seems to bend over backwards to normalize and equivocate Republican fuckery.

SEE: The Washington Post editorial board "both sides-ing" this shutdown and faulting Democrats for not giving into Republican extortion.
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« Reply #30153 on: January 23, 2019, 05:45:38 PM »
Mulvaney wants to start cutting programs as the shut down drags on.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1088188637714571277

https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1088193282826559488

The Qanons and 4D chess players also have their take (obviously).
Apparently if the government is closed for more than 30 days it is possible to fire government workers temporaily furloughed.
A "Reduction in Force" or RIF to drain the swamp (of course).
 
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« Reply #30154 on: January 23, 2019, 05:48:05 PM »
EDIT: I wrote this before I saw your second paragraph  :doge
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« Reply #30155 on: January 23, 2019, 05:51:54 PM »
Mulvaney wants to start cutting programs as the shut down drags on.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1088188637714571277

https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1088193282826559488

The Qanons and 4D chess players also have their take (obviously).
Apparently if the government is closed for more than 30 days it is possible to fire government workers temporaily furloughed.
A "Reduction in Force" or RIF to drain the swamp (of course).

Is that as real and binding as the five minute rule when the teacher/professor doesn't show up for class?

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« Reply #30156 on: January 23, 2019, 06:05:10 PM »
That's 15 minutes, not five.

(And it's a myth, of course.)
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« Reply #30157 on: January 23, 2019, 06:18:05 PM »
I am a professor and I arrive to my class after 17 minutes to ensure that I teach only the most dedicated students.
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« Reply #30158 on: January 23, 2019, 08:03:32 PM »
Honestly, I am already working through my head how this move against Trump will undoubtedly be used in a totally disingenuous manner by some future Republican congress toward some future Democratic president to rationalize the justification for why they are denying the president a platform for the State of The Union because of some Benghazi/birther/email-gate style bullshit placating to their base. All the while the collective Washington editorial establishment will come out talking about "both sides" and drumming it up with a bunch of ridiculous moral equivalencies.

It seems to just be the cycle of things these days.

Back to written messages! And the shorter the better!

"The State of the Union is alright, some good, some bad, the latter is my opponents fault, I'm the best. God Bless America."

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« Reply #30159 on: January 23, 2019, 08:29:38 PM »
wait, I just realized the obvious, Trump should just tweet the State of the Union message

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« Reply #30160 on: January 23, 2019, 08:31:26 PM »
@America, Ladies and Genteleman of the United States, the State of our Union is strong #SOTU #MAGA #BUILDTHEWALL 1/256,728

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« Reply #30161 on: January 23, 2019, 08:31:48 PM »
why can't he just do another televised address from the oval office 

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« Reply #30162 on: January 23, 2019, 08:35:48 PM »
first prize goes to the first Congressperson to tweet back: @realDonaldTrump *applause* #SOTU
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« Reply #30163 on: January 23, 2019, 08:48:46 PM »
throwback: @realDonaldTrump YOU LIE! #SOTU

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« Reply #30164 on: January 23, 2019, 08:55:58 PM »
Man, does Donald Trump just goes all in and uses the SOTU address to declare official re-election?

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« Reply #30165 on: January 23, 2019, 08:59:14 PM »
Man, does Donald Trump just goes all in and uses the SOTU address to declare official re-election?

what if he declares himself the acting president indefinitely due to the national emergency at the southern border

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« Reply #30166 on: January 23, 2019, 09:11:44 PM »
Man, does Donald Trump just goes all in and uses the SOTU address to declare official re-election?

He filed with the FEC for a reelection campaign the day he was inaugurated. They've already taken in something like $100 million in donations.

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« Reply #30167 on: January 23, 2019, 09:40:10 PM »
Man, does Donald Trump just goes all in and uses the SOTU address to declare official re-election?

He filed with the FEC for a reelection campaign the day he was inaugurated. They've already taken in something like $100 million in donations.

That was just him and his inner circle being grifters. I never thought he was serious before about re-election.

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« Reply #30168 on: January 23, 2019, 09:49:21 PM »
He's too vain not to seek re-election and prove 2016 wasn't a fluke.

Even if he hates the "work" side of the Presidency, he clearly loves too much of the rest of it like going places and doing rallies and having everyone pay attention to him when he tweets on the shitter. And in the modern presidency you can basically avoid all the work if you want to because there's systems in place to handle most of it automatically simply by maintaining the status quo.

Look at how the Syria thing played out, for example, he said something but didn't actually bother to push it through over the bureaucracy.

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« Reply #30169 on: January 23, 2019, 09:54:06 PM »
Hell, his tactical advantage in the shutdown hasn't been anything having to do with a deliberate negotiating position as much as it probably is that he just doesn't give a fuck about it as much as everyone else. One reason the White House seemingly had no position until they threw together that package and he was like alright, whatever.

Once you're President, the only real validation that exists is your re-election. Look at how two-termers are treated generally, even if their second term sucks, even if they're Nixon, compared to any single termer. Even Truman and LBJ often don't totally escape the fact that they were only elected once. (And both benefit quite a bit from the way they were elected, a surprise and a landslide.)
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« Reply #30170 on: January 23, 2019, 10:03:23 PM »
But also Trump is scared of Anne Coulter calling him a pussy.

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« Reply #30171 on: January 23, 2019, 10:05:25 PM »
He knows how to deal with people like that, appoint them to a position they can only fail at. Chris Christie, Rence Preibus, Omarosa... :rollsafe

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« Reply #30172 on: January 23, 2019, 10:09:11 PM »
:ufup Forgot to log in to your Dutch alt.

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« Reply #30173 on: January 23, 2019, 10:19:08 PM »
I was kidding but I do actually think Trump probably does have experience with knowing how to sideline poor employees because of a history of hiring so many on a whim. In the Trump Organization people were often shuffled off to oversee resorts or something, that was their expulsion from the main corporate body that looked like a grand promotion to someplace nice.

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« Reply #30174 on: January 23, 2019, 10:52:57 PM »
just to annoy Mandark, but also it relates to stuff earlier in this thread, like half of PoliERA just found out this hour that Buttgieg announced today from it being mentioned on MSNBC :lol

i wonder who he's really a stalking horse for, abduela? :thinking

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« Reply #30175 on: January 23, 2019, 11:13:13 PM »
Yeah, that does annoy me.


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« Reply #30178 on: January 23, 2019, 11:50:32 PM »
that's a suspiciously docile response

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« Reply #30179 on: January 23, 2019, 11:59:03 PM »
i can't believe i once supported trump