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« Reply #33781 on: April 08, 2019, 07:06:33 AM »
To his credit he has more than articulated a position on a wide range of policy a number of times so far.

Also, I’m not sure he’s wrong there. Democrats have spent most of the post Reagan era until very recently pretending to not be liberal but trying to offer liberal ultra-lite policy, filtered through, and mostly conceding a lot of the philosophical and intellectual arguments to the conservative framing.


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« Reply #33782 on: April 08, 2019, 08:08:12 AM »
nice improvised counter there!
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“You know that I’m happy to get on this stump and deliver this speech from this tree trunk,” O’Rourke told a knowing crowd. “OK, real quick. Why not.”
he's just totally ruining it now

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« Reply #33783 on: April 08, 2019, 08:28:36 AM »

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« Reply #33784 on: April 08, 2019, 08:37:17 AM »
nice improvised counter there!
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“You know that I’m happy to get on this stump and deliver this speech from this tree trunk,” O’Rourke told a knowing crowd. “OK, real quick. Why not.”
he's just totally ruining it now

O’Rourke should start carrying around a folding table wherever he goes.
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« Reply #33787 on: April 08, 2019, 09:44:17 AM »
i propose an addendum of an alternative headline law in which the answer is "we dunno lol"

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« Reply #33788 on: April 08, 2019, 10:05:15 AM »
Even better: "This article is clickbait and reading it will waste your time."
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« Reply #33791 on: April 08, 2019, 10:48:33 AM »
how do you guys find these tweets with like one retweet. That's like accidentally stumbling on Bobby Roberts' twitter account.

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« Reply #33792 on: April 08, 2019, 10:56:25 AM »
it's called logging anyone who tweets out "centrist" or "@HowardSchulz" for The Party

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« Reply #33793 on: April 08, 2019, 11:03:12 AM »
is that part of your intelligence gathering operation for one your many dossiers?


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« Reply #33796 on: April 08, 2019, 12:53:50 PM »
how do you guys find these tweets with like one retweet. That's like accidentally stumbling on Pretentious Hobo' twitter account.

Whang retweeted it.  https://twitter.com/JustinWhang

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« Reply #33797 on: April 08, 2019, 02:04:52 PM »
interesting youtube channel you're following there
You missed our discussion on Nazi Clowns the other day marrec  :idont

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1114897567593181185

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The problem is that the internet is for 'everyone' including politicians and brands trying to be edgelords.
Plus we have influencers now  :yuck

We must make the internet such a horrible place that they leave and we can discuss video games in peace again.
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« Reply #33798 on: April 08, 2019, 02:07:17 PM »
interesting youtube channel you're following there
You missed our discussion on Nazi Clowns the other day marrec  :idont

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1114897567593181185

How do I get off this timeline
We just need to drive all the people who aren't nerds off the internet.

The problem is that the internet is for 'everyone' including politicians and brands trying to be edgelords.
Plus we have influencers now  :yuck

We must make the internet such a horrible place that they leave and we can discuss video games in peace again.

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« Reply #33799 on: April 08, 2019, 02:27:19 PM »



let's stop all this infighting and purity tests  :shaking
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« Reply #33803 on: April 08, 2019, 04:34:11 PM »
 :dead at that edit on the splash

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« Reply #33804 on: April 08, 2019, 04:44:38 PM »
Gravelanche baby!

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« Reply #33805 on: April 08, 2019, 04:55:56 PM »
GravelYang 2020

has a nice ring to it.

LMAO

https://twitter.com/WeldPond/status/1115332247786274816

https://twitter.com/janewells/status/1115345575258386432

Not sure what the Chinese wanted to gain from hacking the Mar-a-lago. Trump's Twitter password?  :lol
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« Reply #33806 on: April 08, 2019, 08:06:19 PM »
They wouldn't be "hacking the Mar-a-Lago" but trying to get anyone with any kind of access to do what the Secret Service agent apparently wound up doing. There would be laptops and all kinds of other devices from people around the President wherever the President is.

That's also the reason the feds don't think she's an actual spy but instead some kind of scammer/grifter or "corporate spy" type at best. Modern state-linked intelligence agencies know this was far too stupid of plan to work anywhere but on CBS.

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Ms. Zhang had entered the property with four cellphones, a hard drive and a thumb drive infected with malware, according to federal court records. Upon searching her hotel room, investigators found another cellphone and a radio frequency device that detects hidden cameras, Assistant United States Attorney Rolando Garcia said.

She also had nine U.S.B. drives and five SIM cards in her room at the Colony Hotel, along with several debit cards and about $8,000 in cash, including about $700 in Chinese currency, Mr. Garcia said during a bond hearing at the U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach.

Mr. Garcia told U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman that Ms. Zhang is a “serious flight risk” because she “lies to everyone that she encounters.”

She told authorities at the club that she had carried multiple phones to the resort because she was afraid to leave them in her hotel room

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« Reply #33808 on: April 08, 2019, 08:32:29 PM »
Where's Doug Collins?



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« Reply #33810 on: April 08, 2019, 09:28:01 PM »
They didn't need a Secretary of Defense or Homeland Security back in the 1880's when a couple of people got shot.
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« Reply #33811 on: April 08, 2019, 09:30:47 PM »
Leaving so many cabinet positions vacant should be considered an intentional way to circumvent the Senatorial advice and consent role and a violation of the Constitution.

This president has:
- secured funding by decree
- waged war by decree
- and achieved de facto consolidation of power through vacancies

So, really, there is no point in having a Congress.
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« Reply #33812 on: April 08, 2019, 09:34:51 PM »
Leaving so many cabinet positions vacant should be considered an intentional way to circumvent the Senatorial advice and consent role and a violation of the Constitution.

I don't think Trump cares. It's not going to hurt him when Trump is up there on the 2020 debate stage, when it absolutely should.

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« Reply #33813 on: April 08, 2019, 09:42:27 PM »
Of course Trump doesn't care. What kills me is that Republicans don't care, either.
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« Reply #33816 on: April 08, 2019, 09:53:20 PM »
Of course Trump doesn't care. What kills me is that Republicans don't care, either.

Well yeah, they don't care until it's shown that it will hurt them.

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« Reply #33817 on: April 08, 2019, 09:55:15 PM »
it is sort of makes me existentially anxious watching the two most important english speaking countries unravel completely at the governmental level.

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« Reply #33818 on: April 08, 2019, 09:59:24 PM »
I'm average Chinese size  :doge
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« Reply #33821 on: April 09, 2019, 12:00:25 PM »
Well, the coverup is on apparently.

Barr did nothing to make anybody feel like he’s acting in good faith today.

Congress should restrict funding on every government agency that doesn’t have a confirmed cabinet head.

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« Reply #33824 on: April 09, 2019, 12:27:24 PM »
It's almost as rich as Tucker Carlson complaining about Democrats attacking a poor, elderly Donald Trump.
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« Reply #33825 on: April 09, 2019, 12:42:46 PM »
Well, the coverup is on apparently.

Barr did nothing to make anybody feel like he’s acting in good faith today.

Not surprising. Trump is like a black hole, he ultimately latches onto and destroys everyone who gets to close to him.
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« Reply #33826 on: April 09, 2019, 12:50:39 PM »
Don't forget Barr help sweep the Iran-Contra stuff under the rug. He saved a lot republicans jail time.
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« Reply #33827 on: April 09, 2019, 01:44:21 PM »
I struggle to see Trump losing in 2020.

He remains a deeply divisive and unpopular President.

I don’t see this report changing that at all. I bet he sees a temporary bump in polling but with 90 days it will look about like it does today.

I think the outcome of the Russia investigation was very important for Trumps electability in 2017... but now it just there is so much other shit that Russia is just one of many elements to why people don’t like him.

I feel pretty good about this prediction, tbh. We’ll be arguing about the Mueller report for 2 more years at least.

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« Reply #33828 on: April 09, 2019, 01:48:40 PM »
I feel Trump ruined any goodwill that would have generated the Barr resume in just two weeks, outside his base of course. 


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« Reply #33829 on: April 09, 2019, 01:53:10 PM »
I struggle to see Trump losing in 2020.

He remains a deeply divisive and unpopular President.

I don’t see this report changing that at all. I bet he sees a temporary bump in polling but with 90 days it will look about like it does today.

I think the outcome of the Russia investigation was very important for Trumps electability in 2017... but now it just there is so much other shit that Russia is just one of many elements to why people don’t like him.

I feel pretty good about this prediction, tbh. We’ll be arguing about the Mueller report for 2 more years at least.

and the general public hasn't seemed to be swayed by the report findings/lack thereof

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« Reply #33830 on: April 09, 2019, 02:17:34 PM »
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1115676458796617728


the real right wing was the democratic party we made along the way
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« Reply #33831 on: April 09, 2019, 02:21:26 PM »
https://www.mediaite.com/online/despicable-dem-congressman-accuses-candace-owens-of-desecrating-the-lives-of-hate-crimes-victims/
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“During the last 10 years, 76% of individuals killed by right-wing extremists were killed by white supremacists, making white supremacy the most deadly type of extremist movement in the United States over the last 10 years,” Cicilline continued. “That is a fact. And we have to do something about it. And that’s what this hearing is about.”

Owens responded several minutes later by telling the committee that Cicilline “brought up the rhetoric of the president, in the same breath that he referred to me as despicable.”

“I’m tired of hearing the left refer to people as despicable, as deplorable,” Owens continued. “We are Americans, we are patriots, and even if we disagree with you, name-calling should not be something that is done, especially in these chambers.”

 :era :notlikethis :crowdlaff :girlaff

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« Reply #33832 on: April 09, 2019, 02:26:57 PM »
*Owens followed that statement with "Democrats are the real racists."

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« Reply #33833 on: April 09, 2019, 02:35:34 PM »
*Owens followed that statement with "Democrats are the real racists."

Other notable items said by republican invitees:

The New Zealand shooter was left wing and the neo-nazi shooter at the Tree of Life church was anti-trump.
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« Reply #33837 on: April 09, 2019, 05:08:54 PM »
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The central limit theorem... what is it?

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« Reply #33838 on: April 09, 2019, 06:08:42 PM »
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The central limit theorem... what is it?

Yeah, that's not how counting votes during an election works. He is conflating two things that are unrelated.
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