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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35820 on: June 02, 2019, 02:44:07 PM »
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1135241467184799746

Lol, the guy can't help himself.

Roger tommorow: "I'm so very sorry for my comments I promise to do better!"  :teehee

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« Reply #35821 on: June 02, 2019, 05:37:24 PM »
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The gunman who allegedly killed 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building Friday had resigned his position with the city hours before, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

The gunman, identified as DeWayne Craddock, had been a longtime public utilities engineer with the city and had emailed his superiors that day to give them his two weeks’ notice, according to city officials.

“We’re determining where that letter is,” City Manager Dave Hansen said at a Sunday news conference, according to the Pilot. “He notified his chain of command [Friday].”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/446542-virginia-beach-gunman-had-resigned-hours-before-killing-12

12 people die in a shooting and it doesn't even dominate a daily news cycle.

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« Reply #35822 on: June 02, 2019, 05:44:28 PM »
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The gunman who allegedly killed 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building Friday had resigned his position with the city hours before, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

The gunman, identified as DeWayne Craddock, had been a longtime public utilities engineer with the city and had emailed his superiors that day to give them his two weeks’ notice, according to city officials.

“We’re determining where that letter is,” City Manager Dave Hansen said at a Sunday news conference, according to the Pilot. “He notified his chain of command [Friday].”

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/446542-virginia-beach-gunman-had-resigned-hours-before-killing-12

12 people die in a shooting and it doesn't even dominate a daily news cycle.
Yesterday I read that someone had set himself on fire on the white house lawn in protest and it wasn't even a blip on the radar.  :doge

It was more or less a sidenote in the Sun Trump interview.
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IT was one of those days in Trump’s Washington DC.That morning, special counsel Robert Mueller had suggested the President be impeached for obstructing justice.

Then, a few hours before our appointed 20-minute slot with him, a man set himself on fire and burned himself to death on a lawn 200 metres from the Oval Office.But by 5pm, there seemed to be only one thing on POTUS’s mind.“I have a question for you,” said Donald Trump, as he sat down behind the Oval Office’s famous Resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria.“Tell me, what is going on? Who’s it going to be?”, and our interview started with a few minutes’ gossip on who’d win the Tory leadership race.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35825 on: June 02, 2019, 09:59:18 PM »
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« Reply #35827 on: June 03, 2019, 12:19:55 AM »
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35830 on: June 03, 2019, 04:03:39 AM »
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135453891326238721

This is already the biggest disaster in diplomatic history and he hasn't left the plane yet
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« Reply #35832 on: June 03, 2019, 11:09:42 AM »
Im really excited to vote in the primary tomorrow.

Lets see, going down the ballot, the races are...

-uncontested   
-uncontested   
-progressive option is a ghost   
-uncontested   


wheeeeeeee I love Democracy!
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35833 on: June 03, 2019, 11:32:11 AM »
Not sure how you can spin Warren as someone who isn't putting forth tons of actual policies of real substance :thinking

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« Reply #35834 on: June 03, 2019, 12:00:13 PM »
No talk on Liz Warren and medicare for all? :doge


https://twitter.com/pagalpanchi/status/1135193155828105217

Well, like usual, she's the only one talking fucking sense.

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« Reply #35836 on: June 03, 2019, 01:55:34 PM »
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135602449987899395

Hats off to all the staffers of both the UK and US delegation. You've kept NATO together for at least an additional 24 hours.   

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« Reply #35837 on: June 03, 2019, 02:30:53 PM »
Every Dem running would sign off on an incremental bill when it becomes clear they don't have the votes for single payer. I don't know that it's useful to pretend otherwise.

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Yes but saying it out loud now is basically negotiating yourself down. A president who gets elected running on single payer is in a stronger bargaining position.
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Taking a hard line on a health plan during campaign season with no fallback plan or consensus on actual priorities is how the GOP fucked themselves on ACA repeal.
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You can still signal which planks of your health plan are the "signature" non-negotiable parts without explicitly pre-conceding the rest!
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Maybe, but at this point it's just an argument about the tactics of campaign rhetoric rather than actual health care. Which is a comforting debate, cause it lets us pretend we can significantly change American politics if only we find the right electoral strategy, when in fact M4A is dead on arrival and we're all fucked.
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« Reply #35838 on: June 03, 2019, 02:40:25 PM »
Real talk: Fuck health care. Making people live longer will only make global climate change worse. Any candidate that makes health care a priority is useless in my book.
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« Reply #35839 on: June 03, 2019, 02:49:31 PM »
Real talk: Fuck health care. Making people live longer will only make global climate change worse. Any candidate that makes health care a priority is useless in my book.

Clearly I missed like 5 seasons worth of Green Shinobi development huh
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35840 on: June 03, 2019, 02:56:16 PM »
Real talk: Fuck health care. Making people live longer will only make global climate change worse. Any candidate that makes health care a priority is useless in my book.

Clearly I missed like 5 seasons worth of Green Shinobi development huh

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« Reply #35841 on: June 03, 2019, 03:11:05 PM »
:bow when everyone agrees that democracy isnt able to action like, the only thing Americans support en masse :bow2

I don't think that's actually true (yes I am aware of the polling), but it would become true once it was the status quo.

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« Reply #35842 on: June 03, 2019, 03:16:39 PM »
Here is a fun series of articles:

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10-year yield continues collapse on slowing growth fears, hits session low under 2.07%
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/us-bonds-treasurys-tick-lower-as-investors-await-data-auctions.html

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The yield curve is no longer a reliable recession predictor, according to Wells Fargo Securities
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/yield-curve-is-no-longer-a-reliable-recession-predictor-wells-fargo.html


Previously, on the Yield Curve:

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ALAN GREENSPAN, the Federal Reserve chairman, raised more than a few eyebrows in November when he said in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that there was no need to worry that the yield curve had flattened and was close to inverting. The yield curve, he said, has lost its ability to forecast recessions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/business/yourmoney/thrown-for-a-yield-curve.html

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Consider the inverted yield curve as the equivalent of an economic bogeyman. It’s when the natural order up-ends and short-term interest rates are higher than long-term ones.

The Treasury bond yield curve inverted December 27 for the first time in five years. That gave shudders to those who see the phenomenon as a harbinger of recession. And yet, the U.S. economy is strong, and surveys show most forecasters think it will stay that way.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/dont-sweat-the-inverted-yield-curve-no-one-really-knows-what-it-means/


Start looking at gold bois
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35843 on: June 03, 2019, 03:17:50 PM »
:bow when everyone agrees that democracy isnt able to action like, the only thing Americans support en masse :bow2

Part of the problem is people are fucking stupid and Congress goes stupid in kind(most polls that show majority support for Medicare-for-All drop to below if you start asking questions about paying higher taxes or changing current Medicare, to me a sign of ignorance, ripe for manipulation once again).

I remember back to pre-ACA conversations. Where almost everyone was fed up with the current system and knew shit needed to seriously change.

Systemically rampant rescission, denials, lifetime maximums, 45 million uninsured, 45 million under-insured, pre-existing conditions, a million or two annually going bankrupt, 14%+ annual rate hikes in many states.

Never met a conservative in college or elsewhere that thought Switzerland was a bad idea when explained to them. Fast forward 3 months into the healthcare debate and 40% of the country is clutching about socialism and death panels. Another 25% only wanted healthcare reform that fits their magical thinking. Moderate Democrats run to the Republican position to get away from the bad faith fear-mongering of their opponent's, to which you get shitty incrementalism as the only viable prize...And there you have 100 years of American healthcare politics.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35845 on: June 03, 2019, 04:17:41 PM »


Historians: "Now tell me boy, why did the waiter accidently walk into this shot of our queen?"

Also not Eric Trump in the back because the Trump Organization is independent from the government.
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« Reply #35846 on: June 03, 2019, 04:19:03 PM »
M4A is never happening. Closest thing you could do is just keep expanding Medicaid, and increase hospital/doctor reimbursement in order to increase the # of providers who accept it. Imagine the money that would be saved by people (and businesses) if single people making 40k or lower (and whatever the family equivalents would be) qualified for comprehensive Medicaid plans.
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« Reply #35847 on: June 03, 2019, 04:24:58 PM »
Activists: the best healthcare system, in efficiency, fairness, and outcomes, would really be a Medicare for all type of deal
Geniuses everywhere: It'll never happen
Activists: aw yeah sorry mate guess we'll just stfu
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« Reply #35848 on: June 03, 2019, 04:26:44 PM »
Sheep: the best healthcare system, in efficiency, fairness, and outcomes, would really be a Medicare for all type of deal
Haters: everywhere: It'll never happen
Sheep: aw yeah sorry mate guess we'll just stfu
Geniuses: Death is natural and we should embrace it. Let's focus on real problems like climate change

Fixed
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35849 on: June 03, 2019, 04:52:13 PM »
Oh, so Buttigieg is a moron, too (I didn't care enough to bother looking into him).
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« Reply #35850 on: June 03, 2019, 04:57:04 PM »
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« Reply #35851 on: June 03, 2019, 05:09:09 PM »
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35852 on: June 03, 2019, 05:13:46 PM »
I'm going to bridge the collective defeatism with a segue into making fun of Buttagieg with one tweet post :rejoice

https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1135559277064536065

What even is an "apolitical judge" if you start introducing the notion others are "affiliated" and what does "affiliation" even means coming from a system where they're supposed to be independent and impartial ?

I read some of the details. Seems a very contrived way to fix something that doesn't need it (it's not the Supreme Court that is dysfunctional, it's the politics around nominations).
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« Reply #35853 on: June 03, 2019, 05:38:28 PM »
 :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge


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A key witness in former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian election interference has been charged with transporting child pornography last year, according to court documents.

George Nader, who has a previous conviction on such charges, was charged in federal court in Virginia and is expected to make an initial court appearance in New York.

Nader played an unusual role as a kind of liaison between Trump supporters, Middle East leaders and Russians interested in making contact with the incoming administration in early 2017.

Officials said Nader, 60, was charged by criminal complaint over material he was traveling with when he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 17, 2018, from Dubai. At the time, he was carrying a cellphone containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, officials said. The charges were unsealed after his arrest Monday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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He helped arrange a meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 between Erik Prince, a Trump supporter who founded the private security firm Blackwater, and a Russian official close to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. The purpose of the meeting was of particular interest to Mueller’s investigators, and some questions about it remain unanswered, even after Mueller issued a 448-page report on his findings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/figure-linked-to-trump-transition-charged-with-transporting-child-pornography/2019/06/03/caee8aca-862a-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.a69cbff7ef64



Nintex, this is your beat, give us extra details. Did Hillary plant the phone?
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« Reply #35855 on: June 03, 2019, 05:52:04 PM »
:drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge


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A key witness in former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian election interference has been charged with transporting child pornography last year, according to court documents.

George Nader, who has a previous conviction on such charges, was charged in federal court in Virginia and is expected to make an initial court appearance in New York.

Nader played an unusual role as a kind of liaison between Trump supporters, Middle East leaders and Russians interested in making contact with the incoming administration in early 2017.

Officials said Nader, 60, was charged by criminal complaint over material he was traveling with when he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 17, 2018, from Dubai. At the time, he was carrying a cellphone containing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, officials said. The charges were unsealed after his arrest Monday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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He helped arrange a meeting in the Seychelles in January 2017 between Erik Prince, a Trump supporter who founded the private security firm Blackwater, and a Russian official close to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. The purpose of the meeting was of particular interest to Mueller’s investigators, and some questions about it remain unanswered, even after Mueller issued a 448-page report on his findings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/figure-linked-to-trump-transition-charged-with-transporting-child-pornography/2019/06/03/caee8aca-862a-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html?utm_term=.a69cbff7ef64



Nintex, this is your beat, give us extra details. Did Hillary plant the phone?
Nader: "Shit..."
Rudy: "What's up George?"
Nader: "I forgot my phone, dammit, I'm suposed to head overseas in like an hour"
Rudy: "That's why we have burner phones. Here take one of mine"

?? : "Did he suspect anything?"
Rudy: "No, we're in the clear"
?? : "good.... GOOD!!"
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« Reply #35856 on: June 03, 2019, 05:53:54 PM »
Activists: the best healthcare system, in efficiency, fairness, and outcomes, would really be a Medicare for all type of deal
Geniuses everywhere: It'll never happen
Activists: aw yeah sorry mate guess we'll just stfu

People get too caught up on single payer IMO. That's my only issue. Because it's not some magic bullet. What makes single-payer appealing is it's cost control capabilities and setting broad, universal coverage. But you can achieve that in a multitude of ways. It's why the growing militancy around utopic style single-payer or bust bothers me. The goal is efficient UHC that maintains quality and innovation. Not some vaguely defined mechanism for administrative payments.


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« Reply #35857 on: June 03, 2019, 06:11:54 PM »
Activists: the best healthcare system, in efficiency, fairness, and outcomes, would really be a Medicare for all type of deal
Geniuses everywhere: It'll never happen
Activists: aw yeah sorry mate guess we'll just stfu

People get too caught up on single payer IMO. That's my only issue. Because it's not some magic bullet. What makes single-payer appealing is it's cost control capabilities and setting broad, universal coverage. But you can achieve that in a multitude of ways. It's why the growing militancy around utopic style single-payer or bust bothers me. The goal is efficient UHC that maintains quality and innovation. Not some vaguely defined mechanism for administrative payments.

If cost-control is your goal, a more effective policy would be to deny care to anyone older than 65.

Be honest about what you want.
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« Reply #35858 on: June 03, 2019, 06:29:46 PM »
how about you draft the elderly into the military.

- They stay fit longer with the training and stuff
- They are properly fed
- They're not alone
- They have something to do other than watching TV
- They can do something about the things they see on Fox News
- Not as many young people die in wars
- Those in wheelchairs could actually carry quite heavy weaponry
- They wouldn't be around to vote
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« Reply #35859 on: June 03, 2019, 06:38:19 PM »
Real talk: Fuck health care. Making people live longer will only make global climate change worse. Any candidate that makes health care a priority is useless in my book.

Clearly I missed like 5 seasons worth of Green Shinobi development huh

Dude took off running with my shtick from like 2013.

I have no plans in being a HillaryBot.

how about you draft the elderly into the military.

- They stay fit longer with the training and stuff
- They are properly fed
- They're not alone
- They have something to do other than watching TV
- They can do something about the things they see on Fox News
- Not as many young people die in wars
- Those in wheelchairs could actually carry quite heavy weaponry

This is the kind of critical thinking and innovation we need in politics today
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« Reply #35860 on: June 03, 2019, 06:42:52 PM »
Because I was a Hillary-bot 1 year into Obama's second term  ::)

Once a Hillarybot, always a Hillarybot.

Is your membership to HillaryIs44 still active?
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« Reply #35861 on: June 03, 2019, 06:57:35 PM »
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« Reply #35863 on: June 03, 2019, 08:47:14 PM »
I'm going to bridge the collective defeatism with a segue into making fun of Buttagieg with one tweet post :rejoice

https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1135559277064536065

Buttageig is dumb, and the more I hear how he fucked up his police department, the less I think he can run for dog catcher, much less the president of the united states.

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« Reply #35865 on: June 03, 2019, 09:41:21 PM »
Real talk: Fuck health care. Making people live longer will only make global climate change worse. Any candidate that makes health care a priority is useless in my book.

Clearly I missed like 5 seasons worth of Green Shinobi development huh

He googled his name + The Hedgehog and this is the result.

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35866 on: June 03, 2019, 10:01:52 PM »
It's not just Buttageig, a lot of these candidates just seem to be coasting. Again...reminds me of the GOP 2012 primary. You've got Buttageig offering laughable SC compromises and Harris offering tax credits for everything. I think I'm just gonna write in Obama on my primary ballot. Or John Edwards.

Remember in 2007 when everyone had interesting healthcare proposals and were debating shit?
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« Reply #35867 on: June 03, 2019, 10:02:35 PM »
It's not just Buttageig, a lot of these candidates just seem to be coasting. Again...reminds me of the GOP 2012 primary. You've got Buttageig offering laughable SC compromises and Harris offering tax credits for everything. I think I'm just gonna write in Obama on my primary ballot. Or John Edwards.

Remember in 2007 when everyone had interesting healthcare proposals and were debating shit?

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« Reply #35868 on: June 03, 2019, 10:03:25 PM »
Remember in 2007 when everyone had interesting healthcare proposals and were debating shit?

You're misremembering.

This is what politics looked like.


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In United States politics, the gas tax holiday or the gas tax loophole was a proposal made by presidential contenders Arizona Senator John McCain and New York Senator Hillary Clinton to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline from Memorial Day to Labor Day in the year 2008. Proponents argued that this could potentially reduce the price of gas at the pump by about 18.4 cents a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline and 24.4 cents a gallon for diesel. If it were done, it was estimated the gas tax holiday would save consumers roughly $30 over the three-month period it would be instated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_tax_holiday

Imbeciles.
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« Reply #35869 on: June 03, 2019, 10:09:22 PM »
Remember when Obama called them out on it.


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« Reply #35870 on: June 03, 2019, 10:12:39 PM »
That Obama guy looks interesting. Is he running in the D primary?
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« Reply #35871 on: June 03, 2019, 10:12:43 PM »
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« Reply #35872 on: June 03, 2019, 10:20:56 PM »
I think we've all forgotten how batshit the stretch run of the general election was that cycle. Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, some truly weird attack ads from the McCain campaign (one saying Obama wanted to give kindergarteners sex ed, and the spot with the weird Biblical imagery calling Obama "the one").

The most wrong I've ever been was thinking that people would stop freaking out about Obama once he was in office and they saw that he wasn't a Muslamosocialist Manchurian candidate.  hahaha oops

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« Reply #35873 on: June 03, 2019, 10:50:09 PM »
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Pete Buttigieg said on Monday he wouldn’t have “applied that pressure” to Al Franken to resign from the Senate after allegations of sexual misconduct in December 2017, separating himself from several other Democratic presidential candidates who did call for his resignation.

appealing to the midwestern male demographic :lawd
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35874 on: June 03, 2019, 11:18:23 PM »
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35875 on: June 03, 2019, 11:58:05 PM »
M4A is never happening.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35877 on: June 04, 2019, 06:45:05 AM »
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Management believes that it would be judicious to move manufacturing out of China to cope with potential tariffs and realize some cost savings and efficiencies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gopro-move-most-u-bound-233211017.html

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35878 on: June 04, 2019, 06:49:29 AM »
Someone should inform them that Trump has started to implement additional taxes for Mexico, as well.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Thanos/Hitler had some good ideas...
« Reply #35879 on: June 04, 2019, 06:57:44 AM »
Someone should inform them that Trump has started to implement additional taxes for Mexico, as well.

Well he wasn't... Two weeks ago.
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