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benjipwns

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« Reply #32940 on: April 26, 2019, 11:53:22 PM »
I've been listening to a bunch of 538 podcasts to get the centerist view on the race and literally everyone on the podcast about 2020 Dem primary horse trading had Biden on the top of their boards.

So yeah, they (538) think Biden in the fav.
It's probably because he's been leading in the polls all year and that's their wheelhouse more than anything*:


*except counting and weighting the value of endorsements still for some reason even as they write articles about how badly this method has failed and how both parties have moved away from superdelegate type systems

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looking at Harris and then O'Rourke and now MAYOR PETE's rise in that chart, now I hope we do this with all other 19 candidates:
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edit: also just noticed that if you add up RCP's averages rounding up the .5 or greaters, it now surpasses 97 points (and there's more 0.3 candidates they don't show), it wasn't that high that long ago (as you can see in the chart, when Biden and Sanders both go up along with everyone else) so people have started picking temporarily and stopped "other" or "not sure" which is a fun sign
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« Reply #32941 on: April 27, 2019, 12:39:45 AM »
Speaking of campaign turning points and narratives, I think Rick Perry saying you had to feel some sympathy for immigrants was worse for him than forgetting which federal department he wanted to get rid of.


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« Reply #32943 on: April 27, 2019, 12:47:49 AM »
does anyone want to keep putting ilhan omar's face next to pictures of 9/11 now or nah?
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« Reply #32944 on: April 27, 2019, 12:50:23 AM »


i bet people already have done this

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« Reply #32945 on: April 27, 2019, 12:54:54 AM »
i had to do one more


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« Reply #32946 on: April 27, 2019, 12:55:47 AM »
remember when snl made fun of dan crenshaw and then people acted offended so they brought him on

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« Reply #32947 on: April 27, 2019, 01:00:16 AM »
are you saying benji should invite Ilhan Omar to the Bore?

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« Reply #32948 on: April 27, 2019, 01:02:02 AM »
are you saying I'm The Bire's Pete Davidson?

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« Reply #32949 on: April 27, 2019, 02:45:54 AM »
Warren should have just leaned into the Pocahontas thing Trump style.

She could open every speech with “How. Me llamo Elizabeth Warren”


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« Reply #32951 on: April 27, 2019, 11:01:52 AM »
Warren should have just leaned into the Pocahontas thing Trump style.

She could open every speech with “How. Me llamo Elizabeth Warren”

 :doge  :doge :doge

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« Reply #32952 on: April 27, 2019, 11:17:07 AM »


Is Senator Mike Gravel a 9/11 Truther?

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« Reply #32953 on: April 27, 2019, 11:35:34 AM »
as if filler couldn't love Mike Gravel even more

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« Reply #32954 on: April 27, 2019, 12:11:20 PM »
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INDIANAPOLIS—In a surprising move, the National Rifle Association announced Saturday morning that President Oliver North will not serve a second term, despite only being in office for six months, as infighting and controversy have taken hold at the gun rights group’s annual meeting.

In a letter read by the group’s vice president to kick off the gathering, North said that he will not seek reelection as NRA president, and went on to attack the NRA law firm that filed a lawsuit against its leading ad firm. “There is a clear crisis” at the NRA regarding financial allegations, he said in a Saturday letter.

“Please know I hoped to be with you today as NRA president endorsed for reelection. I’m now informed that that will not happen,” he wrote.

The NRA’s CEO Wayne LaPierre received a standing ovation at the beginning of the members meeting. He was seated next to Oliver North’s empty chair and placard.

The announcement comes as The Daily Beast exclusively reported Friday that the NRA has taken shots at its own president in the days leading up to the the kick-off of its much-watched national meeting.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/oliver-north-will-not-seek-reelection-as-nra-president-amid-investigation?ref=home

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« Reply #32955 on: April 27, 2019, 12:26:41 PM »
Just in time to become the new
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Acting secretary of state.
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« Reply #32957 on: April 27, 2019, 01:26:56 PM »
@realDonaldTrump
Dopey Chris is having tea time with a "gentleman" from Iran with a total HIT JOB on the very respected Fox News.
UN allows them to travel freely despite me banning their oil. Nice! Should investigate!!!
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« Reply #32959 on: April 27, 2019, 02:36:09 PM »
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1122187878203838464

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« Reply #32961 on: April 27, 2019, 02:51:42 PM »
It's gonna be great to have a senile old man in the White House.

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« Reply #32964 on: April 27, 2019, 03:51:08 PM »
"vocal soloist for church weddings" :hhh


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« Reply #32966 on: April 27, 2019, 04:07:55 PM »
wait wait wait, he's in Fort Worth, he's buying groceries in Vermont, no no no this doesn't add up

have there been TWO Bernie Sanders this whole time?

he didn't report this on his tax returns that he's covering more up than Trump did he




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« Reply #32970 on: April 27, 2019, 05:27:40 PM »
https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1121926442919575553

Yeah and we wouldn't have the (currently under attack) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau either, so... :confused

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« Reply #32971 on: April 27, 2019, 05:32:15 PM »
Warren not only appropriated her Native American heritage, she also appropriated the idea for a consumer protection bureau from Europe.  :doge


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« Reply #32973 on: April 27, 2019, 05:47:23 PM »


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« Reply #32974 on: April 27, 2019, 05:55:33 PM »
Warren not only appropriated her Native American heritage, she also appropriated the idea for a consumer protection bureau from Europe.  :doge

All good ideas in American politics have come from Europe. Approximately zero have been American originals.




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« Reply #32978 on: April 27, 2019, 09:16:52 PM »
We see you, billboard salesmen.

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« Reply #32979 on: April 27, 2019, 09:22:51 PM »
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1122217634987151360

 :trumps
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1122225903877132288

I'm not understanding how this would not be the actions of a front runner? burying their opponents in ads isn't a time honored front-runner/well-financed campaign tactic?

does the campaign code of honor require them to cease and desist from campaign tactics until they drop in polling?

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1122206264954695681

oh? so exactly like Biden has been doing?!?

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« Reply #32980 on: April 27, 2019, 09:27:17 PM »
https://twitter.com/AnnieLinskey/status/1121943259196956672

This is a good solution to people not having access to nutritional food. The problem is the messaging of "farm to table" usually invokes images of hipsters doofuses in their butcher bar playing beatnicks cellos.

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« Reply #32981 on: April 27, 2019, 09:31:48 PM »
Eating out is expensive.
only if you married her :ohyou

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« Reply #32982 on: April 27, 2019, 09:43:04 PM »
oh dear, this is the post that politics



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« Reply #32985 on: April 27, 2019, 10:22:07 PM »
Pete Rose could not be reached for comment.

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« Reply #32986 on: April 27, 2019, 10:27:27 PM »
https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1122308589652066306

fun fact the synagogue shooter also claimed responsibility for an arson at a mosque in my hometown because I guess Ilhan Omar hates mosques?

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« Reply #32987 on: April 27, 2019, 10:30:11 PM »
that's not fun at all  >:(
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« Reply #32989 on: April 28, 2019, 03:00:02 AM »
Does anyone know if Basic Economics is actually a good, fact-based, informative book or is just some conservative shill book suggested by conservatives who need to pimp their pet negro Thomas Sowell?
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« Reply #32990 on: April 28, 2019, 03:09:52 AM »
Math :gurl
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« Reply #32992 on: April 28, 2019, 10:48:36 AM »
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1122315121454452737

This one I don't get. Does Trump think he's actually hurting cities by claiming this? I doubt this is actually happening since the cost of doing this would be crazy expensive.


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« Reply #32994 on: April 28, 2019, 11:50:00 AM »
they keeps them comfortable

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« Reply #32995 on: April 28, 2019, 12:01:50 PM »
I don't get it because he's bragging about an idea that he thinks will intentionally hurt people to make a point and he acknowledges that it's "sick" but also thinks it's going to make him look good and the implicit AND explicit reasoning behind it is straight up racism.

"You're all just as racist as me but won't admit it" and "you're fine with immigrants because you're not personally exposed to them" are staples of anti-immigration thought.

The idea is that the presence of swarthy foreigners is so obviously, objectively terrible that of course there would be a backlash if you had them come to your city. It's dumb and racist, but exactly the sort of thing MAGA hat types will connect with.

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« Reply #32996 on: April 28, 2019, 12:04:07 PM »
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