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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43860 on: September 23, 2019, 01:17:25 AM »


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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43861 on: September 23, 2019, 04:24:54 AM »
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« Reply #43862 on: September 23, 2019, 04:33:05 AM »
you should get better at posting

This is some cheap heat, man.
he means you should post more like me   ;)
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43864 on: September 23, 2019, 04:56:25 AM »
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43865 on: September 23, 2019, 04:57:00 AM »
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1175586860825022465

Oh god ohf uck

last time there were like 3 candidates left after the first debate  :lol


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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43866 on: September 23, 2019, 08:13:06 AM »
I'm still listening to the 538 podcasts from time to time (I think I might drop it, they're mediocre in general, and I'm not caring for their take on most things). The only real interesting part is how Nate Silver will say some BS or pulled out of his ass analysis take, and the rest of the podcast crew has to pretend that it's a smart take, or have to gently explain to Nate why his hot take was terrible.

I mean, if Nate Silver wants to stop being a poll aggregator, and be a pundit, fine I guess. But then he needs to actually know what he's talking about.

Nate’s transformation into everything he claimed to hate is interesting.

Explaining what’s happening in the polls is interesting and unique, but as soon as you start trying to explain why you’re just another pundit and/or bore poster.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43868 on: September 23, 2019, 11:55:46 AM »
Ugh, Bernie bros.

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« Reply #43869 on: September 23, 2019, 12:24:31 PM »
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43870 on: September 23, 2019, 01:11:05 PM »
Trump owning the libs by just showing up  8)
https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1176179179173404672
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43871 on: September 23, 2019, 01:16:22 PM »
 :neogaf


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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43873 on: September 23, 2019, 02:51:12 PM »
Hopefully the entire 2020 campaign will be in this aesthetic.  :mynicca
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« Reply #43874 on: September 23, 2019, 03:04:27 PM »
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43875 on: September 23, 2019, 03:08:29 PM »
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1176209868996243459

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1176206521287544832

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43877 on: September 23, 2019, 03:48:03 PM »
This is what inspired the Dotard's outburst:
https://twitter.com/SammyrayD/status/1176173423015448581
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43878 on: September 23, 2019, 04:03:51 PM »
Nate Silver says 'Brown people are residue!'

That is the dumbest fucking shit.

Sanders stans are insufferable.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43879 on: September 23, 2019, 04:08:20 PM »
Fanboys in general are. Just look at the would-be socialists in this forum. :doge
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43880 on: September 23, 2019, 04:11:17 PM »
This whole residue thing feels like the fakest controversy you could invoke to stir up a day of Twitter shitstorm, because apparently no argument on social media should escape this part of the process.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43881 on: September 23, 2019, 04:12:26 PM »
Fanboys in general are. Just look at the would-be socialists in this forum. :doge

Especially shosta's alter.
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shosta

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43882 on: September 23, 2019, 04:14:32 PM »
What's funnier is these idiots thinking Nate Silver gives the first fuck about their gotcha politics.

Even if he did, what's the endgame? Rose Twitter gets to have a headcanon where Silver is biased against Sanders and possibly racist? Is that going to get Bernie above 11% in the polls?
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43883 on: September 23, 2019, 04:59:37 PM »
lol
what a fun corner of the internet

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43884 on: September 23, 2019, 05:32:03 PM »
Nate got his stans from predicting Obama would beat Romney.

His entire hustle was based on the fact that he called a few states that other pollsters got wrong.
I don't think he has correctly predicted anything since.  :doge
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43885 on: September 23, 2019, 05:55:02 PM »
Nate got his stans from predicting Obama would beat Romney.

His entire hustle was based on the fact that he called a few states that other pollsters got wrong.
I don't think he has correctly predicted anything since.  :doge

That said, trying to pick a Twitter fight with Nate is about as productive as trying to start an argument with an Amazon Alexa.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43886 on: September 23, 2019, 06:32:18 PM »
Looking at twitter it is just a matter of time before Potus retweets one of the 'greta is hitler' memes his favs are posting  :doge
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43887 on: September 23, 2019, 08:18:50 PM »
Today, Cory Booker says, is an “incredible, incredible day.”

He is bounding toward the veggie burger tent at the Iowa Steak Fry on Saturday afternoon, a trail of supporters weaving through thick crowds behind him, trying to keep up. He is telling anyone who asks that he’s doing “great.” “Really great,” he says. He vaults over a stack of watercoolers into the back of the tent and gets into position behind the grill, slapping on blue latex gloves. He serves a Gardein patty to another candidate, his Senate colleague Michael Bennet, and grins. “HELLO, VEGANS!” Booker shouts to no one in particular, and everybody laughs.

You wouldn’t know it, but today is also the day that might bring his presidential campaign to an early, unexpected end. Around 9 a.m., a few hours before he arrived for his speech at the Iowa Steak Fry, a ritual of presidential politics in the state that kicks off the nominating process, Booker’s campaign made a stark announcement: He needed to bring in $1.7 million in 10 days, his campaign manager Addisu Demissie said, or else he would have to drop out.

Without it, Demissie wrote in a memo, “we do not see a legitimate long-term path forward.”

The decision to state this publicly — framed by Booker campaign officials as a show of “radical transparency,” an honest, vulnerable “call for help” when most campaigns just project strength all the time, even falsely — came both suddenly, as a shock, and slowly, as an inevitable fact.

Booker, the 50-year-old New Jersey senator and former Newark mayor, talks with confidence about his team’s “slow and steady” approach to the Democratic primary. It’s “tortoise and the hare,” his aides say. It’s winning “brick by brick” — a reference to his adopted hometown, aka Brick City. There’s a sense, watching Booker’s campaign, that their strategy is also incumbent upon a moment — a fact that can create some dissonance between his public confidence and the reality that, almost eight months into his presidential bid, that moment has yet to arrive.

Even on Friday, the night before his campaign’s announcement, titled “Now or Never” in a post on Medium, Booker told reporters he had no doubts about his position in the state of Iowa.

“I plan on winning it,” he said at a forum in Cedar Rapids.
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“This is what we decided on,” one senior official said. “Tell the world the truth.” Some worried the news would come out of nowhere, invite premature campaign obituaries, or be seen as a fundraising trick — the real-life version of the panicked emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, that have become one of the biggest jokes in politics. (See: subject lines such as “we’re BEGGING.”) As late as midnight on Friday, they were calling supporters to let them know the plan and that it wasn’t a “gimmick.”
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Raising $1.7 million in 10 days would require raising more than the $1.4 million Booker raised in the 10 days after his campaign launch.
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“If you don't have a real chance to win the nomination, then you should be honest with people and let them know,” Booker says.

“This is not an exercise in ego for me. This is not a vanity play. I think that if you don't have a pathway to victory you shouldn't be in this race. So we're not there yet. We're still one of the best, most competitive campaigns in this election.”

It’s not something you hear from other candidates in similar or worse positions, such as Bennet, Julián Castro, or Amy Klobuchar. Even some of the biggest names in this race — like Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris — are now facing questions about their long-term viability.

“Sixteen other candidates are in the same boat as we are, and no one is talking about it,” as one adviser put it.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43889 on: September 23, 2019, 08:22:35 PM »
Nate Silver was already famous in 2012 for getting Obama-McCain almost exactly right in 2008 you fucking moron

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43890 on: September 23, 2019, 08:26:42 PM »
Nate Silver was already famous in 2012 for getting Obama-McCain almost exactly right in 2008 you fucking moron
Fine, but he didn't call the Eastern Conference order entirely correct like I did.


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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43892 on: September 23, 2019, 08:36:32 PM »
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43893 on: September 23, 2019, 08:38:14 PM »
Why isn't Ukraine investigating this!!??
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43896 on: September 23, 2019, 10:18:05 PM »
Why did Rudy become Trump's attack dog? Talk about a fall from grace.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43897 on: September 23, 2019, 10:25:13 PM »
Before 9/11 saved his career Rudy couldn't even muster a bid for Senate against Hillary without it descending into shit flinging.

He was able to roll that 9/11 success into a grand total of one delegate in 2008.

He probably did more to help Bush win in 2004 than anything else after leaving office.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43898 on: September 23, 2019, 10:32:11 PM »
She's back! Sam Seder on notice!



By this November, the leading five candidates qualify for a debate hosted by the South Carolina Libertarian party, the earliest state party to apportion its convention delegates.

‘There are a few names being talked about as those who are going to be there,’ Fishman said.

Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian VP nom in 1996, ‘seems to have a very well-organized campaign.’ She has not officially declared her candidacy yet, but Fishman spotted her publicly-available campaign filing on the FEC’s database, which he uses to keep track of his party’s candidates.

Adam Kokesh, an online and radio personality, leads the pack in terms of donations, totaling $185,217.27 at the end of last filing period. At the top of his platform, Kokesh promises ‘a peaceful, responsible dissolution of the entire federal government.’

Another likely debater, Dan Taxation Is Theft Behrman (as he is named in his filing) comes in second with just over $15,000. Behrman is critical of current Federal tax policy.

Behind him, Kim Ruff, leader of the LP’s Radical Caucus, calls for such revolutionary aims as reducing ‘the executive branch to its constitutionally defined limitations’ or ending wars of aggression. (Not half bad, come to think of it.)

Fishman considers others, such as former LNC vice-chair Arvin Vohra or perennial candidate Vermin Supreme, to be serious about running but says they won’t make the debate unless they file with the FEC.

But what about John McAfee, the eccentric anti-virus entrepreneur and accused murderer? McAfee sought the Libertarian nomination in 2016 and had announced his intent to run again in 2020.

‘As far as I know, McAfee’s not actually running. He hasn’t raised any money, doesn’t have an FEC filing. We haven’t heard anything from him,’ Fishman said. ‘Last I heard he was living in Havana. His campaign site’s telling people to join the Libertarian party, which I am very grateful for.’
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43899 on: September 23, 2019, 10:33:05 PM »
wait, why u gotta file with the FEC to be a libertarian candidate? what's next a license to make toast in your own damn toaster?!?




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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43903 on: September 24, 2019, 12:04:12 AM »
She's back! Sam Seder on notice!



This video makes me proud to be a Libertarian.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43904 on: September 24, 2019, 12:08:21 AM »
Nate got his stans from predicting Obama would beat Romney.

His entire hustle was based on the fact that he called a few states that other pollsters got wrong.
I don't think he has correctly predicted anything since.  :doge

That said, trying to pick a Twitter fight with Nate is about as productive as trying to start an argument with an Amazon Alexa.

That’s arguing on the intarwebz in general... especially twitter. Twitter is like dum forum arguing X-infinity and beyond.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43905 on: September 24, 2019, 12:11:24 AM »
Xfinity sucks.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43906 on: September 24, 2019, 12:14:48 AM »
YIKES, LIFELONG GOP MEMBER ELIZABETH WARREN DONATES TO ANTI-ABORTION GROUP:
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When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) purchased drinks from two girls running a lemonade stand in August, she may not have been aware that her $10 purchase would be donated to a pro-life charity.

"Our daughters thought [Warren] was nice," Dan Michels, a Trump supporter and a father to one of the girls, told the Washington Free Beacon. "She came by and told us we should vote for her. And our daughters told us she was a nice person, but we don't align with her politically and … because she's pro-choice, we said we should donate her money to a pro-life [cause]."

On August 8, Warren stopped by a lemonade stand staffed by two 11-year-old children, Sienna Michels and Audrey Billings, during a campaign bus tour across Iowa.

"Stopped for a quick drink at a lemonade stand in Harlan, Iowa. When life gives you lemons, make big structural change!" Warren said on Twitter.

The two kids were excited about meeting a presidential candidate in person. The Michels girl urged her parents to vote for the Massachusetts senator in 2020 after the photo op. The parents instead explained Warren's stance on abortion. The girls and their parents decided to donate to the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, a non-profit that supports pro-life legislation.

"My daughter told us she wanted us to vote for her," Michels said. "We talked about the abortion part of things and said maybe we should donate money to stop abortion, and my daughter was all for that."

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43907 on: September 24, 2019, 12:15:26 AM »
https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1176188513903095817

 :rofl

meanwhile on the left
https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1176135848045285378

I don’t know how I would even know that DC traffic is worse than usual.

It’s fucking shit all the time. Commute south on I95 past Woodbridge and live a climate protest every day

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43908 on: September 24, 2019, 12:16:28 AM »
Even if he did, what's the endgame? Rose Twitter gets to have a headcanon where Silver is biased against Sanders and possibly racist? Is that going to get Bernie above 11% in the polls?

It's the same mentality as sports fans who yell at writers who criticize their favorite team or star. ie it's completely nuts but also super common.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43909 on: September 24, 2019, 12:19:12 AM »
FIRE JOE MORGAN AND KILL HIM

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43910 on: September 24, 2019, 12:20:57 AM »
Even if he did, what's the endgame? Rose Twitter gets to have a headcanon where Silver is biased against Sanders and possibly racist? Is that going to get Bernie above 11% in the polls?

It's the same mentality as sports fans who yell at writers who criticize their favorite team or star. ie it's completely nuts but also super common.

Is this where you reveal that you think Dan Shaughnessy is a good writer?

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« Reply #43911 on: September 24, 2019, 12:26:39 AM »
you're so mad

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43912 on: September 24, 2019, 12:28:45 AM »
you're so mad

Gotcha. More of a Mike Lupica fan.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43913 on: September 24, 2019, 12:31:00 AM »
It surprised me when it first happened but honestly Tripon, whose frontal cortex is wired directly to Twitter, and Mandark, who reminisces about the blog era like he's an octogenarian in a nursing home, is a perfect Bore beef.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43914 on: September 24, 2019, 12:31:59 AM »
shosta, I saw you like that Nintex post about Silver which was all lies.

Shit is not gonna look good on your quarterly review.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43915 on: September 24, 2019, 12:55:35 AM »
shosta, I saw you like that Nintex post about Silver which was all lies.

Shit is not gonna look good on your quarterly review.
If you're trying to accurately log shosta likes you're going to be the one with problems come quarterly review time.

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43916 on: September 24, 2019, 01:13:19 AM »
https://twitter.com/QueenInYeIIow/status/1176327076250628096

 :trash

And people really don't get that American politics have shifted so far to the right that the former centrist party has become a right wing party, while the former right wing party has become a parody?
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43917 on: September 24, 2019, 01:15:13 AM »
And people really don't get that American politics have shifted so far to the right that the former centrist party has become a right wing party, while the former right wing party has become a parody?

shifted right from what point in past us history?

particularly in the context of foreign policy, in which you posted this

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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43918 on: September 24, 2019, 01:19:20 AM »
Isolationism pre WW1?

Anyway, these are imperialist, right-wing stances. No different to what a Republican would say.
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Re: US Politics Thread |OT| Trump sells the US to Ukraine to own the libs
« Reply #43919 on: September 24, 2019, 01:22:26 AM »
She's back! Sam Seder on notice!



This video makes me proud to be a Libertarian.

I always knew you were a pedo.
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