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Kara

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« Reply #4021 on: February 28, 2017, 01:51:11 AM »
I read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too.

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« Reply #4022 on: February 28, 2017, 02:36:15 AM »
Well, I mean the moon is where the soul collector antenna is, so...

"Yeah China, keep playing with your toy boats and your artifical islands. We'll be on the most tactically valuable ground."  :smug
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« Reply #4023 on: February 28, 2017, 04:27:57 AM »
benji, i don't know which of those last two posts is more hilarious lol
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« Reply #4024 on: February 28, 2017, 05:14:01 AM »
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« Reply #4025 on: February 28, 2017, 05:59:13 AM »
DID YOU SAY SMOKING GUN?!?


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« Reply #4026 on: February 28, 2017, 09:37:21 AM »
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since when is AFP part of Brazzers.com?

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She is the personification of a box of wine.
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« Reply #4027 on: February 28, 2017, 09:54:15 AM »
Rocks dropped from the moon what the fuck?

Why do that when you can drop tungsten rods from a satellite with precision for a fraction of the effort it would take to do anything from the moon?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment


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« Reply #4028 on: February 28, 2017, 09:59:39 AM »

[–]Frosty_Nuggets 9117 points 9 hours ago

She is the personification of a box of wine.

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Quote of February.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Twilight in America
« Reply #4029 on: February 28, 2017, 10:00:30 AM »
BRIANNA WU FOR CONGRESS
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Twilight in America
« Reply #4030 on: February 28, 2017, 10:00:52 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/us/georgia-couple-confederate-flags-threats/

 :ufup :sheik :cac

Something tells me that 'Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act' wasn't ever meant to be used against white people.
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« Reply #4031 on: February 28, 2017, 10:13:38 AM »
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/us/georgia-couple-confederate-flags-threats/

 :ufup :sheik :cac

Something tells me that 'Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act' wasn't ever meant to be used against white people.

That is not me, that is not him, unless we're surrounded by our friends and have guns in our possession and encouraged by our choice to associate with hate groups. Then it's totally us.

Their defense of brandishing a gun because they are afraid for their lives when they roll up in lifted trucks with Confederate flags after shouting at the party. Good idea.
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« Reply #4032 on: February 28, 2017, 10:18:25 AM »
You know how it is, the cool kids are all out brandishing shotguns and making racist threats and you just wanna fit in.
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« Reply #4033 on: February 28, 2017, 10:18:51 AM »
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-leaks/index.html

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Trump says Obama behind leaks

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump said he believes former President Barack Obama has been behind the leaks within his administration and the sizable, angry town hall crowds Republicans have faced across the country.

Trump was asked in an interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" if he believed Obama was responsible for the town hall protests against Republicans this month.
"It turns out his organization seems to do a lot of these organizing to some of the protests that these Republicans are seeing around the country against you. Do you believe President Obama is behind it and if he is, is that a violation of the so-called unsaid presidents' code?" Trump was asked.
"No, I think he is behind it. I also think it is politics, that's the way it is," Trump replied.
Trump then discussed the leaks that have disrupted his first month in office.
"You never know what's exactly happening behind the scenes. You know, you're probably right or possibly right, but you never know," Trump said in the interview, a clip of which was released Monday night. "No, I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, that's politics. And it will probably continue."

Thanks Obama
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« Reply #4034 on: February 28, 2017, 10:40:00 AM »

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« Reply #4035 on: February 28, 2017, 11:11:12 AM »
What are the Rocky De La Fuente percentages?

Someone Else? C'mon.
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« Reply #4036 on: February 28, 2017, 11:50:57 AM »
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-leaks/index.html

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Trump says Obama behind leaks

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump said he believes former President Barack Obama has been behind the leaks within his administration and the sizable, angry town hall crowds Republicans have faced across the country.

Trump was asked in an interview on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" if he believed Obama was responsible for the town hall protests against Republicans this month.
"It turns out his organization seems to do a lot of these organizing to some of the protests that these Republicans are seeing around the country against you. Do you believe President Obama is behind it and if he is, is that a violation of the so-called unsaid presidents' code?" Trump was asked.
"No, I think he is behind it. I also think it is politics, that's the way it is," Trump replied.
Trump then discussed the leaks that have disrupted his first month in office.
"You never know what's exactly happening behind the scenes. You know, you're probably right or possibly right, but you never know," Trump said in the interview, a clip of which was released Monday night. "No, I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, that's politics. And it will probably continue."

Thanks Obama

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« Reply #4038 on: February 28, 2017, 01:27:13 PM »
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have done this since their founding. They started from the fact that there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education. They saw that the system wasn’t working, that there was an absence of opportunity, so they took it upon themselves to provide the solution.

HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish.

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« Reply #4040 on: February 28, 2017, 02:48:45 PM »
That's weird coming from fox news. They usually have nothing but nice things to say about Obama.
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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Twilight in America
« Reply #4041 on: February 28, 2017, 03:57:51 PM »
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« Reply #4042 on: February 28, 2017, 04:04:04 PM »
"It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me."

Possible new subtitle for this thread.
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« Reply #4043 on: February 28, 2017, 04:30:31 PM »
Trump's statement is moronic but I'm rolling my eyes a little bit at the PA AG.  It's up to state and local law enforcement to find and prosecute the people who are doing this shit.  Catch them and then force Trump's hand on it because without arrests and convictions he'll just dismiss it.

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Twilight in America
« Reply #4044 on: February 28, 2017, 05:15:12 PM »
Why isn't Trump's address tonight being called the state of the union?

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Re: U.S. Politics Discussion Thread |OT| Twilight in America
« Reply #4047 on: February 28, 2017, 05:36:52 PM »
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have done this since their founding. They started from the fact that there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education. They saw that the system wasn’t working, that there was an absence of opportunity, so they took it upon themselves to provide the solution.

HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish.

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grade A trolling

reminds me of that Bore newsfeed post about racial equality being accepted voluntarily "like in sports."
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« Reply #4049 on: February 28, 2017, 07:52:29 PM »
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have done this since their founding. They started from the fact that there were too many students in America who did not have equal access to education. They saw that the system wasn’t working, that there was an absence of opportunity, so they took it upon themselves to provide the solution.

HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish.

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this is being taken as an idiosyncratic DeVos-ism but I'm curious whether this is an existing libertarian/conservative think tank talking point? benji?
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« Reply #4050 on: February 28, 2017, 10:02:08 PM »
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« Reply #4052 on: February 28, 2017, 10:26:51 PM »
That's a really low bar they've set for the POTUS when it's considered impressive when he's able to read the teleprompter and not veer off into insane ad libs.

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« Reply #4053 on: February 28, 2017, 10:31:26 PM »
Fuck people excusing him after tonight
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« Reply #4054 on: February 28, 2017, 10:46:19 PM »
That's a really low bar they've set for the POTUS when it's considered impressive when he's able to read the teleprompter and not veer off into insane ad libs.

It's all we got. :trumps
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« Reply #4055 on: February 28, 2017, 10:55:36 PM »
 :american
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« Reply #4056 on: February 28, 2017, 11:17:48 PM »
So I missed the speech but basically Trump just said a whole lot of misleading bullshit once again but in a more classically presidential manner. So therefore it was a good speech and some Democrats are even giving him props for mannered rhetoric?

This fucking country   :holeup

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« Reply #4057 on: March 01, 2017, 12:11:01 AM »
Talk is so fucking cheap.  His actions have been nothing but shit. 

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« Reply #4058 on: March 01, 2017, 01:46:16 AM »
You guys are so fucked if stuff like VOICE or using a widow as a form of political boasting get free pass because is "presidential".

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« Reply #4059 on: March 01, 2017, 02:21:42 AM »
THE STATE OF THE UNION IS A MESS  :trumps
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« Reply #4060 on: March 01, 2017, 07:41:20 AM »
You gotta love how the market has been waiting for details on a lot of these plans and they expected to get it last night.  Instead all they got what a tempered version of "the cuts will be huge.  It's gonna be great.  Everyone will have a ton of money." 

At least he spent a decent amount of timing emphasizing infrastructure spending.  God that would be nice but I'm not holding my breath.

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« Reply #4061 on: March 01, 2017, 08:06:15 AM »


At least he spent a decent amount of timing emphasizing infrastructure spending.  God that would be nice but I'm not holding my breath.

Infrastructure like tanks and jets.
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« Reply #4062 on: March 01, 2017, 08:35:24 AM »
probably :(

The only reason I mentioned it was how he actually spoke about the highway project as infrastructure stimulus.

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« Reply #4064 on: March 01, 2017, 10:10:04 AM »
These dumb ass media guys deserve whatever is coming their way. Trump reads one speech off a teleprompter and they all think he turned a corner. Wait till the next press conference when he will smack them all around again and name them enemies of the state.  :lol

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« Reply #4065 on: March 01, 2017, 10:15:01 AM »
Trump signs a bill legalizing an age-old restricted law - what is it? That along with the weather after a special two hour The Hunt with John Walsh, tonight at 10:45.
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« Reply #4066 on: March 01, 2017, 10:53:15 AM »
No one scares about policy, everything is optics. You could throw a Democrat's baby in the microwave and they'd be fine if you held a door open for them later in the day. GWB is now getting props from these distinguished mentally-challenged fellows because he didn't call people losers on Twitter. The media is just really stupid.

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« Reply #4067 on: March 01, 2017, 10:57:35 AM »
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I don't want to be that guy, but this is a pretty cuck move from cnn after all the shit Trump admin has specifically slung at them.

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« Reply #4068 on: March 01, 2017, 11:16:58 AM »
You gotta love how the market has been waiting for details on a lot of these plans and they expected to get it last night.  Instead all they got what a tempered version of "the cuts will be huge.  It's gonna be great.  Everyone will have a ton of money." 

At least he spent a decent amount of timing emphasizing infrastructure spending.  God that would be nice but I'm not holding my breath.

It's gonna be exclusively in the form of a tax break. Just watch. Which means companies already investing in projects that made business sense or were in the works for them like toll roads will just get a tax break to do so and reap all the profits. Trump will then calculate and add up all the projects that every business that used the tax credit is a part of and spread that number as his doing, declaring his promise met.

Meanwhile most existing roads and bridges will not be touched unless it was already in the pipeline due to some other funding.

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« Reply #4069 on: March 01, 2017, 12:15:05 PM »
This change of tone thing has happened in the past. These motherfuckers got amnesia or some shits. He sounded presidential when he accepted the republican nomination. And on the night he won the election. And on some other occasions. Has he changed? You fucking marks. He's the same pussy grabbing piece of slime he's always been.

People are getting tired of hearing how shit Trump is, time to change the message to keep people entertained. Everyone loves a good redemption story. :trumps
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« Reply #4070 on: March 01, 2017, 12:41:18 PM »
Remember when WaPo, CNN, WSJ etc. were all the last bastions of news and we should all sign up for subscriptions to "aid the resistance" or some shit?  :doge

I watched a talk once where an editor from The Nation said that historically their good times are times like now (or during George II's reign) so they aren't ever really "under threat" during the octennial reactionary tide.

It's OK to try and mitigate harm in the world with your consumptive habits (in an existential sense), but lol if you think you're changing the world with what you buy, especially if it's media in a media landscape that has become more and more consolidated over time.




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« Reply #4071 on: March 01, 2017, 12:58:17 PM »
Remember when WaPo, CNN, WSJ etc. were all the last bastions of news and we should all sign up for subscriptions to "aid the resistance" or some shit?  :doge
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Women's Health - https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Women's Reproductive Rights - https://www.reproductiverights.org/
Climate Change - https://www.nrdc.org/
Refugee Assistance - http://www.refugeerights.org/
Racial Justice - http://www.naacpldf.org/
LGBT Rights - http://www.thetrevorproject.org/
Latino Rights - http://www.maldef.org/

Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/
New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com
Pro Publica - https://www.propublica.org/

I'd consider PP and the NRDC as high priority, considering they want out of the Paris agreement and judges will probably gut Roe v. Wade.

http://www.wmagazine.com/story/after-hillary-clintons-loss-a-mothers-advice-to-her-young-daughter
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/progressive-organizations-that-need-your-support-now-more-than-ever-in-trumps-america

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Kara

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« Reply #4072 on: March 01, 2017, 01:09:49 PM »
It's like soooooooo funny people think that donating to NGOs working to advance what they believe in makes a difference. I'm Nick Gillespie's ancap substitute.

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« Reply #4073 on: March 01, 2017, 01:10:21 PM »
Consumerism will make our country great again.




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« Reply #4074 on: March 01, 2017, 01:15:41 PM »
I'm Nick Gillespie's ancap substitute.
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« Reply #4075 on: March 01, 2017, 01:30:51 PM »
Nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong about Trump because that would mean we're not fucked.

But this flip in perception based on one speech is absolutely mind boggling.  How gullible can you be?

benjipwns

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« Reply #4076 on: March 01, 2017, 01:36:44 PM »
but he looked so Presidential up there doing things that only Presidents (and Israeli Prime Ministers) do

agrajag

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« Reply #4077 on: March 01, 2017, 03:33:06 PM »
I find it troubling how virtually no one is commenting on how tasteless it is that Trump is trotting out victims and widows and parading them around as tools for political leverage. Presidential.

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« Reply #4078 on: March 01, 2017, 03:46:37 PM »
I find it troubling how virtually no one is commenting on how tasteless it is that Trump is trotting out victims and widows and parading them around as tools for political leverage. Presidential.

It got feels, so fuck it if the context of why he did it was vile.

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« Reply #4079 on: March 01, 2017, 03:47:25 PM »
Nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong about Trump because that would mean we're not fucked.

But this flip in perception based on one speech is absolutely mind boggling.  How gullible can you be?

The media in general just really sucks at handling post speech/post debate analysis like this.

Leave shit like how things are likely perceived by the general public to the fucking general public lol. Assuming how the public probably by and large perceived something and then using that assumption to determine whether something is a success or not is such a reckless way of analyzing things. Worse is you get mostly reputable outlets then taking the aggregate of that ridiculous process and then concluding that there is widespread agreement about the success/failure of one of these.

I get why CNN does that shit but what is there to gain for places like WaPo etc. to jump into that ridiculous game?