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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#173476: Feb 9th 2017 at 3:52:48 PM

[up] Basically, he said that the Kosovars and Albanian parts of the Country should be a part of Kosovo, and the rest of it should go to Bulgaria.

Essentially, he thinks the country should split up based on Ethnic lines. Scary, ain't it? And if that's his opinion on Macedonia, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think the same should happen to the USA in his mind...

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#173477: Feb 9th 2017 at 3:56:02 PM

Trump hasn't been president a full month and he just took a masssive L.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#173478: Feb 9th 2017 at 3:58:57 PM

Massive L?

Any news on places or officials trying to disobey or otherwise disregard the Muslim Ban rulings? I know that was a huge thing in the initial days of the EO and judicial response.

edited 9th Feb '17 3:59:58 PM by sgamer82

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#173479: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:02:03 PM

Dana Rohrabacher is the same guy who tweeted that Alaska should be allowed to join Russia if they happened to vote that way. Apparently, he represents Orange County among others.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#173480: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:05:14 PM

Yeesh, if I still lived in Fullerton I know what I wouldn't be voting for...

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#173481: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:20:55 PM

Orange County is divided among several congressional districts. I live in it but am part of district 47, this guy is from the 48th district.

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#173482: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:22:31 PM

... Which article is the more recent one? Logically speaking, it should be the first, but I'm not sure if this isn't just a case of one source misinterpreting what it got its hands on.

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#173484: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:25:49 PM

According to @DullesJustice CBP there have been operating on pre-EO pocedure since the Washingston state ruling halting its enforcement. They're still working with people who were affected.

Also, Twitter thread of a lawyer breaking down the 9th circuit's opinion (to get a written court opinion for this sort of appeal is rare but the Washington state attorney suggested it might be good).

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#173485: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:26:12 PM

@Marq FJA
They both mean the same thing. The ban is technically still on the books. it's just "stayed" until a final decision can be reached on its constitutionality.

edited 9th Feb '17 4:27:18 PM by CenturyEye

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Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#173486: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:34:29 PM

I'm almost wishing that we allowed four term presidents again. But that could be reversed.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#173487: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:36:26 PM

I've been thinking it'd be absolutely hilarious for the GOP to eliminate Presidential term limits only for Obama to crush Trump in the following election.

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RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#173488: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:38:08 PM

I think Obama won't touch the White House with a 10 foot pole again.

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#173489: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:42:07 PM

I think he would if he could. He'd be sarcastic and snippy about it, but Obama is first and foremost a very dedicated public servant. Like, he's probably not sitting around fantasizing about a third Presidential term, but if it was possible, I don't think he would hesitate for a moment.

He wasn't a great President because he wanted to do it. He wasn't sitting in the Oval Office verbally masturbating about how awesome his new position is. That's Trump. Obama was a great President because he had a sense of duty, loyalty, and patriotism that was far more important than whatever he, personally, wanted to be doing at a given moment.

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#173490: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:43:48 PM

[up][up]Or a thirty-nine and a half-foot one.

edited 9th Feb '17 4:44:30 PM by HextarVigar

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#173491: Feb 9th 2017 at 4:50:59 PM

Massive Loss, for whoever was asking what Tactical Fox was talking about.

Or to put it another way it hasn't even been a month and he already has a black mark this big on his record.

I've been thinking it'd be absolutely hilarious for the GOP to eliminate Presidential term limits only for Obama to crush Trump in the following election.

Can you imagine how mad the GOP would be too?

"WE JUST GOT RID OF HIM FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

edited 9th Feb '17 4:53:07 PM by Draghinazzo

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#173492: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:00:14 PM

@Tobias: Obama wasn't a great President to begin with; history will remember him for failing to defuse the political climate that brought us Donald Trump, and furthermore for refusing to roll back the Bush era expansions of executive power out of a (presumably sincere) belief that it wouldn't end up falling into the wrong hands. I still consider him to be the best President of my lifetime, but his entire policy legacy is about to go up in ashes immediately after he's leaving office, so that kind of precludes him from a list of the best American presidents.

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#173493: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:04:13 PM

[up]Compared to the previous and subsequent presidents, Obama was a pretty damn good president.

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#173494: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:05:18 PM

If Obama doesn't count as a great president, you have to go back pretty far to find a great president.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#173495: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:06:02 PM

Wired: Steve Bannon was an investor and eventual CEO of a World of Warcraft gold farming company and convinced Goldman Sachs to pump $60 million into it.

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#173496: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:13:22 PM

[up] When you think a person couldn't be any crappier then he already is...

... Seriously though, Gold Farming was terrible.

[up][up] I'd say FDR was the last Great President the USA had, and Bill Clinton was the last Good President we had. Obama's a good person, but his Presidency was Mediocre at best, and I mostly blame the Republican Congress for that.

edited 9th Feb '17 5:14:09 PM by DingoWalley1

RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#173498: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:16:40 PM

RE Gold-farming, it's funny how the toxic nerd profile is more of a circle than a venn diagram.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#173499: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:18:21 PM

Honestly I'm somewhat suspicious of the whole idea of Great Presidents being a thing at all. All of them were people that stumbled into the most difficult job in the world and then were remembered as responsible for everything that happened in the world while they had the job.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#173500: Feb 9th 2017 at 5:19:48 PM

@Gliphon: Greatness is something I'd keep very, very exclusive. Lincoln, FDR, and Washington are the only ones that I put on that particular list, and even then I'd rather say, "great presidency" in the sense that the executive branch played a decisive role in shaping the future of the country for the better.

edited 9th Feb '17 5:20:28 PM by CaptainCapsase


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