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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
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#180426: Apr 1st 2017 at 8:30:46 AM

[up]x3 Context?

And yeah, making up news for April's Fool is really stupid.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
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#180427: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:22:59 AM

I think the primary issue is that, at this point, things are so fucked up nobody could honestly tell you if it was an April Fool's joke

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
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#180428: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:34:39 AM

George Takei is not running for Congress, it's just an elaborate April Fools Prank.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#180429: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:41:42 AM

This reddit conversation has some interesting points, namely: Trump is the death/last hurrah of the Reagan Coalition, and during the following elections we'll see the configuration of the Seventh Party System in the US.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#180431: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:52:06 AM

[up][up] Not to play Debbie Downer here, but didn't we pretty much think the same thing after Romney lost his election in '12?

edited 1st Apr '17 9:52:24 AM by Reflextion

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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#180432: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:56:14 AM

[up][up]Here, basically, every so often the positions of the dominant parties in the US change (and in the first three systems, which are the dominant parties), and they realign around new sets of issues, policies and demographics. The current (sixth) party system is breaking down thanks to Trump scrapping dog-whistles for explicit bigotry and populism reentering the US political scene.

[up]I'll get back to you on that later, I'm busy now, sorry.

edited 1st Apr '17 9:56:52 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#180433: Apr 1st 2017 at 9:56:36 AM

[up][up] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#180434: Apr 1st 2017 at 10:05:43 AM
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HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#180435: Apr 1st 2017 at 1:32:28 PM

@ Journeyman

I think one of our problems with Net Neutrality's disappearance would be manufacturers working together to silence forum sites where people give honest reviews of their products. Places like this and our favorite reviewers who break things down and give yay or nay on seeing or using them would be under fire and censored by the creators who shovel shit onto people on a regular basis.

Not only that, streaming, downloading, and torrenting services will be gutted, as what Memers noted out a long time ago.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
The Encounter that ended the Dogma
#180436: Apr 1st 2017 at 2:41:20 PM

Coming back to Conpiracy theories, we have Trump wanting NBC news to cover his Obama wiretapping narrative instead of the Russia investigation. It would be funny if attempts to verify Trump's claims that Obama wiretapped him only lead to more Russian connections.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#180437: Apr 1st 2017 at 2:45:49 PM

Not sure if this was brought up before, but that fire on the I-85 in Atlanta was arson.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/01/us/i-85-collapse-arson-suspect-atlanta/index.html

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#180438: Apr 1st 2017 at 2:54:05 PM

Dang, I knew it was a man made fire but I was kinda hoping it was idiot kids with matches.

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?
#180439: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:09:52 PM

Well, that CNN article may use the word in its title, but it didn't report anything differentiating intentionally destroying a section of overpass from keeping warm under the overpass. note A lot of homeless people live under overpasses in that area.

EDIT: Nvm, there is this: note  Though that still could be negligence.

edited 1st Apr '17 3:14:58 PM by CenturyEye

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#180440: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:31:57 PM

.@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability. hashtag Trump Train, defeat him in primary.

Trump is calling for a Freedom Caucus member to be primaried.

His response

My response:

edited 1st Apr '17 3:32:43 PM by MadSkillz

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#180441: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:35:51 PM

What a perfect day for the Inter-Republican War to officially start. The Day of Fools.tongue

I don't disagree with the Teapublican though; Trump has basically bullied the Republican "Establishment" into being his puppets.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#180442: Apr 1st 2017 at 3:59:04 PM

[up][up]What a good use for that clip.

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#180443: Apr 1st 2017 at 4:26:39 PM

[up] Well, in regards to Trump/Russia, when The was asked about "Fake Trump/Russia" by a reporter while signing an executive order, he literally ran out of the room without signing it.

He doth protest too much?

edited 1st Apr '17 4:26:53 PM by megaeliz

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Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#180445: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:09:46 PM

I'm legitimely surprised today we didn't get a tweet from him going I RESIGN...NOT! APRIL FOOLS HATERS!

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#180446: Apr 1st 2017 at 5:55:32 PM

@Trump calling for a Freedom Causus member to be primaried: the question, though, is what kind of person would replace him? Replacing a freedom causus member with a mainstream republican would be a good thing, but replacing him with a Trump crony would be a bad thing.

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JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#180448: Apr 1st 2017 at 6:16:50 PM

Working with Trump isn't just a question of morality, but of practicality. Fred Trump Sr. was a slumlord and by all accounts a moral dumpster fire of a human being, but people were willing to work with him and keep working with him. Donald, on the other hand, has failed/screwed over so many people, that the same institutions willing to work with Fred wouldn't touch Donald. Now, the only ones left to work with are the ones who think they can use Trump, or the stupid ones. And like Christie and Romney, Trump is burning through those as well.

What I'm trying to say is, where will Trump find someone willing to primary another Republican for him?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#180450: Apr 1st 2017 at 6:46:28 PM

Trump was stringing him along for awhile about a position, (Secretary of State, iirc) and in 2012 Romney did seek Trump's blessing during the election to get the crazy birthers and such on his side.

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