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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#182251: Apr 10th 2017 at 4:49:10 PM

[up][up] Technically, he's not a Sex Offender... As far as anyone knows: He had an affair with a staffer and used Campaign Funds (illegally) to finance their "dates".

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#182252: Apr 10th 2017 at 4:50:40 PM

Bentley used government resources to conduct and hide an affair with one of his long-time staffers. Some of his sexting messages and phone calls were leaked for everyone to cluck over. It's just a sad, lurid little mess.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#182253: Apr 10th 2017 at 4:59:15 PM

RE: the california drought being caused/exacerbated by irrigation.

Basically everyone knew that, but those sweet sweet farm lobby dollars were more or less exempted from conservation efforts. Meanwhile, the city centers were told to curtail usage despite the savings being negligible compared to what you'd save with minimal conservation efforts in agriculture. Never MIND what you'd have saved if they'd actually pushed for real conservation.

No, I'm not extremely bitter about this at all.

edited 10th Apr '17 4:59:36 PM by Lanceleoghauni

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
PolarPhantom Since: Jun, 2012
#182255: Apr 10th 2017 at 5:36:39 PM

Trump is the least legitimate president I've ever seen.

There is literally nothing in his favour. Yet he still has supporters.

They've seen and heard the things he's said and done.

They are complicit in his words and deeds.

It is hard. It is so hard not to hate them. I know I shouldn't. I know they have their reasons, I've read a bunch of analyses on why they did it.

But it is so hard. So hard not to hate them because what they've done is so beyond me, beyond what I consider to be decent behaviour- But I have to cool this hate. I have to cool this rage, because calling them racist, calling them sexist or bigoted, it won't change them. They are still people. They are still capable of empathy, and we need to connect with them, to show them the people they despise are people too. People who deserve the same rights as everyone else. But...

Every now and then, dark thoughts enter my mind and I wish I could curse them for what they've done.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#182256: Apr 10th 2017 at 5:40:16 PM

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/328201-eric-trump-nepotism-is-a-beautiful-thing

He's outright blasting that it's nepotism in our faces!

edited 10th Apr '17 6:31:52 PM by Bat178

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#182257: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:13:01 PM

Please don't post links to articles and leave it at that. Summarize it or at least leave your comments on the subject.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#182258: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:51:04 PM

[Cook Political Report] KS-04 Moves to Lean Republican, GA-06 to Toss Up. Apparently Dems are doing better than expected in Kansas and Georgia, enough that CPR is changing their expectations more and more towards the dems (KS-04 from Safe R to Likely R to being now Lean R in the space of about two weeks, and you all know about Ossoff).

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#182259: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:51:15 PM

[up][up][up][up]Why shouldn't you hate them? Of course in public you shouldn't express such feelings because it's counter-productive but personally I loathe them with a burning passion, anyone who votes for Trump is not someone I care about in anyway.

edited 10th Apr '17 6:51:56 PM by Fourthspartan56

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#182261: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:55:18 PM

Trump is currently on pace to surpass Obama's travel expenses (all eight years) by the 1st anniversary of his administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/donald-trump-obama-travel-costs/index.html

Man of the people, ain't he?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#182262: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:56:44 PM

[up][up] Well that's adorable. Nice to hear something not terrible.

[up]Ah Trump, just so godawful.

edited 10th Apr '17 6:56:58 PM by Fourthspartan56

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#182263: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:57:07 PM

Shit, I bet Hillary's staff would be BEGGING her to take a break/vacation, let alone having one every goddamn weekend.

New Survey coming this weekend!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182264: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:59:13 PM

I posted way back that within one month Trump had already spent a tenth of what Obama spent on vacations during his eight years as POTUS.

The first thing he did after inauguration was to take a weekend off.

He takes vacations in a public resort that he owns which means more needs to be spent on security.

As [up] noted, he takes every weekend off at said resort. Mostly golfing, which is rich considering he was all about ripping on Obama for taking the occasional golf break.

I'd call the man a leech on our country, except leeches actually have medicinal applications meaning they contribute more to society.

edited 10th Apr '17 7:08:46 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#182265: Apr 10th 2017 at 6:59:55 PM

New York will provide free college tuition, provided those who accept it remain and work in New York for as many years as they took the aid money.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182266: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:01:35 PM

[up] So NY will pay for their schooling as long as they're willing to take a job in NY and spend money in NY, contributing to its economy?

Disgusted, but not surprised
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#182267: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:01:50 PM

[up] Do you really want to live in the same state that produced Trump and his son is trying to become Governor of?

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#182268: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:01:55 PM

[up]x8: Honestly, that might be the most disheartening article I have read in a week-it aligns with other studies suggesting a sharp political divide in approach to science, with liberal/progressive leaning people interested in science for its own sake, with all the hard right leaners looking at science for what it can advance in their interests.

I mean, FFS, we cannot even have an objective baseline to work with; where are we supposed to go from here?

edited 10th Apr '17 7:03:16 PM by ViperMagnum357

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#182269: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:03:35 PM

[up][up] It's also the state Clinton was senator for.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#182270: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:04:34 PM

[up][up][up] If he actually does become governor, then yeah things are probably going to be not so hot. But NY has plenty going for it. No need to avoid the whole state or even most of Manhattan just because the eyesore that is Trump Tower is located there.

Also, the pizza in Manhattan is great.

edited 10th Apr '17 7:05:03 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#182271: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:10:24 PM

Keep in mind, NYC hates Trump. He lost by a ridiculous margin there.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#182272: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:17:47 PM

@bat: Downstate New York is more or less like California but with financial companies instead of tech companies all over the place. Trump is not particularly well liked here, to put things mildly, and there's no way in hell Donald Jr is going to beat Cuomo or DeBlasio.

edited 10th Apr '17 7:19:16 PM by CaptainCapsase

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#182273: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:22:02 PM

Most of us hate and despise Trump, before he was fucking everyone else, he was fucking us.

EDIT: [nja]'d

The ecological disaster that is Trump’s border wall: a visual guide

So on top of being racist and impractical, it's ecologically unsound as well.

edited 10th Apr '17 7:23:59 PM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
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?
#182274: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:27:22 PM

Yes, but Upstate NY has more in common with the south than it really should. (I don't think the Alabama + NYC comparison is fair, but I've heard it tossed around).

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#182275: Apr 10th 2017 at 7:41:50 PM

[up] California's not especially different; the northern counties are actually quite reliably red IIRC. But the population centers are blue and that's what ultimately counts.


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