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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Sorry, I got a bit confused there. The awfulness of people like Nunes and Mc Connell tend to blend together a bit.
Cocaine Mitch is pretty much the embodiment of the failure of democracy in the state as no one in the state will vote for a Democrat due to #Team Loyalty but he controls the Republican party in the state completely. So he's the candidate on the ballot with all the control.
People joke (or have conspiracy theories with no basis in reality) about Hillary sabotaging the process for Bernie but that's just how it is in Mitch.
Every State Republican owes their careers to Mitch even if they disagree with him or outright loathe him because of his position in the Federal government.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jan 9th 2019 at 12:27:17 PM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.When have I ever been trolling? Honestly, point to a single sentence that could possibly be trolling. California is facing problems- mainly economic- with a new legislature and governor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/us/california-economy.html
https://www.hoover.org/research/economic-policy-challenges-facing-californias-next-governor
More People Tuned In To Watch Dem Rebuttal Than Trump’s Address
Lol, this is magnificent, I'm sure Trump's going to love this
Trump Storms Out of White House Meeting with Democrats on Shutdown
Nice to see he's not going to start being reasonable any time soon.
"Yup. That tasted purple.""Trump walked out of shutdown meeting with Democratic lawmakers: Schumer" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-democrats/trump-walked-out-of-shutdown-meeting-with-democratic-lawmakers-schumer-idUSKCN1P32FK
Still developing, here's what it has currently:
"He asked (House) Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi, 'Will you agree to my wall?' She said no. And he just got up and said, 'Then we have nothing to discuss,' and he just walked out. Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way," Schumer told reporters outside the White House.
Also, in "BOTH SIDES!!" news: https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1082857277084893184?s=19
That's the general tone of a lot of replies to that tweet.
Edited by sgamer82 on Jan 9th 2019 at 2:09:42 AM
Does it count that Kevin McCarthy is also from California? Some people have called him Machiavellian and a keen enforcer of party discipline who rose to leadership and is now House minority leader to the point that I wonder if he's a less lucky version of Big Bad Mitch.
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To be fair, it does make sense if you're working from the perspective that categorical refusal of any negotiation with terrorists is inherently immoral... which is stupid if you actually analyze that logic, realize its flaws and accept them for what they are as well as the fact that the conclusion being promoted is unworkable/nonsensical. But that's evidently too inconvenient for the kind of people that decry the refusal of negotiation with terrorists, so they simply refuse to even humor the notion.
Edited by MarqFJA on Jan 9th 2019 at 12:27:39 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.A bit more on the Rod Rosenstein leaving thing:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/rosenstein-wont-leave-until-mueller-report-filed
Good news?
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.Negotiating with terrorists generally is a stupid idea because if someone is willing to take hostages and engage in extortion via attacks on civilian targets then they're not the kind of people who will hesitate to do it in the future.
However, there's also the fact "terrorist" can and has been applied somewhat liberally, especially with regards to nations. Take the Taliban for instance. Not negotiating with them is kind of an exercise in futility because the war will never end otherwise.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Remember how I mentioned the probability of something going majorly wrong during the shutdown?
The FDA is halting many domestic food inspections during the shutdown.
Though they're trying to find a way to continue inspecting 'high risk' factories, this is not particularly auspicious news.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerTrump is rapidly losing ground. More Republicans are peeling off and saying the shutdown should end, more of the public blames Trump for it rather than the Democrats, etc.
I don't see this lasting more than a week or two, till the end of the month at most
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.Re: Republicans moving away from Trump and demanding an end to the shutdown, at the moment it's still the usual suspects who're calling for an end to this: Murkowski, Collins, and this time it's Gardner instead of Flake. Were McCain still alive I can bet he'd be the third voice. As it is, it's no different than usual, since they're the same Republicans playing "moderate" while still almost always voting with the party, anyway. Until we get enough Republican Senators vocally willing to overturn the veto, I'd trust these three far less than I can collectively throw them.
Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.Also, an update on the 2019-2020 Democratic Hunger Games (sorry, primaries), Tom Steyer
has ultimately decided not to run.
For anyone who doesn't know him, he's a billionaire who has been campaigning for Trump's impeachment for some time now. I'm afraid I don't know too much more about him.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerI'm leaning towards the opposite, and would be a bit surprised if this was resolved before the end of the month. In no small part due to the fact that it would be Trump's largest failure, with him as the sole figure to blame.
Unlike the Obamacare repeal failure, which could be blamed on Congressional Republicans, if the government reopens without the wall funding, it will mean even Congressional Republicans decided to ignore him and move on.
Edited by Eschaton on Jan 9th 2019 at 2:35:40 AM

@Friendperson: On what grounds?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.