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ScubaWolf from South Carolina Since: Feb, 2020
#325826: Sep 1st 2020 at 9:54:11 PM

[up][up] It got attention because Nancy Pelosi broke an unspoken rule and backed Kennedy, simply because Markey took apart the famous quote by John F. Kennedy, "What can you do for your country" and instead asked, "What can your country do for you?" in a 3 minute ad. Pelosi supposedly took that as an assault upon the memory of Kennedy.

Edited by ScubaWolf on Sep 1st 2020 at 12:54:37 PM

"In a move surprising absolutely no one"
Draedi Since: Mar, 2019
#325827: Sep 1st 2020 at 9:55:02 PM

Funny, how that only applied to him, and they relentlessly attack everyone else.

Gotta love selective outrage.

All because of his support of the Green New Deal, which isn't even serious policy, more of a glorified Power Point presentation.

Edited by Draedi on Sep 1st 2020 at 10:03:24 AM

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#325828: Sep 1st 2020 at 10:25:59 PM

The whole race was just kinda a pointless waste of resources, on a reliably democratic seat.

Edited by megaeliz on Sep 1st 2020 at 1:28:45 PM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#325829: Sep 1st 2020 at 10:42:56 PM

That was Kennedy's fault, so fuck him; he can hold that L.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#325831: Sep 2nd 2020 at 12:46:13 AM

Sadly that joke is dated as Ivanka already did the same thing.

"Do you see a difference between what you did?"

"Absolutely!"

She learned from daddy.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#325833: Sep 2nd 2020 at 1:24:14 AM

It has always been okay if a Republican did it.

"You can reply to this Message!"
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#325834: Sep 2nd 2020 at 2:53:14 AM

BBC broke news about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “violating” COVID-19 measures when she was seen in CCTV footage in a hair salon with no mask.

Edited by Ominae on Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:47:25 AM

nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#325835: Sep 2nd 2020 at 2:57:05 AM

Looks like Jake Auchincloss edged out Jesse Mermell for the Dem nomination in MA-4.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#325836: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:07:33 AM

BBC broke news about Senator Pelosi “violating” COVID-19 measures when she was seen in CCTV footage in a hair salon with no mask.

I wonder how the Republicans would even try to attack her over that.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#325837: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:11:01 AM

With decades of double standard.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#325838: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:15:58 AM

"Senator Pelosi"!?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#325839: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:45:44 AM

Yes there's two,her identical twin serves in senate while she's the Speaker of the house

/Sarcasm

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#325840: Sep 2nd 2020 at 3:47:45 AM

Noted her title wrong. Changed it.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#325841: Sep 2nd 2020 at 4:45:56 AM

[up][up]Hey, don't tell me you've never accidentally slipped into an alternate reality.

Trump delenda est
Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#325842: Sep 2nd 2020 at 4:50:02 AM

[up] Oh how I wish that would be possible sometimes.

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Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#325843: Sep 2nd 2020 at 5:21:56 AM

[up][up] Not when I'm sober, at least

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#325844: Sep 2nd 2020 at 6:01:47 AM

Old Navy is going to provide a full days pay for any employee who volunteers as a poll worker on Election Day.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#325845: Sep 2nd 2020 at 6:55:03 AM

"What can your country do for you" sounds like a pretty good socialist slogan, though.

And it makes sense. Your country should do a lot of things for you, directly and indirectly. That's why we elect government officials in the first place, so they can do things that benefit us, personally and collectively.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#325846: Sep 2nd 2020 at 7:16:25 AM

DHS withheld a July bulletin, directed at law enforcement and the public service but not the general public, warning of a Russian attempt to spread disinformation regarding Biden's mental health.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/politics/dhs-bulletin-russia-joe-biden/index.html

To Hell with the Kremlin and anyone who aides them. If Trump loses, the politicized hacks who have aided him, betraying their oaths, need to be dismissed.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
PointMaid Since: Jun, 2014
#325847: Sep 2nd 2020 at 8:52:54 AM

In yet more MA news, at least some police are being held to account. Nothing to do with racism or brutality, though, just an overtime pay fraud scheme. (Not the first scandal of this kind in the state to come to light in recent years. There was a big overtime pay fraud scandal at a State Police unit a while ago.)

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#325848: Sep 2nd 2020 at 8:57:23 AM

Is this the scam where they pick someone up on trumped up charges right at the end of their shift so they can claim overtime filling in the paperwork?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
PointMaid Since: Jun, 2014
#325849: Sep 2nd 2020 at 8:59:19 AM

Apparently it's an Evidence Control Unit. From the article, I gather they just left before the paperwork they submitted said they were supposed to have left.

Edited by PointMaid on Sep 2nd 2020 at 12:02:08 PM

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