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#102351: Oct 1st 2015 at 8:18:18 AM

If he gets to be Speaker, we'd all better hope that the President and Vice President remain in good health, but Congress is unlikely to get anything useful done. Which represents no particular change from the status quo.

What it looks like is that the House GOP wants to put a guy in the Speaker's office who is basically a doormat for whatever they want to do, rather than someone like Boehner who was occasionally willing to tell them to sit down and behave like grown ups.

edited 1st Oct '15 8:23:07 AM by Fighteer

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#102352: Oct 1st 2015 at 9:06:55 AM

Isn't turning people into doormats what grown-ups typically do?

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#102353: Oct 1st 2015 at 9:12:18 AM

That is why Safe Words exist.

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#102355: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:02:17 AM

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edited 1st Oct '15 11:12:45 AM by Aprilla

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#102356: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:18:57 AM

I imagine the tea party will either have a field day with Mc Carthy or use his lack of coherency as a way to launch a coup with their own nominee for the speaker's position.

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#102357: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:22:08 AM

Soon, politics will devolve to Word-Salad Horror

Soon, America. Soon. it is soon that the worms that gnaw and thaw chunks of our hearts will illiteratelly rip the spirit of freedom from the briny depths of our funding taxes pool. It is from there that the strike will come. It is from there that our children and the spousing values of christianity will rise like a slumbering monstrosity to crumble our fundaments. It is a large monster, and its steps are heavy laden. Bear this in mind when you trudge to the voting ballots, bear this in your mind, in your stomachs and in your souls, for it is the armor forged in the flames of desperate temerity that will vanquish the creeping angst that clutches our American heart.

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edited 1st Oct '15 11:25:42 AM by Aszur

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#102359: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:28:33 AM

The parallels to Hitler are somewhat apt, but evidence suggests that the "frontrunner" at this point in time isn't really a meaningful bit of information.

I'll start to panic once he starts winning primaries.

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#102360: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:32:17 AM

We have a man who was raised by a KKK member, who kept a book full of Hitler's speeches by his bedside, going on rants about how an ethnic group is responsible for all of the problems in America, and our response is to laugh and go, "LOL, that wacky Trump."

I worry that we're going to keep laughing all the way to the Trump presidency because there's still no unified position against him. A lot of people know that a Trump presidency would be bad but if we can't agree on an alternative, he's still going to win.

edited 1st Oct '15 11:32:42 AM by TobiasDrake

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#102361: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:35:48 AM

Yeah the polls are just as entertainment as Trump himself at this point. It is not even 2016. It might be fun but for predictive value, they are worthless.

it is better to think about the incoming halloween party, and christmas.

And my birthday. Do not forget to get me a present. It is on december.

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#102362: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:36:54 AM

Hey, mine's in December too! But instead of Christmas, I celebrate Festivus.

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#102363: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:38:01 AM

Active shooter at Umpqua Community College in Rosenburg, Oregon, early reports of 10 killed, dozens injured.

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#102364: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:40:23 AM

Everyone who lives in the U.S., brace for countless idiotic arguments of, "That never would have happened if ME AND MAH GUN were there!" in your offline lives.

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#102365: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:53:00 AM

I hope those injured pull through.

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#102366: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:13:16 PM

Deaths reported in shooting in US college

A shooting at a community college in Oregon has left at least 15 people dead and more than 20 wounded, according to local news reports.

The shooting took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg on Thursday, CNN reported citing Oregon State Policy.

Roseburg is about 290km south of Portland.

The local fire district advised people via Twitter to stay away from the college.

"We responded to a report of a shooting at the local community college and it's a developing situation," Officer Dwes Hutson, of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, said.

CNN, citing a county official, said the shooter had been detained. It said at least one woman was shot in the chest.

The college was immediately placed on lockdown.

Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students.

Its website was down on Thursday, and a phone message left at the school was not immediately returned.

Here we go again.

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Oregon_community_college_shooter

edited 1st Oct '15 12:14:59 PM by AngelusNox

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#102367: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:14:45 PM

Real tiny place. They've got the gunman in custody right?

Who is he?

Oh really when?
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#102368: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:26:32 PM

Do we even know it's a he at this point? I mean it probably is, but do we actually know any details?

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#102369: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:29:26 PM

I hear he has a gun so everyone around him should be safe, dont worry guys.

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#102370: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:29:45 PM

[up]

What I saw was "The shooter is in custody" - which is kind of a rare thing, though they also didn't mention if said custody included a hospital bed and/or a trip to the ICU before the precinct.

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#102371: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:31:36 PM

it's not rare for a shooter to be in custody. Many of them don't kill themselves and even more don't even bother with pulling on the cops.

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#102372: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:48:12 PM

Bet you money it's a college-age white male drunk on an embittered sense of entitlement.

Because it's always a college-age white male drunk on an embittered sense of entitlement. Except when it's a high school-age white male drunk on an embittered sense of entitlement.

edited 1st Oct '15 12:48:46 PM by TobiasDrake

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#102373: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:50:11 PM

I bet he has dumb hair

Oh really when?
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#102374: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:54:04 PM

The VA Tech guy was asian, recall.

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#102375: Oct 1st 2015 at 12:57:29 PM

He was an anomaly. Just like black or women spree killers and serial killers. They're there. They're just rare.

edited 1st Oct '15 12:57:39 PM by Gabrael

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