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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#109276: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:01:57 PM

I hear there's some bad weather coming to the East Coast. What effect will this have?

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#109277: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:06:51 PM

On the primaries? Not much. It'll make campaigning a bit tough, but the candidates won't be in that area anyway.

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#109278: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:07:59 PM

Trump might blame the snow on the mexicans

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#109279: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:10:14 PM

It's cold and miserable and raining at my house.

The puppies are sad they can't go outside and take naps.

Oh really when?
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#109280: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:25:44 PM

You guys are lucky. Here it seems to be persistent autumn and the snow that fell a week ago is expected to disappear in a few days, followed by rain and well above seasonal temperatures.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#109281: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:26:45 PM

What is this snow you talk about

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#109282: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:28:55 PM

PA Governor pre-emptively declared state of emergency, but that's likely to apply to Philly and stuff over Fighteer's way (i seem to have gathered you're around Scranton or smth?). West end of the state we might get a few inches this evening.

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#109283: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:33:23 PM

It's gringo lies, Aszur.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#109284: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:36:33 PM

I liked the alternate title for the Trump fanfic proposed by Metro - "50 Shades of Toupee".

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#109285: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:38:22 PM

I'm in the Allentown area. We are projected to get anywhere from 2 to 2 million inches, depending on whether the little line on the weather graphic drifts north or south of us. (I could be exaggerating a trifle on the upper end.)

edited 22nd Jan '16 1:22:33 PM by Fighteer

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#109286: Jan 22nd 2016 at 1:21:32 PM

Sleetin' here in the ATL. Jealous of the people getting snow. Want snoooowwww.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#109287: Jan 22nd 2016 at 1:37:59 PM

You can have it. Any more than 4 or 5 inches and my area usually loses water and electricity for a week.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#109288: Jan 22nd 2016 at 1:40:54 PM

Another take on the National Review vs. Donald Trump thing.

This editorial says that National Review considers Donald Trump too moderate.

In 1999, Trump proposed a substantial levy of 14.25 percent on the net worth of taxpayers with more than $10 million in assets. That tax, he said, he would raise a whopping $5.7 trillion. It would have been a tax along the lines of what Thomas Piketty, the French economist and liberal darling, argues is necessary to restrict global economic inequality.

Conservatives haven't forgiven Trump. McIntosh dismisses his wealth tax as "the largest tax increase in American history."

The tax plan that Trump put forward last year is a much more conventionally conservative proposal, yet Trump hasn't abandoned his rhetoric of making the rich pay more.

"The hedge-fund guys are getting away with murder," he said in August. "They're paying nothing, and it's ridiculous."

In other words, they're also against his reasonable positions.

edited 22nd Jan '16 1:45:11 PM by BonsaiForest

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#109289: Jan 22nd 2016 at 1:46:47 PM

Ugh your fucking storm is keeping one of the people in my company trapped and he wont be able to finish some important project of mine >:V

Thanks, Obama. Get your shit together.

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#109290: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:09:04 PM

Well, it's been said before (even by me, in fact), but Trump isn't so much a Republican as he is a particular type of socially-Conservative Democrat.

edited 22nd Jan '16 2:09:45 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#109291: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:09:25 PM

I know this isn't U.S. related, but it reminds me of the early attack on the homeless Hispanic man by Trump supporters too much. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump himself brings them more publicity by praising them.

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#109292: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:12:53 PM

We rarely get much snow here, since we're nestled right under the Rocky Mountains. The Rockies get tons of snow, but our storms tend to roll down the mountains, blitz overhead with a couple hours of downfall, then fly off into Kansas.

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MABfan11 from Remnant Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#109293: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:48:45 PM

RE: the snowstorm

have you remembered to switch to winter tires? a lot of Americans seems to not do that, thus traffic turns into chaos.

luckily i live in Norway, where winter always has snow, so we can laugh at how unprepared Americans are for snowtongue[lol]

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#109294: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:51:25 PM

That's not the only reason traffic turns to chaos. I've never changed to snow tires and I drive a small car. Even when I lived up in the mountains where it dumped, I never had a problem with the ice or snow.

No, the people who cause all the problems in traffic here are the idiots in the four-wheel-drive trucks who think that having 4W means that you can't slide on ice, and frequently plunge themselves off the side or into a tree trying to go 85 MPH down a frozen mountain road.

edited 22nd Jan '16 2:51:37 PM by TobiasDrake

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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#109295: Jan 22nd 2016 at 2:55:48 PM

Well, it's been said before (even by me, in fact), but Trump isn't so much a Republican as he is a particular type of socially-Conservative Democrat.
Who are Republicans because of the Southern Strategy. Nixon and Reagan wooed the Dixiecrats who want Social Security and Medicare and wanted the foreigners with the funny names deported. Not the Democrats' problem that this once desired voting bloc is, figuratively speaking, flinging poop all over the room.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#109296: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:05:55 PM

Can confirm, it's assholes in trucks that cause traffic issues.

My land yacht never had an issue in snow and my tires are usually dubiously legal retreads.

Oh really when?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#109297: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:08:15 PM

[up] I'm not saying it's the Democrats fault. I'm simply saying that's a major concern with Trump and a big reason why the Republican party won't accept him.

Leviticus 19:34
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#109298: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:17:13 PM

Thing is, the GOP Establishment has decided

(Vox) more or less they prefer The Donald over Cruz.

Basically Trump might be a loud mouthed asshole and a bigot, but he's bringing in a flush of new potential voters AND he's a pragmatist in their eyes, not a ideologue like Cruz. And he's basically been a member of the party's Donor class who has known most of the fellow GOP elites for years.

edited 22nd Jan '16 3:17:39 PM by PotatoesRock

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#109299: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:18:22 PM

Then the Republicans truly are gone.

Oh really when?
vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
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#109300: Jan 22nd 2016 at 3:22:34 PM

From my point of view the DEMOCRATSJedi are evil.


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