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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#171751: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:04:17 PM

NBC hired Megan Kelly, not CNN

New Survey coming this weekend!
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#171752: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:12:03 PM

Actually, it might be interesting to watch a televised debate that isn't based on the premise of trying to gain the presidency. Depending on how this one goes, it might actually prove useful to have members of Congress regularly debating on live tv about their ideals and party policies.

The other option is it might not go anywhere, but hell they must both thing this is a useful way to put forth their agenda if they've both agreed to it.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#171753: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:28:39 PM

What is this, the consolation prize debate?
Snapshots from an Alternate Universe. Sadly, it's still better than this one.

I have no idea where anyone's arrows are pointing anymore. Everything is tiny kittens.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171754: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:31:22 PM

I feel like I'm becoming numb to all this and I hate that. When Trump first announced it on the campaign trail I was outraged, but now that it's there I just...feel disapproving. I hate that about myself, and I think it speaks to what Trump has done to himself.

Now if he goes the full nine yards and bans all Muslim immigration, then I will be outraged, you better believe it. If he creates that registry, then you bet your ass I'm taking to the streets.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#171755: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:47:44 PM

If Trump successfully creates a registry, people are going to die and not necessarily just people who lean Democrat either.

I'm fully confident of that.

New Survey coming this weekend!
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#171756: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:51:03 PM

Don't wait for things to inevitably get worse—the time to take to the streets is now. I'm going to be attending a pro-immigrants' rights rally tomorrow, in support of turning my city into a sanctuary city.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#171757: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:55:43 PM

When I think of the GOP now, I imagine a decrepit old man sitting on a throne on top a pile of charred corpses in the middle of a ruined city, watching a giant tidal wave about to swallow them and what remains of their pitiful empire, meanwhile laughing and saying that all of it was worth it.

So the GOP are Randall Flagg/Euron Greyjoy/the Joker

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171758: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:58:24 PM

I will as soon as it's plausible for me. There are a lot of reasons why I haven't been to any yet, most notably in that it's logistically difficult, but I'll try to get some in.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#171759: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:58:53 PM

I confess, the line "some men just want to watch the world burn" has been going through my head a lot lately.

Although that applies more to the Bannons than the Pences or the McConnells.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#171760: Jan 31st 2017 at 9:59:39 PM

[up][up][up]OLD BANONDORF: Doing? You're doing what any sane voter would do in your situation. You're going mad!

edited 31st Jan '17 10:00:22 PM by kkhohoho

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171761: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:06:03 PM

I feel like we should come up with an official list of juvenile nicknames for the merry band of villains at the Orange House.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#171762: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:17:58 PM

[up][up][up] Exactly my thoughts.

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#171763: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:24:19 PM

As it turns out, the refugee ban also has interrupted the refugee program for Central American children fleeing violence in their home countries. Violence fueled by the War on Drugs, that is.

Neil Gorsuch's yearbook photo.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171764: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:28:17 PM

[up]-Slow claps- nice job, Trumpy.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#171765: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:29:15 PM

Let's not waste time on coming up with juvenile names for everyone because that's a waste of fucking time for a whole list of reasons.

Also, Link, a person can't just keep up a high level of anger constantly, and it's frankly unhealthy for your ongoing mental state. It doesn't mean you've stopped caring, seeing as you're looking into ways to try and improve the situation.

RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#171767: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:35:03 PM

[up][up] Alternatively, given that this is an obscure online forum and the fate of the world doesn't exactly hinge on how we allot our quote-unquote fucking time, people can come up with whatever mocking nicknames for the new administration they want. (Evil does hate to be mocked, after all.)

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171768: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:37:48 PM

Yeah I fucked up, I'm sorry. It was meant in jest anyway.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#171769: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:38:38 PM

Well, there's Cheeto Benito, Darth Hairpiece and MC TinyHands for you know who...

edited 31st Jan '17 10:38:57 PM by HextarVigar

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
RisingStar Since: Nov, 2016
#171770: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:41:16 PM

@kkhohoho: YES YES YES YES YES.

I'm only sad there was no 'you can do stupid things!' riff.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171771: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:41:31 PM

Yeah I'm going to walk that idea way back. How about we don't do that.

(If you're really wondering, besides the usual, I call him El Queso Grande)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#171772: Jan 31st 2017 at 10:56:06 PM

I can't wait to wake up tomorrow and see what he's broken next. It's a horrifying sort of curiosity at this point.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171773: Jan 31st 2017 at 11:27:14 PM

Forgive my ignorance, but could someone please explain what corporate personhood is?

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#171774: Jan 31st 2017 at 11:42:08 PM

Corporations are people and money is Free Speech.

no really

edited 31st Jan '17 11:42:40 PM by Lanceleoghauni

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#171775: Jan 31st 2017 at 11:48:54 PM

I've also heard that it protects several pretty important rights too though.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison

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