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fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#185676: Apr 29th 2017 at 6:23:41 PM

They say they're not representing Bernie sanders, and yet...

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#185677: Apr 29th 2017 at 6:49:43 PM

I agree, though Mr. Spiva isn't doing his team any favors by not even knowing what the hell his client does.

Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#185678: Apr 29th 2017 at 6:49:58 PM

Looks like the WH correspondent dinner is lamp shading Trump's attacks in the media for fake news and his absence.

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#185679: Apr 29th 2017 at 6:57:41 PM

It should be noted that what the economy does in a new president's first 100 days and what the president themselves do are rather different standards. Using the economy as a judgement on the president's performance doesn't really make much sense, as it takes more than 100 days for shifts in economic policy to really be felt. Using the president's own actions (what executive orders they signed, what legislation they managed to pass, etc) is completely fair game, though.

Also, I looked through the court transcript that Tactical Fox linked, and I don't really see what he's talking about. The suit essentially claims that the DNC promised to be a neutral third party in the primary process, but in reality supported Clinton, and that this amounts to fraud that hurt three distinct groups of people (people who donated to Bernie Sanders, people who donated to the DNC, and members of the Democratic Party at large).

I don't think that the argument is correct, but I don't see what's asinine or childish about it, either.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#185680: Apr 29th 2017 at 7:05:10 PM

I mean, the people arguing the case were clearly on Sander's side while claiming to be neutral, but I couldn't really judge the merits of their argument one way or the other.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185681: Apr 29th 2017 at 7:07:36 PM

They are claiming this isn't political? Bullshit. This reeks of people still bitter over Sanders losing the primaries, a foregone conclusion by June 2016. These morons do not realize that this is not doing anyone, least of all Sanders, any good.

edited 29th Apr '17 7:09:00 PM by M84

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#185683: Apr 29th 2017 at 7:56:42 PM

Was he arrested for being disruptive?

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FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#185685: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:29:53 PM

Well, that seems a bit... extreme. Though I think they should get out to the White House soon.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185686: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:33:41 PM

Well, this is apparently causing damage to NYC's economy.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#185687: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:38:17 PM

But he's supposed to be good for the economy! /s

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185688: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:49:10 PM

[up] Good for real Americans. Which apparently doesn't include "liberal coastal elites" like the people of NYC.

edited 29th Apr '17 8:49:25 PM by M84

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#185689: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:49:31 PM

They are claiming this isn't political? Bullshit.

The argument makes sense to me. I don't agree with it, but it's not frivolous.

On a rereading, I'm with Jovian. It's a dumb lawsuit that should never have been brought, but the Sanderistas' lawyers are doing their job with it, and their arguments are the proper arguments to make to advance their clients' cause.

edited 29th Apr '17 8:50:42 PM by Ramidel

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#185690: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:57:33 PM

[up][up] Of which he is one of them, being from New York himself...

edited 29th Apr '17 8:57:56 PM by FireCrawler2002

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185691: Apr 29th 2017 at 8:58:12 PM

[up][up] I guess I'm just a bit miffed by their attempt to seem neutral when they (the clients) are clearly Sanderistas.

[up] Granted, NYC would happily disown him if they could.

edited 29th Apr '17 9:01:30 PM by M84

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#185692: Apr 29th 2017 at 9:07:57 PM

They probably have to. I'm sure if they actually went, "Yeah, our clients are just trying to start shit over that stupid primary again," the court would throw their case out.

They have to pretend there is some legitimate basis for the court to hear their case or it just won't.

edited 29th Apr '17 9:08:23 PM by TobiasDrake

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#185693: Apr 30th 2017 at 3:12:16 AM

Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days

Apparently there are too many checks and balances in the Constitution and that's bad for America.

In short he's getting upset that he doesn't have UNLIMITED POWAH again.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#185694: Apr 30th 2017 at 3:26:16 AM

Well, I mean, he's not exactly wrong, is he? Under a different constitution the President would not be someone with millions fewer votes than his opponent.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185696: Apr 30th 2017 at 4:51:09 AM

[up] Definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the outcome to be different.

This one bit had me facepalming:

‘‘I think if we looked at any government agency, there’s fat that can be trimmed, and that includes the schools,’’ said Zane Grider, manager of a car dealership in Newcastle whose two kids now attend school just four days a week. ‘‘If we ran our business the way the government tries to run things, we’d all be broke.’’

There's no fat to be trimmed. The "beast" has been starved to the point of being skin and bones! I have no sympathy for someone like this. I do feel bad for his kids though.

Seriously, when kids cannot attend a full week of school, police officers can't keep their gas tanks full, and drunk drivers get to keep licenses because there aren't enough people to process them...

edited 30th Apr '17 4:59:05 AM by M84

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#185697: Apr 30th 2017 at 5:17:31 AM

Taxes are the revenue stream for the government. Yes, there are other far more minor revenue streams (the biggest one is national parks), but businessmen, if you cut your consumer base (and thus your revenue stream) by 50%, of course you're going to run into severe problems with funding. Taxes are people paying the government for its services. That is literally what taxes are. Quit complaining about taxes and then complaining when the government can't afford something after it cuts the taxes that you demanded them to cut!

And education is something where the trickle-down economics flat out wouldn't work anyway. Education is government funded. There's nowhere for something to even trickle down from.

Doing that is like if Mr. Car Salesman there "trimmed the fat" by firing all but one of his employees...and then wondering why sales have slowed so far down and missing the incredibly obvious conclusion that a car sale takes a while, complete with negotiation, and if you only have one person doing that, lots of people are going to get tired of waiting.

edited 30th Apr '17 5:28:33 AM by Zendervai

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#185698: Apr 30th 2017 at 5:47:32 AM

So how long before Blue donor states like California end up having to bail out Oklahoma like they do with Kansas?

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TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#185699: Apr 30th 2017 at 5:52:54 AM

[up] I don't know, but you can bet that they'd probably have to be forced into subsidizing the GOP's failed economies at metaphorical (or, hell, maybe even literal) gunpoint.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#185700: Apr 30th 2017 at 5:58:43 AM

Don't most of the coastal blue states already bankroll most of the red states? I feel like there are studies that have shown this. And yet Fox News never shuts up about how California is broke and this means liberalism is failing.tongue


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