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danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#187751: May 9th 2017 at 10:27:47 AM

[up]Maybe for Senate at least. The House has a larger number of representatives per state, so if you wanna get your start in politics anywhere above local/governor level, that would be a better place to do so, rather than the Senate, where having a two-per-state limit means there's more responsibilities inherent in the position.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187752: May 9th 2017 at 10:28:57 AM

[up][up][up]I am guessing that the Justice Democrats pushing for this know precisely jack and shit about WV politics.

edited 9th May '17 10:29:06 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#187753: May 9th 2017 at 10:30:40 AM

@Ambar I know all that already.

Partisan identification strongly predicted how white, working-class people would vote. Self-described Republicans were 11 times more likely than their non-Republican peers to choose Trump. Researchers found that partisanship is most pronounced among the young: Among white working-class Americans under 30, 57 percent identified as Republican or Republican-leaning, compared to 29 percent who identified as Democratic or Democratic-leaning. By comparison, only slightly more than half of seniors 65 and over were Republicans or Republican-leaning, compared to over one-third who were Democrats or Democratic-leaning.

Well that's not good. It means young Republicans are really into tribalism.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#187754: May 9th 2017 at 10:33:35 AM

That does not by default entail that people stay this extreme.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#187755: May 9th 2017 at 10:37:11 AM

@Septimus Sure, but it's worrying. If maintained then it means you can't wait for the problem to die of old age.

edited 9th May '17 10:37:41 AM by MadSkillz

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#187756: May 9th 2017 at 10:38:12 AM

Secular Talk is BY FAR the worst

Isn't he a self-admitted cokehead and recreational prescription drug abuser? Frankly it would explain some things about his positions.

I know all that already.

You know all that already, yet still said the following:

Cenk is no longer denying the Armenian Genocide and the network isn't actually named after that faction. It's named after the Turkish colloquialism "young turk" which means young radical that fights the status quo. Or so I've read.

If what you said above is true, then you were unaware that that the colloquialism comes from the faction in question, which is what I informed you of in my response to you. Which would mean you did not, in fact, "know all that already". Conversely, if you did know that already, then why did you say the thing I quoted above, knowing it to be false? Is there just a typo somewhere in your statement?

edited 9th May '17 10:56:48 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#187758: May 9th 2017 at 10:51:31 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/05/08/iowa-congressman-walks-out-of-a-tv-interview-and-into-an-angry-town-hall-meeting/?utm_term=.b89b3398607e

DUBUQUE, Iowa — An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is prescreening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.

A few hours later, Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa) showed up at his town hall meeting where most of the prescreened audience screamed at him.

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#187759: May 9th 2017 at 10:56:18 AM

I like that bit where he just quits the interview when he's called on outside donations. Couldn't even manage a decent response.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#187760: May 9th 2017 at 10:59:23 AM

[up][up] I read that, actually. He didn't walk out because he didn't want out-of-town people coming to his Town Hall, he walked out because the News Reporter pointed out how he would take money from Out-of-Town people.

And since Money is Free Speech (according to Citizens United), that just makes him a Hypocrite.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#187761: May 9th 2017 at 10:59:25 AM

[up][up]I liked the part where he was getting chewed out by the prescreened audience

From today's WTF Happened Today

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5910da0ee4b0e7021e9a5cda

Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them. By Nick Baumann, Julia Craven

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a White House discussion on March 29. Sessions’ Justice Department has cited a ruling in a swimming pool closure case in its defense of the travel ban.

WASHINGTON ― In a brief defending its ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department approvingly cited a segregation-era Supreme Court decision that allowed Jackson, Mississippi, to close public pools rather than integrate them.

In the early 1960s, courts ordered Jackson to desegregate its public parks, which included five swimming pools. Instead, the city decided to close the pools. Black residents of Jackson sued. But in 1971, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, decided that closing the pools rather than integrating them was just fine.

The dissents, even at the time, were furious. “May a State in order to avoid integration of the races abolish all of its public schools?” Justice William O. Douglas asked in his dissent.

One of those things where my response boils down to "that about says it all, really..."

edited 9th May '17 11:08:23 AM by sgamer82

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
#187762: May 9th 2017 at 11:05:36 AM

An emergency has reportedly been declared at the Hanford Site following the collapse of a tunnel.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187763: May 9th 2017 at 11:07:52 AM

[up] Gotta admit, the first comment on that article was funny:

Rick Perry will solve this, just as soon as he looks up “plutonium” on Wikipedia.

Disgusted, but not surprised
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#187764: May 9th 2017 at 11:08:02 AM

Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)

According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsin's voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
In other words, the election was stolen.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#187765: May 9th 2017 at 11:10:15 AM

[up] And manipulated by the Russians as well...the bigger the GOP thinks they are, the harder they'll fall.

Now to think about it...do you think Russia may have been involved with Brexit in secret?

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187766: May 9th 2017 at 11:11:21 AM

NVM

edited 9th May '17 11:12:21 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#187767: May 9th 2017 at 11:11:25 AM

Jon Oliver on Jared and Ivanka. Nothing we didn't already know, but nice to have all the worrying info in one place.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187771: May 9th 2017 at 11:26:29 AM

[up][up]Too bad HRC probably didn't record it herself (why would she?). Otherwise she could release it ahead of time just to troll him.

Seriously, this is some petty bullshit.

edited 9th May '17 11:27:21 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#187772: May 9th 2017 at 11:30:23 AM

Maybe she could reenact or otherwise quote it.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#187773: May 9th 2017 at 11:32:18 AM

[up] If I were her I would have purged it out of my memory with a night of heavy drinking followed by days of looking at cat gifs.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#187774: May 9th 2017 at 11:32:19 AM

@ Travel ban segregation citing: The argument they're trying to use is pretty bad. As in, a bad argument. The city of Jackson closed pools to avoid having to desegregate. Okay. I can kind of get that, because pools aren't really an essential service and the city technically has the right to close any pools they run at any time for any reason. It was still a really petty move, but it does kind of make sense that they were allowed to do that.

However, the logic doesn't hold up here. The original case was "can we close this down completely instead of opening it up to everyone?" This case is "can we arbitrarily pick countries, based on the dominant religion, and shut down all travel to and from them?" That doesn't work. Maybe if Trump was trying to shut down all travel everywhere no matter what it might be applicable, but as it stands, the precedent they're trying to cite is completely irrelevant.

edited 9th May '17 11:33:01 AM by Zendervai

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#187775: May 9th 2017 at 11:32:41 AM

I don't know what he plans to gain from that. Unlike his own (if he bothered to write one) I can't image hers is anything but professional, so I don't know how he plans on embarrassing her with it.

He really needs his ego stroked constantly, doesn't he?


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