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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#188301: May 10th 2017 at 10:00:07 PM

[up] Part of me wonders if the whole thing is just an act to get subscribers, much in the way Alex Jones is supposedly only acting the role of a frothing rightwing conspiracy nutjob to shill stuff.

[down]Agreed.

edited 10th May '17 10:01:04 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#188302: May 10th 2017 at 10:00:42 PM

I figure it doesn't matter. Promoting terrible ideas is promoting terrible ideas no matter how you slice it.

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188303: May 10th 2017 at 10:07:23 PM

Seriously, is there anything I can do about this that rmc mentioned: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/10/u-s-to-ban-laptops-in-all-cabins-of-flights-from-europe

I don't want those dirty bastards to ever touch my laptop. I take this laptop everywhere I go, it's my baby. I'm not gonna let some thrifty airport asshole steal it, steal all my information from it and/or break it. I'll never accept getting separated from it.

edited 11th May '17 1:18:38 AM by FireCrawler2002

TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#188304: May 10th 2017 at 10:09:47 PM

[up]You're probably screwed on that front. Homeland Security is handling that and there's probably not enough public concern to make them change their minds.

[up][up]Unless he's a really good actor in the same way Jones is supposed "acting", Kulinski strikes me as fairly genuine.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#188305: May 10th 2017 at 10:10:33 PM

[up][up]Worst case scenario...I'd just leave the laptop at home. Painful, I know. If you're a rich person who flies business class, you might luck out and get an airline that loans laptops to their business class customers.

edited 10th May '17 10:10:46 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188306: May 10th 2017 at 10:11:34 PM

[up] And what about handhelds like the 3DS, DS and GBA? I need something other than in-flight movies to keep me entertained while I am on a flight. Argh, I am on the verge of snapping here...

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#188307: May 10th 2017 at 10:12:22 PM

[up]Don't forget smartphones and Ipads.

I'd probably just take advantage of the cheap booze on flights. I hate staying awake for them anyway.

edited 10th May '17 10:13:21 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188309: May 10th 2017 at 10:14:53 PM

Anything the courts can do to shut this down like the Muslim ban? I am seriously getting desperate and starting to crack here...

[up][up] I don't drink, and I need my electronics.

edited 10th May '17 10:48:47 PM by FireCrawler2002

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#188310: May 10th 2017 at 10:17:14 PM

[up] even if there is, I don't think there's enough public outcry to provide the incentive to

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188311: May 10th 2017 at 10:18:30 PM

[up] Oh, there will be soon. Looks like I might be stuck here in California until this shit gets repealed, probably under the next president...

edited 10th May '17 10:19:42 PM by FireCrawler2002

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#188312: May 10th 2017 at 10:18:53 PM

I should mention that the ban hasn't actually been expanded to Europe yet. There are real safety concerns about leaving that many laptops in the cargo hold.

Disgusted, but not surprised
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188313: May 10th 2017 at 10:20:18 PM

[up] Also, it doesn't say anything about Canada. Couldn't I fly from California to Canada and from there to Europe to get around it?

edited 10th May '17 10:20:37 PM by FireCrawler2002

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#188314: May 10th 2017 at 10:20:44 PM

I take it, Fire Crawler, that you often travel between the U.S. and Europe?

Oh God! Natural light!
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188315: May 10th 2017 at 10:23:17 PM

[up] Yes, because I have family in both. I was born in Europe and now live with my surviving grandparents and aunts in California, while my dad, mother and sisters still live in Europe, and we tend to go to Europe every summer to visit them. I've been taking my laptop and handhelds with me for years and constantly used them in both, to the point they have pretty much become part of my being, and now they are probably gonna ban them? It feels like I am literally being split in half here...

edited 10th May '17 10:35:25 PM by FireCrawler2002

HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#188316: May 10th 2017 at 10:37:39 PM

RE: Computer ban: I can understand flights, but what about if you have your computers sent separately as mail before the flight, there a problem?

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#188317: May 10th 2017 at 10:38:29 PM

Uh, it sounds like maybe you're addicted.

You still can take your laptop to Europe. It just can't be on you during the flight. Or at least that's my understanding of the ban.

edited 10th May '17 10:39:03 PM by MadSkillz

FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188318: May 10th 2017 at 10:41:41 PM

[up] I use to be Bat 178, so you'd know that I need the internet and Japanese video games like a wizard needs food to stay sane. Airport workers are known for stealing things that are checked through luggage, especially expensive things like laptops (God help you if you have a Nintendo Switch and travel between the US and Europe). Not to mention I don't want my laptop and handhelds getting smashed up from tumbling down a conveyor or other people's luggage landing on them...

edited 10th May '17 10:58:24 PM by FireCrawler2002

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#188319: May 10th 2017 at 10:53:36 PM

I'm legitimately worried over Comey being fired. As bad as it was he handed Trump the election, he was the guy investigating him too. Can we even trust that people will still be investigating the Russia scandal after this? I don't trust Republicans in Congress, as they've made it clear which side they're on.

The health care crap was bad, but if the GOP is still going to side with Trump, after it's become so blatantly transparent that he's trying to cove up his Russia ties...they're traitors. They're betraying our country. They're treasonous Russian whores who are selling my nation's very soul out. They are spineless cowards who stand for nothing. And I plan on telling my congressmen that, because I am reaching my breaking point here. This scum is treating the American people like idiots. They believe we are so dumb we would fall for this bullshit.

When I call them, I am going to directly ask them what they plan on doing about Trump's cover up. If they try to feed me bullshit, I will call them on it, and iterate everything I have said here. Something NEEDS to be done about this, and it will always kill me that there's so little I can do other than let my politicians know how pissed off I am.

If anyone continues to support Trump after this, they will earn my hostility. I cannot respect traitors.

edited 10th May '17 10:55:02 PM by StarOutlaw

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#188320: May 10th 2017 at 11:02:43 PM

The battle in California begins

California has emerged as the epicenter of the already-intense battle for the House in 2018, as both parties rush resources and manpower to a state that could determine the chamber’s balance of power.

With 18 months still to go until the election, Democrats and Republicans are mapping out TV advertising plans across the state, setting up headquarters, digging into polling, and hiring operatives. The showdown has swiftly drawn in Hollywood players, major donors and grass-roots activists.

California is home to seven vulnerable Republican incumbents in districts where Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump — more than a quarter of the seats Democrats need to flip.And there are early indications that the landscape taking shape will benefit Democrats: a turbocharged liberal movement galvanized by the House GOP-led Obamacare rollback, shifting demographics that have moderated California’s last remaining conservative bastions, and rising discontent with the president.

“This struggle [in California] is the priority, no question,” said Tom Steyer, the billionaire San Francisco environmentalist whose Next Gen Climate group started running digital ads against the vulnerable Republicans after their votes for the House health care bill last week. “If you look at the numbers, the vulnerability of these Republican Congress people is disproportionately here.”

The maneuvering is playing out in public — with both sides spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to advertise in the state’s expensive media markets — and behind the scenes. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the first time has moved its entire Western regional political office from Washington, D.C., to Irvine, California.

The department will house at least eight full-time staffers and be overseen by Kyle Layman, a veteran Democratic operative and former Capitol Hill chief of staff. The decision to open the office in Southern California, which will give the DCCC proximity to a handful of competitive contests, was made by the group’s new executive director, Dan Sena.

Democrats this week began airing drive-time radio ads in Southern California aimed at a handful of House Republicans who backed the health care bill. The purchase, coming at such an early stage of the election cycle, reflects the high political stakes in California.

Republicans are mobilizing, too. Hoping to buttress the party’s incumbents and blunt the Democratic offensive, Congressional Leadership Fund, a group closely associated with House Speaker Paul Ryan, has opened four field offices across the state. The organization has also begun work on a data project to gauge public opinion. And, like Democrats, Republicans are airing ads: Since January, its sister organization, American Action Network, has run commercials boosting nine California Republicans.

This week, the group shifted its focus to inoculating Republicans on the health care bill, launching an ad blitz geared toward generating support for the legislation. Every California Republican voted for the (Trumpcare) bill.

“I think if Democrats are going to win the majority, they’d have to win seats in California — they’d need to in order to make the math work,” said Republican Carl De Maio, a former San Diego city councilman who ran for Congress in 2014. But, he added: “There’s no complacency here among Republicans who are being targeted.”

This time, Democrats are also targeting newer, less established California Republicans, such as Reps. Mimi Walters and Steve Knight, as well as some lawmakers who represent more marginal districts, like Reps. David Valadao, Jeff Denham and Darrell Issa.

The Democratic focus on California is in part driven by the fact that seven of the state’s Republicans reside in districts that Clinton won, and all of them took a major risk in voting for a GOP health care bill that lacks broad public support. A number of Democratic strategists took note when Issa and Walters were spotted near the front of the GOP celebration at the White House Rose Garden after the bill’s passage last week, and have saved footage of them with Trump for future ads.

The push is also motivated by what Democrats see as a changing political landscape in the state. Many of the targeted districts are becoming younger, more diverse — and less conservative.

tldr; California is taking center stage. Republicans and Democrats are flooding the state with money. Republicans are playing defense and Dems are the offense. Too many extremely vulnerable Republicans that have further sabotaged themselves by voting for Trumpcare. We need those 7 Californian districts to go blue to get the House majority.

That'd leave only 7 Republican representatives in California and 46 Democratic representatives if we succeed.

Hashtag All Blue California 2020

edited 10th May '17 11:07:45 PM by MadSkillz

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#188321: May 11th 2017 at 12:16:42 AM

Why are people still calling this piece of garbage "trumpcare"? TrumpDontCare is a much better name.

edited 11th May '17 12:17:13 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
FireCrawler2002 Since: Apr, 2017
#188322: May 11th 2017 at 12:18:23 AM

[up] I'm still partial to DonTCare.

edited 11th May '17 12:18:33 AM by FireCrawler2002

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#188323: May 11th 2017 at 12:21:21 AM

[#] Fuck Outta Here Care

edited 11th May '17 12:21:44 AM by TacticalFox88

New Survey coming this weekend!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#188324: May 11th 2017 at 12:22:29 AM

Either Trumpdontcare or GO Pdontcare work for me.

Disgusted, but not surprised
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
#188325: May 11th 2017 at 12:23:22 AM

[up][up][up][up]Obamacare snowclones.

Rumors are afoot that Comey's firing was timed to facilitate access to whatever documents he had on his DC work computer.

edited 11th May '17 12:23:39 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot

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