Spoiled Milk
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When'd you get so calm? Lol. +1
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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Amibguous Cad
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We're not a superpower now. We're the biggest pole in a multipolar world, not in a unipolar world anymore.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Do you want answer to this question or are you stuff saying shit again.
smokeandmirrors
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Yep. This is back to how things were for long periods of history. Lone or dueling superpowers is unusual.
I'm sorry but how am I saying shit?
We have zero and I mean ZERO leadership from the WH because a fraud who knows absolutely nothing about government or the military and has no willingness to correct his ways is making the US look like a shitshow while crazy people in NK continue to fire off missiles knowing what kind of President we have.
It's not a stretch to ask in moments like this, right after he by the way brags about pardoning someone who did awful things to people and treats stats for historic flooding that's killing people like it's reality television, if this is the beginning of the end for American leadership and the strength of our country.
You are again reminded that he's our President and that in and of itself should have never been possible. Yet here we are.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Everyone in the goddamn world knows that Trump is president. Nobody here is forgetting this happened. Yes, American is losing it's leadership in the world and status as a world power, but this is not the end of the United States.
So what are you going to do about it?
NYCmetsfan
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Basically when trump shut up. Lol
I've been following a bunch of NK reporters and this stuff seems pretty telegraphed deterrence and strategic testing. Not war mongering.
The back off of guam kind of solidify that.
Also reading NK's statement with a careful eye really makes you realize how much diplomatic code and specific asks they put in them. They're clearly telegraphing a defensive program to prevent a war by the US.
When trump talks, that's when I freak out. So tomorrow AM I'll be panicking
ShadowSwordmaster
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A reminder with the NK stuff, there are doing this when there are drills with the US and other allies in Japan or SK.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
AntraxSuicide
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I don't think I was clear because this isn't responding to what I meant. I'm saying that Court rulings are rarely overturned and, barring a constitutional amendment, impossible to overturn with legislation. Yes, the courts don't overrule laws often, but that's not what I worried about. I'm worried that relying on a bill to protect LGBT citizens would just be swiftly repealed by a future Congress.
What can anyone do right now besides stay engaged, vote, volunteer...?
How comforting, it's not the end of the US yet we're still losing our status and power because of Trump. What I'm saying is I'm not so sure if we can bounce back from that. The fact that he could even get elected tells me the Presidency will never be the same to begin with. It also says lots about the electorate which is fucked beyond belief. Can anyone really say with confidence that we know how politics overall will look once the era of Trump ends? Doubtful. We can say at the very least that things will get worse before they get better, and even then lots of things will probably change for good and in negative ways we can't really know.
Futurevoid
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Jeff Sessions
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*another 1000ft down the list*
...Betsy Devos
Take over from there.
ShadowSwordmaster
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That seems fair enough. It seems like you made up your mind with this stuff and how to deal with it.
Yes. Yes. Bueno.
Trump trying to say Clinton and Obama pardon people, too!
Yeah, dumbass, while they were in their final months. Not after the murder of a woman by a racist.
Aaron Strife
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Why it amuses me that the GOP is pushing tax reform so hard. None of their base gives a shit about it.
Are you kidding me
ShadowSwordmaster
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It seems that I was wrong and you were right.
A lot of people are thinking like this.
The thought of this is disgusting right now. Fuck...
This is true in my experience. Most of the conservative media I've seen targeted toward young people is hyper-focused on triggering snowflake liberals. It works really well on the people whose introduction to politics was through Gamergate, as they have a built-in hatred toward anyone who asks you to listen to women or minorities for a second. They may be relatively politically apathetic, but reinforce their belief that women and minorities are attacking the one safe space they have as a poor, poor persecuted nerd and they'll trust you.
Fenderputty
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That seems like a dangerous game to play. Both politically and realistically considering the potential loss of life. So I fully expect them to try.
balladofwindfishes
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When they tried to say "Sandy funding must be deficit neutral and tied to entitlement cuts" I don't think it went over well.
People don't like political games for disaster recovery
People don't like political games for disaster recovery
ShadowSwordmaster
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It's going to be interesting to see what the GOP in Texas will do after this.
Same. Many who pretended to be libertarian have dropped all pretense these days.
Surprising no one, Claude Taylor published totally made up news
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/trump-tweets-hoax-louise-mensch-claude-taylor
But even better, Louise Mensch claims her reports of the same bogus news is based on her own sources and is totally totally true.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/trump-tweets-hoax-louise-mensch-claude-taylor
But even better, Louise Mensch claims her reports of the same bogus news is based on her own sources and is totally totally true.
NihonTiger90
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What a shock. Dude is a scam artist.
Box of Kittens
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I can think of one young conservative I know who's not a Nazi but he was also NeverTrump (voted for Johnson).
whyamihere
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PAMELA TALKIN, MARSHAL OF THE SUPREME COURT, TO THE RESCUE
But how can he be a scam artist when his Twitter handle is @TrueFactsStated 🤔
Did anyone actually pay a political price though?
Where's that picture of Ron Paul and Richard Spencer when you need it?
Lol. Surprise!
whyamihere
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FL-Sen poll
Bill Nelson (D): 42
Rick Scott (R): 40
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-scott-nelson-florida-poll-20170828-story,amp.html
The article does my pet peeve in polling where they refer to polls where the margin is in the MOE as a tie. But otherwise, not too surprising given Scott is a sitting governor.
Bill Nelson (D): 42
Rick Scott (R): 40
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-scott-nelson-florida-poll-20170828-story,amp.html
The article does my pet peeve in polling where they refer to polls where the margin is in the MOE as a tie. But otherwise, not too surprising given Scott is a sitting governor.
Congress doesn't care about the Wall.
Their bullshit game would be "reallocating" every cent of Harvey money from planned parenthood funding or something.
Starting to think that being active in the comment sections of our local media social posts, equipped with facts and sources, would be a worthwhile cause.
1) They're typically littered with false or misleading information and 2) it would provide a small counter to the GOP's grip on local politics and secondary media.
1) They're typically littered with false or misleading information and 2) it would provide a small counter to the GOP's grip on local politics and secondary media.
Fenderputty
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Rick Scott is the political version of the herpes virus. He never goes away
I think most of the people in there are, if not trolling outright, then playing their own game about "winning" conversations rather than honestly caring about having a conversation about this or that local news topic.
Bots wouldn't go for small-town local news (at least, not the kind of bots that aren't obviously trying to sell Google Work From Home scams), but the people who dominate those conversations are folks with nothing better to do with their time.
My point being i doubt anyone who earnestly reads those comments is there to be convinced by anything.
Rick Scott is like the king of Florida for fucks sake
He's so weird. So so weird.
Says a lot about FL really. STOP ELECTING THIS GUY
Please contribute to my legal fees/make a Scooby Doo van fund today!
hydragonwarrior
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This might sound horrible, but NK kinda has a good set of cards. They can continue to launch missile strikes across Japan and there's not much we can do to retaliate.
Although we know they are violating human rights, perhaps it's an evil thing we must accept (for now) to get them back to the table and get them stop shooting shit and scaring everyone.
And if they are back at the table, then Kim Jong can declare victory to ppl who already think he's a victor.
It looks bad but he has nukes now and the situation is far more tense after NK's latest missile. And at some point the populations in Japan and SK are going to get tired of being scared daily of being attacked (and I doubt they always think about these events as rationally as us armchair politicians who are not in Japan atm)
Point the way, and I'll try my hardest to get this Orphan of Kos looking ass outta here.
Seriously, when are the Florida elections?
whyamihere
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They're both basically coming from a place of incumbency. Going to be an insane race.
Hey, I've tried. But Voldemort is too hard to kill this time around.
Fenderputty
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And if he's put into remission he'll pop up again later to remind you he never left lol
Aaron Strife
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Nelson vs. Scott is going to be huge.
That's the problem with defending a million seats - even if we have a decent chance to win all of them individually in a vacuum, with 25 races a few of them are bound to slip away from us.
That being said, I still put Nelson a tier above McCaskill and Donnelly in terms of who I'm worried about.
That's the problem with defending a million seats - even if we have a decent chance to win all of them individually in a vacuum, with 25 races a few of them are bound to slip away from us.
That being said, I still put Nelson a tier above McCaskill and Donnelly in terms of who I'm worried about.
Like for real Florida, I would not want him to manage a KMart let alone one of the biggest US states
Journeywalker
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On the day when the flood waters continue to rise, thousands are being rescued, and even more are losing everything they own, the companies Trump owns have pimped:
1. A luxury development in Uruguay
2. A golf course on the ocean in Los Angeles
3. Banquet and event services in Miami
4. "Getting to know the groundskeepers" on Trump's golf courses.
5. The 9th annual Wine and Beer festival in Los Angeles.
1. A luxury development in Uruguay
2. A golf course on the ocean in Los Angeles
3. Banquet and event services in Miami
4. "Getting to know the groundskeepers" on Trump's golf courses.
5. The 9th annual Wine and Beer festival in Los Angeles.
Poor trump fired his rally organizer because the crowd was sparse when he showed up
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...nish-longtime-aide-after-angry-phoenix-speech
Many tears for this guy too
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...nish-longtime-aide-after-angry-phoenix-speech
Many tears for this guy too
Baron von Loathsome
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