Sad part is, when you point this out, they always deflect or move the goal posts.
Fucking hell, do I hate the TYT Network and their associates
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US PoliERA 2018 |OT5| A Total Goat Rodeo
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Fucking hell, do I hate the TYT Network and their associates
That's the real fight: people on the far right don't manage to convince people left of center not to vote, it's those ~~~true progressives~~~ who do.
What's Jimmy Dore been up to lately? Still positive that Trump won't be allowed by Republicans to fill Scalia's seat because they would never get rid of the judicial fillibuster?
I agree.
When I coined the Moderate Darling moniker, I thought the joke would be that, like the politicians who get called moderate, I most certainly am not. But in the last year I've been called a centrist shill too many times for comfort, and it pisses me off.
I also think that when IcedBlackCoffee caught that ban, I got a little louder and more histrionic to compensate. I need to calm down a bit.
Carry on.
Sadly, the maniac is right.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hit-run-deaths-time-high-aaa-study/story?id=54733792
And then factor in this
https://www.npr.org/2013/01/03/168545915/hit-and-run-deaths-increase-but-culprits-hard-to-capture
In secret recording, GA gov. candidate Cagle says he backed bills for politics, not policy.
Cagle would be the much stronger opponent against Abrams in the general, but she might've caught a small break with this tape. If he loses the primary, she'll face Kemp, against whom she's posted better polling numbers. Even if Cagle wins, this tape might weaken him for the general, though not on a Todd Akin-esque level. Then again, GA has been consistently bluer than MO in the last few elections.
Cagle would be the much stronger opponent against Abrams in the general, but she might've caught a small break with this tape. If he loses the primary, she'll face Kemp, against whom she's posted better polling numbers. Even if Cagle wins, this tape might weaken him for the general, though not on a Todd Akin-esque level. Then again, GA has been consistently bluer than MO in the last few elections.
Thats why they spent millions to get the gas tax repeal on the ballot.
Red meat for F150 driving suburbanites.
This reminds me of what Arkansas Democrats were saying about the minimum wage ballot measure boosting Pryor in 2014.
Imagine if those rich assholes didn't start up propoganda to blame car accidents on the victims.
Gas tax increase repeal actually worked in MA sadly enough.
They've spent $2,193,594.1 so far for signatures.
Millions more later if it's certified
It just seems so fucked up to see "the white house" tweeting political bullshit. It feels like nothing is safe from trump's toxic corruption; even the fucking white house's good name and symbol for what it means for this country. I'm not even gonna click that shit, it can only go down hill.
The next Democratic trifecta must pass legislation that explicitly delineates and, in certain areas, constrains the president's power. Give the executive branch departments and agencies more autonomy. Wonder why Trump hasn't really been able to fuck with the Federal Reserve or the SEC? He can neither fire their members nor dictate their activities. Previous administrations and Congresses recognized that certain functions of government should be insulated from the caprice of the masses. (Imagine the economic pain if the Fed could be more easily tampered with.) We need to extend that independence to the departments typically thought to be within the president's purview. I've often wondered if we might install permanent secretaries, similar to the UK government, in each department - career civil servants who could survive multiple administrations and would have protections from being dismissed.
Congress needs to reclaim its balls and force the president to seek authorization for use of force. Yes, they might have to make unpopular decisions. Deal with it.
In an ideal world, the president would need to seek approval before imposing "national security" tariffs, though I think the SCOTUS might take exception to that particular circumscription.
Autodidact making really solid posts of late.
Also, Congress needs to take their tariff authority back. POTUS has zero right to make *any* tariffs but Congress gave it to POTUS, which is completely fucking insane.
"Now is not the time to undercut President Trump's ability to negotiate better trade deals. I will not support any efforts that weaken his position," Graham said in a statement.
Fuck you, asshole.
Also, Congress needs to take their tariff authority back. POTUS has zero right to make *any* tariffs but Congress gave it to POTUS, which is completely fucking insane.
"Now is not the time to undercut President Trump's ability to negotiate better trade deals. I will not support any efforts that weaken his position," Graham said in a statement.
Fuck you, asshole.
The threads about Steam over in gaming the past few days make me want to die. TLDR, Valve is going to do effectively no moderation whatsoever on content submitted, citing principles or some bullshit. This is their response to calls for more quality control recently. It's a gigantic collection of "muh free speech!" and a lack of understanding that hate speech and other content displaying the godawfulness of humanity being given an open platform has turned broad areas of the internet and millions of actual real people to total shit in recent years. Naturally, there's also no understanding that Valve is not required to offer this platform to these people. That's something we talk about a good deal here. Steam is taking the Reddit approach, apparently, and we all know how well that works!
Free market, bitches! Please don't mind the literal Nazis (and worse). We give Google, Facebook and Twitter crap for doing barely anything in regards to these topics, but they're light years beyond this filth of the internet in comparison.
Free market, bitches! Please don't mind the literal Nazis (and worse). We give Google, Facebook and Twitter crap for doing barely anything in regards to these topics, but they're light years beyond this filth of the internet in comparison.
Does this mean that I can take on an air of moral superiority for being a console pleb now? Finally, my day has come.
But, yeah, giving a full and open embrace of idiotic gaming subculture bullshit will go badly for them. Wasn't this whole thing about anime porn games to start with?
But, yeah, giving a full and open embrace of idiotic gaming subculture bullshit will go badly for them. Wasn't this whole thing about anime porn games to start with?
see if democrats had been more progressives they wouldnt have lost so much
Trump doesn't seem to understand what independent agency means anyway. One problem here is that for the AG it's basically indirect vote via voting for president and congress. Not sure how beneficial having a nation wide vote on an AG would be, then one that would be difficult to remove if he is shit. This goes for other heads unfortunately, to varying extents. I'm all for rex-examination of each department, but more so we just need as you said congress that isn't shit at doing things against the President's wishes.
That's the thing. He doesn't have to understand the Federal Reserve, the SEC, etc. All that matters is that he can't really touch them.
Yeah, but not all agencies should be that independent I think.
Can't wait for all the incel inspired rape simulators to pop up on there.
The world is so shitty already. Why make it worse by giving trash a platform?
Whaaa? For real?
What happened?
Newell is a libertarian and I imagine he hires people of a similar mindset. It's not really surprising that they'd go this route. I'm still disappointed though...
Re: Steam. As I noted over on gaming side, it's weird how everyone's focussing on the worst - more alt-right games - when this means more liberal games will also be allowed through. Like, Ladykiller In A Bind took awhile to get on Steam because of it's lesbian BDSM content, but in the future it'd go straight on there. It's also weird how the crackdown on anime titties was due to a Valve employee who subjectively interpreted the content guidelines. Everyone just assumed liberal titles were allowed on no problems in the past, but maybe they weren't, also because of certain employees?
Eh, tell people Congress told Valve to change their submission guidelines. That'll drive Dem turnout.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1004932829795487746
I know their plans would have made protections for Pre-Existing Conditions untenable. But now they aren't even hiding their attempts to fuck people over. (Beyond not wanting it to take effect until after the mid terms.)
Republicans spent all of last year lying their asses off about their desire to protect people with preexisting conditions.
I know their plans would have made protections for Pre-Existing Conditions untenable. But now they aren't even hiding their attempts to fuck people over. (Beyond not wanting it to take effect until after the mid terms.)
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The damage he's going to do to this country will be irreversible. This is terrifying.
Look at how long it took to dig out of the recession, if one starts under Trump and even if a Democrat succeeds him, I seriously don't know how we could ever get through it.
Trump is not only burning bridges but killing a lot of precedent that would help bring those bridges back per se. Why should any country trust us on trade after this? "We will be respectable trade partners if a Democrat is in the White House." Good fucking luck.
He is straight up the loony cartoon character villain who is actively destroying his own nation.
So fucking evil. We have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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The GOP lost a seat they held because the top 2 in the primary were both Dems. (this is super stupid)
I dont recall something similar happening with Dems.
Oh ok what the hell saw some posts on twitter about republicans winning the race
CA-8 has a Democrat locked out of the Top 2 so far. It was definitely a very unlikely flip, and late ballots may still put her over the edge (they trend Democratic, but let's see how it goes).
Yeah CA 8 is unflippable. Not worth a single thought.
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