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Jakyl25 posted...

I just think the underlying point that we have to side with Turkey over the Kurds is sound

If it's a choice between Erdogan and the Kurds, I am siding with the Kurds every time.

(And before Corrik comes rushing in with "DURR YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T WANT TO STAB ALLIES IN THE BACK", Erdogan is one of the despicable people in the region I think we should not be supporting. At this particular juncture, between Russia, ISIS, and Syria, Turkey needs us a lot more than we need Turkey.)
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Corrik posted...

So you guys preferred being in Syria and afganistan for 100 years?

I think there are better ways to withdraw from the Middle East that do not a) stab our allies in the back, b) empower truly awful people and regimes in the region, and c) accomplish Russia's foreign policy objectives for them.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/21/politics/trump-syria-afghanistan-us-military/index.html

We will be decades recovering from this presidency. (Which is, of course, exactly what Russia wanted.)
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Dancedreamer posted...

Can it be Devos turn to be fired? Please. It's what I want for Christmas.

Honestly, I would be thrilled to see any member of the cabinet go if I wasn't so completely certain that their replacements would be even more despicable.
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The Trump Foundation is dead after having done a whole bunch of illegal shit with money.

I don't have any big takeaway from this, just schadenfreude.
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MalcolmMasher posted...

Or we can acknowledge that congressional campaigns receive donations from corporations, and therefore that it is unreasonable to expect Congress to pass a bill about health insurance without at least the tepid approval of insurance companies.

If only there were a solution to the problem of corporations killing laws they don't like.

the solution is publicly funded elections
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Jakyl25 posted...

I want to skip ahead 100 years and read the history books

If we're lucky, the Trump administration will go down as Grant 2.0 - hilariously corrupt but ultimately harmless.

If we're not... well, insert your own doomsday scenario here.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Reg posted...

Not if Fox News doesn't tell their viewers about it. As long as they don't do that, that 37% won't budge.

The fact that there's been a 21 point swing since June 2017 on a conservative poll is pretty damning, and that's without Mueller's final report.

Fox News' polling wing is actually quite good. They control for biases and generally come pretty close to an accurate reflection of what the general population believes. Their actual "news" wing is atrocious, of course, but their polling is usually very accurate.
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Please stop replying to obvious trolls.
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xp1337 posted...

While that's undoubtedly true, it's probably a response to Tillerson's interview that came out today where he called Trump "undisciplined," that he "doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports" and that he'd often have to tell him that "[...] you can't do it that way. It violates the law."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/07/rex-tillerson-trump-undisciplined-doesnt-like-read-tries-do-illegal-things/

Imagine being President of the United States and having to be told you can't do something a certain way because it's illegal.
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do you ever post about anything else
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Remember, trade wars are comfy and easy to win.
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JonThePenguin posted...

Without the phony Russia Witch Hunt, and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years (Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judges, Military, Vets, etc.) my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported by Rasmussen. Its called Presidential Harassment!

He is correct, in that if he didn't break the law his approval rating would be higher.
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Do you want to read a really dumb tweet? I mean just the dumbest fucking thing you've read all day.

Here you go:

https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1070350900521263106
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GuessMyUserName posted...

Tag yourself. I'm Hillary.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

I mean, if I was ranking all states from best to worst, I think Indiana winds up at the absolute bottom.

Mississippi and Alabama say hi.
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SupremeZero posted...

https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1068264459032965121

Ah yes, the "perjury trap", or as I like to call it, "just tell the fucking truth you impossibly obtuse baboon".
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JonThePenguin posted...

While CNN doesnt do great in the United States based on ratings, outside of the U.S. they have very little competition. Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair....
....and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1067142819008122885?s=21

I mean, if he wants to increase funding to NPR I won't complain!
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This is without a doubt the most hipster list of fighting games I have ever seen.
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StealThisSheen posted...

I'm just kinda at a loss

Literally all they had to do was not actually invade.

Trump has been stoking the fire this whole time, calling it an invasion.

All they had to do was just not invade.

Yet many of them decided to try and invade.

This is going to be a nightmare.

I have no idea what the conditions are in the caravan but I'm reasonably certain they were not such as to promote much current media literacy.

Also, desperate people do stupid things. Anyone who thinks leaving their home and country to journey to another country where the government is explicitly anti-immigrant is a superior option to staying put is almost certainly desperate.

Added to this, those people were almost certainly not under any sort of central organization. They stuck together this far for safety in numbers, but I seriously doubt there was anyone in charge of the entire operation.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Pretty much the exact opposite of "making America great":

https://twitter.com/A_Aspuru_Guzik/status/1064335225033900032

no but you see if there are fewer foreign students coming in then there are more spots open for american students #nationalism
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lordjers posted...

ElSofoque posted...

Can any of the Tifa fans actually explain what's so great about her as a character that has her winning this much?

I mean other than the boobs of course.

Her hair.

hair shaped like a dolphin

limit break uses a dolphin

truly the GOAT
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xp1337 posted...

WH is now making it a violation punishable by revocation of a journalist's hard pass to ask unapproved follow-up questions or to real-time fact check:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1064621067094892546

I don't think there's any way for the administration to make it more clear they don't actually want a free press to exist.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Anyway, I dont see how his challenge to Pelosi can possibly end up working. Who else could possibly get 218 votes? It doesnt help her opposition that some of them are coming from the center and some of them are coming from the left.

The only other people who could get 218 votes either don't want the job, support Pelosi, or both. Like it or not she will be the next speaker.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Another comment that would have been a huge scandal from any other president:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1064176731681116160

That entire thread is full of shit that would have gotten Obama impeached had he said any of it.
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God dammit, Corrik.
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The only people who want Michael Avenatti to be president are Michael Avenatti and his mom.
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mnkboy907 posted...

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

drink it you bitch

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I dunno man, I think people who stereotype the entire population of continents based on the behavior of a few people are worse.
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Corrik posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

You said you didnt know why anyone would be against it.

Heck, WE arent even saying its because theyre racist. Just that its a potential political inconvenience

If you say so. I'll take your word on it. I think you would have just said felons predominantly vote Democrat and that is why without the race angle if otherwise, but I'll believe ya.

I don't think anyone is saying felons predominately vote Democrat. We are saying that felons are disproportionately black, and that black people disproportionately vote Democrat, which would explain why Republicans are against allowing felons to vote - because it helps Democrats more than it helps Republicans.
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Corrik posted...

I am sure it is because they are black and not because they are criminals. Grow up. Not everything is about race.

Two Google searches is all it would have taken for you to not look like... well, like you usually do.

https://news.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Incarceration_Map-01.jpg

20% of the adult African-America population in Florida had a felony conviction in 2010.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/exit-polls/florida/senate

90% of black voters in Florida voted for Nelson. 86% went for Gillum.

I'm not even going to bother looking up census data to estimate how many additional votes for Nelson and Gillum those felons would have represented, because it doesn't matter. Jakyl is right and you are wrong. Again.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Here, have this incredibly obtuse headline for dinner

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2018/11/11/surging-wealth-inequality-is-a-happy-sign-that-life-is-becoming-much-more-convenient/

I don't think I've read anything so incredibly stupid since I blocked MWC's latest alt.
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Corrik posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Corrik posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Well yes I am on multiple medications

Get them upped. Like no offense but you are so desperate for validation and acceptance that you act abnormal and say very off the wall shit.

Says the guy who thinks laws are inherently good

So you are an anarchist. Okay.

"Stop putting words in my mouth." - Corrik
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Suprak the Stud posted...

I'm actually a really big fan of moderate to conservative democrats in red states. Big fan of Manchin and Tester and anyone that can help us get numbers to get good legislation passed. I don't care if they vote against us 60% of the time because 40% is a hell of a lot better than 0%.

If Sinema pulls this off, she's a hero. A democrat hasn't won a senate seat in Arizona since 1988. In the governor race, where the democrats nominated someone I quite liked and was super progressive and proud of it, the republicans pounded in our faces by like 15 points. Some of that is incumbency, sure, but maybe in Arizona running someone like Sinema is better for our long term chances.

I just want to win.

I agree, Democrats should be running the most liberal candidate that can win the election. Sometimes that's Ocasio-Cortez; sometimes that's Sinema.
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Eddv posted...

HashtagSEP posted...

Wait, Whitaker actually said Marbury v Madison was "wrongly decided?"

So yes if you are STRICT constitution originalist this is actually true

The court does not ACTUALLY have the power to decide whether things are constitutional or not based on the text of the document.

Most Originalists still use the Federalist papers and writings of the founders to complement their originalism because to do otherwise is fucking stupid but then there's Matt Whitaker: apparently stupid

Stupid, or just a complete Trump toady?
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1061069227673731072

BUT HER EMAILS
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/politics/matthew-whitaker-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Great headline

I really wish the "respectable" media would have the balls to call Trump the liar that he is.
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Oh hey, my district flipped. Eat shit, Rodney Davis.
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Corrik posted...

Mr Lasastryke posted...

Corrik posted...

It is bad. Are you arguing crime is not bad?

depends on the crime. i don't think people smoking weed is necessarily bad, as long as they're not bothering me while doing so.

Breaking the law is bad. It is a flaunting of the law and failure to adhere to the rules that the society needs to function. Does it make you a bad person to break the laws at times? No. But, breaking the laws are bad. They are there for a reason. Will everyone break the law at some point? I am sure everyone has. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't, even purposely, but it is still bad.

Sodomy in one form or another is against the law in 17 states. Are consenting adults in those states who have buttsex committing objectively bad acts?
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Jakyl25 posted...

If Dems win the House big time, but the GOP picks up even 1 Senate seat, the narrative will be that there was no blue wave

If it keeps Dem voters motivated for two more years, I'll take it.
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MysticBrohan posted...

i wish i was aborted

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Eddv posted...

This has been a stunning display of Corrik trying desperately to proves he's Just That Dumb vs Always Trolling.

It brings a tear to your eye to see such a competitor in action.

He's gritty, a real gamer.
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Crossfiyah posted...

Corrik posted...

Crossfiyah posted...

That is not how any of this works. Probability accounts for all of that in a well designed model with good data.

Again your entire problem is you are overestimating how sure of a thing a generally red district will be. You are treating all of then as equally likely while some are red by 3 points and some are red by 40 points.

I do not think it is a well-designed model and think it shows on how it has had the highest average seat gain of any model I have seen.

I think it skews towards democrats too drastically and it screws up the entire model.

But, we will see in a day!

I mean it doesn't really matter. You are still making the same error regardless. You think all districts have the same chance of going the color they probably will go.

the probability of any district going democrat is 50/50

either it does or it doesn't

checkmate, atheists
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Brian Kemp is absolutely shameless in his attempts to abuse the powers of his current office in order to ensure that hes elected governor of Georgia:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/georgia-governor-candidate-brian-kemp-attempts-last-minute-banana-republic-style-voter-manipulation.html

tl;dr: Kemp is, in his official capacity as GAs Secretary of State, accusing the GA Democratic Party of hacking the GA voter database. What actually appears to have happened is that the Dems were pointing out security vulnerabilities in the database (which exist because Kemp is doing a horrendous job at securing that data).

If Kemp wins, I fully expect this investigation to be dropped on Wendesday.

If Abrams wins, the investigation will go on for the next four years.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

Dems could really hold governorships over 70% of the US population.

I really wish people would stop touting the population percentage each party governs over like it means something. In almost every way that matters under the current constitution, the amount of people you govern is irrelevant; what matters is how many states a party governs.
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Crossfiyah posted...

Corrick is definitely at least one or two tiers above like every other conservative that posts here guys, come on.

That is an extremely low bar to clear.
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Corrik posted...

Not_an_Owl posted...

Hey Corrik: I am granting the premise that moving the embassy to Jerusalem before 2016 had bipartisan support. I am asking you why it didn't happen until Trump got in office.

Because of a loophole that presidents decided to exercise, most likely under the fear of terroristic attacks in reprisal.

So you're saying moving the embassy to Jerusalem upset a lot of people that wouldn't have been mad if the embassy location didn't change?
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Hey Corrik: I am granting the premise that moving the embassy to Jerusalem before 2016 had bipartisan support. I am asking you why it didn't happen until Trump got in office.
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Amazing. I never thought I would meet someone who was totally incapable of realizing their premise had been granted.
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