Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 224: The Congressional Contempt for Political Buggery

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/house-democrats-barr-mueller.html
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Woof
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You suck at topic titles
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I'm just going to say that it is a waste of both time and energy to try and tell me not to respond to or engage with any particular user.

Anyways, my understanding is that Barr is already known to have lied to Congress about issues related to the Mueller Report, so no I don't consider his word to be a very reliable source. (Conveniently, it seems this is addressed in the article on post #1, though there's likely a better source than that)
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

You suck at topic titles

Thanks.
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Hard to compete with Jakyl on topic titles

I think my best one was nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated! right after the failed ACA repeal vote in the House
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Tag
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Hey could someone link me to some highlights of the Mueller Report? Thanks a lot. Ive been busy.

pyresword posted...

I'm just going to say that it is a waste of both time and energy to try and tell me not to respond to or engage with any particular user.

Not as much as a waste of time and energy for all of us for to you respond or engage with some particular users.
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NFUN posted...

pyresword posted...

I'm just going to say that it is a waste of both time and energy to try and tell me not to respond to or engage with any particular user.

Not as much as a waste of time and energy for all of us for to you respond or engage with some particular users.

It's a waste of time to care about your opinions about who should be addressed because you only post to complain about who is being addressed

Nrrr posted...

NFUN posted...

pyresword posted...

I'm just going to say that it is a waste of both time and energy to try and tell me not to respond to or engage with any particular user.

Not as much as a waste of time and energy for all of us for to you respond or engage with some particular users.

It's a waste of time to care about your opinions about who should be addressed because you only post to complain about who is being addressed

In that case, it's only a waste of time to not care because I'd only waste your time when you don't care
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You guys seem to be caught in an apathy loop. I'd help you out, but I don't really care.
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apathy is death

i dunno is a kotor2 reference too out there here?
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Remember, fuck 2007

Jobs report for April came out - 263,000 jobs added, unemployment rate now down to 3.6%, the lowest in 50 years. Wage growth at 3.2%, so that's outpacing inflation at 1.9%.
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Those are some nice numbers.
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Yeah the economy is absolutely booming right now. If Trump loses the election, it will be very unprecedented.
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Every aspect of his Presidency is unprecedented.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-de-blasio-2020-president-white-house-campaign-announcement-20190503-xsjuocb7zfhqxhh5vmoi3dup5q-story.html

Lmfaoooo
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Imagine how hated he would be in a bad economy!
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-de-blasio-2020-president-white-house-campaign-announcement-20190503-xsjuocb7zfhqxhh5vmoi3dup5q-story.html

Lmfaoooo

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1124377473435734017?s=21
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Trump's not going to lose if this kind of economic condition holds up. And it's not even a situation where living costs are soaring as well - I read in the newspaper yesterday that Bay Area housing prices actually fell slightly the last year, for the first time since the bottom of the market was reached in 2011/12.
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And if that's a response to the tax bill limiting the mortgage interest deduction to 750k borrowed rather than 1 million, that's wonderful! Trump policies, passed over the objection of establishment Republicans, working as intended and reducing costs of living for the common people.
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red sox 777 posted...

Trump policies, passed over the objection of establishment Republicans,

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GOP members of Congress from CA and NY were loudly protesting that tax bill, because it was going to reduce the itemized deductions their affluent constituents used. The rest of the House ignored them and passed the bill.
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Literally 12 Republicans out of the entirety of Congress.
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Well there aren't that many from CA and NY, since those states vote for so many Democrats! But they are the rump of the establishment wing of the Republican Party.
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There are a lot of Republicans in California.

Also using the bay area as an example of anything is hilarious.

Leafeon13N posted...

There are a lot of Republicans in California.

Also using the bay area as an example of anything is hilarious.

There aren't a lot of markets where the difference between capping the mortgage interest loan deduction at loans of 750k vs. 1 million is going to make much of a difference. The Bay Area is one of them.
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red sox 777 posted...

There aren't a lot of markets where the difference between capping the mortgage interest loan deduction at loans of 750k vs. 1 million is going to make much of a difference. The Bay Area is one of them.

You helped a bunch of already stupid rich people congratulations.

Did you read my post? I said the housing prices fell. That doesn't help the rich homeowners sitting on massive capital gains. It helps the people who live in the area and can't afford to pay their rent/buy a house.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1124454991341793281
"Conservative thinkers like James Woods and Paul Watson"
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"conservative thinkers" is apparently an oxymoron nowadays

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1124698033168449536?s=19

Great thread by an old college buddy

This is from the midterms and current polling... You can quibble with the exact numbers (i.e. there are margins of error)... but it's all pretty clear. Dem voters are ollllllld... and they sure as heck ain't very liberal.

It's clear that some on this platform have ZERO clue the makeup of the Democratic electorate. And because of that, they're taken aback by Biden's advantage. Who knows if the lead will hold, but it makes a ton of sense.

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Majority of voters are old because theyre the only ones pandered to.

In other news: Sky is blue, grass is green.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1124698033168449536?s=19

Great thread by an old college buddy

This is from the midterms and current polling... You can quibble with the exact numbers (i.e. there are margins of error)... but it's all pretty clear. Dem voters are ollllllld... and they sure as heck ain't very liberal.

It's clear that some on this platform have ZERO clue the makeup of the Democratic electorate. And because of that, they're taken aback by Biden's advantage. Who knows if the lead will hold, but it makes a ton of sense.

You went to school with Harry Enten?
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Majority of voters are old because theyre the only ones pandered to.

In other news: Sky is blue, grass is green.

I have people blocked, so I'm not sure what exactly this is in response to, but...you could also say "Old voters are pandered to because they're the majority of the voters."
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The truth is that polls are flawed and only go after old people who aren't working or at school and people dumb enough to answer random numbers who call then during the day. That is partially why the polls skew old and conservative. But it's also true that hardline Dems who participate in primaries are the older and more conservative ones, young people are more likely to be more left wing, more likely to register independent, and less likely to be knowledgeable about the voting process or just have less permanent living situations than older people.

red sox 777 posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1124698033168449536?s=19

Great thread by an old college buddy

This is from the midterms and current polling... You can quibble with the exact numbers (i.e. there are margins of error)... but it's all pretty clear. Dem voters are ollllllld... and they sure as heck ain't very liberal.

It's clear that some on this platform have ZERO clue the makeup of the Democratic electorate. And because of that, they're taken aback by Biden's advantage. Who knows if the lead will hold, but it makes a ton of sense.

You went to school with Harry Enten?

Yeah, had a few classes with him at Dartmouth
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Nice, I always enjoy reading his stuff
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Yeah, the Democrats' proportional representation in their primaries will keep on hurting them. If the Republicans used proportional representation, Trump would have had a plurality but not a majority of the delegates....and we would probably have had an RNC where the establishment delegates banded together behind Rubio or Bush or someone boring. And that candidate would have lost to Hillary.

Thanks to proportional representation, Bernie's relatively small margins over Hillary in a bunch of swing states mattered very little, while Hillary's landslide wins in Southern states that were always going to vote Republican no matter what effectively clinched the nomination for her. That's exactly the opposite of the structure the Democrats should be using to maximize their chances in the general.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/biden-trump-republicans-2020.html

Good to see Biden is willing to work for the good of the country. Trump vs Biden might be the most honorable pair of candidates we've had in a general election since Johnson/Goldwater.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/biden-trump-republicans-2020.html

Good to see Biden is willing to work for the good of the country. Trump vs Biden might be the most honorable pair of candidates we've had in a general election since Johnson/Goldwater.

This post is great, because youre calling Trump honorable and using an article where Biden is saying Trump is the only bad Republican for it, thus immediately proving Biden wrong.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/biden-trump-republicans-2020.html

Good to see Biden is willing to work for the good of the country. Trump vs Biden might be the most honorable pair of candidates we've had in a general election since Johnson/Goldwater.

This post is great, because youre calling Trump honorable and using an article where Biden is saying Trump is the only bad Republican for it, thus immediately proving Biden wrong.

He's obviously not going to say that about Trump because if he wins then he doesn't have to work with him. He will, however, need to work with Republicans in Congress.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Majority of voters are old because theyre the only ones pandered to.

In other news: Sky is blue, grass is green.

this is not true. Young people just don't vote, especially as elections get lower in scope. Local elections when there is comparatively little money spent in the election, you will see the voters skew much older. It is just much harder to capture the interest of that audience because there are so many things pining for their attention.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

He's obviously not going to say that about Trump because if he wins then he doesn't have to work with him. He will, however, need to work with Republicans in Congress.

Just like Trump has done all that working with the Democrats right?

honorable lol.
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They literally wont work with him unless hes doing shit Republicans already support.

Absolutely pointless to pander to them.
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Republicans don't get say shit about working with the other side.
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how quickly people think it has been forgotten that the President had a hissy fit and shut down the government for it.
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If you control all branches of government, you don't need to work with the other side.
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