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EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:16 am

Yeah I just watched that earlier. She’s fantastic.

Edited to bring the link to the top of the page:

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:19 am

Watched that last night and realized I'd never heard her voice before.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 am

Rex wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:08 am Based on evidence so far, we are going to be dealing with some crazy shit from the cohort that went through high school and college in the late 70's/early 80's. The Animal House generation.

That was what was so insane about people defending Kavanaugh with this idea that because he's such a swell guy now, he couldn't possibly have done anything like what was alleged in the 80s.

You fucking serious with that shit? I graduated high school in '88 2 miles from where that dipshit went to high school. The amount of racist, homophobic and misogynistic shit I heard at a fairly enlightened, upper middle-class school was stunning. Not my group of friends, but the guys playing football and some of my baseball teammates were fucking neanderthals.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:21 am

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:19 am Watched that last night and realized I'd never heard her voice before.

#metoo #notthatmetoo

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:30 pm

Not official until Monday, but my sister in D.C. just got a job as Administrative Director for Mazie Hirono.

Pretty darn cool.

She's worked in various positions in the offices of Dick Gephardt, Kent Conrad (N.D.), Carl Levin and Al Franken.

Nice to know that if I am ever in Hawaii, I will be above the law.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:55 pm

Um. Pru... That's not how it works, man.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:06 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:55 pm Um. Pru... That's not how it works, man.

Shhh, you are ruining a great potential future story.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:08 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:06 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:55 pm Um. Pru... That's not how it works, man.
Shhh, you are ruining a great potential future story.

We can call him Pruvanka, when he starts abusing the system

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:13 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 am
Rex wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:08 am Based on evidence so far, we are going to be dealing with some crazy shit from the cohort that went through high school and college in the late 70's/early 80's. The Animal House generation.
That was what was so insane about people defending Kavanaugh with this idea that because he's such a swell guy now, he couldn't possibly have done anything like what was alleged in the 80s.

You fucking serious with that shit? I graduated high school in '88 2 miles from where that dipshit went to high school. The amount of racist, homophobic and misogynistic shit I heard at a fairly enlightened, upper middle-class school was stunning. Not my group of friends, but the guys playing football and some of my baseball teammates were fucking neanderthals.

The one interesting thing I learned during the Kavanaugh mess was the studies showing that high school binge drinking peaked in around 1982 and then dropped sharply after that. I had not understood how different that era was from even 10 or 15 years later. It's not as easy to say those other things were more widespread back then, but if you combine those things with a critical mass of heavy partiers, you're going to end up with, well, blackface theme parties I guess.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:36 pm

Rex wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:13 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 am
Rex wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:08 am Based on evidence so far, we are going to be dealing with some crazy shit from the cohort that went through high school and college in the late 70's/early 80's. The Animal House generation.
That was what was so insane about people defending Kavanaugh with this idea that because he's such a swell guy now, he couldn't possibly have done anything like what was alleged in the 80s.

You fucking serious with that shit? I graduated high school in '88 2 miles from where that dipshit went to high school. The amount of racist, homophobic and misogynistic shit I heard at a fairly enlightened, upper middle-class school was stunning. Not my group of friends, but the guys playing football and some of my baseball teammates were fucking neanderthals.
The one interesting thing I learned during the Kavanaugh mess was the studies showing that high school binge drinking peaked in around 1982 and then dropped sharply after that. I had not understood how different that era was from even 10 or 15 years later. It's not as easy to say those other things were more widespread back then, but if you combine those things with a critical mass of heavy partiers, you're going to end up with, well, blackface theme parties I guess.

Yeah, my oldest BIL graduated in 82 and the stories from his era are NUTS. Just 8 years later, yeah, we partied pretty hard, but NOTHING like what those guys were up to.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:03 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:08 pm
The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:06 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:55 pm Um. Pru... That's not how it works, man.
Shhh, you are ruining a great potential future story.
We can call him Pruvanka, when he starts abusing the system

Not going to Hawaii any time soon.

I did once sit at Carl Levin's desk, but my sister nearly killed me when I joked about checking what was in his drawers.

As cynical as I am, I get such a thrill out of walking around the senate buildings. Years ago, we were waiting for an elevator and the private elevator door opened and Strom Thurmond came out. this was near the end, and he was a tiny, hunched man with hair that was the colour of dog food, being (literally) led around by a staffer.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:19 am

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:26 am

I may not agree with all of her policies, but I love her so, so much.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:25 pm

The Senate just passed the decade’s biggest public lands package.

So I am confused... this actually seems like good news.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:12 am

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:07 pm

There's a TON of bullshit press this week about how the Dems are tacking left and "oh the humanity, what about the moderate voters."

Well, the shit is going to hit the fucking fan over this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpos ... story.html

McCarty recorded in talking to donors, blaming the idiot Freedom Caucus for pushing the repeal of existing condition protection in the health care debacle for why they got their asses handed to them in the mid-term.

He's not wrong, as we know, though he's playing just a portion of the cards he knows to be in his hand (Trump, duh.) But how this goes down with the moron brigade media is going to be delicious.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:23 am

A Churchill history lesson for Brexit Britain

Nice summation of the chauvinism that helped create the Brexit vote.

As Brexit D-Day approaches, the big guns of the Leave campaign have come out time and time again to remind us if “we” won the war — and “we” put up with rationing and bombing and sacrifice and could handle that — then “we” can handle a no-deal Brexit. Who do these Europeans think they are?

Of course, none of these Brexiteers were actually there. They grew up in a prosperous and peaceful world born out of the cost of those who put up with the misery of that devastating war, and who voted for us to be part of the European Economic Community in 1975 — in part so that it might not happen again.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:15 pm

Given the photo this was supposed to be sarcastic, but it's a good idea and I approve of it.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:00 am

Good video:

Insane and pathetic how easily we can be progressive and world leading in so many areas, but we have governorship by scumbags with a pathological need for greed and power.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:26 pm

I know Charles Pierce has a thread, but I'll place this here (It's not an article so much as a headline with a couple thoughts and parts of a Politico article that are quoted):

CNN Just Set the New Standard for Corporate Media's Chickensh*t Catering to Republicans

The media is fucking complicit.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:18 am

MPs Leaving Labour & Conservative Parties over Brexit Policies

11 so far. (Although one Jewish MP left the Labour party over anti-semitic harassment she was getting from within the party.)

British politics right now is completely insane.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:34 am

I watched this video last night. Apparently AOC did too.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am

Why did she spell "whoa" like that?

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:54 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am Why did she spell "whoa" like that?

Whoa looks dumb.

Woah.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:01 pm

Probably just a typoah.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:04 pm

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:54 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am Why did she spell "whoa" like that?
Whoa looks dumb.

Woah.

MODS.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:04 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am Why did she spell "whoa" like that?

Because she is a damned, dirty Socialist hell bent on destroying America.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:18 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:04 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:54 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am Why did she spell "whoa" like that?
Whoa looks dumb.

Woah.
MODS.

SRSLY.

I think the dividing line is currently age 39.5. Anyone younger spells it the dumb way, anyone older does the "h" first. AOC is on that next level.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:20 pm

Do NOT get me started on "yea" vs. "yeah".

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:28 pm

Correct answer is: W'oh

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:51 pm

POOH?

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:39 pm

Under regular circumstances Roger Stone would love to be gagged.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:31 pm

Does Kat Timpf think she's intelligent? What a nonsensical rant.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:44 pm

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:31 pm Does Kat Timpf think she's intelligent? What a nonsensical rant.

Sadly, other people think she is smart. So fucking vapid, and completely not understanding the concepts she is arguing against.

Square Rob · Post by **Square Rob** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:13 am

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:18 pm
Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:04 pm
EnochRoot wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:54 pm
mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am Why did she spell "whoa" like that?
Whoa looks dumb.

Woah.
MODS.
SRSLY.

I think the dividing line is currently age 39.5. Anyone younger spells it the dumb way, anyone older does the "h" first. AOC is on that next level.

Whoa. Checks out, as I turn 40 in April.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:18 am

It’s whoa. This is insane.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 7:29 am

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:44 pm
Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 10:31 pm Does Kat Timpf think she's intelligent? What a nonsensical rant.

Sadly, other people think she is smart. So fucking vapid, and completely not understanding the concepts she is arguing against.

They do?

Hearing Miley Cyrus' "witticism" about Bernie Sanders supporters wanting to bankrupt every business while that guy cackled like Ernest Angley convinces me that there is no hope.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:01 am

tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:18 am It’s whoa. This is insane.

Correct.

Ketih Jackson did not fucking say Woah Nellie.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:16 am

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:01 am
tennbengal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:18 am It’s whoa. This is insane.
Correct.

Ketih Jackson did not fucking say Woah Nellie.

My theorem is being proven correct.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:28 am

It's weird because if you're like 4000 years old, you go with -aoh

(or -oahe if you're a rapper)