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Yeah I just watched that earlier. She’s fantastic.
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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.
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#metoo #notthatmetoo
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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.
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.
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Um. Pru... That's not how it works, man.
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Shhh, you are ruining a great potential future story.
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We can call him Pruvanka, when he starts abusing the system
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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 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 amThat 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.
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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.Rex wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:13 pmThe 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 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:20 amThat 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.
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Not going to Hawaii any time soon.sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:08 pmWe can call him Pruvanka, when he starts abusing the system
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.
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I may not agree with all of her policies, but I love her so, so much.
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The Senate just passed the decade’s biggest public lands package.
So I am confused... this actually seems like good news.
So I am confused... this actually seems like good news.
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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.
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.
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A Churchill history lesson for Brexit Britain
Nice summation of the chauvinism that helped create the Brexit vote.
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.
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Given the photo this was supposed to be sarcastic, but it's a good idea and I approve of it.
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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.
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.
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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.
CNN Just Set the New Standard for Corporate Media's Chickensh*t Catering to Republicans
The media is fucking complicit.
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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.
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.
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I watched this video last night. Apparently AOC did too.
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Probably just a typoah.
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MODS.
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
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Because she is a damned, dirty Socialist hell bent on destroying America.
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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.
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Do NOT get me started on "yea" vs. "yeah".
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Correct answer is: W'oh
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POOH?
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Under regular circumstances Roger Stone would love to be gagged.
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Does Kat Timpf think she's intelligent? What a nonsensical rant.
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Sadly, other people think she is smart. So fucking vapid, and completely not understanding the concepts she is arguing against.
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Whoa. Checks out, as I turn 40 in April.govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:18 pmSRSLY.
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.
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It’s whoa. This is insane.
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They do?The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:44 pmSadly, other people think she is smart. So fucking vapid, and completely not understanding the concepts she is arguing against.
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.
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Correct.
Ketih Jackson did not fucking say Woah Nellie.
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
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My theorem is being proven correct.
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It's weird because if you're like 4000 years old, you go with -aoh
(or -oahe if you're a rapper)
(or -oahe if you're a rapper)
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
holy fuckbAllZ, what a ducking nightmare. Holy shot. Just, fuck. The
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