Pennsylvania isn't fun enough to be Aquaman.
American Politics thread: No Nazis Allowed
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Clearly between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the Wonder Twins with the middle of the state being Gleek.
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Clearly between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the Wonder Twins with the middle of the state being Gleek.
Vermont and New Hampshire are the Wonder Twins. With New Hampshire being the tough talking boy one who turns into shitty things by accident all the time.
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Maine is collectively El Dorado, Samurai, and Apache Chief.
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Connecticut is probably classic Green Arrow- rich, stuck-up, and forgettable.
No offense MK, you're definitely not some of those things :ninja:
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A meeting of the former Confederate States:
SOUTH CAROLINA WANT PANTS TOO
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With all this talk of PA, I'm getting nostalgic of the time I lived there. Then I remember the most fun I had in that time was the controversy surrounding an on-campus stabbing. That's literally it, otherwise it's really boring.
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Connecticut is probably classic Green Arrow- rich, stuck-up, and forgettable.
No offense MK, you're definitely not some of those things :ninja:
Connecticut is Batman, preppy millionaire in the countryside, grimy urban decay crime zones in the cityside right next door.
Also because Gotham is Bridgeport.
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New York south of Albany is Superman.
New York north of Albany is Bizarro.
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@Cyan:
New York north of Albany is Bizarro.
North New York is like a pseudo-canadian hellhole
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North New York is like a pseudo-canadian hellhole
it's just trees, confusing & somewhat pleasant people, and crushing depressionwhy is north new york so different from vermont right next door, they're so content and granola
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Tillerson's been pretty quiet, but he's starting to show his colors.
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-us-cyber-security-tillerson-627379
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly has a three-point plan to both improve relations and work with Russia, one of which includes facing global threats posed by the Syrian civil war, the proliferation of North Korea’s missile and defense program and a third that could seem strange to some: Cybersecurity and cyber-espionage.
A BuzzFeed report published Monday detailed the former ExxonMobil CEO turned U.S. statesman’s plan, which included each side vowing to avoid “aggressive actions” that wouldn’t be productive for anyone as well as a third point called “strategic stability” meant to bundle together problems the two superpowers face.
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Tillerson's been pretty quiet, but he's starting to show his colors.
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-us-cyber-security-tillerson-627379
Well, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that any action, aggressive or not, is not productive for literally anyone. Anyone surprised by Rex showing his colors at this point is pretty willfully ignorant.
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@Monkey:
why is north new york so different from vermont right next door, they're so content and granola
my guess is the weed's not as good
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@Monkey:
Connecticut is Batman, preppy millionaire in the countryside, grimy urban decay crime zones in the cityside right next door.
Also because Gotham is Bridgeport.
As soon as I saw that years ago in Young Justice, I understood why my hometown is shit. It's got a ferry going directly to Gotham.
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The latest from https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/06/20/Day-152/
1/ Sean Spicer is searching for his own replacement.
https://t.co/ge50zKFrw32/ Steve Bannon explains the change in Spicer's role: “Sean got fatter."
https://t.co/raO84yL5af3/ The Senate will vote on their health care bill next week.
https://t.co/Dp8eJDFu064/ Trump's pick for FBI Director removed a past case involving the Russian government from law firm bio.
https://t.co/9uql0fjbMf5/ Trump's FBI pick billed New Jersey taxpayers more than $2.1 million while representing Chris Christie.
https://t.co/E5982B5clq6/ Michael Flynn failed to report a business trip to Saudi Arabia.
https://t.co/KsuHluFkFn7/ The FBI is investigating Flynn’s former business partner.
https://t.co/CpcABpnP7c8/ Robert Mueller adds a witness-flipping expert to his team.
https://t.co/p0xakO7PbO9/ The House health care plan is unpopular in three states where a Republican Senator will have a swing vote.
https://t.co/q026bCvrN4poll/ 81% of Americans don't want Trump to interfere with the Mueller probe.
https://t.co/h5nC3UeFrkpoll/ 18% of Americans support Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
https://t.co/pPbxm8Vn9ypoll/ 73% of Americans feel the current tone of politics is encouraging violence.
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In case you still had any faith left in the memories of Americans, George Bush is now almost as popular as Obama.
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The latest from https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/06/20/Day-152/
1/ Sean Spicer is searching for his own replacement.
https://t.co/ge50zKFrw3With this information, I now feel that Trump is the type of man to make someone dig their own grave before killing them.
2/ Steve Bannon explains the change in Spicer's role: “Sean got fatter."
https://t.co/raO84yL5afThis only further confirms it, but also fuels my theory that they'd laugh at you while forcing you to dig that grave.
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Turnout is only marginally higher in the GA-06 run-off than it was in the original election. Not promising for Ossof.
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In case you still had any faith left in the memories of Americans, George Bush is now almost as popular as Obama.
Well yeah. Obama did such a good job cleaning up his mess people have forgotten how bad it was at the end, and the problems didn't linger long enough to leave a lasting impression of having tanked the world economy or gotten us into several costly neverending wars, or being asleep on the job when the largest domestic terrorist attack ever happened.
Public opinion may go that way of forgiving those flaws, for the moment, now that some of it happened so far back that some people that are now just hitting voting age weren't even born yet when he started… but history books won't.
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Well yeah. Obama did such a good job cleaning up his mess people have forgotten how bad it was at the end, and the problems didn't linger long enough to leave a lasting impression of having tanked the world economy or gotten us into several costly neverending wars, or being asleep on the job when the largest domestic terrorist attack ever happened.
Public opinion may go that way of forgiving those flaws, for the moment, now that some of it happened so far back that some people that are now just hitting voting age weren't even born yet when he started… but history books won't.
It's only been a decade! And Hillary's Iraq war vote hunted her until this recent election, as well as the fall out of the great recession being used as one of the reasons for Trump's rise. I get that Bush' ratings would improve a little due to him being a kooky painter now and looking presidential compared to Trump, but 59% is pretty spectacular.
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And a decade is a lot. Especially with a really solid guy following to clean up the messes.
A decade isn't much to history… but to kids that weren't even born at the start of his term, and certainly weren't at an age to pay attention when he left, are voting age now? ANd to old farts who just didn't like the black guy?
Yeah, it's only been 10 years. Long enough for a populace to forget and not care, but not long enough to have settled into history books yet. He'll still be a super unpopular pres in the long run... though Trump being crazily worse is going to help him with that. Scarily.
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And overall, GWB hasn't done anything incredibly stupid in retirement to have people hate him horrendously either. If anything he's pretty much done everything right to harness the fact that Obama cleaned up a lot of problems, from not endorsing Trump to making (admittedly not great but I suppose A for effort) paintings to give a spotlight on and raise funds for vets.
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@Purple:
And overall, GWB hasn't done anything incredibly stupid in retirement to have people hate him horrendously either. If anything he's pretty much done everything right to harness the fact that Obama cleaned up a lot of problems, from not endorsing Trump to making (admittedly not great but I suppose A for effort) paintings to give a spotlight on and raise funds for vets.
Not too shabby for a guy who sent some of them same vets to fight in two costly and meaningless wars.
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The rise in Bush's popularity is mainly from Democrats viewing him more favorably in light of the dumpster fire currently inhabiting the White House; meanwhile Obama's numbers haven't yet improved where Republicans are concerned on account of him still being a black guy.
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[h=1]If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy[/h]Nothing to be shamed of if the president doesn't know.
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CNN showed a brief clip of Trump voters enthusiastically supporting Trump shoving the PM of Montenegro, because "strength".
People too stupid to breathe.
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[h=1]If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy[/h]Nothing to be shamed of if the president doesn't know.
I still want a part of any political debate to be handing each of the candidates an unlabeled map and pencil.
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that a fairly well-off Republican district didn't baulk at voting for a woman who said she didn't believe in a living wage.
Which makes it extra lol to have Berniebros suggesting Ossof lost because he didn't go harder left.–- Update From New Post Merge ---
Solid reminder that conservative suburbs are a poison very much on par with conservative backwoods, and don't get enough abuse for it.
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The optimism I will take from this (aside from the actually very promising yet not sexy statistical suggestion of it), is that the longer even a minor victory is denied the left in this country, the more driven we will be for 18'. The more blue balled and constipated our sense of sticking one back to them gets essentially.
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The proletariat of northern Georgia simply have no choice but to vote for Republicans because the perfidious Democrats refuse to endorse Full Communism.
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For a bit of lighter news. Some alt-right droogs got in an altercation with a pair of olive skinned Middle Eastern looking fellows in LA, and one of the alt-righters ended up stabbed a bunch.
Except turns out the swarthy Middle Easterners were Armenians. So I'm basically imagining a scenario here where the alt-right idiots started up some islamophobic shit, on dudes who were probably immigrants from the land of being shat on by Turks and Azeris. And I hear there are some nasty Armenian gang bangers in LA so welp.
The funniest part is the obvious bullshit "story" the alt-righters are offering of it being a hate crime lol.
Middle Eastern Christians on average do not identify as anything less than as white and European as they possibly can. They do not go around talking like cartoon black teen gangsters saying shit like "I'm going to shank you whiteboy" ahahaha.I'd love to hear the alt-right sitting around writing their bullshit script for this event.
AND THEN AND THEN, AND THEN THE ARMENIAN MAN SAID "YO YO YO, IMA STICK A CAP IN YOUR ASS PECKERWOOD, FOR SHIZZLE MY NIZZLE". MAN THE COPS WILL HAVE TO BELIEVE US THEN. -
He also doesn't have health insurance.
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The funniest part is when you consider that calling Armenian LA gangbangers Muslim, likely resulted in a stabbing because of their own old world blood feud style islamophobia.
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Trump is supposed to be a shame for the US and all, they say his popularity sucks now, that the Dems will take the Senate in 2018, but somehow the Reps are still winning winning winning. Why?
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Because every election so far has been in the Confederacy.
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Why USA elections are not percentage based
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Because every election so far has been in the Confederacy.
So, do Bernie's supporters keep electing the Reps then? and btw when will the elections that matter happen ?
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Coming to the UK in 2019 (If at all)
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So, do Bernie's supporters keep electing the Reps then? and btw when will the elections that matter happen ?
No, Bernie Bros are not the problem here unless they just aren't turning up to the polls (unlikely, considering high turnout).
The reason Democrats are struggling to win is because most of the special congressional elections have occurred in districts that lean heavily right. It's no accident, since the partisan lean of a district effects how extreme their elected officials are, and Trump has been infamously assembling his Assholes Gallery.
Democrats have come close but fallen short in every contest so far largely because they've had such a steep hill to climb in each of these red districts. Even Georgia 6, which went to Trump by a small margin, has a 30-year history of exclusively Republican representatives.
There's also the inverse effect of what we're used to seeing. Low turnout actually helps Democrats more than the GOP since the Democratic base is more energized to stop Trump. In a heavily publicized election like Georgia 6 with "national implications," more Republicans likely felt obligated to turn up and support their party, which is one reason Ossof fell short.
The important elections are the midterms, which happen in November 2018.
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The last time a lot of these districts voted Democrat, being a Democrat meant being against anti-lynching laws.
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There's two gubernational races happing later this year too, in New Jersey and Virginia. One is already in the bag for Democrats (thnx McReek) the other one will be interesting. Though Virginia has been leaning dem for a while now.
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Mitch McConnell believes 10 hours is more than enough time to amend and debate healthcare legislation, that hardly anyone knows the details of. There will be a Senate vote on the bill next Thursday.
I'd like to share California Senator Kamala Harris's speech from the Senate floor on Monday too. She briefly mentions a democratic healthcare bill she has contributed to towards the end.
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Trump is supposed to be a shame for the US and all, they say his popularity sucks now, that the Dems will take the Senate in 2018, but somehow the Reps are still winning winning winning. Why?
Because all these off-season recent elections have been in red districts and VERY red districts, and the reason they've been news that is getting to you is that people are marveling at how close the races are being when normally they wouldn't be. Close enough that each time people have wondered if maybe the Democrat would even win.
So yes even with Dem losses all of them are highly indicative that his popularity sucks now. And indicative of the Dems maybe taking the House in 2018 (no one is seriously expecting them to take the Senate). -
And this was when Dems were losing races in Ohio and California. Media had written them off (like they're doing now), then they won landslides in the House and Senate (the same "hopeless" Senate map of 2018) 18 months later. And they didn't even have any policies, besides Bush sux/Iraq blows.
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Or this extremely poorly dated little Onion blurb about young senator Obama around the same time.
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/democratic-senator-strides-down-corridors-of-power-9613–- Update From New Post Merge ---
This on the other hand was downright prophetic!