The News Thread
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CiG
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crimsonfloyd
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They stand for nothing and have minimal ideology or principles, so basically anyone with power (aka donors) can board them and direct them to their own ends.
CiG
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This tends to come with the territory of a broad coalition candidate, especially during an election where the guiding ideology is whatever will work to remove Trump.
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crimsonfloyd
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One of the best things about Biden’s word salads is once you decipher them, there’s almost always something bigoted lying underneath.
He also had this cringe gem of pandering
Of course, Trump didn’t exactly win the day with “Herd mentality.” God this election is so terrible.
He also had this cringe gem of pandering
Of course, Trump didn’t exactly win the day with “Herd mentality.” God this election is so terrible.
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rms
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crimsonfloyd
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I 100% feel for the businesses that got destroyed by looters, especially the family owned and independent businesses that could not afford that sort of hit. However, the Republican establishment can save me their hand-wringing and fake outrage. They don't give a shit about these businesses. If they did, they would have given them enough grants to get through the pandemic and economic crash, instead of handing over trillions of dollars to corporations. They're just exploiting their loss for political gain.
Yup, super disturbing. I'm interested to see if this was just one unhinged doctor or if it was based on some sort of directive.
Dak
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I'm betting one doctor trying to maximize billing on a gov contract. Seen it before with the military.
crimsonfloyd
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Serjeant Grumbles
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Oh, you just know that Galapacrite shitcunt was gleefully waiting for just such an opportunity.
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RIP RBG, you made maybe three good decisions over your nearly 30 years as a judge but that's still better than some.
I seriously doubt that Trump and the Senate will push through another justice but I hope they try.
If drinking from a water fountain in a fountain-toilet fusion constitutes "drinking from a toilet", I'm willing to bet that "forced hysterectomy" is some chola with an extra bad case of the herp being incorrectly diagnosed with cervical cancer. Also, convenient news at a time when the Hispanic vote is looking like Trump's last chance.
I seriously doubt that Trump and the Senate will push through another justice but I hope they try.
If drinking from a water fountain in a fountain-toilet fusion constitutes "drinking from a toilet", I'm willing to bet that "forced hysterectomy" is some chola with an extra bad case of the herp being incorrectly diagnosed with cervical cancer. Also, convenient news at a time when the Hispanic vote is looking like Trump's last chance.
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I was just thinking of two recent cases and throwing out a hypothetical third for margin of error (Timbs v Indiana, which she wrote and limited civil forfeiture a bit; Gamble vs US, which failed but attempted to end double jeopardy between state and federal charges). I was kind of shitposting, but she did have some civil libertarian cred alongside all the bad. Although she also supported the verdict in Kelo v. City of New London which ruled that states can use eminent domain to seize private property and give it to corporations in the name of utilitarianism, so yeah fuck her too.
mutantllama
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One of my dads best friends was involved with that shit, you could throw a rock and hit the Kelo house from his house. The fucked up thing is that property never ended up being used.
Baroque
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Lee Kerslake, drummer on Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, has died
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/20/entertainment/lee-kerslake-obit/index.html
RIP
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/20/entertainment/lee-kerslake-obit/index.html
RIP
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crimsonfloyd
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What the Dems should do:
-Call for unanimous consent on every bill
-Force every bill to read aloud
-Shut down the government if Republicans refuse to wait until January
-Impeach Trump over and over until January to freeze the senate
-Commit to stacking the Supreme Court the moment Biden is sworn in
What the Dems will do:
-A few grandstanding speeches
-A pin or something else symbolic to honor Ginsburg
-Some pitiful appeals to "moderate" Republicans
-Act like there's nothing they could do once Trump's justice is appointed
For the record, I would only endorse the continuation of those hardball tactics if Biden wins the presidency and/or Dems win the senate. If they lose they lose. However, if they let the Republicans change the rules on them yet again without the fight of their life, then the entire leadership of the Dem party needs to be removed.
-Call for unanimous consent on every bill
-Force every bill to read aloud
-Shut down the government if Republicans refuse to wait until January
-Impeach Trump over and over until January to freeze the senate
-Commit to stacking the Supreme Court the moment Biden is sworn in
What the Dems will do:
-A few grandstanding speeches
-A pin or something else symbolic to honor Ginsburg
-Some pitiful appeals to "moderate" Republicans
-Act like there's nothing they could do once Trump's justice is appointed
For the record, I would only endorse the continuation of those hardball tactics if Biden wins the presidency and/or Dems win the senate. If they lose they lose. However, if they let the Republicans change the rules on them yet again without the fight of their life, then the entire leadership of the Dem party needs to be removed.
