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[User 463088]

Is it available online? I hate being a cord cutter sometimes.

I pay for a VPN so I can watch the real BBC not the Americanized version. It's quite good. The first episode is about his first 100 days and how bad the economy really was. It's a BBC Two documentary series so quality isn't surprising. I'm not sure if it's on anywhere else.

Edit: I forgot I was on iPlayer when I posted originally. I had been on PBS.Sorry.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Frankly, Politico says a lot of BS things when they're trying to create a story out of nothing. Notwithstanding I'm sure he, alongside the other members of Cabinet, helped to shape the agenda. And they have to make hay out of the veepstakes now that the nominations are basically wrapped.

I'm not writing him off, I just don't see running Labor with limited other major political office as the launching pad and background that would prepare someone for the Presidency. Setting aside that I guess nothing can prepare one. There's presumably a reason half a dozen other Secretaries would assume the role before him right now.

 

[Thoraxes]

Well at least we can all agree that if N'sync doesn't get the nom, well all vote for the Backstreet Boys in november. Unless you want a Color me Badd presidency.

Hopefully Justin doesn't run as an independent and screw us over.

Watch out for 98° though. They can still pull through!

 

[The Technomancer]

 

[User 463088]

The 2nd is not a real thing a real person posted is it?

 

[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Revolver "I love to reload during battle!" Ocelot is too boring in MGS5 :/

The 2nd is not a real thing a real person posted is it?

Polygon once made a chart regarding Mario Kart WiiU sales and WiiU sales and it was very bad. This is that chart with different labels.

 

[User 463088]

Revolver "I love to reload during battle!" Ocelot is too boring in MGS5 :/



Polygon once made a chart regarding Mario Kart WiiU sales and WiiU sales and it was very bad. This is that chart with different labels.

Oh thank the Lord. I couldn't have dealt with that being a real argument someone made. Man y'all need to find a way to watch this documentary. Really good insight into the Obama administration trying to save the economy.

 

[Chichikov]

Revolver "I love to reload during battle!" Ocelot is too boring in MGS5 :/

 

[Clefargle]

The 2nd is not a real thing a real person posted is it?

It was in polygon's Bernie endorsement

 

[Y2Kev]

It's the "I love country music" shirt with Hillary's face in the middle.

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[CCS]

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Holy shit that is absolutely terrifying. I'll be seeing that in my nightmares.

 

[FloydtheFathead]

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Is that Ivy's mom?

 

[CCS]

Interesting fact which kind of demonstrates the problem with Sanders' campaign:

In states with less than 50 pledged delegates, Sanders has won 6 states and lost 4.
In states with 50 or more pledged delegates, Sanders has won 3 and lost 13

 

[Diablos]

Pennsylvanian here -- the Poconos, coal regions, Appalachia and most of the western part of the state are going to go for Trump. The Lehigh Valley region is home to a lot of movement conservatives who will probably break for Cruz. I could see Kasich doing reasonably well in the more urban and suburban areas.

Pennsylvania has been sending out voter registrations automatically since the Tom Wolf Medicaid expansion as per the ACA law.

It doesn't matter. Pittsburgh and Philly are still staying blue. Not to mention all the counties in eastern PA around Philly as well.

 

[fantomena]

So apparently tha happiest country in the world (World Happiness Report) has Bernies political plattform as ideology.

 

[Y2Kev]

Interesting fact which kind of demonstrates the problem with Sanders' campaign:

In states with less than 50 pledged delegates, Sanders has won 6 states and lost 4.
In states with 50 or more pledged delegates, Sanders has won 3 and lost 13

The problem with the sanders campaign is sanders. I mean he and his campaign deserve a ton of credit for making this somewhat of a real race. He's not a coalition candidate, he's not taking PAC money, he's not as well known as his challenger. There are lots of reasons why the race tightened (both a result of his efforts and not) but he never had a chance. That we will look back at the end and saw that he won 15+ states is impressive.

The way I'll judge Bernie personally is how he works to bring his voters into the Democratic Party for the general and beyond that.

 

[sc0la]

If we're just throwing wonks who may or may not speak Spanish, let's just get Matt Yglesias as VP.

At least work might be done on public transport!

I'm okay with this but I had him down for Secratary of Sarcasm.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

I expected to read some stuff about how Hillary got such a dominant win in Ohio... But nothing.

 

[Elaugaufein]

So apparently tha happiest country in the world (World Happiness Report) has Bernies political plattform as ideology.

Those countries always rank highly on that Report and frequently win. But there's a lot of reasons that doesn't map well to the US (social, cultural and economic).

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Those countries always rank highly on that Report and frequently win. But there's a lot of reasons that doesn't map well to the US (social, cultural and economic).

Size too, geographical and population wise.

 

[HylianTom]

I expected to read some stuff about how Hillary got such a dominant win in Ohio... But nothing.

What was supposed to be a day of glorious afterglow coverage was instead short-circuited by a SCOTUS nomination and a Cleveland riot threat. The news cycle giveth cover in bad situations (Reagan & AIDS), and it taketh away in good situations (Electric Boogaloo Tuesday sweep!)..

 

[linkboy]

The problem with the sanders campaign is sanders. I mean he and his campaign deserve a ton of credit for making this somewhat of a real race. He's not a coalition candidate, he's not taking PAC money, he's not as well known as his challenger. There are lots of reasons why the race tightened (both a result of his efforts and not) but he never had a chance. That we will look back at the end and saw that he won 15+ states is impressive.

The way I'll judge Bernie personally is how he works to bring his voters into the Democratic Party for the general and beyond that.

Exactly.

I'm really hoping that people who support him (which I do), don't just throw their hands up and walk away after he doesn't get the nomination (which was always a long shot).

The best way to enact the changes that he's pushing for is to do it from the bottom up, through the states, then to the federal level. It's not going to be an overnight switch.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

What was supposed to be a day of glorious afterglow coverage was instead short-circuited by a SCOTUS nomination and a Cleveland riot threat. The news cycle giveth cover in bad situations (Reagan & AIDS), and it taketh away in good situations (Electric Boogaloo Tuesday sweep!)..

I was looking at print media for it mainly. Sucks. Because the margin took everybody by surprise I think. The only thing I have read is about a lot of anti-NAFTA Dems in Youngstown voting for Trump and not Sanders.

 

[HylianTom]

I was looking at print media for it mainly. Sucks. Because the margin took everybody by surprise I think. The only thing I have read is about a lot of anti-NAFTA Dems in Youngstown voting for Trump and not Sanders.

I'm disappointed, too. We're going to look back on Tuesday as one of the biggest days of this whole primary cycle, and I'm hoping to get a thorough dissection. The issues that influenced voters, the effect of Trump on voting decisions among Democrats, the ground game, the expectations game..

 

[Poodlestrike]

I feel you. Kyle told me he only moderately likes Panic! at the Disco. I want us to go into therapy, but he's being an idiot about it.

Has anyone played The Political Machine 2016? I saw it online and I was thinking aboug getting it.

I loved the hell out of... I think 2008 back in the day, but ever since they switched from drawn avatars to these hideous 3D bobbleheads I've been totally unable to enjoy them.

Mechanics are probably still solid though.

Edit: Ah, no, it was from before they started numbering them, the original The Political Machine.

Before:

After:

 

[Elaugaufein]

I was looking at print media for it mainly. Sucks. Because the margin took everybody by surprise I think. The only thing I have read is about a lot of anti-NAFTA Dems in Youngstown voting for Trump and not Sanders.

I wouldn't expect that explain things by itself, by the time you're looking at people old enough to specifically be anti-NAFTA, you're looking at people who are ~35+ who don't break anywhere near as dramatically for Sanders in the first place.

 

[fantomena]

Those countries always rank highly on that Report and frequently win. But there's a lot of reasons that doesn't map well to the US (social, cultural and economic).

Size too, geographical and population wise.

According to Robert Reich, Thomas Pikketty and more, those arguments are useless.

 

[FiggyCal]

Apparently making a living wage as a fast food worker only makes you happy if you live in a small country.

 

[dramatis]

According to Robert Reich, Thomas Pikketty and more, those arguments are useless.

So tell me in detail how and why Robert Reich and Thomas Pikketty think those arguments are useless.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Well a state capitalist oil driven economy funding a US welfare state isn't impossible, just implausible and probably vehemently opposed.

The US should probably apply some of Trump's 45% tariffs on Scandinavian products as a happy tax.

 

[FloydtheFathead]

The US should probably apply some of Trump's 45% tariffs on Scandinavian products as a happy tax.

Or the most luxurious tax known to man.

 

[fantomena]

So tell me in detail how and why Robert Reich and Thomas Pikketty think those arguments are useless.

I don't remember the specifics, but both of them has said that America needs huge reforms to get all the social reforms, it will be difficulty, but it can happen.

 

[FiggyCal]

For Political Machine: does every candidate start with a blank state or do some start with an advantage. I'm thinking about getting it, but only if I can win the presidency as Bobby Jindal.

 

[FloydtheFathead]

For Political Machine: does every candidate start with a blank state or do some start with an advantage. I'm thinking about getting it, but only if I can win the presidency as Bobby Jindal.

Retro's brightest timeline

 

[Poodlestrike]

For Political Machine: does every candidate start with a blank state or do some start with an advantage. I'm thinking about getting it, but only if I can win the presidency as Bobby Jindal.

Well, IIRC, you can basically build them however you want, so you could definitely play as Bobby Jindal. He might even be one of the premades.

Winning as Jindal, now, that'd be another thing altogether.

 

[NeoXChaos]

Matt Canter ‏@mattcanter 2h2 hours ago
Orrin Hatch makes #scotus news on @npr. Suggests they will move on Garland after Hillary is elected in Nov. Block her from making own pick

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[HUELEN10]

 

[sprsk]

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Sooo uhhh I guess they dont expect a win in November lol.

 

[Jarmel]

Trying to have their cake and eat it too. Yea no. Hope he withdraws the nomination at that point.

 

[FloydtheFathead]

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Excellent.

 

[HylianTom]

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Oh man.. that's not going to go over well.

 

[Pastry]

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Can't Obama just rescind the nomination of Garland at that point?

 

[CCS]

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I'm pretty sure Obama withdraws the nomination by then if they try pulling that shit.

 

[Clefargle]

I feel you. Kyle told me he only moderately likes Panic! at the Disco. I want us to go into therapy, but he's being an idiot about it.

Has anyone played The Political Machine 2016? I saw it online and I was thinking aboug getting it.

Best PaTD song:
Nails for Breakfast, tacks for snacks

On topic: can't wait for Hildawg and trump to be on the same stage for a debate

 

[Gotchaye]

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This makes a huge mess out of the argument for delaying a vote at all, since the whole idea is that it's not fair to the next president or the voters to let a president pick a justice in his last year. Now it's only okay to confirm a justice in the lame duck?

 

[Tesseract]

isn't regressive authoritarianism unwittingly strengthening everything awful about the west

trump is the balloon, idk what the needle is

 

[Jarmel]

This makes a huge mess out of the argument for delaying a vote at all, since the whole idea is that it's not fair to the next president or the voters to let a president pick a justice in his last year. Now it's only okay to confirm a justice in the lame duck?

They're being transparent as fuck on this.

 

[CCS]

This makes a huge mess out of the argument for delaying a vote at all, since the whole idea is that it's not fair to the next president or the voters to let a president pick a justice in his last year. Now it's only okay to confirm a justice in the lame duck?

The Democrats must be rubbing their hands with glee and trying to think of the most perfect way to frame this.

 

[Tesseract]

seems to me that succumbing to democratic dogmatism has ruined us

babylon 5 was right, we've ignored workers for too long

this revelation darkens our timeline

 

[Y2Kev]

Republicans are being so weird about this. Their initial message was good. American people decide blah blah. Why are they misplaying their hand so badly?