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PoliGAF 2016 |OT6| Delete your accounts

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ItWasMeantToBe19

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Gruender authored the Eighth Circuit's opinion in In Re Union Pacific Railroad Employment Practices Litigation, No. 06-1706, which concluded that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 did not give female employees the right to insurance coverage for contraceptives used solely to prevent pregnancy.[5][6] This opinion has been cited in the context of the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contraception mandate.[7][8][9]

In Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota v. Rounds, No. 05-3093, a panel of the Eighth Circuit upheld an injunction that struck down a South Dakota informed consent law that required abortion providers to inform patients, among other things, that an "abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." Gruender dissented, arguing that the law was constitutional and did not unduly burden women seeking abortions or infringe on the freedom of speech of physicians. The Eighth Circuit heard the case en banc and ruled in 2008 by a vote of 7–4, in an opinion authored by Gruender, that the law was, on its face, constitutional.[10][11]

In Little Rock School District v. North Little Rock School District, No. 04-2923 (2006), Gruender opposed the opinion of a panel of the Eighth Circuit that affirmed the district court's conclusion that federal desegregation monitoring should remain in effect in Little Rock, Arkansas. After the desegregation effort of the Little Rock Nine in 1957, the federal government began monitoring the school district in 1965. The Eighth Circuit agreed with the district court that the Little Rock district did not successfully evaluate its academic programs for how well they helped black students. Gruender dissented, arguing that the district court abused its discretion in mandating federal monitoring by using "impossibly subjective" criteria. The district court subsequently agreed with Gruender's reasoning and freed the school district from federal desegregation monitoring. In 2009, the Eighth Circuit then upheld the district court's decision in another appeal, No. 07-1866.[12][13]
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Trump really wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

And Trump's judges hate black people, but that's unsurprising.
 
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studyguy

Member
Cards Against Humanity just dropped a Trump Bug Out Bag (actually a new card pack for CAH), it includes a bunch of other stuff as a joke such as:

Flint & Steel
Space Blanket
Large Duffel
Gas Mask
Hand Crank Radio
Misc Currency from Latin American Countries
Some phrases for said country 'I am a refugee from the US'
Citizen Application for Mexico
Locket with Obama's photo

A pre-packed duffle bag with over a dozen items
hand-picked to help you survive the collapse of
civilization after Donald Trump is elected President
of the United States. Includes the Cards Against
Humanity Trump Pack with 25 new jokes about
frightening demagogue Donald Trump.
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Pretty good lmao
 
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NeoXChaos

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Nate Cohn ‏@Nate_Cohn 26m26 minutes ago Washington, DC
Okay, so you don't like closed primaries. Clinton won 12 open primaries for a net-287 delegates. All S wins (closed/open/caucus) = net-226

Nate Cohn ‏@Nate_Cohn 34m34 minutes ago Washington, DC
If the nation of Canada were permitted to vote in the Dem primary and it voted like Oregon, Clinton would still have a 200 pledged del. lead

Nate Cohn ‏@Nate_Cohn 39m39 minutes ago Washington, DC
Sanders could catch up to Clinton in pledged delegates if there were 30 more Oregons left to vote.

Nate Cohn ‏@Nate_Cohn 43m43 minutes ago Washington, DC
Sanders netted 226 dels in 21 wins. Clinton canceled that with 5 wins for 244 dels: NY/FL/TX/GA/VA. She then won 23 more for net-254 dels.
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yup

Wow. Those 2 OT threads are HOT. One last hurrah of anger and vitriol before the end is near?
 
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Iolo

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Jack Remington said:
I got absolutely wrecked by boxes and boxes of late Bernie ballots. Never been more furious in my life. The No on Bernie+10 seemed so inevitable (since he was up 5.9 with 66% in) that I peaced out for awhile, watched some tv, played some music.

Came back to see that my +160 G/L was now -200. I managed to sell my shares for 10c on the dollar, but this loss hurts.

Bernie Bros ruin fucking everything.
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If it's any consolation, it was probably just fraud.
 
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Cesare Borgia

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Abinash117 said:
http://fortune.com/2016/05/17/trump-campaign-scrambles-to-build-battleground-state-organization/




Also he signed a join fundraising deal with RNC now.

Targeting those states seems really stupid to me and a waste of resources; on the other hand it can mean that Democrats would have to defend more states and risk losing them if they become competitive, but that is so unlikely. Probably were he is going to use Bernie attacks on Clinton.
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I knew it. He's dumb enough to contest New York and California.
 
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Holmes

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My latina sister-in-law asked me why I hate white cis males and why I force myself to like Clinton because she's female.
 
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ampere

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adam387 said:
I just got a phone call from a Bernie volunteer....asking me to vote in the New Jersey primary.

1) I've never lived, visited or flown over New Jersey.
2) I've never given my contact information to the Bernie people.
3) The guy was from Germany...which is fine, but when I told him I lived in Ohio he asked me if it was close enough that I could go vote in New Jersey?
4) He sounded like he was 11.

I'm confused.
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So... is the answer to number 3 yes? I'm 12 and what is this

Holmes said:
My latina sister-in-law asked me why I hate white cis males and why I force myself to like Clinton because she's female.
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Only reply to that is "girl please"

Is she normally crazy like that
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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Jack Remington said:
I got absolutely wrecked by boxes and boxes of late Bernie ballots. Never been more furious in my life. The No on Bernie+10 seemed so inevitable (since he was up 5.9 with 66% in) that I peaced out for awhile, watched some tv, played some music.

Came back to see that my +160 G/L was now -200. I managed to sell my shares for 10c on the dollar, but this loss hurts.

Bernie Bros ruin fucking everything.
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I made up earlier losses on Hill in KY, then sold some early to throw in that race. I'm back in the red, damnit.

(Still not a large number, but it hurts)
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19

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The GOP is putting out an argument on the overtime rule that is basically "higher wages for the middle class will kill their jobs!" which seems like a really defeatist message in an era where middle class workers want higher wages. Do not understand their political messaging at all recently. They really suck at this.
 
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pigeon

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ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
The GOP is putting out an argument on the overtime rule that is basically "higher wages for the middle class will kill their jobs!" which seems like a really defeatist message in an era where middle class workers want higher wages. Do not understand their political messaging at all recently. They really suck at this.
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They're locked into "Obama wants to destroy capitalism," so all their messaging about Obama stuff has to tie into that theme. Anything Obama does is intended to destroy the private sector.
 
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Holmes

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HUELEN10 said:
How did you answer that, and what did she say?
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I pointed out how ridiculous it is for a latina woman to be defending the most oppressive group in history and saying that I (a gay man) am forcing myself to support someone just because she's a woman, and ended it.
 
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NeoXChaos

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So in 3 weeks the Clinton's are the leaders of the party again. Oh the irony about "turning the page" and "passing the torch" in 08.
 
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Aaron Strife

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NeoXChaos said:
yup

Wow. Those 2 OT threads are HOT. One last hurrah of anger and vitriol before the end is near?
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Yeah that's the problem. Sanders isn't winning by any metric other than caucuses. Blue states, red states, open primaries, closed primaries, doesn't matter. At this point you can only believe Hillary is just cheating if you want to argue that Sanders is really ahead by whatever dumb calculus you want to use.
 
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NeoXChaos

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Devine cited the DNC’s appointment of former Rep. Barney Frank as the chairman of the Democratic National Convention’s Rules Committee and the appointment of Connecticut governor Dan Malloy as the co-chair of the Platform Committee, arguing that both had been “partisan” in their “attacks” on Sanders.

“If we’re going to talk about the fairness of the process, we should look at the people who are charged with responsibility of administering the process,” Devine continued. “It’s hard for us to pronounce the process fair when you have committee chairs who have been overt partisans who attacked Senator Sanders in a way that’s way beyond support of Secretary Clinton.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/18/will-bernie-sanders-burn-it-all-down/
 
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User 463088

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jack_package_200 said:
Stop Causing a Rift and Vote for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Supporters by HA Goodman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JDlrCrDEiA

Hahahahahaha...Goodman
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HylianTom

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Looks like Trump basically looked-up the Heritage Foundation's wish list and did some cribbing..

I rarely make OPs, but I would on this one if I weren't at work.
 
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sangreal

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HylianTom said:
Looks like Trump basically looked-up the Heritage Foundation's wish list and did some cribbing..

I rarely make OPs, but I would on this one if I weren't at work.
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pretty much. a bunch of white conservatives. shocker

but cnn is very impressed that he actually did what he said he would do by putting out a list after telling house republicans he would
 
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Atlagev

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Ignatz Mouse said:
Barney Frank has done more to promote Bernie's pet causes than Bernie ever has or will.
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This is actually what bothered me most in Bernie's speech last night. When he said that the Democratic Party needs to "open its doors" to "people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change."

I mean, it's like, what the fuck?! Does the name John Lewis mean nothing to him? The doors have *been open*! You're a member of their fucking caucus! There have been, are, and will be, many, many Democrats who have fought for the exact ideas you are espousing and claim to have a monopoly on!
 
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Veritigo_X

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studyguy said:
Cards Against Humanity just dropped a Trump Bug Out Bag (actually a new card pack for CAH), it includes a bunch of other stuff as a joke such as:

Flint & Steel
Space Blanket
Large Duffel
Gas Mask
Hand Crank Radio
Misc Currency from Latin American Countries
Some phrases for said country 'I am a refugee from the US'
Citizen Application for Mexico
Locket with Obama's photo


Pretty good lmao
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All 10,000 bags have sold out. Sad!
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Aw, damn.
 
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Box of Kittens

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Atlagev said:
This is actually what bothered me most in Bernie's speech last night. When he said that the Democratic Party needs to "open its doors" to "people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change."

I mean, it's like, what the fuck?! Does the name John Lewis mean nothing to him? The doors have *been open*! You're a member of their fucking caucus! There have been, are, and will be, many, many Democrats who have fought for the exact ideas you are espousing and claim to have a monopoly on!
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These people do not agree 100% with everything Bernie Sanders does, therefore they are not fighting for real change.

Like, this is basically how Bernie thinks. Every day Barney Frank's assessment of him seems more and more accurate.
 
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CDX

Member
adam387 said:
I just got a phone call from a Bernie volunteer....asking me to vote in the New Jersey primary.

1) I've never lived, visited or flown over New Jersey.
2) I've never given my contact information to the Bernie people.
3) The guy was from Germany...which is fine, but when I told him I lived in Ohio he asked me if it was close enough that I could go vote in New Jersey?
4) He sounded like he was 11.

I'm confused.
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I got a call from a German Bernie supporter too! Or at least someone that had a heavy German accent.

Although this was weeks ago, and he at least got my state and primary election date correct.

He called at 6:57 AM though. I was like "WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME AT THIS TIME OF MORNING?" "Do you even KNOW what time it is in the US?"

I was left wondering why the Bernie campaign didn't have somesort of system to prevent off hour calls, and if it did have time restrictions how this German guy bypassed them. Also just how the Bernie campaign even got my number.
 
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User 463088

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CDX said:
I got a call from a German Bernie supporter too! Or at least someone that had a heavy German accent.

Although this was weeks ago, and he at least got my state and primary election date correct.

He called at 6:57 AM though. I was like "WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME AT THIS TIME OF MORNING?" "Do you even KNOW what time it is in the US?"

I was left wondering why the Bernie campaign didn't have somesort of system to prevent off hour calls, and if it did have time restrictions how this German guy bypassed them. Also just how the Bernie campaign even got my number.
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The system shouldn't have let him call you that early. Unless you have an east coast number and live in the west coast now. The dialer program should have not pulled any more numbers before 9:00. That's super weird.
 
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saltypickles

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Matt Taibi's piece on the end of the Republican Party is fantastic:
There never was any real connection between the George Wills, Andrew Sullivans and David Brookses and the gun-toting, Jesus-loving ex-middle-class voters they claimed to embrace. All those intellectuals ever did for Middle America was cook up a sales pitch designed to get them to vote for politicians who would instantly betray them to business interests eager to ship their jobs off to China and India. The most successful trick was linking the corporate mantra of profit without responsibility to the concept of individual liberty.

Into the heartland were sent wave after wave of politicians, each more strident and freedom-y than the last. They arrived draped in the flag, spewed patriotic bromides about God, guns and small-town values, and pledged to give the liberals hell and bring the pride back.

Then they went off to Washington and year after year did absolutely squat for their constituents. They were excellent at securing corporate tax holidays and tax cuts for the rich, but they almost never returned to voter country with jobs in hand. Instead, they brought an ever-increasing list of villains responsible for the lack of work: communists, bra-burning feminists, black "race hustlers," climate-change activists, Muslims, Hollywood, horned owls...

By the Tea Party era, their candidates were forced to point fingers at their own political establishment for votes, since after so many years of bitter economic decline, that was the only story they could still believably sell.
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Trump has turned the new Republican Party into high school. It will be cruel, clique-y and ruled by insult kings like himself and Ann Coulter, whose headline description of Cruz ("Tracy Flick With a Dick") will always resonate with Trump voters more than a thousand George Will columns.

And anyone who crosses the leader from now on will be fair game for the kind of brutal fragging Cruz and his circle experienced in Indiana. Dissenters will be buried under a cannonade of abuse coming from everywhere: Trump, other politicians, reporters, Internet memers, 12-year-olds, everyone. Add tough economic times to the Internet, and this is what you get: Nationalist High.
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Crayons

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if someone calls me before 11 they aren't speaking with me...they are speaking with an evil, angry, tired demon who only sounds like me
 
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itschris

Member
Donald Trump’s gold-plated convention

Indeed, Trump is viewing the convention as a showcase for the brand he built in entertainment over three decades and then melded with a political persona developed over the last year. It’s an opportunity to fill a vacuum created by longtime Republican standard-bearers, from Mitt Romney and John McCain to the Bush family who are opting not to attend, and to elevate a new coalition of conservatives and present a party refashioned, at least for the moment, in his own image.

And Trump plans to create news events too, not just line up speeches by up-and-coming members of the GOP. He’s toying with unveiling a running mate at the convention rather than before. He’s even considering whether to announce his would-be Cabinet.

“Announcing the vice presidential nominee before the convention is like announcing winner of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ before the final show is on the air,” one Trump campaign source said. “This is one of the only opportunities to create tension and drama in the whole show. You better believe Mr. Trump understands that and is looking to maximize that.”

Whereas the vice presidential nominee has generally spoken on the third night of the convention and the presidential candidate has taken the stage on the fourth and final night, Trump is considering a scenario that puts him on stage, delivering remarks on all four nights, reaching millions of potential voters, and driving ratings, according to one source.
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Sounds like the Republican Convention is shaping up to be a reality television show!
 
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dramatis

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adam387 said:
The system shouldn't have let him call you that early. Unless you have an east coast number and live in the west coast now. The dialer program should have not pulled any more numbers before 9:00. That's super weird.
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It's not really that weird, because buggy shit happens all the time with anything slightly higher than 'simple' when it comes to computers.
 
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NYCmetsfan

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todays sucked. I got sick and bernie people on facebook are being stupid

on a positive note I got bruce springsteen after waiting in ticketmasters horrible hell hole of a website!
 
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