Man, I dunno why but I'm just randomly getting mad about the Supreme Court vacancy now. Before I had kinda laughed it off like "well Repubs, keep this shit up and we'll have Hillary ram someone younger/more liberal in after the election." But like...now I'm imagining if Trump actually won somehow, and got to stick a new wingnut in Scalia's seat nearly an entire year after the vacancy. Shit's ridiculous.
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Knuckle Sandwich
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I bet Alan Grayson would say yes. Bernie Sanders/Alan Grayson and his stupid fucking american flag tie 2016.
There's no Bernie fever in Florida to begin with.
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
excelsiorlef
Member
That's not even clever lol
NYCmetsfan
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"lets disenfranchise black voters"
These people think they're the "real progressives"
Can we discount WV, SD, ND, MT, ID too?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Let's start with Florida and Ohio I think.
Knuckle Sandwich
Member
Maybe if minorities see all the "smart" states(as Bernie calls them) vote the right way they'll see the white... er, the light.
IMO everyone should vote at once! I am tired of being last goddamnit. It's gonna be so fucking hot here in cali standing in line to vote. Fuck.
whyamihere
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Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada are all blue states?
VendettaRed07
Member
Iowa- Midwest
New Hampshire- Northeast
Nevada- West
South Carolina- South
Bernie lost 3/4.
The balance of the early states is fine. The primary is not overloaded with southern states early.
Only change I'd make is California needs to happen WAY sooner.
New Hampshire- Northeast
Nevada- West
South Carolina- South
Bernie lost 3/4.
The balance of the early states is fine. The primary is not overloaded with southern states early.
Only change I'd make is California needs to happen WAY sooner.
California used to be. In 2008 it was in February, and before that, in March. Clinton won it by quite a bit, too.
Knuckle Sandwich
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Speaking of doing stuff out in the summer hell of Cali, I am about to sign up to volunteer for Hillary. Won't really do much good in Fresno though. I think we are either the second or third most conservative city in the state and top 20 in America. Sometimes you drive by and there's a liberal protest about something very important and there are like 5 dudes on the corner. Nobody honks at their signs. :-(
jack_package_200
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I believe in you
Spoiled Milk
Banned
To be fair, Fresno is the asshole of California and I'm sorry whenever I have to drive past it.
Frozenprince
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That's not fair to Bakersfield. It called dibs on being the ass. Fresno is like the sweaty taint or something.
User 463088
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I've never played any version of Doom. It'll never be as good as the god tier fps Red Steel in the Wii.
User 85168
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Worst taste in literally everything. Pizza. Alcohol. Videogames.
All very important things in life. Such sad choices!
its way better
shinra-bansho
Member
One of the harassment weirdos is named Tyler. The name continues to be besmirched.
User 463088
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I'm not even being shady. All t, Red Steel is my favorite FPS of all time. I've seen some videos of Doom. May give it a try.
Red Steel? I know.
VendettaRed07
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I liked Red Steel
The sequel sucked. Instead of fixing the issues with the game, they just changed everything about it, even the stuff that was sort of good.
The sequel sucked. Instead of fixing the issues with the game, they just changed everything about it, even the stuff that was sort of good.
User 463088
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Exactly. Red Steel 2 isn't a Red Steel game. For what it was it was fine... But it wasn't Red Steel.
Also, Ted Strickland's people hit me up for money tonight. They thanked me for supporting him in the primary.... Which didn't happen. I voted for Sittenfeld. I agreed with his policy positions way more... okay that's a lie. Hes hot. And it didn't matter anyway.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
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R= I need recommendations for a good breakfast place in Fresno. Every year my fiancé and I drive from Boise to her family's cabin on the edge of Sequoia National Park. We leave in the evening and drive straight through the night so that we can make the most of our week off.
The plan is always to stop in Fresno, hit up the Trader Joe's for groceries and then drive up the mountain to her cabin. This year we got into Fresno an hour before Trader Joe's opened, so I googled 'best breakfast in Fresno' and the Fresno Breakfast House came up. It sounded like a reasonable place to go...
It is the ugliest, tackiest, worst restaurant I've ever been to. American flags on the dirty plates. Jesus stuff all over the walls. Shit coffee and cold food.
Rant is over. If you can recommend a good alternative, I'd greatly appreciate it. There's nothing worse than driving 14 hours straight and paying good money for a bad breakfast.
User 463088
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Omg that place looks amazing.
Reticent Rhino
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It was an open field (no incumbent Pres or VP running) for both parties for the first time in ages, so a bunch of states wanted to be as early as possible because they each believed it would maximize their own influence over the process
...so we ended up with a Super Tuesday in early February with 25 contests on one day bc we are bad at solving the Prisoner's Dilemma ¯\_(ツ
_/¯(and ofc Michigan and Florida infamously moved their primary dates up too early, ignoring the delegate penalties the DNC and RNC threatened bc their legislatures assumed they're important enough states in the general that they'd backpedal)
2008 was also when Nevada was moved up, to add a Western and significant latino pop. state to the early states.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I instantly realized when we walked in that it was a place for old people. Or at the very least, someone's grandma handled the interior decoration.
User 463088
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I have this affinity for like shitty restaurant provided they're not going to give me a disease or something. We have a place here that's been here since the 60s. Like it's just awful. I love it. They bring water and sliced white sandwich bread with every meal. It's so bad. I'd my second favorite place to eat.
We have neighborhood corner stores around New Orleans where, upon walking in, you'd think it's still 1985. Wood paneling on the walls, faded tiles, old shelving, old refrigeration display cases, faded soft drink advertisements, old cash register, cigarette ads, an old arcade game or two, leftover flowered green/brown/orange kitchen chairs in the sitting area in front of the store.
I adore old establishments like this. They're like little time capsules where, if someone tried to deliberately duplicate the theme, it'd feel fake and hokey.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
I can get on board with that if the price is right. This ended up being around $32 or $35 for the two of us. I do love greasy diners normally.
This sounds like Fresno. Should've just went to an ihop.TL
Every year my fiancé and I drive from Boise to her family's cabin on the edge of Sequoia National Park. We leave in the evening and drive straight through the night so that we can make the most of our week off.
The plan is always to stop in Fresno, hit up the Trader Joe's for groceries and then drive up the mountain to her cabin. This year we got into Fresno an hour before Trader Joe's opened, so I googled 'best breakfast in Fresno' and the Fresno Breakfast House came up. It sounded like a reasonable place to go...
It is the ugliest, tackiest, worst restaurant I've ever been to. American flags on the dirty plates. Jesus stuff all over the walls. Shit coffee and cold food.
Rant is over. If you can recommend a good alternative, I'd greatly appreciate it. There's nothing worse than driving 14 hours straight and paying good money for a bad breakfast.
disastermouse
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She's the crank I'm voting for in November if Bernie doesn't go independent. Unless it's close and Hillary is close to winning, in which case I'll have to vote for Trump.
I'm in Wisconsin. It's white, rust belt, exactly the kind of place Trump might win against Hills, so probably not necessary.
aspiegamer
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If the first four were all within a week it would work a lot better in trying to find a candidate that's more disciplined and can work with a wide variety of demographics. Their being spaced out permits too much refocusing to each separately. Also 2 caucuses vs 2 primaries is weird.
Florida + Ohio next would work. 2 weeks later perhaps. After initially getting a feel for the field everyone still standing gets a trial by fire in the only states that are going to matter for the next 20 years. Whoever can win those both is almost assuredly going to be the best GE candidate. Run California + Texas on the same day, another 2 weeks later. This would give any one-off populist stuff time to burn itself out, and even if it had done well in OH/FL with a specific message or home field advantage the big states voting next could correct any delegate leads. A clear frontfunner after that would be extremely hard to beat.
After that, I don't know, random draw for 6 contests a week for 8 weeks? 5 states + 1 territory. End middle of April, nominee would probably be clear after CA/TX but if someone developed actual (as in actual, not Sanders) momentum they'd have a chance. Keep Supers, please. A Sanders hijacking this year would have made an easy win for Trump, but thankfully Clinton doesn't even need the help. No Supers means Trump. Use that example until the day you die as to why Democrats have them.
Cruz managed to soundly beat him here, lol. The state is heavy establishment for both parties with a CD of communists in the southwest and a CD of libertarians outside Milwaukee.
Bam Bam Baklava
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We get it, you're an agitator.
Black Mamba
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Recently on a day off my mom asked me if she wanted me to join her and her friends at the sizzler.
I texted her back and asked if she was texting me from 1988.
I haven't been in one since god knows when but when I drive by one or looks like it's stuck in the past.
My mom has some older friends, haha. Adam would love to hang I bet.
disastermouse
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I'm a formerly reliably democrat voter.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Why do you think the party should placate your views any more than they should mine? An independent moderate who votes reliably Democrat?
Odds are, my views represent more voters than yours, which are fringe left.
disastermouse
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So you're a Republican except for abortion, identity politics, and guns?
And I used to believe that Democrats worked, in general, in the interests of the working class. At the very least, they wanted to appear as if they did.
Neoliberals already have a party.
Frozenprince
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Amen. In the town in upstate NY my parents moved too, there's this low end quasi trattoria/pizza place an Italian immigrant opened in the 80's and, holy shit it's amazing. I wish I had pictures but, remember when every other restaurant in town opening was a crappy italian place with murals of Venice on the walls, hanging plants everywhere, crappy wood booths and table cloths? This place is one of those that's lasted exactly like that (It even has the same carpet) for 30+ years.
I just love places like that.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
What a pathetically binary way of viewing the world. Either with us or against us, either pure or impure, and all that other gibberish.
I'm just a pragmatist that can't stand ideologues of any flavor.
Frozenprince
Banned
Are... are you me?
disastermouse
Banned
I'm not binary for thinking that the most important difference between political ideologies is economic - regarding matters of ownership of wealth, management of resources in the interests of the greater public, and at the very least having a more easily survivable social safety net. That viewpoint is vastly under-represented. It boggles my mind that Hillary had to be made to promise that she wouldn't cut Social Security while Donald Trump repeatedly stated he wouldn't cut Social Security in a room that was much more openly hostile to that position.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Trump writes a lot of checks he can't cash, then he waffles on them and says the opposite. He's tough on Wall Street but he's going to gut Dodd-Frank and raise money with the RNC.
What a joke.
googleplex
Member
What a pathetic and intellectually lazy argument. If he dosen't agree with you 100% then he's a republican? What the hell is wrong with you?
You know what? never mind. Please go and vote green and be and "independent" We democrats don't need or WANT your brand of extremist in our party. Go off to your tiny little corner, vote Jill stein and stew in your angry impotent juices. While we adults who actually give a fuck about the future of our country and the progressive moment get to the real work.
Frozenprince
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You do know Wisconsin is a swing state right?
Voting for Jill Stein, no matter where you live, might as well be burning your ballot for all the good it does you.
Voting for Jill Stein, no matter where you live, might as well be burning your ballot for all the good it does you.
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