Carpe Libertatem
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Gays need to just not be flamboyant and shouldn't talk about how men are attractive Don't make that that stuff public, ugh. Keep your gay nonsense to yourselves
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT2| Well, maybe McMaster isn't a traitor.
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BoogieWoogie
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Sounds like the Senate knows what it's doing.
sazzy
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...?????
Pandora012
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So what was the reason for cancelling everything to begin with? I guess I kinda understand Yates, but not the others.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
It pushed everything back. Yesterday Yates was gonna speak.
Bonen no Max'd
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Senators can't hide in gerrymandered districts. So they can't just appeal to a small slice of the electorate. A Conservative Ham Sandwich would win reelection over a Dem in some of those red districts.
Carpe Libertatem
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It's intended that way. The House is supposed to respond to the "passions of the people," hence elections every 2 years (and more members)
BlastProcessing
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As someone who has watched family members go through similar medical situations (in Montana no less) I'm not seeing much of an issue here. Plenty of americans have had their lives thrown into turmoil due to medial debt and health problems.
My first blush reaction to this, is that it won't affect him much in Montana.
BlastProcessing
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If they don't, they are at least better at hiding it. Nunes always looked like he just ran 10 flights of stairs. Burr knows how to present himself professionally.
Atomic Playboy
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Well Senators have to appeal to the entire state, and there's usually enough pockets of "not completely batshit insane and stupid" in a state to prevent wholly unqualified people from winning. Representatives just have to appeal to that small segment of whatever a particular corner of a particular area thinks about an issue, where opinions are usually much less diverse. That's a recipe for single-issue politicians who are ill-prepared to deal with actual governance, especially when voters in those areas view compromise as failure.
See all the GOP senators that declared the healthcare bill DoA because their states approved Medicaid expansion and it would be political suicide to vote for the bill that would gut Medicaid.
Beer Monkey
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Straight people talking about how people are attractive is fine I'm sure, right?
Fuck off.
You are arguing this on NeoGAF, an enthusiast message forum for nerds.
BlastProcessing
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Carpe Mordacitas
Bonen no Max'd
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Guys Carpe Libertatem was obviously be sarcastic about the guy who told whyamihere to stop calling O'Rourke hot.
In other news, Vox's token socialist Jeff Stein did an article where he asked a bunch of Democrats how they feel about the Sanders/Conyers Medicare for All bill
The only Democrats (at least in the article) who outright said no were McCaskill and Cardin, most of them said "it's more important right now to protect Obamacare until we're in power." Booker said it's an "option that must be considered." Schatz, Warren, and Blumenthal said they support the bill. Pelosi and Schumer didn't give an official opinion when he asked but I laughed at this
In other news, Vox's token socialist Jeff Stein did an article where he asked a bunch of Democrats how they feel about the Sanders/Conyers Medicare for All bill
The only Democrats (at least in the article) who outright said no were McCaskill and Cardin, most of them said "it's more important right now to protect Obamacare until we're in power." Booker said it's an "option that must be considered." Schatz, Warren, and Blumenthal said they support the bill. Pelosi and Schumer didn't give an official opinion when he asked but I laughed at this
Carpe Libertatem
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It doesn't help that my post will be at the top of the page for a lot of people :lol should've quoted it!
MetalGearZed
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Its because you can't Gerrymander the Senate without adding new states, which we haven't done in 60 years.
aka your open gayness is making me uncomfortable.
I will say that generally speaking it's best not to get carried away with how people look, be them female or male and no matter which sex is doing it. But there is nothing wrong with noting somebody is attractive on an enthusiast video game forum.
Your post reeks of bigotry especially your "YAAS Queen nonsense part. God forbid some gay folks on this forum were excited about their favorite candidate, you know the one that doesn't hate them for being what they are or at the least wouldn't have passed laws to make their lives miserable.
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Burr is seems like a straight up dude.
This seems good for the bill really. Obviously not surprising that Schumer and Pelosi won't take a position yet, since it would lay down a marker for their caucus and they need to gauge things first.
Glad that Schatz is getting the message. I was worried about him at first. As long as my senators are in line, I have less to worry about.
What? That's clearly not what I meant given the context of the post and which thread we're in.(Edit: Since a few people also interpreted it that way, I didn't mean for it to come off that way and I apologize. I'll try to word things better so my intentions are clearer in the future) It was in reference to a ton of the comments on Hillary which drew focus away from policies and positions. No Fun Allowed and all that I guess but it just seemed to stick out compared to other discussions or topics.
Carpe Libertatem
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It's true! Being at the top of the page made it worse, too!
still, that level of overt homophobia should obviously be taken as sacasm on a forum like GAF, unless people think I'm going for an account suicide
I don't think you were being intentionally homophobic, but your post certainly was unintentionally/casually homophobic. It's what I think whenever someone complains about "YAAS QUEEN" in OT. (And it was mostly your comparing whyamihere calling Beto O'Rourke hot to YAAS QUEEN "nonsense" that showed it)
BlastProcessing
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I've seen hundreds of account suicides in my day. So it's hard.
Sis...Beto O'Rourke is hot.
Beto O'Rourke is hot.
For the record, I understood what you were doing, but it's also not at the top of a new page for me.
Can you think of any societal differences between the treatment of men and the treatment of women
I'm not like those posts were super amazing, but I don't see much evidence in the thread that people thought it was wildly inappropriate. Norms argument failed!
Generally people just don't find him attractive.
edit edit: also why would you post a glamor shot from like 100 yards away as evidence of his attractiveness
You might not gotten much of a response but, yes I think it would have been fine and left alone. "She's one hot senator" for example.
Had you said something like "would bang" then there would likely be a problem.
Yes. That makes it okay to flip the tables the other way?
Fair enough. I just thought the apparaent piling on with the one comment but not the other was a bit odd from my perspective
fyi a lot of latinos in the central and imperial valley are unable to vote because of *reasons*
I mean...maybe let's ask the question differently. Do you see a distinction between reifying a discriminatory institution that classifies women as only valuable for their attractiveness and not reifying that discriminatory institution?
My thought is it doesn't look good at first pass, but could also let him tell a story of sympathetic struggles. Real America (tm) has a debt problem, it's just that Really Real America (the GOP) likes to paint those things as a moral failing even when they're not.
Plus he could make the story about reforming the health system and play right into the hot button issue of the moment.
I understand your perspective and appreciate it. (And honestly this wasn't even a huge deal to me other than finding it weird which of the comments were being jumped on)
I guess I see issue with reifying an intact discriminatory institution just as much as I see issue with allowing for another discriminatory institution to be build up without comment.
Bonen no Max'd
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TIL, I was just surprised after seeing the demographics for the district and it's not like there's no precedent for certain latino groups voting GOP.
Paging Michele Bachmann
BlastProcessing
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I wonder how long until Breitbart starts attacking Burr?
Bachmann was once on the House Intel committee. Could you imagine if she still was?
Bachmann was once on the House Intel committee. Could you imagine if she still was?
rokkerkory
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-conference/index.html
20 folks possibly lined up to start testifying tomorrow
20 folks possibly lined up to start testifying tomorrow
Is this public or behind closed doors? (or will it depend on the people testifying or other things?)
NullPointer
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Tomorrow is the first public hearing. Not sure who's slated to show up though.
Yeah I'm glad she is gone.
Emmer is pretty much the same example of a conservative ham sandwich. That district blows so hard.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov...ssian-active-measures-and-influence-campaigns
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BlastProcessing
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@costareports
There is buzz among reporters about what's going on at WH, since there were several meetings there last night...
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Per a top WH official, those meetings were related to the ongoing investigations, not about staffing.
There is buzz among reporters about what's going on at WH, since there were several meetings there last night...
@costareports
Per a top WH official, those meetings were related to the ongoing investigations, not about staffing.
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