Randolph Freelander
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He was like "if I can only get absolution from the Holy Father..."
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT3| 13 Treasons Why
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He was like "if I can only get absolution from the Holy Father..."
IggyChooChoo
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That robocall thing just seems suicidal. Like, even if you're an evil congressman, the risk/reward is so worthless on that issue.
balladofwindfishes
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Spamming someone's voicemail seems like it would annoy them more than make them vote for you. But the GOP probably doesn't think like that.
Randolph Freelander
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The kind that thinks it's pretty alright to lie and promote policies that hurt the least of these.
aspiegamer
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I know it's in no way deliberate, but the CBO report coming in at the standard oppo droppo hour is entertaining. That WaPo intel story though... oof. Now there's something that makes everyone look like a moron.
IggyChooChoo
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Maybe the robospam industry is promsing in-kind advertising donations to their campaigns. But in general this issue seems tailor-made to piss off literally everyone and please no one.
BlastProcessing
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The NYT had coverage of that document a bit ago, but I don't believe that they covered that it was Russian in origin. Yeesh.
Comey got fucking played.
Aaron Strife
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They need to slip in a note that says every Montanan resident will lose health insurance yesterday if it passes.
Macho Madness
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Just read that CBO score will come at 4:30PM.
Cesare Borgia
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"Wow. That's all he wanted."
The way Trump treats his surrogates is disgusting. Good luck finding people who will fall on their sword for you.
VendettaRed07
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Maybe they were worried the pope would use his powers and make him cry and quit like he did with Boehner
whyamihere
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As bad as this is, she still shouldn't have used a private email server and then none of this would've happened.
excelsiorlef
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Interesting point from Bad Nate.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trumps-base-is-shrinking/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trumps-base-is-shrinking/
The easiest time to get people to work for a president is when they're new.
After they've been around for a while, and especially after they've been proven to be difficult to work with like Trump as been, there will be less and less people willing to work for him, or rather less and less competent people, so his administration is just going to get dumber and dumber and they'll be able to get even less shit done. That "$2 trillion" mistake? That'll seem like nothing compared to the mistakes they'll make down the line.
whyamihere
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Which SoS had a private server in their house? Also, Powell never ran for president!
She just shouldn't have done it and we wouldn't have been here. I'm tired of reflexingly defending a dumb decision Hillary made because of my own partisanship.
VendettaRed07
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Or at the very least, Bill should not have met with Lynch in the airport. That was fucking horrible and I think was what political pressure on Comey to come out and be as vocal on it as he was
whyamihere
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That too.
Spoiled Milk
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I found this picture from the first Ukraine ceasefire deal. Do you all remember when Putin greeted Merkel with dogs because he knew she had a fear of them? The spat goes farther back, blokes.
That's Putin standing on the balls of his feet (his left foot is more clandestine about it because he has practice doing this) so that he's the same height as Merkel (5'5") even though he lies about his height and says he's 5'6".
That's Putin standing on the balls of his feet (his left foot is more clandestine about it because he has practice doing this) so that he's the same height as Merkel (5'5") even though he lies about his height and says he's 5'6".
Aaron Strife
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The floor keeps getting lower on Trump's approval ratings. In a few months he'll be hanging around 10% and OT will still concern troll about how he'll always have his base.
Fenderputty
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Interesting, it will be a death by a thousand cuts.
People need to make peace with the fact, that he will never be universally hated.
excelsiorlef
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So if she had used an AOL account like Powell did you'd be fine?
I live in western PA and there are tons of people who drive out from the middle of nowhere to work and honestly, I don't see them giving up on Trump anytime soon. Legit silent majority people. They really stand out.
I can see his floor continue to drop but 10% would be a miracle.
Randolph Freelander
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If she just hadn't murdered Benjamin Ghazi, no one would have even known about the private email server, either. This is her own fault and no one else's. Next time, don't kill patriots like Ben.
Fenderputty
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I'm not sure you can definitively make this proclamation. Had she not done this, the GOP would have created another nontroversy. Derms weren't enthused. We still had the DNC / Bernie camp drama. The Rustbelt would have still felt like trying something different. Like we know polling data was wrong and that's half the reason she never visited the rustbelt.
That "error" wasn't a mistake. It was a lie designed specifically for low-information Trump voters.
excelsiorlef
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Also funny enough her email server was the only one on the Democratic side not hacked this election 
adamsappel
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I imagine people will delete these messages within 5 seconds, but if in that time all they hear is "Democrat Soandso..." they'll blame the Democrat for the call.
Tyler Cowen's piece from January is always worth keeping in mind on this stuff: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-23/why-trump-s-staff-is-lying
tedrotheredro
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Her biggest mistake was not taking out Anthony Weiner when she had the chance, but at least she was able to get to Seth Rich as...payback?
ShadowSwordmaster
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Sounds like people are slowly waking up to what Trump is doing. I think some people here said it will take time for it to go down too.
Pandora012
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Where is my score?
Also funny enough her email server was the only one on the Democratic side not hacked this election
People skip over that
aspiegamer
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Feed me oppo, dammit! Meanwhile, here's a sad piece on Spicer getting cockblocked from meeting the Pope because Trump is a bastard.
Is cboat back? It is almost E3 time...
CBO and JCT estimate that, in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured under H.R. 1628 than under current law. The increase in the number of uninsured people relative to the number projected under current law would reach 19 million in 2020 and 23 million in 2026. In 2026, an estimated 51 million people under age 65 would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law. Under the legislation, a few million of those people would use tax credits to purchase policies that would not cover major medical risks.
Pandora012
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Can't pull it up. I imagine it's being hammered.
BoogieWoogie
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balladofwindfishes
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23 million without healthcare
There's your headline
There's your headline
Macho Madness
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It's still shit. Shocking.
Dominican Power
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So much winning.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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If you listen closely, you can hear the AARP sharpening their knives.
Yeah, it's about 3-4% percent of the country, no?
Yeah, it's about 3-4% percent of the country, no?
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