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PoliGAF 2017 |OT3| 13 Treasons Why
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(not that the US is perfect or doing great, but Canada is right there.)
excelsiorlef
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Number of people who voted for Corbyn in Leadership race: 168,216
Number of people who voted for Clinton in Primaries: 16,914,722
UK population: 65.14 million
US Population: 321.4 million
Percentage of population that chose Corbyn: 0.2%
Percentage of population that chose Clinton: 5%
Bonen no Max'd
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Canada only has 3 parties other than BQ and Greens and the NDP is way less powerful than Labour
parties with healthier multiparty democracies have better voting systems than FPTP but I'll take what I can get in the anglosphere
whyamihere
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/new...ases-after-debate-with-karen-handel/531355052
Ossoff: 49.6
Handel: 47.1
One point swing to Ossoff.
Ossoff: 49.6
Handel: 47.1
One point swing to Ossoff.
So, we have this and we have Comey saying that he knew Sessions would recuse well in advance of the moment we all realized that he committed perjury.
Mueller coming for Trump, for Flynn, for Jared, for Pence, and for Sessions.
Steve Bannon: the moral north star of Trump's inner circle.
Actually, I would watch a sitcom about Bannon and Priebus running the country by themselves because literally everyone else went to prison.
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Hopefully Ossoff can shake this out. That, + a bad CBO score right after + a show of force (calls, rally, etc) as a 1-2-3 combo seem like the last best hope.
aspiegamer
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Don't forget about Ivanka as part of the cast.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Oh yes. If this healthcare bill picks up steam over the next week or two, it's Ossoff's to lose.
ArkhamFantasy
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If Ossoff wins will we see house republicans start to distance themselves from Trump and his agenda?
shinra-bansho
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It only works outside the US though. He should leave the US to future Vice President Tina Turner.
shinra-bansho
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Eww.Why can't the US get our own Corbyn for 2020
VendettaRed07
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By this do you mean that they're more worried about low enthusiasm from under-delivering than from a backlash? Or that they're already in "fuck it, let's burn it down on the way out the door" mode?
More that you need to keep your marginal votes on board, and you can't have them panicking.
The thing about the AHCA is, if they pass it, even if you got to sit out? It doesn't matter. It'll take you down with it regardless. Dems learned that the hard way w/ the ACA.
SomewhatGroovy
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People on the right clinging onto desperate strawmen is fucking surreal. ("Speaking of impeachment, look who was impeached twenty years ago *insert Bill Clinton jpg*")
Ah, I misunderstood your post. Yeah, I've held this as the fundamental theorem of fighting Trump. The general electorate needs to be as scary to the GOP as their primary electorate has been. They'll feel the ability to be degenerates with impunity until we start collecting scalps.
JesseEwiak
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Well, even though the Tories are terrible, the center of their party is more Susan Collins than whatever yahoo is the center of the GOP right now.
So it's a lot easier to buy some of their BS I'd you're a low info voter.
shinra-bansho
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They're not even nice shoes.
She's a conservative who managed to not only not leverage two terrorist attacks that occurred shortly before the election, but to instead use them to shoot herself in the foot multiple times.
Shoot herself in the shoes
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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What? You mean literally shouting "FUCK HUMAN RIGHTS" doesn't bring people to the polls?
Dubbedinenglish
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In the U.K. they are called ground hands
Yeah I couldn't believe she straight up said "fuck human rights" in public. I know the United Kingdom has gone through a right wing lurch and I think she was trying to evoke Trump to bring conservatives/UKIP to the roost.
But why the hell would you say that in the way she said it.
But why the hell would you say that in the way she said it.
shinra-bansho
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Why are yoi concurrently advocating Diamond Joe and a world full of Corbyns. Do you just like gaffe machines.
Widdle Puppy
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fox news is going on and on about comey doing the leak and how it broke the law. what law did it break according to fox?
Is this the June of Hope to match last year's June of Despair?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Wait, you bitched about the US Dems having closed primaries cause the state helps pay for it.
But you are OK with requiring a fee to vote in a primary?
You have some weird positions, like some sort of hybrid libertarian ideology for voting where governments should not subsidize voting in primaries.
Realistically she should have. But, like Clinton, she and the Tories seem to have said and done some really dumb shit. The handling of Brexit so far looks really terrible from an outsider's point of view as it looks like the Tories are trying to suck Trump's dick at the expense of the European mainland. With Trump's first few months in government, do you really want to be doing that?
Like I still can't understand why you would say that you would get rid of human rights laws if they prevented anti-terrorism legislation in the way she did. Normally you don't even mention human rights laws when promoting authoritarian masked as anti-terrorism legislation because people start thinking "slippery slope".
I see BritGAF hooting & celebrating in OT. That should've been us on November 8th.
Meh. Clintonverse would have its own problems, like the fact that we couldn't have flipped the House even if we might've tied the Senate (a world where Clinton narrowly won on election night is a world where we probably tossed Toomey and Ron Johnson too), and the Senate would already be debating articles of impeachment tossed over from Paul Ryan while Trump TV fomented a toxic wave election in 2018 and the Democrats' decade-long slide from power at lower levels only got worse.
Plus side is Gorsuch wouldn't have been seated and we'd still be in the Paris Accords, but it would be a tenuous situation.
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That's not quite my position. I think that if the state is going to pay, then primaries ought to be open. If primaries are not open, then they're not a public affair, and the public has no business subsidizing them.
Has this been posted yet?
With a wink toward Ossoff, Asian-American businessman challenges Woodall in 7th District
GA-07 in 2016 was an R landslide, though
With a wink toward Ossoff, Asian-American businessman challenges Woodall in 7th District
GA-07 in 2016 was an R landslide, though
Looking forward to Tuesday
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/08/53214...-new-questions-about-jeff-sessions-and-russia
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/08/53214...-new-questions-about-jeff-sessions-and-russia
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I mean, you can have that opinion. But you do realize it sounds really libertarian...
BlastProcessing
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Where are we going to find one of those?
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
The UK can't even find one, lol.
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