BoogieWoogie
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I have to assume that fucking with money is a big no no for the GOP, that's more important than white supremacy for them.
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT5| The Man In the High Chair
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I have to assume that fucking with money is a big no no for the GOP, that's more important than white supremacy for them.
Rofl.
whyamihere
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NO SOUP FOR YOU
LostMyNarbles
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OH COME ON. Just yesterday he was saying he had plenty of people who wanted to join the council now he's like "Oh I'm shutting it down I don't need y'all".
Lord_Byron28
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Yeah I was born in 90 and the 08 election was my first election that I voted in. I had just turned 18, 2 months before the general election. We had to learn about government/politics our senior year. To help us learn we followed the primaries/general election in school. Our teacher taught us about things such as dogwhistling politics and showed us how McCain and Romney used it during the campaign. Majority of my class was very excited for Obama and strongly disliked Clinton and McCain.
RumbleHumble
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I'd like to think so too. Even if Trump himself isn't going anywhere, this major business disavowal seems like it'll only fuel more Republican flight.
He had to wait for more facts
Fenderputty
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His only cover from any Mueller investigation is his current position. Otherwise I think you could goad him into quitting this way. Which is hilarious.
I'm just going to take this as a statement that you don't believe leftists should work with us to oppose white supremacy and you've come up with the most absurd and childish possible excuse to explain why.
Because of course.
The CEOs need to push back and disavow this tweet or else they look pathetic. They need to release statements that point blank call him a liar.
Basileus777
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This is a bizarre leap.
BoogieWoogie
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Sooo Pence is coming home early from his international trip.
balladofwindfishes
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This is the funniest Donald Trump tweet he's made in awhile
Edit: CNN is reporting he actually did disband it and they didn't all leave?
Yeah. I do wonder if some kind of promise or contract for his financial info not to be investigated could get him to quit.
Tranqueris
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I'm gonna go ahead and say he probably didn't even write that tweet in the first place.
This hypocrite was out there during the election saying, "I know he's horrible but I gotta vote for him for the Supreme Court though!"
This hypocrite was out there during the election saying, "I know he's horrible but I gotta vote for him for the Supreme Court though!"
Technically true. They were planning to leave, so he disbanded them first.
BoogieWoogie
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I mean technically it could have continued on with the 2 or 3 CEOs that would have remained come hell or high water (Lockheed Martin and WalMart for example).
Not really. He literally says "If you guys don't shut up Josh Marshall there can never be compromise between the left and the liberals." This is a totally absurd request -- Josh Marshal isn't even a policy-setter, he's a journalist, to the degree that TPM is journalism, and the worst thing he does is snipe at people on Twitter who @ him. Nor do we have the magical power to shut him up. If this is literally a breaking point for you such that compromise is impossible without it, it suggests pretty strongly that you were never sincere about wanting to compromise at all.
If I said that I expected the left to reject Chapo Trap House since the guy who runs it mocked a rape victim on Twitter for being fat and then lied about apologizing to her and is in general clearly opposed to social justice in practice, and if they refused to I would refuse to work with the left, I would get pilloried. But that's a much more reasonable stance to take than Valheim is taking, because that guy's actually bad!
RustyNails
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All eyes now on Infrastructure Council.
Fellowship has come undone.
Fellowship has come undone.
How many councils are there?
BoogieWoogie
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Oh my God, imagine if the Infrastructure Council broke up during Infrastructure Week.
Not the worst tactic Trump has tried. I say there is a good 50% chance it doesn't somehow blow up in his face, and the council fades out of the news cycle, which is pretty good odds for one of his hastily made announcement tweets.
Now we wait a few hours and see where it goes.
Now we wait a few hours and see where it goes.
Greigor The Fellhand
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I'd lol if he was issued summons
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I really feel like the media has let the NRA off the hook for the impact it had on this recent rise in racial tensions. Those videos they put out a couple weeks ago were designed to inflame pure hatred toward anyone not white. Total garbage, and an amazing look at how low the NRA has had to sink to encourage its base. They rode the "Bu-bu-bu the democrats will steal your GUNS!" trash for years, and now that they can't any more, they go here. It's despicable.
dynamitejim
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It's insane. Josh Marshall and Markos Moulitsas are apparently now centrist scum. lol
Basileus777
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I was objecting to the part where you went to "you don't believe leftists should work to oppose white supremacy." That's a leap couched in incendiary rhetoric.
Finale Fireworker
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That occurred to me yesterday. It feels like an elephant in the room. Specifically, the recruitment video where they praised "their" president and encouraged people to take arms against those who attempt to defame him.
ArkhamFantasy
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Isnt the NRA unpopular even among gun owners? Might be low hanging fruit.
Oh, you're exactly who I thought you are.
Sady Dolye was a feminist author who became the target of a gamergate-style mob of bernie bros during the primary. She's a harassment victim.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I'm fairly certain I saw a poll in the last year or two where they had over 50% popularity in the country.
Edit: Here it is:
Basileus777
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The NRA is certainly not low hanging fruit.
Second part almost sounds like Hillary as a ghostwriterCampbell's is out:
#tiredofwinning
Just laughing at the goon on MSNBC, they interviewed an alt-right type who liked Trump's speech and said "He is the most honest president since George Washington and the cherry tree".
Yeah. That's the intellectual level of the alt-right, the most they know about Washington is the fairy tale they heard in kindergarten meant to teach a basic moral about honesty. Like, that guy actually thought that story was true.
Yeah. That's the intellectual level of the alt-right, the most they know about Washington is the fairy tale they heard in kindergarten meant to teach a basic moral about honesty. Like, that guy actually thought that story was true.
Okay, I should have written "work with us".
edit: I remember why I wrote that -- because, yet again, I reject the narrative that gives people like Valheim more claim to being "left" than people like me. We're both part of the left. If he says there's no "compromise possible" between us, it means he doesn't want the left to work together to oppose white supremacy. So maybe "work together" would have been better.
Liberals Helped Create Trumps New Bogeyman, the Alt-Left
https://newrepublic.com/article/144361/liberals-helped-create-trumps-new-bogeyman-alt-left
The term was coined by the right-wing as a slur. Then it was adopted by the left's would-be allies.
Yup
https://newrepublic.com/article/144361/liberals-helped-create-trumps-new-bogeyman-alt-left
The term was coined by the right-wing as a slur. Then it was adopted by the left's would-be allies.
Yup
ArkhamFantasy
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I'm fairly certain I saw a poll in the last year or two where they had over 50% popularity in the country.
Edit: Here it is:
I think i got thier approvals mixed up because there are polls stating that NRA members overwhelmingly approve background checks.
I didnt know they were that popular, thats a problem.
IAmAnAgnostic
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Can he stop lying just for a day?
SJurgenson
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I just read the new republic daily and we have been talking about this in this thread today so....?
SJurgenson
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Uhhh okay?
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