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[kirblar]

It's all about the people you play with. Without having deep history together, it becomes a political ly incorrect/outrageous combo race.
If the recent expansion packs are added in, it leans even more towards meme/politics/bigotry awareness.

Exactly. The games as good as the people you play it with.

 

[platypotamus]

https://mobile.twitter.com/UnburntWitch/status/916049003095089152

Lots and lots of people are going to be made unemployed today and they'll all deserve. Bye.

I gather from the context that Dan Lyon is somehow involved with Silicon Valley, but I have no idea who he is.

 

[Beer Monkey]

I gather from the context that Dan Lyon is somehow involved with Silicon Valley, but I have no idea who he is.

Wrote an episode, supposedly.

 

[PantherLotus]

Weird timing on Kelly's hacking bombshell just a day after he didn't deny calling the president a moron, huh.

 

[fredrancour]

Weird timing on Kelly's hacking bombshell just a day after he didn't deny calling the president a moron, huh.

Wasn't that tillerson?

 

[platypotamus]

Weird timing on Kelly's hacking bombshell just a day after he didn't deny calling the president a moron, huh.

Wasn't that tillerson?

Yes, but I did see some twitter rumors that Kelly resigned but they are holding the announcement until tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

Yes, but I did see some twitter rumors that Kelly resigned but they are holding the announcement until tomorrow afternoon.

dm me the twitter links?

----------------
if true
certianly sounds like RUssia helped Trump find some valid reason to force out kelly.

im not holding my breath however

 

[kirblar]

Yes, but I did see some twitter rumors that Kelly resigned but they are holding the announcement until tomorrow afternoon.

There's virtually no way to stay on board in his position given the phone hack.

 

[Prof. Bathtub]

So much for that three-way pact, any suicide squad Mnuchin associates with is destined to underwhelm.

 

[whyamihere]

Republicans are starting to wonder if they could lose the Senate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/politics/republicans-disarray-trump-senate-congress.html?_r=0

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are making no attempt to mask their fear, predicting that failure to pass a tax overhaul in the coming months will lead to a wipeout in next year's midterm elections. For the first time, some senators are contemplating whether their longstanding advantages could crumble amid a wave of primary challenges and other departures, putting their two-seat majority in jeopardy next year.

Particularly in the Senate, Republicans are increasingly mystified by their own grass roots, an electorate they thought they knew, and distressed that a wave of turnover in their ranks could fundamentally change the character of Congress. They fear that the inchoate populism that Mr. Trump personifies, and which Mr. Bannon is attempting to weaponize against incumbents, is on the march.

Mr. Trump is not helping. Speaking at a high-dollar fund-raiser for his re-election at Le Cirque restaurant in New York last week, Mr. Trump asked contributors what they would think if he worked with Democrats on health care, should Republicans prove unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a dinner attendee.

The whole article is amazing.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

On Mueller/Russia, there certainly is a lot of news, but it also feels like left-leaning outlets spend a lot of time “connecting the dots” when there isn’t much news.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...-trump-too-much-too-harshly-too-narrowly/amp/

 

[platypotamus]

This was the tweet I saw:

https://twitter.com/SarahLSmith677/status/915802336961990656

Just heard from good source John Kelly has ALREADY resigned & announcement being held for Friday evening. Can't confirm by 2nd source though

Haven't seen much to corroborate it yet, nor really much else talking about the possibility, but I have been pretty distracted by work stuff today

EDIT: I'm amused by my phrasing work distracting me from following politics rather than the other way around

 

[VendettaRed07]

Winning the senate would require Bannon replicating what happened in Alabama in states where that will possibly actually have a negative general consequence.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Tragedy always strikes in 3s. Who’s next, Tillerson? His outburst going public is bigly embarrassing and by all accounts he wasn’t planning on sticking around that long anyway.

I’m really sympathetic now to the argument that Trump’s term is Bush’s second term on steroids. Specifically the first half (05-06) which as we all know led to Democrats sweeping the midterm elections. Entitlement cuts that went down in flames (for now), check. Botched hurricane response, check. “Culture of corruption,” check check check (Price flying private jets on the taxpayer’s dime, Murphy’s scandal, Kelly’s phone being hacked, and that’s just in the last week! To say nothing of Trump and his cronies). And when all else fails and your administration is flailing around trying to look like you’ve accomplished SOMETHING, try to hold your base by making obnoxious overtures to the Christian Right on social issues.

Am I missing anything?

 

[kirblar]

So much for that three-way pact, any suicide squad Mnuchin associates with is destined to underwhelm.

Didn't involve Kelly. It's him, Mattis and Tillerson.

 

[Surfinn]

Just had a push notification from CNN saying Mueller has met with Steele.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

 

[Kusagari]

Didn't involve Kelly. It's him, Mattis and Tillerson.

Which I don't get. Why would Mattis, Tillerson or Kelly, even though he's apparently not involved, give a crap about Mnuchin?

 

[Amibguous Cad]

It's a disparaging word from both sides.

My Twitter had a couple of mentions today of the ACLU protestors chanting "liberalism is white supremacy" and how bonkers that seemed to people familiar with more conventional definitions of liberalism.

I think leftists would benefit from being more clear about the things they don't like about the current liberal paradigm. We actually do know what socialism without liberalism looks like -- just ask kirblar! But we generally assume that socialism includes most of what liberalism won over the last two and a half centuries, having seen the alternative already.

Well, I have heard some people - usually those with very strong attachments to civil liberties or the rule of law rather than the economic part of the program - call themselves "liberal in the sense both leftists and fascists mean it as an insult"

 

[Officerrob]

Just had a push notification from CNN saying Mueller has met with Steele.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

NBC News confirming as well

 

[kirblar]

Which I don't get. Why would Mattis, Tillerson or Kelly, even though he's apparently not involved, give a crap about Mnuchin?

Keeping Treasury (and the fed) in non-crazy, competent hands is really important. If Trump survives long enough to nominated a Fed chair, this will become a big issue.

Like, Mnuchin sucks, but holy shit it could be so much worse.

Just had a push notification from CNN saying Mueller has met with Steele.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

I hear a dripping faucet.

I hope it's dripping...yellow.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Hahahahah sanctions on Israel.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

Keeping Treasury (and the fed) in non-crazy, competent hands is really important. If Trump survives long enough to nominated a Fed chair, this will become a big issue.

Like, Mnuchin sucks, but holy shit it could be so much worse.

I hear a dripping faucet.

I hope it's dripping...yellow.

I dont want it to drip anymore I WANT IT TO FLOW

 

[Prof. Bathtub]

Didn't involve Kelly. It's him, Mattis and Tillerson.

My bad. Should have brushed up.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...-trump-too-much-too-harshly-too-narrowly/amp/

Haven't looked around in a bit. Since negative coverage is what is making Trump popular according to the articles you push, pray tell did the period of mildly positive coverage for Texas/Florida relief finally make the public turn against him?

 

[Crocodile]

This was the tweet I saw:

https://twitter.com/SarahLSmith677/status/915802336961990656



Haven't seen much to corroborate it yet, nor really much else talking about the possibility, but I have been pretty distracted by work stuff today

EDIT: I'm amused by my phrasing work distracting me from following politics rather than the other way around

Who is this and why should we believe her?

Just had a push notification from CNN saying Mueller has met with Steele.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

LOLOLOLOLOL

Though its like we all suspected yesterday in that Steele just wanted to go straight to Meuller

 

[Ogodei]

Homeland Security's personal cell phone got hacked? No biggie :-/

 

[platypotamus]

Who is this and why should we believe her?

I said it was a rumor for a reason...

 

[Surfinn]

Who is this and why should we believe her?



LOLOLOLOLOL

Though its like we all suspected yesterday in that Steele just wanted to go straight to Meuller

Yup. I knew there was more to his refusal to cooperate with the senate committee.

 

[PantherLotus]

Oh, sorry for confusing Kelly and Tillerson. But I'm sure we all agree Kelly has called him a moron as well.

Also yes absolutely agreed re: bush's 2nd term on steroids. Just recall that the first term had 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and torture. And his 2nd term ended with an economic calamity. This can and will get much worse.

 

[aspiegamer]

Never fear, fellow PoliGAFfers! Despite looking marginally competent with some generic mass murder consolation statements, Trump in the next week will get to screw up another hurricane and is then leaving the Iran deal. He cannot go more than 3-5 days without fucking something up. It's just not in him.

 

[Barzul]

Hahahahah sanctions on Israel.

?

 

[PantherLotus]

(what's amazing is that Obama oversaw a much more perilous time and did so with dignity and grace)

 

[Aaron Strife]

Republicans are starting to wonder if they could lose the Senate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/politics/republicans-disarray-trump-senate-congress.html?_r=0



The whole article is amazing.

Did you know Josh Hawley still hasn’t officially announced for Missouri Senate? If they’re having trouble getting people on the hook to take on Claire McCaskill that has to paint a pretty grim picture.

Interesting point about Cochran’s situation being more serious than assumed - if there’s a special election to replace him, Brandon Presley versus Chris McDaniel would give us yet another outside shot at a third Senate pickup.

If Democrats do manage to win the Senate next year, expect all Hell to break loose within the GOP. Like, significantly worse than right now.

 

[Surfinn]

(what's amazing is that Obama oversaw a much more perilous time and did so with dignity and grace)

Dignity and grace are for losers.

 

[fredrancour]

?

Let me translate

"America hold Israel accountable for its behaviour? Lol."

 

[nature boy]

Sahil Kapur‏Verified account @sahilkapur 1h1 hour ago
More
Republican @SenatorRounds opposes repeal of the estate tax.

lol

 

[TheLaughingStock]

Haven't looked around in a bit. Since negative coverage is what is making Trump popular according to the articles you push, pray tell did the period of mildly positive coverage for Texas/Florida relief finally make the public turn against him?

That's not what the chat was saying. In any event, I appreciate outlets like 538 are acknowledging a problem and making a genuine attempt to start a conversation.

 

[Aaron Strife]

lol

This isn’t going to pass, is it?

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

This isn’t going to pass, is it?

Pfft, in unified Republican government? How could it not?

 

[shinra-bansho]

?

Ban cars.

 

[nature boy]

This isn’t going to pass, is it?

In the House? Probably will.

Senate? Very challenging

 

[kirblar]

?

Obama loathes Netanyahu. But the way things are with them, it means that it's effectively a passive-aggressive pissing contest is about as good as we can get even if we can't stand how they're behaving.

 

[Holmes]

Played Cards Against Humanity for first time.

... Don't get it, "lol so random" and bigotry are like 30% of the deck.

You sound fun

 

[pigeon]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a6a617315e43

Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter.

The employee had taken classified material home to work on his computer, and his use of Kaspersky Lab antivirus software enabled Russian hackers to see his files, the individuals said. The case, which dates to 2015 and has not been made public, remains under investigation by federal prosecutors.

This story is legit nuts. I knew people were talking about Kapersky, but I didn't realize it was proven that it was literally a Russian Trojan disguised as an antivirus.

 

[Surfinn]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a6a617315e43



This story is legit nuts. I knew people were talking about Kapersky, but I didn't realize it was proven that it was literally a Russian Trojan disguised as an antivirus.

Shit

I used to use it for years.....

 

[kirblar]

Shit

I used to use it for years.....

You are already compromat.

 

[nature boy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a6a617315e43



This story is legit nuts. I knew people were talking about Kapersky, but I didn't realize it was proven that it was literally a Russian Trojan disguised as an antivirus.

The founder is former KGB, what's surprising?

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a6a617315e43



This story is legit nuts. I knew people were talking about Kapersky, but I didn't realize it was proven that it was literally a Russian Trojan disguised as an antivirus.

Now it makes sense why they banned it out of the blue earlier in the year. We’re so damn behind in this fight.

 

[pigeon]

The founder is former KGB, what's surprising?

Just another culture shift. In America we don't generally infiltrate our corporations and make sure their tools contain intelligence backdoors in the hopes that those tools will be sold to foreign governments.

As far as I know!

 

[Valhelm]

broke: the estate tax
woke: no estates

 

[ivajz]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.a6a617315e43



This story is legit nuts. I knew people were talking about Kapersky, but I didn't realize it was proven that it was literally a Russian Trojan disguised as an antivirus.

Fun fact. In December, 2 guys interrupted a meeting at Kapersky, tossed a black hood on one of the employees there and dragged him out. He hasn't been seen since.