NH doesn't make sense given that it has Fiorina +8 over Clinton and Bush +7 over Clinton. In what universe would that ever happen?
By reilo Go To PostNH doesn't make sense given that it has Fiorina +8 over Clinton and Bush +7 over Clinton. In what universe would that ever happen?
In a world where Bernie stans refuse to vote for the Neo Con Clinton Trojan Horse for the wealthy?
I largely agree with you BTW.
Gallup has been synonymous with polling for decades. But the pollster that made its name forecasting a Franklin Roosevelt win over Alf Landon in 1936 has decided, at least for now, to stop polling the presidential horse race in favor of focusing on issues. It won’t poll the 2016 primaries and may not poll the general election.http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/gallup-gave-up-heres-why-that-sucks/
That's actually a pretty big deal.
By Fenderputty Go To PostWhoa … McCarthy dropping out of house speaker race. Shit's about to get chaotic.The GOP is its own worst enemy. They're pissed that McCarthy admitted there was a political element to the Benghazi hearings.
There's a large faction of the party that won't be satisfied unless they're able to extract concessions by threatening the financial well-being of the country through a near-default or government shutdown.
By KingGondo Go To PostThere's a large faction of the party that won't be satisfied unless they're able to extract concessions by threatening the financial well-being of the country through a near-default or government shutdown.
Chaos. Pure chaos.
Ben Carson mumbling about Hitler and about those loser kids that got shot for being cowards and how he sent a gunman after someone else to save his own life and the gold standard and how he doesn't understand the debt limit feel so far away after the McCarthy news.
By Fenderputty Go To PostChaos. Pure chaos.They're idiots. They're either utterly incompetent or they just don't care. Probably a bit of both.
By KingGondo Go To PostThey're idiots. They're either utterly incompetent or they just don't care. Probably a bit of both.
The far right probably just does not care. Part of their plan that I was reading would be to pay off loan debt and ignore other debt if the ceiling isn't raised. IE SS payments and other such domestic programs. This would be to avoid default.
It will not play well for them outside of their own constituent bases if they do this though.
I"m curious who takes the speaker roll now. The recent tweets that Romney might be a consideration is hilarious. The party really is split and struggling to come together.
Read a tweet earlier that some rep said that the only person who obviously would have the votes is Paul Ryan.
Not sure how I feel about that. I mean, besides Ryan being an manipulative, cancerous ideologue, obviously.
Don't know how that would affect the dynamics of the house and their interaction with the other more functional parts of the government.
Not sure how I feel about that. I mean, besides Ryan being an manipulative, cancerous ideologue, obviously.
Don't know how that would affect the dynamics of the house and their interaction with the other more functional parts of the government.
I believe Ryan is an establishment guy who would be a lot like Boehner at the helm. In other words he doesn't want us to default and realizes shutting the government down isn't governance or a good look for the party.
From what I understand he has no interest in the position though.
From what I understand he has no interest in the position though.
RT @JuddLegum: People criticized Obama for not being able to "work" with House Republicans.
Even House Republicans can't work with House Republicans
Even House Republicans can't work with House Republicans
By reilo Go To PostRT @JuddLegum: People criticized Obama for not being able to "work" with House Republicans.Truth. These people really do live in an alternate reality.
Even House Republicans can't work with House Republicans
Jeb decrying the epidemic of people getting "free stuff," Trump wanting to build a wall, Ben Carson saying he'd act like Seagal if a shooter burst into the room, and the endless fantasies about Obama turning the country into a Muslim socialist utopia.
Meanwhile the Dem candidates, while not offering perfect solutions, are at least living in the real world. Substantive discussion on TPP, climate change, Syria, income inequality, etc.
Gondo, I wouldn't trust your state officials to be able to put together a doll set, how are you alive still?
Are you sure your water supply isn't poisoned?
An autopsy report shows that correctional officials used the wrong drug in the January execution of Charles Warner, the first prisoner put to death in Oklahoma since the state botched the lethal injection of another inmate last year.
The state records, first reported Thursday by The Oklahoman, reveal that the Oklahoma Department of Corrections used the lethal drug potassium acetate to execute Warner – not potassium chloride, which is required under state protocols.
Are you sure your water supply isn't poisoned?
Carson fuckery was already making me angry, and then - same day - I read Thomas Laqueur's LRB essay-review on the Nazi camps, and a NC Chapel Hill Professor of European History is on the same track:
Compliance ain't defensible diction. It's not close.
‘It was the compliance of most victims that made the Final Solution possible,’ Konrad Jarausch blithely states in his new history of Europe in the 20th century
Compliance ain't defensible diction. It's not close.
Ben Carson dismissed as “foolishness” a statement from the head of the Anti-Defamation League that the notion that the Holocaust could have been hindered if Jews in Nazi Germany had been allowed to have guns.Welp.
Carson, a Republican presidential candidate, refused in an interview Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to back down from his assertion in another interview that “the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.”
I'm assuming this guy's strategy is to be as outlandish and straightforward as possible in order to take the crazies' vote? It worked for Trump, and I assume that it is probably the reason why the establishment candidates in the GOP are doing so poorly. That statement about the wall and Mexicans kept Trump in the headlines for weeks, and it is the reason he's a thing in this race in the first place.
That being said, I wonder if in the off chance that Carson gets the nomination, would he continue along this path, or would he head back into the centre like most other political candidates? Does he believe in his recent statements or is he just trying to get attention?
That being said, I wonder if in the off chance that Carson gets the nomination, would he continue along this path, or would he head back into the centre like most other political candidates? Does he believe in his recent statements or is he just trying to get attention?
By IWMTB19 Go To PostGondo, I wouldn't trust your state officials to be able to put together a doll set, how are you alive still?Yeah, it's really reprehensible. It's mainly possible because the attitude of most of the loving Christians in our state is that anyone convicted of a crime deserves to suffer.
Are you sure your water supply isn't poisoned?
Also, I don't think this Carson statement is getting nearly enough pub. It's really bizarre even by his standards: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/09/ben-carson/ben-carson-says-mahmoud-abbas-ali-khamenei-vladimi/
Fox News talks about how the Jews were total losers for getting killed by the Nazis:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ-ImSGUcAAkpns.jpg
I like ethnic groups that don't get annihilated tbh.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ-ImSGUcAAkpns.jpg
I like ethnic groups that don't get annihilated tbh.
OKC city council voted against changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Can't wait to hear their explanation.
Can't wait to hear their explanation.
By KingGondo Go To PostOKC city council voted against changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Can't wait to hear their explanation.
Tradition blah blah.
By Fenderputty Go To PostTradition blah blah.Pretty shameful for the capital city of a state with such a large native population. Failed on a 5-4 vote.
At least my councilman voted for it.
By Fenderputty Go To PostAnyone watching the debate?tuning in now
It feels pretty obvious that Dems like Bernie.
Also, Cooper being pretty hard on the questions off the bat. Like that.
Also, Cooper being pretty hard on the questions off the bat. Like that.
By etiolation Go To PostIt feels pretty obvious that Dems like Bernie.Yeah, he definitely changes the pace lol
Also, Cooper being pretty hard on the questions off the bat. Like that.
I think both Bernie and Clinton have had their ups and downs. Clinton looks more polished obviously, but Bernie with the passion.
Webb spent half his time bitching about his time
Webb spent half his time bitching about his time
I think O'Malley did really good. Kinda surprised.
By etiolation Go To Postdamn @ Webb's response to the enemy questionI couldn't get over that lol.
By reilo Go To PostPlease don't have a real scandal Hilary.Surely it would have come out by now if there was one.
There are armies of GOP consultants and campaign workers digging relentlessly into every single thing she's ever touched.
It says a lot about the Republican party that Trump, Carson and Cruz are polling at a combined 56%.
I think I take the email thing more seriously than most here... Its really not even about what the contents were, she still threw common sense to the fucking wind and slapped oversight in the mouth. Can't really emphasize enough how fried a non-Clinton would be over the whole thing.
On Dan Savage's podcast, they were talking about an initiative to beat Harper in Canada, called votes4nudes:
https://instagram.com/votes4nudes/
(nsfw if that's not clear enough)
You take a picture of yourself near a voting center, and then you get a nude. Some of these are pretty hot.
The conservatives' reaction to a similar thing in the US would be hilarious.
https://instagram.com/votes4nudes/
(nsfw if that's not clear enough)
You take a picture of yourself near a voting center, and then you get a nude. Some of these are pretty hot.
The conservatives' reaction to a similar thing in the US would be hilarious.
By DY_nasty Go To PostI think I take the email thing more seriously than most here… Its really not even about what the contents were, she still threw common sense to the fucking wind and slapped oversight in the mouth. Can't really emphasize enough how fried a non-Clinton would be over the whole thing.
Regarding this, didn't Bush and Cheney censor and destroy a shitload of e-mails in 2007?
Not that I'm a Clinton supporter at all, of course.
By Gabyskra Go To PostRegarding this, didn't Bush and Cheney censor and destroy a shitload of e-mails in 2007?I pretty much consider Cheney an emissary of Satan so meh
Not that I'm a Clinton supporter at all, of course.
By DY_nasty Go To PostI pretty much consider Cheney an emissary of Satan so meh
So you appreciate Biden saying he's friends with the dude as he tries to separate himself form Hillary's comments about them being her enemy?
https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP/status/656470537766473729
I know you don't, but man what a set up.
By reilo Go To PostRT @AP: BREAKING: Joe Biden announces he won't run for president.
The GAF thread in the OT on this was a fucking train wreck. Holy shit.
By Fenderputty Go To PostThe GAF thread in the OT on this was a fucking train wreck. Holy shit.Doom and gloom?