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  1. 3 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    We are already here. Why do yall still pretend like we haven’t been here for 8 fucking years. Donald encouraged his supporters to shoot Hilary, he lead a violent deathly coup on the Capitol. 

    I've been banging the drum that weve been on that path since Jan6 and the prevailing opinion was always that the opinion was alarmist. 

    We've been on the street fighting phase of the descent into fascism for a while, and now that the ante has been raised I won't be surprised to see draconian measures put in place by a potential future trump child rapist presidency 

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  2. 3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Definitely a failure by the SS since the distance they showed on ABC from where the shooter was thought to be and where Trump was should've been picked up by the agents and police in the area. 

    It just doesn't fit at all with my mental model of the SS or trump - a supposedly tactically competent bodyguards failing to protect a famous coward, who stands back up to face an unseen sniper? Wtf is going on?

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  3. I'm not sure what to make of the SS allowing trump to stand back up and put his fist up in the air after a botched assassination attempt. Doesn't add up to me, I'm very curious to get more verified reporting in on this whole thing. 

    Wild to be bottle feeding an infant and hear that trump got shot but didn't die. 

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  4. 9 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I despise CPE, even though they’ve kept my power on at a 99.9999999999% clip.  Most inept organization I’ve ever worked with. They have more of a govt run feel than any DMV or courthouse I’ve ever been in. Exponentially worse than the DMV.  But slinging bullshit #’s in your disinformation campaign is still just that, amigo.  

    TIL misstating one number for another, and then admitting you're wrong when it's pointed out and corrected is a disinformation campaign. You constantly accuse me of posting tiktok links and lying about everything while you're backed up and validated by an endless stream of sock accounts. 

     

    15 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I agree with your general point. It would be best not to misrepresent while making it less you end up like the folks you routinely criticize. 

    Again, thanks for holding me to a higher standard than the rest of the board. I'll do my best to please your sensibilities and never ever never misstep again. Please forgive my dishonor

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  5. 20 minutes ago, HouTex said:

    Never let truth get in the way of a good story.  

     

    6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Only missed the 6B claim by a fraction. 

    My bad, they had $6B in profit, and paid $500M(ish) in dividends. You're right, I guess they just didn't have the funds to maintain the infrastructure.

     

    That is that point you're trying to make, right? You're defending these leeches?

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

    I had always understood the Stormy liaison to be a pay for play kind of deal (which, to be clear, is reprehensible behavior nonetheless). I heard at the hush money trial that for the first time she added some new details that made the encounter seem more non-consensual but Bill Maher said that was a 180 from the way she had described it to him. 

    Thank you for this link, very helpful. I had read the Newsweek fact check which I linked above which said it was false that he had been convicted of rape (because it wasn’t a criminal trial) and that while the jury could have have found Trump civilly liable for rape, they went with “sexual abuse” instead.

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    I had forgotten that he had filed a defamation suit in response. This Guardian article explains that the court found there was sufficient evidence to defeat the high evidentiary bar that a plaintiff must prove in those cases. That would explain why Biden is so careful in the way he phrases it. 

    The Snopes fact check seems to question whether Katie Johnson is even a real person. 

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    I just have a hard time believing, with Michael Cohen spilling his guts to anyone who will listen, with progressive billionaires who want to take Trump down willing to pay any liquidated damages imposed by an NDA, and every media organization looking for a nuclear bomb story like this, that more about it hasn’t come out in the last 8 years. Given the timing it seems this was just as likely an oppo hit by the Cruz campaign from the primary.  
     

    Sorry to be so pedantic, I don’t want to be a JAQ-off, I tried to do my research before asking and wanted to make sure I hadn’t missed something, which I had. Thanks again @Red Five for the link. 

    Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll

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  7. If you're sitting at home without power, just remember that Centerpoint made $6,000,000,000 in profit last year alone. Thank goodness for our business friendly state!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_electricity_market#:~:text=The wholesale generation market was,with generators across the state

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    According to a 2014 report by the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power (TCAP),[3] "deregulation cost Texans about $22 billion from 2002 to 2012. And residents in the deregulated market pay prices that are considerably higher than those who live in parts of the state that are still regulated. For example, TCAP found that the average consumer living in one of the areas that opted out of deregulation, such as Austin and San Antonio, paid $288 less in 2012 than consumers in the deregulated areas."

    CP also spent more on lobbying last year than they paid in taxes

    https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/10/19/houston-utility-takes-no-2-spot-for-lobbying.html

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/after-hurricane-beryl-houston-is-sweltering

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2011/12/14/29-companies-that-paid-millions-for-lobbying-and-didnt-pay-taxes/

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  8. Just now, YGIFS said:

    I wonder what’ll harm more people in the affected areas, the lack of power and safe food in this heat…or the mob rush to the polls to ensure this happens again and again?  

    We can't let them woke the grid! We let them put renewables on and now it's all gone to shit!! [/oilbaron]

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  9. 23 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    There is a longer game here.

    That's like saying letting mussolini or hitler take power was fine because there was a longer game to resolve the conflict. Sometimes we WANT to avoid the longer game becauses of the costs required to play it. 

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  10. Just now, immamac said:

    The American consumer is guiltier than fuck for being defrauded openly without even considering accountability as an option. 

    What the fuck am I gonna be able to do about it? Call my fuckin senator or Congressperson? Again? Write them a letter they won't reply to for 8 fucking months? They ain't listening unless you're holding capital and handing some to them. 

    Am I gonna go get a different power company? Can't. 

    What is one mechanism accessible to me to meaningfully hold centerpoint and the state of Texas accountable?

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  11. 17 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    Turning into a random teleporting-body-snatching smoke monster has never been on the bingo card.   where in the holy fuck did the show runners pull that out of?

    The night sisters and other force witches have done that before, IIRC. But I can't disagree with your post. The show runners blew a really great opportunity to add a lot of missing depth to the lore.

    We got a crappy YA novel, not a dark tale of the sith

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