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  1. 1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:

    Honestly, If I was Pelosi, I'd give it a few more days, let the votes get certified, and if PA and MI start fucking around with appointing electors, I'd call a press conference and say:

    "Either the GOP leaders recognize the election is over, Joe Biden is the president elect, begin an orderly transition, and start having hard conversations with Donald Trump, or we are summarily ending further government funding negotiations.  The House has the power of the purse for the next two years and will use it if we have to. This coup attempt ends right now. "

    lol hoping for anything more than a limp wristed, mealy mouth protest before rolling over from the democratic leadership. They claimed that they'd cede power after consolidating in 2018. I'm sure chuck and nancy will continue to shit the bed and roll around in it.

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  2. Lol, I think it's reasonable to assume that someone coming in with a name of "HillaryFan420" making facile arguments isn't doing it in good faith. But sure, let's see what future gems we'll get from the sock

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    5 minutes ago, HillaryFan420 said:

    I think overall the President has little to do with immediate macroeconomic outcomes.  However, interest rates are one area that clearly has an immediate impact on the labor market and the President has some control in that arena given his ability to appoint the Fed chair.  As stupid as Trump is, he was right about the need to keep interest rates low even as wages began to rise.  This also illustrates how powerful a tool dollar hawkishness is for maintaining inequality.  

    Your thesis statement is factually incorrect. trump's Fed raised interest rates from Obama's low rates, in concert with the rise in wages. Here's a chart for you:

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  4. 2 minutes ago, HillaryFan420 said:

    You realize the Y-axis is the percent increase in wage growth, right?  So those wages were growing at a higher rate for low income workers during Trump's first three years than at any point during Obama's second term.  What you're referring to is the rate of increase in the rate of increase.

    And you know that economic policies don't just immediately start showing an impact when they're implemented right? Impact generally lags several years behind policy changes

  5. 9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Speaking of Williamson County

    https://www.kxan.com/news/local/williamson-county/kalahari-resort-complete-with-worlds-largest-indoor-waterpark-opens-amid-pandemic/

    On the one hand, swimming pools seem pretty safe.  On the other hand, this will be packed to the largest capacity they allow, because a shitload of people are probably stir crazy at this point.

    TBH, if they just mist their chlorinated water 24/7 and blast artificial UV light that would be a pretty effective disinfectant for the airborne virus.

    Still 100% regarded to open an indoor waterpark in the middle of a pandemic, but hey it's not like we've been making good decisions so far anyways right?

  6. 7 killed, including 5 Americans, in helicopter crash involving peacekeeping force in Egypt

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    Washington (CNN)Seven military members of a peacekeeping force in Egypt, including five Americans, were killed when a helicopter crashed in the southern Sinai Peninsula, the coalition force announced Thursday.

    One American survived the crash, which happened in the vicinity of Sharm el-Sheikh, the coalition said in a statement. The names of those involved are being withheld pending the notification of next of kin.

    The coalition force said "there is no information to indicate the crash was anything except an accident" and that an investigation was underway to determine the cause.

    The peacekeeping force, known as the Multinational Force and Observers, oversees the peace agreement reached between Egypt and Israel as part of the Camp David Accords of 1978.

    Also killed were one French and one Czech national, the coalition said.

    A US official could not say immediately if the craft was a US helicopter, and the Trump administration is working to confirm details.

     

  7. 17 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Well

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    IMO, this is a chickenshit move. That guy isn't a well-known figure and this is just manufacturing a "gotcha". Republicans do enough embarrassing shit on their own, and it only feeds their victim complex to do stuff like this.

     

    That said, our acting director of national intelligence should know better to not get dunked on on twitter

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  8. 1 hour ago, RamjetFDO said:

    ... for "exploration", it's not there yet.  It might be one day, but not yet.  I think Falcon Heavy is getting close to the capacity -- but not yet. 

    What's your take on Starship? It's still in development but they're building and flying test units with a commercial flight scheduled for 2021. And it's designed to use falcon cores as boosters

  9. 54 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    everything from private citizen spying to gunporn and memes. Nearly a full bingo in one thread lol. The rattlecan painted SCAR with "88" on the stock is a nice touch, imo. Very subtle.

    edit: And it's a banned twitter account too lmao. Where do you find this shit?

     

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  10. 7 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/should-firefighters-have-let-house-burn/

    dude didn't live in the city.  maybe the county should have fire services for people who don't live in the city, but the population might be too disperse to make that very effective to begin with.  if the county took over fire service from the cities in it that would probably fix the problem. 

    The fact that they drove all the way out there just to watch his house burn is a civil failure. It wasn't a matter of resources or ability to service the area, it was making a point that people should pay their protection fees or else it will happen to them.

    Which in a brutally free-market sense, is completely fair. But then don't call yourself a first responder or a civil servant. Firefighting, much like healthcare, should not be a for-profit enterprise. It will inevitably lead to abuses like this one, and insurance companies giving exactly enough care to get the next paycheck from their victims, but never enough to actually improve their health outcomes.

  11. 6 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    I bet this idiot could have saved more than $75 per year on his homeowner's insurance if he had paid for the fire protection.

    IMO, it's a failure of the local municipality to not protect it's community. Why the fuck else would a group of citizens incorporate a city if not to improve the baseline standards of living with common services like water, sewage, power, and emergency services?

  12. 9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    We can't have a system that allows you to buy fire insurance when your house is on fire. I feel bad is someone doesn't buy fire insurance and their house catches on fire but I don't want my home ins premiums to cover their bad decision/luck. It's unfair.

    The issue is that the insurance industry is trying to create a security out of a thing that is basically guaranteed to happen. People are going to get sick. People are going to need extra levels of care to maintain a human standard of living. Handling those things in a humane manner while also meeting shareholder expectations evidently isn't gonna happen. The middlemen want their cut

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  13. 7 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Welp, the OSU-Maryland game on Saturday has been canceled because of a Covid outbreak on the Terps team. 

    Fuck Trump and his incompetent band of grifters playing government and fuck everyone of you motherfuckers who were stupid enough to vote for him. We wouldn't be where we are if we had competent leadership in the White House. 

    You're welcome!!!

     

     

  14. 7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    How long until results?  Is a sore throat very common with covid?

    Kind thoughts to you, and a big thank you for your work.

    I've had two of the curative drive through oral swab tests - one before I visited my dad before a surgery, and another after one of my wife's office mates popped positive. Both times, I had results within 48 hours. They're free and all over major cities

  15. 6 minutes ago, Hate said:

    I’ll gladly acknowledge that it may have been the other way and I completely agree that the Trump supporters’ actions were stupid at best and dangerous at worst. They are idiots, but some posters here have a real issue acknowledging that there are indeed idiots on both sides. It’s ok to do that. Crazy Uncle Santa Joe isn’t going to leave you off of his Christmas list for recognizing that people on both sides are indeed stupid.

     

    1 hour ago, Hate said:

    I have no idea who either of those people you posted are and I’m not sure I’ve ever posted a YouTube video in relation to the riots. But you’ve already proven to be a hypocrite in that the “running off the road” incident you mentioned in the Biden bus story has already shown that the alleged victim was indeed the aggressor in that particular scenario according to the local sheriff’s office. I posted a link last week. Weird how that fun little fact went by the mainstream wayside. The fact of the matter is I disagree with anyone committing destructive acts whether it be burning & looting businesses or plotting to kidnap a governor. You can put your partisanship aside for just one moment to acknowledge that both are not good for anyone. Give it a try sometime. You might like....oh, who am I kidding. You can’t and won’t.

    So just to circle back... You went from attacking me as a partisan hypocrite who is unable to use logic, to admitting that you don't actually know in the span of an hour and citing of news sources. Keep up the good work, champ. 

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