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No, you guys went Republican to ethnonationalist.

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In 2016 I was a moderate.  Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, but not quite a libertarian.  I would have considered voting for Kasich had he won the nomination. Now?  I will probably never

TheRealRonWeaver?

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All right I’ll think about it. But my offer still stands. I only post here because of trump. Otherwise I wouldn’t post here. You vote for the dem and trump loses I’m gone. You don’t vote for the dems and trump wins I stay. Other scenarios I’ll have to think about it. 


He’s totally voting Trump. You’re not risking anything.
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JimmyJames

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18 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

You expect me to predicate my initial action on the outcome? 

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Shit the original offer was generous. Given your general dipshittery nature. You going ghost would not be much of a loss that anybody would notice. 

Let’s just do this then. Obviously I’m gonna vote for the dem. If you also vote for the dem and he wins, I’m gone, if you don’t vote for the dem and he loses, you’re gone.  Deal?

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bolverk

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31 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Now that is a hard fucking bargain right there.  If I post a pic of my ballot with with a democratic candidate being submitted you never post in the CR again? Would be the first time I ever pulled the lever for a democrat presidential candidate, offsetting the solitary time decades ago that I pulled the lever for a republican, but the return would be much more valuable.  You have a deal my friend. 

The geriatric volunteers won’t allow you to whip out your phone to take a photo of your ballot. That is unless, of course, you’re as stealthy with clandestine shots as our creeper man Burt.

I’ve opened a browser on my phone before at the booth to check endorsements and got bitched at for using an electronic device.

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13 minutes ago, TheRealRonWeaver? said:

He’s totally voting Trump. You’re not risking anything.

 

Zero chance. 

2 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Let’s just do this then. Obviously I’m gonna vote for the dem. If you also vote for the dem and he wins, I’m gone, if you don’t vote for the dem and he loses, you’re gone.  Deal?

Again, you muddle the situation by requiring outcomes that neither you or I can control. It's an unreasonable backstop to protect your ongoing dipshittery. 

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1 minute ago, bolverk said:

The geriatric volunteers won’t allow you to whip out your phone to take a photo of your ballot. That is unless, of course, you’re as stealthy with clandestine shots as our creeper man Burt.

I’ve opened a browser on my phone before at the booth to check endorsements and got bitched at for using an electronic device.

Unless something changed from 2016 to current in a meaningful way, I disagree. 

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Just now, Anastasis said:

Zero chance. 

Again, you muddle the situation by requiring outcomes that neither you or I can control. It's an unreasonable backstop to protect your ongoing dipshittery. 

Of course we can’t control that. But like I said, I only post here because of trump. If getting you to vote against him would change that somehow, I would consider it.

 

 

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Unless something changed from 2016 to current in a meaningful way, I disagree. 

It was in 2016 that it happened to me at the Randall’s on Brodie at Slaughter.

Edit: I want no part of this bet but came across this spat while skimming the thread and thought I’d give you fair warning.

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Anastasis

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1 minute ago, workswithseed said:

Don't you like that they think you are something you're not? Fucking annoying as shit.

I've come quite accustomed to it. I've actually met and interacted IRL with a number of posters here. Before the total and wide spread brain rot dynamics on this particular board set it, but none the less. We all got along great. I think that they are genuine people. I think that we'd probably still get along great IRL because this is just a playground for ideas. At least I would.  But yeah, still annoying. 

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2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It was in 2016 that it happened to me at the Randall’s on Brodie at Slaughter.

Edit: I want no part of this bet but came across this spat while skimming the thread and thought I’d give you fair warning.

I voted at the old school off guadalupe in 2016. Nobody gave a shit.  I posted my ballot on the old board on election night. 

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2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I've come quite accustomed to it. I've actually met and interacted IRL with a number of posters here. Before the total and wide spread brain rot dynamics on this particular board set it, but none the less. We all got along great. I think that they are genuine people. I think that we'd probably still get along great IRL because this is just a playground for ideas. At least I would.  But yeah, still annoying. 

I've only met two posters on this site, and one cause he wanted to meet up in Portland. 

I'd like to meet more, but I ain't going back to Texas in awhile. 

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8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I voted at the old school off guadalupe in 2016. Nobody gave a shit.  I posted my ballot on the old board on election night. 

Yeah, I don't know if there's a law against it or anything and, frankly, I was surprised by the harsh rebuke. So...I don't know what to tell you.

Just sharing my experience and trying to be helpful. I'll go back to watching Devs now.

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10 hours ago, bolverk said:

Yeah, I don't know if there's a law against it or anything and, frankly, I was surprised by the harsh rebuke. So...I don't know what to tell you.

Just sharing my experience and trying to be helpful. I'll go back to watching Devs now.

It's technically illegal under vote-buying laws.  But it's also so common that no one cares.

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The problem for Roberts, regardless of political affiliation, is that with Trump, he would be responding to attacks on the judiciary weekly if not daily.

While it might be nice to have a voice of authority countering the dipshit-in-chief on the regular, I don't think any Chief Justice would find that level of entanglement wise.

Hell, even RBG has taken on Trump on a rare occasion.  Rare.  And she got reamed for it, by the usual suspects and also a few on "her side."

It's a lose-lose proposition for him.

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19 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Part of the problem with Trump is that one must choose their battles carefully or the protest rhetoric becomes as normalized as the latest outrage.  More symbolic protest is not the answer.

You can't talk sense to the morons that support this guy.  Forget about it.

More meaningful action and less talking about it is the answer.

 

I agree if its the same ol' protesters. For the protest to be meaningful now, it has to the Republicans and the conservatives and the Evangelicals protesting. Unfortunately, 99+% of those have put party over democracy because apparently totalitarianism (as long as its R-totalitarianism) > democracy.

 

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3 hours ago, Enchubben said:

Tara Reade getting that a Blasey Ford treatment anytime soon or nah?

Buncha hypocrites up in this mfer. We still doing the whole #metoo deal?

 

Sure, BIden needs to address it.  It's a bad look and he needs to take responsibility.  

Now should it "cancel" him or end his campaign?  I don't know.  Have the 20+ credible women including children who have accused Trump of raping them cancelled him?  Did the tape of Trump admitting he likes raping women cancel him?  Did the porn star he paid off during the first campaign cancel him?  Can you link one single post where you acted concerned at all about allegations against Trump being a rapist?  Or is this all disingenuous bullshit on your part?

Like you said, buncha hypocrites up in this mfer.  All fingers pointed directly at you.

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The conservative dark money group that led the fight to install Brett Kavanaugh on the US Supreme Court received nearly $16 million from a single mystery donor, according to IRS documents we recently obtained.

The documents show that the  (JCN) received a total of nearly $30 million of donations in between July 2018 and June 2019 — the period that covered Kavanaugh’s tumultuous confirmation. In addition to the $15.9 million donation from a single donor, the group received five other seven-figure donations from anonymous sources.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/brett-kavanaugh-dark-money

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Not sure what could be done with a lifetime appoint, but "oh well."

From the above article:

The FBI was called to investigate the allegations during the Senate confirmation process but was later accused by some Democratic senators of conducting an incomplete background check. For example, two key witnesses – Ford and Kavanaugh – were never interviewed as part of the inquiry.

Among the concerns listed in Whitehouse’s letter to Garland are allegations that some witnesses who wanted to share their accounts with the FBI could not find anyone at the bureau who would accept their testimony and that it had not assigned any individual to accept or gather evidence.

“This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse said.

He added that, once the FBI decided to create a “tip line”, senators were not given any information on how or whether new allegations were processed and evaluated. While senators’ brief review of the allegations gathered by the tip line showed a “stack” of information had come in, there was no further explanation on the steps that had been taken to review the information, Whitehouse said.

“This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster,” he said.

He also criticized FBI director Chris Wray, who Joe Biden has elected to remain in place, for not answering questions about the investigation.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment. The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment.

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15 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Not sure what could be done with a lifetime appoint, but "oh well."

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The FBI was called to investigate the allegations during the Senate confirmation process but was later accused by some Democratic senators of conducting an incomplete background check. For example, two key witnesses – Ford and Kavanaugh – were never interviewed as part of the inquiry.

Among the concerns listed in Whitehouse’s letter to Garland are allegations that some witnesses who wanted to share their accounts with the FBI could not find anyone at the bureau who would accept their testimony and that it had not assigned any individual to accept or gather evidence.

“This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI,” Whitehouse said.

He added that, once the FBI decided to create a “tip line”, senators were not given any information on how or whether new allegations were processed and evaluated. While senators’ brief review of the allegations gathered by the tip line showed a “stack” of information had come in, there was no further explanation on the steps that had been taken to review the information, Whitehouse said.

“This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster,” he said.

He also criticized FBI director Chris Wray, who Joe Biden has elected to remain in place, for not answering questions about the investigation.

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment. The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment.

Supreme Court judges can be impeached but it would take 2/3 of the senate to convict and remove. So yeah, that ain't happening.

 

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7 minutes ago, 406W30th said:

Supreme Court judges can be impeached but it would take 2/3 of the senate to convict and remove. So yeah, that ain't happening.

 

Not to pick on you, but I hate this short-circuiting type of response. It seems to assume that the only reason for this investigation would be to impeach Kavanaugh. I don't think that's accurate.

This is an FBI issue. Why did they turn their back on evidence and fail to interview witnesses? That was reported at the time. If wrongdoing was a practice in the FBI, it needs to be rooted out and those responsible held to account. 

This investigation is more about the Executive than the Judiciary. There is also the possibility that information so egregious (not only sexual conduct but also an accounting of where Kavanaugh's wealth came from) that impeachment could indeed be the right move just as Trump's impeachments were the correct moves.

I don't care about predictions regarding outcomes. I think you do the right thing and see where it takes you. Should the evidence merit that Kavanaugh be impeached for sex crimes or corruption, then let the GOP shoot themselves in the dick again by siding with the evil they try to hide in themselves.

Further, if the FBI was corrupted in the name of Kavanaugh, what other Trump appointments were similarly given passes for criminal or reprehensible conduct? Don't you want to know? Whatever your answer is, don't you think the goverment should want to know?

Or do we just roll over?

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7 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

Until we get some further info to me it seems like Senator Diane F. fucked the whole situation up.  The dems could have played this correctly, applied pressure, and come out looking better in this fiasco than they did.

 

she has no idea where she's at much less what's going on 

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she has no idea where she's at much less what's going on 

I recall the article posted here. This is a good of the country before your own wants issue. She's not doing the US much good if she's only functional a fraction of the time. She's had good moments during the Trump years, but behind the scenes, it appears she was fading fast.

There will be a movement to use age limits, but then one could point to Pelosi as someone firing on all pistons even if the valves are beginning to click and fanbelt is sqealing from time to time.

Nancy sort of breaks my heart as I watch age finally catch up to such an impressive and beautiful woman. Imagine the shit she had to wade through and the barriers she had to pound on to get to where she is starting at the time she did. I'm sure someone could find policies she's promoted that I disagree with, but what a woman.

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3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Not to pick on you, but I hate this short-circuiting type of response. It seems to assume that the only reason for this investigation would be to impeach Kavanaugh. I don't think that's accurate.

This is an FBI issue. Why did they turn their back on evidence and fail to interview witnesses? That was reported at the time. If wrongdoing was a practice in the FBI, it needs to be rooted out and those responsible held to account. 

This investigation is more about the Executive than the Judiciary. There is also the possibility that information so egregious (not only sexual conduct but also an accounting of where Kavanaugh's wealth came from) that impeachment could indeed be the right move just as Trump's impeachments were the correct moves.

I don't care about predictions regarding outcomes. I think you do the right thing and see where it takes you. Should the evidence merit that Kavanaugh be impeached for sex crimes or corruption, then let the GOP shoot themselves in the dick again by siding with the evil they try to hide in themselves.

Further, if the FBI was corrupted in the name of Kavanaugh, what other Trump appointments were similarly given passes for criminal or reprehensible conduct? Don't you want to know? Whatever your answer is, don't you think the goverment should want to know?

Or do we just roll over?

Oh yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I am absolutely not saying "Well, he won't be impeached by this senate so what's the point?" I was merely pointing out that – even though it won't happen – it is possible to remove a Supreme Court justice.

This is a very interesting development and I hope they uncover some serious shit, because Kavanaugh absolutely has some skeletons in his closet.

 

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2 minutes ago, 406W30th said:

Oh yeah, I agree wholeheartedly. I am absolutely not saying "Well, he won't be impeached by this senate so what's the point?" I was merely pointing out that – even though it won't happen – it is possible to remove a Supreme Court justice.

This is a very interesting development and I hope they uncover some serious shit, because Kavanaugh absolutely has some skeletons in his closet.

 

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Ran across this in the Twittersphere:
 

 

So I see this bit about his debts being paid off getting passed around by many folks on the left, but I was wondering if it's based on credible things that are publicly available. In other words, both sides of the spectrum enjoy passing off baseless tropes as truths because that's what politicos do. This one intrigues me more than most. Any thoughts?

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Per White House spokesman under trump and public financial disclosures, it's true.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

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