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Post by crunch on Jan 16, 2018 17:41:51 GMT -6
Remember when kelly was chose as chief of staff and everyone thought life would calm down?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 17:43:24 GMT -6
More details on Bannon/executive privilege: *HE* tried to claim executive privilege and he was subpoenaed. No fucking way does privilege cover the campaign. No fucking way.
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Post by enchanted on Jan 16, 2018 17:46:00 GMT -6
Remember when kelly was chose as chief of staff and everyone thought life would calm down? Ah...our naive youth. Shhhh...no one remind us it's only been a few months.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 17:50:12 GMT -6
ok, i'm going to trust you. I want to be optimistic. I honestly think there is some sort of blackmail material that 45 has on Graham & Co that have flipped recently or are retiring (except Hatch, I think Hatch just wants to retire). And they are just trying to keep that out of the public. I'm still angry and my tinfoil is pretty tight on this but there is no other reason for the flip. As for the people who are standing/always stood tight, they are just racist fucks. But I'm trying to put out good in my world. So I'm trying to see the cracks and be happy. Honestly I think Graham saw that flattery is the way to get what he wants out of Trump. I think it makes him complicit but the fact that he’s trying to use it for an immigration agreement instead of against means if I had to choose between him and Cotton to banish to an ice floe, I wouldn’t choose Graham.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 16, 2018 18:24:39 GMT -6
I honestly think there is some sort of blackmail material that 45 has on Graham & Co that have flipped recently or are retiring (except Hatch, I think Hatch just wants to retire). And they are just trying to keep that out of the public. I'm still angry and my tinfoil is pretty tight on this but there is no other reason for the flip. As for the people who are standing/always stood tight, they are just racist fucks. But I'm trying to put out good in my world. So I'm trying to see the cracks and be happy. Honestly I think Graham saw that flattery is the way to get what he wants out of Trump. I think it makes him complicit but the fact that he’s trying to use it for an immigration agreement instead of against means if I had to choose between him and Cotton to banish to an ice floe, I wouldn’t choose Graham. This is exactly where I am
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 18:47:10 GMT -6
I hate that GOP is making this a choice but I think Dems should help pass this CR. I honestly don’t think that a shutdown is really going to speed up a DACA agreement or make it a better deal for Dreamers. And CHIP needs to happen. Ugh, am I wrong thinking that? I just don’t trust the GOP and want at least one of these nailed down now.
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Post by pesto on Jan 16, 2018 19:11:28 GMT -6
I'm sorry to interrupt the hearing talk but this video of Hatch removing glasses that he isn't wearing is killing me dead. Omg I needed this today. I am dead.
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Post by dc2london on Jan 16, 2018 19:42:20 GMT -6
I hate that GOP is making this a choice but I think Dems should help pass this CR. I honestly don’t think that a shutdown is really going to speed up a DACA agreement or make it a better deal for Dreamers. And CHIP needs to happen. Ugh, am I wrong thinking that? I just don’t trust the GOP and want at least one of these nailed down now. I'm in a weird spot bc I love my Senators and they are totally screwed either way. NoVA has a HUGE Fed population but also has many Dreamers and tons of immigrants. There's no way this ends well for Warner or Kaine. And the really sad thing is that Senator Kaine, especially, has been a passionately ally of Dreamers for years.
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Post by doublestuf on Jan 16, 2018 19:52:05 GMT -6
Obviously it doesn't work like this, but I would pay YUGE amounts of money to see Senators Booker and Harris verbally accost SHS. Can you imagine how they would shut that smug bitch down? That would make for one hell of a pay-per-view event. How can we arrange this?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 20:00:05 GMT -6
So what are you going to do about it Trey?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 20:06:01 GMT -6
I mean they can pull this shit with a GOP Congress but it’s not going to fly with Mueller.
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Post by PandaWatch on Jan 16, 2018 21:53:36 GMT -6
Howard Dean on Lawrence O’Donnell right now: based on the MoCA, the president does not have dementia or pre-dementia.
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Post by PandaWatch on Jan 16, 2018 21:54:26 GMT -6
Dean: But that doesn’t mean he’s not psychologically impaired.
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Post by roseinbloom on Jan 17, 2018 2:34:49 GMT -6
Off topic, but I've read like 15 articles on the Aziz Ansari accusations today and I'm super conflicted in how I feel. I just don't know. Also, news is just bumming me out today - the 13 kids/adults that were held captive by their parents and a local woman who died of the flu at age 40. Blerg. I want to crawl in my bed and hide. I almost made a similar post this morning. It's all bad. This one really got me today. **TW, immigration/human rights** A man has been detained in Australia for 8 years--and for possibly indefinitely unless someone gets involved--because he is stateless (which is alone is bad, but all the more heartbreaking to learn his story of being orphaned, trafficked, and fleeing for his life from the gang he fell in with). And there are like 27 other people similarly detained in Australia for being "stateless." It also makes me worried and suspicious of our country's record.
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Post by crunch on Jan 17, 2018 5:34:51 GMT -6
A stupid racist bitch from the university of Alabama posted a racist ranting video. She is an alpha phi and so I am. Alpha phi kicked her out and I am waiting to see what the university does.
I hope her life is ruined because now when you google her this is what comes up. I have zero tears for anyone who does this and it goes viral. Actually less than zero tears.
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Post by crunch on Jan 17, 2018 5:35:31 GMT -6
Democrat Patty Schachtner won a WI state rep district Trump won by 17. 🎉🎉🎉 Comstocks district keeps tagging her in this and sharing this to twitter lol. She has to be nervous. I can’t wait
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Post by blurnette989 on Jan 17, 2018 6:15:01 GMT -6
Democrat Patty Schachtner won a WI state rep district Trump won by 17. 🎉🎉🎉 Comstocks district keeps tagging her in this and sharing this to twitter lol. She has to be nervous. I can’t wait This gives me so much glee.
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Post by crunch on Jan 17, 2018 6:43:17 GMT -6
Okay I apologize for being so out of it but work has been crazy and my husband is out of town so I haven’t been able to keep up.
Can someone tell me why bannon isn’t answering questions? Will he? Why is he still so loyal to trump? I thought he’d flip but maybe he’s scared of losing his base too?
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Post by pesto on Jan 17, 2018 7:00:52 GMT -6
I think (hope) the tide is turning
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Post by adorebel on Jan 17, 2018 7:49:56 GMT -6
I've been MIA for a bit bc of work, but have we talked about Aziz Ansari? The story in Babe made me queasy, but now all the think pieces eagerly dismissing it are making me queasy too. My feeling is that the reporting was sloppy, sensational, and unjustly conflated Ansari's actions with sexual assault, which it seems it was not. But this isn't just "bad sex" or Ansari being "a bit of an ass." Ansari wasn't just being an ass, he was being an ass in a highly gendered, aggressive, persistent way around sexual boundaries WHILE promoting himself publicly as a feminist and not understanding (like so many men) the ways in which he has power and control in sexual situations, particularly because he is famous and they were alone in HIS apartment. We deserve a conversation about pervasive sexism and boundaries in dating, not just assault and rape, and it's too bad Babe botched and sensationalized the reporting of what is actually an important discussion. Here's the only piece I've seen so far that pretty much articulates my thoughts: "At its core, Babe’s piece about Grace is important, but the inexperience evident in the execution of the piece did a disservice to the topic—and it’s a shame, because its execution obscures an extremely valuable, timely conversation at a time when it seems finally possible to have it in a public forum." jezebel.com/babe-what-are-you-doing-1822114753
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Post by coconutbacon on Jan 17, 2018 8:11:39 GMT -6
@adorabel, there’s a thread on the GD page. I have a lot of feelings about it. Ultimately, I’m disappointed in Aziz, but I don’t think it was assault. I feel for Grace. It sucks to realize that someone you really like is only engaging with you bc they want sex. I don’t think wanting a sexual encounter is evil, but it does seem like Aziz *should have* known Grace wanted something more meaningful. It’s so obvious to most women who read her story. But, especially based on men’s reactions, I also find it entirely plausible that he didn’t. And that’s a symptom of our current societal attitudes and norms about sex— and how messed up they are. That feels like the real story to me.
It’s an opportunity for everyone to think more about consent and stereotypical expectations for men and women in sexual encounters. I will say, that I see a lot of women advocating for a “yes” consent policy, and I think it’s much more complicated than that. That’s what got us Louis C.K., after all, and I think we all think his actions were gross and wrong even though he asked women if it was ok. I also think that the babe blog, which no one had ever heard of before, seems to have gone after this hard, in a sloppy, irresponsible way, and really used both Grace and Aziz in an effort to make a name for themselves.
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Post by adorebel on Jan 17, 2018 8:21:09 GMT -6
@adorabel, there’s a thread on the GD page. I have a lot of feelings about it. Ultimately, I’m disappointed in Aziz, but I don’t think it was assault. I feel for Grace. It sucks to realize that someone you really like is only engaging with you bc they want sex. I don’t think wanting a sexual encounter is evil, but it does seem like Aziz *should have* known Grace wanted something more meaningful. It’s so obvious to most women who read her story. But, especially based on men’s reactions, I also find it entirely plausible that he didn’t. And that’s a symptom of our current societal attitudes and norms about sex— and how messed up they are. That feels like the real story to me. It’s an opportunity for everyone to think more about consent and stereotypical expectations for men and women in sexual encounters. I will say, that I see a lot of women advocating for a “yes” consent policy, and I think it’s much more complicated than that. That’s what got us Louis C.K., after all, and I think we all think his actions were gross and wrong even though he asked women if it was ok. I also think that the babe blog, which no one had ever heard of before, seems to have gone after this hard, in a sloppy, irresponsible way, and really used both Grace and Aziz in an effort to make a name for themselves. Yeah, as I said in my post it pretty clearly doesn't constitute assault and the major issue in my mind is that the reporter failed to handle what COULD have been a productive discussion in the right way (that's basically the argument of the Jezebel piece I linked). Really, really agree with you about the bolded. Verbal consent is not a cure-all, and I think teaching men to be less entitled and aggressive and more sensitive to reading verbal AND non-verbal cues is as important as teaching women to be more confident about drawing boundaries/saying no.
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Post by charlotte on Jan 17, 2018 8:33:51 GMT -6
I just read that NK & SK will march together at the olympics.
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Post by adorebel on Jan 17, 2018 8:40:14 GMT -6
I just read that NK & SK will march together at the olympics. I hope two of their star athletes jointly carry this flag:
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Post by crunch on Jan 17, 2018 9:04:14 GMT -6
Any news on the fake news awards today?
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 17, 2018 9:06:56 GMT -6
CNN reporting Bannon struck a deal with Spec Coun. instead of testifying in front of grand jury
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 17, 2018 9:24:36 GMT -6
Flake is on the floor smacking down POTUS and his lies.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 9:28:45 GMT -6
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Post by jkjacq on Jan 17, 2018 9:34:15 GMT -6
Flake is drawing a parallel between the fake news shit and all the current despots... And how its inspiring other dictators.
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Post by cp3 on Jan 17, 2018 9:36:07 GMT -6
::eyeroll::
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